There has always been a lot of controversy about which of ma chao and Zhao Yun's force is strong, whether it is "one Lü two Zhao three Dianwei" or "one Lü two horses three Dianwei"? What supports Zhao Yun is basically the Battle of Changshanpo and the Battle of Hanshui in the middle of the interpretation to illustrate how strong Zhao Yun is, and those who support Ma Chao are either Cao Cao's beard and abandoning his robes at the Battle of Tongguan, or "Jin Lü bu, silver Horse Chao" to show that Ma Chao is only below Lü Bu.
These views are different, but the interpretation provides a more direct comparison that may be illustrative, that is, both have fought with Zhang Gao, and both have a clear number of rounds.
Let's quote the description in the following interpretation, first look at the confrontation between Zhao Yun and Zhang Gao, "Yun raised his horse and raised his gun, killed the rear team, and then came to the front army to fight Zhang Guo alone." Guo and Yun zhan for more than thirty years, and the horse was defeated", and then looked at the confrontation between Ma Chao and Zhang Gao, "Cao Cao was behind the forbidden to go out to meet." The two horses fought, and the eight or nine of the fighting were defeated and taken away. Zhang Gao came out to meet him, and the battle of twenty was also defeated."
From the description in the speech, it can be seen that Ma Chao quickly defeated Zhang Guo in 20 rounds, and Zhao Yun repelled Zhang Gao in more than 30 rounds. One look at Zhang Gao, two look at Yu Ban, three look at Li Dian, let's analyze it.
First, look at the battlefield situation, the Battle of Rangshan was a breakout battle, when Liu Bei was surrounded by Xu Chu, Yu Ban, Li Dian, Zhang Gao, and Gao Lan, and the battle began from dark and fought until dawn, "Zhao Yun raised his spear and prancing horse, killing a road, Xuan De's double-stranded sword followed by "Zhao Yun is the pioneer of the road, and" Xu Chu chased after him and fought with Zhao Yunli. Behind the ban, Li Dian arrived again. Xuande saw the danger and walked away in the wilderness."
The reason why Liu Bei was able to escape was because Zhao Yun alone blocked Xu Chu Yu Ban and Li Dian, so Zhao Yun was a huge physical exertion in successive battles before fighting Zhang Gao, and the opponents he encountered were Xu Chu, Yu Ban, Li Dian, and Gao Lan, who were not the generals under Cao Cao's command, which was the battlefield situation of Zhao Yun and Zhang Hao.
Ma Chao was different, he came straight to kill, before encountering Zhang Hao, he did not encounter a strong opponent like Xu Chu, it was only Yu Ban who was not outstanding in force, and there was no war of attrition before, it was the time of full energy, so although he was also facing Zhang Gao, ma Chao obviously took advantage of him in terms of physical strength.
Second, let's take a look at Zhang Gao again, Zhang Guo in the interpretation is obviously a bit sleek, specifically he is very good at judging the situation, when the situation is favorable to him, he will be very active such as the Battle of Rangshan, when the battlefield situation was extremely favorable to Zhang Gao, Liu Bei was already under siege, there was Gao Guan after Zhang Gao, Xu Chuyu and others were also chasing after him, Liu Bei was cornered and almost drew his sword to kill himself, Zhang Gao saw that the situation was favorable, and maybe he could make a great effort to capture Liu Bei and make a great contribution. Therefore, his defeat to Zhao Yun for more than thirty rounds was likely to leave no room.
When the situation is unfavorable to himself, Zhang Gao's choice is to be able to hide and hide, the Battle of Tongguan is like this against Ma Chao, eight or nine rounds to defeat Yu Ban Zhang Gao that is in the eyes, under the trial of the situation, Zhang Gao believes that he is far from Ma Chao's opponent, and he can't make a hard encounter with the arrogant Ma Chao, so after twenty rounds of looking almost retreated (otherwise it is difficult to explain why Cao Hong's ability is against Ma Chao forty or fifty rounds).
There may be a slight gap in the strength between the five tiger generals, but the gap is by no means so big, so Ma Chao defeated Zhang Guo in 20 rounds, and Zhao Yun defeated Zhang Gao in more than 30 rounds, not that Zhao Yun's strength was so much worse than Ma Chao (a few rounds of master duels can determine victory or defeat, and the gap of more than a dozen rounds is quite large for Zhao Yun Ma Chao), but it is related to the battlefield situation they are facing and Zhang Guo's attitude towards the enemy.
However, after all, there are still more than a dozen rounds of the gap there, even if the above factors are taken into account, Zhao Yun's strength should still be slightly inferior to Ma Chao; in addition to Zhang Gao, Li Dian and Yu Ban are also relatively good reference objects: Li Dian has supported more than a dozen rounds of active retreat under Zhao Yun, and the defeat to Ma Chao in eight or nine rounds with Li Dian's strength seems to be more telling, so the long-standing "one Lu two horses and three DianWei" is still more convincing.