What is the reason for the decline of the Liu Bei Group? Is it Guan Yu’s pride or Liu Bei’s forgetfulness?

Let me first talk about the turning point of the decline of the Shuhan regime established by Liu Bei?

is definitely the battle of Xiangfan initiated by Guan Yu. The final result is that Guan Yu, the only famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty, was killed. The three counties of Jingzhou (Nanjun, Wuling County, and Lingling County) were taken away by Sun Quan, and hundreds of thousands of people in Jingzhou belonged to it. In the Eastern Wu, fifty thousand elite Jingzhou soldiers who had been trained for many years either took refuge in Sun Quan or died in battle. As for the loss of thousands of grassroots officials, countless grains, materials, taxes, etc., it is impossible to calculate clearly. This is the most important thing for the Shu Han. The loss directly triggered the subsequent Yiling War and opened the prelude to the decline of the Shu Han. After

, Liu Bei launched the battle of Yiling to take back Jingzhou and avenge Guan Yu at the same time. As a result, he was defeated by Lu Xun, and the 40,000 Yizhou army and 10,000 barbarians were wiped out. , The elite divisions who had fought with Liu Bei for many years were all lost, especially those veterans and middle-level generals who participated in the battle of Yizhou and Hanzhong.

Then, there was a rebellion against the Shuhan regime in Nanzhong, and a rebellion in Huangyuan, Hanjia County. At the same time, the power of the Shuhan fell to the lowest point in history. The regime created by Liu Bei, After a series of blows, it began to become shaky, and everything happened because of the defeat of the Battle of Xiangfan, so the cause of the decline of the Liu Bei Group was the Battle of Xiangfan.

Then why did the battle of Xiangfan happen? The reason for the final failure was Guan Yu's pride or Liu Bei's forgetfulness?

Regarding the occurrence of the Xiangfan battle, I personally prefer that Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to launch it, but at the same time Guan Yu expanded the war on his own initiative, but Liu Bei acquiesced in Guan Yu’s military operations to expand the war. People defended the Soochow Wu, which led to a private collusion between Soochow and Cao Wei. The Soochow made a white robe crossing the river and attacked Jingzhou completely. He completely defeated Guan Yu, captured Jingzhou, and quickly killed Guan Yu as a captive.

The battle of Xiangfan in a narrow sense refers to the war that Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang and Fancheng in July 219 AD. However, the battle of Xiangfan in a broad sense took place as early as one or two years ago. Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to expedite Xiangfan to the north. It was to relieve the pressure of the Hanzhong Battle that was going on at that time. The Hanzhong Battle was a war that Liu Bei launched the entire Yizhou force to attack Hanzhong County in 217 AD. The Hanzhong Battle Liu Bei won was very difficult because Cao Wei was super powerful and Liu Bei was under pressure. Very big, in order to reduce the pressure, Guan Yu was ordered to launch the battle of Xiangfan.

Guan Yu fought all the way north from Nanjun, from the Dangyang area at the junction of the two armies to Xiangyang and Fancheng. It took Guan Yu almost a year. When Guan Yu advanced to Xiangfan, it was exactly In July 219, the battle of Xiangfan took place in a narrow sense. People always paid attention to the battle of Xiangfan in a narrow sense, but ignored the fact that Guan Yu had been in the Northern Expedition for quite a long time before that, because it was impossible for Guan Yu to appear at once. The ones under Xiangyang and Fancheng were typed step by step.

When Guan Yu hit Xiangfan, he chose to continue to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng. The original war that contained Cao and Wei evolved into a local conflict between the two sides. Guan Yu expanded the Xiangfan battle and Liu Bei's original intention, but Liu Bei learned When Guan Yu expanded the war, he did not stop Guan Yu and adopted a tacit attitude. The fundamental reason why Liu Bei did this was that Liu Bei won the battle in Hanzhong.

