Guan Yu was a general of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period, and his date of birth and death is unknown. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Shu and Ancestors, Liu Bei died in Zhangwu, Shu Han for three years (223 years) at the age of 63, so he was born in Yan Xi in the Eastern Han Dynasty for four years (16 1 year). In the first year of Zhong Ping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (184), the Yellow Scarf Uprising took place. Liu Bei was 24 years old when he joined forces in his hometown of Zhuoxian (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province). Guan Yu was born in Xie Xian County (now Xie Xian County, Shaanxi Province) in the east of the river, and he was cornered in Zhuoxian County. He and Zhang Fei are now taking refuge in Liu Bei. History says that Zhang Fei "had little to do with Guan Yu in advance." Faisal is a few years older, and Xiong Fei is doing just that. "It can be seen that Guan Yu is older than Zhang Fei, and Guan Yu and Zhang are" Liu Bei brothers ". The ancients knew each other and generally took their brothers as brothers. Guan Yu followed Liu Bei's example and said, "The rich man sits wide and stands all day. "Liu Heguan attaches great importance to Confucian ethics, and they were not at that time. If Guan Yu were not younger than Liu Bei, the above situation seemed impolite at that time. The ancients regarded the 20-year-old adult as a "weak crown", the weak body as a weak crown, and the young as a weak crown along the back. Accordingly, anyone under the age of 20 can be called young. Zhang Fei should be at least 17 or 8 years old when he went to fight with Liu Bei. Then, Guan Yu is a few years older than Zhang Fei and a few years younger than Liu Bei. He was about 2 1 or 2 years old when he took refuge in Liu Bei. According to the age of 22, Guan Yu was born in Yan Xi in the Eastern Han Dynasty for six years (163) and died in Jian 'an for twenty-four years (2 19). He fought side by side with Liu Bei for about 35 years and died at the age of 57.

The relationship between Liu, Guan and Zhang is extraordinary. According to historical records, Liu Bei "joined his disciples in Zhai and kept them with Zhang Fei." Liu Bei said, "If two people sleep in the same bed, they will share the same bed, so they should be brothers." . Guan Yu left Cao Ying to go to Liu Bei and said, "General Liu is very kind. I swear to be loyal to the death and I can't carry it back." . After Guan Yu died, did the ministers of Wei expect Liu Bei to avenge Guan Yu and attack Wu? Liu Ye once said: "Guan Yu is prepared, righteousness is the monarch and minister, and benevolence is the father and son." It can be seen that the relationship between Liu, Guan and Zhang is as deep as that between father and son.

In the first year of Zhong Ping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (184), after Liu Bei rose up in Zhuoxian, he asked Zou Jing, a captain, for meritorious service, except An Xiwei. Guan Yu was a subordinate of Liu Bei when he was about 22 years old. In the early peacetime (190- 193), during the suppression of the Yellow Scarf Uprising, the Kanto generals "merged their affairs to strengthen themselves". In the second year of Chuping (19 1), Gongsun Zan, Hebei sent Tian Kai and Liu Bei to capture Qingzhou, taking Liu Bei as the plain facies (both as the satrap). Guan Yu was about 29 years old when he was preparing another Sima to unify his headquarters. In the first year of Xingping (194), Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou for grazing, Liu Bei saved money and led four thousand troops. Liu Bei went to Tiankaiqian, and Qian Biao was a thorn in the history of Yuzhou, so he moved to Xiaopei (now Peixian County, Jiangsu Province). In December of the same year, Tao Qian was seriously ill and said, "Don't drive Mi Zhu." . Modest, Zhu led the people of Quanzhou to meet Liu Beiling in Xuzhou. Guan Yu is a 32-year-old subordinate.

