When it comes to the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, 5 people must not be left alone. These 5 men were Liu Bei's Five Tiger Generals. It was precisely because they sacrificed their lives and forgot their deaths to charge the battlefield that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's strategies and tactics were well implemented and won one victory after another on the battlefield. From Zhuge Liang's military career, it can be clearly seen that before the Five Tigers were born, Zhuge Liang fought smoothly. After their deaths one after another, the advantages of the Shu state on the battlefield were significantly weakened.
Among these 5 people, it seems that they are side by side, but in fact, there is a big difference between relatives and respects and inferiority. Guan Yu Zhang Fei was the first rank, they were both Liu Bei's subordinates of the Dragon, and their abilities and battle achievements were unmatched. Ma Chao was of the second rank, and although he did not make meritorious contributions to Liu Bei, because he was from a famous and prestigious family, Liu Bei also looked at him differently, and he was always among the best when he was rewarded.
Only Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong were left, but they didn't seem to be very successful. First of all, Huang Zhong made a great contribution to killing Xiahou Yuan at Dingjun Mountain, but Liu Bei came with a sentence: "Deserve to be the leader, what is evil with this!" This means that Xiahou Yuan is an incompetent person, what is the use of killing him, if you want to kill him, you should kill a powerful one, such as Zhang Gao." In any case, Xiahou Yuan was also an important general under Cao Cao, and Huang Zhong's charge to personally risk Yashi won a great victory, and he should not have received such an evaluation in any case.
When Huang Zhong was rewarded, Zhuge Liang came out again to stop him, claiming that Huang Zhong's reputation was lower than that of Guan Zhang and others, and if he were given the same title now, he was afraid that Guan Yu, who was far away in Jingzhou, would not be very happy to know. If it were not for the records of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I could not believe that this word came from Zhuge Liang's mouth. As the commander of the three armies, because he was afraid of offending Guan Yu, he did not hesitate to erase Huang Zhong's merits and was not afraid to attack Huang Zhong's enthusiasm, which showed Huang Zhong's status in his mind.
Let's talk about Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun in the history book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is far more powerful than in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhao Yun in the novel is a brave man with high martial arts. And Zhao Yun in the history books is a handsome man with both courage and courage. For example, Zhuge Liang's empty city plan is based on the empty city plan used by Zhao Yun against Cao Jun during the Battle of Hanzhong. Before Liu Bei's battle against Wu, Zhao Yun repeatedly dissuaded Liu Bei and could not make this decision, but Liu Bei refused. Facts have proved that Zhao Yun's opinion is completely correct.
For some reason, Zhao Yun was under Liu Bei's hands and was always not very mixed. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei's two great titles were only four tiger generals, and Zhao Yun was always marginalized, until Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, and he was able to obtain the same rank as Wei Yan. He had the grace to save Liu Chan's life, but after his death, Liu Chan "forgot" to give him a posthumous title, or Jiang Wei specifically wrote to mention this matter, and Zhao Yun got the title.