<h1>This is the real Zhuge Liang (26</h1>).
<h1>Chief Writer: Idle Student</h1>
As we mentioned earlier, because Liu Bei was placed at the highest level under Liu Zhang's command, Liu Zhang's exposure to Liu Bei made Liu Bei defensive, which made liu Bei's process of attacking Yizhou particularly difficult, especially in the siege of Luocheng (present-day Guanghan City, Sichuan), Pang Tong was accidentally killed, which made Liu Bei have no confidence in taking Yizhou, Liu Bei had no choice, so he had to send someone to Jingzhou to let Zhuge Liang lead Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to come to the aid, anyway, Liu Bei himself was not recruited.
Zhuge Liang believed that there was no point in rushing to Luocheng now, and luocheng could not be attacked for a long time because Liu Zhang's father and son still had illusions with the Yizhou native faction, believing that Liu Bei would not be able to chew hard bones for a long time and return to Jingzhou. Therefore, Zhuge Liang decided to lead his army up the Yangtze River and take all the cities and pools outside Chengdu, so that Liu Zhang and the Yizhou faction would naturally surrender without a fight and could peacefully liberate the historical ancient city of Chengdu.
After Zhuge Liang led his army north, the focus was on The ba County, Jiangzhou, which is today's Chongqing Municipality, is the second largest city in Yizhou, which gathers the waters of Sichuan and Shu, and is the most important strategic area for entering Chengdu from Jingzhou. Responsible for the main attack on Jiangzhou was the famous general Zhang Fei, while Liu Zhang's side was responsible for defending the city by Bajun Taishou Yanyan. Between these two people, a popular story took place. In this story, historical facts, legends and interpretations are intertwined, making the whole event a mess, not knowing where it is true, where it is false, and the true and false are mixed together, and it is difficult to even distinguish between them, let alone analyze.
Let's first look at the historical facts.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei was worthy of being a famous general of the generation of Wei Zhen Chang banpo, and he took Jiangzhou in a fierce attack and captured Bajun Taishou Yanyan.
Zhang Fei probably wanted to show his might, and on the spot he asked Yan Yan: "When the army arrives, why do you dare to refuse the battle without surrendering?" "
That said, this Jiangzhou is also the second largest city in Yizhou, and if it doesn't fight, it will surrender, and Yan Yan, who is too defensive of Ba County, should also be too ridiculous, so Yan Yan righteously retorted sternly: "Qing and others have no form, usurp our state, but there are severed generals in our state, and there are no generals who have surrendered." "
Zhang Fei was disgraced and angry, so he said that the people who came to pull down and cut it!
Yan Yan was not frightened, but instead teased Zhang Fei: "If you cut your head off, you will cut your head, what is anger and evil!" "Behead and behead, what are you angry about!"
Zhang Fei felt that Yan Yan was not afraid of death, had a personality, I liked it, so he let Yan Yan go, and then introduced him as a guest, eating and drinking.
The part of the history book, when it comes to an abrupt end, does not explain what happened to Yan Yan later. It is said that Yan Yan Naiba County Taishou should be regarded as the top five leaders of the entire Yizhou, if he surrendered to Liu Bei, he should at least be an official of this level, and it is impossible to disappear from the history books from then on. In fact, after Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, he gave the position of Yanyan Bajun Taishou to the Chengdu people Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi was promoted from a small subordinate Sima to the position of Taishou of Dajun (大郡太守), and from then on he was loyal to the Ji Han regime and later became a close confidant of Zhuge Liang.
And since the history books do not explain the end of Yan Yan, then this is the best space for storytellers to play. Therefore, in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as soon as Zhang Fei untied Yan Yan, Yan Yan immediately became the leading party, saying: "From now on, luocheng city will be taken, and all those who guard the Royal Pass are under the control of the old man, and the officers and troops are all in control." There is nothing to repay the favor of the general, and the old man should be the front, and everywhere he goes, he will summon the surrender. Then Yan Yan persuaded him to surrender all the way, and took himself as an example and said, "I still surrender, let alone Ruhu?" So Yizhou looked at the wind and returned. In the end, Yan Yan also became a good partner of Huang Zhong, known as the second elder of Shu Han, and made great contributions in the Battle of Hanzhong.
