At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five major generals of the Qunxiong: Lü Bu, Yan Liang, Wen Ugly, Hua Xiong, Wen Duan
Lü Bu
1. Lü Bu (151 AD – 198 AD), courtesy name Fengxian, was a native of Wuyuan (present-day Baotou, Inner Mongolia). A famous warrior of the Three Kingdoms era. Lü Bu was brave and good at war, but he was also snobbish. In the folk, he was evaluated as "Lü Bu among people, red rabbit in horses" and "three family slaves with three surnames".
Lü Bu had appointed Shi Ding as his righteous father, and served as a knight lieutenant and chief bookkeeper under his command. After the death of Emperor Ling of Han, Ding Yuan entered the capital in collusion with the general He Jin and controlled the imperial government. Dong Zhuo entered Beijing and secretly bribed Lü Bu and ordered him to booby trap Ding Yuan. After Dong Zhuo gained power, he accepted Lü Bu as a righteous son, served as a general in Zhonglang, and was the Marquis of Fengduting.
Dong Zhuo has a violent temper, and his "father-son friendship" with Lü Bu is actually very weak. In 189, at the instigation of Situ Wang Yun, Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo. Wang Yun made Lü Bu a general after the incident, false jie yu, Yi Bi Sansi, and feng Wen Hou, so Lü Bu was also known as "Lü Wen Hou". The history books record that Lü Bu had an affair with Dong Zhuo's maid, whose name is unknown- but in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the maid's name is Mink Cicada, the righteous daughter of Wang Yun, and later lü Bu's wife.
Six months after Dong Zhuo's death, the old army invaded the capital. Lü Bu fled with his wife. After Lü Bu left Beijing, he successively defected to the warlords Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Zhang Yang, Zhang Mi, and Liu Bei. He fought many battles with Cao Cao, another major warlord at the time, and defeated Cao Cao several times due to Lü Bu's bravery and good fighting. In the third year of Han Jian'an, Cao Cao's troops attacked Lü Bu's base area, Xiao Pei, and because Lü Bu was just on his own and did not listen to the advice of the counselor Chen Gong, his subordinates Hou Cheng, Song Xian, and Wei Xu rebelled, and Lü Bu was captured and killed by Cao Cao under the White Gate. Before the execution, Lü Bu asked Cao Cao to stay and avoid death, but Liu Bei reminded Cao Cao that Lü Bu was untrustworthy and betrayed many times. In the end, Cao Cao put Lü Bu to death.
Folk tales of Lü Bu include: "Lü Bu plays with mink cicadas", "Yuanmen shooting", "Three Ying Battle Lü Bu", "White Gate Tower" and so on.
Among the celebrities of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu is certainly not the worst, but he is certainly the most unsettling. The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu's Biography" commented: "Lü Bu has the courage of a tiger but not the strategy of yingqi, is cunning and repetitive, and only profit is the view, since ancient times and to the present, there has not been such a thing as not destroyed."
In the chaotic world of the clouds and rain at that time, judging the situation and changing to the Ming Lord was not a big deal, Zhang Liao, Ma Chao, Gan Ning, and Tai Shi Ci had all served several lords, but the world did not laugh at their injustice because of this; but Lü Bu's particularity was that, first, the frequency of his renegades was inevitably too hasty, and second, his means of rebellion after renegade were too vicious.
In Lü Bu's short life, he had at least seven masters: Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun, Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao, Zhang Yang, and Liu Bei. His relationship with these seven masters generally went through three stages: at first he fell in love at first sight, like glue; soon he was born and conceived of ghosts; and finally he turned against each other and even fought with each other.
Lü Bu's first master was Shi Dingyuan . It was this Ding Yuan who promoted him from a cloth to a state master, and "treated him with great kindness", which can be said to be a great favor. However, after Dong Zhuo bid a higher price, Lü Bu immediately beheaded Ding Yuan's first rank and dedicated it to Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo was very fond of Lü Bu, and the two once swore to be father and son, and they did a lot of bad things together. However, after listening to Wang Yun's instigation, Lü Buli, who was cunning and repetitive, had a different heart. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Biography of Dong Zhuo, describes the scene at that time: Dong Zhuo entered the gate, Li Su led people to stop him, and Dong Zhuo exclaimed, "Where is Bu?" (Lü Bu is coming soon).) Lü Bu replied that "there is an edict" and personally killed Dong Zhuo. The master Tian Jingqian approached Zhuo's corpse, and Lü Bu personally killed him, killing three people in total, and the crowd did not dare to move. Lü Bu immediately mobilized his men and horses and killed all three of Dong Zhuo's clans, including Dong Zhuo's ninety-year-old wife.
