Today's Three Kingdoms idiom story is found in the eighteenth episode of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which takes place during the confrontation between Liu Bei and Lü Bu, and the relevant characters are Xiahou Huan, Xiahou Yuan, Gao Shun, and Cao Sheng. The original text is as follows:
(Cao Cao) immediately ordered Xiahou Huan and Xiahou Yuan, Lü Qian, and Li Dian to lead 50,000 troops to advance, and the self-unified army marched one after another, accompanied by Jian Yong. There have long been detectives who have reported that Gao Shun is known. Shun fei reported Lü Bu. Bu Xian ordered Hou Cheng, Hao Meng, and Cao Sex to lead more than 200 horses to meet Gao Shun, so that they were thirty miles away from Peicheng to meet the Cao army, and then led a large army to meet them. Xuan De saw Gao Shun retreating in Xiao Pei City, knowing that it was the Cao family's soldiers, but only Sun Qian was left to defend the city, and Lu Zhu and Lu Fang guarded the family, but he and Guan and Zhang Ergong, raised their troops out of the city, and went down to the village separately to meet the Cao army. However, it is said that Xiahou Huan led the army forward, and was encountering Gao Shun's army, so he raised his gun and went out to fight. Leave shun to meet the enemy. The two horses intersected, and the battle was forty or fifty, and Gao Shun could not resist the enemy and was defeated.
The horses chased after them and went around the line. Reluctantly, he also chased after him. Cao Sex saw it, secretly picked up the bow and arrow, looked at it kindly, and shot an arrow, right in the middle of Xiahou Huan's left eye. He shouted, and hurriedly drew the arrow with his hand, not wanting to pull out his eyeballs, but shouted: "Father and mother's blood, do not abandon it!" "Sui Na yu in the mouth of the mouth, still return to the gun and horse, straight to Cao Sex." Sex is not on guard, he was shot through the face door and died under the horse. The soldiers on both sides were shocked to see it. Xiahou Huan killed Cao Sex and returned on horseback. Gao Shun rushed from behind, the army was on the same side, and Cao Bing was defeated. Xiahou Yuan rescued his brother and left. Lü Qian and Li Dian retreated the defeated army to The Lower Village of Jibei.
According to the plot of the novel, Lü Bu ordered Gao Shun and Zhang Liao and others to attack Liu Bei, who was stationed in Xiaopei, and Liu Bei quickly sent Jian Yong to cao cao for help, and Cao Cao immediately sent Xiahou Huan and Xiahou Yuan to the rescue. In the confrontation between the two armies, Cao Sex shot Xiahou Huan's left eye with an arrow, and Xiahou Huan pulled out his eyeball and swallowed it, stabbing Cao Sex to death. However, Gao Shun led his troops to cover up the killing, and Xiahou Huan's troops were defeated and returned.
The idiom to be introduced in this article is the "bow and arrow" mentioned in the text, which means to hold the bow in one hand and put the arrow on the string with the other hand, ready to fire. This is also an idiom pioneered by Luo Guanzhong, the author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The storyline of Xiahou Huan's shooting at the left eye mentioned in the novel is a real historical event, but there are great differences in the specific time. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Xiahou Huan's biography: "Taizu returned from Xuzhou and was defeated by Liu Ya and injured his left eye. According to this account, Xiahou Huan's wounding should have been during the Battle of Yanzhou, that is, in the first year of Emperor Xingping's reign (194 AD), not after Lü Bu's control of Xuzhou as described in the novel.
In addition, the theory of Xiahou Huan stabbing Cao To death after being injured in the novel is not a historical truth. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu's biography, the Chronicle of Heroes records that in the first year of Emperor Jian'an (196 AD), the general Hao Meng betrayed Lü Bu and led his troops to besiege Lü Bu's residence. At this time, although Cao Sex was Hao Meng's subordinate, he firmly sided with Lü Bu. In the process of counterinsurgency. Hao Meng stabbed Cao Sex, and Cao Sex cut off one of Hao Meng's arms, and Lü Bu praised Cao Sex afterwards. Therefore, it was impossible for Xiahou Huan to stab Cao Sheng to death during the Battle of Yanzhou.
As for Gao Shun mentioned in the novel, he is not only a real historical figure, but also a fierce general under Lü Bu. According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, Lü Bu's biography, quoted in the Chronicle of heroes, "The more than 700 soldiers who were sent were called a thousand, the armor and fighting tools were all refined and neat, and the one who attacked was unbreakable, called trap Chen Camp." "Lü Bu has been traversing the Central Plains for many years and has achieved remarkable results, relying on this trapped camp led by Gao Shun. Unfortunately, however, the author of the novel did not mention this elite in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At the same time, although Gao Shun had many battles with Liu Bei and Cao Cao, it was basically a passing pass. However, when the author describes the character of Gao Shun, one thing that still attracts the attention of many fans of the Three Kingdoms martial arts is Gao Shun's martial arts.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are very few scenes of Gao Shun going head-to-head with other military generals. In the twelfth episode of the novel, Gao Shun and Hou Cheng fight together. The novel describes it this way: "Cao hurried to the south gate, and Gao Shun and Hou Cheng stopped him. Dianwei gritted his teeth in anger and rushed out. Gao Shun and Hou Cheng walked out of the city. In the eighteenth time, Gao Shun only had one single challenge, and the opponent was Xiahou Huan, "two horses intersected, there were forty or fifty battles, Gao Shun could not resist the enemy, and lost the battle." With Xiahou Huan's martial arts in the novel, he lost to Lü Bu in more than a dozen rounds, and can only be regarded as a second-rate martial artist in the novel. And Gao Shun's martial arts were obviously inferior to Xiahou Huan's, so he could only rank low among the second-rate martial artists at most. I wonder what you think about this ranking?
Reference Books: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of the Three Kingdoms