Xie Xiong 謝雄

Chapter 97 of the Romance opens with Cao Xiu, Area Commander of Wei, badly defeated by Lu Xun of Eastern Wu at Shiting in the 9th month, in autumn, of the 6th year of Jianxing of Shu-Han (228). When Zhuge Liang submits another memorial, the Later Sovereign orders him to march out, and Zhuge Liang raises 300,000 elite troops, puts Wei Yan in overall command of the vanguard of the front division, and hastens straight to the mouth of the Chencang road. The ruler of Wei, Cao Rui, appoints Wang Shuang General of Tiger Might and Grand Vanguard of the Front Division, and makes Cao Zhen Grand Commander. Romance, Ch. 97 §1 · 15–17

Wei Yan attacks the city of Chencang for days without breaking it, and the retainer Jin Xiang, a man of Longxi like Hao Zhao, who is defending the city, goes twice to urge him to surrender, but Hao Zhao drives him off with his bow drawn. Zhuge Liang attacks the city with a hundred cloud ladders and with battering rams and has Liao Hua dig a tunnel, but Hao Zhao holds them off with fire arrows, stones threaded on vine ropes and a double moat, and after more than twenty days of attack and defense day and night there is still no plan for breaking it. Romance, Ch. 97 §18–24 · 26–28

As Zhuge Liang sits sunk in worry in his camp, a report comes that relief troops have arrived from the east under a banner reading 'Wei Vanguard Commander Wang Shuang.' Wei Yan offers to go, but Zhuge Liang, saying that the commander of the vanguard must not go out lightly, asks again who dares to meet him, and when the subordinate general Xie Xiong answers and steps forward, he gives him 3,000 troops and sends him off. He then sends the subordinate general Gong Qi with 3,000 troops as well, and, fearing that Hao Zhao might sally out from the city, pulls his troops back 20 li and pitches camp. Romance, Ch. 97 §29–30

Leading his troops forward, Xie Xiong runs straight into Wang Shuang, and before they have fought three bouts he is split open and killed by a single stroke of Wang Shuang's blade. As the Shu troops flee in defeat, Wang Shuang pursues them, and Gong Qi, who meets him, is also cut down after barely three bouts. Alarmed, Zhuge Liang sends out Liao Hua, Wang Ping and Zhang Ni, but Zhang Ni, pursuing Wang Shuang as he feigns flight, is struck in the back by a meteor hammer, and Wang Shuang drives his troops on and routs them, inflicting very heavy casualties on the Shu army. Romance, Ch. 97 §31–32

When Zhang Ni, having coughed up blood, returns and reports that Wang Shuang has built a double wall outside the city of Chencang and is holding it fast, Zhuge Liang, seeing that he has lost two generals and that even Zhang Ni has been wounded, asks Jiang Wei for another plan. Following Jiang Wei's advice, Zhuge Liang has Wang Ping and Li Hui guard the byroad to Jieting and Wei Yan guard the mouth of the Chencang road, makes Ma Dai vanguard, and advances by the byroad out through the Xie Valley toward Mount Qi. In the Romance, Xie Xiong's name appears in only two passages, both in this chapter. Romance, Ch. 97 §29 · 31 · 33–34