After Gongsun Zhan's defeat and followed Liu Bei, Zhao Yun first "rode as the first lord", after the Battle of Changbanpo in 208 Liu Bei promoted him to the general of Yamen, in 209 he became a general after capturing Guiyang Commandery, in 211 Liu Bei entered Sichuan Zhao Yun became a remaining camp Sima and in 215 After Liu Bei took Yizhou, Zhao Yun was promoted to general of the Yi Army, and then Zhao Yun served as a general of the Zhonghu Army, a general of Zhengnan, a general of Zhendong, and a general of the Zhen army (after Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, Zhao Yun was demoted from Zhendong to Zhenjun).
Among these positions, at least two were created by Liu Bei specifically for Zhao Yun, they are General Yamen and General Yijun, General Yijun has almost become synonymous with Zhao Yun, there are many people who are familiar with it, but there may not be many people who know about General Yamen, I believe that many people regard him as a miscellaneous general like General Yijun, in fact, this is not the case, so how big is General Yamen? Let's analyze this.
First of all, to roughly understand the size of the military positions at the end of the Han Dynasty, too high and too low, not to mention, from the four generals down are four marches, four towns, four flats, four an, followed by miscellaneous generals such as General Lang Kou, General Folding Chong, General Pingkou including Zhao Yun's General Yijun, etc., under the miscellaneous generals are partial generals, generals Who, General Zhonglang, Lieutenant Colonel, Du Wei and Sima Jun (Sima Of the Other Department) and so on, it can be seen that the miscellaneous generals are actually not low.
In the Battle of Changshanpo in 208, Zhao Yun saved Lady Gan and Ah Dou and made a great contribution, Liu Bei made a big hand to seal Zhao Yun as a General of Yamen, before this there was never a general name of General Of Yamen, but this General of Yamen was not of high rank, why do you say so? Looking at what Guan Yu and Zhang Feiguan were doing at this time, it was actually clear at a glance.
After Guan Yu surrendered to Cao Cao in 200, Emperor Xian of Han made Guan Yu a partial general, which is actually quite not low, you know that a few years later, at the Battle of Chibi, Eastern Wu was a miscellaneous general of Sun Quan (陳虏將軍) with several zhonglang generals and lieutenants and military sima to fight with Cao Cao, and even Zhou Yu and the old qualified Cheng Pu were also a middle lang general, one or two levels lower than Guan Yu's partial general.
Zhang Fei was the general of Zhonglang at this time, not to mention compared with Zhang Fei, Liu Bei would never seal a position higher than Guan Yu to Zhao Yun (one of the reasons why Guan Yu disobeyed Ma Chao was actually that the General Pingxi who was not angry with Ma Chao was higher than his General Lang Kou), so the General of Yamen was definitely lower than the partial general.
After Liu Bei captured the four counties of Jingnan and had his own territory, he rewarded the generals under him, among whom Guan Yu was promoted from general to general of Langkou, and Zhang Fei was promoted from general of Zhonglang to general of Zhengyu. ”
Zhao Yun was promoted from General Yamen to General Zhonglang, so General Yamen should not be said to be a general with a miscellaneous name, and even under General Zhi or General Qi, he may be equal to or slightly higher than General Zhonglang.
In addition to Zhao Yun, Wei Yan was promoted to the position of Ya gatekeeper after Liu Bei entered Yizhou because of his military merits in the Battle of Jinchuan, which is also the reason why Liu Bei's appointment of Wei Yan as the Taishou of Hanzhong after the Battle of Hanzhong surprised everyone, because this promotion range was too large.
However, although the rank of general Yamen is not high, the responsibility and importance are not low, its main duty is to command the pro-soldiers to accompany the lord around, the main duke stays behind to guard the General of the Tooth Gate also stays in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the lord goes out to fight the General of the Tooth Gate together, in short, the lord goes to where the General of the Tooth Gate is, in fact, it is equivalent to the role of personal bodyguard, but the requirements are higher, not only need to be brave and superior, but also have a certain military strategy to command the battle.