"Affection and nostalgia, who can worry about it?" With Xuan Xuan's sills looking at him from afar, he opened his placket towards the north wind. The plains are far away and extremely dazzling, hiding the high cen of the Jingshan Mountains. The road is long and the road is repaired, and the river is both deep and deep. The sad old town is separated, and the snot is falling and forbidden. The father of Xeno is in Chen Xi, and there is a sigh of return. Zhong Yi is quiet and Chu Playing, Zhuang Yi is manifest and more chanting, and human feelings are the same as those of Huai Tu Xi, and they are poor and have different hearts."
This is a famous sentence in Wang Yue's heirloom "Denglou Fu" during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. Wang Cang, born in 177, died in 217, a native of Gaoping, Shanyang County, was a famous writer and scholar in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and a leading figure in the literary genre "Jian'an Seven Sons" at the end of the Han Dynasty, known as the "Crown of the Seven Sons".
Wang Cang was born into a family of officials and eunuchs, and his great-grandfather Wang Gong and grandfather Wang Chang were all important courtiers of the Han Dynasty who ranked as the third duke. Wang Yue's family has a long history of study, and his literary talent is outstanding, and he was appreciated by Cai Yong, a famous scholar at that time, and became a famous talent very early. However, Wang Cangsheng was not in time, catching up with the chaotic three kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. Wang Cang's first job was as a waiter at the Yellow Gate of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but he was confronted by the rebellion of Li Daiguo. In order to avoid disaster, Wang Cang went south to Jingzhou and attached himself to Liu Biao, the mu of Jingzhou.
However, Liu Biao's vain name of pity for talent, but he took people by appearance, and when he saw Wang Cang," he "looked like he was sleeping and weak and weak", and his appearance was usually short and thin, and he did not attach importance to Wang Cang. In 207 AD, Cao Cao's army attacked Jingzhou from the south, and Liu Chun, the mu of Jingzhou, surrendered with his hands tied, and Wang Cang became Cao Cao's vassal at this time.
Cao Cao was not only a master of martial arts, but also a good writer, and the talented Wang Cang was like a fish in the water, and was successively appointed as a minister of military strategy, a military priest, and a waiter, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Guannei. Wang Yue met Zhiyin and devoted himself to his allegiance to Cao Cao, drafting and formulating various canonical systems and correspondence for Cao Cao, and became a heavy minister of Cao Wei. In 217 AD, Wang Cang accompanied Cao Cao on a expedition south, but unfortunately fell ill on the way.
Wang Cang wrote a lot of works in his lifetime, not only wrote a lot of poetry, but also he cared about current affairs, collected and sorted out some heroic figures and deeds of the time, and wrote a "Hero Record", also known as "Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty", which is one of the few historical materials in the Three Kingdoms period that "people of this dynasty wrote the history of this dynasty", which has extremely precious historical value. Later authoritative historical books such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Zizhi Tongjian have many contents referenced or directly taken from this book.
In "Heroes", the group of warriors of the Three Kingdoms is the focus of the description. Surprisingly, Wang Cang's view of them is very different from that of modern people. Zhang Fei is a first-class famous general of the Three Kingdoms in the minds of future generations, with both courage and bravery, and is invincible. But Zhang Fei in "Heroes" has a very general performance.
In the first year of Xingping, Xuzhou assassin Tao Qian died of illness, and before his death, he ceded Xuzhou to Liu Bei, and Tao Qian's old department also came under Liu Bei's command. Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to garrison Xia Pi and asked Cao Bao, Xu Tan, Zhang Chen, and others who were familiar with the local people's conditions to assist Zhang Fei. Who knew that Zhang Fei was grumpy and had a conflict with Tao Qian's old generals, and the two sides were like water and fire.
Xu Tan and the others then secretly sent emissaries to lü bu and asked lü bu to attack Xia Pi, and they were willing to act as internal responses. Lü Bu then marched through the night, arriving at Xia Pi at dawn, Xu Tan and others opened the city gates, allowing Lü Bu's soldiers and horses to enter the city smoothly and attack Zhang Fei's subordinates. Zhang Fei did not wake up like a dream until this time, helpless, had to flee into the wilderness, not only lost Pi, but also Liu Bei's wife and children in the city he did not care, and was captured alive by Lü Bu.
Not only is Zhang Fei's image very general, but Guan Yu, the god of war of the Three Kingdoms in the minds of later generations, was directly ignored by Wang Cang, and he failed to appear in the "Hero Record" and did not enter Wang Cang's eyes.
The true hero in Wang Cang's eyes was the fierce general Qi Yi under the northern warlord Yuan Shao. In "Heroes", the length of writing about other military generals is a few words, but the only thing about Qi Yi is unusually long.
The Battle of Qiyi's fame was the "Battle of Jieqiao" in the second year of Chuping (191), and the two sides involved in the war were Gongsun Zhan and Yuan Shao. The main force under Gongsun Zhan was the "White Horse Yicong", a cavalry unit that threatened the north, and the leader of this unit was stationed in northern Xinjiang for many years, fighting against the Nomadic cavalry such as the Qiang people and Xianbei, and was good at riding and shooting, and was extremely brave and brave, rarely encountering opponents.
Gongsun Zhan formed a phalanx with 20,000 infantry, and the "White Horse Yicong" was divided into 5,000 people on the left and right wings, "the banner armor, illuminating the heavens and the earth", the momentum was compelling. Yuan Shao's side sent the fierce general Qi Yi as the forward, and Qi Yi only carried eight hundred cavalry, shields and crossbows. Although these eight hundred people are small in number, they are well-trained and "all soldiers are sharp." Yuan Shao himself led tens of thousands of infantry to press the line.
At the beginning of the battle, Gongsun Zhan's "White Horse Yicong" took the lead in launching a charge, and the iron hooves moved to the ground, and the arrows were like rain, sweeping towards Qi Yi. However, His face did not change color, and he was as steady as Mount Tai, and ordered eight hundred soldiers to show their shields to form a shield array, and "all the soldiers did not move under the shield."
When the "White Horse Righteous Cong" approached within a distance of tens of steps, under the order of Qi Yi, eight hundred warriors put away their shields, took out their strong crossbows, and pulled the crossbow machine, "The strong crossbow thunders, and the middle will fall", shooting the "White Horse Yi Cong" position chaos. Qi Yi wasted no time in leading eight hundred people to immediately launch a charge, "at the same time, they all rose up, shouted in the dust, and clashed straight ahead", completely crushing the invincible "White Horse Yicong", Gongsun Zhan fled in a big defeat, and thus lost the strength to fight with Yuan Shao.
Unfortunately, such a rare fierce general as Yi Yi did not meet the Ming Lord, and was not tolerated by Yuan Shao, who was jealous of Xian's ability, and was later executed by Yuan Shao for treason. If Yi Yi could meet a monarch like Cao Cao Andi, he should also be able to become a famous general of the Three Kingdoms.
Reference: Heroes