The three kingdoms gathered together, the three camps of famous generals, all parties Haojie took turns to appear, today Xiaobian will tell a tragic famous general of Shu Han.
Wei Yan, Ziwen Chang, a native of Yiyang, Yuzhou, was a famous general in the Shu Han camp second only to the Five Tiger Generals, and his merits were not inferior to any of the Five Tiger Generals, so let's take a look at his achievements first.
Wei Yan
1. Meritorious service in the state of conquest
In 211, Wei Yan entered Yizhou with Liu Bei to help Liu Zhang fight against Zhang Lu, but Zhang Lu did not fight much, and kept asking Liu Zhang for money and people to stay motionless and stayed at Yemeng Pass.
In 212 AD, Liu Bei tore off the mask of hypocrisy, turned his face with his cousin Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang, and began to break up. As Liu Bei's general, Wei Yan participated in a major battle to defeat Liu Zhang's elite, and then led his troops to pacify Guanghan County.
Liu Bei
In 214 AD, Wei Yan accompanied Liu Bei in attacking the important town of Luocheng in Yizhou, which lasted for more than a year, and even Liu Bei's military division Pang Tong was killed in battle, and finally after a bitter battle, he conquered Luocheng and captured the famous general Zhang Ren of Yizhou. Later, he joined forces with the military master Zhuge Liang and other besiegers to besiege Chengdu, forced Liu Zhang to surrender, and occupied Yizhou.
In 219, Liu Bei proclaimed himself queen at Cao Cao's posthumous title of King of Yu (沔阳), and was given the title of King of Hanzhong (汉中王), with the capital at Chengdu. Liu Bei was made empress dowager of the Dragon's Vassals, and Wei Yan was made the general of Zhenyuan and the governor of Hanzhong and the taishou of Hanzhong. Wei Yan was overwhelmed by Liu Bei's heavy use of this and said, "If Cao Cao comes from all over the world, please refuse for the king; The crowd of 100,000 will be swallowed for the king", such a bold statement, grateful to Liu Bei, and then began to shock the world's great achievements.
2. Zhen Hanzhong refused to resist Cao Wei
From 219 to 230 AD, Wei Yan was responsible for defending Hanzhong, a place of contention for soldiers, during which time he repeatedly repelled the attacks of Cao Wei's army.
Since the Shu Han Dynasty lost important places such as Jingxiang and Shangyong, the Battle of Yiling lost a large number of elite soldiers and strong generals, the defensive line shrank sharply, and the defensive line against Eastern Wu was basically shrunk in the Yong'an front, and the Yong'an Governor was set up to resist the invasion of Eastern Wu.
And Hanzhong is the throat of Yizhou, the geographical location is very important belongs to the northern gate of Yizhou, is an important defense line against Cao Wei, by Wei Yan, the governor of Hanzhong is responsible for controlling the resistance to Cao Wei's invasion, Wei Yan also lived up to Liu Bei's kindness and appreciation, the town guarded the Hanzhong defense line for more than ten years without problems, to ensure the safety of Shu Han.
3. Outstanding achievements with the Northern Expedition
In 230, in order to resist the invasion of Hanzhong by Cao Wei's army, Wei Yan led a partial division to attack the Liangzhou region of Cao Wei in an attempt to besiege Wei and save Zhao, encountering Cao Wei's famous generals Guo Huai and Fei Yao, and breaking Cao Wei's army with weak troops, and this battle merit was awarded the title of Grand General of The Expedition to the West.
Zhuge Liang
In 231, Wei Yan accompanied Zhuge Liang in the Northern Expedition against Sima Yi, and defeated Sima Yi with Gao Xiang and Wu Ban at Halo City, causing Cao Wei to lose a large number of elite soldiers and horses, and Shu Han obtained such brilliant results as "obtaining the first three thousand ranks of armor, 5,000 collars of Xuan armor, and 3,100 pieces of crossbows".
Wei Yan had the above meritorious service and distinguished himself, and his titles were all sealed to the Marquis of Southern Zheng. He is a good soldier and brave, but his personality is extremely arrogant and unworthy, and no one dares to provoke him. Only the long history Yang Yi was very disdainful of Wei Yan and became involved with him, and even several times Wei Yan took a knife to kill Yang Yi, and this contradiction eventually led to the tragic result of this famous general.
In 234 AD, Zhuge Liang died of illness in the Fifth Northern Expedition, and secretly ordered Wei Yan to retreat after the protection of the army, the evil consequences of the previous confrontation with Yang Yi appeared, and both of them went to Liu Chan for power to say that the other side rebelled, and both Dong Yun and Jiang Huan chose to favor Yang Yi and suspect Wei Yan.
However, Wei Yan clearly showed his political immaturity at this moment and even led an army to attack Yang Yi, at this time the famous Shu Han general Wang Ping came out to persuade Wei Yan's soldiers and then everyone ran away, Wei Yan saw that no one listened to him, so he had to run to Hanzhong with the rest of the people in gray, Yang Yi was afraid that the night long Mengduo directly let Ma Dai pursue and kill him, and also destroyed Wei Yan's three tribes.
Poor Shu Han's most famous general, he actually died at the hands of his own people, although Wei Yan was too conceited and arrogant and also made a big mistake, but Yang Yi, as a Shu Han official, went to kill a general without the emperor's permission to destroy the people's homes, which was his own selfish intentions. Since then, the Shu Han generals have basically withered away, and Wei Yan's death has also indirectly affected the demise of Shu Han.