Leopard head ring eyes acute man, tiger whiskers steel hair black fire god... Taoyuan Righteous Knot Jin Lan Ri, life and death and common oath come true, the name of the world's five tiger generals, the three generals with a reputation. A song "Fierce General" almost summed up Zhang Fei's life, as a famous fierce general in the Three Kingdoms, in the end, because there was no one around, he was killed by two subordinates, where did Zhang Fei's escort 'Yanyun Eighteen Horses' go?
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Evil comes out of the whip
Zhang Fei's date of birth is not detailed, but because of his bravery and chivalry, he was a famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, and was known as the "enemy of ten thousand people" with his brother Guan Yu. Whether in the "Three Kingdoms" or other historical records, Zhang Fei is an "acute" image, often angry, cold-eyed, and very grumpy. Although such a character has an advantage on the battlefield, it often causes resentment and self-awareness when facing its own subordinates.
"Shu Su knew that Ru was whipping the soldiers after drinking..." The people of the world only went to Zhang Fei to treat his brother with great righteousness, but they were well known that Zhang Fei was very harsh in the face of his soldiers, and even Liu Bei at that time could not help but publicly advise Zhang Fei not to be drunk on many occasions. However, Zhang Fei was naturally murderous, and he loved gentlemen but did not sympathize with soldiers, which could not be corrected by one or two persuasions.
After Guan Yu's death, Zhang Fei was deeply saddened, so he ordered that after three days, all the equipment and flags must be replaced with white, such a request was not a problem, but this time limit was indeed difficult for some strong people, and Fan and Zhang, who were in charge of this matter, could only brazenly say that this time was really impossible to do, and at the time of grief, they encountered such "unpleasant" things, Zhang Fei did not say anything to Fan and Zhang Erren was another poignant whipping, and the time limit was still three days.
The two men were first severely injured and then lost face in front of the soldiers, and the resentment towards Zhang Fei in their hearts became deeper and deeper. "Next time like this, you and my brothers will not die on the battlefield, but will be killed alive by Zhang Fei!" Blinded by hatred, the two immediately hit it off and began to plot how to get rid of Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei was fierce and drunk, and it was the best way to take advantage of Zhang Fei's lack of preparation after drinking, and after making up his mind, the two quickly found an opportunity to sneak in at night to kill Zhang Fei and take down Zhang Fei's head. The history of Zhang Fei, the "enemy of ten thousand people," has come to an end, and such an ending is also somewhat surprising and incomprehensible; if Zhang Fei is so easily eliminated, why should the enemy regard Zhang Fei as a thorn in his heart and a thorn in his eye?
Yanyun Eighteen Ride
What is even more incredible is that after the crime is completed, the two can still escape from the military camp smoothly, this kind of behavior that seems to have passed through no man's land makes people a little stunned, not to mention the other soldiers in the military camp, the sentries standing guard, etc., closely protecting Zhang Fei's "Yanyun Eighteen Horses"? What about the legendary Yanyun cavalry with one enemy and a hundred enemies?
In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is a section that mentions this group of soldiers, to the effect that this Yanyun Eighteen rode Zhang Fei all the way out of the East Gate, when Zhang Fei was also drunk, and hit Cao Bao with wine, Cao Bao was Lü Bu's father-in-law, Lü Bu could not ignore it, and then Lü Bu immediately made a move to sneak attack Xuzhou.
During the second period, Zhang Fei was delirious and his combat ability was weakened, and in this situation where there were more enemies and fewer enemies, Yan Yun Eighteen Horsemen could still protect him and retreat, which showed the loyalty and strength of these people.
After the three Liu Bei brothers were married, they were indeed unstoppable, but after a long time together, their respective drawbacks were more obvious, in fact, there was a very detail worth pondering in this incident, on the occasion of Zhang Fei's departure, Liu Bei had advised Zhang Fei not to drink, drinking and mistaking. Zhang Fei is only "respectful" to Liu Bei but not necessarily "from", not to mention the small matter of drinking, knowing that Zhang Fei often drinks and misbehaves, but still let Zhang Fei be a forward, I have to say that there are some meanings of borrowing knives to kill people.
Perhaps Liu Bei did not expect that the strength of the Eighteen Horsemen would be so strong, this battle made the Eighteen Horsemen completely famous, and later on the Dangyang Bridge, Cao Cao led a million troops to capture Liu Bei, in order to ensure Liu Bei's safety, it was Zhang Fei who stood at this Dangyang Bridge with these 18 pro-soldier escorts, deliberately collapsing behind Zhang Fei and raising dust.
Creating a huge appearance behind Zhang Fei, with the momentum of a husband and wife, he was stuck on this only road, and he was in a stalemate with the enemy for a long time, which won Liu Bei a lot of time to ease, Zhang Fei was not afraid of death, and the eighteen horsemen behind him were not afraid, so the friendship of completely entrusting his life would not make a stand idly by when Zhang Fei was dying.
The brotherhood is gone
After Guan Yu's death, Zhang Fei became the most trusted general around Liu Bei, and Zhang Fei, who should have been the most supposed to solve Liu Bei's worries and difficulties, also began to do things repeatedly, repeatedly requesting Liu Bei to go to war and attack Eastern Wu, which was not very wise at that time, and Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun also repeatedly discouraged it, believing that it was not a good time to attack Eastern Wu.
But Zhang Fei insisted on going his own way, even standing on the moral high ground, using brotherly love to coerce Liu Bei, and at this point, Liu Bei could only lead troops to attack Eastern Wu in order not to lose his trust in front of the people of the world.
Such a revenge of catching ducks on the shelves, in other words, anyone will have some diaphragm in their hearts, for Liu Bei brotherhood is important, but in front of his own great cause, the weight is not enough, plus Zhang Fei so mixed, Liu Bei to Zhang Fei whether there is still friendship is also difficult to say, after Zhang Fei's death, Liu Bei did not investigate or investigate this, the attitude of this is very interesting, Zhang Fei's death, so it was left down lightly.
