Wen Duan did not arrive until the 110th episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "Wen Duan Single-Rider Retired Soldier", which was late in the storyline, but as soon as he appeared, he was at the level of Wang Explosion.
When Wen Duan appeared, the whole performance had come to an end. In the middle and before the whole play, there were a number of dazzling first-class martial artists who staged a number of blood-boiling heads-ups, such as sun ce tai shi ci's battle of Shentingling, the battle of Gepi of Dianwei Xu chu, the battle of Tongguan of Ma Chao Xu Chu, the battle of Yemeng Pass of Zhang Feima Chao, and so on. However, with the defeat and death of Guan Yu, the assassination of Zhang Fei drunk, the death of Huang Zhongyiting, and the end of Ma Chao's depression, and Zhao Yun and Xu Chu's death, Tai Shi Ci, Gan Ning, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zhang Guo, and Wei Yan also came to an end, and at this point, the super fierce generals in the rendition were basically all ancient. Since then, the martial arts in the performance have no longer had any highlights. As for Jiang Wei, Xu Qian, Deng Ai and others, although they are masters in the later stage, they lack a fierce and brilliant single head, compared with those tiger generals in the middle and early stages, these few dwarf each other too much, and there is no remarkable performance of force at all. And Wen Duan's shining debut and brilliant achievements swept away the dull tone of the late stage of the performance, and pushed the performance of force to a small climax.
In view of Wen Duan's bravery, many readers have included him in the ranks of super-first-class martial artists in the entire book. How powerful is Wen Duan? Let's look at it from the perspective of canonical history and interpretation.
In the right history, Wen Duan was invincible, comparable to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and could be called "ten thousand enemies".
In the Zizhi Tongjian, Wen Duan is described as "eighteen years old and brave". In the "Spring and Autumn of the Wei Dynasty", Wen Duan is described as "young and brave". In the Book of Jin, Wen Duan is praised as "eighteen years old, brave to crown the three armies"; in the "Jin Ji", Wen Duan is praised as "the posture and strength, the hero of ten thousand people".
The most emblematic of Wen Duan's bravery was, of course, the night attack on Sima Shi, which frightened him to the point that his eyeballs burst out.
In 255, Sima Shi deposed the Wei emperor Cao Fang. Huainan Wuqiu Jian, Wen Qin (Wen Duan's father) and others rebelled against Sima Shi and joined forces at Shouchun City. In the battle of Lejia City, Wen Qin saw the large army of Sima Shi and Deng Ai coming from afar, and he was overwhelmed. Wen Duan suggested that while the enemy's foothold was unstable, a surprise attack should be launched, and the enemy army would be defeated with a single blow. Wen Qin felt justified, so he and Wen Duan soldiers split into two ways, preparing to attack Sima Shi's troops overnight.
That night, Wen Duan led more than ten cavalrymen to rush into Sima Shi's village, beating drums and making noise, shouting "Kill Sima Shi", and everywhere he went, he was invincible. Sima Shi had an old eye disease, he had just cut the sarcoma in his eye, but he had not yet healed, and in fear, his eyeballs burst out of the sarcoma sore. Sima Shi was afraid that the army's heart would mutiny, so he had to endure severe pain under the covers until he bit the futon, and the soldiers did not know the whole process. I have to say that Sima Shi is really a cruel person! But after this incident, Sima Shi soon died.
Wen Duan clashed inside and outside Sima Shi's camp and agitated for most of the night, and his father Wen Duan did not come to meet (lost path), so Wen Duan had to withdraw. Sima Shi sent thousands of cavalry to pursue, was wen duan reflexively killed into the cavalry team, quickly killed and wounded dozens of people, Wei bing retreated, Wen Duan for his own soldiers after the break, slowly riding, Wei bing again, Wen Duan reflexively killed back, so repeated several times, the pursuing cavalry finally lost courage, had to turn around and go back.
In the Zizhi Tongjian, there are detailed records of Wen Duan's night attack, Sima Shi's eyeball bursting, and Wen Duan's retreat from pursuing soldiers.
The duck and the horse rode more than ten times to destroy Chen, and all the directions were invincible, so they led away. The division commander Sima Ban led the left commander Sima Ban to chase after him with eight thousand wings, and the ducks rode into thousands of horses, killing and wounding more than a hundred people. --- "Zizhi Tongjian"
The ducks led the brave soldiers to the clamor first, and the army was disturbed. The division was horrified. The sick eye is prominent, the fear is known to the public, and the mesh is broken. --- "Zizhi Tongjian"
In the Book of Jin, there is no record of Wen Duan beating the pursuing soldiers, but this renders the plot of Sima Shi biting the quilt, as follows:
In the beginning, the emperor (Sima Shi) had a tumor in his eyes, so he cut it off. The ducks came to attack and were shocked. Fearing the fear of the Sixth Army, being blinded, suffering greatly, being defeated and unaware. --- Book of Jin
Wen Duan repeatedly beat Wei's cavalry, "so six seven", which has the style of Zhao Yun's seven entry into Changshanpo in the interpretation. In the Ming Dynasty history book "West Garden", there is an image comment about Zhao Yun and Wen Duan: "Zhao Yun and Wen Duan, in and out of the crowd, single-handedly, moving forward. ”
After the defeat of Shouchun by Yuqiu Jian's army, Wen Duan surrendered to the State of Wu with his father Wen Qin. Zhuge Shi again raised an army against Sima Zhao in Shouchun (Sima Shi was dead), and Wen Duan's father and son were sent to Shouchun by Eastern Wu to support. Wen Qin and Zhuge Zhi became suspicious and were killed. Wen Duan and his younger brother Wen Hu, enraged, once again switched to Sima Zhao.
