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If the person in the Shuhan Group died the most "unfairly", it must be Liu Feng .
This "first son" who was adopted by Liu Bei since he was a teenager. In the next ten years, he followed Liu Bei to fight in the south and north and made great contributions.
, but after Guan Yu was killed, he was ordered to be executed by Liu Bei himself because he did not provide timely rescue. The result of
Liu Feng’s illustration
is really unpredictable.
However, in recent years, relevant historians have inferred based on the records of Three Kingdoms and various historical materials that Liu Bei killed his son who had been with him for more than ten years, not entirely because he did not rescue Guan Yu.
is because of Zhuge Liang a suggestion in Liu Bei's ear, and this suggestion is only eleven words.
So, what did Zhuge Liang say at the beginning? Why did he suggest that Liu Bei kill Liu Feng?
Zhuge Liang
The importance of Jingzhou
In the 13th year of Jian'an (208 AD), he completed the unification of the north and successfully captured the Cao Cao , becoming the largest warlord force in the entire China at that time. In order to fulfill the long-cherished wish of unifying the world, Cao Cao led a large army to attack Sun Quan and Liu Bei, who were entrenched in the Jiangdong region.
As a result, in the Chibi area, Cao Cao's navy was burned out by the Sun and Liu coalition forces, and the remaining army was defeated. From then on, he completely lost the hope of unification and could only go from offense to defense, from the active attack to the passive defense.
, and Liu Bei also took this opportunity to seize the four southern counties of Jingzhou. After wandering for most of his life, he finally had a piece of his own territory.
Stills of Liu Bei
However, because in the Battle of Chibi, the one who contributed the most was the Sun Quan group, so logically speaking, Jingzhou's winning product should also belong to the lunar month after the war.
Therefore, both sides agreed that if Liu Bei had another foothold in the future, he would return Jingzhou to Dongwu.
However, Jingzhou is located in the Two Lakes Plain and is the central hub leading to the south of the Central Plains region, and has very important strategic significance.
In addition, Jingzhou also has convenient agricultural production conditions due to sufficient water conservancy and suitable environment.
plus the Liu Biao family has been entrenched for many years. During the governance period, the entire Jingzhou was almost not affected by war, and agriculture has developed very rapidly.
This makes Jingzhou also have very important value in economic development.
Sun Quan's stills
As Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang As the period when he visited the cottage three times, he had already talked about the importance of Jingzhou to the king's hegemony in " Longzhong vs. "When the world changes, I ordered a general to send Jingzhou troops to Wan and Luo, and the general led the people of Yizhou out of Qinchuan . Who dares not to eat a pot of juice to welcome the general?"
Therefore, although Liu Bei agreed to Sun Quan on the surface that he would return Jingzhou in the future, in his heart, he had already taken it as his own and regarded it as his own strategic location.
This also laid the groundwork for the subsequent conflict.
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The Death of Guan Yu
According to the strategic development direction set by Zhuge Liang for Liu Bei Group in "Longzhong Pair", after obtaining Jingzhou, the next step is to attack westward and compete for the land of Western Shu and Yizhou with the "country of Heavenly Prefecture".
"Yizhou is dangerously blocked, with a fertile field of thousands of miles. The land of the heavenly palace was made. Emperor Gaozu made his imperial career because of it. Liu Zhang is weak, Zhang Lu is in the north, the people are rich but the country is not polite, and the intelligent people want to get a wise king."
In the 18th year of Jian'an (213 AD), Liu Bei broke up with Liu Zhang and immediately sent troops to attack Yizhou.
After Pang Tong was shot to death by crossbow arrows in the chaos army, Liu Bei urgently mobilized Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei , Zhao Yun and others to help the battle and ordered Guan Yu to station in Jingzhou.
Guan Yu's stills
Not long after, Liu Bei captured the entire territory of Shuzhong and completely occupied Yizhou.
Seeing that Liu Bei had obtained other territory, Sun Quan hurriedly sent someone to ask Guan Yu for his return to Jingzhou.
