Wei Yan is one of the generals of the Shu Han Dynasty, sitting in Hanzhong during the Liu Bei period, has been quite important, in the Zhuge Liang period, Wei Yan's status in the army is basically second only to Zhuge Liang, after Zhuge Liang's death, Yang Yi was killed. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

【Sitting in Hanzhong】

Historically, when Liu Bei entered Yizhou, Wei Yan led a private army to follow Liu Bei into Shu, first went north to fight against Zhang Lu, and then went south to crusade against Liu Zhang.

Liu Bei established himself as the queen of Hanzhong, moved to Chengdu, and needed an important general to guard Hanchuan, everyone talked about Zhang Fei, and Zhang Fei also thought that it must be himself. Liu Bei promoted Wei Yan to be the general of Zhenyuan in Hanzhong, leading Hanzhong Taishou, and no one in the whole army was surprised. Liu Bei feasted the ministers and asked Wei Yandao: "Now that I have entrusted you with a heavy responsibility, what are you going to do?" Wei Yan replied, "If Cao Cao leads the world's soldiers and horses to come, please let me fight against him for you, the king; If other generals come with 100,000 horses, let me eat them for the king. Liu Bei applauded when he heard this, and everyone thought that he was heroic. After Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, he promoted Wei Yan to the general of Zhenbei.

【Northern Expedition】

In the first year of Jianxing (223), Liu Bei died, Liu Chan succeeded to the throne, and Wei Yan was named the Marquis of Duting. In the fifth year of Jianxing (227), Zhuge Liang garrisoned Hanzhong, and took Wei Yan as the governor of the front, leading the prime minister Sima and Liangzhou to assassinate the history. At that time, every time Wei Yan sent troops with Zhuge Liang, he wanted to ask to lead 10,000 horses alone, and Zhuge Liang divided his troops into two ways to march to Tongguan, as Han Xin did in the past, but Zhuge Liang always stopped it. Wei Yan often thought that Zhuge Liang was cowardly, and lamented that his talents had not been fully developed.

In the eighth year of Jianxing (230), Cao Wei attacked, Zhuge Liang sent Wei Yan to lead the army west into Qiangzhong, Wei Guohou General Fei Yao, Yongzhou Assassin Guo Huai and Wei Yan fought in Yangxi, Wei Yan defeated Guo Huai and others, and was moved to the former military division to conquer the west general, false festival, Jin was named the Marquis of Nanzheng, and its prestige was basically only under Zhuge Liang.

In history, Zhuge Liang used Wei Yan very much, when Liu Yan, the marquis of the township, served as the general of the Zhongjun division of the guard, and then promoted to the general of the cavalry, and the courtiers always followed Li Yan. After Liu Yan and Wei Yan had a conflict, they were directly rebuked by Zhuge Liang and sent back to Chengdu.

【Wei Yan and Yang Yi】

Wei Yan was not only good at raising soldiers, but also brave, and had a reserved and arrogant personality, so everyone respected him at that time. Only Wenchen Yang Yi was intolerant of him and refused to give in, Wei Yan hated him very much, and the relationship between the two was like fire and water.

At that time, Wei Yan was the head of the military attache under Zhuge Liang, and Yang Yi was the head of the civil ministers, and the relationship between the two was extremely bad, even to the extent that the world knew about it.

According to the record of "Xiangyang Ji", Zhuge Liang once sent Fei Yi to envoy Wu State, Sun Quan often drunk Fei Yi, asked him about Shu affairs, and once drunk Fei Yi said: "Yang Yi and Wei Yan are all villains. Although the two often have the benefit of barking in current affairs, but since they have been appointed, they are bound to be not light, if there is no Zhuge Liang, the two will be in trouble. You are so nonsense, you don't know how to think about it, how can you plan for the future? Fei Yi was stunned and couldn't answer immediately. At that time, Dong Hui, a native of Xiangyang, made Wu with Xuanxin Zhonglang's deputy Fei Yi, so he looked at Fei Yi and said: "But it can be quickly pointed out that the discord between Yang Yi and Wei Yanzhi is purely due to personal anger, and the two of them do not have the heart to resist such as Huang Bu and Han Xin." Now we are about to sweep away the robbers, mix in a country, achieve success with talents, and have a wide range of talents. This is not a long-term plan. Sun Quan laughed and laughed.

[Died at the hands of Yang Yi]

In the twelfth year of Jianxing (234), Zhuge Liang launched the last Northern Expedition and sent troops to Beigukou, with Wei Yan as the vanguard. He was ten miles away from Zhuge Liang's camp, and at night he dreamed that he had horns on his head, so he asked Zhao Zhi, who was good at dreaming, and Zhao Zhi lied to him: "Linqi has horns but it doesn't use horns, which is a sign that the enemy will break down without fighting." When he stepped back, he went and told the others, "The word 'horn' is used under the knife, and the knife is used on the head, which is a terrible evil!" ”

In the autumn of that year, Zhuge Liang was seriously ill, so he secretly discussed with Changshi Yang Yi, Sima Feiyi, and Jiang Wei, the protector, about the arrangements for his retirement after his death, so that after Wei Yan was broken, Jiang Wei was second; If Wei Yan did not obey the military order, he would abandon him, and the army would act as usual. After Zhuge Liang died of illness, he was not mourned, and Yang Yi ordered Fei Yi to go to listen to Wei Yan's tone.

