Wei Yan and Chen came to defect to Jin Liang was not as smooth sailing as Jin Liang expected, and they also experienced some twists and turns. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Wei Yan was only eighteen years old, and his father had just passed away, so he led more than 100 of his father's subordinates to Liu Biao, the assassin of Yuzhou.

Liu Biao was not interested in such a little-known young general, so he casually sealed a tun chief and sent things away.

The soldiers sent by Jin Liang to Wei Yan's hometown to conquer Wei Yan heard that Wei Yan had defected to Liu Biao, and based on Jin Liang's order, he persevered and went to Yuzhou to govern the county, and presented Jin Liang's letter to Wei Yan.

Chen Dao's situation is the same as Wei Yan, they are all poor sons from broken families, because they are young, they are not famous, and their family backgrounds are poor, so they are despised by Liu Biao.

The letters dictated by Jin Liang and written by Chen Lin were brilliant and penetrating, and Wei Yan and Chen Zhi were moved by their hearts, but they did not have much understanding of Jin Liang, so they asked the soldier who delivered the letter about Jin Liang's situation in detail.

The soldiers sent by Jin Liang to deliver the letter were all sharp-tongued, and they spoke like a river of words about Jin Liang as wise and martial, as if there was only such a heroic lord in the world.

Of course, Wei Yan and Chen Zhi would not listen to the words of the two soldiers, they sent the two soldiers away, and then inquired about Jin Liang's situation everywhere.

In such an era, those who can spread similar news are all big families, and the news of ordinary people is very closed, Wei Yan and Chen Zhi certainly can't hear many good words from Jin Liang from those children of the family.

But Wei Yan and Chen Zhi came from humble backgrounds and were fed up with the white eyes of the family. Over time, they developed a deep-rooted prejudice against the family and listened to the words of those children of the family. Listening on the contrary, I listened a lot, and slowly figured out the extraordinaryness of Jin Liang.

Both of them are wise generals with brains and judgments, and when they get together and make a little total, they calculate the characteristics of Jin Liang: from a poor family, martial arts, saving the Queen Mother and King Chen Liu, winning the trust of the royal family, far-reaching wisdom, thirsty for talent, and the most important thing is that Jin Liang's pursuit of talent is a meritocracy, regardless of background. At this point, it is obviously much better than Liu Biao.

Especially after hearing that Jin Liang broke Dong Zhuo's Niu Fu and Yang Dingbu and quickly pacified the Southern Xiongnu, the two people who were still a little hesitant immediately led the troops. Quietly left Qiaoxian and went to Xiangyang.

Although Liu Biao doesn't value Wei Yan and Chen Zhi, once the other party wants to leave him and join the master, he can't hang on his face. He ordered his famous general Yuan Tong to lead a thousand men and horses to pursue Wei Yan and Chen Dao.

Liu Biao believed that Yuan Tong was a side branch of the Yuan clan in Runan. Familiar with the war strategy, and has the courage of ten thousand people, he is a famous general in Runan, when he can capture Wei Yan and Chen Zhi in a battle, he did not think that Wei Yan and Chen Zhi only had two hundred people under his command and dared to ambush Yuan Tong, Wei Yan cut Yuan Tong off the horse with a knife, and Yuan Tong's 1,000 men and horses scattered with a bang.

Wei Yan and Chen Zhi bypassed the Yanzhou Yellow Turban's sphere of influence and successfully crossed the Yellow River. arrived at Liyang and connected with Zhang Liao, who was stationed in Liyang. After handing over Jin Liang's letter of conquest, Zhang Liao let Wei Yan and Chen Zhi go all the way north, and at the same time, Zhang Liao sent people to hurry up and inform Jin Liang before Wei Yan and Chen arrived in Xiangyang, saying that Wei Yan and Chen Zhi were about to arrive in Xiangyang, so that Jin Liang was ready to meet them.

This is a unique design of Jin Liang, he instructed the guards of Huguan, Liyang and other passes to pay close attention to the talents who came to join Jin Liang, Jin Hao made 'fine' preparations in advance, and gave those talents who came thousands of miles to invest in special touch.

