Finished talking about a half-immortal in the Three Kingdoms period: Zuo Ci and a divine calculation: Guan Ren. Someone asked me if I could talk about Wen Duan, and readers and listeners are very welcome to order it. However, before talking about Wen Duan, I feel the need to talk about his father Wen Qin first, and I am more accustomed to telling it in the way of father-son inheritance, just like I talked about Ma Teng and Ma Chao's father and son before. Therefore, today I will start with Wen Qin.
Vincent (?) ~258), courtesy name Zhongruo, was a native of Peiguo Commandery (沛国谯郡, in modern Bozhou, Anhui). When we look at this hometown, do you feel particularly familiar? Yes, he and Cao Cao were fellow countrymen. So naturally, he was a general in Cao Wei's camp, and his father was Cao Cao's general Wen Ji [jì].
And this Wen Ji, who served as a cavalry general in the Cao camp during the Jian'an years, was very brave and powerful. Therefore, as his son, Wen Qin has been saddled with the reputation of the son of a famous general since he was a child, and it is rumored that he is a piece of martial arts training material.
However, in the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219), that year, Guan Yu led the Jingzhou soldiers and horses on the Northern Expedition to attack Xiangyang and Fancheng, creating a flooded Seventh Army, capturing the forbidden, beheading Pound, and threatening Huaxia, and continuing to besiege Cao Ren, who was guarding Fancheng, with the help of Han shui, which caused the Central Plains to be shaken.
At this time, in the central imperial court controlled by Cao Wei, there was a man named Wei Xie, who was then the official of the Xiangfu Xi Cao Tuan, that is, a secretary general of the Xiangfu. This person thinks that Guan Yu's momentum is too strong, Cao Ren is afraid that he will not be able to resist, and even Cao Cao's foundation may collapse, even if it is not yet, but if he unites some forces in Cao Cao's camp who are dissatisfied with Cao Cao, then will it not become this possibility? Turning back and uniting guan Yu's internal and external attacks, Cao Wei could be broken, and by then wouldn't he be the minister of the Kuang Fu Han Room?
Thinking of this, the more Wei Yan thought about it, the more excited he became, and he began to plan a plan to rebel against Wei and Cao, such a big thing, it is certainly not something that one person can carry out, it is necessary to win over the same party, and this same party must also hold the military power. His chosen partymate was a man named Chen Yi [yī], who was serving as a lieutenant of Changle. Wei Yi consulted with Chen Yi to lead an army to attack the metropolis of Yecheng in northern Cao Wei.
Who knows, although this Chen Yi said that he had a good personal relationship with Wei Yi, but in the face of such a big thing, he was scared enough, although he was forced to be calm on the surface, but after leaving Wei Yi, he was frightened and scared, and he didn't think about it. Finally thinking about it, Chen Yi decided to apologize to his old friend Wei Yi, so he reported this plan to Cao Wei's crown prince Cao Pi.
When Cao Pi heard it, someone was secretly plotting to rebel?! It pays off! Immediately, a great purge was launched, and all those who showed signs of dissatisfaction with Cao Wei were arrested. As a result, this Wen Qin, because he and Wei Xie often moved around, had a good relationship with the two people and spoke very speculatively, so they were implicated and were also arrested and imprisoned.
According to the law, Wen Qin should have been executed, but Cao Cao thought of the merits that his father Wen Ji had made for himself, and in this case, Wen Qin was also a careless friend and was implicated, so he pardoned his capital crimes and only beat him with hundreds of whips. But even this Wen Qin couldn't stand it, so he couldn't be killed.
During the reign of Emperor Taihe of Wei, Wen Qin actually relied on his own hard work to get out of the trough of his life, and also served as the governor of the five camps and the position of tooth gatekeeper. The Tooth Gate General here is not the Tooth Gate General, but the meaning of a general in charge of commanding the battle.
It was a good thing, but something went wrong. It turned out that Wen Qin was very violent and rude, and he was also arrogant and committed, this offense did not mean offending the emperor, then he still knew the seriousness and would not do such an absurd thing, which meant that he offended his superiors and leaders, and he did not respect discipline and law. As a result, he was reported to Emperor Ming of Wei by his superiors, and he was punished and assigned. Emperor Wei ming also deliberately suppressed him because of this.
However, Emperor Wei ming still admired Wen Qin's ability, and later promoted him to the position of Huainan Ya gatekeeper, and later promoted him to lujiang taishou and yingyang general. However, Wen Qin's character did not change, still did not learn lessons, during his term of office, he was played by Wang Ling to the imperial court, saying that Wen Qin was greedy and cruel, and was not suitable for serving as a general who was on the side, and asked the imperial court to cure Wen Qin of his sins, so Wen Qin was recalled by the imperial court.
