Don't look at the Famous Generals of the Three Kingdoms, one by one, each with a huge reputation, but in fact, most of their protagonists are "weak chickens" and cannot fight at all.
Take the example of the three major forces that laughed last during the Three Kingdoms struggle for hegemony, it is also the better side of Eastern Wu, whether it is Sun Ce or Sun Quan, they are generals who can lead the army to fight by themselves, the rest of Shu Han and Cao Wei, Liu Bei are chased around the map, and the wife who runs away does not know how many times it has been lost, and Cao Cao is not much better.
So the question is, since these lords are so weak, why don't those martial arts masters directly take the head of the other lord, or send special people to assassinate other warlords? Because the protagonist is not stupid, they all have bodyguards. For example, Cao Cao had Dianwei save him from danger three times, and Dianwei finally died by saving Cao Cao, and Xu Chu took his place and continued to guard Cao Cao, even Sun Quan had Tai Shi Ci guarding him.
As for Liu Bei, everyone is even more familiar with it, Changshan Zhao Zilong does not lead the army and does not unite the war, and specially follows Liu Bei's family to protect their safety; it is difficult to rescue Liu Chan, and Liu Bei also has to fall down ah dou to show his distressed subordinates' attitude. In addition to Zhao Yun, Wei Yan was also one of Liu Bei's bodyguards, and at first he kept Liu Bei in the camp until later, when he was selected as the Taishou of Hanzhong. Some people have to ask, after Wei Yan was transferred, who would guard Liu Bei's safety? It's Chen.
Chen Zhi is estimated to be a person that few people have heard of, but when it comes to status, he can definitely be regarded as Liu Bei's confidant, more trusted by Liu Bei than Zhao Yun and the like, probably similar to Zhuge Liang. Chen Zhi was the commander of the Bai Yi (er, 3 voices) soldiers, who were the most mysterious but also the most elite troops under Liu Bei's account, specifically to protect his safety.
From Zhuge Liang's letter to Li Yan, the capital of the Shu Kingdom, we can see the special status of Bai Yibing: "Brother suspects that the White Emperor's soldiers are not refined. When he arrived at the governor, he first went to the emperor's account and the western soldiers also. To put it bluntly, Liu Bei hated that the guards of the White Emperor City were too weak to bring him a sense of security, so he trained another White Yi soldier, and let Chen Zhi serve as the leader, which was the most sophisticated soldier.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang did not dare to command Chen Zhi at will, after all, Chen Zhi was equivalent to Liu Bei's "personal bodyguard", if Liu Bei knew that Zhuge Liang could actually command his own "life preserver", how Liu Bei would view Zhuge Liang, it is conceivable. It is also because of Chen Zhi's special status that we can probably guess that his force value should be able to suppress the famous generals who are known as the best in the Three Kingdoms period, Lü Bu and Zhao Yun.
First of all, we can be sure that the strength value of Zhao Yun and Lü Bu should be similar, both of them are very strong in single combat ability, Lü Bu can fight with one enemy and many famous generals, and Zhao Yun can single-handedly break into the enemy army to save the young lord. Chen Zhi could at least stabilize Wei Yan in terms of strength value, otherwise the leader of this Bai Yi soldier would definitely be Wei Yan instead of Chen Zhi.
In addition, in 221 AD, in the Battle of Yiling, which caused Liu Bei to suffer a crushing defeat, the Shu Han soldiers and horses were damaged by Lu Xun's "burning company camp", and Liu Bei almost confessed there. Why the handicap? Because in the end it was Chen Zhi who rescued him. The Battle of Yiling was one of the "three major battles" of the Three Kingdoms period, and Liu Bei was a specially targeted leader, and the difficulty of saving him was definitely higher than that of Zhao Yun Changbanpo to save the young lord, so the force value displayed by Chen Zhi was definitely higher than that of Zhao Yun.
Unfortunately, Chen died quite early, around 247 AD. Almost all of the older generation of generals died, the Shu Han generals did not take over, and the Northern Expedition was too laborious and hurt the people, so it is no wonder that Shu Han later became the first force to be destroyed in the Three Kingdoms.
Reference: Romance of the Three Kingdoms