Chapter 57: Chaisangkou Wolong mourns, Director Fengchu of Leiyang County
The Tongque Terrace in Yecheng was completed, and Cao Cao and all the civil and military officials had a banquet at the Tongque Terrace. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang told Lu Su, who came to claim Jingzhou, that they could only return Jingzhou after acquiring Yizhou. Zhou Yu wanted to attack Jingzhou in the name of laboring the army, but Zhuge Liang saw through the plan and arranged four armies to wait for the arrival of Zhou Yu's troops.
When Zhou Yu died of illness, Zhuge Liang went to Chaisang to mourn. On the way back, he met Pang Tong. Zhuge Liang told Pang Tong that if he didn't like it, he could go to Liu Bei. Liu Bei sent Pang Tong to Leiyang County to handle affairs because of his ugly appearance. Zhang Fei went to Leiyang County to inspect and discovered Pang Tong's extraordinary talents, which finally led to Pang Tong being reused by Liu Bei. Expanded information
Brief introduction of the main characters in this chapter:
1. Zhou Yu, a famous general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Zhou Yi, the commander of Luoyang, his grandfather Zhou Jing and his uncle Zhou Zhong, who were all officials to the throne. Lieutenant. He is long and strong, has good looks and fine music, and there is a saying in Jiangdong that "if the music is wrong, Zhou Lang will take care of it".
Zhou Yu had a good relationship with Sun Ce. At the age of 21, he followed Sun Ce to the battlefield to pacify Jiangdong. Later, Sun Ce was assassinated and Sun Quan succeeded him. Everything.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), Zhou Yu led his army to join forces with Liu Bei and defeated Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, thus laying the foundation for the "three-part world". He also led his army to defeat Cao Ren and worshiped the partial general as the governor of Nanjun. He died of illness in Baqiu in the 15th year of Jian'an (210 years) at the age of 36.
Official history records that Zhou Yu had a "magnificent personality" and "a real genius". Sun Quan praised Zhou Yu for having "the qualifications of a king", and Fan Cheng praised him as "a heroic man in the world and a romantic and beautiful husband on the left side of the Yangtze River". During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was honored as Ping Lupp. Ranked among the sixty-four generals of the Tang Wumiao Temple and one of the seventy-two generals of the Song Wumiao Temple.
2. Liu Bei, a native of Zhuo County, Zhuo County, Youzhou (now Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province) in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was the founding emperor and statesman of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period after Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty. Historians often call him the first master.
Liu Bei worshiped Lu Zhi as his disciple when he was young, and later participated in activities such as suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising and the crusade against Dong Zhuo. Due to his limited strength, Liu Bei suffered repeated defeats in the melee between princes, so he successively relied on Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and many other princes.
However, because he always adhered to the code of conduct of persuading people with virtue, he was respected by celebrities at home and abroad. Even Tao Qian, Liu Biao, etc. gave up letting their sons inherit the foundation, but chose to transfer their territories to Xuzhou and Jingzhou were given to Liu Bei.
Through unremitting efforts, Liu Bei successively captured Jingzhou and Yizhou after the Battle of Chibi and established the Shu Han regime. Later, because Guan Yu was killed by Soochow, Liu Bei refused to listen to the dissuasion of his officials and insisted on launching a war against Wu. As a result, he was defeated in Yiling and finally died of illness in Baidi City in the third year of Zhangwu (223 years) at the age of sixty-three. Years old, his posthumous title was Emperor Zhaolie, and his temple name was Liezu, who was buried in Huiling.
Liu Bei was generous, knowledgeable, and unyielding. His act of entrusting the country to Zhuge Liang before his death was praised by Chen Shou as a great tradition in ancient and modern times. Many literary and artistic works in later generations also featured Liu Bei as the protagonist. The Wuhou Temple in Chengdu is commemorated by the Zhaolie Temple.
3. Pang Tong (179-214), named Shiyuan and Fengchu, was born in Xiangyang, Jingzhou (now Xiangyang, Hubei) during the Han Dynasty. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was an important counselor in Liu Bei's account and was worshiped as the military advisor Zhonglang General together with Zhuge Liang.
He entered Sichuan with Liu Bei. When Liu Bei and Liu Zhang broke up, he offered three strategies, upper, middle and lower, and Liu Bei took them into consideration. When he entered Luoxian County, Pang Tong led his troops to attack the city. Unfortunately, he was killed by a stray arrow. He was only thirty-six years old. He was posthumously awarded the title of Marquis of Guannei, with the posthumous title of Jinghou. Later, the place where Pang Tong was buried was named Luofengpo.