Zhang Liang was an indispensable figure when Liu Bang fought in Jiangshan, and strategizing was his skill, not only helping Liu Bang lay down jiangshan, but also successfully escaping Liu Bang's struggle for annihilation. The world's admiration for his schemes will not be stingy with the accumulation of words, and in the period of the Three Kingdoms, there was also a person who was admired by the people at that time, and was also compared to Zhang Liang in the world, he was a famous general of Cao Wei, Zhong Hui.
Zhong Hui's father was Zhong Xuan, the founder of the Wei clan, who was brilliant and talented since childhood, and had a close relationship with the Sima family, because when he was able to put down the rebellion of Zhuge Shi, he was often able to come up with brilliant plans, and he had remarks like Zhang Liang. At that time, Sima Zhao was angry because Jiang Wei harassed the border invasion and wanted to send a large army to cut down Shu, but the entire imperial court did not agree to this, but Zhong Hui supported it, and conspired with Sima Zhao to plan and survey the terrain.
After the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, Zhong Hui's tiger and wolf heart was revealed, and he joined forces with the Shu general Jiang Wei to plot a rebellion, when Zhong Hui first wrote a letter accusing Deng Ai of having an antipathy, sending his most feared Deng Ai to prison, and then attacking Chengdu on the orders of Sima Zhao, but in fact he had planned to take Cao Wei's 200,000 troops for himself and rebel in Chengdu. He and Jiang Wei discussed that they should attack Chang'an on land and water and seek the world.
Zhong Hui's plan has a great idea of mantis catching cicadas, yellow birds after eating, borrowing the hand of Sima Zhao, attacking the Shu state, the Shu state is destroyed, and then use Cao Wei's forces to reverse the attack on the world, even if it does not succeed, liu Bei can also learn from Liu Bei to return to Chengdu and gather in danger. Zhong Hui's plan has never been a mistake, and this rebellion is also determined in his opinion. But unfortunately, he missed 3 people, and every step these 3 people took would have a different ending for him.
One was his superior, Sima Zhao. Before Zhong Hui left, his brother had already hinted to Sima Zhao that Zhong Hui might have different intentions. Deng Ai was imprisoned and returned to Beijing, and it seems that Sima Zhao did not have any doubts, but a letter from Sima Zhao made Zhong Hui confused, and Sima Zhao said: "Afraid that Deng Ai will not obey, so he sent troops to garrison, and he will soon bring 100,000 troops to Chang'an to join Zhong Hui." This made Zhong Hui send Deng Ai away on the fifteenth day of the first foot of the first month, and the sixteenth day of the first month of the back foot was anxious to overthrow Sima Zhao at the order of Empress Guo, and in a hurry to rebel, which was premature.
The second was the "Shu general" Jiang Wei, who was close to him, and Jiang Wei had several ideas, and the officers in the army, large and small, were all in danger, deliberately causing internal turmoil in zhonghui and not being able to be united in the hearts of the army, it can be said that the contradiction between Zhong hui and Sima Zhao was what he was most willing to see, and Jiang Wei was a loyal vassal of Shu Han and would not do his best to help Zhong Hui, which was a discord between people.
The third was that Zhong Hui told Sima Zhao's plan to the overseer Wei Zhao, and as a result, the two did not talk, resulting in the plan leaking. The last big hidden danger is that the 200,000 troops led by Zhong Hui, except for a small number of Shu troops, most of them are Cao Wei's soldiers, the war has just ended, they have to turn their spearheads to their relatives' hometown, ask which soldiers will fight heroically, so Zhong Hui died in a mutiny on the eighteenth day of the first month, and in less than three days, this absurd rebellion came to an end.