Dong Zhuo has done many evil deeds, and he cannot redeem his own death; but Lü Bu is so "righteous and exterminating his relatives" (in fact, he is a great li to destroy his relatives), and he is too incenseless. Even if Dong Zhuo should be killed, why did he have to kill himself; if he killed the evil Dong Zhuo, why did he have to kill all of them, regardless of whether he was old or young, and no one could be killed in the same amount? Such a clear distinction between love and hatred is really chilling.
Lü Bu stabbed Dong Zhuo on April 23, the third year of Chuping (192 AD), and on the first day of June, he left Wang Yun and fled from Chang'an with Dong Zhuo's head and defeated Guandong. He first went to surrender to Yuan Shu, and soon returned to Yuan Shao. Within a few days of working together, Yuan Shao wanted to kill him to avoid trouble. Lü Bu heard the news and hurriedly switched to Hanoi Zhang Yang. In the first year of Xingping (193), he conspired with Chen Gong to attack Cao Cao's Yanzhou. Cao Cao returned to his division and broke the Lü army. Lü Bu had to take his remnants of the defeated army to xuzhou. Xuzhou Liu Bei saw that he was poor and returned, and Yu could not bear it, so he took him into custody. Not long after, he took advantage of Liu Bei's attack on Yuan Shu to attack Liu Bei's Xuzhou.
Yuan Shu, who was occupying Huainan at that time, sent him 200,000 yuan of rice and asked him to attack Liu Bei together. Lü Bu accepted the grain and rice, but forced Yuan Shu's 30,000 troops to retreat with a yuanmen shooting. Since this was the case, he should win Liu Bei over well. However, not long after, he forced Liu Bei to defect to Cao Cao. At this time, Yuan Shu still wanted to have a good relationship with him, and sent a special envoy to propose to his son. Agreeing or not agreeing was still in two ways, but Lü Bu foolishly threw Yuan Shu's emissaries into the prison cart and sent them to Xu Du. When Cao Cao saw it, of course, he immediately put Yuan Shu on his head, cutting off the possibility of future cooperation between him and Yuan Shu.
In the third year of Jian'an (198 AD), Cao Cao led a large army to attack Xuzhou. Although Lü Bu tried his best to ask for help from all sides, he received almost no substantial support. In November of that year, Lü Bu, who had rebelled against him, was captured by Cao Junsheng at the White Gate Tower. Until this time, Lü Bu still fantasized about escaping death.
Cao Lu and the two met, and Lü Bu opened his mouth to flatter "Ming Gong He Thin" (you are much thinner). Cao Cao replied: The reason why I am thin is because I can't break you early. Lü Bu hurriedly confessed, "Ming Gong is not worried about Bu'er, but now that he has served, the world is not worried." Ming Gong will step, Ling Bu will ride, and the world will not be fixed enough." The attitude of flattery is overflowing with words, but Cao Cao is the master who is willing to spare people easily, even if there is no Liu Bei on the side, Lü Bu's life is absolutely difficult to save. The first tyrant finally ended up being hanged.
"Lü Bu among the people, red rabbit in the horse", among the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, no one can compete with him Lü Bu. However, such a fierce general who is unparalleled in the world is so naïve and stupid in terms of the principle of being a man, has no martial arts in the world, has no faith, and has been in the qin twilight all his life, and finally the rebellion and separation of the people have really made posterity sigh endlessly.
Yan Liang
2. Yan Liang (?) –200), a native of Linyi, Lang, was a military general under Yuan Shao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. Prestige. Together with Wen Ugly, Yan Liang was known as a brave general in Yuan Shao's army, and Kong Rong used Yan Liang and Wen Ugly as representatives of the military generals of Yuan Shao's army to advise Cao Cao to be careful with them. According to the "Commandments of the Soldiers" in the "Yan Family Training" written by Yan Zhitui of the Southern Dynasty Liang Shiyan, when instructing his descendants not to engage in military duties, it is mentioned that the ancestors "Have Yan Zhuoju in Qi, Yan Zhuoju in Zhao, Yan Liang in the late Han Dynasty, Yan Yanzhi in Song, and put in charge of the general's appointment, and even subvert it", Yan Liang or Yan Zhitui had the same clan friendship, and may even be a Linyi person in Shandong.
