Guan Yu was defeated and took Maicheng and was attacked by Sun Quan and Cao Cao, why didn t Liu Bei

The story of the Three Kingdoms is very exciting, heroes and heroes abound, but everyone's fate or result will be embarrassing, and some will be praised, which is different. Of course, there are also many controversial plots in the middle, such as Guan Yu's defeat in Maicheng and his attack by Sun Quan and Cao Cao, why didn't Liu Bei send reinforcements at that time?

First, there are two speculations by posterity.

After Liu Bei captured Hanzhong, he established himself as the king of Hanzhong, and crowned Guan Yu as a former general. At this time, Guan Yu led the army north to launch the Battle of Xiangfan, and the battle situation was very optimistic at first, but soon the battle situation took a wonderful turn, making Guan Yu suffer from the enemy on his back. Legend has it that Liu Bei did not send reinforcements at this time, and there are two views on the reason for this incident, one is that Liu Bei intends to get rid of Guan Yu, and the other is that Zhuge Liang borrowed a knife to kill people.

Second, Guan Yu made a mistake in judgment.

Both of these views are unsubstantiated and contain more or less speculation. So what was it like back then? In fact, there are two ways to choose from Liu Bei's rescue of Guan Yu or Guan Yu's retreat, one is to retreat from the northwest, and the other is through Yidu.

However, after Guan Yu learned that Jingzhou was lost, he did not choose the two roads mentioned above to retreat, but returned to Dangyang.

Thirdly, there were in fact reinforcements, but there was no convergence.

It was precisely because Guan Yu did not choose the two ways mentioned above to retreat, but returned to Dangyang to recapture Jingzhou, and as a result, he let himself be encircled. At that time, Liu Bei did not send reinforcements, in fact, he had already adjusted the personnel appointments in the region, and then planned to receive Guan Yu, but who knew that Guan Yu did not retreat according to the conventional route, so that he did not join the reinforcements.

Although Guan Yu is very capable, he is arrogant, misjudged, and defeated Maicheng. Liu Bei knew that it could not be saved, so he did not send reinforcements.

Liu Bei didn't have time to send troops, the traffic was blocked in ancient times, and by the time Liu Bei received the news, it was too late.

It wasn't that Liu Bei didn't want to send reinforcements at that time, but he was too late at all. And because of Guan Yu's strategic decision-making mistakes, he was not able to meet with these two armies, and finally all failed.

There should be reinforcements, and Liu Bei should not be able to save his sworn brother when he dies. However, due to the long distance and the difficulty of marching, the two armies did not succeed in the round.

Because in ancient times, the transmission of news was not so fast, and by the time Liu Bei knew the news, Guan Yu was likely to have actually died in battle.

It may be that Liu Bei sent reinforcements, but he didn't come, or it could be that Liu Bei didn't want to save Guan Yu, so he didn't send troops to rescue.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang arranged for other generals to rescue Guan Yu at that time, but this general didn't want to help Guan Yu because of personal grievances.

Maybe it's because the emperor is far away, and it takes time for Liu Bei to rescue, not to mention that Guan Yu's failure is unpredictable.

was captured by Pan Zhang and Ma Zhong of Eastern Wu.

Guan Yu traveled to Jingzhou, there was no way out, Guan Ping saw that the army's heart was in turmoil, persuaded Guan Yu to camp in Maicheng, and let Liao Hua go to Shangyong to ask Liu Feng and Meng Da for help. After Liu Feng heard Liao Hua's cry, he wanted to go to rescue Guan Yu, but Meng Da told Guan Yu all about Guan Yu's rights and wrongs, which made Liu Feng change his original intention and was unwilling to send troops to rescue. Liao Hua saw that crying was useless, so he went to Chengdu.

Guan Yu was in a desperate situation, and Dongwu sent Zhuge Jin to persuade him to surrender, but Guan Yu was unmoved, saying, "If the city is broken, at most one will die." Jade can be broken but not changed to white, and bamboo can be burned but not destroyed. Although I am dead, I can be famous.

Sir, I don't need to say more, I want to fight Sun Quan to the death! Zhuge Jin persuaded again and again, but in the end he still returned in vain.

Zhuge Jin reported back to Sun Quan, and Lü Meng said that he had a plan to capture Guan Yu, so he let Zhu Ran ambush north of Maicheng, and Pan Zhang led troops to ambush in Linfu. He also ordered his soldiers to attack the city of Mai on three sides, leaving only the north gate empty. Guan Yu didn't want to trap Maicheng, and wanted to break through from the trail to Xichuan.

Wang Fu persuaded him to take the big road, but Guan Yu said that even if there was an ambush, he was not afraid. Wang Fu saw that he didn't listen, so he cried goodbye to Guan Yu.

Guan Yu led Guan Ping to ride more than 200 horses and rushed out of the north gate of Maicheng. didn't go far, when Zhu Ran ambushed and killed on all sides, Guan Yu fled to Linfang. When he arrived at the place where the stone was broken, Pan Zhang led the ambush soldiers to intercept the road, and tripped Guan Yu and others with a tripping horse, and Guan Yu was captured by Ma Zhong.

Sun Quan loved Guan Yu's talent and virtue and persuaded him to surrender, Guan Yu's eyes widened and he scolded loudly. After Sun Quan thought about it for a long time, he asked someone to push Guan Yu's father and son out and behead him.

Because Guan Yu had been forced to a dead end at that time, in order to save his life, he chose to take the initiative to surrender to Sun Quan.

Because he wants to live, he still has a daughter to take care of, because he feels that Sun Quan will not kill him, and in the future, he will still follow his eldest brother Liu Bei, he is just temporarily compromised.

Because Guan Yu knew that he had no way out, if he didn't surrender, he would definitely be killed in the end, but what he didn't expect was that even if he surrendered, he would still be killed in the end.

At that time, Lu Meng had already broken Guan Yu's military heart, there was no morale, Guan Yu was a fraudulent surrender, and he wanted to deceive Sun Quan, but Sun Quan had already given the order to kill Guan Yu, and in the end, Guan Yu was killed.

Guan Yu had to surrender, and he had other thoughts. At that time, the news of Lu Meng's arrest of the relatives of the soldiers spread, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, Guan Yu lost the hearts of the people, and he might be killed by the ** from his own people, so he had to surrender.

Because Mai Cheng was defeated. The only way to do this is to surrender first and then make another plan. Death is simple, but nothing can be done if you die. Sometimes it takes more courage to live than to die.

Because he felt that only by surviving could he serve Shu better, he felt that Wu would not kill his former ally, the general of Shu, so he surrendered.

Because Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang didn't know about this matter at that time, they didn't send troops to rescue.

It was because they hadn't received the news in time at that time, and it was also because Ma Chao was there at the time, so there was such a tragedy.

It's not that they don't send troops to rescue, it's that the distance between the two sides is too far, the distance is too long, and they can't catch up at all. Moreover, the ancients were also very slow to transmit news, and when they learned the news, Guan Yu had already been defeated.