Chapter 285: Decapitation Plan

If I am the Green Emperor in his year, I will grant the peach blossoms to bloom at one time. ----------Tang Dynasty. Huang Chao "Chrysanthemum"

It is said that Xuande discussed with the two virtuous brothers about defecting to Yuan Shao, but unfortunately although Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were superb in martial arts, they could not point out a clear path for Xuande. Xuande deeply sighed, why did I get two fierce generals in the world, but I couldn't get a wise man to accompany me? Time also! Luck also! Fate, too!!

Pressing Xuande into the whirlpool of fate, Chen Long, who played the role of the big pearl merchant Dragon Ball on the other side, moved the brains of Guan Zhang's second general again. Chen Longming, who is familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, clearly knows that Guan Zhang's final death has a lot to do with Liu Bei. If you don't save it now, when will you wait?

Although Guan Yu was proud, he was loyal to Liu Bei, and even ignored Cao Cao's righteousness. Anyone who has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that after Liu Bei became the king of Hanzhong, Guan Yu led his army to attack Cao Ren in Fancheng, despite the threat from Eastern Wu. He also sent people deep into Cao Wei's occupied areas to rebel and disrupt the enemy's rear. Cao Cao sent the general to help the war, Guan Yu borrowed the Han water to flood Cao Wei's seven armies, captured the ban, and shocked China, Cao Cao planned to move the capital to avoid Guan Yu's sharpness.

At this time, Sima Yi, Jiang Ji and others dissuaded, thinking that Sun Quan must not want to see Guan Yu get his will, and he could let him send troops to attack Guan Yu from behind on the condition that he promised to give Jiangnan to Sun Quan. At the same time, Cao Cao mobilized generals such as Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, as well as Pei Qian, the assassin of Gunzhou, and Lu Gong, the assassin of Yuzhou, to lead the army to rescue Fancheng, and prepared to personally conquer Guan Yu.

After flooding the Seventh Army, Cao Cao asked Sun Quan to attack Guan Yu, at first Sun Quan did not agree immediately, but instead sent an envoy to Guan Yu to make peace and marry Guan Yu's daughter, Guan Yu was furious and insulted his envoy, Sun Quan heard it, and was even more furious, and sent Lü Meng to attack Jingzhou.

Sun Quan ordered Lü Meng to attack Jingzhou as the commander-in-chief, and personally led the army as a backup. Jingzhou's important Jiangling garrison general Elfang (Liu Bei's brother-in-law), public security garrison Shiren surrendered without a fight because of suspicion with Guan Yu, and Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes and captured Jingzhou counties one after another without much effort.

Xu Huang, who rescued Fancheng, thought it would be difficult to compete with Guan Yu due to lack of troops, but Cao Cao successively sent generals such as Xu Shang and Lü Jian, as well as twelve battalions of soldiers and horses such as Yin Department and Zhu Gai to reinforce Xu Huang, and finally Xu Huang defeated Guan Yu's army besieging Fancheng. At this time, Guan Yu knew that there was a change in the rear and retreated south, but the navy still controlled Hanshui.

Most of the family members of Guan Yu's army were in Jiangling, and when they learned that Jiangling had fallen to Sun Quan, the soldiers gradually dispersed and retreated to Maicheng. Guan Yu sent Liao Hua to Shangyong for help, Liu Feng (Liu Bei's adopted son), Meng Da and the two disagreed, in December, the city was exhausted, Guan Yu led dozens of horsemen to escape, all the way to Yizhou only one or twenty miles away from Linfang, Pan Zhang's general Ma Zhong's ambush was captured, the righteous son Guan Ping went to the rescue, was also captured, Sun Quan saw that the two refused to surrender, so he killed the two, Guan Yu was only fifty-eight years old when he died.

