At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial power declined, the world rose up, chasing deer in the Central Plains, and then the Three Kingdoms rose to the top, and the wind and clouds rose, and in this period, countless famous generals poured out. These famous generals, if placed in other dynasties, are not unique brave generals in the world, but they all met in the battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, so history began the most fascinating chaotic struggle for hegemony.
The Five Tiger Generals need not repeat themselves, today is a famous general in the late Three Kingdoms period, he came from a humble background, only a few points better than a slave, but he seized the opportunity in middle age and became a generation of famous generals in the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang's descendant, Jiang Wei, was repeatedly defeated in his hands, and he also made an immortal contribution to destroying Shu, until the Tang Dynasty and song dynasty were posthumously sealed the temple, you should guess, who is this person?
This person is Deng Ai, Deng Ai's childhood life is very bleak, he lost his father at an early age, in that turbulent era of frequent wars, Deng Ai drifted around with his mother, and the hardships can be imagined. When he was twelve years old, he drifted to Yingchuan with his mother and became a Tuntianmin, who helped the officials to cultivate the land, and his personal freedom was restricted, and his status was only a little higher than that of a slave.
But despite being humble, Deng Ai still did not fall into the ambition of Qingyun, and during the period of cattle herding in Tuntian, he could not release the scrolls and studied diligently, hoping to change his fate through knowledge. Sure enough, the hard work was rewarded, because of his outstanding learning, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant of the pawn, became a small official, originally wanted to investigate Deng Ai, and then reuse him, but Deng Ai had a fatal physical defect, so that the official dispelled the idea of reusing him. What defects?
It turned out that Deng Ai stuttered and stuttered, which was a taboo in the officialdom, and how could a person who could not speak smoothly be an official? So Deng Ai was officially sent to guard the straw pile. But Deng Ai was not willing to do so, he decided to change the direction of his efforts, Wen is not good, he came to wu, so he changed his study of military, studied military books every day, while guarding the straw, he used his free time to observe geographical rivers, and commented one by one, judging the role of each terrain from war, agriculture, and water conservancy.
Seeing Deng Ai pointing out the country like this, everyone around him felt that there was something wrong with this stutter, did he still want to lead the soldiers to fight as a general? Deng Ai really wanted to, and besides, there was another chance in front of him. When Deng Ai was almost forty years old, the Wei central government had to count the area of tun tian in the local area and also survey the terrain. Although he stuttered, Deng Ai's ability was still good, and the local officials and eunuchs had no suitable people to send, so they sent Deng Ai to the central government to report on the situation.
After coming to the imperial court, Deng Ai reported his inspection conclusions and opinions one by one, and when sima Yi saw it, he was very satisfied and marveled at Deng Ai's talent, so he left Deng Ai by his side. Because of the adoption of Deng Ai's opinion, agriculture and water conservancy in the southeast territory of Cao Wei developed rapidly, and the military strength of the State of Wei also increased greatly.
Finally, let's talk about the highlight of deng ai destroying Shu, in 263 AD, Sima Zhao sent 180,000 troops to attack the shu state, Deng Ai led more than 30,000 troops to contain Jiang Wei's main force, Zhuge Xu also led more than 30,000 troops to encircle Jiang Wei, and Zhong Hui led 100,000 main forces to directly take the strategic point of the Shu state, Yi Hanzhong. Hearing that Hanzhong was besieged, Jiang Wei managed to get rid of Deng Ai and return to Hanzhong.
Deng Ai took this opportunity and set off from a small path in Yinping, bypassed the Sword Gate Pass, and directly killed the gate of Chengdu in the Shu Kingdom. It is simple to cut the path, but it is very difficult to do, because the path is a primeval forest, and there are lofty mountains, which belong to no man's land, and if there is an ambush of the Shu state there, it is very easy to lead to the destruction of the entire army. At this time, Deng Ai showed amazing willpower, selected 20,000 elites, and began to drive into this no-man's land.
At that time, Deng Ai was 70 years old and had white hair, but he took the lead and took the lead, which greatly infected the army, so they crossed the path with amazing willpower and came to Fu County. Later, when the lord Liu Chan heard of the strange soldiers descending from heaven, he hurriedly sent Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan to fight, but he was defeated by Deng Ai and killed in Chengdu, Liu Chancang surrendered, and from then on, Shu Han destroyed the country!
Many historians believe that Deng Ai was the first general in the late Three Kingdoms period, he really deserved it, and what is more rare is that Deng Ai also has very prominent political talents, which can be described as both literary and martial arts. He can become a famous general of the Three Kingdoms generation as a cattle herder, which has a lot to do with his hard work, although there is this opportunity of Sima Yi, but not everyone can seize the opportunity, only by constantly strengthening themselves and always being prepared can they seize the opportunity and make a splash. Later, the Tang Dynasty built temples and posthumously named the sixty-four generals of ancient times, Deng Ai was among them, and the only people who could be included in the Three Kingdoms were Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhou Yu, Lü Meng, Lu Xun, and Lu Kang, and Zhao Yun did not enter. In the later "Seventeen Histories of the Hundred Generals", Deng Ai also occupied a place!