Among the generals of the Three Kingdoms, the twenty-second is Yan Liang.

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Yan Liang (?) ——200 years), a native of Langya Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), a general of the Hebei warlord Yuan Shao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, was famous for his bravery. In the fourth year of Jian'an (199), Yuan Shao took Yan Liang and Wen Chou as generals, led 100,000 soldiers, and prepared to attack Xu (now Xuchang, Henan). In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 years), the troops entered Liyang (now Jun County, Henan), and sent Yan Liang to attack Baima (now Huaxian County, Henan).

Cao Cao rescued in the north, crossed the river with Xun You's troops, led Yuan Shao to the west, and led his light troops to cover the white horse, Yan Liangcang suddenly rebelled, and was cut down by Guan Yu under the horse.

Yan Liang was famous along with Wen Chou as the brave generals of Yuan Shao's army, and Kong Rong used Yan Liang and Wen Chou as the representatives of the generals of Yuan Shao's army to advise Cao Cao to be careful with them.

In the fifth year of Jian'an (200 years), Yuan Shao and Cao Cao fought in Guandu.

When the war began, Yuan Shao was advised to "Yan Xian is in a hurry not to be appointed alone." ”

However, Yuan Shao still used Yan Liang to attack Liu Yan, the general of Cao who guarded the white horse alone.

In the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Legend of Emperor Wu in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, it is recorded that Yan Liang attacked with Guo Tu and Chun Yuqiong.

Faced with such a situation, Cao Cao's advisor Xun You suggested that he lead his army to first pretend to cross the river at Yanjin (now east of Jixian County, Henan), make a gesture of attacking the rear of Yuan's army, and induce Yuan Shao to divide his troops in Yanjin. Then, the light army rushed forward and attacked the white horse, attacking it unprepared.

Cao Cao followed his plan, and Yuan Shao really divided his troops to the west and advanced to Yanjin.

Cao Cao took the opportunity to lead his troops to the white horse, and when he was more than ten miles away from the white horse, Yan Liang was shocked when he learned about it, and to his surprise, he hurriedly met the battle.

Cao Cao sent the generals Zhang Liao and Guan Yu to lead the vanguard to attack, Guan Yu jumped in front of the array, saw Yan Liang Lugai (the general's car, set up a building, Zhang Gai), rushed over, hacked Yan Liang to death in the crowd, beheaded his head and returned.

Cao Cao waved the army to rush and kill, and the Yuan army was defeated and scattered, so the siege of Baima was relieved.

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Regarding Yan Liang, many versions only record his battle to the death. In this battle, all kinds of romances, there is such a sentence: "Only because of Xuande's prominent words, the hero died tied." ”

This sentence was put into the hymns of various ancient books except Mao, in addition to Huang Zhengfu's poems, Jiajing's book and Tang Binyin's book, Yu Xiangdou's book, and Zhu Dingchen's book all have text explanations.

Zhu Ben and Yu Ben do not seem to be small characters, and the other two versions are small characters, and the text is: "It turns out that when Yan Liang resigned Yuan Shao, Liu Xuande once secretly said: 'I have a younger brother, Guan Yun Changye, who is nine feet five inches long, must be one foot eight inches long, with a face like a heavy jujube, Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, like to wear green brocade robes, riding yellow horses, so that the green dragon sword must be at Cao Cao's place. If you see him, you can teach him to come in a hurry. Therefore, when Yan Liang saw Guan Gong coming, he only said that he had come to defect, so he was not ready to meet the enemy, and was beheaded by Guan Gong. ”

At this time, it was the time when several of the "Taoyuan Three Alliances" fell apart: Liu Bei took refuge in Yuan Shao, Guan Yu was captured by Cao Cao, and he was in Cao Cao's camp, guarding his sister-in-law (Liu Bei's wife), always ready to "ride alone for thousands of miles".