Of course, not all talents are worthy of Jin Liang's personal greeting, Jin Liang only treats those who have real skills, of course, if you have the ability and fame at the same time, Jin Liang welcomes it, but like Xu Jing, Jin Liang is too lazy to greet him, and he is received by Tian Feng and others.

Wei Yan was in front of him, Chen Zhi led the army, and marched towards Xiangyang, just arrived at the south gate of Xiangyang, they were shocked, and Jin Liang actually came to greet him in person.

Wei Yan is eight feet long, his face is like a heavy jujube, his eyes are like stars, and at first glance he looks a little like Guan Yu, but he is not very old and has no beard.

Jin Liang did not hate Wei Yan because he hated Guan Yu a little, but because he sympathized with Wei Yan's experience in history, he had a good attitude towards Wei Yan, and laughed loudly: "Wen Chang, Shuzhi, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Wei Yan originally thought that Jin Liang would only send a certain general under his command to greet an unknown junior like himself, but he didn't expect Jin Liang to come to greet him in person, so he quickly turned over and dismounted, and bowed down: "How can Wei Yan be virtuous, dare to bother the lord to greet him."

Wei Yan (?) -234), a native of Yiyang (now Tongbai, Henan). In the sixteenth year of Jian'an (211), Liu Bei was invited by Liu Zhang to enter Sichuan to help Liu Zhang resist Zhang Lu, Wei Yan followed Liu Bei into Shu to fight, and Liu Bei's army went north to resist Zhang Lu and was stationed in Jiameng.

In the seventeenth year of Jian'an (212), Liu Bei broke with Liu Zhang, raised troops to attack Liu Zhang, and sent Zhuo Ying and Huang Zhong to occupy Fucheng together, at that time Liu Bei's army was less than 10,000, and the lone army had no food, and Liu Zhang refused the tactics of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness, and sent Liu Bi, Zhang Ren, Ling Bao, Deng Xian, Wu Yi and other generals to lead the elite to block Liu Bei's army, Liu Bei's army broke Liu Zhang's army, and later sent Huang Zhong, Wei Yan and other sub-unified troops to pacify Guanghan County, and several military achievements, promoted to Yamen general. [3]

In the nineteenth year of Jian'an (214), Wei Yan followed Liu Bei to conquer the important town of Ruocheng, and surrounded Chengdu with Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei and others.

Guarding Hanzhong

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an (219 years), Liu Bei proclaimed himself the king of Hanzhong in Weiyang, and set the rule in Chengdu, so when the general was in Hanzhong, most people's opinions at that time believed that Zhang Fei should serve as the Taishou of Hanzhong, Zhang Fei also felt that this position belonged to him, but Liu Bei unexpectedly promoted Wei Yan to the governor of Hanzhong, the Taishou of Hanzhong, and promoted Wei Yan from the general of Yamen to the general of Zhenyuan. The whole army was shocked when they heard this. One day, Liu Bei gathered his ministers and asked Wei Yandao: "I appointed you with this important task today, do you plan to say something?" Wei Yanlang replied: "If Cao Cao comes with all the strength of the country, I ask for the king to block him, and if a partial general comes with an army of 100,000, I ask for the king to annex him." Liu Bei was very satisfied after hearing this, and the ministers also praised Wei Yan's heroism.

In the first year of Zhang Wu (221), Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor. Shu Han was established, and Wei Yanjin was named the general of Zhenbei.

In April of the first year of Jianxing (223), Liu Bei died. In May, the crown prince Liu Chan ascended the throne, and Wei Yan was made the Marquis of Duting. [5]

Meritorious

In the fifth year of Jianxing (227), Zhuge Liang was stationed in Hanzhong in preparation for the Northern Expedition, and promoted Wei Yan to the prime minister Sima and Liangzhou Thorn History.

