The reason why "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is wonderful is because it not only has traces of history, but also because it depicts many heroes of the chaotic world, these heroes Haojieli, some of whom are bold and loyal, some of whom do not hesitate to rebel for the sake of profit, some of whom choose good trees to live in, and the most different should belong to Xu Shu.
In order to show his determination to be devoted to Han, he did not hesitate to hide for more than twenty years, and it was difficult to find the second one in the whole long river of history, and what was the final outcome of such a loyal subject?
Image: Stills of the Troubled Heroes of the Three Kingdoms
First, as a character who does not write much ink in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Xu Shu's life is extremely concise, and he can only add some wild history rumors and piece together some things that Xu Shu did before he entered the Han Army.
Xu Shu was born into poverty, but he loved martial arts very much and practiced a good kung fu, but along with the growth of kung fu, there was also his chivalry and violent temper. Once Xu Shu's friend was bullied because he had offended someone, Xu Shu stepped forward and fought for his friend, and as a result, Xu Shu lost his hand and killed someone.
In desperation, Xu Shu, who did not want to go to prison to make his old mother sad, fled everywhere, and in the process, changed Xu Shu's idea of hitting the world with his fists, he began to love to read, studied various martial arts, and met Zhuge Liang in Jingzhou.
From Zhuge Liang's words, it can be known that Xu Shu is very appreciative of Zhuge Liang, although the talent may be under Zhuge Liang, but he never minded, often discussed the world's major events with Zhuge Liang, felt that Zhuge Liang's ideas were very far-sighted, and the two felt sorry for each other.
After that, Xu Shu met Liu Bei by chance, and was included in Liu Bei's command, opening the most brilliant stage of his life.
Photo: Xu Shu met Liu Bei by chance
In the early period of the Second and Third Kingdoms, although Liu Bei carried the banner of restoring the Han Dynasty and established the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Bei was really in internal and external difficulties at that time. In the early days of liu bei's establishment of the Shu Han Dynasty, there was not much talent reserve.
At that time, he had loyal ministers such as Sun Qian and Jian Yong by his side, but it turned out that these ministers were still a few points behind in terms of planning. When Liu Bei fought cao Cao, he became a defeated general.
Especially in the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao easily won Liu Bei, and Liu Bei fled into the wilderness, and in desperation, he chose to go to Jingzhou to find Liu Biao to hide. And on the way to Jingzhou, he was also assassinated by Cai Mao, who was instructed by Lady Cai, and although Liu Bei finally escaped a disaster, he was exhausted and very tired.
At this time, he met Xu Shu in Jingzhou, and the conversation he talked with after meeting Xu Shu made Liu Bei see hope, and he immediately decided that Xu Shu was a rare talent, and with him getting along, the restoration of the Han Room was just around the corner. As a result, Liu Bei quickly reused Xu Shu.
Photo: Stills of Liu Bei fleeing into the wilderness
Xu Shu was also very angry, Cao Ren's confident "Eight Doors Golden Lock Array" was pediatric in Xu Shu's eyes, and it was easily cracked, and Liu Bei finally raised his head. Xu Shu's military strategy greatly compensated for Liu Bei's long-term vacancy and greatly boosted the morale of Liu Bei's army.
Later, in the Battle of Fancheng, and thanks to Xu Shu's help, Liu Bei finally had his own foothold, and the situation that had been suppressed by Cao Cao for a long time was improved, and there was a respite.
And the historical Xu Shu is still a very atmospheric person, even if Zhuge Liang thought that Xu Shu's talent was under himself, verbally somewhat offensive, but after Xu Shu still strongly recommended Zhuge Liang to Liu Bei, which led to the later "Three Gu Maolu".
Photo: Xu Shu, who is extremely strategic, helps Liu Bei stills
The appearance of Xu Shu gave Liu Hope and Cao Cao a crisis. Cao Cao also quickly realized that Xu Shu's talent would become his biggest stumbling block, so Cao Cao had a countermeasure.
