Even when Guan Yu fled, Liu Bei did not send a single soldier to rescue Guan Yu, which was quite chilling. Guan Yu, as the No.2 figure of Liu Bei's regime, is a general guarding one side and the only famous soldier of Shu Han. If Guan Yu is defeated and killed, it will do Liu Bei no good. Why did Liu Bei watch Guan Yu being killed and Jingzhou being taken away, without any response?
Guan Yu said to Zhang Taiyan, a master of Chinese studies in the Republic of China: Liu Bei didn't save Guan Yu because he thought Guan Yu had done something great and wanted to stand on his own feet. Liu Bei deliberately killed Guan Yu. This theory is nothing more than a set of statements. For Zhang Taiyan's statement, we only need to refute one point. What good will Guan Yu's death do Liu Bei?
Liu Bei lost the general Guan Yu, and the three counties of Jingzhou were taken away by Soochow. Tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers and thousands of Jingzhou grassroots officials, plus nearly one million Jingzhou people, were all lost. How did Liu Bei calculate this account? Besides, the premise of this imperial technique is that the bird dies and the rabbit dies, which means that the country can only be implemented after reunification. You, Liu Bei, are independent of the world, chinese odyssey. How is it possible to kill Guan Yu with birds and rabbits? So Zhang Taiyan's statement is untenable. Then why didn't Liu Bei save Guan Yu?
If Liu Sanren wants to understand the whole process, he must understand how the battle of Xiangfan was fought. Guan Yu's northern expedition to Xiangfan was actually divided into three stages:
1, Guan Yu's victory stage. 2 19 July to August is the stage of Guan Yu's victory. In July of 2 19, Guan Yu led an army to attack Xiangfan. First, Guan Yu defeated Xiangyang Chang and Cheung Nam General Coss, the commander of Fancheng, and surrounded Xiangyang City on the south bank of Hanshui River and Fancheng on the north bank of Hanshui River. So Cao Cao sent Yu Ban to lead more than 30,000 elite Central Army of the Seventh Army to rescue Xiangfan. Then in August, Guan Yu captured Yu Jin and 30,000 soldiers alive in the rainy season, and killed Pound who refused to surrender.
Obviously, Guan Yu's battle report on the front line of Xiangfan must pass through the information network established by Liu Bei to reach the political center of Yizhou Chengdu, which is more than 1000 kilometers away. According to the marching speed of ordinary cavalry at that time, it took 20 days to send a message from Xiangfan to Chengdu, plus the necessary procedures between the remaining people and horses and the post station. It will take at least a month for Guan Yu's information on the front line to reach Liu Bei.
Guan Yu's battle in Xiangfan, in other words, was already a month after Liu Bei received the battle of Guan Yu's front line. For example, Guan Yu had a great shock to China in August, and it was already September when Liu Bei got the news. This is the lag of intelligence information in the era of cold weapons.
2. Both sides are at the same stage. September 2 19 ~ 10 June is the confrontation stage between the two sides of the war. Even Cao Cao wanted to move the capital to avoid Guan Yu's sharpness, but he gave up under the persuasion of Sima Yi and others. At the same time, Cao Cao sent several support soldiers to continue to reinforce Xiangfan. Among them, there are soldiers from Yin Bu and Zhu Gai 12 Battalion, and Zhang Liao is still on his way to Xiangfan.
Guan Yu's troops besieged the city and confronted Huang Xujun. Because Huang Xu led a small number of recruits, they did not take the initiative to attack Guan Yu, but confronted Guan Yu. Although it rained heavily, Guan Yu's troops began to become insufficient because of the persistence of Coss, Man Chong, Lu Chang and Huang Xu.
Map of Xiangfan Battle Guan Yu asked Liu Feng and Meng Da to send reinforcements at this time, but Liu Feng and Meng Da refused Guan Yu. Guan Yu had to continue to besiege and confront Huang Xu, and neither side could eat, resulting in a stalemate. Historically, if Guan Yu wrote a rescue letter to Liu Bei at this time, Liu Bei would probably send troops to support Guan Yu, but Guan Yu was proud all his life and won a great victory in the early stage, which sublimated China.
Guan Yu was defeated and killed. The leap from 2 19 to 10 ~ 12 was the stage when Guan Yu was defeated and killed. From 19 leap to 10 leap, Cao Cao and Sun Quan reached an agreement privately. Sun Quan sent Monroe to cross the river in white and surprise Jingzhou. Monroe captured Jiangling City, Gongan County and Nanjun County. At the same time, Sun Quan also sent Lu Xun and other generals to the Western Expedition, all the way to the Wu Shan border with Shu and Han, which is the junction of Jingzhou and Yizhou, and also the place occupied by Soochow surprise attack on Jingzhou.
Guan Yu didn't know that Soochow attacked Jingzhou. When the news of the attack on Jingzhou reached Guan Yu's ear, it was already 165438+ October. Guan Yu had no hope of attacking the city, and the rear was attacked. He had to lead the whole army to retreat to the south. It is more than 200 kilometers from Xiangfan to Jiangling. When Guan Yu just retreated, there were still 40,000 to 50,000 troops. After arriving in Maicheng, there were only a few hundred people, most of whom fled back halfway.
When Guan Yu began to retreat, in fact, Guan Yu's route to Yizhou had been cut off by Soochow. Even if Guan Yu conveyed the emergency military situation to Yizhou at this time, the letter could not be sent out, because the back road was broken, and even if the letter could be sent to Liu Bei, it was already a month later. By this time, Guan Yu was already dead.
Even when Soochow attacked Jingzhou, people loyal to Liu Bei in three counties of Jingzhou fled to Yizhou and passed the news that Sun Quan attacked Jingzhou to Liu Bei in Chengdu. The time when Liu Bei received the message was 1 1 month. When he received the news that Sun Quan had attacked Jingzhou, he was startled? Do you think the news is false? Will the minister of civil and military affairs be invited to a meeting to study how to deal with it? Of course it will.
Because before that, Guan Yu's message to Yizhou was all about winning the battle. Now suddenly a message says that Jingzhou has fallen, which makes Liu Bei very shocked. Liu Genghong Bay sent someone to verify whether the situation is true? Of course it will.
Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei hesitated here, and Guan Yu had no chance there. Even if Liu Bei decides to save Guan Yu, he must first attack the pursuers who have occupied Wushan and defeat Lu Xun, so that he can continue to March to Jingzhou. At that time, there were no cell phones, no telephones and no GPS. How did Liu Bei's reinforcements know where Guan Yu was? If you don't know where Guan Yu is, how can reinforcements save Guan Yu?
From the perspective of later generations, we clearly know the whole process and where Guan Yu escaped, but Liu Bei doesn't know how he saved Guan Yu. The whole Jingzhou was occupied by Dongwu. If Liu Bei wants to save Guan Yu, he has to launch the Yiling War in advance. The war can't be started right away. It needs to prepare food, materials and equipment, and mobilize troops, logistics and intelligence networks.
It takes time for a series of war machines to run. Then, when Liu Bei prepares these, will the day lily be cold and Guan Yu have no bones? Where can I save Guan Yu? So the reason why Liu Bei didn't save Guan Yu can be summarized in nine words: I didn't expect (Guan Yu would fail), I didn't have time (to save Guan Yu), and I didn't have the ability (I didn't prepare for war immediately).