In the eighth year of Jianxing (230), Cao Wei's three-way army attacked the Hanzhong region of Shu Han. Two of the roads were retreated due to heavy rain, and Wei Yan at this time also led a partial division west into Qiangzhong and attacked the Liangzhou area of Cao Wei, and Wei Yan led the army to the Yangxi area. Encountering the army of Cao Weihou's general Fei Yao and Yongzhou Rashi Guo Huai, the two armies fought, and Wei Yan defeated Fei Yao and Guo Huai. Wei Yan, who won a great victory, was also promoted to the former military division and the general of the expedition to the west, and was awarded the false festival. He was named the Marquis of Nanzheng.

In the ninth year of Jianxing (231). Zhuge Liang's fourth Northern Expedition confronted Sima Yi. According to the record of "Spring and Autumn of the Han Dynasty", Sima Yi made Zhang He attack Wang Ping in Nanwei, Zhuge Liang made Wei Yan, Gao Xiang, and Wu Ban fight against each other, and the Wei soldiers were defeated and won the first 3,000 ranks, and Sima Yi returned to the camp.

In the tenth year of Jianxing (232), Wei Yan and Liu Yan were at odds. The words were false, and Zhuge Liang blamed Liu Yan. Liu Yan later issued an apology.

Every time Wei Yan accompanied the army on the Northern Expedition, he asked Zhuge Liang to give him the command of 10,000 soldiers, and he went all the way to tackle the key problems, and finally joined Zhuge Liang in Tongguan, just like the example of the former Han general Han Xin, but Zhuge Liang has not allowed it, so Wei Yan often said that Zhuge Liang was timid and hated that his talents could not be fully used.

According to the record of the "Three Kingdoms" supplement "Wei Luo": During Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition, Wei Yan once made a suggestion at the military meeting, because the Chang'an guard general Xiahou Nan was timid and had no plan, so he was willing to invite 5,000 elite soldiers to take Chang'an directly from the Meridian Valley, and thought that Xiahou Nan would definitely abandon the city and flee, and Zhuge Liang thought that this plan was in danger and should not be used.

Wei Yan is good at raising soldiers and is brave, but he has an arrogant personality and an extremely evil temperament, and everyone avoids him. Yang Yi was the only one who disdained Wei Yan and became intimidating with him, and even made several attempts to kill Yang Yi with a knife; Zhuge Liang cherishes the two, and Fei Yi often mediates for the two.

In the twelfth year of Jianxing (234), Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition, Wei Yan was appointed as the striker, dreamed that he had horns on his head, and asked Zhao Zhi, a dreamer, Zhao Zhi said: "The husband Qilin has horns but does not use it, and this is not a fight and the thief wants to destroy himself." But he stepped back and said to people: "The horn is a word, and the knife is also used; With a knife on the head, it is very fierce. ”

In the autumn of the same year, Zhuge Liang's illness worsened, and he secretly retired from the army after the death of Changshi Yang Yi, Sima Feiyi, and Jiang Wei, etc., so that after Wei Yan was broken, if he delayed or did not obey his orders, he would do as he pleased. Zhuge Liang died, and he was not mourned, Yang Yi ordered Fei Yi to figure out Wei Yan's intentions. Wei Yan replied: "Although the prime minister is dead, but there is still me, how can the world's major affairs be wasted because of the death of one person?" Besides, who am I, Wei Yan, and how can I be at the mercy of Yang Yi and be a general after the break? ”

The army slowly retreated with Yang Yi, Wei Yan was furious, day and night, rushed in front of Yang Yi's army, and burned the pavilion everywhere he walked. Yang Yi and Wei Yan both went to each other to say that the other party had rebelled, and Liu Chan asked Dong Yun and Shi Jiangwan, the governor of the palace, who wanted to rebel, and Dong Jiang and Jiang both guaranteed that Yang Yi suspected Wei Yan. Wei Yan first occupied the mouth of the Nangu and led his army to attack Yang Yi's army, and Yang Yi ordered Wang Ping to defend against Wei Yan in front. Wang Ping scolded Wei Yan's vanguard: "Zhuge Gong died, and the bones are not cold, how dare you people do this!" "Wei Yan's army knew that Wei Yan was at fault, and they didn't listen to Wei Yan's orders, so they all dispersed. Only Wei Yan and his sons fled to Hanzhong, Yang Yi sent Ma Dai to catch up with Wei Yan and behead him, and dedicated his head to Yang Yi, Yang Yi trampled Wei Yan's head with his feet, and scolded: "Yongnu! Can you do evil again? So he exterminated the three tribes of Wei Yan.

