Why did many people stop Liu Bei from taking revenge after Guan Yu was killed?

Many people think that after Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei was carried away by hatred and cut Wu rashly without making full preparations, which led to his failure. However, if we look at history carefully, we will know that many things happened in the Three Kingdoms after Guan Yu was killed, which also left Liu Bei enough time to prepare for the war.

However, sufficient preparation time does not mean that we can complete the preparations for the whole army, because although we are the emperor, the hearts of Shu and Han people are divided, and Liu Bei's redeployment will be full of worries and obstacles. Therefore, those who rashly attacked Wu with Liu Bei may be wrong: Liu Bei is a lean man, over 60 years old, not an impulsive and stupid young man.

As can be seen from the map, Guan Yu was captured in Linzhou, which is Anyuan County and Nanzhang County in Yichang, Hubei Province today. After running for half an hour, I entered the border of Yizhou (20 kilometers, searchable). Linzhou is almost a place extending in all directions. There is more than one road to Zigui and Yiling. Guan Yu was unlucky and ran into the encirclement of Ma Zhong in Pan Zhang.

According to the comprehensive historical analysis, Ma Zhong killed Guan Yu first, and even Guan Yu may die in battle. In order to discredit Guan Yu, Chen Shou fabricated a story about Guan Yu's capture alive, which was questioned by Pei Songzhi when he took notes in The History of the Three Kingdoms. Sun Quan sent Pan Zhang with the broken feather, and the feather came to cut it. Lin Ju went to Jiangling (Sun Quan's lair) for two or three hundred miles. How can he kill the feather from time to time to discuss his own life and death? ?

After Guan Yu's death, not only Cao Cao held a grand funeral, but Sun Quan did not rush it. Bury his body with a vassal ceremony? . But did Liu Bei express his concern about Guan Yu's sacrifice at this time? Looking through the historical materials, I can't find any records about Liu Bei's funeral or giving gifts to Guan Yu. Forty years after Guan Yu was killed (three years after Jing Yao's death), Liu Chan only posthumously awarded him as the Queen of Zhuang Temple. Besides Guan Yu, Zhang Fei (Huan Hou), Ma Chao (Wei Hou), Pang Tong (Hou Jing) and Huang Zhong (Gang Hou) were also posthumously awarded as Shunping Hou.

According to the posthumous method, we know: gentle, virtuous, kind and smooth, the deacon is flat and so on, determined to be flat. What Zhao Yun got was beauty. Weide has high martial arts skills and is willing to win. He died in vilen, defeated the enemy's chaos, and was brave and tenacious. He conquered many times, but his martial arts failed. His martial arts were resolute and indecent. Fame and reality are beautiful. ? Guan Yu's posthumous title is far less than Zhao Yun's. Although Zhao Yun is brave and good at fighting, he is inferior to Guan Yu in both meritorious military service and prestige.

It is understandable that Liu Bei did not seal Guan Yu: he prepared a big funeral after a revenge, and Liu Bei unsealed the position of General Fu because only Guan Yu was worthy of this title. As for Liu Chan's praise of Zhao Yun and hatred of Guan Yu, Liu Chan is not the only one who has the final say: in posthumous title, there are usually ministers' discussions and the emperor's decisions, which shows that Guan Yu's comprehensive evaluation in the hearts of Shu ministers is not high.

Back to the topic, let's look at Liu Bei's reaction after Guan Yu's sacrifice. Unfortunately, there is no official record of Liu Bei's reaction, because he is about to face a big event, which is likely to be a big pit dug by the gentry in Shu.

On the surface, xelloss? Zen? Immediately after he proclaimed himself emperor, Liu Bei Group announced that Liu Xie was dead and cancelled his account, while Liu Xie's political legacy was completely accepted by Liu Bei, so he was justified? Big fellow orthodox? Pretending to be yourself, subordinates also seize the opportunity to discover all kinds? Xiangrui? The above table advised Liu Bei to declare himself emperor.

But please note that according to the Three Kingdoms? According to the records in Biography of the Ancestors, the first people who asked Liu Bei to be emperor were not Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Wei Yan, nor Zhuge Liang. The list of ministers on the table is: Yangquan Hou Liubao, Qingyi Hou Xiangju, Zhang Yi, Huang Quan, Fu Yinchun, Yizhou, Zhizhong, He Zong, who was drinking and offering sacrifices, and Cao Cao, who was engaged to surrender.

