When I watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" when I was a child, the deepest impression was the single challenge between the military generals.
When the two armies faced each other, the soldiers stuck their ground, and the warriors of both sides rushed out to fight. It gives the impression that as long as one side of the military general is defeated, the soldiers can only play a role in pursuing the enemy after the general has won.
Later, I learned that this was not the truth, otherwise wouldn't the side with the famous generals win every battle, and the victory would be so simple?
However, it can be concluded that the single challenge of the military general is completely non-existent, which is also too biased, and there are still things that the historical warriors have singled out, but it is not as dramatic as in the novel, and the number of occurrences is much less.
The wars of xia shang zhou are rarely recorded in detail, and it is not clear whether there are single heads. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a duel between generals, and the main weapon of battle at that time was a chariot, and the generals of both sides sat in the chariot to command, and the battle between the chariot and the chariot would cause the generals of the two armies to fight.
For example, in the Spring and Autumn Left Biography, the twelfth year of Xuangong's record: "Peng ming yu left guang, bent to the right." Yi Di, Wang multiplied Zuo Guang to chase Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan abandoned the car and walked into the forest, bending and beating, and got his armor. "This was a battle between King Zhuang of Chu and the general of the Jin army, Zhao Xu, in the great battle between Jin and Chu, and Zhao suffered defeat and abandoned the car and fled. This is somewhat different from the single head-to-head in the rendition, but it can also be regarded as a duel between martial generals.
Sima Qian also wrote in the Xiang Yu Benji of the "Records of History": "King Xiang said that the King of Han said: 'Those who are several years old in the world, the disciples are willing to challenge the King of Han, decide between male and female, and do not suffer the father and son of the people of the world. The King of Han smiled and said, "I would rather fight with wisdom than with strength." 'Xiang Wang ordered the brave men to challenge.
Han you are good at riding archer Lou Fu, Chu challenges the triad, and Lou Fu kills him. King Xiang was furious and challenged himself with a sword. Lou was annoyed to shoot it, Xiang Wang was angry, Lou was annoyed and did not dare to look, his hand did not dare to send, so he walked back into the wall and did not dare to come back. ”
Xiang Yu proposed to go head-to-head with Liu Bang, but Liu Bang did not have to gently shirk the matter, making what might become the most famous head-to-head duel in history a bubble. But this also reflects that head-to-head is still a form of combat recognized by the ancients. Later, Xiang Yu also sent a strong man to challenge, and as a result, he was killed three times by the Han army's Zhonglou annoying warriors, and Xiang Yu personally went out on horseback to scare him away. This is a more in line with the form of the single head.
There are countless singles in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but this is not the case in the real history, the Three Ying Battle Lü Bu is fake, and Guan Yu Zhan Huang Zhong is also fake.
But there is really a very detailed description, that is, the battle between Sun Ce and Tai Shi Ci at Shenting Ridge, and the biography of Tai Shi Ci in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms writes: "Shi Du and a pawn met strategy. Ce cong riding thirteen, all Han Dang, Song Qian, Huang Gai generation also. Ci Ben fought forward and was facing ce. If you stab the horse, and if you get the mercy, you will also get the sword. The two families rode and rode and went separately, so they disbanded. Sun Ce and Tai Shi Ci met by chance, and the two fought sun ce and grabbed Tai Shi Ci's hand, and Tai Shi Ci snatched Sun Ce's helmet, and when their respective armies came up, they scattered, which was almost as strange as said in the speech.
Later, in the "History of the Five Dynasties", it is also described that Later Tang Yong singled out Zhou Dewei and people: "Liu Shouguang ordered Xiao to be shan Ting? Overseer Jia ten thousand people to fight, Dewei met the dragon head gang. At the beginning, Ting said left and right: 'Capture Zhou Yang Wu today.' 'When he was in the battle, he saw Dewei, and Tingdan rode his gun and chased after Dewei, and when he fell, Dewei sidestepped him, Ting Shao retreated, and Dewei Fennan fell on his horse, and the ting was born, and the thief party was defeated. "The lord will single-handedly capture the opponent's main general, causing the other side to lose, which is still rare in history."
More famous than this is the Tang Dynasty Xue Rengui's "Three Arrows Fixing the Heavenly Mountain, and the Heroes And Long Songs Into hanguan." The New Book of Tang records that Xue led his troops to attack the Nine Surname Turks, "When the Nine Surnames were more than 100,000 people, ordered Xiao to ride dozens of horses to challenge, Ren Guifa three arrows, killed three people, so he was intimidated and fell." "More than 100,000 enemies surrendered because the challenge warriors sent out were shot by Xue three, and this battle was won too easily, no wonder it was a hymn.
Previously, Xue also had a head-to-head action when he was marching on Goryeo: "Battle hengshan, Rengui alone, all shots should be chores." He also fought in Shicheng, there were good shooters, killed more than ten officers and soldiers, benevolent and angry, single-horse assault, thieves and bows were destroyed, and they were captured. It seems that this General Xue da likes to play this hand very much, and always succeeds.
Although all kinds of forms of military generals have appeared in history, this is after all too risky, and the generals who "do not stand under the dangerous wall" usually have no choice but to choose this style of play. It can be said that there was a single challenge to the Fa, and the role played was not critical, far less magical than in the interpretation.