Chapter 279: Sealed as Guan Sheng Dijun

The third picture was the Battle of Xiangfan.

That wasn't a duel anymore; it was a battle between armies.

So we will have: Guan Yu sat in the center of the army, commanding with ease.

Autumn rain continued, the Han River rose violently, he ordered the dam to be broken to flood the city, and Cao Wei's seven armies were all submerged in the water.

Yu Jin knelt and surrendered, Pang De was captured and refused to surrender, holding his head high to be beheaded.

Liu Che saw this picture and took a deep breath: "This is flooding the seven armies."

Ying Zheng's gaze became deeper.

A fierce general is one who is good at dueling; only one who can command a large army is a commander.

So we will have: Guan Yu possesses both; such a person, in any era, is a top-tier military talent.

Yang Jian's comment popped out.

【Sui Wendi Yang Jian: The Battle of Xiangfan shook China, forcing Cao Cao to move the capital; this military prestige is unmatched in the late Han.】

Li Shimin followed closely.

【Tang Taizong Li Shimin: Both civil and military, bravery crowning the three armies; it's just a pity that the timing was bad; if he were born in the prosperous Tang, he would definitely be a founding hero of a generation.】

Zhu Yuanzhang's comment was straightforward.

【Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang: Fights fiercely, acts righteously, never greedy for wealth, never betraying brothers; military generals should be like Guan Yunchang!】

Qianlong came slowly.

【Qianlong Emperor: Every battle is a classic, every battle leaves a name; no wonder he can be worshipped by later generations for generations.】

Liu Bang looked at these comments and suddenly turned to ask Gu Shanhe:

"Immortal Master, do these later emperors all worship So we will have: Guan Yu?"

Gu Shanhe thought for a moment: "It should be said that emperors of all dynasties wanted to set So we will have: Guan Yu as a model."

"Loyal to the monarch, righteous, and able to fight; which emperor doesn't want such a general?"

Ying Zheng added lightly: "It's just a pity, he is not my minister."

This made Liu Bang stunned, then laughed loudly:

"Brother Zheng, if you were in the late Han, So we will have: Guan Yu would likely be under your command, and the Three Kingdoms would have been unified by you long ago."

Ying Zheng didn't respond, but the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Three Kingdoms Space, Chengdu.

So we will have: Guan Yu stood by the drill ground.

He was originally inspecting new recruits today. When the Sky Screen lit up, he was riding on the Red Hare horse, holding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade.

Then he saw his name.

Golden, inlaid with edges, hanging in mid-air.

So we will have: Guan Yu's phoenix eyes opened slightly, looking up at the characters on the Sky Screen.

The red face didn't show any change in expression, but the hand holding the blade tightened slightly.

Zhang Fei's roar exploded from afar.

"Second Brother! Second Brother, did you see it! You're on the list! Fourth place!"

So we will have: Guan Yu didn't look back, but the corners of his mouth moved.

Liu Bei walked over quickly, stood beside So we will have: Guan Yu, looked up at the Sky Screen, and his eye sockets were slightly red.

He didn't speak, just patted So we will have: Guan Yu on the shoulder.

Zhuge Liang followed behind, shaking his feather fan, squinting at the text on the Sky Screen, and whispered:

"Slaying Yan Liang in ten thousand armies, flooding the seven armies and capturing Yu Jin; Yunchang's life is worthy of heaven."

So we will have: Guan Yu finally spoke.

"Military advisor praises too much."

His voice was low, carrying a unique hoarseness.

When the Sky Screen played the picture of the Battle of Baima, the whole field went quiet.

In the picture, So we will have: Guan Yu charged alone, the Red Hare horse was fast, and the big blade was even fiercer.

Yan Liang's banner was right in front of him. So we will have: Guan Yu rushed over, one blade, the head fell, and he returned with the head.

The whole process was as fast as a flash of lightning; Yuan Shao's army hadn't reacted yet, and the commander was already dead.

Zhang Fei watched with blood boiling, his big palms clapping loudly:

"Good! Second Brother has good ability! This blade, no one in the world can block it!"

Zhao Yun stood on the side, looking at the red-faced general who was unstoppable in the picture, his eyes full of respect.

He was also a fierce general and knew the weight of that blade.

When the picture cut to Passing Five Passes and Slaying Six Generals, So we will have: Guan Yu's breathing was obviously heavier.

That journey, he started from Xuchang, passed Dongling Pass, slew Kong Xiu;

Passed Luoyang, slew Han Fu and Meng Tan;

Passed Sishui Pass, slew Bian Xi;

Passed Xingyang, slew Wang Zhi;

Passed the Yellow River ferry, slew Qin Qi.

Six guarding generals, none could withstand a single blow.

It wasn't that those guarding generals were too weak, it was that So we will have: Guan Yu was too strong.

But more importantly, he walked this journey not to kill, but to find someone.

To find the big brother who was separated in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei looked at this picture, his lips moved, and finally only said two words: "Second Brother."

The voice wasn't loud, but So we will have: Guan Yu heard it.

