After Jiang Wei and others descended to Zhong Hui, Zhong Hui was overjoyed and couldn't wait to go up to the table to show his merits to Sima Zhao.

In December, Sima Zhao asked Emperor Cao Huan of Wei Yuan to issue an edict to praise Deng Ai's merits, saying:

"Deng Ai flaunted his force, invigorated the national prestige, went deep into the enemy's hinterland, cut off the generals, pulled out the flag, and eliminated the enemy's head, so that the person who pretended to be the emperor committed suicide, and the sinners who had been wanted for many years were pacified in one day.

"The battle did not exceed the scheduled time, and the battle ended quickly, swept the west, and pacified Bashu. Even if Bai Qi attacked the powerful Chu State, Han Xin fought hard to defeat the powerful Zhao State, Wu Han captured Gongsun Shu, and Zhou Yafu pacified the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, in terms of merit, they were not as good as Deng Ai. Therefore, Deng Ai was appointed as a lieutenant and increased the number of feudal households by 20,000. His two sons were named pavilion marquis, and each had to be sealed for thousands of households. ”

The commander Zhong Hui also took the position of Situ, sealed the county marquis, increased the number of households, and his sons were also named pavilion marquis.

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When Deng Ai destroyed Shu, he proposed to Sima Zhao his views on the situation and the measures he was going to take:

"Soldiers pay attention to establishing prestige first, and then really attacking with strength. Today, with the prestige of pacifying Xishu, it is a favorable opportunity to sweep the world by taking advantage of the situation to attack Wu.

"But after the large-scale use of troops, the soldiers have felt very tired, can not easily move troops, for the time being, slowly say, first leave 20,000 soldiers in Longyou, 20,000 soldiers in Bashu, boil salt and smelt iron, prepare for military and agriculture, and at the same time build ships, and prepare in advance for the future crusade against Eastern Wu along the river.

"After doing this, announce to the world, let the Eastern Wu know the situation they are facing, understand the stakes, and the state of Wu will definitely be submissive. In this way, there is no need to conquest and the Eastern Wu can be pacified. Now we should treat Liu Chan favorably, so as to induce Emperor Wu Jing and Sun Xiu to return to obedience; To appease the soldiers and civilians used to attract people from afar.

"If Liu Chan is sent to the capital, the people of Eastern Wu think that this is house arrest and exile, which is really not good for persuading them to return. Liu Chan should be left for the time being, waiting for the autumn and winter of next year, and then Dongwu can be completely pacified. You can crown Liu Chan as the king of Fufeng, give him wealth, send people to serve, and let him enjoy.

"There is Dong Zhuowu in the county as his palace. He made his son a prince and divided one of the counties into a food district to show the favor he received from the imperial court. Set up Guangling and Chengyang as kingdoms, waiting for Sun Xiu, the lord of Wu, to surrender. In that case, Soochow will be afraid of Weide and will return to the wind. ”

Deng Ai was bent on planning a strategy to destroy Wu, and his suggestions were really far-sighted. However, he took the initiative to accept the officials, and Zhong Hui revised the correspondence between him and Sima Zhao, changing Deng Ai's appearance to be arrogant and rude.

So Sima Zhao asked the prison guard to warn Deng Ai: "This matter should be reported, and it should not be implemented immediately." ”

Deng Ai spoke again, saying:

"I was ordered to levy, and I have the emperor's talisman. Now that the leaders of the enemy have surrendered, it is timely that they should be given official positions in accordance with the old system in order to appease them. Now that the Shu Kingdom has all been surrendered, our territory has reached the southernmost point.

"It borders Wuhui to the east and should be pacified as soon as possible. If you wait for the order of the imperial court, it takes a lot of time to travel back and forth by road. "Spring and Autumn" has such a saying, "If a doctor is in a foreign country, if he encounters something to defend the country and benefit the country, it is okay to be arbitrary." ’

"Now that Eastern Wu is not peaceful, the terrain is connected with Bashu, and we should not stick to the common law and lose the opportunity. The Art of War says: 'Advance is not for the sake of honor, and retreat is not afraid of guilt.' Although I don't have the demeanor of an ancient sage, I still want not to dislike myself to damage the reputation of the country. ”

Zhong met Deng Ai Jugong and took advantage of the gap to falsely accuse Sima Zhao of rebellion, saying that what he had done was rebellious and had shown signs of rebellion. So, the imperial court issued an edict to send the prison guard to arrest Deng Ai's father and son, and sent them to Kyoto in a car. ”

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the fifth year of Jingyuan (264), Zhong Hui arrived in Chengdu and escorted Deng Ai to Luoyang.