However, Guan Yu, who was arrogant and arrogant, has always been incompatible with the Eastern Wu. In addition, the strategic significance of Jingzhou is very critical to the Liu Bei Group, so Guan Yu taught the Eastern Wu a lesson and asked the soldiers to bombard him.
Sun Quan was very angry after learning about this and scolded Liu Bei for not being trustworthy. The rift between the two sides also began to arise from this time.
However, since Cao Cao in the north was the enemy at that time, and the Jingzhou where Guan Yu was invincible, Sun Quan did not dare to act rashly for the time being and could only wait for the opportunity. What he didn't expect was that this opportunity would come soon.
Three Kingdoms situation map
The 24th year of Jian'an (219 years), Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao's main force in the battle of Hanzhong in . Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao's main force himself in . Huang Zhong also killed Cao Cao's group's heavy general Xiahou Yuan , and successfully captured Hanzhong . Later, Liu Bei was promoted to Hanzhong King .
Guan Yu, who guarded Jingzhou, was also named the former general and ranked first among the "Five Tiger Generals".
Seeing that his brother had been granted titles to marquis, Guan Yu, who was arrogant and arrogant, was very happy, but he also aroused a sense of arrogance in his heart.
So, in the early autumn of the same year, Guan Yu led the elite troops of Jingzhou to the north to attack Xiangyang Lü Chang and Fancheng Cao Ren .
Along the way, Guan Yu was extremely powerful and conquered many important towns of Cao's army one after another. He also flooded the Seventh Army, captured Cao's general , killed Pang De, and besieged Fancheng.
In an instant, Guan Yu was so powerful that China, and Cao's army was also frightened by Guan Yu's momentum.
However, the successive battles trapped the soldiers of Jingzhou. In addition, Cao Ren was good at defensive warfare, and Xu Huang also led his army to rescue in time, so Guan Yu was unable to capture Fancheng.
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At this time, seeing that the outer defense line of Jingzhou was empty, and Guan Yu was also dragged in the Xiangyang area, Sun Quan realized that the time was coming to take back Jingzhou.
So, he sent the Grand Commander Lu Meng to lead thousands of soldiers, white clothes across the river, and contacted Mi Fang and Fu Shiren , who were punished for drinking and were internally responding, and took down the five counties of Jingzhou in one fell swoop.
The battle in front failed, and the rear base camp was captured again, and Guan Yu was immediately desperate. After losing to Maicheng,
led more than a dozen remaining soldiers to be caught by the Eastern Wu troops on the way to escape. After a battle, they were defeated and captured. They were then executed by Lu Meng along with their eldest son Guanping .
After learning about this, Liu Bei, who was far away in Chengdu, was suddenly heartbroken and vowed to avenge his second brother.
Stills of Liu Guanzhang
At this time, news came that when Guan Yu was in trouble, , stationed in the three counties of Shangyong, Liu Feng and and Mengda , who were stationed in Shangyong, did not send troops to rescue them.
This made Liu Bei very angry with him.
Because he was afraid of being punished by Liu Bei after going back, Meng Da immediately surrendered to Cao Wei . After that, he advised Liu Feng to rebel together.
However, as Liu Bei's stepson, Liu Feng was loyal to Liu Bei, rejected Meng Da's request, and returned to Chengdu alone. What he never expected was that his choice would eventually ruin his life.
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"stepson" with outstanding contributions
Liu Bei belongs to the late-stage person.
After he started his army in his 20s, he did not have his own family until he was in his early 40s.
When he was a guest at Liu Biao in Jingzhou, he learned that Uncle Liu had no son and a Liu family in Changsha County adopted his nephew Kou Feng to Liu Bei as his stepson and changed his name to "Liu Feng".
Although Liu Feng was only in his teenage years when he followed Liu Bei, he was extremely brave and very brave.
In Liu Bei's retreat to Jiangxia and later the Battle of Chibi, Liu Feng had performed outstandingly as a guard beside him.
