During the Three Kingdoms period, the development of the Cao Wei clique was inseparable from some of the clans he relied on- Xun, Cui Yan, and so on, of which he relied most on the Xiahou clan.
Because the in-laws of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, the two families united, one article and one weapon, relieved Cao Cao's worries, and the two families jointly established the Cao Wei regime, and the Xiahou family could be said to have contributed to the Cao Wei clique.
Among them, Xiahou Huan and Xiahou Yuan can be said to be Cao Cao's right and left arms. Xiahou Yuan was the wife and sister of Cao Cao after Xiahou Yuan, a servant of the Western Han Dynasty. Cao Cao was implicated in some cases in his hometown, and Xiahou Yuan took the burden on his behalf and blocked the crime. Later, Cao Cao tried to rescue him, so that he could avoid disaster.
In the early days, he accompanied Cao Cao in his conquests to pacify the north, transported grain and grass for Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu, and supervised the generals to quell the rebellions of Chang Feng, Xu He, Lei Xu, and Shang Yao.
Later, he led an army to conquer Guanzhong and Liangzhou, beheaded Liang Xing, chased Ma Chao, broke Han Sui, destroyed Song Jian, swept away the Qiang, Yu, Tu and other foreign forces, and stepped on the right side of the Pass.
After Zhang Lu surrendered to Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan remained in Hanzhong, resisted Liu Bei for more than a year, and was attacked by Liu Bei's general Huang Zhong at Dingjun Mountain, and was killed in battle. He had a son, named Xiahou Ba.
Logically speaking, this Xiahou Ba should have a vendetta against shu guo for killing his father, but then he defected to shu guo, what was the reason for this? What kind of person is this Xiahou Ba?
First, Xiahou Ba's situation was very tragic
Xiahou Ba, courtesy name Zhongquan, was an important general of the State of Wei and the late Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, the second son of the general Xiahou Yuan of the Zhenxi Dynasty, and his mother was the sister of Cao Cao's wife, Murong Ding. He was a general of the State of Wei to the Right, a protector of Shu, and a marquis of Bochangting, stationed in Longxi; during the Shu Han Dynasty, he was the main general of the Northern Expedition, and participated in the Imperial Shu and Wei Wars many times.
In the first year of Jiaping (249), Sima Yi staged a coup d'état and killed Cao Shuang, a general who had previously held power in the Wei state and a chancellor.
Cao Shuang's cousin, Xiahou Batang's nephew Xiahou Xuan (夏侯玄), was recalled from the front to the capital by Sima Yi and given guo Huai his place. Originally, the Relationship between the Cao family and the Xiahou family was very good, if Cao Shuang was alive, Xiahou Ba's future could be said to be smooth sailing and have its own protection.
However, as soon as Cao Shuang died, Sima Yi suddenly arranged for a person with a foreign surname, Guo Huai, to "enter the game", and Xiahou Bapingsu was at odds with Guo Huai, believing that this would inevitably harm him, and was very afraid, so he fled into Shu Han.
He lost his way in Yinping and was trapped when he ran out of food, and when Shu Han learned of it, he sent someone to greet Xiahou Ba. In the fifth year of Jian'an (200), Xiahou Ba's cousin Xiahou Shi was met by Zhang Fei, a major chancellor of the Shu Han Dynasty, when she was out collecting firewood, and sparked a spark of love, Zhang Fei married him, and the daughter born became the empress of the later lord Liu Chan. From then on, Xiahou Ba married his enemy Shu Han.
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Xiahou Ba was a very rational person
When the two armies fight, there will inevitably be casualties, and Xiahou Ba, after entering Shu, did not always impose the revenge of killing his father on the entire Shu state, and the generals and advisers of the Shu state looked at him objectively.
After Xiahou Ba surrendered to Shu Han, the Shu Han general Jiang Wei asked Xiahou Ba, "Since Sima Yi has already controlled the government of the State of Wei, do you think he will have any attempts to conquer other countries?" Xiahou Ba said: "He is running and sorting out internal affairs, and he is not yet concerned about external conquest." However, there was a man named Zhong Hui, although he was young, and if he managed the government, it would be a worry for both Wu and Shu. ”
Since then, Xiahou Ba has participated in Jiang Wei's wars against the State of Wei many times.
In the eighteenth year of Yanxi (255), Sima Shi of the Wei state bingzheng died of illness, and Jiang Wei took the opportunity to lead tens of thousands of people out of Di Dao with Xiahou Ba, the general Zhang Yi of Zhenxi, and divided his troops into three roads to attack the State of Wei, and defeated the Wei state of Yongzhou at Taoxi, where Wang Jing lost tens of thousands of people.
Xiahou Ba was also considered to be from an aristocratic family, but in the midst of war, his sister was robbed, his father was killed by others, and his brother also disappeared. Later, his patron of the State of Wei also collapsed in the political baptism, and was forced to defect to his enemy, the State of Shu. His life is up and down, full of ups and downs, bleak life, but he dares to realize his own value in the chaotic world, and he is not blinded by hatred, which is really respectable! Shu Han