Jiang Wei's appearance is quite amazing! Brave as Zhao Yun, they were all repelled by Jiang Wei, and had to praise Jiang Wei's martial arts, and it was precisely because of this competition that many people believed that Jiang Wei had the strength of a super fierce general, but he was a fierce general of the same rank as the Five Tiger Generals. However, judging from Zhuge Liang's reaction, we can come up with a different answer, and Jiang Wei is likely to be overrated!
Jiang Wei repelled Zhao Yun
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun is a well-deserved super fierce man, no matter what the battlefield, as long as he is out of the horse, it must be a horse to succeed! In the Battle of Changshanpo, facing tens of thousands of Cao troops, Zhao Yun had no fear, and finally succeeded in rescuing Liu Chan, shocking the world, what kind of strong combat strength was this, in order to see Cao Ying's fierce generals as nothing? Protecting Liu Bei into Jiangdong, in the face of the aggressiveness of the Wu people, Zhao Yun boldly showed his strength, successfully deterred the Eastern Wu generals, and protected Liu Bei's safety. In the Battle of Hanshui, Zhao Yun killed cao jun alone in order to save Huang Zhong, and no one in the entire Cao camp dared to stop it, as strong as Zhang Guo Xu Huang, and did not dare to take Zhao Yun's move, which showed how strong Zhao Yun was!
To put it bluntly, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun is a perfect killing machine, and as soon as he appears, he is destined to be unstoppable! However, it was zhao yun who was so brave that he finally suffered at the hands of Jiang Wei!
At that time, Zhuge Liang sent his men to pretend that Wei would ask for help, preparing to deceive the Wei army in Tianshui County, and then let Zhao Yun attack Tianshui County. As a result, when Zhao Yun rushed to Tianshui County, he suddenly found that it was not the enemy who had been counted, but himself!
Original text: But it is said that Zhao Yun led five thousand soldiers, threw himself into the city of Tianshui County, and shouted: "I am Zhao Zilongye of Changshan Mountain!" Ru knows the plan, and sacrifices the city early to avoid being cursed! Liang Xu in the city laughed and said, "Ru Zhongwu Jiang Boyue's plan, I still don't know yes?" ”
It turned out that Zhuge Liang's plan had long been recognized by Jiang Wei, and Zhao Yunxing rushed to seize Tianshui County, but he fell into Jiang Wei's trap! Jiang Wei asked Taishou to pretend to lead his troops out of the city, and then lured Zhao Yun to attack, and then let Taishou return to attack Zhao Yun, completely crushing Zhao Yun from the strategic plan! In addition to the strategic victory, Jiang Wei's performance in force also surprised Zhao Yun.
Original text: Yun Ting gun directly took Jiang Wei. The battle is not counted, and the spirit of the dimension is multiplied. Yun was horrified and wondered, "Who would have thought there was such a character here!" ”
Although Jiang Wei and Zhao Yun only fought for a few rounds, we can't see the depth of Jiang Wei's martial arts, but from Zhao Yun's evaluation, Jiang Wei's strength is definitely not bad! Zhao Yun's sentence "Who wants to have such a character here", translated into our modern meaning, is to lament Jiang Wei's strength, and I did not expect to encounter such a powerful figure as Jiang Wei in Longyou. Even a fierce general like Zhao Yun admired Jiang Wei's martial arts, which was enough to show that Jiang Wei's martial arts were very powerful!
After Zhao Yun retreated, he returned to Zhuge Liang's side and once again praised Jiang Wei's martial arts, this time he said so: Zhao Yun praised Jiang Wei's marksmanship again, which was very different from others. Zhao Yun lamented Jiang Wei's strength in front of him, and now he praised Jiang Wei's marksmanship in front of Zhuge Liang, which was enough to show that in Zhao Yun's mind, Jiang Wei's martial arts were very good, and among the young Generation of Shu Han fierce generals, no one had ever received such an evaluation from Zhao Yun, so just from Jiang Wei's record of repelling Zhao Yun and Zhao Yun's evaluation of Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei at that time was completely comparable to Zhao Yun!
