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As Li Dian had guessed, Xiahou Dun and Yu Jin fell into the trap. Fortunately, Li Dian was well prepared and quickly learned about the trap. He immediately led his army to rescue them, which saved them from being captured. In the end, Liu Bei chose to stop fighting the Cao army because of the disparity in military strength.

Zhang Liao served under Lu Bu in his early years. When Lu Bu was in rebellion in Yanzhou, he tried to persuade Li Dian's cousin Li Qian to surrender. Li Qian eventually refused Lu Bu and was killed by Lu Bu's generals.

Although the "Three Kingdoms" does not clearly indicate whether Zhang Liao took action, as an important subordinate of Lu Bu, Zhang Liao is likely to have participated in the action, or at least knew about it. Therefore, Zhang Liao and Li Dian still had deep conflicts while serving Cao Cao at the same time.

In 215 AD, Sun Quan took advantage of Cao Cao's main force to attack Hanzhong and personally led 10 troops to attack Hefei, which triggered the Battle of Xiaoyaojin. Cao Cao then sent Zhang Liao, Li Dian and Le Jin to lead more than 7000 people to guard Hefei.

Faced with such a huge disparity in military strength, Li Dian chose to put aside his grudges and work together to overcome the difficulties. He was mainly responsible for city defense and tactical planning, making full use of Hefei's city defense facilities, formulating a series of effective defense tactics, and coordinating the cooperation between Zhang Liao and Le Jin.

Although the history books do not mention every specific action he took in the Battle of Xiaoyaojin, the reason why the defenders of Hefei were able to exert their maximum combat effectiveness was inseparable from the close cooperation between several generals. Sun Quan ultimately failed to capture Hefei and was left with the title of "Sun Shiwan".

To sum up, Li Dian's military talent, overall view, and loyalty and dedication made positive contributions to the stability and expansion of Cao Wei.

We know that the "Five Great Generals" refer to the five outstanding generals of the Cao Wei period, namely Zhang Liao, Le Jin, Yu Jin, Zhang He and Xu Huang. They played an important role in the military expansion of Cao Wei, and each of them had remarkable military exploits and contributions.

However, as an important general under Cao Cao, why was Li Dian not listed as one of the "Five Elite Generals"?

In fact, according to historical records, Li Dian was slightly inferior to the Five Elite Generals, but this inferiority did not refer to his ability, but to the number of his military exploits. Li Dian died young shortly after the Battle of Hefei, at the age of only 36.

In other words, after he took over Li's army, he followed Cao Cao for only 17 years.

Compared with the five generals who participated in many major battles, Li Dian's active time was relatively short, which led to his less prominent influence in history. But judging from his role in some battles, he was indeed one of the important factors for Cao Cao's victory.

[Shi Chong, a court official who became extremely wealthy through robbery, eventually died from this ill-gotten wealth. Historical trivia and historical figures]

He is an official who made his fortune by robbing, and was promoted to the rank of minister several times with his supernatural powers. His luxury is beyond imagination: the bedrooms of high-ranking officials are not as luxurious as his toilets, and even when he goes to the toilet, there are beautiful women waiting to serve him.

He was not only a famous poet, but also an extremely cruel person. When entertaining guests, if the guests did not drink, he would kill the beautiful women who persuaded them to drink.

This person was Shi Chong, Marquis of Anyang during the Western Jin Dynasty.

Shi Chong, whose courtesy name was Ji Lun and nickname was Qinu, was born in Nanpi, Bohai (now northeast of Nanpi, Hebei) in 249 AD.

His family background was very prominent. His father, Shi Bao, was a founding hero of the Western Jin Dynasty and served as the Grand Marshal. Shi Chong was brave and resourceful in his youth, and was eager to learn. His father recognized him very much.

But before his death, he distributed all his property to his other children, except Shi Chong. Shi Chong's mother tried to persuade him to give up, but Shi Bao firmly believed that Shi Chong could obtain wealth through his own ability.

Sure enough, when Shi Chong was in his 20s, he was just a county magistrate, but in just two or three years he became a palace attendant.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, the Palace Attendant was not only close to the emperor, but also able to participate in secrets and decision-making, and had a direct influence on the government.

At that time, Chengyang was located in Qingzhou and was an important administrative region during the Western Jin Dynasty. It occupied a certain position in the political and economic structure and had certain administrative management and resource allocation powers.

Perhaps due to the balance of power in the court, or because Shi Chong's personal performance was outstanding, Shi Chong was ordered to contain Chengyang and serve as the prefect of Chengyang.

In 279 AD, Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan, conquered the State of Wu in one year through land and sea campaigns. Shi Chong was awarded the title of Marquis of Anyang for his contribution in the war against Wu.