"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" recorded: "Yuan Yanyi did not surrender to Wei in the north and returned to the south, but wanted to eliminate the killing instrument and so on." Hao Jing of the Yuan Dynasty believed that Yang Yi "killed the general with personal anger, and the crime was floating".

The above is the record of the biography of Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", but according to Pei's note citing "Wei Luo", it was Wei Yan who was entrusted by Zhuge Liang with military power, and Yang Yi was afraid that Wei Yan would take the opportunity to harm him, so he spread rumors that Wei Yan was going north to join the enemy and sent troops to attack him, but Wei Yan, who was framed, was afraid that the war would be innocent, so he only fled without fighting, and was finally hunted down. Pei Songzhi believes that this statement is a rumor of Cao Wei, and the "Three Kingdoms" of Chen Shou of Shu Han is more credible. 》

Jin Liang hurriedly stepped forward to help Wei Yan up: "Wen Chang's martial arts will be strategic, all have the style of a general, what is commendable is that he has a pair of discerning eyes, and he can abandon the secret and travel thousands of miles to cast Ming Wenchang, I walked out of the city gate a few steps to greet him, what is the difficulty."

said. Jin Liang stretched out his hand to take off Wei Yan's helmet and brushed the dust on the helmet: "Wen Chang, your helmet is already full of dust, which shows that the boat and car along the way are tired. Thank you for your hard work".

There are such approachable people in the upper echelons of this year, thinking that Liu Biao just glanced at Wei Yan from a distance and sent him away, Wei Yan became more and more grateful, and said: "Wei Yan is so loved by the lord, and he is willing to serve the lord and the horse."

On the one hand, Jin Liang wanted to express his love for Wei Yan, and on the other hand, he took advantage of the opportunity to take off Wei Yan's helmet. He lightly touched the back of Wei Yan's head with his palm.

After Jin Liang touched the back of Wei Yan's head, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Luo Guanshui is fooling people again, and the back of Wei Yan's head is very smooth. There is no anti-bone at all, as he said.

The reason why Luo Guanshui came up with the anti-bone theory is entirely to prove that Zhuge Liang, who was a half-human and half-god created by Luo Guanshui, has the ability to recognize people and bones, but he writes too much and vividly. So much so that Jin Liang was fooled.

In fact, the book does not depict Wei Yan's specific bone physiognomy at all. It seems that Zhuge Liang is based on Wei Yan's 'essence' spirit to determine his anti-bone existence.

Wei Yan is a talented general, but his 'sex' character is high, he is proud of his talents, and his previous two performances also made Zhuge Liang uneasy, one was to rescue Liu Bei, who couldn't bear to leave the people to flee for his life, and rebelled against Liu Congyong to open the city gate, and the second time was to kill Han Xuan to protect Huang Zhong, Zhuge Liang deliberately ignored Wei Yan's move to take refuge in Liu Bei, and deliberately thought that Wei Yan was a traitor twice, and there must be a backbone in the back of his head.

Luo Guanshui also wrote that after Zhuge Liang's death, Wei Yan intended to rebel. Zhuge Liang designed Ma Dai to kill Wei Yan before he died, in fact. Most of them deliberately slandered Wei Yan in order to shape Zhuge Liang's wisdom, and Sima Guang, who was rigorous in governing history, clearly pointed out in "Zizhi Tongjian": Wei Yan "really has no objection".

