During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao was known as the world's first tyrant, although Cao Cao's personality was quite cunning, but Cao Cao had the excellent qualities of an emperor. When Cao Cao treated talents, he often treated corporals with courtesy, so it can be said that there are endless martial generals under Cao Cao's account. But if we want to talk about cao cao's number 1 foreign general, then we have to mention it.
In fact, in history, many people do not know the courage of Yu Ban, and the most unsuccessful battle in Yu Ban's life should belong to the Battle of Xiangfan, and since then Yu Ban has also disappeared in the long river of history. The Battle of Xiangfan can be said to be the most unsuccessful battle in Yu Ban's life, and it is also the Battle of Waterloo in his life.
But before the Battle of Xiangfan, Yu Ban could be said to be a close general under Cao Cao's account, and he was the left general at that time. In Cao Cao's army, Yu Ban's position was only below Xiahou Chun, and others never paid attention to them. We must know that Cao Ren was a descendant of Cao Cao, but in the Cao camp, Yu Ban's status was far higher than that of Cao Ren at the beginning.
After the Battle of Xiangfan, Yu Ban's position changed drastically, because he surrendered to Guan Yu at the Battle of Xiangfan, and later, he was not reused under Guan Yu's account. When Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, Yu Ban surrendered to Sun Quan, and later Sun Quan could be said to be very gracious to Yu Ban, but later, Liu Bei sent a large army to attack the State of Wu to avenge Guan Yu.
In order to win Cao Pi over, Sun Quan returned Yu Ban to the State of Wei, and Cao Pi's attitude toward Yu Ban has always been very indifferent, and he has constantly humiliated Yu Ban, and Yu Ban died in the second half of this humiliating life. However, if in history, Yu Ban did not participate in the Battle of Xiangfan, then we can imagine that after Cao Pi ascended the throne, Yu Ban's status was still as unattainable as before.
There were five sons of the Wei state, and if there had been no Battle of Xiangfan, Yu Ban would have been one of the five sons of liang. At this time, we can't help but think about a question, when Guan Yu surrounded Xiangyang and Fancheng, there were many generals under Cao Cao's command, why not send others to support Cao Ren? And let yu ban to wade into muddy waters.
Generally speaking, when many people analyze this problem, everyone thinks that Cao Cao is very trusting of the forbidden army to rescue the forbidden soldiers, and the success of Cao Ren's breakthrough is a sure thing. But what we tell you in this article is that Cao Cao must have been sent to ban Cao Ren in the first place, because in the whole Cao camp, either some of the military generals were not qualified, or some of the military generals were out of the battle or there were other things.
At that time, Cao Cao had no generals to adjust, although Cao Cao still had Xiahou Chun by his side, but Xiahou Chun was his defense force, and if he led the army to pull out, then Cao Cao's life would be threatened. At this time, Cao Cao could only set his sights on the forbidden body, although Cao Cao had many generals, but throughout the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao generally belonged to the four-sided conquest.
Cao Cao had to defend Sun Quan and Guan Yu on the eastern and southern fronts, and Liu Bei on the western front, cao Cao's regime belonged to the north, and in Chinese history, ethnic minorities in the north frequently invaded the Chinese border. Therefore, Cao Cao had to send a large army to guard the ethnic minorities, and many of the generals belonged to a busy state of work and could not send troops to rescue Cao Ren.
At the same time, cao cao still had several generals at his side, but these few people were not suitable, such as Xu Chu, the first fierce general under Cao Cao. Xu Chu was only a general, but he was not a handsome man, he could not lead the troops to fight at all, he was at best a fierce general who charged into the battlefield. Cao Hong Cao Zhen Cao Xiu all three of them belonged to the clan, and these three people were not only not qualified enough, but they also did not have the ability to save Cao Ren.
At that time, Cao Cao's men must be unscrupulous, and he could only pin his hopes on Ban's body, so in this case, Cao Cao had no other choice but to let Yu Ban lead the army to save people. However, the Battle of Xiangfan was the nightmare of his life for Yu Ban, and since the Battle of Xiangfan, Yu Ban's entire life had been in decline.
Conclusion: Imagine what a scenery yu ban was in those days, but people's fate is often so magical, through one thing will make their fate completely turn. Yu Ban and the historical Napoleon have a lot of similarities, these two people have a battle in their lives, the difference is that Napoleon he is consistent, Yu Ban finally surrendered to the enemy army, if at the beginning, Yu Ban did not surrender to Guan Yu, may be his own fate is much better.