In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is no fixed ranking of warriors, and they can only be roughly determined according to their performance. However, the state of the warriors in the interpretation is not fixed, sometimes it will be better, sometimes it will be worse, similar to the difference between the peak period and the trough period, so the performance of different periods is very different, so it is easy to misunderstand when comparing.
For example, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun have both fought with Wen Ugly. Among them, Zhao Yun and Wen Ugly fought for fifty or sixty rounds without winning or losing, while Guan Yu killed Wen Ugly in three rounds and ran away timidly. Judging from this result alone, it seems that Guan Yu is much stronger than Zhao Yun.
But we must also see that Zhao Yun and Wen Ugly fought a draw in the Battle of Panhe, and the book says that Zhao Yun at this time was just a teenager, plus he had just come out of the mountain and lacked actual combat experience, and obviously did not reach his peak. If it is Zhao Yun in the Changsakapo period to wen ugly, then it is likely that he will have the upper hand.
And Guan Yu was able to kill Wen Ugly in three rounds, first of all, because at this time, Guan Yu was not only at the peak of his martial arts, but also had the Red Rabbit Horse Bonus, which was indeed stronger than Wen Ugly. Secondly, the previous Battle of the White Horse Guan Yu had just killed Yan Liang, who was equally famous as Wen Ugly, and Wen Ugly was timid when he confronted Guan Yu, which affected the play. The third is that Wen Ugly had just been caught in Cao Cao's plan, and was surrounded by Cao Jun, and when he fought with Guan Yu, there was Xu Huang on the side, which also caused him to have no intention of fighting for a long time.
If it is a fair fight, according to the two conditions of Wen Qiu and Yan Liang, and can defeat Xu Huang, even if his martial arts are worse than Guan Yu's, then it will not be too bad, and he can fight for one or two hundred rounds. Therefore, from a comprehensive point of view, guan yu and Zhao Yun's martial arts are also equal.
Similarly, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong.
After Liu Bei captured Luocheng at the Battle of Yizhou, Liu Zhang asked Zhang Lu for help. Zhang Lu ordered Ma Chao to attack Ye Mengguan and threaten Liu Bei's rear road. When Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang discussed who to send, they both believed that only Zhang Fei or Zhao Yun could fight with Ma Chao. At this time, Huang Zhong was by Liu Bei's side, but he was directly ignored and ignored, which also made it easy to think that Huang Zhong was worse than Ma Chao.
But we must also see that Huang Zhong was nearly sixty years old when he appeared, and he had already passed his peak. Moreover, when Huang Zhong died in the Battle of Wu later, he was already seventy-five years old. In this way, huang Zhong was already sixty and eight, almost seventy, and obviously his physical strength had dropped a lot compared to when he fought Guan Yu in Changsha.
With such a large number of veterans, it is also reasonable that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are not at ease to let him fight ma Chao, who is young and powerful. If According to Huang Zhong's sixty-year-old can still fight with Guan Yu for hundreds of rounds without falling behind, even if his level at the peak of his prime is conservative, it should be enough to match Ma Chao.
Judging from the performances of Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Ma Chao in the comprehensive performance, if they are all at their peak, then the martial arts are very good, and the gap between them is not large, and they can be regarded as top-level super-first-class fierce generals.
In the rendition, even if the martial arts are one level behind, it often takes more than thirty or fifty rounds to divide the victory and defeat. As for the same level of fighting, it is often difficult to score a hundred or two hundred rounds.
Moreover, Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Ma Chao all have records of fighting for a long time.
For example, when Guan Yu fought Huang Zhong in Changsha and Fancheng against Pound, he fought more than a hundred rounds. In addition to Huang Zhong and Guan Yu fighting lily, he was already more than seventy years old at the Battle of Beishan later, and it was still the case that zhang Guo and Xu Huang were fighting for most of the day, and there were also two hundred rounds. Ma Chaoweihe fought against Xu Chu and Ye Mengguan against Zhang Fei, and fought for more than two hundred rounds. As for Zhao Yun, although there was no record of picking more than a hundred rounds with people, in the Battle of Changshanpo, he repeatedly charged and killed in the heavy siege of the Cao Army, and after a night of fighting, he increased for half a day, and this physical strength was also very amazing.
So it's obvious. The four of them were all physically strong people who were not afraid of long battles.
Therefore, at the peak of Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, and Ma Chaozhen, if they fought, their martial arts level was similar and their physical strength was good, and it was very normal for them to be able to distinguish between victory and defeat after playing two or three lilies. As for who can laugh to the end, I am afraid it depends on who plays better on the spot.