In the summer of the first year of Jian 'an (196), Yuan Shu attacked Liu Bei, contended for Xuzhou, and prepared Sima Zhang Fei to defend Pi (Xuzhou Zhisuo). He refused to accept Guan Yu and others. Prepare for defeat, surrender Lu Bu, and prepare for the history of Yuzhou. In the winter of the same year, Yuan Shu sent 30,000 troops to prepare for rescue. Later, when the troops were strong, they deployed a counterattack and prepared to be defeated. Cao Cao thought that he was grazing in Yuzhou. In February of the third year of Jian 'an (198), Liu Bei captured Lu Bu from Cao Cao and returned it to Xuchang. Cao Cao worshipped Liu Bei as the left general, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as the corps commander. Guan Yu was about 36 years old. In the fourth year of Jian 'an (199), Liu Bei left Cao Cao Dong and attacked Xuzhou Shi Che Zhou. "Three Kingdoms Shu Shu and Guan Yu Chuan" records: Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to be the satrap of Xuzhou, and he was the satrap himself. Liu Bei is a historian in Yuzhou, who led the troops in Xiaopei. Chen Wang's Wei Shu said that Liu Bei took Guan Yu as the leader in Xuzhou history. Liu Bei once led two states, Xu and Yu, eager to control them. At this time, he killed Che Zhou, a historian of Xuzhou, and named Guan Yu as a historian of Xuzhou. Because he was stationed in Xuzhou, he went to Pi and became a satrap, thus taking control of Xuzhou. This possibility is relatively large. Guan Yu was about 37 years old.

In the first month of the fifth year of Jian 'an (200), Cao Caodong levied Liu Bei, ready to be defeated by Yuan Shao. Cao Cao attacked Xiapi and captured Guan Yu. "It is very generous to worship the generals." In April of the same year, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were at loggerheads in Guandu. Shao sent general Yan Liang to attack the satrap Ada, and Cao Cao sent Zhang Liao and Guan Yu as pioneers to attack the good, and his feathers were chopped in the armies. Fuck, worship the feather for the pavilion. Guan Yu was about 38 years old. Shortly thereafter, Guan Yu defected from Cao Ying to Liu Bei. In the autumn of the same year, Liu Bei went to Runan in the name of Liu Biao, who was not the main commander of Yuan Shao's hegemony and wanted to leave. Cao Cao sent general Cai Yang to prepare for the attack and was killed by Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Jian 'an (20 1), after Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao's main force, he led an army to attack Liu Bei in Runan. Guan Yu followed Liu Bei south and stabbed Liu Biao to death according to Jingzhou. Liu Biao is Liu Bei's "benefit his soldiers and open up new fields in Tun". Guan Yu followed Liu Bei to Xinye around the age of 39. In the autumn and winter of the seventh year of Jian 'an (202), Liu Biao sent Liu Bei to the northern border, and Guan Yu went with the army to the place under the jurisdiction of Cao Cao in Ye County, Nanyang County. Cao Cao sent generals such as Xia Houdun and Yu Jin to reject Liu Beijun. Bei and Guan Yu pretended to retreat from the ambush and defeated Cao Jun. Guan Yu was forty years old.

In the winter of the twelfth year of Jian 'an (2007), Liu Bei visited the cottage, and Zhuge Liang made a strategy for Liu Bei. Based on Jingzhou and Yizhou, Shu was established, politics was cultivated in the south, Yiyue was assisted in the east, Sun Quan was connected in the east, and Jingzhou and Yizhou were on standby to explore the Central Plains in the north, realizing the policy of political and war integration. Guan Yu was about 45 years old.

In August of the 13th year of Jian 'an (2008), Cao Cao's minions went south to collect Liu Biao. Liu Bei went south from Fancheng. Don't send Guan Yu to lead a water army of more than 10 thousand people. Prepare to join forces in Jiangling (now jiangling county, Hubei Province) under the jurisdiction of Nanjun County. Cao Cao claimed that Jiangling had a solid army, and he was afraid that the first master would chase it. He led a light horse to chase it for 5,000 days and nights, and occupied Jiangling first. Guan Yu had to lead an army to help Hanshui (called Mianshui in ancient times) and Liu Beijun, and happened to meet Liu Qi (the eldest son of the table) with more than 10,000 troops and arrived at Xiakou (now Wuhan, Hebei Province), where Jiangxia County is located. Guan Yu was about 46 years old. In the winter of the same year, after Battle of Red Cliffs, Cao Cao was defeated and returned to the north. When he left, Le Jin kept Xiangyang, while Coss and Huang Xu kept Jiangling. Liu Bei and Zhou Yu "surrounded Cao Ren in Jiangling, not Guan Yu in North Road" to stop Xiangyang from going south to reinforce troops. Cao Cao Runa, the satrap of Li Tong, saved Ren and fought Guan Yu's army in the north of Jiangling. Li Tong "dismounted his horse and pulled out his antlers (building a city in ancient times, sharpening branches and burying them in the ground to prevent the enemy from attacking) and was shortlisted to meet Ren Jun before the war". Guan Yu was about 46 years old. In December of the same year, Liu Bei occupied Wuling, Changsha, Guiyang and Lingling counties in the south of Jingzhou. Taking Guan Yu as a bandit general, he led Xiangyang prefect and stationed in Jiangbei. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xiangyang was the county and the south was the county. Xiangyang was occupied by Cao Jun at that time, and Liu Beixin set Xiangyang County as the remote leader of Guan Yu. This arrangement clearly indicates that Guan Yu will shoulder the heavy responsibility of developing northward. Guan Yu was about 46 years old at this time.