In 200, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought at Guandu. At the beginning of the war, Frustrated advised Yuan Shao that "Yan Liang was anxious not to be appointed alone", but Yuan Shao still used Yan Liang to attack the Cao general Liu Yan, who was alone guarding the white horse. (In the Later Han Shu Yuan Shao Biography, In the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Wu, Yan Liang attacked together with Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong.) ）
Faced with this situation, Cao Cao took Xun You's advice and pretended to attack the back of Yuan Shao's army, because he intended to defend, so the yuan shao army that participated in the attack became scarce, so Yan Liang's army fought in isolation. At this time, Zhang Liao recommended Guan Yu, who had become Cao Cao's captive at the time, and Guan Yu was sent as a reinforcement to meet Yan Liang. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms? The Guan Zhang Ma Huang Zhao Biography says that after Guan Yu saw Yan Liang's handsome banner, he quickly rode into Yan Liang's army, killed Yan Liang in an instant, and brought back Yan Liang's first rank.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, Yuan Shao took Yan Liang and Wen Ugly as his generals, and Jian Jing died 100,000 yuan, preparing to attack Xu, and the next year, the army entered Liyang and sent Yan Liang to attack Baima. Cao Cao rescued him from the north, crossed the river with Xun You's troops, led Yuan Shao Xiying, and led his own light troops to cover the white horse, Yan Liangcang suddenly rebelled, and was beheaded by Guan Yu.
Yan Liang did not join the Kwantung Alliance, causing Yuan Shao to sigh quite wildly about Huaxiong. Shao Ji forced Han Fu to plot to seize Jizhou, Geng Wu wanted to assassinate, and Yan Liang beheaded him. Subsequently, he took Wen Ugly as the vanguard, attacked Gongsun Zhan, and pacified Hebei. Cao Yuan surrendered his troops, Yan Liang commanded 100,000 elite troops as the front, attacked Baima, beheaded Song Xian and Wei Xu, defeated Xu Huang twenty times, and the generals of the Cao army, Li Ran. When Guan Yu went to battle, Yan Liangfang wanted to ask, because the red rabbit horse was fast, he was caught off guard and was stabbed by Guan Yu with a knife and died.
Ugly
3. Wen Ugly (?) –200), courtesy name Shu evil, was in Nangong County, Anping (present-day Nangong County, Hebei). General of Hebei at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Wen ugly is the courage of a husband. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), he led the left general Liu Bei into Yanjin, and mistakenly hit Cao Cao's military division Xun You's "bait the enemy" plan, and his "five or six thousand horses" were defeated by the Cao army cavalry of "less than six hundred". Wen Ug himself died in the rebellion and was buried in Yuzhou City, Henan Province. Ming Luo Guanzhong wrote the story of Guan Yu's beheading of the ugly according to this history in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was widely circulated in later generations.
In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Yuan Shao sent an army to attack Cao Cao.
When the armies of Cao and Yuan first fought against Baima, Cao Cao distracted Yuan Shao's main force gathered at Liyang to cross the river to attack Baima, lifted the siege of Baima, and killed Yuan Shao's general In charge of the attack, Yan Liang. Cao Cao believed that Baima was not suitable for defense, and voluntarily abandoned his stronghold at Baima and transferred population and supplies west along the river. Yuan Shao crossed the river in pursuit of Cao Cao's transport convoy. However, Cao Cao was reluctant to leave the land between Guandu and the Yellow River to Yuan Jun. He wanted to resist Yuan Shao's march and make Yuan pay a heavy price before returning to Guandu.
As Cao Cao feigned an attack at the Battle of White Horse, Yuan Shao marched his forward forces along the river to Yanjin to the west. They probably crossed the river there without being stopped by Cao Cao's army. At this time, Yuan Shao was almost just north of Cao Cao's fortifications at Guandu and the capital xuchang.
Cao Cao's army also arrived at Yanjin and camped under Nanshan, 20 miles west of Hakuma and 50 miles south. Because Cao Cao's camp was on the south side of the flood control embankment, which was some distance from the riverbank, when Cao Cao sent someone to spy on the movements of Yuan Jun, Yuan Shao could not see Cao Jun. The spies initially reported that there were five or six hundred cavalry on the road, and later reported a slight increase in cavalry and an innumerable number of infantry. Cao Cao did not let the spies report again, and asked the rider to unload his saddle and release his horse.