This was suppressed again and could not be developed. However, after the death of Emperor Ming of Wei, Cao Shuang monopolized power, and Wen Qin ushered in a period of rapid development of his career. It turned out that Wen Qin and Cao Shuang were fellow countrymen, and the great general Cao Shuang had monopoly power and was in charge of the government alone, and in order to strengthen his own power, he not only stopped punishing Wen Qin's crimes, but also specially gave Wen Qin profound treatment.
Later, Cao Shuang adopted Ding Ming's plan, moved Empress Guo to another palace, and transferred King Anle to Yecheng, while sending Wen Qin back to Lujiang and crowning him as a champion general, and Wen Qin received even more favor than before. At this time, Wen Qin became more inflated, became more arrogant and arrogant, thinking that he was strong and brave, and boasted that he was superior. Because everyone knows that he is a red man in front of Cao Shuang, he has a rather false name in the three armies.
Who knows, in the first year of Jiaping (249), Sima Yi launched the GaopingLing Rebellion, and Cao Shuang, a waste of waste, thought twice and finally chose to surrender. Can he have his good fruit to eat? In the end, he was killed by Sima Yi. After this incident, Wen Qin, who was far away in Lujiang, spent the whole day trembling and worrying, fearing that one day the imperial court would summon him back to punish the crime.
Sima Yi naturally knew that he had today's position, and all relied on Cao Shuang, but considering that he had heavy troops in his hands, if he attacked at this point, it would probably force him to rebel, and if he provoked a civil war because of this, it would be completely unnecessary. Therefore, he decided to win him over, and in order to reassure him, Sima Yi asked the imperial court to make Wen Qinjia a former general. The heart that Wen Qin had been hanging on was put back into his stomach.
In the following year, in the second year of Jiaping (250), Wen Qin surrendered to wu and sent him a secret letter, tricking the Wu general Zhu Yi and asking him to personally lead an army to meet him. However, Zhu Yi was not a fool, and naturally understood that Wen Qin was deceitful, so he submitted Wen Qin's letter to Sun Quan, and at the same time explained that he believed that his surrender was false and could not be immediately welcomed by him.
Sun Quan issued an edict saying: "Now that the northern lands have not yet been unified, Wen Qin's letter to him wants to submit, he should be greeted immediately, if he is suspected of deception, he should be designed to trap him, arrange large troops to guard against him, and make two preparations." So he sent Lü Zhaodu to lead 20,000 men and horses, and join forces with Zhu Yi to advance to the northern border of the State of Wu. Wen Qin originally planned to fight Zhu Yi in an ambush, but now that he saw that So many soldiers and horses had come from Eastern Wu, he had to abandon the original plan to lure the enemy deeper and instead lead his army to resist in a column, and surrender was naturally impossible.
Later, the imperial court also asked him to replace Zhuge Shi as the Assassin of Yangzhou. However, Wen Qin succeeded Zhuge Shi as the Assassin of Yangzhou, which invisibly offended Zhuge Chen, making Zhuge Shi dissatisfied with Wen Qin, and the two people also planted the seeds of hatred.
However, it should be said that Wen Qin's ability to unite the army in combat is still relatively strong, and he has made many military achievements during his tenure in Huainan. In fact, this was a good thing, but he preferred to falsely report the number of captives in an attempt to gain more favors and rewards. However, with Sima Yi presiding over the overall situation in the imperial court, how could he be blinded by such a small trick? Therefore, although he praised his great achievements every time and wanted more rewards, the imperial court did not buy it and refused to give more.
As a result, Wen Qin gradually became dissatisfied with the imperial court, and his resentment grew. At that time, the Zhendong general Yiqiu Jian saw Wen Qin's dissatisfaction, and this Yuqiu Jian was loyal to Cao Wei and full of complaints about the Sima family's monopoly on Cao Wei's regime, so he took the opportunity to win Wen Qin over and treat Wen Qin very well. At that time, Yuqiu Jian was also a very famous general in the State of Wei, and when he and Sima Yi attacked the Liaodong region, they were very successful in battle. He attaches so much importance and courtesy to Wen Qin, Wen Qin is naturally grateful to Dade, and has become a close friend with Yuqiu Jian, who is loyal to him, and the two people are getting closer and closer, which is actually equivalent to secretly forming an alliance.
In the fifth year of Jiaping (253), The Wu state's taifu Zhuge Ke personally led a large army to besiege the new city of Hefei, and Yuqiu Jian and Wen Qin formally united and led the army to resist together. Sima Yi also sent his brother Sima Fu (司馬福) to lead the Chinese army from the east to relieve the siege. At the same time, he ordered that when Sima Fu's army arrived, Wen Qin would lead the army to cut off Zhuge Ke's retreat route, and let Yuqiu Jian be Used as Wen Qin's backup.
Zhuge Ke saw that Cao Wei's reinforcements were about to arrive, and he also explored Sima Yi's strategic layout, which frightened him not lightly, and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of the army.
Wen Qin was going to lead his army to pursue!