In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there are many famous generals with infinite strength, such as Lü Bu can easily lift the fully armed famous general Ji Ling with one hand; Hu Che'er can carry five hundred pounds, and so on. Guan Yu, who later became a martial saint, used a weapon, the Green Dragon Crescent Moon Sword, which weighed eighty-two pounds. Although eighty-two pounds, compared to the weight of Lü Bu and Hu Che'er, seems to be a little far away, but Lü Bu can't always carry Ji Ling, Hu Che'er can't always carry five hundred pounds of heavy objects, but as long as Guan Yu is on the battlefield, he must never leave the Green Dragon Crescent Sword, which obviously tests his strength more.
Of course, even if the interpretation is close to history, it is still a novel, and many things have exaggerated elements. For example, hu che'er can carry five hundred pounds and travel seven hundred miles a day, which is obviously unrealistic. However, at that time, there was indeed a famous general, using weapons that weighed eighty kilograms, but it was not Guan Yu who threatened Huaxia, but Cao Cao's personal bodyguard Dianwei. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Dianwei records: "Wei Hao held a large double halberd and a long sword, and the words of the army were: 'There are pawns under the tent, and a pair of halberds is eighty pounds.' It's just that the unit of measurement at that time was different from now, and the eighty pounds at that time was about thirty-five pounds now, but such a weight, carried in the hand and waved, was not easy for most people.
As Cao Cao's personal bodyguard, although Dianwei is known for his strength, he can get Cao Cao's appreciation, with more than just strength, it can be said that he is a well-deserved three kingdoms, the first step of the battle master. Although horses were still scarce at that time, for most military generals, most of them were good at riding battles, such as Zhang Liao's famous eight hundred and one hundred thousand, which was a cavalry battle; Zhao Yun's rescue of Huang Zhong in the Battle of Hanshui was a horse battle; Cao Ren only led dozens of horses and rushed to kill thousands of Wu troops; at the time of the Battle of Hefei, Ling Tong was a riding battle after Sun Quan was broken; the only recorded single challenge in the historical records, that is, the battle between Lü Bu and Guo Feng, was a riding battle.
Although the aforementioned famous players really have to face infantry battles and will not be powerless to fight back, compared to Dianwei, they should be far behind. Why? Dianwei was originally only a party Haojie, the road is uneven, the kind that draws the sword to help each other, basically does not need to ride the battle. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records: "Xiangyi Liu and Suiyang Li Yong were enemies, and Wei was revenge." Eternal prosperity and longevity, and the guard is very careful. Wei rode in a car carrying chicken wine, pretending to be a waiter, the door opened, carrying a dagger into killing Yong, and killing his wife, Xu came out, got the knife on the car, and walked away. That is to say, from the beginning, he was good at infantry combat and was relatively unfamiliar with mounted combat.
Later, in the Battle of Puyang, Cao Cao was surrounded by Lü Bu's army on three sides, and could only temporarily recruit death squads to break through, Dianwei responded to the call, and with a pair of iron halberds, killed dozens of enemy troops, and finally broke the siege for Cao Cao. That is to say, after he joined the Cao Army, he did not have the qualifications to ride, and he was still the best at infantry combat. Then, he became Cao Cao's personal bodyguard, guarding Cao Cao's safety, and what also needed to be maintained most was the state of infantry combat. The result of such long-term training and maintenance is incomparable to those warriors who are accustomed to riding.
Sure enough, when it came to the Battle of Wancheng, Dianwei insisted on the results of the infantry battle, and immediately showed it - after Cao Cao fled, he stubbornly guarded the gate of the camp, using his long halberd, "left and right to strike, a fork into, more than ten spears to destroy", when he was seriously injured, the enemy also advanced a few steps, the long iron halberd, has become useless, he used two armpits to hold one enemy soldier, frightening a large number of people. After the enemy did not dare to move forward, he did not retreat, but advanced, killed several more people, and finally ran out of strength, "blind and cursed and died."
Familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, no military general, in the infantry battle, showed combat strength comparable to Dianwei, even his successor Xu Chu, before defecting to Cao Cao, faced the mountain thieves, did not dare to confront head-on, but with the help of the higher terrain, throw stones down, and smash the enemy to death. After the analysis of the whole article, we have to admit that Dianwei is not only infinitely powerful, but also invincible in infantry combat, and is a well-deserved famous general of the first step of the Three Kingdoms.
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