During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official positions of military generals ranged from high to low, namely general, general of hussar, general of chariot, general of Wei, and general of Sifang. Among them, as far as the general of the che rider that the author wants to talk about today, he is already a very prominent military general official position. In the Three Kingdoms period, the generals of the Che Riders were naturally generals who had made great achievements in battle. Among them, as far as the Shu Han is concerned, in the 43-year history, a total of five cavalry generals have appeared.
First of all, the first general of the Shu Han Dynasty was Zhang Fei
Zhang Fei and Liu Bei are fellow villagers, and they are both from Zhuo County, Youzhou. As early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu followed Liu Bei and participated in battles such as the Suppression of the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Admittedly, in 196 AD, because of Zhang Fei's recklessness, Liu Bei was prompted to lose Xuzhou. However, Zhang Fei obviously did more than he did to Shu Han. In 213, Zhang Fei, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, and others traveled to Yizhou to help Liu Bei defeat Liu Zhang. In 215 AD, while Zhang Fei was defending Bashi County, he repelled Zhang Gao's attack. What is more interesting is that Zhang Gao's highest official position in Cao Wei was also a cheqi general. After this, Zhang Fei participated in the Battle of Hanzhong. In 219, Liu Bei ascended the throne as King of Hanzhong, while Zhang Fei was crowned As the Right General.
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In 221, Liu Bei ascended the throne in Chengdu as emperor. In this context, Zhang Fei was promoted to the rank of General of the Horse Riders, second only to Ma Chao, who served as the General of the Horse Riders among the generals. However, it is a great pity that this year, Zhang Fei was killed by his subordinates and failed to participate in the Battle of Yiling. In this regard, in the author's opinion, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are both fierce generals of the three armies. However, Zhang Fei respected the scholar-doctor, but did not treat his own soldiers well, while Guan Yu treated his own soldiers well, but he was more arrogant to the scholars. And this has become an important reason for the successive killings of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.
The second Che Rider General was Wu Yi
Wu Yi came from the land of Yanzhou, and in the last year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wu Yi came to Yizhou and assisted Liu Zhang's father Liu Yan. When the Battle of Yizhou broke out, Wu Yi surrendered to Liu Bei. Moreover, after Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, he married Wu Yi and Wu Ban's sister Wu Shi. And this prompted them to have a special position in Shu Han, that is, Wu Yi and Wu Ban brothers, which can be said to be the foreign relatives of Shu Han. Beginning in 228 AD, Wu Yi followed Zhuge Liang on his Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. In 230, Wei Yan defeated Guo Huai, Fei Yao, and other Cao Wei generals at the Battle of Yangxi, and wu Yi, for his part, also participated in this battle. After the Battle of Yangxi, Wu Yi was made a general of the left by the later lord Liu Chan and given the title of Marquis of Gaoyang.
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In 234, after Zhuge Liang's death, Wu Yi was promoted to cheqi general and became the second cheqi general of the Shu Han Dynasty. Moreover, from 234 AD onwards, the che general Wu Yi also undertook the heavy responsibility of guarding Hanzhong. However, it is a great pity that by 237 AD, Wu Yi died, that is, he had been in Hanzhong for less than 4 years.
The third general was Zhang Yi
Zhang Yi was a native of Yizhou, and after the establishment of the Shu Han Dynasty, Zhang Yi served as the Taishou of several counties. Therefore, Zhang Yi was mainly in the governance of one side in the early days, and did not participate in the war on the Shu Han front. In 231 AD, Zhang Yi came to the Southern Central Region and served as the Governor of Yu. In 234, Zhuge Liang made his last northern expedition to the Central Plains, leaving Zhang Yi as his vanguard. After Zhuge Liang's death, Zhang Yi was made a former general by the later lord Liu Chan and given the title of Marquis of Guannei. After this, Zhang Yi also followed Jiang Wei in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
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In June 259, Zhang Yi was promoted to the rank of General of the Left Horse. In 264, after the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, zhong hui rebelled and failed, which led to Zhang Yi being killed by the rebels.