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However, conspiracy theorists saw the clue from this and concluded that Guan Yu died because of the conflict with Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, at least because he could not be saved. Guan Yu has always only recognized Liu Bei as the boss, and does not take Zhuge Liang in his eyes, so he is arrogant and domineering, and he alone has the final say in Jingzhou. Even Liu Bei, as the boss, is afraid that he will turn a blind eye to Guan Yu's own death in Jingzhou and let him fend for himself. Mi Fang and Liu Feng are both close relatives of Liu Bei, why one betrayed Guan Yu and the other did not save him when he saw death, it was really scary. In the official history, Liu Bei cried the death of Pang Tong and the death of Fazheng, but he did not cry about Guan Yu's death, and he did not even posthumously seal Guan Yu. Guan Yu's death died from the breakdown of his relationship with Liu Bei! Shu deliberately did not have a historian at that time, perhaps because it could not record the shocking truth of Guan Yu's death!

Later scholars believed that Huarong Daosheng's capture of Cao Cao was Liu Bei's only chance to succeed, but because Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu had other thoughts, Cao Cao was released, and a three-legged tripod was formed. Zhuge Liang hopes to realize the alliance with his brother Zhuge Jin in the three-legged tripod to resist Cao and establish Zhuge Tianxia; Guan Yu hopes to get rid of his brother who has different ambitions in the three-legged tripod, fight the world independently with Guan Ping and Liao Hua, and restore the Han Dynasty; Liu Bei also hoped to get rid of Guan Yu, Guan Ping and Liu Feng, who threatened Adou's inheritance, in the Three Kingdoms, and establish his own heirloom world. Therefore, Guan Yunchang was attacked by Sun Cao in two places on the surface of Maicheng, but in fact, there was the secret participation of the Sima family, the Zhuge brothers and Liu Bei, and it was difficult for the five parties to defeat the powerful Guan Gong without any of them.

Besides, Zhang Fei's death also has the shadow of Liu Bei's eldest brother behind. On the surface, Zhang Fei died at the hands of Fan Jiang and Zhang Da, and died of "violence and gratitude, defeat with shortness". In fact, Zhang Fei does not have a particularly clear political position, "specializing in making friends with the world's heroes". Neither like Liu Bei, who lost his father in his early years, nor like Guan Yu, who fled to the army, his righteousness and joining the army were purely out of the enthusiasm and pride of "the big husband should contribute to the country".

Some scholars have also pointed out that Zhang Fei has been a little brother to Liu Bei for many years, but he has always carried the burden of Liu Bei's life and death brother, but they don't know that as Liu Bei's status gets higher and higher, things have become more and more dangerous.

Zhang Fei's idea is very simple, thinking that his children and grandchildren will always be willing to live under the people and always be loyal to the surname Liu; thought that his brother Liu Bei would always be benevolent and righteous, and always recognize himself as a brother with a different surname. In fact, brothers with different surnames who "do not seek to be born in the same year, same month, and same day, but to die in the same year, same month, and same day" are only suitable for working together to fight the world, and are not suitable for dictatorship and dictatorship sitting in the world. However, will Liu Bei allow Guan Xing and Zhang Bao to enjoy the same right to inherit the throne as Liu Chan?

Liu Bei, as the first elder brother and a person with vested interests, certainly did not allow anyone to challenge the core of the imperial power. It would directly threaten Liu Chan's right to inherit and rule, and destroy the single-surname lineage of the entire royal sect. Don't say that you will be the Son of Heaven in the future, that is, stop at the King of Hanzhong and the Emperor of Xishu, and Liu Bei doesn't want to rule the three surnames together, not to mention that Adou does not have any competitiveness among all parents and sons.

But Liu Bei cherishes his name, how can he kill his brother without being blamed? can only secretly give it to the enemy to kill, and then dispel the suspicion of the world in the name of revenge. As long as it is said to be revenge, who would ask them to die on the same day, the same month, and the same year? The righteous alliance was naturally dissolved, and at the same time, it won the morale and popular support of the government and the opposition, which was indispensable for seizing the world. Liu Bei is worthy of being a great statesman, who can not only elevate the brotherly alliance to the auxiliary justice of the heavens, but also make the speech of the brotherly enmity into a public enmity against the country. The one who died unjustly was just the "brother" who he used to get out of his miserable fate back then.

Zhang Fei died even worse, and he couldn't even die on the battlefield. But the most pitiful thing is that in the process of harming Zhang Fei, Liu Bei is not only a bystander and connivator, but also an active collaborator and operator, and his participation is much deeper than when he killed Guan Yu. It's all because Zhang Fei misrecognized his eldest brother and married his brother by mistake, and when the imperial power is in his hands, who can recognize you as a brother, and he is not surnamed Liu?

