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The Five Sons of Liang generals refer to the five generals who followed Cao Cao to establish Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, namely Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Zhang Guo, and Xu Huang. When Chen Shou compiled the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, he recorded these five people in a column biography, so he was called "Five Sons of Liang" or "Five Sons of Wei". At that time, Cao Wei's five sons liang would not lose to the shu han five tiger generals in terms of ability and battle achievements. Below, let's talk about the ending of Cao Wei's five sons.
First, Lejin
First of all, among the five sons of liang generals, Le Jin was the first to die, and in Le Jin's life, as long as Cao Cao, the main duke, as for the other four generals of the five sons, they all followed other lords. As early as 190 AD, Le Jin followed Cao Cao in his crusade against Dong Zhuo. In the first year of Xingping (194), Le Jin attacked Lü Bu in Puyang, Zhang Chao in Yongqiu, and Qiaorui in Ku County, all of whom were first to ascend to the battlefield and had meritorious service, and were enfeoffed as marquis of Guangchangting. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Le Jin and Yu Ban led five thousand infantry to attack Yuan Shao's camp. Advancing from the southwest edge of the river in Yanjin, crossing the river to capture Jia, beheading and capturing thousands of people each, surrendering more than 20 people such as Yuan Shao's generals He Mao and Wang Mo, and then returning to the camp. After the Battle of Chibi, Lejin stayed behind to guard Xiangfan. During this period, Lejin and Guan Yu engaged in a fierce contest and curbed Guan Yu's momentum of expansion to the north. In 215, Le Jin, together with Li Dian and Zhang Liao, defended Hefei and repelled Sun Quan, who led an army of 100,000. In 216, Lejin was made a Right General by Cao Cao, which was also the highest official position Lejin received in Cao Wei. In 218 AD, LeJin died of illness. In the first four years (243), Le Jin congcanted to the temple court of Cao Cao.
2. Prohibited
Like LeJin, Yu Ban followed Cao Cao relatively early. Although Yu Ban was once Bao Xin's subordinate, Bao Xin and Cao Cao were good friends. In 192, Bao Xin welcomed Cao Cao into Yanzhou and was killed in battle in the same year. After that, Yu Ban began to follow Cao Cao in his southern expedition to the north. From the first year of Xingping (194) to the second year of Xingping (195), Yu Ban accompanied Cao Cao to Puyang to attack Lü Bu, yu Ban led his troops to attack Lü Bu's two camps in the south of the city, and then led his troops to defeat Gao Gao at Xuchang. Cao Cao also accompanied Cao Cao to attack Shouzhang, Dingtao, and Lihu, besieging Zhang Chao at Yongqiu and occupying four cities.
In 219, Guan Yu launched the Battle of Xiangfan. During this battle, Guan Yu surrounded Cao Ren, who was difficult to resist, so he asked Cao Cao for support. In this regard, Cao Cao sent Yu Ban, Pound De and others to help Cao Ren. As a result, Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, captured in the forbidden zone, beheaded Pound, and came to the peak of his life. Admittedly, in 220 AD, because Sun Quan sent Lü Meng to secretly attack Jingzhou, Guan Yu was defeated and killed. However, yu ban, who surrendered to Guan Yu, was still late and unsafe, which also disappointed Cao Cao very much. After Guan Yu was killed, Yu Ban went into exile in Eastern Wu. In 221, Sun Quan, in order to avoid a two-front battle, bowed to Cao Pi and sent Yu Ban and others back to Cao Wei. After returning to Luoyang, Cao Pi initially appeased the ban. However, when Yu Ban defeated Cao Cao, Cao Pi sent someone to humiliate the military general. In the same year, Yu Ban died in shame.