The fourth General of the Riders was Liao Hua
Since Zhang Yi is the left car riding general, there will naturally be a right car riding general to correspond with each other, and this person is Liao Hua. Liao Hua was from the land of Jingzhou and was once a subordinate of Guan Yu. After Guan Yu was killed, Liao Hua was once exiled to Eastern Wu. However, in 221 AD, Liao Hua successfully escaped back to Shu Han. Beginning in 228 AD, Liao Hua repeatedly followed Zhuge Liang in his Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.
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In June 259, Liao Hua, a veteran general, was promoted to the rank of right-hand cavalry general. In 263 AD, the Shu Han Dynasty fell. In 264, Liao Hua moved to Luoyang with his successor Liu Chan, but died of illness halfway through. In the late Shu Han Dynasty, Liao Hua and Zhang Yi were military generals who could not be ignored. Moreover, after seeing Jiang Wei's continuous northern expedition and the depletion of The Shu Han national strength, both Liao Hua and Zhang Yi expressed their opposition. Of course, Jiang Wei, as a general of higher status, did not accept their criticism. On this basis, Jiang Wei's obstinate behavior naturally accelerated the process of Shu Han's demise.
The fifth Che Rider General was Xiahou Ba
Finally, unlike Zhang Yi and Liao Hua, Xiahou Ba was a military general who supported Jiang Wei's Northern Expedition. As we all know, Xiahou Ba was originally the Cao Wei Sect. In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), when Xiahou Ba's father Xiahou Yuan was serving as a general in the Western Expedition, Zhen shou Hanzhong was beheaded by the Shu Han general Huang Zhong in the Battle of Dingjun Mountain and the Shu Han army, xiahou Ba often gritted his teeth and was determined to avenge his father Xiahou Yuan.
In the first year of Jiaping (249), Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion and killed the great general Cao Shuang, who had previously held the power of the State of Wei, and Cao Shuang's cousin Xiahou Xuan, the nephew of Xiahou Batang, was recalled from the front to the capital by Sima Yi and asked Guo Huai to take his place. Xiahou Bapingsu was at odds with Guo Huai, believing that this would inevitably plague him, and was very afraid, so he fled into Shu Han, lost his way in Yinping, and ran out of food. When Shu Han learned of this, he sent someone to greet Xiahou Ba.
In this regard, in the author's opinion, although Xiahou Ba's father Xiahou Yuan was beheaded by Huang Zhong, if he continued to stay in Cao Wei, he was likely to be killed by Sima Yi. Therefore, Xiahou Ba betrayed Cao Wei and defected to Shu Han. In the face of Xiahou Ba, who came to his aid, the later lord Liu Chan crowned him as a cheqi general. Of course, this is also because Xiahou Ba's cousin Xiahou Shi married Zhang Fei, and the two daughters of Xiahou Shi and Zhang Fei became the empress of the later lord Liu Chan. Because of this layer of relationship, Xiahou Ba was naturally treated favorably by Liu Chan.
In the eighteenth year of Yanxi (255), Sima Shi, who held the power of the State of Wei, died of illness, and Jiang Wei took the opportunity to lead tens of thousands of people out of Di Dao with Xiahou Ba, the general Zhang Yi of Zhengxi, and others to divide the troops into three ways to attack the State of Wei, and defeated the Wei state of Yongzhou in Taoxi, where Wang Jing lost tens of thousands of people. Wang Jing retreated to Di Dao City, Jiang Wei marched on Di Dao City, and the Wei general Chen Tai sent troops to relieve the siege, so Jiang Wei withdrew and garrisoned Zhong Ti. However, since 255 AD, there is no relevant record of Xiahou Ba in historical materials such as the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, that is, his ending, which belongs to the situation where his whereabouts are unknown.