The veteran general Deng Ai smuggled himself to Yinping and defeated Zhuge Zhan (Zhuge Liang's son) in Mianzhu, forcing Liu Chan to surrender, and making a contribution to the destruction of Shu Han. After the victory, Deng Ai, who had reached retirement age, was somewhat overwhelmed, and he arbitrarily arranged for shu Han's widows, and appointed his subordinates as Xichuan officials, and even said that "Jiang Wei is just like this."
At this time, Zhong Hui led more than 100,000 main forces from Hanzhong to the south and surrendered Jiang Wei. This time, as the commander of the three armies, he was robbed of the first merit by Deng Ai, and he was very unhappy. Within a few days, Sima Zhao's commendation order arrived in Chengdu, Deng Ai was made a lieutenant, and Zhong would be made a Situ.
Seeing that he had been promoted to a knighthood, Deng Ai even floated up, and he went to Sima Zhao, saying that it was time to take advantage of the situation to cut down Wu, but it would become a great cause of reunification. Sima Zhao, on the other hand, believed that the annihilation of Shu had already exceeded the task, so he asked the overseer Wei Ou to tell Deng Ai not to act rashly, and to ask for instructions on any military affairs. However, Deng Ai did not understand Sima Zhao's intention of making him "retreat in a hurry" and continued to demand wu.
Many people in Cao Wei's army were not accustomed to Deng Ai's behavior of "being proud of his achievements", so Zhong Hui wrote a secret letter to Sima Zhao, saying that Deng Ai had the intention of plotting rebellion. At the same time, Zhong Hui was good at imitating the handwriting of others (his father Zhong Xuan was a great calligrapher), and he tampered with the words of deng Ai's writings to Sima Zhao very arrogantly. After such an operation, Sima Zhao completely lost confidence in Deng Ai.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 264 AD, Deng Ai's father and son were imprisoned and sent to Luoyang. Except for Deng Ai, the powerful Zhong will get carried away. Jiang Wei, who saw zhonghui's thoughts, encouraged his supporters to stand on their own. Zhong Hui thought that he was outside with the help of Jiang Wei, and at worst he could be a Liu Bei, divide Western Shu, and claim the king as hegemon.
Sima Zhao, on the other hand, soon sat in Chang'an. Zhong Hui saw that Sima Zhao saw his own little nine nine, and he was a little flustered. Jiang Wei advised him to immediately replace the middle level of the army with his own confidants. On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhong Hui officially broke with Sima Zhao, and the people of the army were uncertain, but he only controlled the middle-level officers and did not kill them.
Two days later, Hu Yuan, the son of Hu Lie, discovered that his father was imprisoned by zhonghui, so he spread the news that zhonghui had purged the army. The families of these big-headed soldiers were all in Cao Wei, but they did not want to die with Zhong Hui, so they launched an attack under the leadership of Hu Yuan. Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei rushed to battle, and were eventually killed by the rebel army. The red-eyed Cao Wei soldiers plundered Chengdu, and the officials of the Shuzhong people were killed and wounded.
At this time, Deng Ai's prison cart had just arrived in Mianzhu and did not know about Zhong Hui. Wei Wan, fearing that Deng Ai would go back to complain, sent someone to intercept the prison cart and behead Deng Ai's father and son on the spot. Before dying, Deng Ai sighed, I kind of understand Bai Qi's situation.
And this was the place where Deng Ai defeated Zhuge Zhan. At that time, in order to show off his military feats, Deng Ai built the heads of the fallen Shu Han generals into the "Jingguan" tower. This time he died in Mianzhu, which can also be regarded as "a beginning and an end". After Deng Ai's death, his son in Luoyang was beheaded, and his wife and grandson were sent to the Western Regions.
After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Deng Ai's old subordinates continued to overturn the cases for him. In 273, Deng Ai was finally rehabilitated.
