Xu Sheng

Xu Sheng

Xu Sheng (year of birth and death unknown), the word Wenxiang, was born in Juxian County of langye (now Juxian County of Shandong Province), and was a famous general of Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. In his early years, Xu Sheng fought against Huang Zu and was promoted to Zhonglang general. In ruxu, we fight with blood. When Liu Bei attacked Wu, Xu Sheng followed Lu Xun to capture many garrison camps of Shu army; when Cao Xiu attacked Wu, Xu Sheng successfully defended with less resistance and more resistance. Xu Sheng was promoted to Jianwu general, Anton general and Lujiang Prefecture. Later, Cao Pi attacked Wu on a large scale. Wu Guo built a wall around Jianye according to Xu Sheng's suggestion. Cao Pi retreated because he doubted the city's plan. During the reign of Huang Wu, Xu Sheng died of illness.

Xu Sheng once won the title of "Da Zhuang", only Zhang Liao and Xu Sheng won the title during the Three Kingdoms period. He was praised by Chen Shou as "the tiger Minister of Jiangbiao". His official title was inherited by his son Xu Kai.

Life of the characters

Less is better than more

When Xu Sheng was young, he moved from his hometown Ju county to Wu county (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) because of the war. He was famous for his courage. After the death of marquis Wu Sunce, his younger brother Sun Quan succeeded him and appointed Xu Sheng as the commander of other departments. He led 500 troops to guard Chaisang (now southwest of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province) and served as the magistrate of Chaisang county to resist the invasion of Huang Zu.

Huang she, the son of Huang Zu, once led thousands of people south to Chaisang to attack Xu Sheng. Xu Sheng resisted with less than 200 troops and killed more than 1000 yellow shooters. After that, he opened the door and took the initiative to fight. He was defeated by Huang she. After being repulsed, Huang she did not dare to invade again.

Later, Sun Quan added Xu Sheng as the captain of the school and the magistrate of Wuhu (now Anhui). Because Xu Sheng had made great contributions in fighting against the mountain bandits in the area of Lincheng nan'a (now Qingyang south, Anhui), he added Xu Sheng as the general of Zhonglang and the commander of the school.

The fruit of the hero

In August 215 (the 20th year of Jian'an), Xu Sheng followed Sun Quan to attack Hefei. After the Wu army surrounded Hefei, one morning, Wei general Zhang Liao led 800 people out of the city to launch a surprise attack. Sun Quan's soldiers were unprepared. Chen Wu fought and died. Xu Sheng was injured and lost his spear. Xu Sheng and song Qian's troops fled. Zhang Liao stormed all the way to the Chinese flag of the eastern Wu Dynasty. At this time, pan Zhang and He Qi, as follow-up troops, came to the rescue from the rear. Pan Zhang immediately killed two deserters in Xu Sheng's and song Qian's army. The soldiers who had fled later were shocked by Pan Zhang's severe punishment, and all returned to the battlefield to fight. He Qi led the central army to refuse to attack Zhang Liao's army, and recovered Xu Sheng's spear lost because of his injury. (there are 0 sentences about withdrawal, 0 sentences about Jinbei and 3 sentences about Hefei in the three biographies about the war in Hefei, and they are all excluded from Jinbei by the list with the word "Wei" in Ganning biography. On the other hand, there are six sentences about withdrawal, five sentences about northern Tianjin and one sentence about Southern Tianjin.)

