Zhu Huan was a commander of Eastern Wu. Wikidata uses Zhu Huan as his name. The Records of the Three Kingdoms say his courtesy name was Xiumu and that he was from Wu in Wu commandery, so the title stays the personal name. This entry records his life as 177 to 238.[1][3]
Rise
When Sun Quan was a general, Zhu Huan served in his headquarters and was later made chief of Yuyao. An epidemic struck and grain became scarce. He assigned capable clerks, saw to medicine himself, and kept porridge coming, so the people were grateful. He then became colonel who sweeps away raiders, with two thousand soldiers, and in a year gathered more than ten thousand scattered people in Wu and Kuaiji. When hill bandits in Danyang and Poyang took towns and killed officials, he led the generals and put them down. He rose to assistant general, was made Marquis of Xincheng, and later replaced Zhou Tai as supervisor at Ruxu.[3]
The battle at Ruxu
In the first year of Huangwu, Cao Ren of Wei led several tens of thousands toward Ruxu and first announced an attack on Xianxi. Zhu Huan sent troops there, but Cao Ren advanced to within seventy li of Ruxu. Zhu Huan had only five thousand men, and his generals were afraid. He recalled the Xianxi force, but Cao Ren arrived first. Zhu Huan hid his banners to look weak and drew Cao Ren's son Cao Tai against the city, while Chang Diao, Zhuge Qian and Wang Shuang took oil-boats against Zhongzhou. Zhu Huan himself held Cao Tai. Cao Tai burned his camp and retreated. Zhuge Qian was killed, Wang Shuang was captured and sent to Wuchang, and more than a thousand were cut down or drowned. Sun Quan enfeoffed Zhu Huan as Marquis of Jiaxing, made him martial-fury general, and gave him the chancellorship of Pengcheng.[3]
Last years
In the seventh year of Huangwu, Zhou Fang, governor of Poyang, lured Cao Xiu of Wei. Lu Xun was commander, and Quan Cong and Zhu Huan the left and right supervisors, each with thirty thousand men. Zhu Huan asked to cut Cao Xiu off on the dangerous roads at Jiashi and Guache and to capture him himself. Lu Xun refused, and the plan was not used. In the first year of Huanglong he was made front general, shepherd of Qing province, with credentials. In the sixth year of Jiahe, Lü Xi, a clerk of Lujiang in Wei, asked Wu to receive him. Zhu Huan and Quan Cong went, the plot leaked, and the army withdrew. A broad stream lay outside the city. When the army was half across, Zhu Huan stayed in the rear, and the Wei troops did not dare come out. He later killed the assistant general Hu Zong in anger. Sun Quan valued his ability and did not punish him, sending Zhu Huan's son Zhu Yi to take the troops while Zhu Huan was treated for several months and then returned to Zhongzhou. He died in the first year of Chiwu at sixty-two. The family had no surplus wealth, and Sun Quan gave five thousand hu of salt for the funeral. Zhu Yi succeeded him.[3]