During the Three Kingdoms period, the official positions of military generals were mainly divided into two types: heavy generals and miscellaneous generals. Among them, the heavy generals include the generals of the generals, the generals of the hussars, the generals of the cheri, the generals of the Wei, the generals of the four sides and other military generals. Although the status of the heavy general is very prominent, the number of these official positions is relatively limited, and it is difficult to be crowned to many military generals who have made military achievements. Therefore, the establishment of relatively flexible miscellaneous generals was widely canonized during the Three Kingdoms period. For example, Guan Yu's general Lang Kou, Zhang Fei's general Zheng Yu, and Zhao Yun's General Of Yijun all belong to the scope of miscellaneous generals.
Among them, as far as the author wants to talk about today, "General Qiukou" is also a relatively common miscellaneous general. At that time, Wang Ping, Deng Ai and other four military generals had held this official position. Below, let's talk about these four warriors.
First, Yang Qiu
First of all, as far as Yang Qiu is concerned. Like Ma Chao and Han Sui, Yang Qiu was also a prince who divided Liangzhou. In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211 CE), in March, Cao Cao sent Zhong Xuan and Xiahou Yuan to lead an army out of Chang'an to attempt to attack Zhang Lu in Hanzhong through the territory of Yang Qiu and other Liangzhou princes, who suspected that Cao Cao was going to attack and annex Liangzhou. As a result, Yang Qiu raised an army against Cao Cao from the forces of Hema Chao and Han Sui, totaling about 100,000 horses. All the way to Gao Kai, straight to Tongguan.
In July of the same year, Cao Cao led a large army to personally march west and confronted the combined forces of the princes of Liangzhou. In this battle, Cao Cao sent Xu Huang, Zhu Ling, and others to cross Pusakajin at night, occupy Hexi to set up a camp, and cross from Tongguan to the north, although they were intercepted by Ma Chao, Cao Cao almost died. However, Cao Cao successfully crossed the river and then crossed the Wei River as a Yong Road to Weinan.
Therefore, the Liangzhou coalition army retreated, refused to garrison at Weikou, Cao Cao repeatedly set up suspicious troops, using boats to carry troops to sneak into the Wei River, as a pontoon bridge, and one night, Cao Cao divided his troops to camp in Weinan. The coalition forces attacked the barracks at night, and Cao Cao set up ambushes to break the coalition sneak attack. So Yang Qiu and others sent letters to Weinan to request peace talks in the hexi area, but Cao Cao did not agree.
In September, Cao Cao's army crossed the Weishui River in batches, and the coalition army challenged several times, but Cao Cao just did not deserve to fight, and the coalition army could only request to cut the land and send hostages to ask for peace. On this basis, Cao Cao adopted Jia Xu's strategy, pretended to agree, and then talked and laughed with Han Sui before the battle, making the coalition forces suspicious of Han Sui, and wrote a letter to Han Sui, which alienated the Liangzhou coalition forces, causing Ma Chao, Han Sui and other princes to be suspicious of each other. After many battles, Cao Jun launched a major decisive battle with the coalition forces in Weinan, and due to the dissenting of the coalition forces and the suspicious Han Sui after being divided, the coalition forces were greatly defeated.
In 211, Yang Qiu was unable to continue to resist Cao Cao, so he chose to surrender. In 220, after Cao Cao's death, Cao Pi took the throne, and Yang Qiu was crowned as a general of the Court. However, after this, there is no historical record of Yang Qiu.
2. Wang Ping
Second, as far as Wang Ping is concerned. Wang Ping was a native of Yizhou, but in 215, when Cao Cao captured Hanzhong, Wang Ping briefly surrendered to the former. In 217 AD, Liu Bei launched the Battle of Hanzhong. In 219, Liu Bei repelled Cao Cao and seized the land of Hanzhong, and Wang Ping also surrendered to Liu Bei.
In 228, Wang Ping followed Zhuge Liang on his Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. In the Battle of Jieting, Ma Mo's performance was disappointing, while Wang Ping was rewarded by Zhuge Liang for gathering scattered soldiers. After this battle, Wang Ping was crowned as a general of the Jurchens. In 234, after Zhuge Liang's death, Wang Ping assisted Wu Yizhen in defending Hanzhong. In 237, after Wu Yi's death, Wang Ping became the third governor of Hanzhong in Shu Han. In 244, the Cao Wei general Cao Shuang mobilized more than 100,000 troops and launched an attack on the Hanzhong region. Although he was at a disadvantage in terms of troop strength, Wang Ping repelled Cao Shuang and inflicted heavy losses on Cao Wei's army.
