In the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Huang Zhong, one of the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Shu Kingdom, had white hair as soon as he appeared, but he fought with Guan Yu for more than a hundred rounds, and later followed Liu Bei to kill xiahou Yuan, the general of Cao Ying, and repeatedly made battle achievements, making a khan ma gongying for the establishment of the Shu state.
So much so that when we talk about "old and strong", we will think of the old general Huang Zhong!
In fact, Zhao Yun, another "Five Tiger General" of the Shu Kingdom, fought with Kong Ming in his later years, and his achievements were also brilliant, worthy of the term "old and strong".
One, the seventy-year-old dragon jian qigong
After Kong Ming pacified southern Meng, he went to the "Table of Departures" and requested to lead troops to the Northern Expedition.
The veteran general Zhao Yun was forced to die and volunteered to march for the vanguard with the army.
The State of Wei met the battle with the son of Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, the son of Xiahou Yuan.
At times, there were the Western Liang general Han De, who was good at making a mountain axe and had the courage of ten thousand men; De had four sons, all proficient in martial arts, and had excellent bows and horses: the eldest son Han Ying, the second son Han Yao, the third son Han Qiong, and the fourth son Han Qi.
Xiahou Shu, with Han De as the vanguard, led his four sons and 80,000 Qiang soldiers to meet Zhao Yun, the vanguard of the Shu army, at Fengming Mountain.
Zhao Yun was greatly forgiven, and he raised his gun and rode his horse, and single-handedly fought with Han Ande. The eldest son, Han Ying, came to meet the prancing horse, and was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun under the horse. The second son, Han Yao, saw this and swung his sword at him. Zhao Yunshi was a tiger in the old days, shaking his spirit to meet the battle, and Yao could not resist the enemy. The third son, Han Qiong, rushed forward to attack Fang Tianji. The cloud is not afraid at all, and the marksmanship is not chaotic. The fourth son, Han Qi, seeing that the second brother zhanyun was not down, also came with two Sun Moon Knives on horseback and surrounded Zhao Yun. Cloud fights alone in the center of the three generals. When he was young, Han Qi was shot and fell off his horse, and han jinzhong sent out first aid. Yun dragged the gun away, Han Qiong pressed the halberd, hurriedly took the bow and arrow to shoot it, and released three arrows in a row, all of which were pulled down by Yun with a gun. Qiong was furious, and still came on horseback, but was shot by an arrow from Yun and fell off his horse and died. Han Yao raised his sword to slash Zhao Yun, Yun abandoned his gun to the ground, flashed the sword, captured Han Yao and returned to the battle, and the horse took the gun and killed him.
Han De saw that his four sons were all defeated by Zhao Yu's men in an instant, and their liver and gallbladder were all cracked, and they retreated into the home front first.
The Western Liang soldiers usually knew Zhao Yun's bravery, but now they saw that the heroes were as brave as ever, and no one dared to fight!
Zhao Yun's war horses were everywhere, retreating in gusts. Zhao Yun single-handedly clashed back and forth, like entering a no-man's land. Later generations have poems that praise:
Recalling the old Changshan Zhao Zilong, the seventy years of the seventy Jianqi Gong.
The four will charge in the future, just like the savior of the year.
The pioneer Zhao Yun was invincible, the Shu soldiers covered up, and Han De abandoned his horse on foot to escape, and was almost captured alive!
Xiahou Shu personally commanded troops to meet Zhao Yun, and Han De, in revenge for killing his son, took Zhao Yun with a large axe. Zhao Yun fought with a gun to meet him, and when the battle was not three, the gun started and stabbed Han De to death under his horse.
The Shu army won another big victory!
Second, the sword does not count Huang Zhong
Liu Bei and Cao Jun fought for Hanzhong, and Zhang Gao led his troops to attack Yemeng Pass.