In the Battle of Xinye, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu joined forces against Cao Cao, but Cao Cao's strength at that time was too strong, and the two did not resist the attack of Cao's army, and finally lost. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao also grabbed Xu Shu's mother with his bare hands, and finally used this to threaten Xu Shu to defect to Cao Cao's camp.
Although he had always had the great cause of restoring the Han Dynasty, xu shu had no way to resist in the face of the important matter of his mother's life, and finally could only resign to Liu Bei and decide to go to Cao Cao.
However, after arriving at Cao Jun, it was found that it was originally a bureau set up by Cao Cao, and his mother was not arrested, Xu Shu's impression of Cao Cao was greatly reduced, and his loyalty was given to Liu Bei, so for a long time, Xu Shu was depressed and did not achieve anything in his career.
Photo: Stills of Xu Shu's resignation to Liu Bei
Third, in the Battle of Chibi, because the Cao army was not good at water warfare, in order to overcome the problem of seasickness among the soldiers, Cao Cao decided to use Pang Tong's strategy: to connect the ships one by one with iron cables, and finally, the 830,000 troops of the Cao army were gone, which was the famous "burning of Chibi".
However, at that time, this strategy was just proposed by Pang Tong and was seen through by Xu Shu, because with Huang Gai's bitter meat plan, Xu Shu could easily think of this strategy, which should be Zhuge Liang's divisive plan, as long as the wind and fire were used, cao jun was still seriously injured even if the military strength was strong.
Xu Shu did not directly expose Pang Tong, but when there was no outsider, he rebuked Pang Tong's impure intentions, that is, he wanted Cao Jun to lose. Pang Tong was scared half to death, thinking that he could not steal the chicken and not eat the rice, and his head would not be saved.
But what he didn't expect was that after that, Xu Shu remained silent and did not expose the matter. It wasn't until after the burning of Chibi that xu shu's psychology began to change after hearing that hundreds of thousands of soldiers had died because of their silence.
Image: Stills of the burning Chibi
Fourth, hearing that many soldiers were burned to death, Xu Shu's heart was tormented, and Xu Shu's mother also knew that this tragedy was completely caused by the silence of her son, and the old man was even more sad and died soon after.
The death of his mother, as well as the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, made Xu Shu feel discouraged: I Xu Mou, who had the heart to serve the country, but was powerless to return to heaven; disloyal, filial piety, and vain subjects. As a result, Xu Shu decided to live in seclusion and no longer participate in the struggle between the Cao army and the Han army.
Photo: Stills of Xu Shu, who is tormented
V. Where did Xu Shu end up in seclusion? It is said that there is a small island in the northeast sea of Lingshan called Guziyang, there is a magical flower on the island, the whole body is white, and when it blooms, it must be surrounded by two hands, this flower is called winter flower.
A man accidentally arrived at this small island, saw this flower very fondly, and finally could not help but pick this flower. On the way back, the man met the old man shaking the boat, and the old man saw him holding a winter-resistant flower and asked him what he was doing with this flower. The man said it was just out of curiosity.
The old man said kindly: This flower can make people in need resist the cold, and there is no special requirement not to pick this flower. Looking at this person with a questioning face, the old man smiled and said: You can ask a Daoist named Hu Yiyang.
As a result, this person encountered a strong wind on the way back from the boat, and when he saw that the boat was overturned, this person discarded the winter flowers, but he did not expect that at this time the wind stopped and the clouds dispersed, and he finally reached the shore safely. After that, this person really went to find Hu Yiyang and was told that this old man was Xu Shu.
Although Xu Shu finally exchanged his twenty years of seclusion for his own peaceful life, it was the best ending for Cao Cao and Liu Bei, because no matter who Xu Shu turned to at that time, the history of the Three Kingdoms would be rewritten.
Article author: Dahui
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