How long did it take for Guan Yu to lose Jingzhou in the Three Kingdoms?

Guan Yu lost Jingzhou

In October 218 AD, the people of Nanyang rioted because they could not bear the exploitation. Wanhou general Hou Yin took the opportunity to rebel and sent a letter to Guan Yu for help; Guan Yu was slow to respond, and Hou Yin responded. Captured and killed by Cao Ren. In July 219, inspired by Liu Bei's victory in Hanzhong, Guan Yu went north to capture Xiangfan. Cao Cao took Yu Jin as his general and supervised the 7th Army to rescue Cao Ren. At the same time, he ordered Xu Huang to lead his army to Wancheng. In August, a flash flood broke out and flooded Yu Jin and other seven armies. Guan Yu took the opportunity to attack. Pang De refused to surrender and was killed. Yu Jin surrendered; Cao Ren sank his white horse to defend Fancheng. Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang with a partial general, and attacked Fancheng himself. He set up a position in the north of Fancheng to prevent reinforcements from Cao's army in the north. At the same time, he sent people to instigate rebellion in nearby counties. Hu Xiu, the governor of Jingzhou, and Fu Fang, the governor of Nanxiang, surrendered, and south of Xuchang Some officials also secretly supported Guan Yu; Sun Lang, a man from Lu Hun, gathered a crowd to riot in response to Guan Yu, and Wei Xi of Yecheng took the opportunity to attempt to launch a coup; this was the so-called "Wei Zhen Huaxia". Cao Cao listened to the opinions of Sima Yi, Jiang Ji and others and formed an alliance with Sun Quan. At the same time, he ordered Xu Huang to lead an army to rescue Cao Ren, and named general Zhang Liao to help Cao Ren quickly. Sun Quan deliberately sent Lu Xun to replace Lü Meng, but Guan Yu was careless and took away some of the defenders of Jingzhou. In the intercalated tenth month, Sun Quan made Lü Meng the commander-in-chief and led the army to attack Jiangling. Sun Jiao succeeded him and sent another right guard Jiang Qin to supervise the navy to enter Mian. Water (Han River), to prevent Guan Yu from flowing down the river. Lü Meng went to Xunyang (southwest of today's Huangmei, Hubei), disguised his warships as merchant ships, and his soldiers as merchants, traveling day and night. When they arrived at Public Security Bureau, they forced the Shu garrison general Fu Shiren to surrender, and then used Fu Shiren to persuade the Jiangling garrison Mi Fang to surrender. He treated the families of Guan Yu's officers and men favorably, released the Wei army officers and men captured by Guan Yu, and appeased the people. At the same time, Lu Xun was ordered to advance to Yiling (now Yichang) and defend Liu Bei in the west. After Xu Huang arrived at the front line, he got in touch with Cao Ren, and the morale of Cao Ren's army greatly increased. In order to alienate Sun Liu and profit from it, he ordered his generals to shoot Sun Quan's letter into Guan Yu's camp. After seeing this, Guan Yu was hesitant, and the army was very excited. Huang took the opportunity to launch a massive attack on Guan Yu's stronghold, defeated Guan Yu, and took the opportunity to open up the route to Fancheng. At that time, the flood receded, and Cao Ren led his troops to cooperate with Xu Huang in attacking Guan Yu. Wenpin cut off Guan Yu's grain road by water, and Guan Yu retreated steadily. Guan Yu knew that Jingzhou had been lost and hurriedly retreated. When the soldiers learned that their families had been treated favorably, their morale dropped sharply. Later, Guan Yu was defeated in Maicheng.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ---Zou Maicheng

Sun Quan received Cao Cao's letter and readily agreed to capture Jingzhou. Then he handed over the task of taking Jingzhou to General Lu Meng. When Lu Meng arrived at Lukou, the spies reported that there were beacon towers along the river, and Jingzhou's troops and horses were also on guard. Lu Meng was unhappy, so he lay down and complained that he was ill. Sun Quan sent his son-in-law Lu Xun to see him. Lu Xun knew that Lu Meng was not sick, but persuaded him to pretend to be ill and resign.

