Liu Bei's life can be described as bumpy, from participating in the Yellow Turban Uprising, because of his limited strength, Liu Bei also defected in the melee of princes, many princes. For example, Gongsun Zhan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and so on. However, during this period, Liu Bei always obeyed people with virtue and won wide recognition from everyone.
With the help of Zhuge Liang, after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei successively obtained Jingzhou and Yizhou, and Liu Bei finally had his own territory. Not only has the territory, Liu Bei's side of the civilian military generals are also very many, the wenchen has Zhuge Liang, Feng Yan, Fazheng, etc., the military generals have five tiger generals, etc., what makes people curious is that after Liu Bei got Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, he hid it in the snow, why is this?
A majestic teenage hero
First, let's talk about Zhao Yun. In the eyes of most Chinese, Zhao Yun's image is: white helmet, white armor, white horse, silver gun, and a mighty young hero. Folklore "Yi Lü, Er Dian, San Zhao, Four Horses", San Zhao refers to Zhao Yun, Lü Bu, Dian Wei are all early figures of the Three Kingdoms, died early, and people rank Zhao Yun's martial arts before Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. It can be seen that the people are very fond of Zhao Yun, and in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Yun is also named one of the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Kingdom. In the chaos of the world, the group of heroes rose together at the end of the Han Dynasty, Hao Jie competed, fierce generals like clouds, Zhao Yun was not one of the top figures. Although in the battle for Hanzhong, Zhao Yun calmly resisted the enemy, won more with less, and was praised by Liu Bei as "all the guts" and was called the general of Huwei, but looking at his martial arts and prestige, at that time, he was still slightly inferior to some famous martial generals.
Admiral Jianyong
Ma Chao fought Zhang Fei and Xu Chu and killed Cao Cao, so these two were called the Five Tiger Generals of Shu Han along with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong. However, among the Five Tiger Generals, Ma Chao was the most unpopular with Liu Bei, and Zhao Yun had long been Liu Bei's subordinate, but when Liu Bei was alive, he had always been a miscellaneous general, which can be said to have not reflected his value. He was the first person to follow Liu Bei besides Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. Liu Bei's ambitions are not very big, but after he has a place, he is very afraid of Ma Chao replacing him, after all, Ma Chao is really powerful and became famous much earlier than him. In fact, he also has a little deficiency, his personality is more grinning, when Liu Bei was a commoner, he liked to call Liu Bei a brother, and later after Liu Bei became the lord, he was still like this. Of course, Liu Bei was a little unhappy, and of course he would not reuse him. According to historical records, Ma Chao died in his 40s, which is a pity.
The two generals around Liu Bei are very strong, even if the ability can compete with Lü Bu, the strength is better than Guan Yu, although there are many exaggerated parts in the novel, but Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's ability is still very strong, but the ink left in history is not a lot, especially Ma Chao, who has not been reused in his life.