The chaotic era of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty not only gave the tyrants the opportunity to fight for the world, but also created a famous and courageous general in history: Shu Han had five tiger generals, Cao Wei had five sons and twelve tiger generals, Eastern Wu had twelve tiger ministers, even the three surnames of the family slave Lü Bu, there were eight healthy generals under his command, one of whom also became the head of the five sons of Cao Wei - he was Zhang Liao Zhang Wenyuan (the order of the five sons of liang generals in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huang).
Zhang Liao's position in Lü Bu's army seems to be inferior to that of Chen Gong Gao Shun: Chen Gong is the "mastermind", that is, the chief of staff, and Gao Shun is the commander of the trapped camp, that is, the commander of the special forces, and if Zhang Liao had not scolded Lü Bu on the White Gate Tower, perhaps Cao Cao would have pushed him out with Gao Shun.
If we look closely at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we will find that Zhang Liao's angry scolding of Lü Bu is actually very mysterious: his "Pifu" exit is equivalent to a knife and two cut off with Lü Bu, Cao Cao can also use it with confidence, and Gao Shun does not say a word, obviously he is still loyal to Lü Bu.
With Cao Cao's temper as king of Yan, if he was really scolded by Zhang Liao, Liu Bei and Guan Yu's intercession was not good, and the reason why he "personally released his bindings, undressed him, and sat on top of yan" was that he still favored Zhang Liao, who was already a masterless person at this time, and just accepted it for his own use.
Of course, it is said that Zhang Liao once insulted Cao Cao in the White Gate Tower, which is only a statement of the novel, zhang Liao in the main history has served Ding Yuan, He Jin, Dong Zhuo, and Lü Bu, and he voluntarily surrendered when Lü Bu's army was in danger: "Taizu broke Lü Bu in Xia Pi, Liao surrendered his people, worshiped the general Zhonglang, and gave him the title of Marquis of Guannei." ”
Surrendering and directly conferring the title of Marquis, Guan Yu also did not enjoy this treatment (Guan Yu was awarded the title of General after surrender, and after yanliang was given the title of Marquis of Hanshouting), which shows that when Zhang Liao surrendered, he brought at least a thousand people with him--according to the Han Dynasty military merit system, the number of people who surrendered was the same as the number of beheadings.
The history is simple and boring, far less detailed and wonderful than the yanyi novel, our topic today is based on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", to see the final outcome of Zhang Liao and other eight jian generals under Lü Bu: Zhang Fei captured one, Yan Liang killed two, where did the other five go?
The group of eight jian generals under Lü Bu appeared in the battle with Cao Cao in Puyang: "In the circle of the battle, Lü Bu was the first to go out on horseback, and the eight jian generals were placed on both sides. The first, Yanmen Mayi people, surnamed Zhang, mingliao, character Wenyuan; the second, Taishan Huayin people, surname Zang, mingba, character Xuangao. The two generals each introduced three more generals: Hao Meng, Cao Sex, cheng lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng. ”
Readers May have noticed that among Lü Bu's eight jian generals, Gao Shun, the commander of the trapped camp, was not included, which may be because Gao Shun's status was higher than that of Zhang Liao and others, if the eight jian would be a brigadier general and major general, then Gao Shun should be a lieutenant general, and should lead a team of people and horses alone as a partial division, and there was no need to charge in front of Lü Buma.
As soon as Lü Bu's eight jian generals got out of their horses, they killed the generals of Cao Ying: "Zang Ba's horse was in a battle, and Cao Jun's internal music came and went to meet him." The two horses intersected and both guns were raised. The battle reached more than thirty times, and there was no difference between victory and defeat. Xiahou Huan rushed out to assist in the battle, and Lü Bu intercepted Zhang Liao on the battlefield. Annoyed, Lü Bu got up, stood up and rushed out of the battle. Xiahou Huan and Le Jin all left, Lü Bu covered up, and the Cao army was defeated and retreated thirty or forty miles. ”
Although the Eight Jian Generals were brave, Lü Bu only "loved the generals and wives" and did not listen to the generals, and finally hung on the White Gate Tower and fluttered, and his Eight Jian Generals also died and fled.
The first of Lü Bu's eight generals to hang up was Cheng Lian, recorded in the history: he had just been arrogant less than twice before he was shot by an arrow from Le jin.
Cheng Lian in the main history is also a member of the Xiao general: "Lü Bu attacked Zhang Yan at Changshan. Yan Jing had more than 10,000 soldiers and rode thousands of horses. Bu Chang Yu Liang Ma, known as chi shu, and its strong generals Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and dozens of others rode through the Yan array, one day or three or four, all beheaded. After more than ten days of continuous fighting, the Yan army was broken. ”
No matter how fierce it was in the history of Zhengshi, mr. Luo Guanzhong swung a large stroke of his pen, and Cheng Lian died very easily: "Xiahou Huan, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Chu, Dianwei, Li Dian, Le Jin, suddenly killed." Lü Bu was overwhelmed by the enemy and left in the wilderness. From will ChengLian, was killed by an arrow from Lejin. ”
As we said earlier, today we only talk about yanyi and not about zhengshi, so how Zhang Liaozang ba received preferential treatment from Cao Cao, and how Hao Mengcao's nature killed each other, we all put aside and did not mention, only to see their last moment in the yanyi novel: Zhang Liao, who died in the history of Zhengyi, was shot by Ding Fengyi with an arrow.
