Is “Warming the wine to slay Hua Xiong and the Three Heroes' battle against Lü Bu” true?
novel invention
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biography of Sun Po-ru, Hua Xiong was actually killed by Sun Jian; the Three Heroes' battle against Lü Bu is not recorded in official history, and in the Battle of Yangren, it was Sun Jian who defeated Lü Bu.
Guan Yu
In official history, he was a famed general of Shu Han who shook the realm, while in the novel he is portrayed as the peerless warrior and paragon of loyalty, the Saintly Emperor Guan.
Other claims about Guan Yu
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