The veteran general Huang Zhong was not convinced that the old man wanted to lead troops to meet Zhang Gao, and Kong Ming said: "The general is nearly seventy years old, how can he not be old?" Huang Zhongbai's hair stood upside down, "Although so-and-so is old, his two arms are still open with a three-stone bow, and he still has a thousand pounds of strength in his body, is he not enough to oppose Zhang Gaopifu?"
After Huang Zhong finished speaking, he stepped down to the hall, took the big knife on the shelf, and rotated like a fly; the hard bow on the wall, even dragged and folded two!
Huang Zhong and another veteran general, Yan Yan, led troops to face Zhang Gao. Zhang Gao teased Huang Zhong for his old age, and Huang Zhong angrily said, "Your boy deceived me old, but the sword in my hand is not old!" This is the idiom "the sword is not old"
origin!
Zhang Gao was defeated in front of Huang Zhong, who was "immortal with an immortal sword", and the old general Huang Lao, who was nearly seventy years old, fought Zhang Gao alone for more than twenty years without winning or losing, and killed Han Hao in one fell swoop, and occupied Tiandang Mountain, where Cao Jun's grain was stored.
After the victory at Tiandang Mountain, Huang Zhong rushed to Dingjun Mountain to duel with Xiahou Yuan, the main general of the Cao Army.
In the Battle of Dingjun Mountain, the veteran general Huang Zhongyi captured Xiahou Shang, and when he was captured, he returned with arrows, and fought with Xiahou Yuan for more than twenty years without winning or losing, and later, he and Fazheng designed an attack and killed Xiahou Yuan. Opened the door to march into Hanzhong!
Three, two old who has more supernatural powers
Reading this, we can't help but ask: Veteran Zhao Yun and veteran General Huang Zhong, who has stronger force?
Military master Kong Ming's attitude towards the two veterans was completely different:
Zhang Gao led an army to attack Yemeng Pass, the defender Meng Da asked for help, and Kong Ming and Liu Bei discussed reinforcing Ye Mengguan.
Kong Ming said, "Zhang Gao is a famous general of Cao Wei, not an idle person, unless Zhang Fei is sent, no one can win!"
So Kong Ming proposed to go to Langzhong to draw Zhang Fei to the enemy Zhang Gao. Fa Zheng said, "Langzhong is also a very important place, and you can't fly back with Zhang, but you can choose one of the generals in the tent to meet Zhang Gao."
Therefore, the veteran general Huang Zhong stepped forward, showed his courage on the spot, and made a military order. Next, it was Huang Zhong and another veteran Yan Yan who composed a legend of "the sword is not old".
At that time, Zhao Yun and other generals all thought that the two veterans could not take on this big responsibility.
Kong Ming said, "You think that the two of you are old and can't do anything, but I expect these two people to help us capture Hanzhong." ″
Kong Ming was the commander of the First Army, and he knew well that the veteran general Huang Zhongzhi's ability not only had strategy, but also the strength of the army had not declined due to old age. Adjusting Zhang Fei to fight Zhang Gao was just Kong Ming's usual method of agitation. Facts have proved that Kong Ming's vision is unique, and Huang Zhong also contributed to Liu Bei's clique's seizure of Hanzhong. Similarly, Liu Bei also had confidence in Huang Zhong's strength, otherwise, when he began to enter Sichuan, he would not only take Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, but leave Zhang Fei and Guan Yu in Jingzhou!
Kong Ming's first Northern Expedition, all the arrangements were completed, and the distribution of various generals was decided.
When the veteran general Zhao Yun saw that he had not been arranged to accompany the army, he came out and said sharply: "Although I am old, I still have the courage of honesty and the hero of Ma Yuan." These two ancients did not obey the old, why did not use me? "
Kong Ming replied, "Since I returned from Pingding In the south, Ma Meng fell ill and died, and I was very sad, and I felt that I had broken an arm. Now that the general is old, if there is a slight mistake in the expedition, it will not only shake the wisdom of the general, but also damage the vigor of the soldiers of the Shu kingdom. "
At this time, the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Shu Kingdom, Guan Yu had already been killed by Eastern Wu, Zhang Fei was beheaded by his subordinates, Huang Zhong was killed by an arrow, Ma Chao had also died of illness, and the Five Tigers would only have 1 person left with Zhao Yun!
