History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Nowadays, in many historical and literary works, the emphasis is on the evaluation of historical figures, and perhaps only the discussion of important historical figures can arouse the interest of readers, which is also a process of exploration and discovery of history that we modern people are not familiar with.
Take the Three Kingdoms period, among the most familiar figures, Cao Cao must be among them. Later generations have different evaluations of Cao Cao, although the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" writes Cao Cao as a treacherous villain, and most people also agree with this statement; but when we look at other historical documents, the evaluation of Cao Cao is not all negative, such as: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "History of the Later Han Dynasty", "Zizhi Tongjian" and other evaluations of him are more positive than negative.
These evaluations have their own reasons, and we cannot deny any kind of statement, we can only say that we must analyze historical figures from the positive and negative aspects, after all, as a person, no one can be perfect, and no one can be without credit.
In addition to the positive evaluation of Cao Cao that we are familiar with, there is a historical figure related to Cao Cao that also makes the world have different evaluations, and this person is Yu Ban. This was originally Bao Xin's subordinate, who later followed Cao Cao. During the years of following Cao Cao, Yu Ban showed superhuman combat ability, and the army he led was able to win a great victory on every battlefield, beat the enemy to the ground, and also retreated with his whole body, and his soldiers were very convinced of him.
Cao Cao often used him to fight the Yellow Turban Army in some major battles, and with Yu Ban's bravery and hard work, he naturally achieved great results and played a great role in the expansion of Cao Cao's ruling power. In the Battle of Wancheng, almost all of Cao Cao's army was retreated by the enemy, and the battle was chaotic, and there was no morale, but only Yu Ban could manage his subordinates, maintain the stability of the camp, arouse the morale of the soldiers, and retreat, although in the end Cao Cao was defeated and fled, but from this battle, Cao Cao was impressed by the ban.
From then on, Cao Cao was very important to forbidden, allowing him to lead the army to conquer the battlefield and repeatedly build qigong. From this point of view, Yu Ban was indeed very brave and good at war, and he made great contributions to Cao Cao, and the other civilian generals around Cao Cao also praised him, and they were even more commented by Cao Cao: "Although the ancient famous generals, why add it!" "He really deserves this distinction.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, but this famous general surrendered to the enemy and became the object of everyone's contempt. In a battle with Guan Yu, Yu Ban did not even swear to resist to the death. At that time, Guan Yu attacked Fancheng, and Yu Ban and Pound were sent to rescue Cao Ren. However, God was partial to Yu Ban against it, the sky fell heavily, and the soldiers led by Yu Ban were good at land warfare, and water warfare was not good at all, and as a result, the army was defeated, and Pound Yu Ban was also captured alive.
Pound chose to die unyieldingly, while Yu Ban chose to surrender, and Cao Cao was both angry and regretful when he learned of this. After that, Yu Ban went to Eastern Wu, and was once a fierce general who was admired by the people of the world, but now he was despised by the people of the world everywhere and became the laughing stock of the people of the world.
Whatever we say about him now, we should still see his merits for Cao Cao, which are inseparable from his bravery; of course, we must not forget that he once bowed his noble head to the enemy.