When Zhuge Liang was fighting Wei, the Five Tiger Generals only survived the changsheng general Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong. The other four tiger generals withered away one after another, and in their last days, in the novel and the historical record, Zhang Fei was killed by Fan Jiang Zhang Da, Ma Chao was depressed and finally basically the same, Guan Yu and Huang Zhong's cause of death had two theories, and the story of Zhao Yun's death was full of legends, and even in the legend, he was killed by his wife by mistake.
Zhang Fei and Ma Chao needless to say, let's talk about the cause of death of the other three tiger generals in order.
The first of the Five Tiger Generals to die is Guan Yu in both the Zhengshi and The Yanyi, but whether Sun Quan has persuaded him to surrender, whether Guan Yu would rather die than bow down and rebuke Sun Quan, this is not the same between the Zhengshi and the Yanyi, and even the Zhengshi. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms says that "Quan Shu will counterattack Yu, and cut off Yu and Zi Ping in Linfeng." The Book of Shu says, "The general Quan dispatched yu to attack Yu and obtain Yu and Ziping." Quan wanted to live against Liu and Cao. It was the subordinates who unanimously opposed: "Wolves cannot be raised, and they will be harmed later." Cao Gong did not get rid of it immediately, but caused great trouble to himself, but discussed the migration of the capital. How can I be born now! ”
Mr. Pei Songzhi believed that Sun Quan's theory of surrendering Guan Yu was unreliable, and he believed that the record of the Book of Wu was reliable, which was also in line with the actual situation of the battlefield at that time: "Sun Quan sent Pan Zhang to walk against the feather, and the feather was cut off. That is to say, at that time, Guan Yu's despondency was two or three hundred miles away from Sun Quan's stronghold of Jiangling, and the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the front-line commanders did not go through instructions, and they beheaded and played later.
If Guan Yu was really sent to Sun Quan, with Sun Quan's seeing profit and forgetting righteousness and the true color of the tyrant, he might have used Guan Yu as a chip to make some deals with his brother-in-law Liu Bei. This was the difference between the front-line general and the lord of The Tyrant: Sun Quan later took the initiative to ask Liu Bei for peace twice, indicating that he only wanted Jingzhou and did not want to form a blood feud with Liu Bei. If Guan Yu was sent to Jiangling, Sun Quan was either imprisoned or released, and the possibility of being directly killed was extremely small.
Shortly after Guan Yu's death, the veteran general Huang Zhong also died of illness—he did not follow Liu Bei to the Battle of Yiling, nor did he even survive until the day when Liu Bei became emperor, so his highest position was Hou General, and his title was a marquis who was younger than Tinghou.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Huang Zhong follows Liu Bei to Wu, first encountering Pan Zhang, who is holding Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Knife. Pan Zhang, the character who originally played soy sauce, had a sword in his hand, and actually "exchanged horses and horses, regardless of victory or defeat". Finally, ma Zhong, the "Nemesis of the Five Tiger Generals", appeared, "an arrow hit Huang Zhong's shoulder socket", and Huang Zhong", "old and bloody, arrow sores and painful cracks", ended up dying before he could get out of the school.
However, in the main history, Huang Zhong neither did he fight with Guan Yu nor knew each other, nor did he have any magic of divine arrows, and he may not even be so old: "(Jian'an twenty-four years) The first lord was the king of Hanzhong, and he wanted to use Zhong as the rear general... On the same level as Yu and others, he was given the title of Marquis of Guannei. Next year, he died and pursued the Marquis of Ganghou. Zi Xu, early, no queen. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Book OF Shu VI"
This makes it very clear: Huang Zhong died in Jian'an twenty-five years, that is, in 220 AD. In the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an (221), Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor and changed to the first year of Yuan Zhangwu, while Liu Bei's conquest of Wu was after he was proclaimed emperor. Huang Zhong was a "pawn" rather than a "martyr", there was no great war between Wei and Shu that year, Liu Bei prepared to ascend the throne, and did not start to declare war on Wu, which shows that Huang Zhong died of illness, and Ma Zhong's title of "Five Tiger General Nemesis" was to be discounted.
Guan Yu was beheaded by the Eastern Wu general without authorization (that was a great opportunity to make a name for himself, and most people would not miss it), Pan Zhang, for his meritorious capture of Guan Yu, was named taishou of Guling Commandery, the general of Zhenwei, the Marquis of Liyang by Sun Quan, and finally became the right general, Yu Sun Wu Jiahe died of illness in the third year (234), and was not killed by Guan Xing. According to the records of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Wu Shu ten", "Zhang is a rough man, the prohibition is solemn, and it is good to make meritorious deeds", so Pan Zhang can do such a stupid thing as killing Guan Yu without authorization.
Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong is an invincible existence in the novel, and in the main history, he is also majestic and solemn and deeply valued by Liu Bei, and he also made the most contributions in the Battle of Shu: "In the nineteenth year of (Jian'an), Zhao Yun divided Jiangyang and Qianwei from Jiangzhou, flew to attack Brazil, and liangding Deyang. Huayang Guozhi Vol. 5"
Zhao Yun's battle achievements will not be said here, otherwise someone will say: "Zhao Yun's merits are all Chen!" (In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chen Zhi only has one sentence to introduce, and I don't know where Chen Zhizhi's merits come from)"
In zhengshi and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun is dying, while in folklore, Zhao Yun was mistakenly killed by his wife (a concubine).
In folklore, Zhao Yun was originally the god of heavenly lanterns. At that time, the heavens saw that the Second Emperor Huanling was really too bad, and the number of Great Han Qi had been exhausted, so he sent Cao Cao Liu Bei to do things in the netherworld: Cao Cao won, indicating that the Han Dynasty should be destroyed, Liu Bei won, and it was not impossible for a Ji Han to appear after the Eastern Han Dynasty of the Western Han Dynasty.
As a lantern god, Zhao Yun, who had a clear grudge, was very kind to Liu Bei and sent him all the way to the home of the Han Dynasty. Liu Bei's status as a relative of the Han Dynasty became his greatest capital. Cao Cao has always carried the notoriety of "after the eunuch", also thanks to the lantern god Zhao Yun: Zhao Yun left Cao Cao still in the black field, Cao Cao reached out and did not see five fingers, and mistakenly hit the eunuch Cao Teng's grandson.
Heaven also felt that Zhao Yun had gone a little too far in this matter: "Aren't you optimistic about Liu Bei and spoofIng Cao Cao?" Then you should go down and become a general under Liu Bei! ”
Because it was the Nether Realm of the Heavenly Gods, all the martial generals could not defeat Zhao Yun, until he was more than seventy years old, Zhao Yun's whole body was still as smooth as jade, so that his wife looked at it with great envy: "You have been fighting all your life, how come you have not even had a single war wound?" Zhao Yun was very proud: "Is there anything else in this world that can hurt me?" ”
His wife was childlike, and when Zhao Yun was sleeping, she stabbed him with an embroidery needle. This little joke made a big deal out of it: Zhao Yun, who had been pricked by an embroidery needle, bled unceasingly and returned to his position on the same day.
Of course, the son does not speak strangely and chaotically, this is all a folk tale passed down from generation to generation, and it should not be corrected. But the wind may not be without reason, Zhao Yun was killed by his wife by mistake is not impossible, and now there are some people who will not congeal blood after being injured, and small wounds can really kill...