Ranking of the three martial generals, why is Zhao Yun ranked ahead of Guan Yu? There are 4 main reasons
Introduction: Friends who like the Three Kingdoms must also know the ranking of the martial generals in it, the first master of the Three Kingdoms is Lü Bu, he was born in a state, and his martial arts were learned in many battles with the Xiongnu, which was very domineering. Once in the Tiger Prison Pass, the combined forces of the princes sent countless fierce generals to be killed by him, Zhang Fei was not his opponent, Liu Guan's three brothers joined forces to fight him, and he shot the door with one hand, no one could do it in ancient times, and his martial arts were also recognized as the strongest. However, many friends have doubts about Zhao Yun ranking in front of Guan Yu, because Guan Yu's fame is very large, and many people think that Guan Yu should be in front. But in fact, Zhao Yun can be in the front mainly for 4 reasons.
First, Zhao Yun had more slashes than Guan Yu. After Guan Yu joined the army, he went from fighting against the enemy Yellow Turban Thief, to fighting Huaxiong in Tiger Prison, to beheading Yan Liang and Wen Ugly in Hebei, and later passing through the pass to behead generals, and in his later years he also killed Pound, killing a total of 18 generals in his lifetime. In the early years, Zhao Yun had already killed 4 generals under Yuan Shao when he was under Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao, and later in the Battle of Changshanpo, in the face of hundreds of thousands of troops, he could still kill more than 50 generals of Cao Cao's army, and then snatched Cao Cao's Qingyi sword, for which Zhao Yun won in terms of numbers.
The second point can also be seen from the confrontation with Wen Ugly. Zhao Yun had just returned from studying art from the mountain that year, and he had no actual combat experience at all, and just happened to see Wen Ugly chasing and killing Gongsun Zhan, so he went to stop and dueled with Wen Ugly for more than fifty rounds, and Wen Ugly's physical strength was not enough to lose. Guan Yu ambushed Wen Ugly during the siege of the White Horse, taking advantage of the fact that Wen Ugly was not paying attention to him and killing him in one fell swoop with the foot strength of the Red Rabbit Horse, when Wen Ugly had not yet reacted, he was already in a different place, this battle Guan Yu was suspected of sneaking attack, Zhao Yun was better with his real strength.
The third point is their defense, friends know that Guan Yu is often injured, the book describes him many times was shot by stray arrows, once shot by Huang Zhong with a bow and arrow in the hat, Huang Zhong deliberately shot deflection is to return his affection, and later in the Battle of Xiangfan was shot by stray arrows in the right arm, fortunately Hua Tuo scraped his bones to heal him, otherwise he also lost an arm. However, Zhao Yun had experienced hundreds of wars in his life, large and small, but he had never been injured, and when he died, he did not have a single scar on his body, which showed that Zhao Yun's defensive power was several times stronger than Guan Yu's.
The fourth point is their boldness, although Guan Yu is a military general, he is the first to plan and then fight, and he has a certain chance of winning before he goes to war. And Zhao Yun is the first to fight, the road to the battle is improvised, so we can often see Zhao Yun alone intruding into the enemy camp, under the Xinye City alone to break into the eight golden lock array, Changsakapo alone to break into hundreds of thousands of Cao troops, and even in the Battle of Hanshui when there are no soldiers under the situation can also pose an empty city plan, standing alone at the camp gate to scare off the Cao army. Zhao Yun also won the prestige of "one body is guts" because of his courage, which is also stronger than Guan Yu.
Conclusion: These differences between them are mainly the different identity positioning of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun's positioning is a military general, and he has to consider the execution of the charge. Guan Yu's position is that of a commander, and what he has to consider is how to arrange troops and dispatch troops. So although Zhao Yun's ranking of martial arts is higher than Guan Yu's, Guan Yu's influence is greater and more popular.