Why did Zhuge Liang send Guan Yu to guard Huarong Road, and also make a military order?

This is Zhuge Liang's cleverness, Zhuge Liang did this because he knew that Guan Yu would definitely not kill Cao Cao, and he would definitely let Cao Cao run away. In fact, Zhuge Liang did what he did on purpose, because he knew that if Guan Yu really killed Cao Cao, in fact, the biggest beneficiary was not their Shu Han regime, but Sun Quan's Eastern Wu regime benefited the most. First of all, at that time, although Cao Cao experienced the Battle of Chibi, he was defeated and returned.

But since Cao Cao was a unified north, he was also the eldest of the three countries. If Guan Yu really killed Cao Cao, then Cao Cao's forces would definitely seek revenge on the Shu Han regime, and then the two tigers would fight each other, and one would be injured. And it is very likely that it is the Shu Han regime, Zhuge Liang is a smart person, he must have thought of this.

So he deliberately sent Guan Yu to go, because Cao Cao wasn't very good to Guan Yu before that time, and it can be said that he treated Guan Yu very well, so Guan Yu owed Cao Cao a favor. Zhuge Liang knew this, so he asked Guan Yu to go, and let Guan Yu release Cao Cao, so that Guan Yu also returned Cao Cao's favor, and he got it in one fell swoop.

And let's take a look at Guan Yu, Guan Yu can be said to be a very proud person in the Three Kingdoms, and he is in awe of two people in his life, one is his eldest brother Liu Bei Liu Xuande, and the other is Lu Bu Lu Fengxian. Except for these two people, basically he doesn't care about anyone, Zhuge Liang knows this, he wants to deliberately grind Guan Yu's sharpness and grind Guan Yu's pride, otherwise something big will happen sooner or later.

It's a pity that Zhuge Liang has a good heart, but Guan Yu didn't understand it. This may be fate, because of Guan Yu's pride, he will become the second master of Guan Bo Yuntian. It's a pity that it is also because of his pride that he carelessly lost Jingzhou, there are gains and losses, this in the eyes of our future generations, it is still the second master of Guan who is righteous and cloudy, which is more cordial.

If Guan Yu was as scheming as his eldest brother Liu Bei, maybe he wouldn't be the second master Guan we are today.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was sent to the lineup Huarong Dao because he signed a military order, but Guan Yu owed Cao Cao, and with his temperament, he would definitely let Cao Cao go.

Because Zhuge Liang actually wanted Guan Yu to let Cao Cao go, Guan Yu was once favored by Cao Cao, so Guan Yu was bound to let Cao Cao go.

Guan Yu was once captured by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao valued talents and was very good to Guan Yu, although Guan Yu was grateful, but still did not become his soldier, but he was ashamed of Cao Cao, and let Guan Yu guard Huarong Dao, it may be a ploy of Zhuge Liang, he may have calculated that Cao Cao was going to defeat Huarong Dao.

Because he knew that Guan Yu had accepted Cao Cao's benefits, and Cao Cao did treat Guan Yu very well, he wanted Guan Yu to return the favor this time.

Because the relationship between Guan Yu and Cao Cao was not close at that time, if others were allowed to stand, it might affect the direction of the Three Kingdoms.

Zhuge Liang expected that Cao Cao would lose Huarong Dao, so he arranged for Guan Yu to guard here, one was to let Guan Yu return Cao Cao's favor, and the other was to let Guan Yu owe Zhuge Liang a favor.

First of all, Zhuge Liang calculated that Cao Cao's qi was not exhausted, so he sold Guan Yu a favor by the way, he knew that Guan Yu would not kill Cao Cao, but after this time, Guan Yu would be able to pay off what he owed Cao Cao.

He knew that Guan Yu and Cao Cao had a story before, so he deliberately let Guan Yu go to Zheng Shouhua Rongdao, so that it would be beneficial to the development of the Three Kingdoms.

It may be that Zhuge Liang wants to cure Guan Yu, because Guan Yu is very dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang, so Zhuge Liang will definitely have to deal with Guan Yu.

Zhuge Liang knew that Guan Yu had received Cao Cao's favor and owed favors, so he sent Guan Yu to guard Huarong Dao, one was to let Guan Yu repay Cao Cao's favors, and the other was to suppress Guan Yu's arrogance, and let him owe his favors, so that Guan Yu was more convinced of himself.

