Huo Yi 霍弋

His father Huo Jun, courtesy name Zhongmiao, was a man of Zhijiang County in Nan Commandery. He took over command of the private troops gathered by his elder brother Huo Du, and when Liu Biao died he went over to the First Sovereign; holding the city of Jiameng, he was besieged for nearly a year by more than 10,000 men under Liu Zhang's commanders Fu Jin, Xiang Cun and others without the city falling, and finally sallied out and beheaded Xiang Cun. After the First Sovereign pacified Shu he became Administrator of Zitong and Lieutenant General, but died at the age of forty after three years in office, and the First Sovereign personally led his officials to offer condolences and sacrifices. Records, Shu 11 §2–4

Huo Yi, courtesy name Shaoxian, became Retainer of the Heir Apparent in the last years of the First Sovereign. When the Later Sovereign came to the throne, he was appointed Internuncio. In the 5th year of Jianxing (227), when the Chancellor Zhuge Liang was stationed to the north in Hanzhong, he requested Huo Yi as his Recording Secretary (jishi) and had him keep company with his own son Zhuge Qiao. When Zhuge Liang died in the 12th year of Jianxing (234), Huo Yi became Gentleman of the Yellow Gate. Records, Shu 11 §6Records, Shu 3 §8 · 15

In the 1st year of Yanxi (238), when the Later Sovereign made Liu Xuan Heir Apparent, he made Huo Yi Inner Cadet (zhong shuzi). Liu Xuan loved riding and archery and came and went without restraint, and Huo Yi, drawing on the principles of antiquity, admonished him without holding back in order to correct him; Chen Shou wrote that he very well achieved the way of mutual polishing. Records, Shu 11 §6Records, Shu 3 §19

Later he became Army Adviser and Deputy Area Commander of the Laixiang Garrison, and after being transferred to Protector of the Army he continued to oversee affairs as before. At that time the Yi and Liao of Yongchang Commandery, relying on their rugged terrain, would not submit and repeatedly raided, so Huo Yi was made concurrently Administrator of Yongchang and sent with a detached force to put them down. Huo Yi beheaded their chieftains and destroyed their settlements, bringing peace within the commandery's borders. He was promoted to Army Supervisor and General Who Assists the Army, concurrently Administrator of Jianning, and returned to oversee the affairs of the southern commanderies. In the 6th year of Jingyao (263) his title was raised to General Who Pacifies the South. Records, Shu 11 §7

That year, when Shu was annexed by Wei, Huo Yi, together with Luo Xian, a man of Xiangyang and Army Commander of Badong, each kept a region intact and then submitted to Wei with it. Both kept their former posts, and the favor and treatment they received were increased. Records, Shu 11 §8

According to an edict of the 1st year of Xianxi (264) recorded in the Annals of the Three Young Emperors of Wei, in Jiaozhi the Wu commander Lü Xing killed Sun Xiu's envoy Deng Gou and others and drove out the Administrator, and then sent the Commandant Tang Pu and others to Jincheng County to submit a memorial stating his intentions through Huo Yi, Area Commander and Protector of the Army of Nanzhong. Records, Wei 4 §128 · 135–136

In the assessment at the end of the volume, Chen Shou mentioned only that Huo Jun held a lone city without its falling, and said nothing separately about Huo Yi. Chen Shou's main text does not record the year or place of Huo Yi's death. Records, Shu 11 §50 · 5–8