Now if you ask someone who is slightly familiar with romance of the Three Kingdoms, ask him "who is the strongest person in the Three Kingdoms",
Almost everyone will say that of course it is Lü Bu, the first fierce general of the Three Kingdoms.
At that time, the Eighteenth Route Princes fought against Dong Yi and Lü Bu alone, and first Wang Kuangjun, who killed wang Kuangjun with the strength of one person like entering no man's land, threw away his armor and scattered. Later, he killed Mu Shun, cut off Wu Anguo's wrist, and beat Gongsun Zhan, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and other famous generals in the world, and it can be said that Lü Bu at this time is a god of war that people look up to, which is frightening.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu was the world's first fierce general, almost invincible,
At that time, how many famous generals were defeated at the hands of Lü Bu,
Even a supreme fierce general as arrogant as Guan Yu had to admit Lü Bu's bravery. At the same time, Lü Bu's reputation in this famous work is not very good,
Luo Guanzhong even gave him a "three-surnamed family slave" with an ageless notoriety.
But we all know that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is seven points of reality and three points of fiction. So what kind of person was Lü Bu in history? Is he really the ultimate warrior? Is it really a three-surnamed domestic slave?
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty": Bu Ben bow horse, with superior strength, called a flying general.
The Book of Later Han said of Lü Bu in this way
He is good at archery on horseback, and his arm strength is superior, and he sends flying generals.
It should be known that the name of Fei general was only called by li Guang, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, before Lü Bu. Li Guang's archery skills were famous all over the world at that time, even the Xiongnu were afraid when they heard it, and there was such an allusion to his archery, saying that when Li Guang was idle in the military camp, he wanted to go outside to hunt, and in the middle of the hunt, Li Guang suddenly saw that there was a tiger lying in the grass, so he shot an arrow with all his strength, but just when he wanted to harvest the prey, he found that it was originally a stone, and half of the arrow was inserted into the stone.
And Lü Bu's archery skills are equally proficient. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
Bu Lingmen waited at the camp gate to hold up a halberd, and the cloth said: "The kings look at the cloth and shoot the small branches, and those who are in the middle of the shot should be relieved, and if they are not in the middle, they can stay in the duel." "The cloth raises the bow and shoots the halberd, and the small branch is in the middle." All the generals were shocked, saying "General Tianwei also"! ”。
When Yuan Shu led a large army to attack Liu Bei's Xuzhou, Liu Bei asked Lü Bu for help. When Lü Bu rushed to rescue him, he invited Ji Ling and other Generals to drink in the barracks, and then erected a halberd in the camp and said to Ji Ling and others, "If I shoot a small branch on the halberd with an arrow, then you will retreat, and if not, you will do whatever you want to Liu Bei." Later, Lü Bu did shoot, Ji Ling was surprised at that time, and then they were also forced to retreat from Lü Bu's force.
"The Legend of Cao Concealment": Lü Bu is brave and has a horse. When people say, "There is Lü Bu among men, and there are red rabbits in horses."
In fact, in the real history, Lü Bu was indeed the first fierce general in the world, and he not only had the archery skills mentioned above, but also the martial arts were extraordinary, which was circulated at that time
"Lü Bu among men, red rabbit among horses"
Such a sentence. The red rabbit horse history book records that it is a divine colt that can travel thousands of miles a day and walk eight hundred miles at night, which is the emperor of the horses, and at that time, it belonged to Lü Bu who could control the red rabbit horse, and it can be said that at that time, Lü Bu's prestige was already known to women and children.
It is also as the famous northern Song Dynasty minister He Fufei said
"In the past, when the Eastern Han Dynasty was small, Haojie rose up and fought for the world, and people each wielded the assets they fought for. Gai Er Yuan was powerful, Lü Bu was brave, and Cao Gong was wise. ”
Lü Bu was able to become a prince of the party because of his unparalleled martial arts. In Lü Bu's life of the Southern Expedition to the North, he relied on his martial arts to win the final victory countless times. When he and Yuan Shao conspired to deal with Zhang Yan's Montenegrin army, Lü Bu only led Cheng Lian, Wei Yue and dozens of other tens of thousands of Zhang Yan's elite soldiers to kill, but the Montenegrin army could not do anything with Lü Bu, and eventually Zhang Yan's army was crushed by Lü Bu.