Although the history books do not record Shi Chong's specific performance in the war, in ancient wars, only those who won a key battle against an enemy country, or inflicted a heavy blow to the enemy, or showed outstanding command ability and heroic performance in battle, and had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war, were eligible to be granted a title of nobility by the emperor. This shows that Shi Chong had at least one of these achievements.

Later, Shi Chong was promoted repeatedly because he was valued by Emperor Wu of Jin. He served as Palace Attendant and Palace Attendant, both of which were important officials in the court. After Sima Zhong, the stupid son of Emperor Wu of Jin, succeeded to the throne, due to his limited ability, the power was in the hands of other ministers.

However, Shi Chong, as an important official of the imperial court, was transferred to be the governor of Jingzhou and the commander of the Southern Barbarians at this time. As for the reason, the history books did not clearly indicate it.

However, Shi Chong was very likely to have offended the Grand Tutor Yang Jun. When Sima Zhong succeeded to the throne, Yang Jun, as the regent, held great power, but his authoritarian behavior caused dissatisfaction among some court officials. As a court official at the time, Shi Chong was extremely worried, so he directly proposed to Yang Jun the suggestion of "co-governance with the four seas", advocating the decentralization and sharing of political power, and opposed Yang Jun's monopoly of power.

Yang Jun was also very aware of his reputation, and in order to please everyone, he generally conferred titles and ranks on ministers. As a result, this move was once again opposed by Shi Chong.

This shows the differences between the two. Therefore, Shi Chong was squeezed out of the power center by Yang Jun. But this incident also had a huge impact on Shi Chong's future.

The Western Jin Dynasty court once issued a clear order prohibiting the 鸩 bird living in the south from being brought to the north, mainly because the 鸩 bird is extremely poisonous and if used for improper purposes, it may cause great harm to society.

When Shi Chong was serving as the governor of Jingzhou, he gave a poisonous bird to Wang Kai, the uncle of Sima Zhong, and was reported for this. Fortunately, someone interceded for him and Sima Zhong acquitted him.

After several political setbacks, Shi Chong gradually gave up his original moral values ​​and prepared to accumulate wealth and power through other means. He found that there were many merchants traveling in Jingzhou, all of whom carried huge amounts of property, so he decided to rob the merchants as a means of gaining wealth.

Afterwards, Shi Chong openly robbed by setting up checkpoints and colluding with bandits, and quickly accumulated a huge amount of wealth in a short period of time. Although the exact amount of the robbery is not specifically recorded in historical documents, it can be seen from his personal life and the relationship with Wang Kai and Du Yu.

"A New Account of Tales of the World" records that Shi Chong even built his toilet magnificently, and prepared various perfumes and ointments for guests to wash their hands and faces.

Outside the toilet, there were often more than 10 maids waiting, and these maids were dressed in brocade and embroidered clothes, and were very gorgeous. Whenever the guests went to the toilet, these maids would take off the guests' clothes, and then they could put on new clothes before leaving.

Once, an official named Liu had just entered the toilet and ran out in a hurry, thinking that he had mistakenly entered Shi Chong's bedroom.

In order to conquer Wang Kai, Shi Chong used purple silk cloth to make a 40-li-long tent, while Wang Kai used warning cloth to make a 50-li-long tent.

Wang Kai decorated his house with Guerlain spices, while Shi Chong used red ochre. Wang Kai once took out a coral tree given by the emperor, but Shi Chong broke it and took out more and taller coral trees for Wang Kai to choose from.

The most amazing thing is that Shi Chong built a Jingu Garden 7 miles northeast of Luoyang City. He used all kinds of rare treasures to decorate the garden, and its luxury even exceeded that of the imperial palace. Jingu Garden has a very large scale of buildings. With the height of the terrain, terraces and pools were built, and pavilions and pavilions were scattered at different heights, winding and tortuous, with the sound of gurgling water.

The buildings, including pavilions, terraces, and pavilions, are distributed within dozens of miles around, which is enough to show that Shi Chong's wealth is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people. With such huge wealth, he has experienced repeated setbacks in his official career.

In the officialdom at that time, corruption among officials was extremely serious. However, Shi Chong, who was originally the governor of Jingzhou, suddenly became the Minister of Agriculture, one of the Nine Ministers.

Later, he was dismissed for leaving his post without permission, but it was no big deal for a man like him who had huge wealth. Not long after, he became the Grand Coachman, one of the Nine Ministers. In 291 AD, the Eight Kings Rebellion broke out, and Shi Chong was appointed as the General of Conquering the Enemy and the Sergeant of Xuzhou. But after arriving in Xuzhou, he was impeached for competing with the governor of Xuzhou for wine.

As a result, just after being dismissed from his post, he used his interpersonal relationships to become the Weiwei, one of the Nine Ministers, and together with 24 other people, he curryed favor with the powerful official Jia Mi at the time, and they were known as the "Twenty-Four Friends".