Wei Yan said: "Although the prime minister is dead, I am still here, the relatives and officials in the palace can be mourned and buried, I should naturally lead the armies to attack the enemy, how can I delay the national affairs because of the death of a person?" Besides, what kind of person am I, Wei Yan, how can I be appointed by Yang Yi to be a general after the break! Therefore, he had to make arrangements with Fei Yi to stay and ask Fei Yi to write a proclamation and have them sign it together to tell his generals.

Fei Yi lied to him and said: "I should go back and explain your opinion to Yang Changshi, Changshi is a civilian official and does not understand military affairs, so he will definitely not object to your opinion." As soon as Fei Yi left the gate of Wei Yan's camp, he flew away, and Wei Yan immediately regretted it, and it was too late to chase him. Wei Yan sent people to observe the movements of Yang Yi and the others, only to know that they were all ready to follow the plan arranged by Zhuge Liang before his death, and each battalion led troops to retreat in turn. Wei Yan was very angry when he got the news, and took advantage of Yang Yi's failure to give the order to withdraw the army, and he took the lead in leading his troops to return directly to the south and burn all the plank roads in the places he passed. Wei Yan and Yang Yi each filed a complaint against each other, and within a day, the documents were transmitted to the imperial court.

Liu Chan asked Dong Yun and Shi Jiang Wan, the governor of the palace, about this matter, and both Jiang and Dong assured Yang Yi and suspected Wei Yan. Yang Yi and others split the mountain to open the road, traveled day and night, and arrived with Wei Yan. Wei Yan arrived first, occupied Nangukou, and sent troops to block Yang Yi and others, Yang Yi and others ordered He Ping to resist Wei Yan in front. He Ping reprimanded Wei Yan's action and said: "The prime minister has returned to heaven, and the bones are not cold, you people dare to act like this!" Wei Yan's soldiers knew that Wei Yan was at a loss, so they did not listen to his command, and the troops all dispersed. Wei Yan just fled to Hanzhong with his son and a few others. Yang Yi sent Ma Dai to chase and kill Wei Yan, Ma Dai cut off Wei Yan's head and handed it to Yang Yi, Yang Yi got up and stepped on Wei Yan's head with his foot and said, "Yong slave! Can you still do bad things? So he killed the three clans of Wei Yan.

A famous general of the Shu Han generation, Wei Yan died on this occasion.

After Zhuge Liang's death, his successor Jiang Wan led the battalions of the Su Guards to support the funeral north, traveling dozens of miles, when the news of Wei Yan's killing came, and he returned. At first, Wei Yan did not go north to surrender to Wei and went south to Shu, his original intention was only to kill Yang Yi and others. On weekdays, the generals have always been not harmonious, and at that time, the current theory also believed that Wei Yan must replace Zhuge Liang. Wei Yan also regarded himself as just that, and it could be said that he did not want to betray Shu.

Wei Yan's matter is recorded separately in "Wei Luo", Zhuge Liang is ill, and he is said to be Yan and other clouds: "After my death, but be careful not to come back." "Let Yan Shi do his own thing, and hold on to mourning. If you delay and hide it, you will go to the mouth of praise, and it will be mourning. Liang Changshi Yang Yisu and Yan were at odds, seeing that Yan was carrying out military affairs, he was afraid of being harmed, so Zhang Yanyan wanted to raise the people to the north, so he led his people to attack Yan. Yanben didn't have this intention, so he didn't go with the army, chased and killed him. Chen Songzhi thought that this was to cover the rumors of the enemy country, and he was not allowed to compete with this biography. I have the same point of view as my ancestors, and I don't agree with it, it is impossible for Zhuge Liang to find Wei Yan or Yang Yi alone to leave a testament before he dies, Yang Yi does not have Zhuge Liang's will, as a civil official, it is difficult to deal with Wei Yan.

【Talking about Wei Yan】

In the official history, the contradiction between Wei Yan and Yang Yi became more and more intensified, even Zhuge Liang had no choice, after Zhuge Liang's death, no one could suppress the contradiction between the two, Wei Yan was not convinced by Yang Yi, so not only did not listen to his dispatch, but made chaos from it, but this also gave Yang Yi an excuse and opportunity to kill Wei Yan.

It can be said that Wei Yan will not die if he does not die, even if he does not obey Yang Yi's orders, he can go back alone, but he wants to go against Yang Yi, and he has to make everyone choose one of the two, but Yang Yi is obeying Zhuge Liang's will, Wei Yan is unreasonable, and everyone can't help him, so he is tragic.

Wei Yan's tragedy comes from his own character, if he was not too arrogant and arrogant, he would have even had the qualifications to inherit Zhuge Liang's position and continue to lead the Han army's northern expedition.

Whether it is the contradiction with Yang Yi or the strategy of Meridian Valley, it can be found that although Wei Yan has considerable military talent, he does not have a good sense of the overall situation, and he has a conflict with Yang Yi when he is in confrontation with Wei Jun, and after he goes back, he unreasonably forces everyone to choose one of the two, feeling like a child.

ps: Wei Yan is meritorious to Shu Han, but he has not yet reached the status of evaluation. There is one more chapter in the evening.