Cao Cao knew that Guan Yu had to go, but before leaving, you had to serve me Cao Cao on the battlefield, so he participated in the battle against Yuan Shaojun.

Liu Bei'er knew that Guan Yu was there with Cao Cao, but it was not very clear whether he would participate in this battle, so before Yan Liang left, he secretly instructed him.

Before Yan Liang was killed, all versions had descriptions of Yan Liang's desire to interrogate.

Mao Ben is "when Fang wants to ask", Huang Ben and Tang Ben, Zhu Ben is "but wants to ask", and Jiajing is "just want to ask".

Even in the classical opera "White Horse Slope", there is a plot of Liu Bei talking with Yan Liang before Yan Liang goes to war, which shows that in the author Luo Guanyuan's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Yan Liang died because Liu Bei asked him not to fight Guan Yu and was killed. In other words, Yan Liang doesn't want to fight you Lao Guan yet, and you come up with a knife?

- Who's playing with you?

Because according to Liu Bei's description of Guan Yu, Yan Liang would recognize it at a glance, and it would be Liu Bei's "I have a brother", thinking that Guan Yu came to defect because he knew that Liu Bei was here in Yuan Shao, and wanted to ask Guan Yu ("Fang Desire", "But Desire", "Just Desire"), before his mouth was opened, Guan Yu was a tiger, and it was a knife when he came up, so who wouldn't die?

If you have the mental preparation to fight, if you have a real knife and a real gun, and immediately get off the ground and fight, maybe who can beat whom, why won't you hack me to death with a single sword, right?

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Regarding the women related to Yan Liang, the Sprinkle family found Yan Liang's seventy-first generation Sun Yan Yuhu, and I asked him, "Do you have a woman in the seventy-first generation?" ”

"Nonsense," Yan Yuhu choked me, "Without a woman, how did I get around to this day?" ”

"But too." I said, "I'm actually trying to ask, how many women does he have?" ”

Yan Yuhu probably crossed his fingers and calculated, and said, "At that time, it was such a famous general, there were three or five women, is it a matter?" ”

I muttered in my heart: "famous", how "famous"? The speed of death is famous. However, I didn't say it, can he stand it? I can't say what to say to choke me.

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I don't know much about Yan Liang's life experience, and I don't know about his family affairs. According to the "Commandment of the Soldiers" in the "Yan's Family Motto" written by Yan Zhitui in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, when instructing his descendants not to engage in martial arts, he mentioned that the ancestors "have Yan Zhuoju in Qi State, Yan Zhuo in Zhao State, Yan Liang in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and Yan Yan in Eastern Jin Dynasty, all of whom served as generals, and eventually suffered a tragic fate." ”

Yan Liang may have the friendship of the same clan as Yan Zhitui, and may even be from Linyi, Shandong.

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Located on the two banks of the Yellow River, there are temples of Guo Ziyi and Yan Liang.

At that time, there was a taboo that within fifteen miles from the temple where Yan Liang was worshipped, it was not allowed to set up a temple to worship Guan Yu (because Yan Liang was killed by Guan Yu).

However, the local county order did not obey, and even ordered that at the temple fair of Yanliang Temple, the actors had to perform a drama about the "Taoyuan Three Knots", and they would watch it in person.

As a result, shortly after the play was staged that day, a gust of wind suddenly blew, causing the actors on stage to die in an accident caused by the strong wind. Later, within fifteen miles of the temple, the plague spread and the locals and livestock died.

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Yan Liang's head is buried in the west of Liang Shenggu Village, Sanggu Township, after sealing the soil, its tomb becomes a large rectangular mound in the north-south direction, and the tomb is 3 meters high. In the tenth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1671 AD), Liu De, the magistrate of Jun County, built a new tombstone, which was engraved with "the tomb of Yan Liang, the general of the Han Dynasty". The tombstone was later collected by the Jun County Museum. In 1973, the villagers pulled soil to pad the ground and razed the grave, which no longer exists.