At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the group of heroes rose up, the strategists were like clouds, and the tigers were born, and finally the three heroes established Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu, so the ranking of strategists and tiger generals in various countries has become a topic that has been talked about for a long time in later generations. In terms of military generals, Eastern Wu had twelve Jiangbiao Tiger Ministers, Shu Han had five Tiger Generals, Cao Wei had five sons of Liang Generals, Eastern Wu ranked first recognized as Gan Ning, and Shu Han was Guan Yu, both of which were not much disputed.
However, in terms of Cao Wei, who is the first tiger general? There have always been different opinions, some people say it is Pound, some say it is Yu Ban, some say it is Xu Chu, but in fact, the real first-ranked military general in the Cao Wei period should obviously be Xiahou Huan, who began to fight with Cao Cao from the earliest. Xiahou Huan's popularity is very high, but most people don't care much about him, because one of his eyes was lost in the war, so many people subconsciously think that this person is not enough.
But in fact, this was just Xiahou Huan's luck was not very good, not that his martial arts strategy was inferior, after all, it was not a particularly shameful thing to be hit by a stray arrow on the battlefield. Judging from the three confrontations with Guan Yu, Guan Yu was actually not Xiahou Huan's right. First of all, when Xiahou Huan attacked Runan, Liu Bei asked Guan Yu to defend, and as a result, he lost Runan, and secondly, after Liu Bei was defeated, Guan Yu wandered to Tushan in Xia Pi and tried to attack Xiahou Huan's troops several times to break through, but the final result was to surrender to Cao Cao.
Finally, when Guan Yu was riding alone for thousands of miles, Xiahou Huan said that he wanted to capture Guan Yu alive, but Guan Yu, who was so arrogant, did not get too angry, but said, "Ru lai rushed to me, and lost the generosity of the Prime Minister", which shows that Guan Yu really did not think that Xiahou Huan's live capture was a kind of intimidation, especially after the two exchanged dozens of rounds, Xiahou Huan let dozens of people and horses surround him, which was a typical activity to prevent him from escaping and to capture him alive.
In the end, Xiahou Huan received an urgent report from Cao Cao and gave way to Guan Yu, he was "fighting and walking", which shows that he completely grasped the dominance of the battlefield, which shows that Guan Yu is indeed not his opponent, so Zhang Fei, who is not as good as Guan Yu, is naturally not his opponent. And Xu Chu and Xu Huang, who had not defeated Guan Yu together, were even less his opponents, and it can be said that Xiahou Huan would be worthy of his name as the first tiger of Cao Wei.
Moreover, Xiahou Huan was not only strong in martial arts, but also extremely successful in dealing with people, everyone knew that Cao Cao was suspicious, once kicked off the quilt in the middle of the night, and there was a loyal old servant to help him cover the quilt, and as a result, he directly drew his sword and killed the servant, leaving behind the allusion of "killing people in a lonely dream". However, it was such a suspicious Cao Cao, but he trusted Xiahou Huan the most, so that he could freely enter Cao Cao's bedroom without being summoned by notification, which was only one person in Cao Cao's life.
Xiahou Huan died in April 220, which means that two months after Cao Cao's death, he also died, and Cao Pi gave him the most senior courtesy name of Cao Wei, "Zhonghou", and many of his brothers were also given the title of Marquis because of his merits.