People who have watched the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" know that Cao Cao has a brave general who is unstoppable, and this person is called Xu Chu. He is also the protagonist of the allusion "Shirtless".
The Following description of him in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also very wonderful.
Xu Chu is a native of the Yu kingdom, the character Zhongkang. He was eight feet long, with a waist ten around him, and his appearance was very strong and resolute. The strength is staggering.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people were not happy, and peasant uprisings broke out in various places.
In order to protect himself, Xu Chu gathered the young people in the village and thousands of members of the entire clan and built a fortification, and everyone fought against the enemy together to defend their homeland.
At that time, there was a man named Ge Pi in Runan, who led more than 10,000 people to attack Xu Chu. Xu Chu and the others were outnumbered, and the fierce fighting for several days made everyone extremely tired. At this time, the arrows were also used up. At this critical moment, Xu Chu was very calm. He asked everyone to pile large stones around the fortifications. Xu Chu's power was so great that he picked up those big stones and threw them at the enemy, and the heads of the enemies who were hit were all shattered. The enemy was so shocked that they were too frightened to rush forward.
Later, they ran out of food. In order to survive, Xu Chu pretended to make peace with the enemy. He said that he was willing to exchange the cattle of the village for the food of the enemy.
When the enemies came to fetch the cattle, the cattle were frightened and ran back in despair.
Xu Chu rushed over, pulled the tail of the ox with one hand, and walked more than a hundred steps.
At that time, the enemies were stunned. There are people with such great strength! They were so frightened that they did not dare to ask for the cattle, so they retreated one after another.
Xu Chu's move made him famous, and people around Huai, Ru, Chen, and Liang heard his name, and they were all frightened.
Later, Cao Cao occupied the area around Yihuai and Ru. Xu Chu took his men and horses and submitted to Cao Cao. When Cao Cao saw him, he admired him very much and praised him, saying, "This is my Fan Duo!" "On that day, I worshiped him as a lieutenant and let him defend his own safety." Those chivalrous guests who came with Xu Chu were all named tiger soldiers. After that, Xu Chu followed Cao Cao's eastern expedition to the west, made great achievements, and was made a lieutenant.
At that time, a man named Xu He entangled several people and wanted to murder Cao Cao, but because Xu Chu often accompanied Cao Cao's side, he was too brave to do it. One day, Xu Chu was on vacation, and Xu He and the others felt that this was a good opportunity to start, and immediately came to see Cao Cao with a knife.
After Xu Chu returned home, he suddenly felt uneasy in his heart, and he wondered if Cao Cao was in danger? He immediately ran back from his home. Xu He and the others did not know, as soon as they entered Cao Cao's big tent, the split head saw Xu Chu, and he was greatly shocked, and his face changed in fright. Xu Chu keenly noticed that the group had ghosts in their hearts and raised his weapon to kill them.
After experiencing this incident, Cao Cao trusted Xu Chu more and more, allowing him to go in and out of his peers, not leaving his left and right.
Later, Xu Chu followed Cao Cao in attacking Yecheng, fought very bravely, made battle achievements, and was given the title of Marquis of Guannei.
Once, Xu Chu followed Cao Cao to Tongguan to attack Ma Chao and Han Sui. At that time, Cao Cao was preparing to cross the river to the north. At the Ji River, Cao Cao asked the soldiers to cross first, and he and Xu Chu and more than a hundred tiger soldiers broke off.
After Ma Chao learned the news, he led more than 10,000 infantry to rush to kill. The situation was very critical, and the enemy's arrows were shot as densely as rain. Xu Chu hurriedly helped Cao Cao onto the boat. Saying that the enemy is outnumbered and the soldiers have almost crossed, let's hurry up.
Those soldiers saw that Ma Chao was coming fiercely, they all panicked and scrambled for the transition, and some of them even climbed the boat with their hands. The ship was too heavy and looked like it was about to sink. Xu Chu held up a saddle in his left hand to block Cao Cao's arrows, and with his right hand, he struggled to cut the soldiers who were climbing the boat gang. Later, the boatman was killed by a stray arrow, and the boat spun around in the middle of the river. Xu Chu pushed the boat with his right hand. The situation was very critical that day, and if it were not for Xu Chu's presence, Cao Cao would have almost suffered.
Not long after, Cao Cao met with Ma Chao, Han Sui, and others alone, and only Brought Xu Chu alone. Ma Chao prides himself on his kong martial prowess and wants to sneak up on Cao Cao. He had always heard that there was a fierce general named Xu Chu around Cao Cao, and now he saw that this retinue around Cao Cao looked very unusual, and he suspected that it was Xu Chu.
He asked Cao Cao, "Where is the Tiger Hou by Cao Gong's side?" Cao Cao pointed to Xu Chu. Xu Chu glared angrily. Ma Chao did not dare to move around, and dispelled the idea of sneaking attack.
A few days later, the two sides went to war, and Ma Chao was defeated. Xu Chu took the lead as a soldier, beheaded the enemy general, and was made a general of the Wuwei Zhonglang.
Although Xu Chu was a close confidant of Cao Cao and had distinguished himself in battle, he was very cautious, abided by the law, and was usually quiet. Once, Cao Ren came from Jingzhou to meet Cao Cao. He deliberately seduced this big red man around Cao Cao, and when he saw Xu Chu guarding outside the palace, he beckoned Xu Chu to come in and sit down and talk together. Xu Chu said, "The King of Wei is about to come out." "Turn around and enter the main hall." Leave Cao Ren alone there. Cao Ren felt very faceless and hated him in his heart.
Someone said to Xu Chu: "General Zhengnan is a heavy courtier of the clan, he put down his body to make friends with you, why did you reject him?" ”
Xu Chu said, "Although he is highly respected by the Prince of Wei, in the end he is a foreign domain, I am an internal minister, it is enough to talk in public, why should he talk privately in the inner chamber?" ”
At that time, the emperors were afraid of internal subjects making friends with foreign domains, and Xu Chu was very cautious about this. Sure enough, after Cao Cao learned of this, he admired him even more and immediately promoted Xu Chu to be a stalwart general.
After Cao Cao's death, Xu Chu was so sad that he cried and vomited blood. He should be grateful for Cao Cao's kindness.
In the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the image of this character is more plump, especially the section of the great war Ma Chao, which is very exciting.