Shu Han had five tiger generals, Cao Wei had five sons and good generals, and Eastern Wu had twelve tiger ministers, and the strength of these three top teams in the three kingdoms should be comparable, which led to the establishment of the three kingdoms - if one side had a crushing advantage, it would have been three points into one.
The ranking order of the Five Tiger Generals of the Shu Han Dynasty is led by Guan Yu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the following are Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong, and guan Yu is the first in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Volume 36", followed by Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, and Zhao Yun.
The sayings of the Five Sons of Cao Wei and the Twelve Tiger Ministers of Jiang Biao are found in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 17 and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 55, respectively, in the order of "Zhang, Le, Yu, Zhang, Xu" and "Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, and Ding".
The Twelve Tiger Ministers of JiangBiao were headed by Cheng Pu, which was not disputed by everyone, because during the Battle of Chibi, Cheng Pu and Zhou Yu were the governors of the left and right, which was higher than the ranks of the other eleven.
Guan Yu is the first of the Five Tiger Generals, Cheng Pu is the leading tiger among the Twelve Tiger Ministers, these two bosses are deserved, but whether the head of the Five Sons of Liang is Yu Ban or Zhang Liao, there is a lot of controversy, every time the author writes "Zhang Liao's Head of the Five Sons of Liang Generals", there are many readers in the comment area who remind or ask: "Did you reverse the position of Yu Ban and Zhang Liao?" ”
There are more readers questioning, the author is also vague, every time I have to go through the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", see zhang Liao is still in the first place, this is to put at ease: it turns out that I did not "make common sense mistakes."
The author has always been a reader as a teacher, the reader's comments have also given me a lot of inspiration, sometimes the reader's comments are a good title of an article, as long as the relevant materials are organized, it is possible to form a explosive article.
In order to verify whether the head of the Five Sons liang is Zhang Liao or Yu Ban, the author went through the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", carefully counted the number of times the two appeared in Cao Cao's benji, and then compared their battle achievements, it seems that a conclusion can be drawn: taking military merit as the criterion for judging, whether the head of the five sons of liang is Zhang Liao or Yu Ban should not have been controversial in the first place.
Without looking at it, I was shocked to see: in Cao Cao's camp, the five sons of Liang were actually not the most senior military generals, and above the five sons of Liang, there were also two Cao Er Xiahou, that is, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Huan, and Xiahou Yuan, the highest status of these four people was Xiahou Huan, and the five sons of Liang generals fought under the command of Er Cao Er Xiahou most of the time, even if Yu Ban was the left general of the False Festival, during the Battle of Xiangfan, he had to listen to the command of the false Jie zhengnan general Cao Ren.
Pound De was not Yu Ban's general, and before Yu Ban led the Seventh Army to Fancheng, Pound Was already a subordinate of Cao Ren: "Hou Yin, Wei Kai, etc. rebelled against Wan, and general De led Cao Ren to attack and pull out Wan, cut the sound, open, Sui Nan Tun Fan, and beg Guan Yu." Fan Xia's generals were suspicious of Brother De in Hanzhong. De Chang said: 'I have received the grace of the nation, and righteousness is in death.' I want to shoot myself. This year I will not kill Yu, Yu should kill me. ’”
Those who doubted Pound were not the high-ranking generals around Cao Cao, and Pound expressed his loyalty and could only tell Cao Ren. Where Pang De was stationed in Fancheng, he was ordered by Cao Ren to be defeated in the water, and he also wanted to run to Cao Ren: "Ren made Detun Fan north of ten miles, there would be more than ten days of rain in the sky, the Han River overflowed, Fan xia was flat for five or six zhang, and De and the generals avoided the water embankment... De and his generals, two of them, bent their bows and arrows, and took a small boat to return to The Ren Camp. ”
In this way, capturing The Forbidden and the Beheading of Pound are two different things, Pound was captured by Guan Yu, and the black cauldron should not be carried because of the prohibition, so the charge of "jealousy of Xian's ability" can be cleared up - he and Pound are not subordinate to each other, and they are not qualified to restrain them.
Yu Ban did not pit Pound, and joined Cao Cao's camp significantly earlier than Zhang Liao: when the Yellow Turban Army was in trouble, Yu Ban had already joined the troops of Bao Xin of Jibei, Cao Cao occupied Yanzhou, and Yu Ban led his men and horses to Cao Cao, and was placed under the command of the general Wang Lang, who was scolded to death by Zhuge Liang in the novel.
