If you want to let history lovers evaluate their favorite dynasty, then the popularity of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty must be among the best, a large part of the reason is due to one of the four famous works of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it is those wonderful dispute stories, so that many people have a strong interest in this era a thousand years ago, but Luo Guanzhong's Three Kingdoms, after all, is a novel, compared with the real history, the difference is still very large, and we want to introduce a person today, He was a famous general of the Shu state during the Three Kingdoms period, and Lu Xun was afraid to fight with him, and the Northern Expedition defeated Sima Yi, but few people knew about it.
This man was Wu Ban, and his fame seemed to be much lower than that of ma guan zhang zhao yun, who was fiercely generals. Few people have an impression of him. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Ban, as a Shu general, rebelled against Sun Quan, and accompanied Zhuge Liang on the expedition, and finally in Kong Ming's last Northern Expedition, he was sent to attack Sima Yi's Dazhai, but was caught in Sima Yi's plan and was shot by a random arrow. However, there is no such record in the main history.
Wu Ban Zi Yuanxiong, date of birth and death unknown, he was a man from Chen Liu County (Kaifeng, Henan), the younger brother of the general Wu Yi, who held a position in the Shu State, and his father Wu Kuang was once an aide under the Eastern Han general He Jin, so Wu Ban was also considered to be from an officer family from an early age, and the words and deeds of his father and brother also provided him with a large number of general experience.
In July of the first year of Zhang Wu (221), Liu Bei sent an army to attack Sun Wu, Wu Ban and Feng Xi were appointed as the vanguard, when Wu generals Lu Xun and Li Sheng were stationed in Wu County and Zigui County, Wu Ban and Chen Shi led the water army to advance, it should be known that Eastern Wu was famous for the water army, but Wu Ban easily defeated Li Sheng of Wu County with excellent wisdom, and then the Shu army advanced by land and water, taking advantage of the situation to seize Zigui, Zhang Wu In the first month of 222, the Shu army launched a general attack, Wu Ban and others continued to advance to Yiling, and occupied both sides of the Yangtze River.
When Liu Bei arrived at the Pavilion, the pioneer Wu Ban set up camp on the flat ground and challenged the Wu army led by Lu Xun, and he secretly ambushed eight thousand ambush troops in the valley, but in the Battle of WuXian County, Wu Banwei's name was greatly shaken, and Lu Xun was also afraid of Wu Ban's prestige and did not want to fight against him, so he hung up a free battle card.
After the defeat at the Battle of Yiling, Wu Ban returned to Shudi because he established military merit and led the army to evacuate in time after the defeat, preserving a relatively good strength, receiving imperial court commendations and promoting him to later general. In the year of Jianxing (231), Wu Ban accompanied Zhuge Xiang on the Northern Expedition and set out as an overseer, and Cao Wei sent Sima Yi to resist.
In May, Wu Ban's army met Sima Yi in the field, and the two sides immediately broke out into a fierce battle, under wu Ban's call, the Shu army bravely stepped forward, and finally defeated the Wei army commanded by Sima Yi, killing 3,000 enemies, obtaining 5,000 ironclad collars and 3,100 crossbows, but because of the lack of grain and grass, the Han army returned to Shuzhong in June.
From then on, Wu Ban became famous with this battle, was promoted to the rank of general of the Hussars, and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Jinzhu.
People often say: "There is no general in the Shu kingdom, and Liao hua is the vanguard." In fact, from Wu Ban's deeds, it can be seen that there is no shortage of good generals in the Shu kingdom, including Wang Ping, Zhang Yi, Jiang Wei in the later period, as well as Zhuge Liang's general Xiang Pet, who spent a lot of ink and ink on the list of the master who cherished the words like gold, are all rare generals, but it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, and the Shu state relies on the strength of a state to compete with Wei and Jin, which unified the entire north, it is still too difficult, and it is ultimately difficult to escape the fate of extinction.