Sun Quan followed the plan and summoned Lu Meng to Jianye to recuperate, so he asked the young Lu Xun to take over the attack on Jingzhou. Lu Xun deliberately sent a letter to Guan Yu, praising Guan Yu in the letter. Guan Yu then relaxed his defense against Jingzhou and transferred Jingzhou's troops to Fancheng. Sun Quan learned that Jingzhou's defense was empty, so he worshiped Lu Meng as the commander-in-chief and launched an army to attack Jingzhou. Lu Meng disguised his warships as merchant ships and his elite soldiers as merchants to deceive the guards at the beacon tower.

On the second watch that night, elite soldiers from the ship came ashore, occupied the beacon tower, and captured Jingzhou. Public security guard Fu Shiren saw that Jingzhou was lost and he had a grudge against Guan Yu for the fire, so he went to Jingzhou and surrendered. Sun Quan asked him to go to Nanjun to persuade Mi Fang, but Mi Fang finally surrendered. Cao General Xu Huang, who was stationed at Yanglingpo, learned that Soochow Wu had captured Jingzhou, and also sent out surprise troops to capture Yancheng and Sizhong.

Guan Ping was defeated and fled back to Dazhai to tell Guan Yu that Jingzhou had been lost, but Guan Yu didn't believe it. Xu Huang's soldiers arrived in front of Guan Yu's stronghold. Guan Yu's arrow injury was not healed, but he still personally went out to fight Xu Huang for more than 80 rounds. Cao Ren also rushed out of Fancheng because Cao Cao led his troops to help. Xu and Cao attacked from both sides, and Guan Yu was defeated.

Guan Yu led his troops across the Xiangjiang River and reported on horseback that Jingzhou had fallen. He also reported that the generals of Gong'an and Nanjun had surrendered to the enemy. Guan Yu was furious. Faint to the ground. When Guan Yu woke up, he followed Zhao Lei's advice and sent people to Chengdu for help while also retaking Jingzhou as a safe place. Seeing that Fancheng was no longer in danger, Cao Cao stopped pursuing and instead watched the battle between Soochow and Guan Yu.

At this time, Xu Huang led his troops to see him. Because he killed Guan Yu, Cao Cao abandoned the stronghold and fled, so he went out to greet him personally. He named him General Nanping and stationed in Xiangyang. When Guan Yu arrived in Jingzhou, and when he had no way to advance or retreat, he learned that Lu Meng was using a trick to undermine his army's morale, and many soldiers fled halfway. He said angrily: "If I can't kill Lu Meng alive, I will kill him even if I die!"

Guan Yu led his army to continue to advance towards Jingzhou, fighting constantly with the Wu army along the way. Walking to a valley, he was surrounded by Wu troops. Seeing that the morale of the army was in chaos, Guan Ping persuaded Guan Yu to garrison in Maicheng and asked Liao Hua to go to Shangyong to seek help from Liu Feng and Meng Da. After hearing Liao Hua's cry, Liu Feng wanted to go to rescue Guan Yu, but Meng Da told Guan Yu all the rights and wrongs, which made Liu Feng change his original intention and refused to send troops to rescue. Liao Hua saw that crying was useless, so he went to Chengdu.

Guan Yu was in a desperate situation, so Soochow sent Zhuge Jin to persuade him to surrender, but Guan Yu was unmoved and said: "If the city is destroyed, at most one person will die. Jade can be broken but its whiteness cannot be changed. Bamboo can be burned but its knots cannot be destroyed. Even though I am dead, my reputation will be immortalized. Sir, there is no need to say more, I will fight to the death with Sun Quan!" Zhuge Jin tried to persuade him, but in the end he still failed.