3. Zhang Liao
Second, as far as Zhang Liao is concerned. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Liao followed Lü Bu for a long time. In 199, Cao Cao sent a large army to besiege Xuzhou, thus eliminating Lü Bu. After that, Zhang Liao began to follow Cao Cao. In May of the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214), Sun Quan personally conquered the city of Anhui, and Zhang Liao rushed from Hefei to the city of Anhui, and learned that the city of Anhui was lost on the way to reinforcement. Zhang Liao quickly built a fortress known as "Nanjiaoshu" on the south side of the kip stone, which served as an outpost of Hefei. In 215 AD, when Zhang Liao was defending Hefei, he led 800 strong men to defeat Sun Quan, who led an army of 100,000, which was the peak battle of Zhang Liao. After this battle, Zhang Liao took on the heavy responsibility of defending Eastern Wu. In 220, after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi took the throne and Zhang Liao was crowned as a former general. In 222 AD, Zhang Liao died of illness. In the sixth year of the Huang Dynasty (225), Cao Pi remembered Zhang Liao and Li Dian's exploits in Hefei and said: "In the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Liao and Li Dian only used 800 infantry and 100,000 thieves. They have made the thieves still angry to this day. Now Zhang Liao and Li Dian's families were divided into hundreds of households, and one of their respective sons was given the title of Marquis of Guannei. ”
Fourth, Xu Huang
Again, as far as Xu Huang is concerned. In 196, after Cao Cao greeted Emperor Xian of Han and moved the capital to Xuchang, Xu Huang began to follow Cao Cao. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), in the Battle of Xuzhou, Xu Huang accompanied Cao Cao in defeating Liu Bei, who had defected to Yuan Shao. At the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Yan Liang with Zhang Liao and Guan Yu as the vanguard. Xu Huang also participated in the expedition and conquered Baima (白馬, in present-day northeastern Hua County, Henan). Later, when Cao's army advanced to Yanjin (延津, in present-day northern Yanjin, Henan), Cao Cao used Xun You's strategy to use the weight of the sword as bait, causing the Wen ugly army to fall into the chaos of scrambling. Xu Huang and the others immediately attacked and defeated Wen Ugly here. Xu Huang was therefore worshipped as a partial general. In the fifteenth year of Jian'an (210), Xu Huang went with Xiahou Yuan to Taiyuan to quell the rebellion, conquered Daling, and beheaded its leader Shang Yao. In July of the twentieth year of Jian'an (215), Xu Huang accompanied Cao Cao in his conquest of Zhang Lu, and Xu Huang was promoted to the rank of general of Pingkou for his merits. Soon, the siege of the general Zhang Shun attacked Chen Fu and more than thirty other tuns, all of which were broken. In the same month, Cao Cao returned to Yi, and Xiahou Yuan was made the general of the capital protection, leading Xu Huang and Zhang Gao to garrison Yangpingguan (陽平關, in present-day mian county, Shaanxi) to reject Liu Bei and return to Yecheng himself.
In 219, after Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, Cao Cao sent Xu Huang to resist Guan Yu. In 220, after Cao Pi ascended the throne as empress, Xu Huang was crowned as a right general. In 226, Xu Huang again resisted the attack of the Eastern Wu army at Xiangfan. In 227 AD, Xu Huang fell ill and died. In this regard, in the author's opinion, in the five sons of Cao Wei, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, and Le Jin, these three people have all achieved a good ending.
5. Zhang Gao
Finally, as far as Zhang Gao is concerned, among the five sons of liang, Zhang Gao is the last to die. Zhang Gao was from the land of Jizhou and was originally a subordinate of Mu Hanfu of Jizhou. In 191, after Yuan Shao entered Jizhou, Zhang Guo became a subordinate of the former. In 200 AD, after the Battle of Guandu broke out, Zhang Gao defected and surrendered to Cao Cao. Since then, Zhang Hao has conquered the northern war in the south and made many military achievements. In the twentieth year of Jian'an (215), Cao Cao marched west to Zhang Lu, arrived at Chencang, and prepared to enter the Qi tribe from Wudu County; the Qi people blocked the road, and Cao Cao sent Zhang Gao to lead a large army to attack Liang Xing and the tribe of Dou Mao, the leader of the Qi tribe. Soon after entering Hanzhong from Sanguan, Zhang Gao was sent to lead 5,000 infantry to open the road in front of him, all the way to Yangping. In the first year of Yankang (220), after Cao Pi took the throne of Wei, he appointed Zhang Gao as a general of the left and made him the Marquis of Duxiang. After Cao Pi ascended the throne, he was made the Marquis of Juan. After Cao Rui ascended the throne, he sent Zhang Gao to the south, stationed in Jingzhou, and together with Sima Yi attacked Sun Quan's general Liu A and others, and the army came to Qikou, fought fiercely with the Wu army, and defeated Liu Asuo's troops. In 228 AD, during the first Northern Expedition of Zhuge Liang, the Shu Han chancellor, Zhang Gao followed Cao Zhen to resist. Because he defeated Ma Mo at the Battle of Jieting, forcing Zhuge Liang to withdraw his army, Zhang Gao obtained the official position of CheQi general. Before the General of the Riders, it was the General and the Hussar Generals. However, it is a great pity that in 231 AD, Sima Yi asked Zhang Gao to pursue Zhuge Liang, which caused Zhang Gao to be ambushed by the Shu Han army, so he was killed on the battlefield. And this, of course, was a big loss for Cao Wei.
It can be said that the five sons of Liang generals in the Cao Cao period played a very important role in the ending, regardless of the outcome of the five sons, they dedicated their youth and strength to Cao Cao during the Cao Cao period, and although their final ending was not particularly good. The Five Sons played an important role, playing a role as a team in Cao Cao's ranks and against Liu Bei's Five Tiger Generals.
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References: [Romance of the Three Kingdoms]
[Joke about the Three Kingdoms]