Later, when Liu Bei entered Shu to attack Liu Zhang, Liu Feng led his army with Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others to the west to attack Yizhou. He fought all the places he passed, and made great contributions to the capture of Yizhou.
Portrait of Liu Feng
In order to commend Liu Feng's contribution, Liu Bei promoted him to deputy general of the army.
In the battle of Hanzhong, Liu Feng was ordered to attack again and led his army to kill more than a dozen officers of Cao Cao. Cao Cao was so angry that he cursed Liu Bei: "The incompetent man who weaves straw sandals will only use your fake son to block me, and wait for me to transfer my real son ( Cao Zhang) to beat you to the point of falling! (Selling the shoe house, I will send you a fake son to reject you! Wait for me to call me Huang Wang, and I will attack him." - Three Kingdoms·Yu Huan·" Wei Lue ")"
However, because Cao's army was defeated too quickly, before Cao Zhang arrived, he had already retreated to Qinling .
.After Liu Bei won the Battle of Hanzhong and promoted to the King of Hanzhong, he sent Liu Feng to support Meng Da and captured the three counties of Shangyong .
Liu Feng went south from Hanzhong to the Mianshui. During this period, he passed the barrier and killed the generals and successfully joined Meng Da. The enemy was defeated.
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Seeing that it was difficult to compete with the two groups of people and horses, Shangyong Prefect Shen Dan had to open the city to surrender and handed over the three counties of Shangyong to Liu Feng.
His stepson made another meritorious contribution. Liu Bei was very happy and immediately allocated 2,000 troops to him and promoted him to The deputy general.
, who was successful in young age, originally thought that with the development of Liu Bei Group, he would also rise, and his future was unlimited.
However, not long after, a fatal blow came.
Shortly after seizing Shangyong, Guan Yu was careless and lost to Maicheng, and asked Liu Feng for help.
However, at that time, Shangyong County had not been completely settled. There was a conflict between Liu Feng and Meng Da due to whom to take charge of the family. In addition, the rescue journey was long, so neither of them chose He chose to send troops to rescue.
In the end, Guan Yu was desperate and was killed by Dongwu.
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Zhuge Liang's suggestions
After Meng Da surrendered to Cao Wei, he led his army to attack Liu Feng with the general Xu Huang. At this time, the two brothers Shen Dan and Shen Yi who were guarding Shangyong betrayed Liu Feng, so Liu Feng was defeated. After rejecting Meng Da's surrender suggestion, he fled all the way back to Chengdu.
At this time, Liu Bei was still worried that Liu Feng would not save him and caused Guan Yu to die in battle, so he wanted to punish him.
However, considering Liu Feng's past contributions and being his own stepson, the punishment is just to stay at the level of contact with his position.
However, at this time, Zhuge Liang's words made Liu Bei change his attention.
Zhuge Liang said to Liu Bei: "Feng is tough and fierce, and it will never be able to control it after the world is easy." - "The Three Kingdoms·Shu Book"
Zhuge Liang
means that Liu Feng's character is too strong and brave. Once Liu Bei dies in the future, no one can control it. The implication of
is to remind Liu Bei to take this opportunity to get rid of Liu Feng, otherwise it is likely to have an impact on the inheritance of the throne in the future.
In this way, the Shuhan Group, which was already seriously damaged, may suffer a "demonstration disaster".
Although Liu Feng has made many contributions to Liu Bei's life and death, he is not Liu Bei's biological son after all, so it is naturally impossible for him to inherit Liu Bei's foundation.
But it is precisely because Liu Feng's ability is too strong. Compared with him, Liu Chan's ability is too weak, so there will be great hidden dangers in the future.
So, after some careful consideration, Liu Bei made up his mind and executed Liu Feng.
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Learning that Liu Bei ordered him to commit suicide, Liu Feng was stunned. Before he died, he lamented: "I regret not obeying Mencius's words at the beginning."
then drew his sword and committed suicide at home.
After learning that Liu Feng was dead, Liu Bei was very sad. He ordered people to bury Liu Feng with the courtesy of a prince and gave Liu Feng's family a lot of rewards as compensation.