At this time, Zhong Hui had more than 200,000 Wei and Shu troops under his command. Zhong Hui excluded Deng Ai, who had the great merit of destroying Shu, and mastered a huge expeditionary army, so he plotted a rebellion and supported Shu to stand on its own.

Sima Zhao had long been wary of Zhong Hui's ambitions, and sent the Chinese protector Jia Chong to ride 10,000 steps into Shu to occupy Lecheng, and then personally led an army of 100,000 into Chang'an, which caught Zhong Hui off guard.

Zhong Hui then seized all the generals of the Wei army, and presented the so-called empress dowager edict deposing Sima Zhao, and the Shu general Jiang Wei instigated Zhong Hui to kill the detained generals, and planned to take the opportunity to kill Zhong Hui and restore Shu Han.

Due to the hesitation of the bell meeting and the news leaked, at noon on the 18th, Hu Yuan, the son of Hu Lie, the protector army, led the martyrs to beat drums and shout, and the officers and soldiers of each battalion responded together to rescue the generals of the headquarters, and rushed into the Shu Palace, and the generals in the palace rushed out to join their subordinates.

The two sides fought fiercely inside and outside the palace, beheading Jiang Wei, Zhong Hui and hundreds of his subordinates, and killing Liu Xuan, the prince of Shu, and Jiang Wei's wife. The Wei army plundered on a large scale, and it is said that no one in the palace dared to rob except for Liu Chan's wife Zhang (Zhang is Zhang Fei's daughter, afraid of Zhang Fei's ghost revenge), and none of them were spared.

Later, the prison army Wei Qian cleaned up and stabilized the situation, and because Wei Qian participated in slandering Deng Ai, he sent the protector Tian to continue to hunt down and kill Deng Ai's father and son in the west of Mianzhu (now Deyang, Sichuan).

Deng Ai's remaining sons in Luoyang were also killed, and Deng Ai's wife and concubines and grandsons were sent to the Western Regions. Dudu Kefu was killed for unknown reasons.

Although there was no "Kefu" later, the Kefu girl killed herself.

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In the first year of Taishi (265), the Jin dynasty replaced Wei.

Sima Yan issued an edict saying: "In the past, Taiwei Wang Ling conspired to depose the king of Qi, and the king of Qi could not maintain the throne in the end. Deng Ai, the general of the expedition to the west, was proud of his merits, lost his integrity, and should be sentenced to death. But on the day the edict was issued, Deng Ai dismissed the people and tied his hands to sin, which was indeed different from those who were greedy for life and did evil. Today, the amnesty can be returned to the city. If there are no descendants, they can make an heir for them, so that the sacrificial rites will not end. ”

In the third year of Taishi (267), Lang Duan Zhuo wrote a letter to Deng Ai.

In the ninth year of Taishi (273), Sima Yan issued an edict saying: "Deng Ai created meritorious deeds, and did not escape punishment, and his children and grandchildren were also reduced to slavery, I often sympathize with them, and I can appoint his own grandson Deng Lang as Langzhong." ”

can be regarded as rehabilitating Deng Ai.

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Deng Ai was one of the most outstanding military strategists at the end of the Three Kingdoms, and his talents were comparable to those of Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi. Deng Ai was far-sighted, superhuman, and had a rare strategic acumen in the war. In the battle, he anticipated the enemy's opportunity, always grasped the initiative on the battlefield, and did not taste defeat in several battles with Jiang Wei. The battle of Yinping can be called the most outstanding battle in the history of Chinese warfare, and has been recorded in history as a masterpiece in military history.

Deng Ai can share weal and woe with the soldiers in life, and can take the lead in the battle. It is precisely because he can set an example everywhere that the troops feel the same sense from top to bottom, and they do their best to win a series of victories.