In Wang Lang's eyes, Yu Ban was a great general, and on Wang Lang's recommendation, Yu Ban became a red man under Cao Cao, and he really fought a series of victorious battles: "The general will attack Xuzhou, attack Guangqi, pull it out, and worship Chen (Jin) Du Wei." From Lü Bu to Puyang, don't break the second battalion in the south of the city, and don't break the elegance in Xuchang. From attacking Shou Zhang, Ding Tao, leaving the fox, encircling Zhang Chao in Yongqiu, all pulled it out... Therefore, he banned the work before and after and sealed the Marquis of Yishouting. Fu from the attack Zhang embroidered in The Ring, the bird Lü Bu in the lower Pi, do not with Shi Zhuo, Cao Ren attack solid in the shooting dog, break it. ”
After reading Yu Ban's resume, we know that before Zhang Liao surrendered to Cao Cao, Yu Ban had already been made a marquis, and his status in Cao Ying was much higher than that of Zhang Liao.
If according to the Sui and Tang dynasty military merit system, Yu Ban had already made up enough "Twelve Turns of Ce Xun" and was eligible to be crowned as a pillar state.
For a long time, Yu Ban's ranking was in front of Zhang Liao, and he was also the only one among the five ziliang generals to fake the festival as a general of the Four Directions: "Forbidden to be a famous general with Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huangju, and Taizu was rewarded with special rewards whenever he marched, Xian handed over to the army, and also refused; and the prohibition of military order, thief and property, no private entry, by the reward is particularly heavy." ”
At that time, Cao Cao also had a headache general, that is, Yuan Shao's old department, Zhu Ling, who briefly belonged to Liu Bei's command after surrendering to Cao Cao: "Taizu often hated Zhu Ling and wanted to take his camp. With the prohibition of power, the forbidden will ride dozens of horses, the book of orders, and the spirit camp to seize its army, and the spirit and its people will not dare to move; but the spirit is the governor of the forbidden subordinates, and all the people are shocked, and they are afraid of it. General Qianzuo, false jieyu, divided into five hundred households, and sealed a son of a marquis. ”
The crock pot is not broken from the well, and the general will inevitably die before the battle. Yu Ban, who had been smooth sailing all the way, planted a big heel in Fancheng, not only was he defeated and captured, but he also lost very faceless and spineless, and even Cao Cao expressed sadness and disappointment: "I know that the prohibition has been forbidden for thirty years, and I don't mean to be in danger, but it is better than Pound's evil!" ”
With Cao Cao's comment, even if Yu You cexun turned twenty-four times, it was impossible to rank first among the five sons of Liang generals--he could be the same as Zhang Liao, Lejin, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huang, and only after Zhang Liao Lejin, but also before Zhang Liao' Xu Huang, it was already Chen Shou who made an exception.
So some readers gave this evaluation: If Yu Ban did not defeat Fan Cheng, or died a little bit after the defeat of the soldiers, it would be the first place of the proper Five Sons of Liang, and Zhang Liao could only rank second.
History can be assumed, but it is difficult to change, in the author's opinion, even if Yu Ban has no record of defeat and surrender, he is not the head of the five sons of liang generals - Yu Ban has a character defect, not as good as Zhang Liao, and the credit does not seem to be Zhang Liao.