Kong Ming cherished the remaining fruits of the Five Tigers, and this feeling was understandable to everyone. But when the commander goes out on the battlefield, who does not want to have a fierce general like a cloud, "a thousand armies are easy to obtain, one will be difficult to seek", who is willing to let go of a general with the courage of ten thousand men?
Kong Ming's words have the element of cherishing Zhao Yun's reputation, and a large part of the reason is also worried that Zhao Yun is old and weak, and the force is no longer enough to conquer the battlefield. This was very different from the mood of Huang Zhongshi, a veteran of Zhiji at that time.
As a result, Zhao Yun was completely enraged by Kong Ming's words, and despite Kong Ming's repeated persuasion, he angrily said, "If you don't teach me to be a striker, you will crash into the front of the stairs."
In the end, Zhao Yun became the vanguard as he wished, and killed the five generals of the Han clan at Fengming Mountain. Even Xiahou Shu, the commander of the Wei army, sighed: "I have heard zhao Yun's name for a long time, and I have not tried to meet; today I am old, the hero still exists, and Fang Xin was the elderly..."
Xiahou Yu adopted the strategy of Cheng Wu, the son of Cheng Yu, to lure Zhao Yun into the ambush circle, and then besieged left and right, capturing Zhao Yun alive!
Zhao Yunzhong, who was full of meritorious service, went deep into the heavy ground and fell heavily under siege by the Wei army.
Zhao Yun went deep into the heavy ground, only to hear the sound reduction and tremor on all sides. Deng Zhi hurriedly collected his troops and retreated, with Dong Xi on the left and Xue Ze on the right, and the two soldiers were killed. Deng Zhi had few soldiers and could not be rescued. Zhao Yun was trapped in the heart of the city, rushing east and west, and the thicker the Wei soldiers became. Shi Yun had more than a thousand men under his command, and when he reached the bottom of the hillside, he saw Xiahou Shu commanding the three armies on the mountain, Zhao Yuntou looked east, and Zhao Yuntou looked west. Therefore, Zhao Yun could not break through, but led his troops to kill him on the mountain. In the middle of the mountain, the wooden cannon stone will be beaten down, and it will not be able to go up the mountain. When Zhao Yun killed from Chenshi to Unitary, he could not get out, so he had to get off his horse and rest, and wait for Yueming to fight again.
Following Han Shui's "East Rush West Raid", this is a typical "East Rush West Raid" by Zhao Yun!
As soon as the Shu army was unloading its armor and sitting down, Xiahou Shu saw it on the mountain and commanded the Wei soldiers to kill them. Four fires soared into the sky, drums shook loudly, and arrows rained down. Zhao Yun hurriedly mounted his horse to meet the enemy, the military horses on all sides gradually approached, and the crossbow arrows from all directions exchanged so quickly that no one or horses could move forward.
Zhao Yun looked up at the sky and sighed, "I don't obey the old man, I died here!" ″
This sentence comes from the mouth of Zhao Zilong, who once entered and exited seven times in Cao Cao's army and entered the no-man's land many times in the chaotic army, which will be somewhat surprising. This also shows that the elderly Zhao Yun also had to serve the old. This is a gap between this and the heroic state of mind when the seventy-year-old Huang Zhongdou Zhang Guo, killed Xiahou Yuan, and fought alone Xu Huang and Zhang Hao besieged.
The young Zhao Yun was almost the same as the old Huang Zhong's martial strength, and he thought that Zhao Yun was only a little stronger. When Zhao Yun was old, although he was also very brave, he was still slightly inferior to Huang Zhong, who was not old with a sword.
In the battle of Fengmingshan, Zhao Yun could kill the four generals of the Han clan, and if he was a veteran Huang Zhong, he could do it completely!
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(Main reference to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms)
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