In the third year of Jiaping (251), Sima Yi died, and his eldest son Sima Shi became the general of the Fu army, took charge of the military and political power of the Wei State, inherited Sima Yi's power, and was promoted to general in the following year.

After taking power, Sima Shi listened to Zhuge Dan's plan to consolidate his power, and sent troops to attack the newly built embankment of Eastern Wu in three ways, but was defeated by Zhuge Ke in the Battle of Dongxing. In the sixth year of Jiaping (254), Li Feng, Xiahou Xuan, Zhang Ji and others persuaded the young emperor Cao Fang to eradicate Sima Shi, and the plan was discovered by Sima Shi, so Sima Shi abolished Cao Fang and set up Cao Chao as emperor.

【Battle of Dongxing】

In the fourth year of Jiaping (252), Sima Shi was the general, and he was crowned as a servant, holding the festival, supervising the Chinese and foreign Chu army, and Lu Shangshu. After he came to power, he ordered hundreds of officials to nominate talents, clarify the dignity and inferiority of the young and the old, sympathize with the poor and lonely, and clean up those who were abolished. Chu Gedan, Biqiu Jian, Wang Chang, Chen Tai, and Hu Zun were appointed as the governors of the Quartet, Wang Ji, Zhou Tai, Deng Ai, and Shi Bao were in charge of the prefectures and counties, Lu Yu and Li Feng were in charge of the election, Fu Yu and Yu Song participated in the advice, Zhong Hui, Xiahou Xuan, Wang Su, Chen Ben, Meng Kang, Zhao Yu, and Zhang Ji participated in the pre-court meeting.

In the same year, Emperor Wu Sun Quan died, and Zhuge Ke took power. Zhuge Ke is Zhuge Jin's eldest son, Zhuge Liang's nephew, he re-recruited the people in Dongxing after taking power, and then built a levee, connected the mountains at the left and right ends to build a city, each city left a thousand people, sent Quanduan, Liuluo to guard the two cities respectively, and he personally led the army back to Jianye.

The Wei side thought that this was an invasion of their own land, so they prepared to send troops to attack. Zhuge Dan (Note 1) proposed to divide his troops into three ways to attack Wu: Wang Chang would force Jiangling and Biqiujian to attack Wuchang to contain the Wu army upstream; Then attack the two cities of Dongxing with elite soldiers. At that time, Wang Chang, Biqiu Jian and Hu Zun all offered plans to attack Wu, because the strategies of the generals were different, Sima Shi finally decided to send Wang Chang, the general of the expedition, to attack Nanjun; Zhennan general Biqiu Jian attacked Wuchang; Zhendong General Zhuge Dan and Zhengdong General Hu Zun led an army of 70,000 to attack Dongxing, crossed the water as a pontoon bridge, and attacked the two cities. Shang Shu Fu also proposed that he was not very much in favor of the Southern Expedition, but it was not accepted (Note 2).

Zhuge Ke, the Taifu of Eastern Wu, learned that Dongxing was in an emergency, and personally led 40,000 troops to aid Dongxing day and night. At that time, it was snowing heavily, Hu Zun and others were gathering and drinking, and the Wei army was not on guard, so Ding Feng (Note 3) led his troops to raid the front camp of the Wei army with light equipment, and Lü Ju and Liuzan and other troops also arrived one after another. The Wei army fled in terror, fought to cross the pontoon bridge, and tens of thousands of people died due to overloading the bridge, falling into the water and trampling on each other, and the front governor of the Wei army, Han Zong, and Le'an Taishou Huan Jia drowned successively. Biqiu Jian, Wang Chang and other Dongxing troops were defeated, and they all burned the camp and retreated, and this battle was defeated by Zhuge Ke, the Taifu of Eastern Wu.

Han Zong was a traitor of Wu in the past, and he harmed Wu many times, and Sun Quan, the Emperor of Wu, often gritted his teeth with hatred, and Zhuge ordered people to send Han Zong's head back to the Great Emperor's temple as a sacrifice. Thousands of vehicles, cattle, horses, mules and donkeys were captured by the Wei army, and materials and utensils were piled up, and they returned triumphantly.

After the defeat in the battle of Dongxing, Sima Shi put all the blame on himself and said: "I don't listen to the public holiday (Zhuge birthday), so that's it." What is the crime of the generals? In the end, Sima Zhao was demoted because he was a supervising army, and military generals such as Zhuge Dan and Biqiu Jian were demoted, but it was just a transfer of the defense area, from the general of Zhendong to the general of Zhennan. Compared with Sima Shi, his younger brother Sima Zhao vented and killed his own army member Wang Yi after the war.

