Zhao Yun in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as one of the Five Tiger Generals, in the book described the Dao Ying Martial Spirit, not only high martial arts and not as rough as Zhang Fei, but handsome and handsome, Zhao Yun's role has always been loved by people in the Three Kingdoms, but the real Changshan Zhao Zilong is not as heroic as described in the book.
Zhao Yun was one of the twelve courtiers of the Shu Han side during the Three Kingdoms period, but although he was ranked here, he and the other eleven ministers in office were much different from the official titles, which is a very worthy of consideration, why Zhao Yun obviously has seniority and experience in the front, but the gains are not as much as others, on this issue, this article will explore Zhao Yun's life from a real historical point of view.
As we all know, Zhao Yun was not a military general in Liu Bei's camp at the beginning, and Zhao Yun initially belonged to the Fenwu general Gongsun Zhan because when Gongsun Zhan sent Liu Bei to follow him to capture Qingzhou, he temporarily planned Zhao Yun into Liu Bei's camp, and it was also from then on that Zhao Yun was appointed by Liu Bei as the main horse, it can be said that Zhao Yun's seniority and seniority in the Shu Han army were extremely high, only second only to Guan Yu Zhang Fei, who was married to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was promoted to Pingyuan Xiang for his military merits in the campaign to capture Qingzhou, and at the same time Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were promoted to be in charge of the army by Sima of other departments, but Zhao Yun, who also received great military merits in the campaign, was not rewarded. In the third year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao recommended Liu Bei as a general of the left, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were also promoted to generals of Zhonglang, but Zhao Yun was once again forgotten. Later, Cao Cao ordered Liu Bei to go to Xuzhou to fight Against Yuan Shu, it is reasonable to say that at that time Liu Bei was fighting in the south and the north, and he experienced countless battles everywhere, and the heroic and divine Zhao Yun could not have no place to show, and it was impossible to have not obtained the battle merits that could make him promote, so the only explanation for this was that Liu Bei left Zhao Yun by his side as a bodyguard at that time, and he had no chance to charge and kill the enemy at all.
Zhao Yun was able to maneuver in jian'an for thirteen years, when Cao Cao had already annexed a large number of prefectures and counties, and had also defeated the yuan father and son, who had unprecedented power for a time, and appointed himself as a chancellor, and began to conquer Jingzhou. Liu Bei was beaten by Cao Cao and fled, but when he absconded out of the city, he was chased by Cao Cao's cavalry, and had to leave his wife and children to flee alone, at this time it was Zhao Yun who killed seven times in the human formation before he brought Ah Dou to Liu Bei, in order to thank Zhao Yun's kindness, after Liu Bei captured Jingzhou, he promoted Zhao Yun to general, and only then did Zhao Yun really have the army under his command.
In the sixteenth year of Jian'an, Liu Zhang invited Liu Zhang to start a crusade against Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, leaving the military masters Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu and others to stay in Jingzhou, and at this time Zhao Yun was also replanned under the command of the military master Zhuge Liang and sent by him. The following year Liu Bei began to attack Liu Zhang to the south, wanting to take Yizhou, in this battle as a military division Zhuge Liang basically did not participate in the use of military strategy, basically by Zhang Fei as the command, from this point of view, Zhang Fei's status at that time was on a par with the military master Zhuge Liang, at least not under Zhuge Liang's control, and Zhao Yun was under Zhuge Liang, from this point it can also be seen that Zhao Yun's status is much lower than Zhang Fei Guan Yu, the biggest reason for this may be because Zhao Yun did not follow Liu Bei at the beginning.