Yu Ban is like a flashlight, only knows how to illuminate the shortcomings of others, which is called "punishing others strictly and treating oneself leniently", and the popularity in Cao Ying is very bad: "Under the emperor of Ephraim, he is not very popular with the people." ”
Yu forbidden to hunt and kill the Qingzhou soldiers who were under the control of Xiahou Huan, that may be strict law enforcement, he killed his old friend Chang Feng, that is a typical killing friend to seek glory: "Chang Feng rebelled, and sent ban on conscription." Forbidden to attack the pig; the pig and the forbidden are old, and the prohibition is forbidden to descend. All the generals thought that the slug had fallen, and when they sent taizu, they forbade it: 'The kings do not know the common order!' Those who surround and descend will not be forgiven. The husband obeys the law and does the order, and the matter is also the festival. Although the old friend, it is forbidden to lose control! 'Self-advent and the fall of the devil, and the fall of the weep and the slaughter of it.' ”
Chang Feng surrendered, Yu Ban should escort him to Cao Cao according to the regulations to listen to the fall, Yu Ban in order to show loyalty to Cao Cao, arbitrarily advocated killing this old friend, and also faked a few tears, this is too much, even Cao Cao can't help but sigh: "Feng Surrender does not obey me and returns to the forbidden, is it not fate!" ”
When Pei Songzhi saw this historical material, he also expressed contempt for the prohibition: "Although the law does not forgive after the siege and then surrenders; the prisoner sends it without disobeying the order." Forbidden not to hope for the old friends, but to wantonly kill their hearts, in order to kill the opinions of the people, so the pawn is a prisoner, death and evil, it is advisable. ”
There is an explanation for the fa: "Killing innocents is strong; tyranny without relatives is known as strong; cruel and rude is known as fierce; supporting evil and violating righteousness is strong; and long tongue is evil and evil is strong." Yu's forbidden title is strong, which can be said to be well deserved--this really has little to do with his surrender to Guan Yu, and if he wants to give him a nickname based on his surrender on his knees, it should be the nickname "Miao" or "Wish": "Name and Reality Shuang Yue Miao; Hurting People And Covering People and Covering People and Hurting GoodNess Miao." Thinking thickly and unhappily wishing; weak without determination; defeating chaos without limiting wishes; forgetting morality and losing etiquette; soft without determination to wish. ”
No matter what Yu Ban's nickname is, his undignified surrender is an indelible stain, and Zhang Liao and Guan Yu, who are also generals, seem to have more face, and if we look at the history, we will find that Zhang Liao was not captured and surrendered, but took the initiative to submit: "Taizu broke Lü Bu in Xia Pi, Liao lowered his people, worshiped the general Zhonglang, and gave him the title of Marquis of Guannei." ”
If we look closely at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", we will find that Zhang Liao can firmly rank first among the five sons and good generals with only two major battle achievements, and we can even say that Zhang Liao's battle achievements are not weaker than Guan Yu's flooded Seventh Army.
In the Battle of the White Wolf Mountain to defend the country, Zhang Liao played a mighty role in the Han army: "From the conquest of Yuan Shangyu in Liucheng, the pawn and the prisoner, the Liao persuaded Taizu to fight, the qi was very strong, the Taizu was strong, and he thought that he was holding the Liao." Strike, break it, and chop it up. ”
Zhang Liao broke through 100,000, killing Eastern Wu Xiao'er did not dare to cry at night, this matter readers all know, he beat Sun Quan, one of the three giants of the Three Kingdoms, to shrink his head and legs and turn his stomach: "Liao was held by a sword, first ascended to the battlefield, killed dozens of people, beheaded the second general, shouted his own name, rushed in, and came under Quan's command." Quan was horrified, and the crowd did not know what to do, so he went up to the high tomb and defended himself with a long sword. Liao Lingquan fought under the power, and the right did not dare to move... Liao Fu also broke through and pulled out the remnants. The powers-that-be are invincible, and there are no one who dares to do it. ”
Sun Quan was not a good stubble, he even dared Guan Yu to pit, even the tiger dared to fight, but in the face of Zhang Liao, who wielded a long sword and scolded, he did not even have the courage to return his mouth, and many years later, Cao Pi still remembered: "In the Battle of Hefei, Liao and Dian used eight hundred infantry pawns, 100,000 thieves, and used soldiers since ancient times. ”
When we went to the WuMiao Temple to take a look, we knew that the Wei Zhengdong general Marquis Zhang Liao of Jinyang was higher than the former Shu general Han Shouting Marquis Guan Yu, the Wu General Nanjun Taishou Zhouyu, and the Wu Xiang Lou Marquis LuXun.
In such a comparison, the reader Zhujun understands everything: whether it is military merit or fame and backbone, Yu Ban is far inferior to Zhang Liao, and it would be good if he could be selected as the Five Sons Liang General, if he wanted to be the head of the Five Sons Liang General, he would have to kill himself in Jingzhou to become a ren - this is the problem that the readers should consider: If Yu Ban is captured by Guan Yu and dies like Pound De, will he suppress Zhang Liao, and rank first among the Five Sons of Liang?