From another aspect, now Zhang Fei's identity is different from the past, it is reasonable to say that the Eighteen Horsemen should pay more attention to the safety of their main generals at any time, but in this murder, the Eighteen Horsemen have never appeared from beginning to end, which makes people wonder, is Zhang Fei's temper too bad, even his own relatives have offended?
When Zhang Fei was fighting, when he reported to his home, he basically said "Yan people Zhang Yide", which shows that Zhang Fei and the Yan cavalry army are from one place, according to historical records, almost when they joined the army to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion, they only recruited such a team, similar in age, the same origin, and all respect the strong, with the previous acts of loyalty, this group of people will not make temporary anti-water things.
Where are the eighteen horses
In addition to these reasons, then there are only two reasons left, one is that they cannot be protected, the other is powerless to protect, the so-called inability to protect is that the duty of the pro-soldiers is of course not only to protect Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei has any need to use them, it is within the scope of the eighteen horsemen's duties.
At the time of Guan Yu's death, there must be a lot of things that need Zhang Fei's intervention at the moment, perhaps blind confidence in his own environment, Zhang Fei sent out all eighteen horses to run errands, which led to Zhang Fei's assassination, there was not a single soldier around him.
Some people may suspect that Zhang Fei will not be so careless, and there is no one left around, but according to the records in the historical records, Zhang Fei died at night, but it was not until the next day that he was discovered, so lax night duty, enough to see that Zhang Fei is very confident in the safety factor in his barracks, and it is not incomprehensible that he can send all his cronies out.
If you don't say it, then why don't you discuss it? Transferring all the cronies around him, did these pro-soldiers just obey Zhang Fei's dispatch? Since they were close associates, it was natural to consider everything from Zhang Fei's point of view, this practice was obviously not wise, why didn't the Eighteen Horsemen take the initiative to leave some people to defend Zhang Fei's safety?
Netizens speculated that one could not, and the other was not dare. Zhang Fei's attitude toward the soldiers is obvious to all, such a grumpy general, usually in the face of the need to play a 200,000 points of spirit, not to mention to put forward their own suggestions to him, whether adopted or not, the person who made the suggestion may not be able to have a good end, no one comes out, naturally there will be no one else to do this thing.
The reason why it could not be was because the marching discipline at that time was indeed too strict, the hierarchy of the upper and lower levels was very strict, if Zhang Fei did not open his mouth, the Eighteenth Cavalry had no right to cross the level proposal, only Zhang Fei could arrange how to come, as for the possible result, it was not something they could influence, at this moment, they only needed to obey.
And the reason for not being able to protect is a little sad, the Yanyun Eighteen Horsemen who were in the limelight at the beginning are likely to have aged, Zhang Fei was 55 years old when he died, in exchange for our modern era has almost reached the retirement age, and the Three Kingdoms period is in the midst of war, the level of medical care is low, people's general life expectancy is not long, this group of old and weak cavalry is likely to have returned to their hometown, so Zhang Fei's side has no one to use.
A group of elderly people, even if Yan yun eighteen riders are still in the barracks, perhaps the mighty is not as great as before, the eighteen riders are a place of faith in the barracks, but also the morale of the group of soldiers under Zhang Fei, the eighteen riders can disappear, but before the new outstanding descendants come out, they must not grow old, this group of people is likely to have been disbanded by Zhang Fei, let them go back.
Another possibility is that after following Zhang Fei out of the war for so many years, they could not retreat from the battlefield every time, in ancient times, human life was indeed noble, their only constant mission was to protect Zhang Fei's safety, those Zhang Fei had not suffered the damage were all resisted by them, so many years, perhaps the eighteen horses have long been mutilated, dead, wounded.
New people for old people
This is the most reliable reason at present, and it is also the most tragic reason, people are good at accepting the stories of the world, but it is always difficult to let go of the death of heroes. There are also some people who speculate that during this time, the Eighteen Horses of Yanyun have already been exchanged for blood, and those who are injured and dead and can no longer go to the battlefield must be replaced by other people, zhang Fei's guards may have been there at that time, but they are no longer the Eighteen Horses of Yanyun in the original sense.
These newcomers who have just arrived have had little training on the battlefield, do not have much sense of crisis, and feel that since Zhang Fei is in his own camp, there will not be much of a problem, and such a carelessness may also be one of the reasons for Zhang Fei's death.
Moreover, this group of young people and Zhang Fei did not have much friendship, not as good as the group of brothers who were born and died with Zhang Fei, perhaps in the eyes of this group of recruits, Zhang Fei was just a general who had a body of force, but did not know how to respect the soldiers, and when Zhang Fei returned to the camp drunk, he naturally would not be concerned.
Zhang Fei's reputation in the army is not very good, and the attitude of the people towards him may also be in the eyes of the new eighteen horsemen, although they know that many people may have resentment towards him, but they still turn a blind eye, as long as they do not do it in front of them. Zhang Fei was famous, and perhaps they really did not expect that Fan and Zhang fei could get rid of Zhang Fei so easily.
epilogue
If it is really such a hero's end, the end of people taking tea and cold, then for Zhang Fei, a hero, it is somewhat sad, Zhang Fei does have shortcomings in being a person, but his strength is also obvious to all, his harsh subordinates are true, but the friendship with Guan Yu and others is also true.
If it weren't for the fact that those brothers on the Eighteenth Horse of Yanyun really delivered their hearts, they would not have desperately protected Zhang Fei at many critical moments, but in the end, the Eighteenth Rider was killed and injured in half, and Zhang Fei was ultimately victimized by his temper.