The first half of his life fought on the battlefield, won glory and wealth, a lifetime of fame, should have been able to enjoy his old age, was worshiped and admired by later generations, but for various reasons, he was not guaranteed in his later years, and his reputation was in vain, and the efforts of the first half of his life were in vain, it is really a pity.
1. Duan Cheng
Both civil and military, is a famous general who uses soldiers like a god, first broke Xianbei, and then asked for the peace of Dongguo Dou and Gongsun to raise things, and sealed the marquis with merit. Fought in the border pass for more than ten years, fought a hundred Qiang people, invincible, pacified Xiqiang, Dongqiang, made great achievements, sealed Xinfeng County Marquis, and later entered the court as an official, attached to eunuchs, hunted and killed students, twice served as a lieutenant, attached to the right eunuch Wang Fu was exposed, Duan Cheng was implicated and imprisoned, and committed suicide by drinking medicine in prison.
2. Forbidden
Follow Cao Cao's southern expedition to the north, for Cao Cao to make great contributions, Guan Yu besieged Xiangfan, Cao Cao ordered Yu Ban to command the army to support, how can Guan Yu use the rain to flood the forbidden Seventh Army, Yu Ban surrendered Guan Yu, and he went with Pang Dening to die and was killed, after Yu Ban surrendered, he was later imprisoned to Eastern Wu, Eastern Wu to Cao Wei as a minister, so he sent the ban to Cao Wei, Cao Pi will be banned arranged Cao Cao's mausoleum to clean, there are murals painting his surrender, very ashamed, ashamed to die.
3. Hou Junshu
Hou Junshu
When he was young, he followed Li Shimin, really followed the right person, followed the campaign, helped Li Shimin launch the Xuanwumen Change, awarded the right guard general, and sealed the Duke of Luguo, Wei Zheng praised him for having the talent of the prime minister, participated in the pacification of Tuyuhun, and sent troops to attack Gaochangguo with the general manager of the Jiaohe River March, and pacified it in one fell swoop. Later, he was arrested and imprisoned for corruption, and after being released from prison, he wanted to rebel and accused him of rebellion with the crown prince Li Chengqian, and was later beheaded.
4. Gao Yu
Born in a famous family, recovered the whole territory of Annan from the hands of Nanzhao, and served as the first Jing Navy Jiedu envoy, built Daluo City, successively served as Tianping, Xichuan, Jingnan, Zhenhai, Huainan and other five towns Jiedu envoy, repelled the Huangchao rebel army many times, and made great achievements, and then did not dare to go to war because of Zhang Lan's death, resulting in Huangchao crossing the river smoothly, the two capitals were lost, and he was deprived of all powers.
5. Goshuhan
After the rebellion of An Lushan, he was appointed as the deputy marshal of the soldiers and horses, commanded the army of 200,000 and stationed in Tongguan, so he was forced to fight no matter how the war situation was, resulting in a great defeat for the army, and there was little left of the army. , Ge Shuhan wrote a letter to recruit the generals, but failed, so he was imprisoned again, and later An Qingxu took Ge Shuhan to cross the Yellow River, and after retreating, he was killed.
6. Zhang Jun
One of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, defeated the Jin army, joined the army at a young age, was born poor, pacified the coup d'état of Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan, crusaded against the rebel general Li Cheng, leveled the group of thieves, and repeatedly thwarted the invasion of the pseudo-Qi, the army led by Zhang Jiajun, at that time was also famous, a generation of famous generals, but in the later period he echoed Qin Hui, advocated begging peace, created false evidence, contributed to Yue Fei's wrongful imprisonment, corruption and bribery, wanton looting money, annexation of land, according to statistics, there are more than one million acres of land, the annual rent of rice amounted to 600,000 Hu, known as "occupy the land all over the world, and the family accumulates a huge million" , let it stink for 10,000 years.
7. Hu Zongxian
Ming Dynasty anti-Japanese famous generals, officials to the military department of the book and the procuratorate of the right capital of the imperial history, plus the prince Taibao, Ping pirate Wang Zhigong, presided over the southeast imperial war, has ensnared the Tong Japanese pirate leader Wang Zhi, Xu Hai, Chen Dong, etc., played an important role in the anti-Japanese struggle, made a historic contribution, its merits are no less than Qi Jiguang, could have been famous for centuries, who knows, due to the fall of Yan Song, Hu Zongxian was recommended by Yan Song's son Zhao Wenhua and repeatedly promoted, he must be a strict party, Lu Fengyi embezzled military salaries, excessive taxation, The party impeached Hu Zongxian on ten major charges such as Yan Song, and later committed suicide.
9. Zheng Zhilong
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the first big pirate on the southeast coast, Zheng Chenggong's father, his life is also very legendary, first entered the Ming Dynasty, the official to the governor of the same knowledge, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, attached to the Southern Ming Hongguang regime, Longwu regime, control the military and political power, for a while the scenery is unlimited, after the Qing army entered Fujian, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and then was placed under house arrest in Beijing, repeatedly surrendered Zheng Chenggong surrendered, Zheng Chenggong led the army to the north many times, killed the Qing generals, the Qing court was very angry, so Zheng Zhilong and his relatives were beheaded at the mouth of Yanjing Caishi.
10. Zhang Guangsi
Qing Dynasty famous generals, because of the suppression of the Miao uprising meritorious service, promoted Guizhou governor, conquest of Dzungaria, promoted to Huguang governor, led the army to suppress Miao Jiang, because of merit promoted to Yunnan and Guizhou governor, and led the governor, the career reached unprecedented wishes, but later Jinchuan often made chaos, Zhang Guangsi went to quell the rebellion, more than two years without progress, Qianlong immediately ordered Na personally as a strategy, to the front line to dispatch troops and horses, Na personally impeached Zhang Guangsi into ten ways to march into the army, resulting in weak troops, negligence in duty, raising Kou for trouble, appointing Liang Erji and traitor Wang Qiu, resulting in military secrets leaked to the enemy. Qianlong immediately dismissed him from office, and sent him to prison to escort him to Beijing, and finally beheaded him according to the law for the crime of mistaking a military plane.
11. Yang Fang
A famous general in the late Qing Dynasty, recommended by Yang Yuchun, he stepped into his official career, and successively suppressed the uprising of the White Lotus Sect in Sichuan and Chu, and suppressed Lin Qing, Li Wencheng uprising, pacified Zhang Ge's war, captured Zhang Ge, a famous general in a hundred battles, repeatedly made war exploits, the first general of the Daoguang Dynasty, painted Ziguang Pavilion, Jin Er, etc., after the outbreak of the Opium War, Yishan and Yang Fang and other enemies, among which his toilet resisted the enemy, became the current joke, simply could not resist the attack of the British army, Yang Fang then ordered people to collect toilets, paper straw men, build dojos, build ghosts and gods, and prepare to resist the British army in a special way, it is conceivable that it can not resist at all, the British army drove straight into Guangzhou, Guangzhou fell.
The above eleven people, they all have great merits, made great contributions, and made great contributions to the country, but it is a pity that they took a wrong step and stepped into the abyss, and all their previous efforts were in vain.