Of course, these were made up blindly by Luo Guanzhong, and they were quite ridiculous, and he even said that after Liu Bei took Yizhou, he regarded Him as a former general with a great merit of Yan Yan. Liu Bei himself was only a left general, and he could even worship a former general who was even bigger than himself, which really made people laugh out of their teeth.
In short, whether from the perspective of correct history or common sense, Yan Yan could not turn to Liu Bei. According to the "Huayang Guozhi", when Liu Bei first entered Shu, Yan Yan once pounded his chest and said: "This so-called sitting alone in a poor mountain, letting the tiger defend itself!" Yan Yan was a hardcore Yizhou faction that Liu Zhang had personally promoted, and it was impossible for him to join Liu Bei's regime. So, why did Yan Yan mysteriously disappear in the history books? Such an important person, how come Chen Shou did not even have an explanation, casually adding a sentence "After living in Jiangzhou, the sick man" will be very expensive ink?
The local folklore in Chongqing Zhong County may provide us with another answer. According to folklore, yan Yan did not surrender after being released by Zhang Fei, and after hearing that Liu Bei finally took Yizhou, he killed himself with a sword and fulfilled his name of loyalty. Therefore, during the Tang Zhenguan period, Yan Yan was posthumously honored as a "heroic general" by Emperor Taizong of Tang, and his hometown of Linzhou (present-day Zhong County, Chongqing) was also renamed Zhongzhou, and Yan Yan was posthumously named Zhongzhou Assassin.
Pictured: Two loyal generals in Zhong County, Yan Yan and Ba Manzi
That's right, in the records of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhang Fei's performance is rough and detailed, quite a political situation, knowing that Yan Yan is a local sage and well-known person in Yizhou, not only can not kill, but also show respect. Although Yan Yan performed well, after all, he was not really beheaded like Zhang Ren, and Li Shimin's use of the word "loyal" to commend him was not very suitable. But if Yan Yan came after himself as folklore did, this deed would be enough! Later, when Su Shi passed through Yan Yan's tomb, he also wrote a hymn for Yan Yan, and incidentally also approved Liu Bei Zhuge Liang...
The first lord opposed Liu Zhang, and the military intention was quite unjust.
Kong Ming Gu Haojie, what is this matter.
Liu Zhang, the Lord of Guyong, who is dead is not two.
Yan Zi is alone with He Xian, talking and laughing.
The king of the fall of the kingdom has been executed, and the son of the son is dead.
Who carved the mountain stone and made me empty tears.
The severed head will be, for eternity for the sick palpitations.
The king of the fall of the kingdom has been executed, and the son of the son is dead. Obviously, Su Shi believed that Yan Yan had finally been martyred. In the "Song of Justice" written by Wen Tianxiang at the end of the Song Dynasty a year before his inauguration, he also compared Yan Yan to the head of the four great loyal martyrs, saying: "For the head of General Yan, for the blood of the servants." It is Zhang Suiyang's teeth and Yan Changshan's tongue. The three Ji Shao, Zhang Tour, and Yan Gaoqing in the back all died extremely heroically, and Yan Yan should not be worse than them."
Of course, after the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" spread more and more widely, and Yan Yan's name of loyalty and martyrdom became more and more faint, and he generally only appeared as a supporting role for Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong, just to set off Zhang Fei's style of national soldiers and Huang Zhong's old and strong. However, this loyal severed general continued to influence the spirit of the Bayu people's indomitable resistance from generation to generation with his loyal style in folklore. Especially during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, when the country was in trouble, the generals of the Sichuan Army, who were constantly fighting among themselves, immediately abandoned their previous suspicions and unanimously resisted foreign insults, and millions of people rushed to the anti-Japanese front, with more than 600,000 troops killed in battle and more than 30 Sichuan generals killed. How many Bayu boys, generous to death, the so-called severed generals, no surrender generals, this is the backbone of the Chinese.
Pictured: Wang Reverse kneels like a memorial to the fallen soldiers of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, located in the ancient town of Ciqikou in present-day Chongqing