The four masterpieces are treasures in the artistic history of the Ming and Qing dynasties on the mainland, among which "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" presents us with a brilliant epic scroll.
Whether it is the portrayal of the storyline or the shaping of the characters, in addition to the famous battles, the most appeared are those familiar warriors.
Taking the Shu Han camp as an example, the five tiger generals in the early stage can basically be called an all-star lineup: Guan Yu, a Chinese martial saint, Zhang Fei, who drank back a million Cao Jun, Zhao Yun who entered seven and went out, Ma Chao, who killed Cao Cao and abandoned his robe, and Huang Zhong, who wore Yang in a hundred steps, are all top existences.
So if you don't look at the camp, how many rounds can Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei do? You see what Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang say.
The real Changshan Zhao Zilong
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Yun is described in great detail, such as breaking the eight-gate golden lock array, entering and exiting seven in front of Changsaka Slope, treating Cao Cao's 830,000 army as grass mustard, and subsequent acts such as intercepting the river to save Adou.
Judging from his style, character and achievements, Zhao Yun is an almost perfect martial general.
Of course, the portrayal of his image in the speech is nothing more than trying to create a comprehensive martial general, and there is still a big gap with the image of Zhao Yun in the official history.
For example, the portrayal of Zhao Yun's single riding savior in "Three Kingdoms" is only a short sentence or two, explaining the general idea of the whole thing, but it can be seen from the side that Zhao Yun's seven in and seven out is real, and Zhao Yun's own skills are also very strong.
"Yun body holds the weak son, that is, the queen lord, protects Mrs. Gan, and the queen lord mother is also spared."
Moreover, in the bridge section where Jijiang rescued Adou, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun actually went together, but in the speech, it became Zhao Yun who went first, and these small changes were all due to the bias of "Luo Guanzhong" in shaping the character image.
Later, according to the description in the "Records of the Three Kingdoms", when Liu Bei established the foundation for official rewards, only Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, and Huang Zhong were canonized as generals, and Zhao Yun did not have such titles.
This can fully illustrate a problem, Zhao Yun in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has considerable beautification and fictional descriptions, and his real combat effectiveness is not as exaggerated as everyone understands.
Zhang Fei's real ability
The Zhang Fei portrayed in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" always gives people a feeling of "reckless hero".
In terms of combat effectiveness, Guan Yu once commented that Zhang Fei was "the first rank of general among the ten thousand armies, like probing and extracting things", which shows that his skills are extraordinary, and then when the Yang Qiaotou roared and frightened Xia Houjie's liver and guts, it shows Zhang Fei's undue bravery.
As for Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, they had already had a record of fighting before they met, and the two had a big fight over some trivial matters, Zhang Fei was obviously slightly inferior to Guan Yu, but its force value was still not to be underestimated.
In the "Records of the Three Kingdoms", the description of Zhang Fei is only a short description of more than 700 words, but it is more authentic.
For example, it breaks the old concepts of the past and points out Zhang Fei's military talent, he and Guan Yu followed Liu Bei in his early years, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Shu Han regime, and the story of "drinking and retreating the Cao army before the slope of Changsaka" is also true.
In addition, it is also written that first the lord of Jiangnan, Zhang Fei made Yidu Taishou, and then moved to Nanjun, attacked Yizhou, and interpreted Yan Yan, although Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei both entered Sichuan to fight, but in the end the credit was still Zhang Fei's.
Whether from the romance or the history of the Three Kingdoms, the description of Zhang Fei is obviously more than Zhao Yun, if you ignore the protagonist shaping in the speech, it can only show that Zhang Fei's combat effectiveness is higher than Zhao Yun, so more ink will be used to describe Zhang Fei's deeds, so if Zhao Yun fights Zhang Fei, how many moves can he make?
The judgment of Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei
Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun were both generals of the Shu Han dynasty, and there is no record of fighting each other in the official history or the romance. If you want to compare the martial arts of the two, you can only see from their records of fighting with others.
From this point, Zhao Yun's record seems to be somewhat inadequate, because the people he is facing are some second-rate martial generals, but those who have a record of fighting Zhang Fei are some top masters.
Let's take a look at the description of Lü Bu in the first three British battles of Tiger Prison Pass in the speech.
Lü Bu fought with Gongsun Zhan, and after a few rounds, Gongsun Zan was obviously defeated. Lü Bu rode a red rabbit horse, holding Fang Tian's halberd and piercing Gongsun Zhan's back heart. Seeing that Gongsun Zan was worried about his life, Zhang Fei immediately went to the rescue.
"The three family slaves are gone! Yanren Zhang Fei is here! ”
Zhang Fei's eyes widened angrily, he erected the tiger's whiskers upside down, and held the Zhangba Snake Spear, and rushed towards Lü Bu. Lü Bu had to abandon Gongsun Zan and face Zhang Fei.
Until fifty rounds could not tell the winner or loser, Guan Yu saw this, and slapped the war horse under him and rushed towards the two who were fighting. Guan Yu held the Blue Dragon Moon Knife and joined forces with Zhang Fei to attack Lü Bu. Thirty rounds later, Lü Bu became more and more courageous, and did not show the slightest hint of timidity.