Cao Cao must not die, death will be chaos in the world, Guan Yuyi is thin and cloudy, and he will repay Cao Cao's kindness. Then there is the arrogance of suppressing Guan Yu, Guan Yu has always been proud and conceited, and after Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang to come out of the mountain, he has not been very convinced of Zhuge Liang.

is to let Guan Yu return Cao Cao's favor. **It is recorded that Zhuge Liang watched the sky at night and saw that Cao Cao's life would not end here, so he sent Guan Yu, who owed Cao Cao, a favor, to guard Huarong Road.

Guan Yu's Shouhua Rongdao is a matter in ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which did not happen in reality. Guan Yu is a general under Liu Bei, who once formed an alliance with Liu Bei Taoyuan and was loyal to Liu Bei. Guan Yu is a talented person, and he can retreat with his whole body by taking the enemy's head among the ten thousand armies.

Cao Cao cherished his talents, and after capturing Guan Yu, he treated him well and gave him gold and silver, beautiful women, and land. But Guan Yu was unmoved by Cao Cao's overtures, and still returned to Liu Bei's side. At that time, the people around Cao Cao persuaded Cao Cao to hunt him down, but Cao Cao thought that Guan Yu's loyalty was not wrong, so he let Guan Yu go.

Zhuge Liang knew that Guan Yu was a person who would repay his kindness, so it was insecure to owe Cao Cao a favor. So when Cao Cao was defeated and walked away from Huarong Dao, he calculated that Cao Cao would not die there, so he let Guan Yu ambush him, and with Guan Yu's character, he would definitely let Cao Cao go, so that Guan Yu would return this favor, and he could serve Liu Bei wholeheartedly in the future.

The author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is in favor of the Shu Han regime, so ** artistic creation on the basis of factual events, there is indeed a matter of Cao Cao's defeat of Huarong Dao in history, but Guan Yu did not intercept it, this description is to show Zhuge Liang's magic and Guan Yu's loyalty.

At that time, Liu Bei was alone, although he needed to connect Wu to resist Cao, and at the same time, he also needed to use Cao Cao to contain Eastern Wu and force him to unite with him. Once Cao Cao is killed, then the newly established new northern forces with Cao Cao as the core will quickly collapse, and Eastern Wu will become the only "superpower", so Liu Bei will have no place to stand, let alone "hegemony". Therefore, at that time, Cao Cao could not be killed.

In this case, it is enough not to catch it, so why catch and let it go? In fact, otherwise, if Cao is not arrested, the world will only know Cao Cao and Sun Quan but not Liu Bei, and only by catching Cao can Liu Bei's strength be shown, and Sun Quan can realize that Liu Bei is a force that cannot be ignored and quite powerful, and can better promote the formation and consolidation of the united front of Sun and Liu.

Finally, it should be noted that the task of "catching and releasing Cao" can only be completed by Guan Yu, because although Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun also have the strength to catch Cao, only Guan Yu has both the ability to catch Cao and the reason to release Cao - that is, he can release Cao under the pretense of repaying his kindness. If Zhang or Zhao were allowed to catch Cao and release Cao, then Liu Bei's ambition would be obvious to the world.

Huarong Dao's capture and release of Cao not only greatly boosted Liu Bei's prestige, further consolidated the united front of the Sun and Liu families, but also allowed Guan Yu to completely pay off Cao Cao's personal debts, and also fulfilled Guan Yu's name of "loyalty", which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

In the Three Kingdoms era, there were many talents, including Zhuge Kongming, who knew astronomy and geography, Liu Bei, who was approachable and virtuous, Guan Yu, who was brave and loyal, and Zhang Fei, who was jealous and hateful, among which Guan Yu's name of benevolence and righteousness spread all over the world, and was respected as "martial saint" by later generations. Guan Yu fled his hometown due to the war, and later formed a rebellion with Zhang Fei and Liu Bei in Taoyuan, and since then he has followed Liu Bei and become an important general of Shu.

The Battle of Chibi was a famous battle during the Three Kingdoms period, in which Cao Cao was forced to flee with fewer victories. At that time, among the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao occupied almost the entire north, Sun Quan was entrenched in Jiangdong, and Liu Bei was attached to Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and his strength was the weakest. After Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei, he attacked Sun Quan, and because almost all the soldiers in Cao's camp were northerners and were not good at water, Cao Cao connected the warships with planks and fought them.

