When it comes to the Three Kingdoms, many people will immediately think of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan, in fact, Cao Cao is not a person of the Three Kingdoms period at all, he is a person of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Liu Bei only existed for 3 years in the Three Kingdoms period.
During the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), the real three heroes were Zhuge Liang, Lu Xun, and Sima Yi.
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Zhuge Liang
In 221, after Liu Bei declared himself emperor in Chengdu, Zhuge Liang was given the title of Shu Han Chancellor. After Zhang Fei was killed by the rebel generals and defected to Sun Quan with his first rank, the Shu Emperor Liu Bei could no longer suppress the anger of revenge in his heart, and in July 221 led an army of 50,000 to attack Eastern Wu. After Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, unsuccessfully asked Emperor Shu for peace, he declared himself a vassal to Cao Wei and appointed Lu Xun as the commander-in-chief to lead the army to fight. After Lu Xun and Liu Bei held each other for seven or eight months, they finally burned the camp for seven hundred miles in the Area of Yiling, leaving no piece of armor in the Shu army. After that, Liu Bei retreated to the White Emperor's City, where Liu Bei was left alone behind Zhuge Liang and Li Yan, and then died at the age of 63.
After Liu Bei's death, the Wei emperor Cao Pi, at the suggestion of Sima Yi, mobilized a five-way army, totaling 500,000 people, to march together to cut down Shu. Unexpectedly, between the flicks of Zhuge Liang, the shu han chancellor, Cao Pi's 5-way shu army was fruitless. After Zhuge Liang settled in the Fifth Road, there was another rebellion in the southern part of the Shu kingdom, and Zhuge Liang personally led the Shu army to quell the rebellion in order to repay Liu Bei's favor of loneliness.
After quelling the rebellion, Zhuge Liang launched an offensive campaign against Cao Wei from 228 to 234, a total of five times. Although the five Northern Expeditions also achieved some success, they failed to achieve the goal of "reviving the Han Dynasty".
In 234, Zhuge Liang finally fell ill due to overwork and died in Wuzhangyuan at the age of 54.
Lu Xun
When the Shu Emperor Liu Bei attacked Wu, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, appointed Lu Xun as the governor of Dadu, and after leading the Wu army to fight with Liu Bei's army for seven or eight months, Lu Xun ordered the Soldiers of the Wu Army to each hold a handful of thatch, raid the Shu army camp at night, and set fire to the wind. Suddenly, the fire was fierce, and the Shu army was in chaos... Concentrated troops, besieged on all sides, and annihilated nearly 10,000 Shu troops. At this point, the Shu army collapsed, most of them were killed, wounded and scattered, and vehicles, boats, and other military supplies were lost.
In 229, Sun Quan declared himself empress, and Bai Luxun was made the grand general of shang and the protector of the right capital, assisting the crown prince Sun Deng and taking charge of the affairs of the capital Wuchang.
In 244, Sun Quan worshipped Lu Xun as the minister of affairs and the three dukes of the general consul, and led the affairs of Wuchang.
On March 19, 245, Lu Xun died at the age of 63.
Sima Yi
After the Wei emperor Cao Rui ascended the throne, Zhuge Liang led the Shu army in the Northern Expedition to Cao Wei, and because Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, and others of the Wei state at that time were by no means zhuge Liang's opponents, the early Wei state often lost battles. Since there was really no one available in the country, Cao Rui had no choice but to send Sima Yi, who was eagle-eyed and wolf-eyed, to resist Zhuge Liang's attack.
Sima Yi also did not fail in his mission, and every time Zhuge Liang went on a northern expedition, he failed because of Sima Yi. In the spring of 234, after three years of preparations to persuade the peasants to preach martial arts, Zhuge Liang led tens of thousands of troops out of the Valley Pass; in August, Zhuge Liang fell ill due to overwork, and his condition deteriorated day by day, and soon after, Zhuge Liang died in the Wuzhangyuan military camp.
After Zhuge Liang's death, the Shu army naturally also retreated to the Shu state. Cao Rui then sent Xiahou Ba to succeed Sima Yi as the governor of the capital and sent Sima Yi back to the capital of wei. Cao Rui was already dying, and he learned from Liu Beituo to be isolated from Zhuge Liang, and his son Cao Fangtuo to be isolated from Sima Yi and Cao Shuang.
On January 22, 239, Cao Rui died of illness in Luoyang and was buried in Gaoping Mausoleum at the age of 36, succeeded by his son Cao Fang.
In 249, Sima Yi launched the Gaopingling Rebellion, eliminating the fierce enemy Cao Shuang and completely emptying Cao Fang, and Cao Cao could not have imagined that his descendants would eventually become the same fate as Liu Xie, the emperor of Han Xian.
On September 7, 251, the 72-year-old Sima Yi died of illness, at this time, the Sima family had already dominated the wei state; 12 years later, Sima Zhao led a large army to attack the Shu state, Liu Chan surrendered, and shu Han perished; in another 2 years, Sima Yan usurped the throne as emperor and established the Jin Dynasty; on May 1, 280, Sima Yan destroyed the State of Wu in one fell swoop, and the three kingdoms were unified again, and the world was finally returned to Sima Shi.