The Five Tiger Generals were actually fabricated in Luo Guanzhong's novel, in fact, there were only four generals before and after, Zhao Yun was not among them, Zhao Yun was seven in and seven out, Changsakapo saved Ah Dou, it can be said that the fight was dark, why did the first-class generals under Cao Cao's command not appear in battle at that time?
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is recorded that when Liu Bei fled, he took a full hundred thousand people with him to flee for his life, and the speed of the people's march was very slow, which made Liu Bei's troops have to slow down to protect the people. During the Three Kingdoms period, the people were the primary productive force, whether it was grain and grass, or conquest, it needed a large number of people, which is why Liu Bei fled with the people. Cao Cao led an army of 500,000 to pursue liu bei, and Liu Bei was forced to leave his wife and son to continue to flee for his life, while Zhao Yun reflexively attacked the rebel army and rescued Ah Dou seven times in and seven out. During this period, xiahou en was killed and obtained the Qingyi sword, repelling Zhang Guo, and killing dozens of military generals before and after.
However, these are just the fabrication of the novel, in the main history, Liu Bei escaped with only three thousand people, and Cao Cao let Cao Hong lead five thousand tigers and leopards to chase Liu Bei, in addition to no generals following Cao Cao's side, and Zhao Yun's seven in and seven out is only fabricated, in fact, it is difficult to rush in and kill again, the tiger and leopard riding is the strongest cavalry under Cao Cao, it can be said that with Liu Bei's strength at that time, even if it is twice as many people can not beat Cao Cao's tiger and leopard horse.
Zhao Yun did indeed rescue Liu Chan in this battle, but Liu Bei's two daughters were captured by Cao Hong, followed by Xu Shu's mother was also captured by Cao Hong, which is why Xu Shu later left Liu Bei and went to Cao Camp. Although Zhao Yun did not kill many generals, after this campaign, he was also highly praised by Liu Bei and appointed as the "General of Yamen". Cao Cao's fierce generals such as Xu Chu, Zhang Gao, Yu Ban, Xiahou Brothers, and others, why didn't these people join the battlefield? In fact, at that time, Liu Bei was simply insignificant to Cao Cao, Liu Bei was just a dog leg under the fence at this time, Cao Cao personally went out on the expedition was already a great importance, as for sending his fierce generals out again, it would really be too high to look up to Liu Bei.
Secondly, cao cao's military generals had other things to do, at that time, Liu Bei was not the biggest threat, Cao Cao's dream was to unify the world, Sun Quan of Jiangdong defeated Huang Zu in kaichun and obtained a large area of land, Sun Quan's power at this time was only a little smaller than Cao Cao's, Sun Quan was Cao Cao's biggest threat, there were also foreign invasions in the north, most of Cao Cao's personnel had to go to the town to guard the frontier and prevent the attack of Eastern Wu, naturally there was not much time to pursue liu Bei.