Is “Refused to rescue Guan Yu, leading to Guan Yu's defeat and death” true?
attested in history
The Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Shu, Biography of Liu Feng records that Guan Yu sent a letter requesting aid, but Meng Da and Liu Feng refused to send troops on the grounds that the mountain commandery had just submitted, and later, fearing punishment, surrendered to Wei. The original text: 「封、达辞以山郡初附，未可动摇，不承羽命。」(Source: Book of Shu, Biographies of Liu, Peng, Liao, Li, Liu, Wei, and Yang.txt)
Meng Da
A general who was seen as capricious in official histories, defecting to Wei and then planning to return to Shu Han.
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