Brave and tenacious enemy

In 217 A.D. (22nd year of Jian'an), Cao Cao sent troops to ruxukou (now Wuwei southeast of Anhui), and Xu Sheng followed Sun Quan to fight against it. At that time, the Wei army was unable to conquer the ruxuwu in ruxukou, so they took the land route of Liyang and tried to attack the Hengjiang River on a large scale (they did not break the Hengjiang River). Xu Sheng and the generals of the eastern Wu Dynasty went to fight. Unexpectedly, the Mengchong warship of the Wu army was blown to the enemy's shore in a sudden gale. The generals of the eastern Wu were afraid, and no one dared to fight. Only Xu Sheng led the soldiers to the shore alone to kill the enemy. The enemy was frightened and fled by Xu Sheng, with great casualties. After the wind stopped, Xu Sheng led his troops back. Sun Quan attached great importance to Xu Sheng's great contribution to the neutrality of the war, which was recorded in history as "Quan Da Zhuang Zhi". The word "Dazhuang" has only been used twice in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, respectively in the biography of Zhang Liao and the biography of Xu Sheng.

Not inferior to others

In 221 ad (the second year of the Wei and Huang dynasties), Sun Quan was called a vassal to Cao Wei as a vassal. Cao Wei sent Xing Zhen to the east Wu to worship Sun Quan as the king of Wu. Sun Quan went out of the capital pavilion to wait for Xing Zhen. Xing Zhen looked arrogant and domineering. Zhang Zhao, a minister of Wu, was very angry. Xu Sheng was also very angry. He said to his colleagues, "we can't fight our lives to annex Xuchang, Luoyang and Bashu for our country. Instead, we can let the Lord make an alliance with Xing Zhen. We can't stand such humiliation!" With that, I couldn't help crying. After hearing this, Xing Zhen said to her entourage, "if there is such a general in Jiangdong, I'm afraid he won't stay here for a long time."

Resist Liu Bei

Later, Xu Sheng was added as a general of Jianwu, the Marquis of tinghou, the capital, and the governor of Lujiang (now the buried hill in Anhui Province). He was also awarded the Fengyi by Lincheng county.

In 222 A.D. (the third year of the early period of Wei and Huang dynasties), Liu Bei led his army to Xiling (now Yiling in Hubei Province). Xu Sheng conquered Liu Bei's many barracks and made great achievements. When Liu Bei was defeated and fled to Baidi City, Xu Sheng, pan Zhang, song Qian, etc. continued to attack Shu, and Liu Bei would be captured. However, Lu Xun, Zhu ran, Luo Tong, etc. thought that although Cao Pi said that he would support him, he actually took the opportunity to sneak attack and suggested that he should not pursue him. Sun Quan decided according to the situation, adopted the proposal of Lu Xun and others, and ordered to stop pursuing Baidi city.

Use less to control more

In the autumn and September of the same year, Wei general Cao xiudu led more than 20 troops from five prefectures, including Zhang Liao and Zang Ba, and sent troops to Dongkou (now Jiangsu). Lu Fan led the five armies and led Xu Sheng, Quan Cong, Sun Shao and others to resist the enemy by boat. After encountering strong wind, the navy of Dongwu was attacked by Zhang Liao, Wang Ling and others. Wu Jun suffered heavy casualties. Xu Sheng collected the remnant soldiers and met Cao Xiu and others with Quan Cong. Cao Xiu ordered Zang Ba to attack XuLing county. Zang Ba crossed the river, burned down the siege vehicles reserved by the Soochow army, and killed several thousand people. Xu Sheng and Quan Cong were few in number, which made Zang Ba unable to conquer. Xu Sheng and Quan Cong launched a pursuit, captured hundreds of people, defeated Zang Ba and killed his general Yin Lu, so that the enemy was defeated. Caoren sent his son Caotai to attack ruxu. Caoren himself led ten thousand people and left them behind. Cao Ren did not listen to Jiang Ji's dissuasion, and sent Chang Diao to lead Zhuge Qian and Wang Shuang to attack Zhongzhou by oil tanker. Zhu Huan sent Yan GUI to pursue Chang Diao. Zhu Huan led his infantry to resist Cao Ren and defeat Cao Tai, beheading him thousands of levels. Cao Ren retreats. The armies of the eastern Wu Dynasty took advantage of the victory to defeat the Wei armies such as Chang Diao, Wang Shuang, Zhuge Qian (Zhuge Hu), Cao Zhen, Xia HOUSHANG, Zhang Ying, Cao Xiu and Zhang Liao. All the Wei troops retreated. After that, Xu Sheng was added as general Anton and Marquis of Wuhu.

