Mention of "there is no general in Shu, Liao Hua is a pioneer", I am afraid that most people are not strangers, this sentence describes the middle and late stage of the Shu kingdom talent is not picked up, the generals who can fight are gone, can only send Liao Hua such a mediocre and incompetent person as the vanguard, in the eyes of many people, Liao Hua is the most useless general of Shu Han.
And Liao Hua, a third-rate general who was not very famous in the Shu Han Dynasty, also became a "celebrity" because of this sentence, even more famous than many famous generals at that time, of course, this is not a good reputation, containing more ridiculed meaning in it, if Liao Hua has knowledge underground, he will definitely jump out and scold a sentence "Which Wang Yuan Eight Lambs Black Old Man, Grandpa and you fight three lilies."
Liao Hua, whose real name was Chun (淳), was a native of Zhonglu County, Xiangyang County, Jingzhou Province, a native of present-day Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, a general who rode on the right car, a false festival, a chronicle of the assassination of The Prefecture, and the Marquis of Fengzhong Township, who was actually an important general in the late Shu Han Dynasty, but because of this sentence, he "got his name", making him the most miserable general in the Three Kingdoms.
Why? In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", at that time, Jiang Wei was on the Northern Expedition, but at this time, the generals who could conquer the good wars of Shu Han had all died, to the point where no one could use them, so they could only let Liao Hua, who was nearly eighty years old, be the vanguard, and the phrase "there was no general in Shu, Liao Hua became a pioneer" was derived from this, originally it was said that the Shu state did not even have a young general, and Liao Hua such a veteran general actually wanted to be the vanguard, but here there is no meaning of Liao Hua's lack of ability.
In fact, Liao Hua is not a mediocre person, many people are familiar with the story of Guan Yu's "thousand miles to walk a single ride", but how many people know that Liao Hua once staged a more difficult period of "a thousand miles to walk a single ride"? According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Shu Zhi Liao Hua Biography, "Yu defeated, belonged to Wu. To return to the Lord is to die by deception. At that time, people said that they were faithful, because they carried their old mother to the west day and night. Will first lead the Crusade. Encounter with Zi Gui. The Lord rejoiced in the first place, so as to become yidu taishou. ”
The meaning of this passage is that after Guan Yu's defeat, Liao Hua returned to Eastern Wu, but because he missed Liu Bei in his heart, he used the strategy of cheating death to make everyone at that time believe it to be true, so that he could take his elderly mother to the west day and night to find Liu Bei, just in time for Liu Bei's Eastern Crusade, and met him in Zigui, Liu Bei was overjoyed and appointed Liao Hua to Yidu Taishou.
At that time, Guan Yu's thousand-mile single ride was passed by posterity in the name of "loyalty and righteousness", on the contrary, Liao Hua, when adding a "filial piety" word, both to avoid the pursuit of Eastern Wu and to take care of the elderly mother, compared with the two, this time Liao Hua's thousand miles single ride is more than Guan Yu, and even surpasses Guan Yu in the realm.
Another detail that may be overlooked by many people is that guan yu's defeat was in 219 AD, while Liu Beifa Wu arrived at Zigui at the end of 221 AD to the beginning of 2222 AD, and for more than two years, Liao Hua was able to lie down and taste courage and be unswerving, and his loyalty was really precious.
Later, Liu Bei died of illness in the White Emperor's City, and the later lord Liu Chan took the throne, Liao Hua was promoted to join the army of Xiang Xiang, later as the Governor of Guangwu, and served as the Taishou of Yinping, and participated in the Northern Expedition many times, in September 238, Liao Hua led his troops to attack the camp where the Wei state shou shan qiang marquis TangFu was stationed, wei yong prefecture assassin Shi Guohuai sent Guangwei county taishou Wang Yun and Nan'an county Taishou You Yi to lead troops to rescue, and finally Liao Hua seized the opportunity to attack and defeat You Yi, and Wang Yun was also killed by arrows in the battle.
In 248, Liangzhou Qianghu rebelled against Wei and surrendered, Liao Hua led an army with Jiang Wei to the west, Yu Chengzhongshan built a city to stay behind, resisted Guo Huai's attack, helped Jiang Wei welcome back Hu Wangzhi Wudai and other tribes, in 259, Liao Hua was promoted to the rank of right riding general, false festival, led and merged the history of the state, and sealed the marquis of Zhongxiang, and everyone at that time said: "Before there was Wang Ping, Jufu, and then there was Liao Hua and Zhang Yi. ”
It can be seen from this that Liao Hua's record is not inferior, breaking through Nan'an Taishou Youyi, shooting and killing Guangwei Taishou Wang Yun, resisting Guo Huai's attack, and welcoming back Hu Wangzhi Wudai and other tribes, and his position has also reached the point of riding a general and a marquis, so Liao Hua is a mediocre person.
In the autumn of 262, Jiang Wei led the crowd out of the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, and Liao Hua said to him: "If you do not restrain your troops, you will surely suffer the consequences of your own. The wisdom did not surpass the enemy, the strength was weaker than the enemy, but the use of soldiers was not satisfied, so how could it survive? The Book of Verses says, 'I was born not sooner or later, but in time for this time,' and this is what is happening now. ”
Sure enough, in October of the same year, Jiang Wei was defeated by Deng Ai at Houhe, and the retreating army was stationed in Puzhong, and in November 263, after receiving an edict from Liu Chan to surrender, he surrendered to Wei with Jiang Wei, and in 264, Liao Hua died of illness on the way to Luoyang.
It can be said that among the many generals of the Three Kingdoms, Liao Hua witnessed the history of the sudden changes in the Three Kingdoms, perhaps his fame was not as great as other famous generals, but in the end he could coexist and die with the Shu Kingdom, fight for a lifetime, and thus end up with a good end, by no means a mediocre and incompetent general, Chen Shou commented on Liao Hua as "called Guo Lie." The official position was aligned with Zhang Ji (one of the Five Little Tigers of the Late Shu Han Dynasty), and on the right side of Zong Qian (上). ”