Guan Yu is in Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, he is the second, Liu Bei calls him "second brother", Zhang Fei calls him "second brother".

But fans of the Three Kingdoms ranked his martial arts fourth, "one Lu, two Zhao, three Dian Wei, four passes, five horses, and six Zhang Fei".

Most of us know Guan Yu from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but we don't know his resume.

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In fact, Guan Yu (161-220), a native of Xie Liang (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), was a famous general of Shu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the early days, he followed Liu Bei to various places, was captured by Cao Cao, and killed Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang in Baimapo, and was known as the enemy of 10,000 people together with Zhang Fei.

After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei assisted Zhou Yu of Eastern Wu to attack Cao Ren of Nanjun, and did not send Guan Yu to the north to block Cao Cao's reinforcements.

Liu Bei entered Yizhou, and Guan Yu stayed in Jingzhou. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Guan Yu surrounded Xiangfan, Cao Cao sent Yu Ban to come to reinforcements, Guan Yu captured Yu Ban, killed Pang De, and shocked China, Cao Cao wanted to move the capital to avoid its sharpness.

Later, Cao Cao sent Xu Huang to reinforcements, and Lü Meng of Eastern Wu attacked Jingzhou again, Guan Yu suffered from the enemy in the abdomen, and was defeated and killed.

After Guan Yu died, he was gradually deified and revered by the people as "Guan Gong", also known as the beautiful bearded man. In the Qing Dynasty, he was regarded as "the Emperor of Loyalty, Righteousness, Martial Spirit, Benevolence, Courage and Might", and was worshiped as the "Martial Saint", which was as famous as Confucius.

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Guan Yu, in his early years, fled his hometown to Zhuo County, Youzhou due to crimes. In the first year of Zhongping (184), Liu Bei, a relative of the Han family, organized a volunteer army in Zhuo County to participate in the war to extinguish the Yellow Turban Army, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were among them. After Liu Bei held many official positions, he defected to his former classmate Gongsun Zan (zà

), was named the plain minister, Ren Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as the Sima of other departments, and divided the divisions. The three of them are like brothers, often sleeping together in the same bed, and when Liu Bei sat down, Guan and Zhang worked tirelessly to protect them.

Cao Cao was angry with Tao Qian because his entire family was killed, so he sent troops to attack Xuzhou. Tao Qian begged Liu Bei for help, and Liu Bei and Guan Yu led more than 1,000 people to the rescue. Cao Cao's soldiers retreated, Tao Qian said that Liu Bei was the assassin of Yuzhou, and Guan Yu and Liu Bei were stationed in Xiaopei. Then, under the repeated concessions of Tao Qian and others, Liu Bei led Xuzhou Mu.

Later, Liu Bei was attacked by Yuan Shu and Lu Bu and lost Xuzhou, so Guan Yu followed Liu Bei to Cao Cao. When Xu Tian was hunting, Guan Yu persuaded Liu Bei to kill Cao Cao, but Liu Bei thought that Cao Cao at that time was going to help the Han family, and felt that it was a pity to kill him, so he refused.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao captured Lü Bu in Xiapi (pī) and captured Xuzhou, Guan Yu and Liu Bei followed Cao Cao's class back to Xuchang, and Cao Cao appointed Che Xuan as the assassin of Xuzhou. After Yuan Shu went north to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei was ordered by Cao Cao to intercept Yuan Shu in Xuzhou, Liu Bei took the opportunity to attack and kill Che Xuan, ordered Guan Yu to guard Pi and lead Xuzhou, and Liu Bei returned to Xiaopei.

Cao Cao thought that Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty was in Xudu, close to Guan Yu's army, and wanted to move the capital to avoid its edge, but Sima Yi and Jiang Ji dissuaded him, thinking that Sun Quan must not want to see Guan Yu's ambition, 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 Yanzhou assassin Shi Pei Qian, Yuzhou assassin Shi Lu Gong and others to lead troops to rescue Fancheng, and prepared to personally conquer Guan Yu.

And Sun Quan ordered Lü Meng to attack Jingzhou as the commander-in-chief, and personally led the army as a backup. The guard general of Jiangling, an important town in Jingzhou, Lu Fang (Liu Bei's brother-in-law), and the public security guard Shiren surrendered without a fight because of their suspicions with Guan Yu.