However, at that time, Zhao Yun was already old, and his combat effectiveness had declined seriously, just recently in the Battle of Fengming Mountain, Zhao Yun suffered a fiasco in his life, and was besieged in Fengming Mountain, unable to break through the siege, and had to look up to the sky and sigh: "I do not obey the old, I died here!" It can be seen that Zhao Yun at that time, and Zhao Yun of Changshanpo, are completely two different states, the hero is late, Zhao Yun is old after all! That is to say, although the young Jiang Wei repelled the elderly Zhao Yun and received the praise of the elderly Zhao Yun, it does not mean that Jiang Wei can beat Zhao Yun at his peak! To understand Jiang Wei's true strength, we must also look at his subsequent combat situation!
Zhuge Liang's evaluation
After joining the Shu Han camp, Jiang Wei's development is still good, and the record is also relatively eye-catching, he has several rounds to draw Zhang Yi, two rounds to defeat Chen Tai, one round to assassinate Xu Qian, thirty or forty rounds to ping Deng Zhong, dozens of rounds to ping Deng Ai, it seems to perform well. However, these fierce generals in the late Three Kingdoms period, the combat strength and the fierce generals in the early Three Kingdoms period are not the same grade at all, so through the comparison of these people, it can only show that Jiang Wei is indeed very strong, but how strong it is, it is still impossible to make reasonable inferences. However, from the perspective of Zhuge Liang's appointment of Jiang Wei, we can infer Jiang Wei's true strength!
In the seventh year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang once again sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Sima Yi led Zhang Gao and his party to resist Zhuge Liang, in the battlefield planning, Sima Yi was not Zhuge Liang's opponent, so he took the way of holding out and prepared to kill Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang saw that Sima Yi did not come out, and did not dare to attack the Wei army camp, so he prepared to use a deceitful defeat tactic to lure Sima Yi into pursuit. Zhuge Liang knew that Sima Yi was cunning, and even if he came to pursue, he would let Zhang Gao and others be the vanguard, and he himself led the troops to follow close behind, so if he wanted to defeat Sima Yi, he must first cut off the front of the Wei army with ambush troops, so that Sima Yi could see the ambush, sima Yi would follow closely, if Sima Yi could not see the ambush, he would not dare to pursue with all his might.
Original text: Kong Ming summoned the generals to discuss: "Now that the Wei soldiers come to pursue, they will inevitably die in battle; Ru and others can be ten, and I will intercept them with ambush troops: non-wise and courageous generals, can not be also." The Wei soldiers will be divided into two branches, and Sima Yi will follow to prevent us from ambushing the troops. If the ambush is coming, the ambush is in the middle, and there will be a big battle. These two soldiers, if they are not generals, cannot be treated as well. ”
In Zhuge Liang's scheme, the Shu army ambush that cut off the Wei army was essentially a bait, a bait specifically to lure Sima Yi into the bait. Since he wanted to deceive Sima Yi, the combat strength of this ambush army must be very strong, and it could not be easily handled by Zhang Gao's former army, so the fierce general who led this army must be brave and dare to fight, and could not be inferior to Zhang Gao too much, otherwise the bait would not be made, and it would really become fish food.
Zhang Gao was a fierce general of Cao Wei, and his combat effectiveness was very strong, in Zhuge Liang's mind, the best candidate to resist Zhang Guo was Wei Yan, so after announcing his intention to fight, Zhuge Liang directly "looked at Wei Yan with his eyes" and wanted Wei Yan to take the initiative to ask for battle, and as a result, Wei Yan blamed Zhuge Liang for not listening to his Meridian Valley plot, which led to the defeat of the First Northern Expedition, and his heart was still gambling, so he turned a blind eye to Zhuge Liang's hints. Wei Yan's operation made Zhuge Liang very embarrassed, but fortunately Wang Ping took the initiative to break the siege and expressed his willingness to lead an army to resist Zhang Guo, which made Zhuge Liang very happy.
After Wang Ping asked for battle, Zhang Yi also took the initiative to ask for battle, and as a result, Zhuge Liang said such a sentence.