Later scholars concluded that Liu Bei crossed the river and demolished the bridge in order to allow Liu Chan to succeed to the throne smoothly and maintain the pure bloodline of the Liu family, and eliminated his brothers Guan Yu and Zhang Fei with different surnames; At the same time, the Zhuge brothers have long had the ambition to take advantage of Liu Guanzhang and establish themselves in the Zhuge Dynasty, which is the truth of Guan Zhang's death.

Chen Long looked at it in his light brain for a long time, and sighed slightly in his heart, the cunning rabbit died, the lackey cooked, the merit was high, and he would not die well. If you want to save Guan Zhang, you really need to think long-term, and make a clever plan to let Guan Zhang get out of Liu Bei's control and escape from the shackles of his brother, whether he throws himself into his arms or not, it is better than succumbing to death under his eldest brother's knife in his prime.

And Zhuge Liang, a smart man, has been controlled in Xiangyang by himself with Huang Yueying, and I believe that he will not meet Liu Bei, a big careerist, again. But the world runs like chess, and without Zhuge Liang, who knows that Liu Bei will not use others to gain momentum?

Thinking of this, Long Chen slowly said to Zhou Budoubt: "Yuan Zhi, I have admired Guan Yunchang and Zhang Yide beside Liu Bei for a long time, but they are both very loyal to their eldest brother Liu Bei, you can tell me, how can I attract them to serve under my command?"

After listening to Chen Long's words, Zhou Budo couldn't help but smile and said, "If Liu Bei dies, will the two of them really die with them?" ”

Chen Long was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not impossible. It's more likely that it should be chasing and killing enemies for the rest of your life, right? ”

"Then what if the lord helped them get revenge?"

Chen Long shook his head secretly, although this was a solution, he always felt that he was too ruthless to Liu Bei, and it was difficult to predict how Guan and Zhang would react. If they knew that Long Chen was the mastermind behind the scenes, wouldn't they lift a stone and shoot themselves in the foot?

Zhou Budo saw that the lord's expression was calm, and his face became serious, knowing that his idea had not been fully recognized. After some thought, Zhou Budo said: "The subordinates have heard a little about Guan and Zhang, but they lack understanding. If you talk about means, it is nothing more than doing what they like, attacking their hearts, and making them feel that you are their real master. If you have ideals in your heart, you can be moved by the righteousness of the world, if you like to be in a high position, you can tempt you with high-ranking officials, and if you like money and beauty, you can buy it with gold and beauty. Which one do you like? ”

Chen Long shook his head and said: "Guan Yu and Zhang Fei do have the ideal of supporting the Han family in their hearts, but they have always thought that Liu Bei and him have the same ideals and are like-minded brothers. Any other material temptations, promises of official positions, I am afraid that Guan Zhang and the two will ignore them. "I think of the heroic deeds of Guan Yunchang in the official history who hung the seal and sealed the gold, crossed five levels and killed six generals, and rode alone for thousands of miles, this is the ruthless departure of Guan Yu that Cao Cao exchanged for high-ranking officials and Houlu, how could he repeat the mistakes of the past.

Zhou Budo couldn't help but scratch his head, and said calmly: "It seems that Liu Bei is currently hiding his ambitions very deeply. If it is hard to dismantle, it is difficult to disassemble Liu Guanzhang and the others. For the sake of today's plan, the only way to reveal Liu Bei's ambitions is to let Guan Zhang and the others have a rift with him, and then let's formulate a beheading plan, and cover up the operation afterwards. At that time, Guan Zhang and the others knew Liu Bei's ambitions, so they could no longer pursue Liu Bei's death. ”

Chen Long nodded slightly, frowned, and said, "Then how can we reveal Liu Bei's ambition without revealing a trace?" I have to convince Guan and Zhang that it's difficult!. ”

Zhou Budo said slowly: "Now, the one who is most likely to usurp the Han Dynasty and stand on its own is Luoyang Yuan Shu. If Liu Bei and Yuan Shu are linked, I'm afraid Guan Zhang will believe it, right? ”

Find out what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.