Liu Bang was the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, but now many people think that Liu Bang, who fought between Chu and Han, was a rogue villain, but It was Xiang Yu who won the sympathy of many readers, and even the historian Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty seemed to have little disdain for his own founding emperor, and recorded such an interesting little story in the "History of Xiahou Baby Biography".
In 205 AD, Xiang Yu led the Chu army to quell the rebellion of the State of Qi, Liu Bang was a little unable to sit still, this is not a great opportunity to carry out a sneak attack, and then took the opportunity to shout with his arms raised, pulled a circle of princes who wanted to fish in muddy waters, organized a coalition of 560,000 troops, and attacked the State of Chu in a mighty way.
The early stage of the war was very smooth, the rear of the Chu State was empty, and soon conquered the capital of the Chu State, Pengcheng, Liu Bang immediately swelled, he lived in Xiang Yu's Chu Palace, the beauty of Xiang Yu, drank and had fun with the princes all day, thinking that the death of Xiang Yu was in front of him, and Liu Bang, who felt that he had won the victory, brought his family to Pengcheng to play. As a result, Xiang Yu led 30,000 iron horsemen to march into the night of the stars, breaking the princes, and the Han army was in chaos on the outskirts of Pengcheng Without a fight, with countless dead and wounded, so Han Gaozu could only take dozens of people to start his own victorious escape.
Liu Bang fled, but his relatives were unlucky, and Liu Bang's wife Lü Hou and his father, Liu Taigong, were all captured by Xiang Yu and became prisoners. Liu Bang didn't care so much, staying in Qingshan, not afraid of no firewood. Liu Bang's carriage was a carriage driven by the loyal minister Xiahou Bao, and there were also a pair of children of Liu Bang and Lü Hou: Liu Ying and Liu Le, who were later Emperor Hui of Han and Princess Lu Yuan, because the Chu army was in a hurry and the horses were tired, in order to speed up the carriage, Liu Bang, the father, actually kicked his own children down.
You read it correctly, it is kicked down, the original text of the "History" is "The King of Han is anxious, the horse is gone, the captive is behind, the two children often want to abandon it, the baby is often harvested, and it is carried, and Xu Xing faces the Yongshu Naichi." A "蹶" character vividly describes Liu Bang's kind father's appearance, and Liu Bang has kicked more than once, "Chang" shows that he is on the road, idle and has nothing to do about this matter.
Fortunately, after the two children were driven down, Xiahou Infant ignored Liu Bang's scolding and carried them to the carriage, and waited until the two five- and six-year-old children hugged their necks like trees, and then drove to speed up, while Liu Bang, who was sitting behind, was very angry, he had to endure anger, at least more than a dozen times he wanted to kill Xiahou Baby. "The king of Han is angry, and he wants to kill more than ten babies"
Fortunately, Xiahou Bao's sacrifice of his life saved him, and only then did he send his princess Miss Gongzi to Liu Bang's hometown of Fengyi unharmed. Later, Liu Bang arrived in Xingyang to reorganize his army, and he also knew that he had done something ungraceful on the way to escape, so he immediately rewarded Qiyang to Xiahou Bao as a food. Why did Xiahou Infant insist on sacrificing his life to save Liu Bang's children?
It turned out that Liu Bangzheng's wife Lü Shi at that time also left these two children, Liu Ying was the most orthodox heir of the Liu family, in addition, although he was also an older brother named Liu Fei, he was only a Shu chu, Xiahou Bao was the most important, or in the purpose of loyal subjects, which was the purpose of saving his children, and his merits can be said to be no less than Zhao Yun, who saved Ah Dou during the Three Kingdoms period.
It is not known that after Emperor Xiaohui of Han and Princess Lu Yuan grew up, they recalled his father's tumultuous operation, how they would feel, and estimated that this had also become a shadow of their childhood, after Emperor Hui of Han succeeded to the throne, Lü Hou and Liu Ying, in order to thank Xiahou Baby for saving his life, gave him the first-class mansion close to the back of the palace, named "Close to me", which means "this can be closest to me", in order to show special respect for Xiahou Baby.