In the 14th year of Jian 'an (2009), 65438+ February, Cao Ren retreated to Fancheng from Jiangling. Sun Quan led the Southern Group satrap Zhou Yu, according to Jiangling. In the winter of the fifteenth year of Jian 'an, Sun Quan took Liu Bei as the capital of Nanjun instead of * * * rejecting Cao Cao. Liu Bei's presence in Jiangling created the necessary conditions for Guan Yu's development to the north.

In the winter from the 15th year of Jian 'an (2 10) to the 16th year (2 1 1 year), Guan Yu went north and fought against Cao Cao's garrison commanders Le Jin and Wen Pin successively. In Kou Xun (now southwest of Zhongxiang City, Hebei Province) and Beijing (now east and west banks of Hanshui River in Zhongxiang City, Hebei Province), he was in Hanjin with Huang Xu and Man Chong.

In December of the 16th year of Jian 'an (2 1 1), Liu Bei left Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun in Jingzhou and led tens of thousands of people into Yizhou. Guan Yu was about 49 years old. In December of the seventeenth year of Jian 'an (2 12), Guan Yu expanded his territory to the north and fought against Cao Cao, commander-in-chief of Xiangyang. According to Han Kangzu's research, according to the military situation at that time, Ni Qing should not be in Niqinghe, three miles northwest of Xiangyang City, but actually in the south of Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, about 1 10 km away from Jiangling and about 90 km away from Xiangyang. Let's just say. Guan Yu was about 50 years old at this time. During this period, Guan Yu used the advantages of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun in Jingzhou to expand the land to the north. Later, during the Northern Expedition, Xiangyang and Fancheng had no resistance to the south, which showed that they were expanding northward.

In the summer of the 19th year of Jian 'an (2 14), Liu Bei defended Luojiu in Yizhou. Zhuge Liang left Guan Yu to guard Jingzhou, and Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led the troops into Yizhou. At this point, Guan Yu has full authority to supervise Jingzhou's military and political affairs. This shows Guan Yu's important position in the Shu-Han regime. Guan Yu is about 5 1 year old. In the twentieth year of Jian 'an (2 15), Sun Quan took Yizhou with Liu Bei and wanted to take Jingzhou, so he was appointed as the county magistrate of Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang. Guan Yu expelled all his officials. Have the right to send more than twenty thousand people to take three counties and then surrender. Liu Bei led 50,000 troops to the public security and sent Guan Yu to lead 30,000 troops to Yiyang (now Yiyang City, Hunan Province) to fight for the three southern counties. Sun Quan's presence in Lukou is a festival for all the troops, so that Lu Su turned ten thousand people into Yiyang and refused to feather. But also urgently called to help Sue. At this time, Cao Cao attacked Hanzhong, and Liu Bei was afraid that Yizhou would fall and made up with Sun Quan. The two sides of the strait are bounded by Xiangshui, and Changsha, Jiangxia and Guiyang belong to Sun Quan. Nanjun, Lingling and Wuling belong to Liu Bei. Guan Yu was about 53 years old. After Sun Quan's war in Jingzhou, Guan Yu knew the difficulty of developing northward based on Jingzhou, so he spent three or four years, on the one hand, strengthening the defense to the east of Jingzhou and building Jiangling Nancheng; On the other hand, a large number of military assets and weapons were accumulated, ships were built, and the water army was trained in order to stand by and observe the northern expedition along the Hanshui River. According to the Lu Wu, "Nanjun (Jiangling) City caught fire, which quite burned military equipment". Lu Meng attacked Jiangling, which was called "Sun Quan seized the feather trench" in history. He also said: "The treasures in the Jade (Jiangling) Treasury are all closed for future rights." Prior to this, Wen Pin had "cut in the Han Dynasty and burned in the Jingcheng ship". All this shows that Guan Yu made a lot of preparations for military supplies before the Northern Expedition, so the Northern Expedition lasted for five months and there was no shortage of military supplies.

