We read all the lead to present a different history.
As we all know, Zhang Fei has been following Liu Bei to fight in the north and south since the "Taoyuan Jieyi", Zhang Fei engaged in pig killing for a living in his early years, and was brave and fierce in battle, together with Guan Yu and called "ten thousand enemies". Zhang Fei roared angrily on the slope of Changshan, frightening Cao Cao's million male masters. It is in response to that poem, "A thunderclap is like a thunderclap, retreating alone from the Cao family millions of soldiers." When Tiger Prison Pass fought with Lü Bu, he rushed to the front; under Xuzhou City, he fought with Lü Bu for a hundred rounds and still could not distinguish between victory and defeat. Zhang Feiwei's name can be described as a household name, but when it comes to his most classic battle, it is still necessary to count the scene on the slope of Nagasaka.
▲Zhang Fei stills
Liu Bei was chased by Cao Cao's army and fled in a hurry, only to see Zhang Fei stop and look at Cao Cao's army alone, and roared angrily at Cao Cao's army: "I am Zhang Yideye, a Yan man, who dares to fight me to the death?" For a time, the Cao army looked at each other above and below, and even the generals including Zhang Liao, Xiahou Chun, Xu Chu, and so on did not dare to fight. Why, in the face of Zhang Yide's provocation, did Cao Cao's generals dare not fight? In Zi Yuan's view, there are mainly the following reasons.
▲Cao Cao stills
First, Zhuge Liang had a similar plan before, and in the eyes of the Cao Army camp, Zhang Fei seemed to be alone, but it was very likely that he would use the strategy of doubtful soldiers again. After Liu Bei's defeat at Changshanpo, Zhao Yun rescued Ah Dou, who was trapped in Cao's camp, after seven in and seven outs, and Zhang Fei stood on the Dangyang Bridge with a knife and fought against Cao Jun alone. Everyone knows that Zhang Fei is not a reckless man, and daring to stand alone on the Dangyang Bridge to block a million Cao troops must be something to rely on - Zhang Fei knows that Cao Cao has many powerful people, so he leads more than twenty horses to tie branches to the tail of the horse, and the horses gallop by, and the dust suddenly flies, looking like thousands of horses.
▲"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms of Mao Pi"
Zhang Fei saw that the rear army of the Cao Army was moving, and there was a vague tendency to retreat, so he raised his spear and shouted: "War and no war, retreat and do not retreat, but why?" Only to see That Xiahou Jie around Cao Cao had a cracked liver and gallbladder, and died under his horse. Zhang Fei's voice was loud, like thunder, and the face of Cao Jun's generals changed greatly, and Cao Cao could not fail to see this, so he would consider the factor of morale. Moreover, Cao Cao's nature is suspicious, coupled with the experience of the fire of Bowangpo and Xinye, he still has residual palpitations.
▲Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang stills
Although Zhang Feisu's reckless approach in the day would definitely not have such a plan, considering that Zhuge Liang was in the army, Cao Cao had to consider whether Zhuge Liang would set up suspicious soldiers along the way, and the more Cao Cao thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he no longer had the courage to march. In the words of Mao Zonggang, "Yide crossed the sword on the bridge, and Cao Bing suspected that it was a trick to lure the enemy." If it weren't for Kong Ming's two fire attacks, which would have shattered Cao Bing's guts, Cao Cao might not have been so suspicious at that time. It was not so much that Cao Cao was afraid of Zhang Fei as he was afraid of Zhuge Liang.
▲Stills of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei
Secondly, the reason why Zhang Fei was able to scare off Cao Cao's million-strong army was also related to a sentence that Guan Yu told Cao Cao. On that day, Cao Cao saw Zhang Fei alone guarding the Dangyang Bridge, and then remembered that Guan Yu had once told Cao Cao that Zhang Fei could take the first rank of general in a million troops, which made Cao Cao even more afraid. Before the scene when Zhang Fei and Lü Bu were in the Great Battle of Hu Prison Pass, Cao Cao saw it with his own eyes, and Zhang Fei was no less fierce than Lü Bu. Guan Yu was originally an enemy of ten thousand people, and he was arrogant by nature, but he said that he was not Zhang Fei's opponent, and Cao Cao weighed it up comprehensively, which gave him the order to retreat. On this point, Mao Zonggang also made a comment: "Yi De drank and retired Cao Jun, if it were not for yun Chang's praise in the past, Cao Cao might not have been so afraid at that time." ”
Resources:
"Mao Zonggang Criticizes the Romance of the Three Kingdoms"