So, Liu Bei started to get overwhelmed and began to think that Cao Jun was nothing great. Wasn't it defeated by Liu Bei in the Battle of Hanzhong? At the same time, Liu Bei's heart for fame began to be revealed. One or two months after the outcome of the Battle of Hanzhong, he claimed to be the King of Hanzhong. This is already a naked ultra vires act. The reason why Liu Bei is like this is because he has always had the ambition to unify the world. This not only allowed Cao Cao to see Liu Bei's ambitions, but also to Sun Quan, which led to the subsequent attack on Jingzhou.

The whole incident happened one chain after another. Liu Bei said that the right move of the King of Hanzhong should be to recuperate, wait for the right time, and then follow Longzhong’s plan to set off for the Northern Expedition Cao Wei. If Liu Bei really presses Zhuge Liang As planned, there are still opportunities and dreams to unify the world, but in fact, Liu Bei started to get hot heads and began to drift.

As a result, Liu Bei not only does not take a rest, but alsoHowever, Liu Feng and Meng Da were sent to capture the three counties of Shangyong as the advance base for the Northern Expedition, and they did not prevent Guan Yu from continuing to expand his attack on Xiangfan, because after the Battle of Hanzhong, Liu Bei's Yizhou was under pressure. Guan Yu Initiating the Battle of Xiangfan instead allowed Guan Yu to continue to attack Cao Wei's strength. Liu Bei never thought there was any problem with Guan Yu's expansion of the Battle of Xiangfan, nor did he realize the seriousness of Guan Yu's expedition to Xiangfan alone.

During the Battle of Xiangfan, Liu Bei did not send a single soldier to support Guan Yu, because Liu Bei believed that Guan Yu could defeat Cao Wei’s Xiangyang and Fancheng without support, because a series of victories made Liu Beichong Confused, including the battle of Yizhou Liu Beisheng, the battle of Hanzhong Liu Beisheng, the battle of Shangyong Liu Bei, the early battle of Xiangfan also Guan Yu victory, and Guan Yu also played a climax: Megatron China.

The more Guan Yu wins, the more Liu Bei loses his form, so under a series of victories, Liu Bei and Guan Yu go farther and farther along the wrong path, and the serious consequences caused are getting bigger and bigger. The sooner Guan Yu ends Xiangfan In the war, Liu Bei's loss would be less, but no one noticed the serious consequences of Guan Yu's northern expedition to Xiangfan. This was Sun Quan's sneak attack behind him.

Maybe, even if someone reminds Liu Bei to pay attention to Sun Quan’s sneak attack, I’m afraid Liu Bei thinks that Sun Quan dare not do so, or Liu Bei hasn’t put Sun Quan in his eyes at all, let alone assess whether Sun Quan will take military actions against Shu Han. Action, let alone Liu Bei, even the frontline Guan Yu thought that Sun Quan had no guts to attack Jingzhou. The fierce Lu Meng was ill. The newly appointed Lu Xun was just a scholar. Guan Yu was always proud and looked down on scholar-officials, and even despised Lu Xun and Lu Meng.

So under the dual factors, the tragedy of Guan Yu and Liu Bei happened. Sun Quan had planned the military operation to attack Jingzhou a long time ago. He only waited for a favorable opportunity. When Guan Yu used the last one for When the army defending Jingzhou was transferred to the front line of Xiangfan, the three Jingzhou counties in the rear were actually in a state of emptiness. Sun Quanfang immediately seized the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Jingzhou, and hit Zigui in one breath and cut off all of Guan Yu's escape back to Yizhou. Road, Guan Yu and Jingzhou became Sun Quan’s turtles in the urn.

Therefore, Guan Yu and Liu Bei should bear the main responsibility for the failure of the Battle of Xiangfan. If they are divided according to the responsibilities, they need to bear 50% of the responsibility. Guan Yu’s fault lies in not defending Soochow and rashly expanding the war. , Liu Bei’s mistake was that he did not stop Guan Yu in time and made the right strategy, especially the possible defense against Sun Quan. After all, Longzhong also said to unite with Sun Quan, so he never thought that Sun Quan would betray the alliance oath .