Text: Tachiaki Idle Man (Shigeba Shinichi Original Team Member)
Yang Ling, one of the "Three Unknowns" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Unknown Origin", his real identity is a military general, who was a lieutenant under the command of Taishou Han Xuan of Changsha County, one of the four southern counties of Jingzhou in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Although Yang Ling is a military general of unknown origin, unlike Guan Yu who is similar to Guan Yu of unknown origin, he has achieved great feats and made great achievements, and he has only been short-lived, and he has become Guan Yu's sword ghost before the three combinations can be achieved, and the ashes are annihilated in the long river of history.
Yang Ling's appearance was at the time when Guan Yu attacked Changsha County, and it was a very small and extremely small episode that appeared before Guan Yu Huangzhong's battle: Yang Ling fought less than three times, and guan Yu cut off his horse and was in a different place. Guan Junjun Lieutenant, as the name suggests, is the commander of the army guarding The Xiangcheng City of Changsha County. In the Han Dynasty, although he was only a mid-level general, his official position was inferior to that of a general, but he was an important military attaché official, and because he had his own command in his hands, his power exceeded that of a general.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms records that Yang Ling ignorantly challenged Hou Guanyu of Hanshouting, who had slashed five levels and six generals, that is, Yun grew angry, did not talk, and danced the sword on a flying horse, and took Yang Ling directly. Ling's gun came to meet. Without a trifle, Yun Chang raised his knife and slashed Yang Ling under the horse. Yang Ling dared to challenge Guan Yu with his own strength, although his courage was commendable, but his shallow knowledge and arrogant behavior, and finally paid the price of his life for his shallowness and arrogance, which was extremely sad.
Although Yang Ling's appearance is only fleeting, it has an extraordinary effect. His appearance has three effects.
That is, to show Guan Yu's fierceness.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are known as enemies of all men, and there are appearances of Wenjiu and Huaxiong, the song of repaying grace with beheading good and ugly people, and the righteous song of cutting six generals through five levels. However, since the ancient city of Juyi, Guan Yu has rarely achieved a record. Especially during Cao Cao's southward march to Jingzhou, whether it was Zhao Yun riding the savior alone or Zhang Fei making a big fuss about changsaka bridge, it was a feat known in the world, and it was also a great achievement. On the other hand, Guan Yu not only failed to make a contribution, but also committed the great crime of Hua rongdao's private release of Cao Cao. Compared with Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, Guan Yu desperately needed to do one or two things to kill and seize the city, in order to wash away the stain of the private enemy chieftain and reshape the position of the second in command. Guan Yu killed Yang Ling with the power of the triad, cleanly and neatly showed the people of the world to Liu Bei Group a show of ability that the sword was not old and brave and did not diminish that year.
Second, it implies Huang Zhongzhiyong.
Before capturing Changsha, Zhuge Liang had introduced himself to Guan Yu: Huang Zhong had the courage of a thousand improper men. But Guan Yu didn't do it. During the Pingsha period, Guan Yu fought Yang Ling first, which was nothing more than practicing his hands in advance for Guan Yu and Huang Zhong, trying the sword. Guan Yu solves Yang Ling by dividing yang ling by three times and five, showing Guan Yu's fierceness on the front and Huang Zhong's courage on the side. As Mao Zonggang said: First write about Yang Ling's death to reflect Huang Zhong's courage. Yang Ling's death in the triad not only paved the way for Huang Zhong's appearance of the old dang Yizhuang, but also left suspense for the equal strength of Guan Yu and the wonderful three-day three-day battle.
The third is to show Yang Ling's madness.
As the saying goes: "The sky is self-exalting, the earth is self-exalted, the people are self-sufficient, and the water is self-sufficient." However, Yang Ling's skills are not as good as people, but he is arrogant and arrogant, and he speaks wildly in front of people, and he is not ashamed, and finally he is in a different place and is laughed at. Yang Ling dared to challenge Guan Yu, on the surface he was brave and commendable, but in fact, he was a frog at the bottom of the well, short-sighted, limited to Changsha County, jingzhou south four counties, but did not know that there were mountains outside the mountains, there were people outside the people, there were twelve states outside Jingzhou, and there was never a lonely defeat in the ranks of brave generals. Yang Ling's sentence "No need for the old general to go to war" for a while exposed his face full of no one, arrogance to the extreme, and self-deception. Yang Ling's exaggerated words nominally have the intention of respecting Huang Zhong, and there is a meeting to look at Guan Yu, but secretly he disdains the taste of the veteran Huang Zhong. All in all, Yang Ling is too high to look at himself and too low on others.
Yang Ling, an arrogant, boastful and shallow and ignorant, nameless pawn who does not measure up to his own strength, looks down on the veteran General Huang Zhong, looks down on Guan Yu, who is an enemy of ten thousand people, and as soon as he appears on the scene, he will become the ghost of Guan Erye's Green Dragon Yanyue Sword before he appears, and he will withdraw from the stage of history in an instant.
Author's Note: Self-inadequacy refers to overestimating one's own strength. Yang Ling, who was originally a lieutenant in charge of the Changsha garrison under Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha County, did not need to go into battle to kill the enemy. However, Yang Ling regarded himself too high and had no one in sight, and when he challenged Guan Yu, he became Guan Yu's sword ghost before he could meet the three. In fact, people with ability never say crazy words, but also know how to converge their own light, and always maintain a very high quality. The more successful people are, the more they know how to be humble and cautious.