The white horse's convoy appeared on the north side of the embankment, in Yuan Shaojun's field of vision. Some of Cao Cao's generals, disturbed by the large number of enemy cavalry, suggested returning to the garrison. The military master Xun You objected: "This is exactly our strategy to lure the enemy!" How can we leave? ”
Yuan Shao's cavalry commanders Wen Qiu and Liu Bei led five or six thousand cavalry to pursue them one after another. Cao Cao's sergeants wanted to get on their horses, but Cao Cao refused until Yuan Shao's cavalry grew and scattered to loot supplies. At this time, Cao Cao asked the sergeant to get on the horse, and all the sergeants under Cao Cao's less than 600 jumped on their horses and attacked The Yuan army. Yuan Shao's army was defeated and Wen Ugly was killed.
Hua Xiong
4. Hua Xiong (152-190), a military general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, was the governor of Dong Zhuo's account. In 190 AD, the Kwantung warlords jointly attacked Dong Zhuo, and Sun Jian, who was then the Taishou of Changsha, broke Dong Zhuo's army, and Hua Xiong was killed by Sun Jian's army in this battle.
So how did Dong Zhuo's military general Hua Xiong die? He was killed in pursuit by Sun Jian's army. After the Kwantung Prefecture county raised an army against Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian did not fall behind until Lu Yang and Yuan Shu's army met the division. However, the troops of Kwantung Prefecture were afraid of Dong Zhuojun's prestige, and they were also afraid of the prestige of Lü Bu, Hua Xiong and other fierce generals in Dong Zhuo's army, so they basically did not move and drank and enjoyed themselves in their tents all day.
However, after being attacked by Dong Zhuo's army Xu Rong, Sun Jian led several of his cronies to escape from the encirclement, and then continued to collect scattered troops along the road, at which time Dong Zhuo sent three of his own generals to pursue Sun Jian, namely Lü Bu, Hu Yun, and Hua Xiong. However, Lü Bu and Hu Yi had always been at odds, and Lü Bu, in order to make trouble for Hu Yun, made the people's hearts and minds scattered, and Sun Jian took the opportunity to pursue Dong Zhuojun in turn. In the pursuit, he killed Huaxiong.
Wen Duan
5. Wen Li (238–291), courtesy name A Duan (阿鸯), courtesy name Wen Duan (文鸯), was a native of Peiguo Commandery (沛国谯郡, in modern Bozhou, Anhui Province). A famous general in the late Wei and early Jin dynasties, he was the son of Shi Wenqin of Cao Wei's Yangzhou Assassin.
The Three Kingdoms Wen Duan, as the name suggests, is a person of the Three Kingdoms period. Wen Duan's original name was Wen Qi. Words are repeated. Born in 238 AD, died in 291 AD. It is a native of Tan County, which is now Bozhou, Anhui. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the nickname Ah Duan is known as "Wen Duan" by the world.
Wen Duan was the son of the Wei general Wen Qin. In the early years, Wen Duan served as an official in Cao Wei, but later because his father was defeated in Cao Wei at that time, Wen Duan rebelled against Cao Wei and rebelled with Zhuge Shi in Huainan. After the rebellion, another war broke out between Zhuge Shi and Sima Zhao, and Wen Duan turned to Sima Zhao. After that, he remained an official, and finally became a lieutenant of Dongyi, and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei, after which he was destroyed by Sima Xuan
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wen Duan's original name was Wen Shu and did not have his own character. However, Wen Duan was not only handsome in appearance, but also heroic and invincible in battle, once in and out of the Wei general's camp during the rebellion, which can be said to be "killing like a hemp" and facing thousands of people who can freely enter and exit.
Historical evaluations of Wen Duan are also very high. First of all, it is mentioned in Gan Bao's "Jin Ji" that Wen Duan was superior in force from an early age, marching and fighting, not to mention. At the same time, Wen Duan can also "win a hundred battles", just like "Qi Bao", brave and invincible.
The life of Wen Duan of the Three Kingdoms can be described as quite tortuous, first of all, Wen Duan was an official in Cao Wei and had good results, after that, Wen Duan rebelled with his father and defected to Zhuge Birthday, but the good times did not last long, Wen Duan surrendered to Wei again, Wen Duan lived in Wei for a long time, and finally the three tribes were destroyed by Wei.