In addition to the Battle of Dongxing, when Sima Shi was in power, Yanmen and Xinxing Second Counties also rebelled, but Sima Shi did not blame Chen Tai, who proposed, and put the blame on himself. Later generations of Xi Chisel commented that General Sima Shi blamed himself for two failures, and his mistakes were eliminated but his career was prosperous, which is really a wise man's move. If we shirk responsibility for failures, blame them on various reasons, and often conceal our mistakes while making mistakes on our own merits, so that the upper and lower levels are separated from morality, and all kinds of talented people are scattered and disintegrated, then the fallacy is too great. As a monarch, if he can master this principle to govern the country, if he can make a mistake in his actions but become famous, and if he can finally defeat the enemy despite a temporary setback in his army, then it does not hurt to lose even a hundred times, let alone only twice!

【Waste Cao Fang】

In February of the sixth year of Jiaping (254), Zhongshu ordered Li Feng and Empress Zhang's father, Guanglu Dafu Zhang Ji and others to plot to abolish Sima Shi and appoint Xiahou Xuan as a general.

At that time, Taichang Xiahou Xuan was extremely prestigious in the world, but because he was a relative of Cao Shuang, he could not hold a powerful position, and he was often unhappy; Zhang Ji was also very unhappy because he was the father of the queen and was exempted from living at home. Although Sima Shi promoted Li Feng, Li Feng was privately biased towards Xiahou Xuan. So, he befriended Zhang Ji and planned to overthrow Sima Shi and change Xiahou Xuan to the general.

Zhang Ji was unhappy in the court, and Li Feng held power, and they were fellow villagers, and his son Li Tao married Princess Qi, so Zhang Ji listened to him. Li Feng secretly ordered his younger brother, Li Yi, the assassin of Yanzhou, to ask to enter the court, wanting him to lead his troops in and join forces to make trouble. waited for Li Yi to request a meeting, but was not granted.

Li Feng and others planned to take advantage of the presence of the king's royal car and the guards at each gate to kill the general Sima Shi, replace him with Xiahou Xuan, and use Zhang Ji as the hussar general. Li Feng secretly told Su Shuo, the supervisor of the Yellow Gate, the commander of Yongning, and Liu Xian, the redundant servant: "A few of you are in the inner court, and there are many illegal things, and the general Sima Shi is strict and resolute, and repeatedly emphasizes that Zhang Dang's fate can be used as a warning. Su Shuo and the others promised to obey his orders. However, Sima Shi still got the news, the matter was revealed, and Li Feng was killed.

According to the records of "Shiyu", the general Wen Feng conspired, and Wang Yi asked for his life. "If you are unprepared, you will come, if you don't come, you can control it alone; If you know that you are plotting to vent, you will defend yourself with a wheel and a halberd, go into the cloud dragon gate, and coerce the Son of Heaven to climb the Lingyun platform, and there will be 3,000 people on the platform, beating drums and congregations, and in this way, it is beyond the reach of Yi." The general sent a chariot to meet him. Toyomi is persecuted, and it comes with the recklessness.

"Wei's Spring and Autumn Period" added later: The general blamed Feng, Feng knew the disaster, so Zhengse said: "Qing's father and son are adulterous, and they will dump the society, cherish my inferior strength, and I can't kill each other!" "The great general was angry, and made the warriors build their loins with swords and slew them.

After that, Sima Shi executed Xiahou Xuan, Li Feng, Zhang Ji and others to exterminate their three clans. Earlier, Xiahou Ba had persuaded Xiahou Xuan to descend to Shu together, but he refused, after Sima Yi's death, Xu Yun thought that Xiahou Xuan no longer needed to worry, Xiahou Xuan instead thought that Sima Shi and Sima Zhao would not let him go, after Xiahou Xuan was arrested, he refused to write a guilty speech, and was finally beheaded in Dongshi.

"Shiyu" and "Wei's Spring and Autumn" also recorded: This autumn, Jiang Weikou Longyou. When the general of Andong Sima Wen Wang Zhen Xuchang, the levy counterattacked Wei, to the Beijing division, Emperor Yuping was optimistic to pass the army. Xu Yun, the leader of the army, conspired with the small ministers on the left and right, and because of King Wen's resignation, he killed him and extorted his people to retire the general. The edict has been written. King Wen entered, the emperor ate chestnuts, and Yunwu sang and said: "Qingtou chicken, Qingtou chicken." "The bare-headed chicken, the duck too. The emperor was afraid and did not dare to send it. King Wen led troops into the city, and King Jing was plotting to abolish the emperor. However, this account is disputed.

In the same year, Sima Shi played the Empress Dowager Guo, asked to abolish Cao Fang's throne, and got permission, so he abolished Cao Fang as the king of Qi, Sima Shi originally planned to set up Pengcheng King Cao Ji as the emperor, but the Empress Dowager Guo asked to set up the noble township prince Cao Chao as the emperor, at the insistence of the Empress Dowager Guo, Sima Shi disputed, so he sent a messenger to welcome Cao Chao to Luoyang to ascend the throne, Sima Shi and Sima Zhao brothers continued to hold power.