At that time, Ma Zhong was in Nanzhong, and the town was guarding Nanzhong; Deng Zhi was stationed in Yong'an to guard against Eastern Wu; Wang Ping was in Hanzhong to guard against Cao Wei; the three of them each guarded one side to ensure the peace of the Shu Han territory, and the prestige of the Three Marquises of Ping'an began at this time. In the eleventh year of Yanxi (248 AD), Wang Ping died, and his son Wang Xun inherited the title.
3. Wang Ji
Again, as far as Wang Ji is concerned. Wang Ji was a native of Donglaiqu City, and when he was a teenager, his father Wang Bao died, so he lived with his uncle Wang Weng. Wang Weng carefully raised him, and Wang Ji was also very filial. When Wang Ji was seventeen years old, he served as a prefectural official in Dong Lai County, but resigned because he was not favored. During the reign of Cao Wei and Huang Chu (220-226), xiaolian was recommended by various localities, and Wang Ji was appointed as Langzhong. Qingzhou Assassin Wang Ling specially recommended Wang Ji as a driver. Later, the imperial court recruited Wang Ji as his secretary Lang.
During the reign of Zhengshi (240–249), the general Cao Shuangsong invited Wang Ji to serve as a zhonglang and later as Anfeng Taishou. Because the administration of the prefecture and county was strict and the defense was strict, Sun Wu did not dare to invade and was promoted to general Kou. After being conscripted back to the imperial court due to illness, in the first ten years (249), Wang Jiqi was reinstated as Yin of Henan. Later, because Cao Shuang was killed in the Gaopingling Rebellion, he was routinely dismissed from office. In the second year of Jiaping (250), he served as Shangshu. Soon after, he served as the Assassin of Jingzhou, the general of Jiayang Lie, and followed the general Wang Chang of Zhengnan in his campaign against Sun Wu.
In the first year of the Zhengyuan Dynasty (254), Cao Xi, the Duke of GuiguiXiang, ascended the throne and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Changle Ting. In the fourth year of Ganlu (259), Wang Ji was transferred to the post of general of Zhengnan and the governor of Jingzhou. In the first year of jingyuan (260), Cao Huan, the duke of Changgui Township, took the throne, adding a total of 5,700 households to Wang Ji.com. On April 24, the second year of Jing Yuan (261), Wang Ji died of illness at the age of seventy-two, and was posthumously awarded the title of Jing. He was succeeded to the throne by his son Wang Hui, who died prematurely.
4. Deng Ai
Finally, as far as Deng Ai is concerned. Although Deng Ai was born in 197 AD, during the reign of cao cao, cao pi and other monarchs, deng ai was not valued for a long time. In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), after Cao Cao captured Jingzhou, he forcibly moved the local people north, and Deng Ai, his mother and clan were forcibly relocated to Runan (present-day Shangcai, Henan) as Tuntian people.
Because of his young age, Deng Ai initially worked as a cow herder. But he has great ambitions since childhood, and is determined to change his destiny through struggle. When he was twelve years old, he went to Yingchuan with his mother, read two sentences in the inscription of the late Taiqiu Changchen Chen, "Wen is the world's model, and the behavior of the scholar is the same", and he gladly went to Mu, so he named himself Deng Fan and the character Shi Ze. Later, there were people in the clan who had the same name as him, so they changed their current name.
After Cao Fang ascended the throne, Deng Ai attracted Sima Yi's attention and began to take charge of Cao Wei's Tuntian affairs. By 249, Deng Ai began to participate in the campaign against the Northern Expedition of the Shu Han Dynasty, and repeatedly repelled the large armies led by Jiang Wei. Because of his military exploits, Deng Ai was given the title of General of the Kou Dynasty. In 258, the Shu Han general Jiang Wei (江伟) made an expedition north to the Central Plains, only to return again without success, and correspondingly, Deng Ai was promoted by Sima Zhao to the rank of general of Zhenxi.
In 263, Sima Zhao, who held the power of Cao Wei, mobilized an army of 180,000 and officially launched the Battle of Wei and Shu. In this battle, Zhong Hui led a large army to break through the Hanzhong defense line of Shu Han and confronted Jiang Wei. Taking advantage of the stalemate between Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui, Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping and came to the hinterland of Shu Han. After defeating Zhuge Liang's son Zhuge Zhan, Deng Ai besieged Chengdu. Because Chengdu had no soldiers and horses to continue to resist, the later lord Liu Chan could only give up resistance, which prompted the Shu Han to officially move towards extinction. However, it is a great pity that Deng Ai, who made great achievements, was later framed by Zhong Hui and others, and finally lost his life in 264 AD.