But although Deng Ai is good at fighting, he is not good at self-preservation. Historian Chen Shou made an objective comment on this in "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, and the Biography of Deng Ai": "Deng Ai is strong and strong, and has made meritorious deeds, but he is secretly afraid of trouble, and the blame is turning. ”

In addition, he occupied Chengdu and confused the court, making the situation uncontrollable, and as the commander, he could not do anything.

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Deng Ai served as the general of Zhengxi to join the military around 243 A.D., and soon began his military career as the Taishou of Nan'an (four thousand households), until he pacified the Shu Kingdom, which lasted twenty years, of which the first ten years were Taishou, the first five years Cao Shuang was in power, he was of the Sima Group, and did not expect to be promoted, Jiaping began to emerge in the first year, and began to be valued when speaking, and there were military exploits to seal the Inner Marquis.

Deng Ai was rapidly promoted from Sima Shi's auxiliary government, and he was transferred from Sima Yi's auxiliary government when he was a general and Chengyang Taishou (10,000 households) to Runan Taishou (20,000 households), and talked about Zhuge Ke to Sima Shi, and his suggestions were mostly adopted by Sima Shi and promoted to Yanzhou Assassin History, and later followed Sima brothers to conquer the east and west to make repeated military exploits.

In the past ten years, he has been promoted from Taishou to Captain Changshui, General Anxi, General Zhenxi, General Zhengxi and even Tai Lieutenant, it can be said that the promotion speed is amazing, for him who has no strong background, "Suwei" people, can have such achievements, and Sima's trust, promotion and reuse is inseparable, he mainly relies on military merits, is fair, strict management of the army, is an important member of the Sima Group.

Posterity:

In 782 A.D. (the third year of Jianzhong), Yan Zhenqing, the ceremonial envoy, suggested to Tang Dezong that 64 famous generals in ancient times be posthumously crowned and set up temples for them to enjoy, including "Wei Taiwei Deng Ai". At the same time, only Zhang Liao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, Lu Xun, and Lu Kang were included in the list of temple enjoyment. In 1123 A.D. (the fifth year of Xuanhe), the Song dynasty set up temples for ancient famous generals in accordance with the practice of the Tang Dynasty, and Deng Ai was also included among the 72 famous generals. In the "Biography of Seventeen History and Hundred Generals" written during the Northern Song Dynasty, Deng Ai is also among them.

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Anecdotal allusions about Deng Ai:

Before Deng Ai sent troops to Shu Han, he dreamed that he was sitting on the mountain, looking at the flowing water, so he found the captive general Shao and asked for the hint of the dream. Zhan Shao told him that "even if he can win Shu Han, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the general to return to China", and it turned out as expected.

There is a story about Deng Ai's shrewdness in "The World Speaks New Words", which says: Deng Ai has a stutter, and every time he talks about himself, he always calls "Ai, Ai", Sima Zhao deliberately teases him, so he asks: "You are always 'Ai, Ai', how many 'Ai' are there?" Deng Ai replied: "The so-called 'phoenix and phoenix' is still only one phoenix." ”

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Later Generations:

Deng Ai's tomb is near Hou'a Village, Luobin Town, Pucheng County, the tomb is covered with soil in the shape of a bucket, sits in the north and faces south, the original tomb foundation is 6 meters high, the bottom edge is 15 meters long, 13 meters wide, there was an ancestral hall in front of the tomb (there is no now), there are two steles left on the tomb: one is built in March of the third year of the former Qin Fujian Jianyuan (367 AD), the inscription Wei Shu, has a certain artistic value, and was moved to the Xi'an Forest of Steles Museum in 1970 for preservation (only the stele stone base is left on the tomb mound);

One is built in October of the fourth year of Dajin Cheng'an (1199 AD) (due to the erosion of the handwriting, the year name is not accurate), and it is still standing on the tomb. Both inscriptions are rebuilt "Wei Deng Taiwei Ancestral Hall".

The sealed soil behind the shrine is the tomb of Deng Ai, the existing height is about 3.5 meters, the bottom circumference is about 10 meters, and a little residual tiles can be seen in the rammed earth layer. In July 1983, it was announced as a county-level key cultural relics protection unit in Pucheng County.