Followed by a teacher, general Mi Zhu, strategist general Zhuge Liang, Tai Chang Lai Gong, Guang Lu Zhu and Shao Mou. At that time, the later general Huang Zhong had passed away (Huang Zhong and Guan Yu died in the same year), but the right general, the false festival, the new pavilion Hou and the Brazilian satrap Zhang Fei did not persuade him to enter the customs; General Zuo, Fake Festival and former capital Ma Chao failed to convince Liu Bei to call him the King of Hanzhong. Wei Yan, the commander-in-chief of Hanzhong, and General Zhenyuan did not persuade him to enter the customs. These people's status is much higher than Zhuge Liang's, and their prestige and power are not comparable to those of Xu Jing and Mi Zhu. As for other persuaders, they are basically unknown, let alone substitutes.

It can be seen that the remonstrators are mainly literati, and the military commanders play dumb almost tacitly. After in-depth analysis, it seems that a conclusion can be drawn: after Guan Yu's sacrifice, the Shu-Han regime turned to the stage of civilian rule, and the gentry in Shu mastered the right to speak. Liu Chan? Ruling? During this period, General Fu was basically a civilian, and it wasn't long before Jiang Wei was appointed as a general and closed the stall.

Zhang Fei, who was actively preparing for the war, was inexplicably killed easily by his two unknown generals, Zhang Da and Fan Qiang (Fan Jiang in the romance), and Zhang Fei's head was easily sent to Soochow. Zhang Fei, who has been through many battles, is brave and good at fighting, and is also the official minister, but his internal security is incredibly lax, which makes people have to suspect that it is the Zhongshu Gentry Group. Zhang Fei is second in command. He was Wu Ban, the younger brother of Wu Han, the uncle who was later promoted to be a general of chariots and horses. Wu Han was a general in ancient times.

Based on the above records, we can draw a conclusion that the Shu-Han camp was full of contradictions at that time. The civil servants in Shu wanted to fight the Jingzhou military commander, Zhuge Liang in the civil servants wanted to fight Zhao Yun in the military commander, and Liu Bei was at a loss.

The reason why the gentry in Shu urged Liu Bei to be emperor was actually a radical measure. They wanted to trap Liu Bei in a gentle village that didn't want to make progress and avoid fooling around in Shu as cannon fodder. Without taking Dongwu back to Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang's confrontation in Longzhong will become a joke, and he has a good relationship with Guan Yu, so he can't oppose Liu Bei's attack on Wu? Zhuge Liang's opposition to attacking Wu is a historical statement, which is not in the official history and cannot be.

Only Zhao Yun saw the contradictions and crises exposed in the preparation of Liu Bei's army, so he risked offending Jingzhou generals and Zhuge Liang and stepped forward to dissuade him. Liu Bei was not a fool, so he sent troops to attack Wu and took Liu Zhang as his headquarters in Shu. Wei Yan, Zhao Yun and others had to stay behind, otherwise, in case of defeat in front, they would return to the predicament of the battle without mountains in front of Chibi.

Liu Bei had to attack Wu (Zhuge Liang knew how difficult it was to attack Wei without Jingzhou, a strategic place and an important springboard), but internal disputes doomed Liu Bei's trip to failure? The generals in Shu obviously don't work hard. They can play smoothly and don't do difficult things.

The battle of Yiling was actually a rout. The battle went well in the first half. Wu Ban and Feng defeated Wu Yi (that is, Lu Xun), Li Yi and Liu A in Zigui (Wu Ban and General Feng broke through the guide and the army returned to Zigui), but when they met with real resistance, Liu Bei's 40,000-50,000-strong army was immediately defeated.

Liu Bei lost the first battle, but did not withdraw to Chengdu. But immediately assembled troops and rushed Zhao Yunling out of Sichuan. This is not to save lives, but to prepare for the final resistance. Sun Quan heard that his late master lived in Bai Di, and he was very afraid, so he sent a messenger of peace. ?

Here we have to ask three questions: first, is Liu Bei completely disappointed with the gentry in Shu because he did not return to Chengdu after the defeat? Second, if the battle of Yiling is not a rout but a annihilation war, where does Bei have the power to make Sun Quan feel fear? Third, Liu Bei urgently transferred Zhao Yun. Will the Jingzhou staff of Yan State be recruited to fight Jiangdong again?

Liu Bei agreed to Sun Quan's request for peace, which might as well buy time to send troops. But it was at this time that Liu Bei began to have diarrhea, and Liu Bei, who had been a good soldier for half his life, was dragged to death. There may be other unknown reasons besides holding your breath.

At this time, we can understand how sad Liu Bei's life is after Guan Yu's sacrifice: if you don't avenge Guan Yu, you will chill the heart of the old army in Jingzhou, and if you don't recapture Jingzhou, it will be a bubble to compete for the Central Plains; When the gentry in Shu arise and attack Wu, they are tired of fighting and leave Germany, and they will be defeated again. In a dilemma, Liu Bei is actually facing an unsolved problem. Readers, if you were Liu Bei, what would you do?