First of all, briefly talk about Zhao Yun's extraordinary life! Zhao Yun, Changshan is a real person, which is really attributed to Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang. During the Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty, in order to avoid the name of Yin Zhen, it was changed to Zhengding. Today's life, there are Zhao Yun in Hebei. There are Zilong Bridge, Zilong Primary School, Zilong Square and so on, but the most famous one is Changshan Drum, which shows that his influence is still faintly visible.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhao Yun, dressed in cloth, took refuge in Gongsun Zan. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhao Yun saved Gongsun Zan's life as soon as he appeared. At that time, Gongsun Zan was at war with Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan was defeated and rode away. However, Wen Chou followed closely. Just as China was about to be stabbed, a young general rushed out and saved Gongsun Zan. This young general is Zhao Yun. When Zhao Yun had just taken refuge in Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Zan asked Zhao Yun, "Why did you come to take refuge in me when everyone there took refuge in Yuan Shao?" Zhao Yun replied: "The general can be benevolent and love the people, so he has come to you." Gongsun Zan heard this answer, of course, happy. Soon, Zhao Yun found that Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao were tarred with the same brush, and they would only fight for territory. At this time, he met Liu Bei, who came to take refuge in Gongsun Zan, and brought a turning point for Zhao Yun's life, but this turning point was not how brilliant Zhao Yun was in officialdom.
Shortly after Zhao Yun's brother died, he said goodbye to Gongsun Zan and went home to attend the funeral. On the occasion of parting, Zhao Yun left Liu Bei a promise of "never betraying Germany". This is ten years, and in Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong arranged for Zhao Yun to wait for the democratic leader at home. In recent years, great changes have taken place in world affairs, but Liu Bei is still in pain, running around and having no place of his own.
Ten years, Gongsun Zan was destroyed by Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei stayed in Xuzhou after many twists and turns. In the first month of 200 AD, Cao Cao led an army to raid Xuzhou. Liu Bei's two wives and generals were captured, so Liu Bei had to go to Yuan Shao in a mess. It was here that Zhao Yun appeared in front of Liu Bei in his dusty appearance. In a blink of an eye, Zhao Yun has been following Liu Bei for seven years, but in 208 AD, after the pacification, Cao Cao personally led the army south, and Liu Bei led the crowd to flee, taking hundreds of thousands of people with him, which was slow. Later, the team broke up, leaving only more than 100 cavalry in the team of more than 3,000 military horses, and two daughters were captured. In a panic, Liu Bei abandoned his wife and only led dozens of Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang to ride south. That is, on the run, Zhao Yun was found missing. At this point, Zhao Yun is also facing a difficult choice. Behind him is the menacing Cao Jun, and Liu Bei's wife and young master Liu Chan. If they continue to escape, they may be able to leave the battlefield without danger. If you turn around to save the young master, you will face countless generals of Cao Bing. But at this difficult moment, Zhao Yun decided to kill him alone, leaving us with a historic feat of "Changbanpo riding alone to save Dou". In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it also describes how Cao Cao watched the war. Cao Cao even ordered not to shoot arrows, but to capture Zhao Yun alive. But when people found Zhao Yun missing, Liu Bei's camp became suspicious. Some people say that Zhao Yun has defected to Jun .. But Liu Bei didn't believe it, because his heart believed Zhao Yun. It can be seen that after Zhao Yun defected to Liu Bei, there were still many people in Liu Bei's camp who didn't believe Zhao Yun. This experience is somewhat similar to Zhuge Liang's experience in Liu Bei's camp.
Later, Zhao Yun successfully broke through and rescued the young master, but at this critical moment, he rescued Dou single-handedly, which only made Zhao Yun take a small step in Liu Bei's identity and was promoted to "General of the yamen", which was only the lowest level among the generals, and then he had a captain. This may be related to the gate valve system in Han dynasty, but it is not sufficient.
In the 18th year of Jian 'an, Liu Bei broke with Liu Zhang for 2 13 years. Zhuge Liang, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei and others led the troops westward and settled the counties all the way. After conquering Jiangzhou, the soldiers were divided into two ways. Zhaoyun led an army to capture Jiangyang and other counties from outside water, and joined Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang in Chengdu the following year. In AD 2 14, Liu Bei had his own base area, and with the defection of Ma Chao, Liu Bei was in high spirits at this time. There is such a record in the "History of the Three Kingdoms": "Chengdu is set, and the cloud is the general of the foreign army", but Zhao Yun was still in this position until Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor in 22 1 AD. Some people say that he is not valued, and some people say that he is incompetent, but what is the truth? Maybe it's because of identity! Liu Bei has long used Zhao Yun as a pro-army general. To put it bluntly, he is in charge of housework. According to historical records, those arrogant soldiers and experts brought by Mrs. Sun from Soochow were very arrogant in the Han camp, and only Zhao Yun could subdue them. After Liu Bei pacified Yizhou and captured Hanzhong, he was proud of his spring breeze. He slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward the three armed forces, and then Liu Bei negotiated with the ministers to reward a large number of houses in Chengdu and fields outside the city. Everyone is happy, but Zhao Yun looked down at this time, and finally Zhao Yun followed his inner thoughts. Zhao Yunxian quoted a famous saying of Huo Qubing: It is useless to do things at home before the Huns are extinct. Later, he said: the people of Yizhou were repeatedly attacked by soldiers and fires, and the fields and houses were empty. Now it is time to return them to the people, so that they can live, resume their work and be convinced by the people. It is not appropriate to use them as personal rewards. These words are like a real blow to Liu Bei, who was carried away by victory and adopted Zhao Yun's opinion. But this suggestion also made Zhao Yun offend those important people in West Shu. Think about it carefully, Zhao Yun's situation in the West Shu camp is very delicate.
In AD 2 19, Liu Bei attacked Hanzhong on a large scale, and Zhao Yun performed another "empty camp" here, causing heavy casualties in Cao Jun. Later, in Guan Yu's "careless loss of Jingzhou and defeat of Maicheng", Zhao Zilong also advised Liu Bei, but due to Zhang Fei's ignorance, Liu Bei attacked Wu Dong on a large scale. It was defeated by a fire that lasted 700 miles. Finally, Zhao Yun rescued Liu Bei and fled to Baidicheng. In 223 AD, Liu Bei entrusted the orphan to Baidicheng and died with regret. In 228 AD, Shu recovered its vitality after five years of hard work, but Zhao Yun was old and faced with the last choice in life. In order to expand his territory, Zhuge Liang decided to go to the Northern Expedition, which was Zhao Yun's last expedition in his life. Zhao Yun played an important role in the Northern Expedition at a critical moment, but he was old after all. Shortly after the Northern Expedition, Zhao Yun died in Chengdu and was buried in Jinping Shandong, Chengdu. Thirty-two years later, Zhao was named "Shunping Hou" by his former teacher posthumous title.
After we look closely at Zhao Yun's life, he was still a general of the town army until his death, and we can't help feeling that the perfect Zhao Yun in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms was infected with a trace of sadness. This also reminds me of the man who couldn't be sealed in the Western Han Dynasty: Li Guang, a flying general.