The times create heroes, and the times also create cruel people. There are many well-known generals in the history of the Three Kingdoms, each with its own allusions and legends, the two most famous of which are Xiahou Huan, who plucks his eyes, and Guan Yunchang, who scrapes bones to cure poison. In this Three Kingdoms Competition, who is the fiercer of the two major heavyweights of Wei and Shu?
In ancient times, the battlefield was full of swords, guns, sticks, and eighteen weapons, and the swords had no eyes, and even such powerful generals as Xiahou Huan and Guan Yunchang were injured if they were not careful. In the first year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (194), Cao Cao raised an army to fight Xuzhou, but he did not expect that the rear area was robbed by Lü Bu, and Xiahou Huan led his army and horses to defend the three cities with Xun Yu and Cheng Yuli.
The famous incident of "pulling out the arrow and gazing at the eyes" in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" occurred in the battle of Xiahou Huan's counterattack on Lü Bu. Xiahou Huan had already suffered several losses at Lü Bu's hands, and this time he had been hit by another arrow, and this arrow was impartial, hitting him in the left eye. According to Luo Guanzhong, Xiahou Huan actually swallowed his eyeballs directly because of the concept of "the parents of the body's skin".
From this point of view, Xiahou Huan is a well-deserved cruel person, after all, ordinary people absolutely cannot do anything to eat themselves, and Xiahou Huan did not use "hemp boiling scattering" to directly draw arrows, that kind of severe pain placed on ordinary people, may directly fall to the ground. Xiahou Huan's approach was probably out of an instinct, which not only preserved face in public, but also showed the domineering demeanor of the general.
However, the heart of beauty is everyone, the men at that time also cherish their own appearance, although do not know how Xiahou Huan looks, but the man's self-esteem makes him unable to accept the nickname of "Blind Xiahou", every time he looks in the mirror will be angry, hearing others call him behind his back, he will lose his temper. Fierce is fierce, because blind eyes become glass hearts, but this is also a common human feeling.
Speaking of Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, because of Luo Guanzhong's preference, Guan Yu has many heroic legends in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", basically half-truths and half-lies, but the matter of "scraping bones to heal poison" does exist, but the person who healed his wounds is not Hua Tuo, but an anonymous person, Xiahou hurt his left eye, Guan Yu hurt his right arm, although the wound healed, but every rainy day, the bones faintly hurt.
Anonymous suggested that Guan Yu break his arm open and expose, scrape the bone to remove the poison, Guan Yu also really listened, probably to show his heroism, when he was still scraped bone while drinking and eating with his subordinates, others estimated that they had already frowned and shouted in pain, Guan Yu could still hold back the pain, and his face did not change color to tell jokes.
Did Guan Yu lose his pain? Obviously impossible, that is to say, Guan Yu could obviously feel the pain at that time, and the physiological feeling was uncontrollable. But I have already called my subordinates over, what else can I do? Crying and yelling in front of them, begging the Anonymous to stop and not continue? Guan Yu is also a person with super self-esteem, and he definitely can't do it for the sake of face.
Besides, Guan Yu is good for doing this, the pain is a little painful, but it can eliminate the sequelae. Compared with Xiahou Huan, Guan Yu's scraping of bones and healing poisoning cannot be decided on his own, and if he wants to ensure that there is no obstacle to fighting on horseback, he must do so; and Xiahou Huan can decide on his own, pulling out the arrow and looking at something, he does not want to pull it out, and if he does not want to bite, he will not pluck it, in contrast, Xiahou Huan is even more ruthless.