Liu Bei was called empress dowager, Feng Wuhu was the general, Guan Yu was the first general, the former general, Zhang Fei was the right general, Ma Chao was the left general, Huang Zhong was the rear general, and Zhao Yun was the partial general.
However, when Guan Yu heard that Huang Zhong had been made a rear general, he said indignantly: "The eldest husband will not be in the same line as the veterans in the end!" Obviously, Guan Yu looked down on Huang Zhong, and he thought that Huang Zhong could not be compared with him at all, and he was also a general of the Five Tigers, which simply lowered his own value! So who in Guan Yu's mind can be qualified to be the Five Tiger Generals?
First of all, let's look at Guan Yu's personality, although Guan Yu has courage and strategy, righteousness and thin clouds, but he is more proud and arrogant, except for Liu Bei and Cao Cao, he can't look at anyone, everyone is an ant in his eyes.
For Guan Yu, whose eyes are on the top of his head, the person who knows him best is Zhuge Liang. When Liu Bei was named a five-tiger general, the ranking of the five tiger generals was deliberately arranged by Zhuge Liang, because he knew that Guan Yu cared a lot about face, and if Guan Yu was not ranked first, it was estimated that Guan Yu would have to take the Green Dragon Crescent Moon Knife and come from Jingzhou to cut him. Even if he was ranked first, when he heard that Huang Zhong was also among the Five Tiger Generals, his heart was still uncomfortable, "How can the eldest husband be in the same line as the veterans!" ”
Among the five tiger generals, Guan Yu really looked down on Huang Zhong.
Ostensibly, Guan Yu said that Huang Zhong was too old, but in fact there were two other reasons:
First of all, Huang Zhong is a general.
Guan Yusu looked down on that kind of disloyal and filial piety, and as strong as Lü Bu, he also made Guan Yu scornful, and was called a family slave with three surnames by Guan Yu Zhang Fei. In the later Battle of Xiangfan, it can also be seen that Yu Ban surrendered to Guan Yu, and Pound De scolded and refused to surrender, although Guan Yu killed Pound, he admired him very much, hated that he could not be used for himself, and finally buried him thickly. As for the ban, Guan Yu really looked down on him, and although he surrendered himself, Guan Yu did not use him at all. Therefore, Guan Yu, a person who cherishes righteousness, is a person who despises surrender, and Huang Zhong was only an ordinary general under Liu Biao's account at first, after Cao Cao came, Huang Zhong defected to Cao Cao by the way, and finally surrendered to Liu Bei after being defeated by Liu Bei, so Guan Yu did not have a good impression of Huang Zhong at the beginning.
Secondly, Huang Zhong did not have any remarkable record.
After Huang Zhong surrendered to Liu Bei, he then followed Liu Bei into Sichuan, and although he bravely and resolutely crowned the three armies, Guan Yu believed that he was just a vanguard general, and everything was under Liu Bei's command. Later, in the Battle of Hanzhong, in Guan Yu's eyes, Huang Zhong's killing of Xiahou Yuan was only a leak, because At that time, Liu Bei was holding Zhang Guo's large army, and Xiahou Yuan only had 400 people stationed on his side before he was killed by Huang Zhong's surprise attack. At that time, Guan Yu was far away in Jingzhou, and he was even more dissatisfied without seeing it with his own eyes.
So among the five tiger generals, can Guan Yu look up to Ma Chao?
Although Ma Chao did not make many military achievements after defecting to Liu Bei, but Ma Chao became famous at a young age, and he was a prince like Liu Bei, Ma Chao's former battle record was also very brilliant, and he almost killed Cao Cao, and he took the initiative to defect to Liu Bei, not surrender. Therefore, Guan Yu naturally had nothing to say about the position of Ma Chao's five tiger generals.
So can Guan Yu look up to Zhao Yun?
If in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in guan Yu's words, it is said: "Zilong Jiu followed my brother, that is, my brother also, and the position was merged with me, but also." It shows that he recognizes Zhao Yun, and zhao Yun's record in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is also first-class. But in fact, Zhao Yun only followed Liu Bei for a relatively early time, seniority, his real record is really not much, he is equivalent to Liu Bei's security minister, mainly responsible for the personal safety of Liu Bei and his family. Just like in a company, there are sales ministers, technical ministers, finance ministers, etc., although they are all ministers, but the status is definitely different, so Guan Yu must not look up to Zhao Yun.
As for Zhang Fei, it goes without saying, even if the ability is a little worse than Guan Yu, but the two of them are brothers after all, and they have followed Liu Bei to start a business together, which must be seen.
As for the other generals of the Shu State, only Wei Yan was qualified to be elected as a general of the Five Tigers, but Wei Yan's main merits were established during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, before that he was only like Huang Zhong, who followed Liu Bei halfway, and did not make particularly significant merits, Huang Zhong at least killed Xiahou Yuan, a general, and Wei Yan was only favored by Liu Bei and was trained as a savings cadre, and later Liu Bei promoted him to be too punctual in Hanzhong, and was also questioned by everyone, at this time Wei Yan was obviously inferior to Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun. Guan Yu was not willing to go hand in hand with Huang Zhong, so how could he look up to Wei Yan?
Therefore, in Guan Yu's eyes, the Five Tiger Generals can only be said to be the Three Tiger Generals, that is, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Ma Chao.