The Sun-Liu coalition army attacked with fire and defeated Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops. Cao Cao saw that his army was beaten miserably, so he could only flee for his life. The main force of the Wu army pursued the large army of Cao's army, Shu was responsible for pursuing Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang sent Guan Yu to Huarong Road to block Cao Cao, Guan Yu remembered that Cao Cao had been kind to him, so he let Wang Yingyin Cao Cao go, so that he successfully escaped.

Zhuge Liang knew that Guan Yu would definitely not kill Cao Cao if he was righteous, so why did he send him to guard Huarong Dao? Because he knew that if he was afraid of sending others, Cao Cao would definitely die, and Liu Bei would definitely come to a catastrophe.

At that time, Sun Quan's strength completely crushed Liu Bei, if Cao Cao died, the north would be in chaos, Sun Quan would not have to worry about the north, he would concentrate his forces to eliminate the weak Liu Bei first, occupy Jingzhou, seize Xichuan, and then complete the unification of the south, and go north, clean up the remnants of Cao Cao, and complete the great cause of the unification of the country.

Besides, Cao Cao's vitality was greatly injured after this battle, and he would not attack Shu again for the time being, at this time Liu Bei's opponent had changed from Cao Cao to Sun Quan, in order to prevent Sun Quan from annexing Shu, Song Sheng could only continue to keep Cao Cao, a strong opponent, so that Sun Quan was on guard day and night. As long as Cao Cao is still there, Sun Quan has to guard against it, he can't tear his face with Liu Bei, and he has to continue to maintain the alliance on the surface.

Because of this, Zhuge Liang, a politician with outstanding talents, sent Guan Yu to guard Huarong Dao to save Cao Cao's life, so that the balance of the three kingdoms could continue to be maintained, and Liu Bei had time to recuperate and develop himself.

Dongwu will definitely blame Shu for letting Cao Cao go, just pushing Guan Yu out of the top tank. Explained to Dongwu that it was not that he didn't want to kill Cao Cao, but that Guan Yu was too serious about righteousness and let Cao Cao go privately, and we must punish him severely. Because Guan Yu released Cao Cao, he let outsiders know that Guan Erye was benevolent and righteous, and was praised by others.

Zhuge Liang may still be a little selfish, and Guan Yu at that time looked down on Zhuge Liang as a weak scholar. Guan Yu let go of Cao Cao and was quite caught by Zhuge Liang by the pigtail, Zhuge Liang finally interceded for Guan Yu, so that Guan Yu was grateful to him, and he didn't dare to play prestige in front of him anymore.

The reasons are as follows: Kong Ming intended to let Cao Cao go, and sending Guan Yu to guard Huarong Dao was a "dominant strategy".

Guan Gong's game of "bounded rationality".

Do you want to walk (guard) Huarong Road? Kong Ming and Cao Cao's "mixed strategic game".

Catch and release Cao, the three-way game woven by Zhuge Liang in "Longzhong Pair".

Because if Cao Cao is caught by Liu Bei, or Cao Cao falls completely, and Shu can't beat Wu, then what should I do. If Cao Cao hadn't died, but his strength was so weak that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, it would have been impossible for Wei to take the initiative to attack other places in a short time. Because Wu Guo had Cao Cao on the side, he didn't dare to act rashly.

This can also make Guan Yu owe Zhuge Liang a favor and be more convinced of Zhuge Liang.

Because it was not Guan Yu who went to Huarong Dao in the official history, it was Liu Bei, Liu Bei was late and let Cao Cao run away. Guan Yu Huarong explained that Cao Cao is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is ** not the official history, and this plot is fictional. "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Emperor Wu" Pei Songzhi's note quoted "Shanyang Gongji" and said:

Cao Cao's warship was burned, and he led his army back on foot from Huarong Road. Huarong Road was muddy and impassable, and it was windy that day, making it even more difficult to walk. So Cao Cao ordered the weak soldiers to cut the grass and pave the way, so that the army could pass, and the soldiers were trampled by men and horses, stuck in the mud, and died countless times.

Seeing that the army was about to pass through Huarong Dao, Cao Cao couldn't help laughing. The generals were already embarrassed, and when they saw Cao Cao laughing, they were very puzzled and asked Cao Cao why he was laughing. Cao Cao said:

Liu Bei's intellect is on par with mine, but his strategy is always one step ahead of me; If he had sent a fast horse to Huarong Road and set fire to it, we would have been wiped out. As soon as Cao Cao's words fell, he received a report from the horse and Liu Bei's pursuers began to ignite the fire in the back. But Cao Cao's army had already passed through Huarong Road and headed for Jiangling.