Nine years later, Zhao Wang Sima Lun launched a coup and killed Jia Mi. As Jia Mi's accomplice, Shi Chong should have been killed as well, but Shi Chong's nephew had a grudge against Sima Lun, so Shi Chong was only dismissed from office. At that time, Shi Chong had a concubine named Lu Zhu, who was beautiful and good at playing the flute.

After Sima Lun let Shi Chong go, he asked him for Lu Zhu, but was decisively rejected by Shi Chong.

Later, Shi Chong heard that Sima Lun was planning to kill him in order to get Lu Zhu, so he secretly contacted Sima Yun, King of Huainan, and Sima Jiong, King of Qi, and prepared to kill Sima Lun together.

As a result, Sima Lun learned about it in advance and surrounded Shi Chong in Jingu Garden. At that time, Lu Zhu thought that it was her fault that led to this situation, so she committed suicide.

Shi Chong did not realize the seriousness of the matter and thought that Lu Zhu did not need to commit suicide and that he would be exiled to Jiaozhi at most. However, he was locked in a prisoner car and taken to the East Market.

Only then did Shi Chong suddenly realize that Sima Lun had used various means of oppression to force him to submit, and then put him to death and seized his property.

There were also deeper political motives, such as taking the opportunity to find out the forces around Shi Chong. Shi Chong's entire family was eventually killed.

Some people feel deeply sorry for Shi Chong's ending, because he was a very talented poet and left behind several very famous works.

Some people also think that he deserved to be put to death, as he was a court official who robbed people on the road and lived an extravagant lifestyle. He also had an extremely cruel side.

When he entertained guests, he had a rule that beauties would persuade them to drink. If the guests did not drink or could not finish the wine, he would order the beauties who persuaded them to drink to be killed. Once he entertained Wang Dao and Wang Dun.

Wang Dao never drank alcohol, but in order to prevent the beauties from being killed, he reluctantly drank the wine. However, Wang Dun could drink alcohol, but he refused to drink it. As a result, Shi Chong killed three beauties in succession. This outrageous act showed Shi Chong's coldness and cruelty.

[A genius who defeated an army of hundreds of thousands with only 2,000 men at the age of 15. Historical trivia and historical figures]

At the age of 15, he defeated an army of hundreds of thousands with only 2000 soldiers and directly beheaded more than 3 enemies. He once turned the tide in an unfavorable situation when he was about to fail in actual combat and finally won.

He was loyal to Buddha and fulfilled his duties throughout his life. In the period of the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms, which was full of killing and evil, he was almost a perfect existence. However, why do some people still attribute him to a morally corrupt person? This person is Murong Ke, a famous general of the Former Yan Dynasty.

Murong Ke was the fourth son of Murong Huang, the leader of the Former Yan regime of the Xianbei people during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. Because his mother Gao Shi was not favored by Murong Huang, Murong Ke was neglected by his father until he was 15 years old.

It was not until he was 15 years old that Murong Huang discovered in several conversations with Murong Ke that he could say something amazing every time. Only then did he begin to value this son and gave him the army to command. Murong Ke has since shown amazing military talent.

No one would have thought that a young man, who had just taken charge of the military power, would fight a shocking battle. At that time, Emperor Shi Hu of the Later Zhao Dynasty sent hundreds of thousands of troops to the north to attack the Former Yan.

After the two sides fought for more than 10 days, the Later Zhao army retreated because they could not conquer the enemy. Murong Ke took the opportunity to lead 2000 soldiers out of the city to chase and kill them. As a result, the retreating Zhao army was thrown into chaos and eventually suffered a disastrous defeat. Murong Ke defeated the enemy with a small force and beheaded more than 2000 enemies with 3 soldiers. Since then, he became an important general of the Former Yan and participated in many important battles thereafter.

For example, he defeated the Goguryeo army that invaded Yanqi several times, making them afraid to attack again; defeated the leader of the Xianbei Yuwen tribe and forced him to flee to the north of the desert; captured Murong Ren alive and destroyed the sensational Murong Ren regime; conquered Longkou, allowing the Former Yan to control the entire North China Plain; besieged Yewangcheng and strangled the rebels who were about to betray; eliminated the threat of the Former Yan regime being attacked from both sides; and he also recovered the panic-stricken Lingzhi by means of encirclement and deterrence. All these battles proved Murong Ke's military talent.

Among them, the battle with Ran Min was regarded as a great test for Murong Ke. At that time, Murong Ke led 5 troops southward and met Ran Min's 1 elite infantrymen heading north in Weichang.

Although Murong Ke had five times the number of people as Ran Min, he was defeated in actual combat during the confrontation with Ran Min, which led to low morale of his soldiers.

However, Murong Ke eventually turned the tide of the war and won the victory with his indomitable will and outstanding military talent. Judging from the final results of the major battles, Murong Ke can be said to have won every battle.