Original text: Before the words are finished, a will come out: "A certain wish to go!" "As seen by everyone, it was the former military governor and Fufeng Taishou Zhang Yiye. Kong Mingyue: "Zhang Gao is a famous general of Wei, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, and Ru is not an enemy." ”
Zhuge Liang believed that Zhang Yi was not Zhang Gao's opponent, but Zhang Yi still insisted on asking for battle, and the others in the Shu army did not take the initiative to ask for more, so Zhuge Liang could only let Wang Ping and Zhang Yi cooperate to fight together, hoping to gather the strength of the two to resist Zhang Gao.
After reading Zhuge Liang's operational arrangements, we can obviously find that in Zhuge Liang's mind, in fact, the best candidate to resist Zhang Guo was Wei Yan, but Wei Yan did not obey Zhuge Liang and was unwilling to go to war. So the question is, didn't Jiang Wei have the combat strength to equalize Zhao Yun when he first appeared? Since Wei Yan was unwilling to fight Zhang Gao, why did Zhuge Liang not let Jiang Wei go to fight Zhang Gao? Instead, they want to arrange for Wang Ping and Zhang Yi to fight together?
In fact, the answer is already obvious, and it can be seen from Zhuge Liang's battle arrangement that in Zhuge Liang's mind, Jiang Wei's combat effectiveness is inferior to Wei Yan's, and he cannot compete with Zhang Gao! We can also see this from Zhuge Liang's deathbed arrangement!
The contradiction between Zhuge Liang and Wei Yan, in fact, many people have seen it, burning the upper valley, the reason why Zhuge Liang let Wei Yan seduce Sima Yi, in fact, he hid wei Yan's mind at the same time, he had already let Ma Dai block the exit of the upper valley, ready to burn Wei Yan and Sima Yi together, but did not succeed. Before Zhuge Liang died, he specially arranged for Ma Dai to lurk by Wei Yan's side, the purpose of which was actually to kill Wei Yan when Wei Yan rebelled. And from his arrangement, it can also be seen that in Zhuge Liang's view, Jiang Wei is still not Wei Yan's opponent, otherwise why would Zhuge Liang arrange Ma Dai to Wei Yan's side and directly let Jiang Wei go!
After Zhuge Liang's death, Yang Yi and Jiang Wei led the army to retreat, and Wei Yan sent troops to attack Yang Yi, and in the face of Wei Yan's attack, Jiang Wei did not immediately go to war, but instead complained: "Wei Yan is brave and fierce, and he also helps Ma Dai, although the army is small, why should he retreat?" Judging from Jiang Wei's reaction, he himself was also self-aware, knowing that he could not defeat Wei Yan.
After learning that a conflict broke out between Yang Yi and Wei Yan, Liu Chan also made such an evaluation: "Wei Yan is a brave general, enough to reject Yang Yi and others, why burn the boardwalk?" Liu Chan said that with Wei Yan's combat strength, he could completely defeat Yang Yi, Jiang Wei and others, and there was no need to burn down the boardwalk, which showed that in Liu Chan's view, Wei Yan's combat effectiveness was the first in the Shu Han Dynasty at that time, and Jiang Wei was not his opponent!
Judging from the evaluation of the people on the Shu Han side (Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang, and Jiang Wei himself), although Jiang Wei was a rare fierce general, his combat effectiveness was indeed inferior to Wei Yan's, and in the entire Shu Han Dynasty, Jiang Wei could only rank seventh at most, ranking below the Five Tiger Generals and Wei Yan. And if you look at the world, then Jiang Wei's level can only be regarded as a good first-class level, he is still far from reaching the top level, after all, he can't even play Wei Yan and Zhang Guo!
epilogue
Although Jiang Wei's appearance was very amazing, even Zhao Yun looked at him differently, but in essence, Jiang Wei's combat effectiveness was not yet top-notch, he could only be regarded as a first-class fierce general, and the people above his ranking were: Lü Bu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Xu Chu, Dianwei, Pound De, Xu Huang, Zhang Gao, Zhang Liao, Wen Ping, Yan Liang, Wen Ugly, Gao Lan, Sun Ce, Tai Shi Ci, etc.! What do you think about that?
(This article mainly refers to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)