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 (Nanjun Zhishuo), and when they learned that Jiangling had fallen to Sun Quan, the soldiers gradually dispersed and retreated to Maicheng.

Guan Yu led dozens of horsemen to escape, all the way to Linfu (now Nanzhang County, Xiangfan City, Hubei Province), which was only one or two miles away from Yizhou, where he was ambushed by Pan Zhang's general Ma Zhong and was captured, and his eldest son Guan Ping was killed in Linfang.

Sun Quan gave Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao buried him in Luoyang with the gift of princes, while Sun Quan buried Guan Yu's body in Dangyang with princely rites, that is, Guan Ling, also known as Dangyang King Tomb.

Shu Han built a mound for Guan Yu in Chengdu, which is the tomb of Guan Yu in Chengdu, and worships with spirits. Therefore, the folk also called Guan Yu "the head rests in Luoyang, the body lies in the sun, and the soul returns to his hometown (or 'the soul returns to Shanxi')".

When Liu Chan, the queen of Shu, was posthumously admonishing several important ministers, he posthumously called Guan Yu "Marquis of Zhuang Miao".

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In 200 AD (the fifth year of Jian'an), Cao Cao sent Liu Dai and Wang Zhong to attack Liu Bei. But was defeated by Liu Bei, Cao Cao then personally raised the army to go out, Liu Bei was defeated and fled, Guan Yu was defeated and captured, and had to surrender, Cao Cao treated him with a generous courtesy and appointed as a partial general.

Later, Yuan Shao sent generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Guo Tu and others to attack Liu Yanyu Baima, and Cao Cao personally led the army to rescue and ordered Zhang Liao and Guan Yu to be the forwards.

Guan Yu saw Yan Liang's cover, rode his horse and charged, killed Yan Liang in the army, and returned with his head, the generals of the Yuan army were unstoppable, the siege of the white horse was lifted, and Guan Yu was named the Marquis of Hanshou Pavilion.

At that time, Cao Cao, in order to know whether Guan Yu had the intention of staying for a long time, asked Zhang Liao to test with favors.

Guan Yu sighed to Zhang Liao and said, "I know that Duke Cao loves me, but I am favored by General Liu Bei and swear to die together and not to betray it." I will not stay, and I will leave after I have done my best for Cao Gonggong. ”

Zhang Liao showed Cao Cao that Cao Cao knew that Guan Yu would leave, but instead rewarded him and wanted to keep him, but Guan Yu gave Cao Cao's reward, left a letter to say goodbye, and returned to Liu Bei's side.

Cao Cao wanted to hunt him down and kill him, but Cao Cao thought that each was his master and stopped him. Folk culture calls this story "a thousand miles to ride alone".

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Liu Bei took refuge in Liu Biao and stationed troops in Xinye.

Cao Cao led the army south, Liu Bei fled south, and sent Guan Yu to join Jiangling in hundreds of ships, but Liu Bei was chased by Cao Cao's army on the way, fortunately Guan Yu sailed to Hanjin and took a boat to Xiakou together.

After Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao, Cao Cao left Cao Ren and others to defend Jingzhou, so Liu Bei and Sun Quan's general Zhou Yu attacked Cao Ren and ordered Guan Yu to cut off Cao Ren's back road in the north road. When Liu Bei obtained the four counties of Jingnan (Changsha, Lingling, Wuling, Guiyang), Guan Yu was promoted as the father, and was named Xiangyang Taishou and Dangkou General, during which Xiangyang was actually Cao Cao's sphere of influence, and Le was stationed in the garrison, so Guan Yu was stationed in Jiangbei.

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Liu Bei entered Shu to help Liu Zhang defend Zhang Lu, and Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu defended Jingzhou.

Liu Bei broke with Liu Zhang, the military advisor Pang Tong was killed, Liu Bei called Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang into Sichuan to support, and only Guan Yu was left in Jingzhou. After Liu Bei pacified Shudi, he used Guan Yu Dong to supervise Jingzhou affairs, and authorized him to take charge of the parts controlled by Liu Bei in the Jingzhou area, including the four southern counties of Jingzhou and Jiangling, the southern county seat borrowed from Eastern Wu, and the nearby public security, Guan Yu actually guarded the five counties of Jingzhou (Nan County, Changsha County, Lingling County, Wuling County, and Guiyang County).