A hundred mile doubt City

In 224 ad (the third year of Wu Huangwu), Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of Wei, led a large army to the south in an attempt to cross the Yangtze River. Xu Sheng proposed to build a fence around Jianye (the capital of the state of Wu, now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) and build a fence. On the fence, a false building Scarecrow was set up and a floating boat was set up on the river. The generals thought it was meaningless to do so, but Xu Sheng insisted, Sun Quan adopted Xu Sheng, and the hundred Li pseudo Great Wall was built overnight. When Cao Pi's army arrived at Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province), he was shocked to see the fence stretching for hundreds of miles. Cao Pi sighed: "although there are thousands of cavalry in Wei Dynasty, they are useless." then Cao Pi's Dragon Boat encountered storm waves and almost completely destroyed. The people of the state of Wei looked West from the river and were very afraid. In September of the same year, Cao Pi went out of Guangling, looked at the Yangtze River and did not dare to cross it. He once again sighed that heaven was really going to separate Wei and Wu. He said, "Sun Quan really has talent, and now we can't plan to annex Dongwu." so he led the army to retreat. Then the generals realized that Xu Sheng had foresight and bowed to him.

Xu Sheng died in the middle of the Huangwu reign (222-229), and his son Xu Kai inherited the title.

Character evaluation

Jiang Qin: he is loyal and diligent. He has courage and resourcefulness. He is a good supervisor.

Chen Shou: all these generals are the tiger ministers of Jiang Biao, and the sun family is kind to them.

Liu Yiqing's praise of the sages of Xuzhou: "to be honest, to have courage to hear.". When the king of Wei came out of the ruxu, every time Sun Quan elected a fighter, he was always in the front

Sun yuanyan: in order to divide the whole country into different parts, Xing Zhen's title will go to Jiangnan. At that time, General Xu Sheng was the most reluctant to be respected.

Zhang Ruyu: Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Gan Ning, Xu Sheng, pan Zhang, Zhu ran, Zhu Huan, He Qi, Ling Tong, Quan Cong and Lu fan are all wise enough to defend the masses and brave enough to repel the enemy. There is no one who does not obey the orders.

Li Zhi: Zhuge Jin, Zhao Zi, Gu Yong and Xu Sheng are all available, but Zhang Zhao, Sun Quan and others are not.

Mao Zonggang: Xu Sheng had the style of Wang Ju and Sun Wu.

Liu Xianxin: Cheng Pu is the longest, Huang and Han Congjian, Jiang, Zhou, Chen and Dong congce, Gan, Ling, pan and Xu Zequan, and Ding Feng is the last.

Relative members

Xu Kai: after Xu Sheng died, xijue led the army.

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Literary image

In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng both appear on the stage and kill the enemy in the early or later period. In 224, Cao Pi defeated Wu, Xu Sheng and Ding Feng led the army to meet the enemy, and set up reed grass men in Guangling City, pretending to be an empty city full of soldiers. On the dragon boat, Cao Pi heard that Cao Zhen reported that there was no one in the city. He thought it was a trick and planned to go down the boat to investigate, but he was not sure. He paid attention to asking Liu Ye, but Liu Ye also had the same view as Cao Pi. That night, Cao Pi Jun raised his torch and the lights were bright, but there was no light in Jiangnan. Cao Pi thought it was a trick and retreated. The Huaihe River was full of reeds soaked with fish oil in advance. Xu Sheng set the reeds on fire, and the fire broke Cao Pi's Wei army. (Chapter 86: Zhang Wen, Qin MI, Cao Pi and Xu Sheng attack with fire)

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Chinese PinYin : Xu Sheng