Wen Duan was the son of Wen Qin, xiao Yong was good at war, and when Sima Shi deposed the Wei emperor Cao Fang, his father Wen Qin and Yu Qiu Jian sent an army in Shouchun to attack Sima Shi.
At the age of eighteen, Wen Duan went out with his father. Sima Shi personally led the army to suppress the rebellion and raised troops to Reach Lejia.
Wen Duan suggested to his father that when the enemy was unstable, he would attack the enemy and frustrate his vigor, and his father Wen Qin adopted Wen Duan's suggestion and split into two ways with Wen Duan's soldiers and attacked at night.
Wen Duan led a group of elite cavalry, suddenly killed sima shi camp, Sima shi army was suddenly in chaos, Sima shi was also frightened, his eyes grew a tumor, because Wen Duan attacked, causing his eyeballs to burst out, protruding eye sockets, bleeding non-stop.
Sima Shi clenched the quilt tightly with his teeth in pain, and the quilt was bitten off, until dawn, when Wen Duan led the army to withdraw.
After Wen Duan retreated, Sima Shi ordered the large army to pursue, Wen Duan once again led more than a dozen cavalry, rushed into the Sima Division's army, rampaged, Wen Duan single-handedly, killing and wounding more than a hundred people, in the enemy army, rushed in and out six or seven times, brave and unstoppable, wherever he went, the enemy army did not dare to chase.
The Zizhi Tongjian records that the duck rode into thousands of horses with a horse, killing and injuring more than a hundred people, but out, so that six or seven people could not be forced to chase and ride.
After this battle, Wen Duan was comparable to Zhao Yun's Battle of Changshanpo, which shocked the world, and Sima Shi also died of wounds in this attack.
Later, Yuqiu Jian was defeated at Shouchun, and Wen Duan surrendered to the State of Wu together with his father Wen Qin.
In April of the second year of Ganlu (257), Zhuge Zhi raised an army in Shouchun to fight against Sima Zhao, and Wu Guo sent Wen Qin's father and son, Quanduan and Tang Zhi, and others to enter Shouchun to support Zhuge Birthday.
Sima Zhao sent heavy troops to surround Shouchun, and Wen Qin wanted to break through, but because there were too many Wei troops, he did not succeed.
At this time, Zhuge Zhi and Wen Qin were at odds, and many people went out of the city to surrender, wen Qin wanted to drive out the northerners in the city in order to save grain, Zhuge Shi did not agree, so the two had a dispute, and Zhuge Qin killed Wen Qin.
Wen Duan and his younger brother Wen Hu led the army elsewhere, heard that their father had been killed, and prepared to lead the army to Shouchun to take revenge, but their subordinates did not agree, fearing that their lives would be endangered, so the two brothers climbed out of the city wall and surrendered to Sima Zhao.
Wen Duan and Wen Hu came to Sima Zhao's army, Sima Zhao's subordinates all suggested that the Wen Duan brothers be killed, Sima Zhao did not agree, he was worried that killing the Wen Duan brothers would make the people in the city firm in their determination to stick to the death, so he adopted the strategy of attacking the heart, sealing the Wen Duan brothers as generals, The Marquis of Guannei, and asking the Wen Duan brothers to shout to the people in the city, surrender and not kill, so the soldiers in the city no longer had the heart to hold out, and soon, Shouchun was breached.
In order to buy people's hearts, Sima Zhao allowed the Wen Duan brothers to bury their father. When zhuge was destroyed, he escaped from Shouchun and was killed by Hu Fen's soldiers, and Sima Zhao exterminated his three tribes.
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wen Duan served the Jin Dynasty, leading an army to defeat the bald tree function and forcing 200,000 Hu people to surrender to the Jin Dynasty, and Wen Duan was famous for a time.
During the reign of Sima Zheng, the Emperor Hui of Jin, Empress Jia Nanfeng staged a coup d'état and killed the empress dowager Yang Jun.
Sima Xuan, the king of Dong'an, was Zhuge Shi's grandson, and he had always hated Wen Duan for killing his grandfather, so he took the opportunity to falsely accuse Wen Duan and Yang Jun of being in the same party and rebelling together, and Wen Duan was immediately killed and the three tribes were exterminated.
The Book of Jin records that Dongyi Colonel Wei Wen Li's father Qin was killed by his maternal grandfather Zhuge Shi, and that Qiu Yi was afflicted by his uncle's family, and that he was also accused of non-sin.
Wen Duan was only fifty-four years old when he died.
A generation of fierce generals, thus fell.