Is “Capturing Guan Yu alive and Guan Xing's revenge” true?
According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biography of Pan Zhang, Pan Zhang's subordinates captured Guan Yu, and Pan Zhang died of illness in the third year of Huanglong (231 AD). The Romance of the Three Kingdoms fictionalizes that Guan Yu's apparition frightened Pan Zhang, who was then killed by Guan Xing, who also seized his treasured saber. The original text in the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wu, Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, and Ding reads: 「权征关羽，璋与朱然断羽走道，到临沮，住夹石。璋部下司马马忠禽羽」
In official history, Pan Zhang died of illness in the third year of Huanglong after capturing Guan Yu, while the novel fictionalizes that he was stunned by Guan Yu's apparition and then killed by Guan Xing.
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