Xia Xun 夏恂

In Chapter 83 of the Romance, after Huang Zhong dies, Liu Bei leads the Imperial Guard straight to Xiaoting, assembles his generals, and divides his army into eight columns to advance together by land and water. In the middle of the 2nd month of the 2nd year of Zhangwu (222), Han Dang and Zhou Tai, hearing that Liu Bei is coming on campaign in person, lead out their troops to meet him. To Liu Bei, who has come out in person under a yellow silk canopy, Han Dang shouts, asking why, now that he is lord of Shu, he has come out so lightly, and warning that if some mishap befalls him, regret will come too late. Romance, Ch. 83 §9–11

When Liu Bei rebukes them, saying that they Wu dogs have harmed his hands and feet and that he will not stand with them under the same heaven, Han Dang looks round at his generals and asks who dares to break the Shu army. The lieutenant Xia Xun rides out with his spear levelled, and from behind Liu Bei, Zhang Bao gallops out with his eighteen-foot spear levelled, gives a great shout and charges straight at him. Hearing Zhang Bao's voice like a great clap of thunder, Xia Xun is inwardly startled and afraid and is just about to flee, and Zhou Ping, Zhou Tai's younger brother, seeing that Xia Xun cannot hold him off, comes galloping up brandishing his blade. Romance, Ch. 83 §11

As Guan Xing, seeing this, spurs his horse and comes out with his blade to meet him, Zhang Bao gives another great shout and runs Xia Xun through with his spear, and Xia Xun falls headlong from his horse. Zhou Ping, greatly alarmed, has no time to defend himself and is cut down by Guan Xing's blade, and when the two young generals charge, Han Dang and Zhou Tai hurriedly retreat into their lines. Liu Bei sighs, 'A tiger father has no dog for a son!', and points with his imperial whip to send the Shu army charging in all together, and the Wu army is badly defeated. Xia Xun's name does not appear again in the Romance after this. Romance, Ch. 83 §12