Ding Feng was the oldest of the Twelve Tiger Lords of Jiangbiao, who fought until 271 AD, the seventh year of the reign of Sima Yantai, the Emperor of Jinwu, in which Cao Wei and Shu Han had long since perished, Liu Chan had also celebrated his anniversary, and the emperor of Eastern Wu had been replaced by Sun Quan's grandson Sun Hao.
According to the description of the novel, Cao Pi took a large group of fierce generals such as Cao Zhen, Zhang Liao, Zhang Gao, Wen Ping, Xu Huang, Xu Chu, Lü Qian, and Cao Xiu to attack Eastern Wu, and as a result, like his father Cao Cao, he was burned by a fire: "The reeds in the Middle of the Huai River, pre-filled with fish oil, all on fire, downwind, the wind is very strong, the flames are empty, intercepting the dragon boat." Pi was horrified and hurried down the boat to the shore, the dragon boat was already on fire. ”
Cao Pi abandoned the ship and changed horses, and was confronted by Ding Feng's interception: "A Biao army on the shore is killed; the first general is Ding Fengye." Zhang Liao hurriedly clapped his horse to meet him, was shot in the waist by Feng Yi, and returned to Xuchang, where the arrow sores burst and died. ”
Zhang Liao died at the hands of Ding Feng, and most people refuse to believe it, probably because the Romance of the Three Kingdoms wrote the Generals of Jiangdong too much--if we look closely at Ding Feng's achievements, we will find that Luo Guanzhong let him shoot Zhang Liao, which is not unreasonable at all.
Zhang Liao hung up, let's talk about Zang Ba: Zang Ba's record in the history and interpretation is basically the same, he was neither killed by Cao Cao, nor killed by Eastern Wu and Western Shu, he disappeared from the Battle of Chibi: Pang Tongxian lianji, Xu Shu saw that the situation was not good, he found an excuse, with Zang Ba as the vanguard, with three thousand people and horses, "starry night to scatter the pass to hold the pass" also - since then, Xu Shu and Zang Ba have disappeared out of people's sight.
As soon as Zhang Liaozangba died and fled, the remaining six jian generals were not so good:after Cao Sex shot off one of Xiahou Huan's eyes, he was chased by others, adding a transparent hole to the brain door.
Zhang Fei's process of capturing Hao Meng alive is also Meng Meng's: "Hao Meng is on the second trip, Zhang Fei is blocking the road. Hao Meng crossed the horse, only one, and was captured by Zhang Feisheng. ”
After Hao Meng was captured alive by Zhang Fei and presented it to Cao Cao, Cao Cao was not polite when he saw Hao Meng, and after Hao Meng had to ask questions and answers (this is the rhythm of surrender), he directly took his first rank as an exhibit: "Hao Mengbei said to ask for help and marriage." Fu was furious and beheaded Hao Meng at the military gate. ”
Hao Mengcao was vulnerable, and Song Xianwei was also used as cannon fodder by Cao Cao.
In front of baima slope, Yan Liang, the head of the Four Pillars of Hebei, flaunted his might, and Cao Cao did not dare to let his beloved general take risks, but turned back to Fool Lü Bu's old general Song Xian: "I have heard that Ru is a fierce general under Lü Bu, and now he can fight with Yan Liang." ”
Song Xian raised his gun and got on the horse, and in three rounds he was slashed by Yan Liang, and Wei Xu knew that he could not go up, so he hurried to accompany Song Xian: "Continue to take the horse with a spear, and before going out of the battle, scold Yan Liang." Liang did not speak, crossed the horse together, took a knife in the head, and split Wei under the horse. ”
Guan Yu regarded the Hebei people and horses as turkey tile dogs, and lü Bu's eight jian generals, under Yan Liang's knife, were just two large turnips.
In this way, we find the problem: in the last moments of Lü Bu's eight jian generals, we only see Ding Feng shooting Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei capturing Hao Meng, Yan Liang cutting down Song Xianwei, Cheng Lian and Cao Sex being killed by Le Jin Xiahou Huan, Zang Ba and Xu Shu escaping and disappearing, where is the Hou Cheng who stole the horse?
This question is really impossible for the author to answer, because after he stole Lü Bu's red rabbit horse to offer to Cao Cao, he actually mysteriously disappeared - in fact, this is not surprising, in that chaotic world, disappeared a few second- and third-rate generals, no one cared at all, maybe he had the ability to steal horses, and went to find Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang to do business...