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wen Duan was once promoted to the position of governor of Dadu, commanding the military forces of Liangzhou, Yongzhou, and Qinzhou, crushing the rebellious army in Hexi (the function of the Xianbei chief bald tree) in one fell swoop, and forcing 200,000 people of the Hu tribe to surrender, which was famous all over the world for a time.
The armies of Tuoliang, Qin, and Yong each entered the tun to intimidate them. The function is to send twenty protons to the dispatch. Anding, Beidi, Jincheng Zhuhu and other 200,000 mouths came and fell. --- Book of Jin
From the above deeds of Wen Duan, it can be seen that Wen Duan is not only prominent in force and courageous, but also has a handsome talent that is difficult for most military generals to reach. Therefore, Wen Duan can definitely be compared with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are "ten thousand enemies".
There are a considerable number of Wen Duan fans, and even regard Wen Duan as the "first god of war" in the Three Kingdoms period.
Wen Duan was eventually executed by Jia Nanfeng and destroyed the Three Tribes. This is another topic, which will not be repeated here, and those who are interested in checking the relevant information for themselves.
In the rendition, Wen Duan's strength value was higher than that of Deng Ai and Jiang Wei, but it did not reach the super-first-class level at all.
Wen Duan's description in the interpretation is also "eighteen years old", energetic, radiant, extraordinary attire, and actually outstanding! Wen Duan's weapon composition is similar to that of Sun Li in the Water Margin: "steel whip hanging from the waist, steel gun in the hand",
Wen Duan's martial arts performance in the rendition:
1. Attack sima shi camp at night, "Wherever they go, people do not dare to be, and those who refuse, guns and whips, are all killed." ”
2. After killing Tianming, he encountered Deng Ai, "The duck was furious and raised his gun to meet him." There are fifty battles, and there is no difference between victory and defeat. ”
3. Beat the pursuing soldiers bitterly," the duck suddenly pulled back to the horse with a loud cry, and rushed straight into the Wei general's position; where the steel whip was raised, they fell from their horses one after another, and each of them retreated. This repetition is basically consistent with the description in the canonical history.
4. The hymn describes: "Nagasaka rejected Cao alone in that year, and Zilong has since become heroic." In the battle in Lejia City, I saw that Wen Duan was bold and high."
Deng Ai singled out Jiang Wei and drew fifty, so the two were basically equal. Wen Duan tossed for most of the night, and his physical strength must have been damaged to a certain extent, and then he singled out Deng Ai and drew fifty times. It can be seen from this that Wen Duan's strength is definitely above Deng Ai and Jiang Wei, and it is estimated that it is slightly stronger than Wei Yan, Gan Ning, Le Jin, etc., and may be very close to Zhang Liao and Tai Shi Ci.
Without blowing or black, Wen Duan still could not reach the level of Xu Chu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, and Lü Bu, who were super first-class martial artists.
The hymn compares Wen Duan with Zhao Yun, and Yu believes that Wen Duan cannot reach Zhao Yun's level.
During the night attack on Sima Shi's camp, before encountering Deng Ai, Wen Duan did not encounter a fierce general at all, not even a general with a name, but only galloped across the line, clamored, and killed pawns, in short, Wen Duan's physical decline was not obvious at all. When beating the pursuing soldiers, the cavalry whipped by Wen Duan were also nameless and nameless, lacking leaders or generals who were on their own.
Zhao Yun was in Changshanpo, killing from Si Geng, and repeatedly encountered Cao Cao's brigade, "clashing back and forth, killing until Tianming", successively rescued Jian Yong, Mi Zhu, and Lady Gan, embraced Ah Dou, stabbed Chun Yudao, Xiahou En, and Yan Ming to death, encountered the interception of Zhang Gao's troops, fell into the trap pit, and fought a bloody battle in the pit, "the armor was flat, the blood was like a spring", and then took the heads of the Zhong brothers, and finally left the pursuing civilian troops and broke through. During this period, Zhao Yun also "cut down two sides of the banner and seized three of them"; as for the book's statement that "killing more than fifty famous generals of Cao Ying", it was an exaggerated imaginary number and was not used as hard data.
In short, Wen Duan's performance is still obviously different from Zhao Yun's. Wen Duan belongs to the "fishing and leaving" in Sima Shi's camp, while Zhao Yun definitely belongs to the "bloody Cao camp" in Changshanpo!