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Today's Three Kingdoms idiom story is found in the 70th episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which took place during the Battle of Tiandangshan in Hanzhong, with characters huang zhong, Yan Yan, Zhang Guo, and Xiahou De. The original text is as follows:
Overhearing the great earthquake of the golden drum in front of the mountain, people reported that Huang Zhongbing had arrived. Xiahou De laughed and said, "The old thief doesn't know the art of war, he only has a brave ear!" Gao Yue: "Huang Zhong has a strategy, not a stop to yong also." De Yue: "The Sichuan soldiers have come from afar, tired for days, and even deeper into the battlefield, this is also a conspiracy!" "Don't take the enemy lightly, and you should hold firm." Han Haoyue: "I would like to borrow three thousand strikes from elite soldiers, and I should be invincible." De Sui divided his troops and Hao went down the mountain. Huang Zhong's whole army came to greet him. Liu Fengzhi said: "The sun has sunk in the west, and the army is far away and laborious, and it is advisable to rest for a while." Zhong smiled and said, "Not really." This heavenly gift is miraculous, and it is not taken against heaven also. "After the words were finished, the clamor was great.
Han Hao led troops to battle. Huang Zhong swung his sword straight at Hao, only one, and cut Hao under the horse. Shu Bing shouted and killed the mountain. Zhang Gao and Xiahou Shang rushed to meet them. I overheard the shouts behind the mountain, and the flames soared into the sky, turning red up and down. When Xiahou De raised troops to fight the fire, he encountered the veteran general Yan Yan, who raised his knife in his hand and beheaded Xiahou De under his horse. It turned out that Huang Zhong had pre-empted Yan Yan's army to ambush in a remote place in the mountains, only to wait for Huang Zhongjun to arrive, but he came to set fire to it, and on the pile of firewood and grass, they lit it together, and the flames flew up and illuminated the mountain. Yan Yan beheaded Xiahou De and killed him from behind the mountain. Zhang Gao and Xiahou Shang could not take care of each other before and after, so they had to abandon Tiandang Mountain and hope that the army would go to Xiahou Yuan.
According to the plot of the novel, the veteran generals Huang Zhong and Yan Yan were ordered to attack Tiandang Mountain. Zhang Gao suggested that the defender Xiahou De (夏侯徳) could not hold out, but another general, Han Hao, believed that only three thousand elite soldiers would be enough to defeat Huang Zhong. After the two armies began to fight, Huang Zhong killed Han Hao in only one turn, and Yan Yan killed Xiahou De. Zhang Gao deserved to flee with Emperor Shang of Xiahou, and the Battle of Tiandang Mountain ended with Huang Zhong's victory.
The idiom to be introduced in this article is the fire of Tiandang Mountain after Yan Yanfeng Huang Zhong's fatal fire attack, called "fire soaring into the sky", which means that the fire light illuminates the sky and describes the fire as extremely large. This is also an idiom pioneered by Luo Guanzhong, the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Most of Huang Zhong's brilliance in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is concentrated during the Battle of Hanzhong. In addition to killing Xiahou Yuan at Dingjun Mountain, the Battle of Tiandang Mountain was also a concrete embodiment of Huang Zhongzhiyong's dual personality. In addition to Huang Zhong, Yan Yan's performance in this battle was also very good. He not only completed the arson strategy formulated by Huang Zhong before the battle, but also took advantage of the chaos of the Cao army to kill the defender Xiahou De, making great contributions to the victory of the Battle of Tiandang Mountain. However, looking through the historical materials, it is found that the plot of the Battle of Tiandang Mountain in the novel is completely fictionalized by the author and does not exist in history. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong had no other achievements in the Battle of Hanzhong except for the beheading of Xiahou Yuan at the Battle of Dingjun Mountain. Although Yan Yan was captured by Zhang Feisheng in the Battle of Yizhou and was honored as a guest by Zhang Fei, there has been no trace since.
The Zhang Gao mentioned in the novel did appear on the battlefield of the Battle of Hanzhong. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms and the Biography of Zhang Gao reads: "The governors of The Armies of Gao Beibei surrendered to the two counties of Padang and Batu, and migrated their people to Hanzhong. Marching into the Canal, in order to prepare for the rejection of Zhang Fei, he returned to Southern Zheng. General BaiDanko. Liu BeiTun Yangping, Gao Tun Guangshi. This also means that before the Battle of DingjunShan, Zhang Gao's opponent was not Huang Zhong, but Zhang Fei. As for Xiahou De, who appears in the novel, it is not found in the historical data, but is a fictional character by the novelist. In the novel, Han Hao, who was beheaded by Huang Zhong, did have his own person, but the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms • Xiahou Huan Biography" quotes the Book of Wei that after Cao Cao surrendered Zhang Lu and occupied Hanzhong, someone once suggested that Han Haozhen be allowed to guard Hanzhong. But Cao Cao said, "Can I have no escorts?" This means that he was reluctant to let Han Hao stay in Hanzhong, so he brought him back to the Central Plains. Later, Han Hao died of illness, "Taizu regretted it." This means that Han Hao did not die in battle in Hanzhong, but died of illness in the Central Plains, and had nothing to do with Huang Zhong.
Since there was no Battle of Tiandang Mountain in history, and Han Hao did not die under Huang Zhong's sword, why did the author make such a fiction? The reason is actually very simple, in order to flatter Huang Zhong. After all, Huang Zhong, the "Five Tiger Generals", has too few shining points in history. If we faithfully shape Huang Zhong's image according to historical materials, it is inevitable that it will be too thin and unworthy of the title of "Five Tiger Generals". Therefore, the author fictionalized this plot to further enrich the character of Huang Zhong.
Reference Books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms