The Three Kingdoms period was a chaotic world, so there were many generals, they were literate and martial, excellent in martial arts, followed their princesses to fight the world, and made great military achievements, but at that time Cao Cao had such a famous general, he followed Cao Cao for more than thirty years, made a lot of military achievements, but in his later years he was very desolate, and even humiliated and died, so who was this general?
A twist of fate
Yu Banben was Bao Xin's general, and after Bao Xinzhan's death, Yu Ban immediately defected to Cao Cao, followed Cao Cao in the Southern Expedition to the Northern War, and made great achievements, but the fate later took a turn, so that he became a prisoner of the order from a generation of names, and this matter should be discussed from the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an.
In that year, Guan Yu led an army to besiege Xiangyang and Fancheng, the main general Cao Ren had no way for a while, he could only immediately ask Cao Cao for reinforcements, Cao Cao thought for a while, decided to send Cao Zhi to lead the troops to rescue Cao Ren, but the order reached Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi was drunk because of the greedy cup, the matter reached Cao Cao's ears, Cao Cao was very angry, so he decided not to let Cao Zhi take on this task, but chose someone else, at this time Cao Cao thought for a long time, so he decided to let Yu Ban lead the army to help Cao Ren.
Yu Ban immediately took the order and led 30,000 horses to aid Cao Ren, at this time the battle situation in Fancheng was in a hurry, the two armies launched an attack and killing at Fancheng, Cao Ren defended Fancheng, Guan Yu was difficult to conquer for a while, and Fancheng was not completely surrounded, so Cao Ren let Yu Ban and Pang De lead their troops to garrison outside Fancheng City, so that they could form a corner, and the two armies would cooperate with each other to defeat Guan Yu. As a result, it was autumn at that time, the autumn rain was too much, resulting in the han river soaring, which was very unfavorable to the ban and pound, so Guan Yu seized the fighter plane and sent troops to attack yu ban and pound debu, Yu Ban and Pound De's army was flooded, Pang Dening did not surrender, and then was killed by Guan Yu, Yu Ban led the Cao army to surrender Tou, Yu Ban was therefore imprisoned by Guan Yu in Jingzhou Jiangling, Cao Cao learned that Yu Ban surrendered, was shocked, and said to the left and right: "Yu Ban has followed me for nearly thirty years, how can I face difficulties, it is better than Pound?" "In this way, the name of the forbidden world was destroyed in one fell swoop."
Switched to Eastern Wu
Soon after, Lü Meng crossed the river in white clothes to attack Jiangling, Lu Fang led Nan Commandery to surrender, Jingzhou was once again returned to the hands of Eastern Wu, Yu Ban was also released to Eastern Wu, and was received by Sun Quan, but because he was a defeated general, Yu Ban was often ridiculed. Once, he and Sun Quan traveled on horseback, while riding a horse, while talking about the world's major events, the result was seen by the courtiers of Eastern Wu, Yu Tuan saw Yu Ban riding side by side with Sun Quan, very angry, scolded Yu Ban: "You are just a prisoner, who is qualified to stand side by side with my lord?" He then beat Yu Ban with a horse whip, and yu Was forced to have no place at that time, which was very difficult, and Sun Quan saw the situation, so he immediately stopped Yu Tuan.
Later, Sun Quan feasted on the building boat, Yu Ban was also present at the time, when he heard the music played, he could not help but shed tears, did not expect that he would fall into such a situation, Yu Tuan saw Yu Ban shed tears, so he again accused Yu Ban of pretending to be pitiful, although Yu Tuan repeatedly ridiculed Yu Ban, but Yu Ban was not angry, but felt that Yu Tuan was very loyal.
Humiliated and died
Later, Cao Pi established the State of Wei as emperor, Sun Quan then declared himself a vassal, and sent Yu Ban back to wei, after Yu Ban returned to Wei Kingdom, he was more ridiculed and ridiculed by the people of the country, and he was even more landless, at this time Yu Ban was already old, white-haired, and very thin, Cao Pi learned that Yu Ban returned, so he comforted Yu Ban, but then let him go to Cao Cao's mausoleum, and when Yu Ban went to pay homage to Cao Cao's mausoleum, he saw some paintings, these paintings were painted by Cao Pi, paintings with scenes such as Guan Yu Zhan Ke, Pound's anger, and Yu Ban's surrender. Yu Ban was very sad after seeing it, and it wasn't long before he died of humiliation and fell ill. A generation of famous players, finally ended up in such a situation, it is indeed a sigh!
References: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zizhi Tongjian, Book of Wei