In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", because Dong Zhuo chaotic dictatorship, bullying the Son of Heaven, and killing innocents indiscriminately, the princes of the world deeply hated him. In order to get rid of Dong Zhuo, the Eighteenth Route princes allied against Dong Zhuo.
At that time, Dong Zhuo had the general Lü Bu under his account, but at the beginning. Dong Zhuo did not let Lü Bu resist the combined forces of the princes, but asked Hua Xiong to lead his troops to resist.
Not to mention, Hua Xiong was really powerful, and before the two armies were in front, he killed Yu Shi and "General" Pan Feng in a row, which could be described as a full limelight.
At that time, the two fierce generals of The Three Armies under Yuan Shao's account, Yan Liang and Wen Ugly, were not there, so the combined forces of the princes were once helpless against Hua Xiong.
At this moment, Guan Yu, who was not yet famous, asked to fight Huaxiong. At this time, although Guan Yu was not famous, he was very strong, and Hua Xiong met Guan Yu and only had the share of admitting it.
Guan Yu confronts Hua Xiong, and as a result, Hua Xiong is killed by Guan Yu. Cao Cao saw that Guan Yu had killed Hua Xiong and was very fond of Guan Yu.
At that time, Guan Yu was with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. Although Zhang Fei is also not famous, his martial arts are also very high, and he is not necessarily under Guan Yu.
Then, when HuaXiong flaunted his martial prowess in front of the battle, why didn't Zhang Fei fight?
First of all, in history, Huaxiong was killed after a big defeat in battle with Sun Jian, which means that the historical Huaxiong was not killed by Guan Yu.
Guan Yu chopped Huaxiong, on the other hand, only appeared in novels and literary works.
Why is the novel written like this!
It is to highlight Guan Yu's martial arts and personality.
After this battle, Guan Yu was immediately famous in the world by an unknown person.
In general, the novel focuses on highlighting Guan Yu here, which belongs to the writing method of literature and art.
Through this paragraph, it also paved the way for Cao Cao to think of Guan Yu and Guan Yu temporarily throwing himself into Cao Ying.
As for Zhang Fei, there are also places in the book that particularly highlight his martial arts. Like Guan Yu, he was also suddenly famous by an unknown person.
The place where Zhang Fei's martial arts were highlighted was that after Lü Bu flaunted his martial prowess in front of the combined forces of the princes, Zhang Fei looked down and went out to single out Lü Bu.
Of course, Lü Bu was too strong and was recognized as the first fierce general of the Three Kingdoms, so after Zhang Fei and Lü Bu fought dozens of rounds, Guan Yu and Liu Bei joined the battle group successively.
If you look at it this way, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei have the opportunity to perform when the combined forces of the princes are fighting Dong Zhuo. Therefore, it is understandable that Zhang Fei did not take the initiative to challenge Huaxiong.