In December of the 22nd year of Jian 'an (2 17), Cao Cao was in Yeh, and Prime Minister Wang Bidian was appointed as Xu DuDu. The history book says: "When Guan Yu was strong, Zhao Jing Jin Yi saw that Han Zuo was going to move, and he was accompanied by Ji Geng of Shaofu, Wei Huang of Sizhi, and gibbon, a physician. There must be a murder, and the emperor will be used to make the princes attack Wei and lead Guan Yu to the south. " In October of the 23rd year of Jian 'an (2 18), Cao Wei, the satrap of Nanyang, led Hou Yin to rise up and rebel, and became the magistrate of Dongli Prefecture, "making peace with Guan Yu". Guan Yu was about 56 years old.

In May of the 24th year of Jian 'an (2 19), Liu Bei occupied Hanzhong, and then sent Meng Da and Liu Feng to occupy Fangling, Shang Yong and Xicheng counties, from northwest to southeast along Hanshui River to Jingzhou. In July of the same year, in order to cooperate with the deployment of the war after Liu Bei occupied Hanzhong, that is, Hanzhong was connected with Jingzhou along the Hanshui River, Guan Yu left Mi Fang, the satrap of Nanjun, to guard Jiangling, and Sergeant Renshou was on guard against Wu, leading the army to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng in the north, thus completing the war preparations for the future battle between Wan and Luo for the Central Plains. Cao Cao sent Man Chong and Yu Jin to lead seven armies to help Coss defend Fancheng. In August, during the rainstorm, the Hanshui River rose by dozens of feet, and Yu Jin, Pound and other troops were submerged. Yu Jin surrendered and Pound was killed. Cao Cao urgently called Huang Xu to supervise the army and helped Coss to clear the way. He also sent 12 battalions including Yin Department and Zhu Gai to help out. Huang Xu fought Guan Yu's army in the north of Fancheng. Guan took the initiative to retreat from Fancheng, but the water army still took Hanshui as its stronghold.

In October, just as Guan Gong's army was fighting fiercely with Cao Renhe's army, Wu violated the alliance, and Sun Quan and Guan Yu conspired to take Guan Yu's main force north, sneak attack on the public security and surrender to the post of sergeant. To Gangneung, Mi Fang. Guan Yu heard of the fall of Nanjun and returned to the south by Qingqi. Sun Quan took Monroe as the satrap of Nanjun and Ling Xun as the satrap (Liu Bei took Xiling as Yiling). In November, Fan You, the satrap of Yidu in Shu and Han, abandoned the county, and Lu Xun defeated Zhucheng Guanman. The right to take Xun as the general of the sky, to move Yiling, and to guard the gorge for the Shu army. When Guan Yu arrived in Maicheng (about 40 kilometers away from Jiangling), he had the right to let Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang return to China. In December, Guan Yu was captured and killed in Xiangyang (now east of Yuan 'an County, Hubei Province) and Zhang Xiang in Linshu County. He is about 57 years old. At this point, the Jingzhou army of Shu Han was destroyed, and the three counties of Jingzhou were occupied by Sun Wu.

Jing Yao, the queen of Shu and Han Dynasties, reigned for three years (260 years), and was proud of Guan Yu as a strong Hou. According to Han Kangzu's textual research, Miao Zhuang written by the ancient temple and Mu Tongyong is similar to Wu Mu written by Yue Fei. There is another cloud: "Judge the law of death, and Bude upholds justice and says he admires it.".