Is “Zhang Yan was made General Who Pacifies the North after surrendering to Cao Cao” true?
In Chapter 33 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is recorded: "The bandit of the Black Mountain, Zhang Yan, led an army of one hundred thousand to surrender. Cao was overjoyed and made him General Who Pacifies the North." However, in Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Annals of Emperor Wu, it is recorded that in the summer of the tenth year of Jian'an, "the bandit of the Black Mountain, Zhang Yan, led his followers, more than one hundred thousand, to surrender, and was made a marquis." The novel changed his title.
The novel says Zhang Yan was made General Who Pacifies the North after surrendering to Cao Cao, while the official history records him as a marquis.
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