However, just as the so-called "success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He", Lü Bu's martial arts are indeed unparalleled in the world, coupled with several times and three times relying on martial arts to defeat many famous generals in the world, so Lü Bu's extreme "trust" in force.
Whenever there was a war, he charged forward alone and used his martial arts to defeat all the enemies in front of him, but he did not care whether this was a conspiracy or not.
And it was in such an excessive superstitious situation of the supremacy of force that Lü Bu could not hear any advice, and slowly he only knew that his martial arts were the first in the world, and he only knew that fighting was won by force, so in the end he ended up being killed in a white gate tower.
Of course, it is not true that Lü Bu is a brave and resourceful person as the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" says. In fact, although Lü Bu was very reckless and could hardly listen to too many suggestions, he was definitely not a reckless man. Once, when Yuan Shu attacked Liu Bei, when his generals were advising Lü Bu to borrow a knife to kill people and not to save Lü Bu, he insisted on saving him, he said
"If the technique is broken, then the generals of Taishan in the north, I have to save it because I am in the siege of the art."
In that environment at that time, Lü Bu could keenly discover the key points in this, he knew that if Liu Bei was defeated, then the next one would definitely be his turn, so he abandoned any prejudices to save Liu Bei.
And when he went to save Liu Bei, he did not directly lead his soldiers to fight yuan shu's tens of thousands of troops like Mangfu. Instead, they camped tens of miles away, and then invited Ji Ling, the commander of Yuan's army, and others to come to the camp as guests.
And in the process, he used the "Yuanmen Shooting" to achieve the purpose of surrendering the soldiers without fighting.
Ji Ling and the others saw that Lü Bu was skilled in martial arts, and coupled with the fact that Liu Bei's reinforcements had arrived at this time, Ji Ling and the others had to retreat in the end, so Lü Bu lifted Liu Bei's siege without losing a single soldier. From this incident, it can be seen that Lü Bu is not without wisdom, on the contrary, his strategy is very high. So why did he lose later?
It was later that too many victories won by relying on force made Lü Bu gradually lose the ability to think, and gradually believed that force could solve everything, which eventually led to his defeat.
However, throughout the dynasties, people's evaluations of Lü Bu and other worldly fierce generals have mostly been more derogatory than praise, Cao Cao said that he was "wolf's ambition, sincere and difficult to raise for a long time", Xun You said that he was "brave and unscrupulous", and Cheng Yu said that he was "rough and young, just and rude". It can be said that in the eyes of many people at that time, Lü Bu was a capricious and sinister villain, so was the real Lü Bu really like this?
Maybe one sentence can be answered, that is
"When evaluating a historical figure, it must not be moralized."
In fact, in that turbulent and chaotic world, Lü Bu did not have much fault in saying this, at that time, for many people, fame, money, and power did not dare to think at all, and it was already fortunate to be able to survive. And for Lü Bu, in fact, he just simply wants to live, kill Dong Zhuo because Dong Zhuo wants to kill him, just imagine if someone kills you, will you be indifferent? After defecting to Yuan Shao, he rebelled, because Yuan Shao also wanted to get rid of him.
It can be said that in that environment at that time, there were several princes who did not surrender and rebel several times, and Lü Bu was not Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, these princes with the background of the second generation of officials.
Without the support of the family with deep roots behind him, Lü Bu could only live on his own.
If you want to have military power, you have to turn to those powerful princes, think about it, even People like Liu Bei who carry "Han Dynasty Clan Relatives" have to turn to one prince after another several times and three times to survive, let alone Lü Bu who has no background?
So it's actually not Lü Bu who thinks like this repeatedly,
It was just that he had to repeat itself in that environment at that time, otherwise even if his force was strong, he would not be able to survive, and he would be eaten alive by those who were stronger than him.
And the reason why history will give Lü Bu such a notoriety, and Liu Bei, who is more repetitive than him, can get a good name is only because of "becoming a king and defeating Kou". Liu Bei eventually succeeded in establishing a country, so everything he had done before was right, and Lü Bu eventually failed, so what he had done before was wrong.