Wei Yan was a famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, known for his bravery, and since following Liu Bei, he had been repeatedly meritorious and was entrusted with heavy responsibilities, guarding Hanzhong, and then following Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and killing the Wei general Wang Shuang.
Zhou Tai was a famous general of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms, one of the Twelve Tiger Ministers of Jiangdong, who saved Sun Quan in danger many times, and his combat effectiveness was not bad, and he once killed the barbarian king Sha Moke.
However, in the ranking of the three martial generals of the three kingdoms, Wei Yan ranked behind Zhou Tai, is this reasonable? Who is stronger, Wei Yan and Zhou Tai?
The rankings of the three martial generals are: one Lü Two Zhao San Dianwei, four passes, five horses and six Zhang Fei, Huang Xusun Tai two Xiahou, two Xu Pang Gan Zhou Wei, sharpshooter Zhang Xiu and Wen Yan, although brave and helpless life is too sad, the Three Kingdoms twenty-four generals, the last Deng Ai and Jiang Wei.
In this ranking, it is obvious that Wei Yan ranks nineteenth and sixth from the bottom after Gan Ning and Zhou Tai. Wei Yan ranked behind Zhou Tai and was very low.
Only the evolution is discussed here.
First of all, Wei Yan's battle record, when Wei Yan was defeated and left Jingzhou, Wei Yanzhen shouted, cut the gatekeeper, and went out of the city to welcome Liu Bei into the city, but Liu Bei did not enter, and then, the general Wen Ping came out of the city and fought with Wei Yan, Wei Yan and Wen Ping fought for two hours, regardless of victory or defeat, and finally, the soldiers who followed Wei Yan were killed and wounded, Wei Yan was helpless, chose to flee, and defected to Changsha Taishou Han Xuan.
Later, Guan Yu attacked Changsha, the veteran general Huang Zhong and Guan Yu were drawn, because the horse lost its front hoof, Guan Yu did not kill him, he could not bear to shoot Guan Yu, was ordered by Han Xuan to be beheaded, at a critical moment, Wei Yan once again raised his arms, led the soldiers who followed him, hacked Han Xuan to death with a knife, and surrendered the city.
During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Wei Yan was brave and good at fighting, and made great achievements many times, the most powerful battle record was to kill the Wei army general Wang Shuang, Wang Shuang was very powerful, had the courage of ten thousand men, but eventually died under Wei Yan's sword.
Speaking of Zhou Tai, Zhou Tai had protected Sun Quan from danger many times, once, the enemy's knives were cut into Sun Quan's saddle, Zhou Tai bravely killed the enemy and saved Sun Quan, Zhou Tai suffered more than a dozen serious injuries, just like the knife carved, Sun Quan at the wine banquet, poured wine for Zhou Tai, pointed to the wound and said, a wound, a bowl of wine, Zhou Tai was drunk.
There were many generals who disobeyed Zhou Tai, but as soon as they saw Zhou Tai's knife wounds and learned about Zhou Tai's brave savior, they were impressed.
Zhou Tai's greatest achievement was that when Liu Bei attacked Wu, he killed the barbarian king Sha Moke. Shamok was mighty, with two bows in his belt, and Ganning, because he was ill, saw that Samoko did not dare to fight, got on his horse and fled, but was shot in the head by an arrow from Samok and died.
When Liu Bei was defeated, the barbarian king ShaMoke ran for his life on horseback, and just happened to meet Zhou Tai, who fought with Sha Moke for twenty times and killed Sha Mo Ke.
If from a military point of view, Zhou Tai is obviously inferior to Wei Yan, Wei Yan is guarding Hanzhong, alone, and has a handsome talent, while Zhou Tai is only a general and has not commanded large-scale military operations alone.
Putting aside military talents and only relying on force to discuss, which of Wei Yan and Zhou Tai was stronger?
Wei Yan should be slightly stronger than Zhou Tai, why do you say that?
Wei Yan's force is characterized by fierceness, fierce as soon as it starts to fight, Wei Yan's force, the battle of Pound De did not lose, Pound De is more powerful, and Xu Huang, Xu Chu and other battles have been drawn, therefore, Wei Yan's force should be similar to Gan Ning, but a little stronger than Zhou Tai.
And Zhou Tai is not bad, Zhou Tai's strength is tough, after the start of the fight, it is very persistent, the strength is more durable, from the twenty combined forces, killing Sha Moke can be seen, this is his characteristics.