So, who is better than Xia?
My answer to this question is clear: stronger than summer. As the saying goes, and summer, in front, he is the elder brother, in the back, he is the younger brother. It makes sense that older brothers are generally better than younger brothers. Below I will analyze it according to the records of official history and romance.
First, it is more powerful than Xia in official history.
(1) Xia Houdun studied martial arts at an early age.
Xia Houdun's name is Jean, and he is a descendant of Xia Houying, the founding hero of the Han Dynasty. He has been studying martial arts with his teacher since he was fourteen. Thus, Xia Houdun has a strong martial arts foundation. Think about it. Fourteen years old is the age when a person learns martial arts from a teacher. Practicing martial arts from now on will surely lay a good foundation for learning martial arts in the future. In contrast, Xia has never studied martial arts since he was a child. Take this as an example. More popular than summer. Besides, Lu Bu? General Wu Hu? 、? Five sons are good generals? No teacher is waiting for a large number of generals. Of course, they may also have teachers, but it is not recorded in the History of the Three Kingdoms.
(2) more ruthless than summer.
Xia Houdun's malicious, is notoriously. At that time, someone insulted Xia Houdun's teacher. He killed the man without saying anything. From then on, the villagers in the village began to admire Xia Houdun's courage, and Xia Houdun was also famous for his brave spirit. After that, Xia Houdun followed Cao Cao, was named Sima, and fought in the south and the north, making great contributions. Soon, he was promoted to captain and concurrently served as the magistrate of Dong Jun.
Xia Houdun also has a more malicious behavior, that is, when he and Cao Cao crusaded against Lu Bu, his left eye was injured by the enemy's arrow. It must be very painful to hurt your eyes like this. But this Xia Houdun didn't even think about it. He pulled out the arrow directly, swallowed his left eye, and then continued to fight the enemy. His courage did not diminish, and he was named General Jianwu and Hou Gaoan. It is worth mentioning that the territory of Xia Houdun was once dry and grasshoppers were everywhere, but he was not afraid. He personally carried the soil and led the soldiers to plant rice fields together. Slowly, the crisis was alleviated.
In contrast, summer is much worse. He is neither as brave as Xia Houdun nor as daredevil as he is. Of course, Xia also made a lot of exploits. For example, he rebelled in Ping Zeng and was appointed as the captain of the Canon Army; Pacify Lu Jiang traitor Xu Lei, and was appointed as the western guards. But objectively speaking, summer is not worse.
(3) More trusted by Cao Cao than in summer.
Cao Cao trusts Xia Houdun very much. For example, after the invasion of Yecheng, he was appointed as General Fu Bo, and he was granted the right to act cheaply, so there was no need to observe etiquette. This kind of treatment is much better than summer. On another occasion, in the 12th year of Jian 'an (AD 207), Cao Cao rewarded Xia Houdun with sealing the city 1800, compared with 2,500 before. At the peak of summer, only 300 households were added, compared with 800 households in the past. Compared with the treatment of the two, the sentence is high! Not only that, Cao Cao often shared a car with Xia Houdun, and he was very prized and treated better than any general. However, for Xia, Cao Cao said that he was foolhardy and would only try to be brave.
Second, romance novels are more powerful than those in summer.
Let's look at Chapter 28 of Romance: beheading the Cai Yang brothers to solve doubts, and meeting the officials of the ancient city to gather righteousness.
At that time, Guan Yu had fled Cao Cao's territory, but Xia Houdun caught up with him. Xia Houdun immediately said:
The prime minister didn't report in clear text. You killed someone on the road and cut off our Ministry. How rude! I'm here to capture you and dedicate it to the Prime Minister!
Guan Yu is a very powerful figure, known as? Ten thousand enemies? Have the courage to blame, but Xia Houdun is not afraid of him. It can be seen that Xia Houdun has courage and verve. After that, I played ten rounds, regardless of the outcome. Thus, Xia Houdun's kung fu is very good. Finally, under the persuasion of Zhang Liao, the two sides stopped here. Otherwise, it is not known who will win the battle.
Xia Da, but even Huang Zhong couldn't win, so he beheaded him. Although Huang Zhong is? General Wu Hu? One, very powerful, but he is over 60 years old and a veteran. Xiahou Yuan can't even beat him, which shows that his martial arts is really not so good. The related descriptions in romance novels are as follows:
Xia was caught off guard, and Huang Zhong rushed over under the cover of everyone and thundered. Before Yuan could say hello, Huang was cut off by a sword, with his head and shoulders tied, and split in half.