This was very bad for Liu Bei on the side, he didn't think about it, and he also took advantage of Lu Bu's false mouth with a weapon in his hand and melted in. The three surrounded Lü Bu and fought together.
The fierce battle situation of Lü Bu in the Three British War directly stunned all the heroes before the war.
As we watched this battle, Zhang Fei first stepped forward to fight Lü Bu, and after about thirty rounds Guan Yu and Liu Bei stepped forward to help, before that, Zhang Fei had fought Lü Bu for more than fifty rounds, and he was still in good spirits and had no intention of retreating.
Although Zhang Fei's force at this time could not defeat Lü Bu, he could fight with him for more than a hundred rounds, which was already very powerful.
The Three British Battle Lü Bu is the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and we will also take a look at the battle between Zhao Yun and Mrs. Gan in the Romance after seven in and out of the Romance of the Seven Kingdoms.
After Cao Cao fought Liu Bei, Liu Bei was defeated and Zhao Yun around him was scattered. Liu Bei hurriedly fled with more than a hundred people and Zhang Fei, not even his wife and son.
At that time, Zhao Yun, as Liu Bei's internal guard general, was responsible for protecting Liu Bei's wife and children. But Zhao Yun was separated from them, and he had to fight with Cao Jun while searching in the chaotic army.
After a bloody battle, Mrs. Mi was found, but she was seriously injured, and Zhao Yun gave up his horse to Mrs. Mi. Mrs. Mi was worried about injuring Ah Dou and Zhao Yun, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into the well.
Zhao Yun continued to lead A Dou to fight bloody battles all the way in the five thousand Cao army. In this process, Zhao Yun successively killed Cao Jun's Chun Yudao, Xia Houen, and Yan Ming, and then defeated Zhang Hao, Ma Yan, Jiao Tuo and others, and rushed out of the encirclement with A Dou.
Although Zhao Yun killed many Cao Cao generals, there were no so-called first-class generals among them.
Let's look at the battle of the Eight-Door Golden Lock Array in the speech.
In the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao defeated Liu Bei, and Liu Bei had to defect to Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao. Liu Biao temporarily provided Xinye to Liu Bei to rest.
When Liu Bei learned of this, he sent Cao Ren to attack Jingzhou.
Xinye, where Liu Bei was located, was located between Cao Cao in the north and Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and served as a barrier. Cao Cao's army went south, and Liu Bei sent Zhao Yun and Zhao Fei to face Cao Ren.
Cao Ren laid down the eight-door golden lock battle, which was broken by Xu Shu. At that time, Xu Shu sent Zhao Yun with only five hundred elite soldiers to enter from the southeast Shengmen and out from the west Jingmen.
During this process, Zhao Yun held a seven-foot spear and rushed into Cao Ren's eight-door golden lock array, and Cao Jun was suddenly in chaos, and Cao Ren was also injured by Zhao Yun. After Zhao Yun was killed, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led troops to attack in a big way, and this formation was broken.
It can be seen from this that although Zhao Yun injured Cao Ren, he only briefly fought with Cao Ren during the chaos of the Cao Ren phalanx, and took advantage, and it is difficult to say that Zhao Yun is stronger than Cao Ren's martial arts.
Let's take another look at Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Zhao Yun.
When Liu Bei evaluated Guan Yu, he said that he was ten times uglier than Yan Liangwen, in addition, according to records, Zhang Fei's force value was second only to Guan Yu, so the gap between the two was not very large, and it can be learned that Liu Bei's evaluation of Zhang Fei is also very high.
As for Zhao Yun, Liu Bei's evaluation of him was that after he rescued Ah Dou, he said: "For this shaft, I almost lost one of my tiger generals", and later said that Zhao Yun was full of guts. It shows that Zhao Yun's ability is rising in Liu Bei's eyes.
In Zhuge Liang's eyes, Zhao Yun is his cronies, of course, not to a large extent because of his force value, but because of his execution.
Because both about and Zhang Fei have obvious flaws, the former is proud and not disgraced, and the latter loves to whip soldiers, so Zhuge Liang likes to appoint Zhao Yun very much.
In the subsequent Northern Expedition, Zhao Yun still showed super combat ability when he was over seventy, and with a silver gun, he killed five members of Han De's family one after another, of course, they were just some unknown young generals.
As for Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang commented that Ma Yue had compared Zhang Fei with him in passing, believing that Ma Chao "although brave and martial, but the wings and virtues can match", the two have previously had a record of fighting, fought countless rounds day and night, and even changed horses to fight, and in the end, although there was no victory or defeat, Zhang Fei's complexion after the war was much better.
Judging from the record created by Zhao Yun, he may not be able to fight Ma Chao after hundreds of rounds and still have the upper hand, so it can be inferred from this that if Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun fight, the battle will not end quickly, perhaps the two will fight for many rounds, but in the end, it must be Zhang Fei.
epilogue
In the speech, we can find that although Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun are both Shu Han generals, there are very obvious gaps in character shaping and deeds description.
It seems that he wants to create a perfect Zhao Yun in the speech, and in the Three Kingdoms History, he wants to restore a real Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei.
However, judging from the evaluation of the military master Zhuge Liang and the lord Liu Bei, if the two sides fight, Zhang Fei has a better chance of winning, and the two sides will fight for about a hundred rounds.