He turned his head slightly to look at Liu Bei, their gazes met, and they said nothing, but said everything.

The picture switched again, to the Battle of Xiangfan.

Flooding the seven armies, capturing Yu Jin, slaying Pang De, shaking China.

So we will have: Guan Yu looked at himself in the picture, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, as if recalling something.

He knew that battle was the most glorious moment of his life, but it was also the last glory.

Because he knew what happened next.

The Sky Screen didn't avoid that ending.

The picture switched to Maicheng.

Isolated city, remnant soldiers, no reinforcements.

Lu Meng's crossing the river in white clothes cut off the retreat, Lu Xun occupied Yiling, So we will have: Guan Yu was trapped in the isolated city, failed to break out, was captured, refused to submit, and was killed.

Body and head separated.

So we will have: Guan Yu looked at this scene, his red face showing no expression, but the hand holding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade had veins popping out.

Zhang Fei's eye sockets turned red first.

He stood up abruptly, his voice hoarse: "Second Brother! How could you—how could you—"

He couldn't go on.

Liu Bei's hands were shaking.

He bit his lip hard, tears streaming down silently.

Zhuge Liang gently pressed Liu Bei's arm and whispered: "Lord, those are all future events; the Sky Screen telling them now might be avoidable."

Liu Bei calmed down: "The military advisor is right, it can be avoided."

So we will have: Guan Yu was silent for a long time.

Then he spoke, his voice very calm.

"Big Brother, Third Brother."

He said, "The path was my own choice; dying in Maicheng, I have no regrets."

"But there is one thing, I still can't get over it—Jingzhou was lost, Big Brother's foundation was halved."

Liu Bei shook his head violently: "Yunchang, people are more important than territory! You are ten thousand times more important than Jingzhou!"

So we will have: Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei, something flashing in his phoenix eyes.

But he didn't shed tears in the end.

So we will have: Guan Yu, in this life, does not cry.

Han Dynasty, Weiyang Palace Side Hall.

Liu Bang saw So we will have: Guan Yu defeated and fleeing to Maicheng and was silent.

He had always been a noisy person, but at this moment, he was as quiet as a different person.

Ying Zheng didn't speak either.

Gu Shanhe said softly: "Martial Saint Guan Yunchang, loyal for a lifetime, finally died under the pincer attack of Eastern Wu and Cao Wei."

"It's not that he wasn't good enough, it's that there were too many enemies, and his own people couldn't be relied upon."

Gu Shanhe threw the melon seed shells aside and clapped his hands.

"This person So we will have: Guan Yu has a biggest flaw—arrogance."

"Arrogant enough to look down on Sun Quan, arrogant enough to feel that no one in the world could do anything to him."

"But his biggest advantage is also this—because of arrogance, he refused to surrender even in death; because of arrogance, he never disgraced his big brother in his life."

Ying Zheng suddenly spoke: "He wasn't defeated by the enemy, he was defeated by his own personality."

Gu Shanhe nodded: "Well said. But then again, without this arrogance, would he still be So we will have: Guan Yu?"

Liu Bang suddenly laughed, a very complicated laugh.

"I think this person has a stubborn streak. Once he recognizes something, he won't look back."

"Such people don't live long in chaotic times, but they live with style."

Qianlong's comment popped out, the last one.

【Qianlong Emperor: Martial Saint through the ages, well-deserved. A body of arrogance, a lifetime of loyalty. If he was defeated in Maicheng, it's better to say he fulfilled himself. Refusing to surrender even in death, this is So we will have: Guan Yu.】

Ying Zheng finished reading this comment and suddenly asked: "National Master, how do later generations evaluate him?"

Gu Shanhe thought for a moment and said: "From emperors down to commoners, everyone respects him and worships him."

"In Buddhism, he is the Qielan Bodhisattva; in Taoism, he is the Guan Sheng Dijun; Guan Emperor temples are everywhere in the folk."

Ying Zheng was silent for a moment and said four words softly.

"Worthy of him."

The Sky Screen began to converge the golden light, the picture reversed frame by frame, and finally settled on the scene of the Peach Garden Sworn Brotherhood.

Three men knelt together, incense inserted in front of them, saying a sentence that has been passed down through the ages.

The picture blurred, the lip movements couldn't be seen, but everyone knew what that sentence was—

"Not seeking to be born on the same year, same month, same day, but seeking to die on the same year, same month, same day."

Zhang Fei saw this scene in Chengdu, wiped his face, sniffed, and said in a muffled voice:

"Big Brother, Second Brother, this life of ours, it was worth it."

Liu Bei reached out and held Zhang Fei's hand, and reached out another hand to hold So we will have: Guan Yu's hand.

Three hands held together, the same posture as in the peach garden decades ago.

So we will have: Guan Yu looked down, then looked up at the golden light dissipating on the Sky Screen.

He suddenly said a sentence that no one heard clearly.

The voice was too small, and it scattered as soon as the wind blew.

But Liu Bei, who was closest to him, heard it.

He said—"In the next life, let's be brothers again."

The Sky Screen dissipated completely. ===== CHAPTER 280 =====