Jin Liang remembered that in the early years of the Later Qing Dynasty, Taizu decided to build the Sanmenxia Reservoir, and others expressed their support, although some experts did not dare to say that they had objections, only Huang Wanli resolutely opposed, and as a result, he was beaten into **** on Lushan, Taizu said Peng Shuai: "You have anti-bones on the back of your head like Huang Wanli" The cruel disaster proved that ****** and Sanmenxia were extremely wrong decisions, and the two people who were called "anti-bones in the back of the head" were the conscience of the country.

Jin Liang felt that Wei Yan's "backbone in the back of his head" was actually that he had been maintaining the loyalty in his heart, he thought that Liu Cong was not in line with the righteousness and opened the door to welcome Liu Bei, he thought that Han Xuan was cruel and unkind, so he killed Han Xuan and saved Huang Zhong, from a narrow point of view, he Wei Yan was loyal to Liu Bei all his life, and it is understandable to be loyal to Liu Bei's great cause of Shu Han.

Jin Liang is very important to Wei Yan, not only because he knows that Wei Yan's backlash is sympathetic to the eternal injustice, but also because Jin Liang is familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he knows that Wei Yan's ability in real history is even greater than that written in the romance.

Speaking of the generals of the Shu Han Dynasty in history, Wei Yan is under the five tiger generals, this kind of ranking is either based on seniority or martial arts, but if it is a general, Wei Yan is not inferior to any of the five tigers.

In the eighth year of Jianxing, Cao Wei Sima Yi led the army into the Hanzhong region of Kou Shu Han, and was blocked by the Shu Han army in the front to block the attack of the Cao Wei army at this time Wei Yan also led a partial division west into Qiangzhong, attacking Cao Wei Liangzhou area, Wei Yan led the army to the Yangxi area, met the general Fei Yao of Cao Wei, the army of Guo Huai of Yongzhou Rashi, Wei Yan deserved to be a famous general of Shu Han, in the situation that the enemy was strong and I was weak, Wei Yan who had won a big victory in Yangxi broke Guo Huai and Fei Yao was also promoted to the former military division, the general of the expedition to the west, and also faked the festival, and entered the title of Nanzheng Hou, the official position is only below Zhuge Liang.

Wei Yan went on the Northern Expedition with Zhuge Liang, when the Anxi general Xiahou Nan who was stationed at the border of Wei was Cao Cao's son-in-law, who had no military strategy, and had many concubines, because of his nepotism with Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi to obtain the position of this important town Wei Yan saw this opportunity, so he boldly proposed to Zhuge Liang: "Give me 10,000 people, bring your own grain and grass, and march along the east of the Qinling Mountains, not more than ten' If Cao Pi wants to lead the army to conquer in person, it will take at least 20 days, and the prime minister can arrive in advance, and the west of Xianyang can be decided in one fell swoop."

Although Wei Yan's plan was risky, it was very likely to succeed, because his judgment of the situation between the enemy and the enemy at that time and the special terrain of the local area were very accurate.

However, Zhuge Liang thought that this plan was too dangerous and difficult to succeed, so he abandoned it.

Jin Liang thought that later Shu Han was destroyed at the hands of Wei, and it was precisely because Deng Ai, the general of Wei, adopted a similar "adventure" strategy, that he was a little dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang's over-cautiousness.

However, it is unfair to say that Zhuge Liang suppressed Wei Yan, imagine that who can control the late Shu Han can control the only and unruly Wei Yan after the death of the Five Tigers, if you can't control it, you can only get rid of him, so after Zhuge Liang's death, Wei Yan's fate is doomed, from this point of view, Zhuge Liang has always been a rare general to protect Wei Yan during his lifetime and said that Zhuge Liang suppressed Li Yan, Liao Li and others, it is the same reason, in the later period of Shu Han, if there is no Zhuge Liang, counting on Jiang Wan and those people will only make them miserable.

Of course, Wei Yan ended up like that, although he blamed Zhuge Liang for not being able to tolerate people after his death, he still had to blame Wei Yan himself. (To be continued.) )