Note 1:

According to the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han Jin Dynasty", at the beginning, Sun Quan built the Dongxing embankment to contain Chaohu Lake. After the expedition to Huainan, the bad will not be repaired. It was the year Zhuge Ke's army that built mountains on the left and right sides of the embankment, and built two cities, so that the whole end was left to defend it, and the army was returned. Zhuge said to King Sima Jing: "Those who cause people but not to others, this is also said." Now because of its internal invasion, so that Wen Shu forced Jiangling, Zhong Gong to Wuchang, to detain Wu Shangliu, and then Jian Jingshu attacked the two cities, than to save to, can be a big gain. King Jing followed.

Wu Qiu Jian and Wang Chang heard that the eastern army was defeated, and they each burned their tun and left. The court wanted to depose the generals, and King Jing said: "I don't listen to the public holiday, so that's it." What is the crime of the generals? "Sidharama. When King Sima Wen was the supervisor of the army, he commanded all the armies, and only cut the king of Wen. It was the year old, Yongzhou assassin Chen Tai begged to merge the state and tried to ask for Hu, and King Jing followed. did not collect, and Yanmen and Xinxing two counties thought that they would be far away, so they rebelled. King Jing also thanked the courtiers and said: "I have passed this, it is not the responsibility of Uncle Xuan!" So the Wei people were ashamed, and the people thought of their retribution.

Judging from the records, Sima Shi should have listened to Zhuge Dan's strategy to defeat Wu, and what he said "I don't listen to public leave, so that this" is not sure which aspect he refers to.

Note 2: The edict visited him, and he said: "The former husband sent the tomb to win the Jin, and he was mighty in China, and he ended up in Gusu; Qi Min also expands the realm, opens up thousands of miles, and subverts. There is no beginning or an end, and the ancient wisdom is also effective. After Sun Quan broke Guan Yu and Jingzhou, he was full of ambition and fierce, which was a big move by Xuanwen Hou Shenjian. Now the right to die, entrust Zhuge Ke alone. If the power is harsh, the government is abused, the people are free from cruelty, stealing new benefits, worrying about both the outside and the inside, and having the fear of being in the same boat, although they cannot finally protect themselves, it is still enough to delay their lives outside the deep river. And the speaker may want to raft the trail and cross the river; or desire to march on all four ways, and attack its fortresses; Or if you want to occupy the territory, watch the provocation and move: sincerity is the common plan of the thief. However, since the autonomous army, it has been in and out for three years, and it is not a cover army. The thief is a coward, for dozens of sixty years, the monarch and the minister are false, the good and the evil are together, and the loss of its marshal, the upper and lower dangers, the order is to be listed, the city is in danger, and the rampant plan is difficult to do. Only if you enter the big tenants, you will be in prison at worst. Soldiers go out of the people's table, and they don't commit money; Sit and eat the grain, do not bother the luck; Taking advantage of the provocation to attack, there is no far-reaching labor: the urgent task of this army is also. Xi Fan was originally a hundred thousand people, rampant with the Huns, Ji Bu noodles folded short. Now I want to cross the Yangtze River, wading in the court, and also to the metaphor of the time. If you don't know the law practitioners, you will miscalculate in the place of total victory, and you will be able to resist the enemy's remaining embers, and the number of inevitable. ”

Note 3: Wei sent Zhuge Dan, Hu Zun and others to attack Dongxing, but Zhuge Ke led the army to refuse. All the generals said: "When the enemy hears that the Taifu is coming, he will flee when he goes ashore." Feng Du said: "No." He moved his territory, and the soldiers of Xi Xu and Luo came in a big way, and there must be rules, how can it be vain? There is no fear of the enemy, and there is no victory for me. He Ke went ashore and served the generals Tang Zhi, Lu Ju, Liuzan, etc., all from Shanxi. Feng said: "Today, the armies are late, and if the enemy occupies a convenient place, it will be difficult to compete with them." "It is to send all the army envoys down the road, and three thousand men under the command of the commander marched forward. When the north wind blows, Feng lifts the sail for two days, and then according to Xutang. The weather is cold and snowy, and the enemy generals will hold a high meeting of wine, and see that there are few soldiers in front of them, and they say: "Take the marquis reward, it is today!" "It is to make the soldiers unarmoured, and to hold short soldiers. The enemy laughs thereby not for the equipment. Feng Zong cut it off and broke the enemy's front cantonment. When the meeting arrived, the Wei army was defeated. Moved to destroy General Kou and entered the capital (pavilion) marquis.