The biggest failure of "Speaking of Tang" is that the author pre-sets the list of combat strength forces of good men, but the strength actually displayed by some martial generals does not match the ranking. The most typical is Yuwen Chengdu. Before Li Yuanba was born, General Tianbao was an invincible being. The Battle of Nanyang against the fifth ranked good Han Wu Yunzhao, the battlefield performance was completely higher than Nanyang Hou one notch, easily defeated within twenty rounds, even Khan did not come out.
The good times did not last long, and soon after, the first good man Li Yuanba appeared on the scene. The fourth son of the Li family was not very strong, and even thin like a monkey. Therefore, when Yuwen Chengdu first saw Li Yuanba, he did not take this hairy boy in his eyes. However, in the next few competitions with Li Yuanba, he was easily killed by the latter, and the prestige of General Tianbao was swept away. Since then, yuwen Chengdu has encountered Li Yuanba, but he has been timid before fighting, and he has no will to fight.
Although Yuwen Chengdu was more provocative in the later period, the author of the "Biography of Tang Dynasty" wanted to obviously be quite partial to him, and gave him the second good man's chair of the Sui and Tang dynasties. In this way, Pei Yuanqing is really a stomach grievance and has nowhere to say. In fact, the real ranking of the first three good men should be Li Yuanba first, Pei Yuanqing second, and Yuwen Chengdu third. The top three are each in one grade, that is, Li Yuanba is one grade higher than Pei Yuanqing, and Pei Yuanqing is one grade higher than Yuwen Chengdu. As for the gap between the fourth Bear Kuohai and the third Yuwen Chengdu, the gap can be described as heaven and earth, and it is difficult to compare.
Yuwen Chengdu and Pei Yuanqing fought each other, and the result ended in Yuwen Chengdu's defeat. At that time, the Eighteenth Route Anti-King besieged Jiangdu, where the Sui Emperor was stationed, and the allied forces of Wu Yunzhao, Wu Tianxi and Xiong Kuohai joined forces to fight Yuwen Chengdu, and after fifty rounds of fighting, the three of them were powerless and found a reason to prepare to slip away. Yuwen Chengdu was willing to let the three people go, and he chased after them. Seeing that the three of them would become cannon fodder on the road to Yuwen Chengdu's fame and fame, saying that it was too late and fast, the young general Pei Yuanqing suddenly killed the general and smashed it at Yuwen Chengdu with a hammer. "Chengdu went forward to block the flowing gold bell, Pei Yuanqing put a double hammer, jingling, Chengdu could not stop, back to the horse and left. Pei Yuanqing pegasus chased after him. This Yu culture and heart were very panicked, and they rushed to the golden top dragon boat to start playing: "The courtiers have been fighting directly since the morning, their stomachs are hungry, they cannot win, and they hope that the Lord will show mercy." '”
Yuwen Chengdu couldn't even resist Pei Yuanqing's move. Although it was said that the previous battle with Xiong Kuohai and others had lost strength, judging from the fact that Yuwen Chengdu dared to go forward to pursue and kill Xiong Kuohai and the others after they escaped, the latter definitely believed that he could definitely kill Xiong Kuohai and the others in his state at that time. You must know that Xiong Kuohai, Wu Tianxi and Wu Yunzhao are not idle people, but good men who ranked fourth, sixth and fifth in the Sui and Tang Dynasties! It can be seen that Yuwen Chengdu did not spend much effort to fight them. As for why he shouted "force can't win" after being defeated by Pei Yuanqing's move, it was all an excuse.
Of course, the evidence that Yuwen Chengdu's strength is far inferior to Pei Yuanqing is by no means limited to this. Both of them have fought with Li Yuanba, so Li Yuanba can be used as a reference to indirectly compare the true combat effectiveness of the two.
Let's start with Yuwen Chengdu. The Sui Dynasty Emperor was fortunate to drive the Jinyang Palace, and Li Yuan took over with his sons. When the Sui Emperor mentioned that Yuwen Cheng was an "invincible general", the skinny Li Yuanba laughed on the spot and acted very dismissively. At first, Yuwen Chengdu did not take it seriously, and grabbed Li Yuanba with his hands, hoping to bring him up and teach him a lesson. As a result, Li Yuanba did not move at all, and with a wave of his backhand, Yuwen Chengdu fell directly out a few meters away. After the two competed, Li Yuanba even cracked Yuwen Chengdu's tiger mouth within one move, which was not over, and then he humiliated Yuwen Chengdu:
At the moment, Li Yuanba threw Yuwen Chengdu into the air, and he picked up his hands and shouted, "My son, spare you!" Throw it to the ground, pounce, and fall to the bottom of a.
Like throwing a hydrangea ball, he easily threw Yuwen Chengdu into mid-air and caught it, and then fell heavily to the ground. During the whole process, General Tianbao was beaten to the point of no return. Not only that, but he was also taken advantage of by Li Yuanba once - because Li Yuanba called him "my son", Yuwen Chengdu did not even dare to return the mouth.
Pei Yuanqing's performance against Li Yuanba was much better. Li Yuanba escorted the Sui Emperor at Jiangdu and fought against the Eighteenth Route Against the King. Because Qin Shubao and the Li family had a favor, the two sides privately agreed before the war that as long as the allied soldiers with small yellow flags planted on their bodies, Li Yuanba would not move at all. However, Pei Yuanqing's heart was very high, and he did not believe that Li Yuanba really had such a god, so he deliberately did not plant a flag and forced Li Yuanba to fight with him. The result? But see:
Yuanba rushed to the west, and Pei Yuanqing greeted him. When he saw that there was no yellow flag on his head, he hammered it. Pei Yuanqing put the hammer on it and shouted, "Good fellow! Yuanba hit two hammers in a row, and Yuanqing fought twice in a row, shouting, "Sure enough!" "Go back to the horse and go." YuanBa shouted, "Good brother, no one in the world deserves my half hammer, you can connect me with three hammers, you are also a good man, spare you to go!"
Pei Yuanqing took Li Yuanba's three hammers and was unscathed. Although Pei Yuanqing already knew that he was not Li Yuanba's opponent after the three hammers and took the initiative to retreat, his strength was still recognized by Li Yuanba. In other words, in the entire "Biography of Tang Dynasty", the only one who has been recognized by Li Yuanba by strength is Pei Yuanqing.
Compared with Yuwen Chengdu's move of being killed in a second, Pei Yuanqing's performance can be said to be quite anti-heavenly. It is not difficult to see from this that Pei Yuanqing's strength far exceeds That of Yuwen Chengdu. As a result, the author of "Speaking of Tang Biography" still let Yuwen Chengdu suppress Pei Yuanqing on the ranking, is it not unreasonable?
Therefore, the real order of the top three in the combat effectiveness ranking in "The Legend of Tang Dynasty" should be:
1st place, Li Yuanba (quantitative score 100)
Second place, Pei Yuanqing (quantitative score 98)
3rd place, Yuwen Chengdu (quantitative score 95)
If Yuwen Chengdu and Pei Yuanqing fight in a full state, it is estimated that Yuwen Chengdu will last up to three rounds and lose his life.
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