Guan Yu's martial arts and personality are commendable, and it is precisely because of this that his reputation has spread all over the world. However, his arrogance and conceit also ruined his future.
Guan Yu's conceit is reflected in his arrogance. At that time, when Liu Bei conferred the title of Iliad, Guan Yu, though ranked first, refused to accept Ma Chao and Huang Zhong as Iliad, thinking that Huang Zhong belonged to Lian Po and Ma Chao was incompetent. Because Ma Chao was defeated by Cao Cao before he surrendered to Liu Bei, he was homeless and went to Liu Bei. At the same time, after the surrender, it was defeated by Cao Cao's deviant plan, and Xiliang also fell.
It is precisely because of this that Guan Yu didn't put Ma Likao's cherry blossoms vertically and kept crowding him out. And Liu Bei and Guan Yu are sworn brothers. Liu Bei, who had doubts about Ma Chao, naturally would not reuse Ma Chao. Therefore, the relationship between Ma Chao and Guan Yu is actually very subtle. Although Ma Chao learned to be a man with his tail between his legs, he was definitely dissatisfied with Guan Yu.
It is recorded in the Biography of the Three Kingdoms that after Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei, in 2 15 A.D., he and Liu Bei split up and besieged Chengdu, forcing Liu Zhang to surrender. Later, Liu Bei named Ma Chao as the general in charge of Linzhou. However, this day the generals are all empty and have no real power. At the same time, Linzhou is also a small place under the jurisdiction of Guan Yu.
Guan Yu's arrogance is reflected in his arrogance. Guan Yu's ability and talent are outstanding, and the proliferation of his seven armies is a good proof. However, his arrogant personality did harm himself, because Liu Bei's strategic intention to Guan Yu at that time was not to attack Xiangyang Fancheng. As long as Jingzhou is guarded, the overall situation will be stable.
However, Guan Yu had a high opinion of himself, and transferred his troops to fight Cao Cao, which made Jingzhou empty and made Lu Xun and Lu Meng succeed in their plot. The loss of Jingzhou changed Liu Bei's strategic intention.
Guan Yu passed Lin Ju when he walked to Maicheng, and Lin Ju was only a few tens of miles away from Guan Yu's walking to Maicheng, so later generations wondered why Ma Chao didn't send troops to rescue him.
The reason is simple: it's not that Ma Chao didn't save him, but that he couldn't save him at all. It turned out that in 2 17 AD, Ma Chao went to Hanzhong with Liu Bei to compete for hegemony with Cao Cao. It was not until the autumn of 2 19 that Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao, and more than 20 officials of Shu Han/kloc-0 jointly wrote that Liu Bei called him the king of Hanzhong. At this time, Ma Chao was also appointed as the left general.
Let's look at Guan Yu's failure. This year is also 2 19.
Ma Chao was surprisingly far away, thousands of miles away from Lin Ju. Obviously, he can't go to Linzhou to save Guan Yu. It is worth mentioning that Ma Chao, who entered the palace for the second time, has been frustrated in surrendering to Liu Bei. In the third year after Guan Yu's death, in 222 AD, Ma Chao, who was only 47 years old, died of depression and was buried in Mianxian County.
Ma Chao couldn't save Guan Yu, so why didn't a Shu army come to save him when he was in pain? Apart from Guan Yu's lofty personality, which offended many Shu generals, there was another important reason: Liu Bei was surprisingly focused at that time. Liu Bei wanted Guan Yu to guard Jingzhou, so that both Wu Dong and Cao Wei could look at the city and sigh. In this way, he can let go of surprisingly, timely send troops and Wei Jun Armageddon. However, Guan Yu's sudden failure was very accidental, and even Zhuge Liang, who had answers, did not calculate that Guan Yu would lose Jingzhou.
In a word, Guan Yu's careless loss of Jingzhou is a watershed in the situation of the Three Kingdoms. After that, Liu Bei had to fight back with large forces in an attempt to recapture Jingzhou. But it is not easy to have Sun Quan in the east and Cao Cao in the north. Finally, Liu Beiju's Shu soldiers were defeated by the army led by Lu Xun in the battle of Yiling. After that, Liu Bei died in Baidicheng, and Shu inevitably declined.