In the Three Kingdoms, if you want to say who cherishes talents the most, it must be Cao Cao. Cao Cao was a meritocracy in his life, appointing people on the basis of talent, and issued a "recruitment order" three times, never caring about the level of the family and the distance of relatives. Therefore, the account had the largest talent pool at that time, such as Wen had five major strategists, and Wu had five good generals. Cao Cao relied on these talents to unify northern China, destroy Lu Bu, level Yuan Shao, and establish hegemony. But when Cao Gong conquered the world, he still lost some talents to a greater or lesser extent. We won't mention Guan Yu of Shu Han, today we will talk about Zhao Yun of the bloody battle in Changbanpo.
If Zhao Yun did not break out of the encirclement in Changbanpo, but was captured by Cao Cao and surrendered to Cao Cao, can Zhao Yun be listed as a "good general of the five sons"?
"Five good generals" is the golden sign of Cao Wei's generals, and it is Cao Cao's most important five foreign generals, including: Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Ban, Zhang He and Xu Huang and other generals, are some outstanding, offensive and defensive famous generals, in Chen Shou's Three Kingdoms are praised for their "Taizu Jianzi martial arts, and the good generals of the time, five sons first." ”
Can Zhao Yun give it a chance and squeeze out a place? As a world-famous victorious general, Zhao Yun certainly has that ability. For example, Zhao Yun's martial arts is one of his major advantages, not to mention anything else, just talk about Zhao Yun's battle of fame, in the battle of Changbanpo, Zhao Yun carried A Dou, seven in and seven out to kill a million Cao army, and Cao Cao was so angry that he directly ordered someone to go to the battle to ask for the name of the enemy general. Moreover, Zhao Yun also encountered Zhang He, one of the five good generals, and Zhao Yun jumped out of the pit in one horse, which frightened Zhang He and did not dare to fight. This battle: Zhao Yun embraced the queen, penetrated the encirclement, cut down both sides of the flag, and captured three guns; The front and rear spears stabbed and slashed, killing more than 50 famous generals of Cao Ying.
Therefore, looking at the fierce aspect alone, Zhao Yun is enough to be proud of other generals, and what is even more commendable is that Zhao Yun is brave and strategic. For example, the battle of Hanshui was a time when Zhao Yun showed his skills. Because Cao Wei killed Xiahou Yuan in Dingjun Mountain, Cao Cao personally led a large army to avenge his brother, and at this time Liu Bei also adopted Fa Zheng's suggestion to compete with Cao Cao for the Han Dynasty and take the opportunity to establish hegemony.
Liu Bei ordered Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun to burn Cao Cao's grain and grass together, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun agreed that they would go to burn the grain first, and if Zhao Yun did not come back by the hour, he would go to pick up. No, although Huang Zhong arrived at Micang Mountain, he was just about to burn the grain and grass, when he met Zhang He and fought with Zhang He. And when Cao Cao heard the news, he immediately ordered Xu Huang to attack. Originally, one Zhang He was enough for Huang Zhong to be busy, but now Xu Huang is here, and Huang Zhong is very anxious to besiege Huang Zhong, and Huang Zhong and the deputy general Zhang Zhu are difficult to get out. Zhao Yun saw that Huang Zhong was still not seen when the time came, so he led the army to respond. Killed in the formation of the two armies, the spear in his hand was unstoppable, and the left and right conflicted, as if entering a no-man's land, killing Zhang He, Xu Huang and others were terrified. thus saved Huang Zhong and Zhang.
In the eyes of ordinary people, it should be accepted when it is good, it is good to be able to escape from the encirclement, and it is important to withdraw from the army immediately to save your life. However, Zhao Yun had no fear at this time, and ordered the sergeants to die down and ambush on both sides of the barracks, while he stood under the gate and waited for Cao Jun. Zhang He, Xu Huang and others saw that Zhao Yun was the only one at the door, and they were suspicious and did not dare to step forward. And Cao Cao, as a leading military expert in the Three Kingdoms, naturally saw Zhao Yun's plan at a glance. However, before Cao Cao could say attack, Zhao Yun waved his gun, and the Shu army killed left and right, how did the Cao army resist, Zhao Yun came to a counterattack again, and beat the Cao army back. It is estimated that many friends think that Zhao Yun is playing cool, relying on his martial arts to show off his strength. But after thinking about it, after Zhao Yunneng rescued Huang Zhong, he could still occupy the favorable terrain and launch a counterattack, which was also quite the style of leading troops in the forbidden by the five good generals.
In addition to Zhao Yun's strong martial arts, he is also very good in terms of strategic vision and overall situation. After Guan Yu was killed, Liu Bei lost his second brother and Jingzhou, and was carried away by anger for a while, insisting on conquering Sun Quan and taking revenge. Friends who are familiar with the Three Kingdoms must know that Liu Bei's move was unanimously opposed by Zhuge Liang and others, but the first to speak to Liu Bei was Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun persuaded Liu Bei to focus on the overall situation, the national thief is Cao Cao, the country's hatred of the public, and the brother's hatred of selfishness. It's a pity that Liu Bei didn't listen to such golden and jade good words, and finally ended up in defeat and death in the White Emperor City.
So on the whole, Zhao Yun's martial arts, tactics, and strategic level are very good. If he takes advantage of the situation to surrender Cao Cao at Changbanpo, will he definitely be deeply used and ranked among the five good generals? In fact, I don't think so, Zhao Yun is likely to be left out in the cold, and even become an embarrassing situation like Pound. Why is that?
Yu Ban and Le Jin are the generals who followed Cao Cao to fight the world very early, Yu Ban has the demeanor of a famous general who breaks the enemy in danger and pays attention to military discipline, and Le Jin has a record of taking the lead in every battle. And as Cao Cao's old buddy when he started, ordinary people can't shake the status of the two at all.
And Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zhang He and others, although they took refuge from other forces, they all abandoned the darkness and turned to the light from the mediocre old master, and they were not speculative villains. And they all fought bloodily for Cao Cao and made many contributions. Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Zhang He have all fought for Cao Cao in the south and north since they took refuge in Cao Cao, and they also did it with one knife at a time. These three are even more talented and resourceful.
And Zhao Yun had only fought with Cao Jun a few times before the Battle of Changbanpo, and he didn't even leave an impression on Cao Cao. Otherwise, how could Cao Cao still have to go down and ask for his name. Zhao Yun's other skills also did not have a chance to show.
Moreover, the five good generals all made contributions to Cao Cao's hegemony before he succeeded. After Cao Cao pacified Yuan Shao, the hegemony was established, and it can be said that according to Cao Cao's concept, what Liu Bei and Sun Quan were taken down, and the unification of the whole country was between backhands. Liu Bei was already a turtle in an urn at this time, and Zhao Yuntou did not surrender, which had little effect. Zhao Yun's surrender at this time was in a situation comparable to that of Pang De in the Battle of Hanzhong, although Cao Cao loved Pang De's martial arts, but Pang De was not reused by Cao Cao after all. No matter how many times Pang De saved Cao Cao, he could not avoid the contempt of his colleagues for the identity of the general.
To sum up, no matter how strong Zhao Yun's skills are, if the timing is not right, he will not be reused by Cao Cao, and the five sons will have a conclusion, and Zhao Yun can only be reduced to an ordinary general!