Throughout the ages, the "child prodigies" who were born have either glorified their ancestors or relied on their talents and arrogance, and died in vain. However, there were also two prodigies in the Three Kingdoms. One was Kong Rong, who was known as "Kong Rong gave way to the pear" in the early Three Kingdoms. One is Zhong Hui, who was called "an extraordinary person" in the late Three Kingdoms period. But what the editor is going to talk about today is Zhong Hui, who was known as the child prodigy in the late Three Kingdoms period.
Talented and intelligent, he became famous at a young age
Zhong Hui’s background was actually quite good. He was the youngest son of Zhong Yao, a great calligrapher in the Cao Wei period. He was already seven years old when Zhong Hui was born. At the advanced age of fifteen, it can be regarded as old age to have a child, so the pampering for the final meeting is only a lot more. When he was a child, Zhong Hui was very talented and was praised by Jiang Ji as "an extraordinary person". Therefore, Zhong Hui was already very famous when he was young.
At the same time, because his father was also a calligrapher, his attainments in calligraphy when he was young were praised as "wonderful" by later generations.
Speaking of which, Zhong Hui did not appear as early as what we saw in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Alliance of Military Advisors". He appeared in the late period of the Three Kingdoms between Sima Shi and Sima Zhao. Zhong Hui, who was just beginning to rise to prominence at this juncture, was just a small staff member of the Sima family at first, but Zhong Hui was good at strategy and calculation, and was eventually promoted from a small staff member to Sili Xiaowei in the Sima family. .
Rising to prominence, he repeatedly presented ingenuity
In 255 AD, a rebellion broke out in Cao Wei. The general at that time was Sima Division. When Sima Division went to Huainan to quell the rebellion, Zhong Hui followed him. The army tent gave advice to Sima Division. When he came back after winning the battle, Sima Division had just had an eye tumor removed and his body had not recovered. Moreover, he had just experienced a war and had not properly protected his wounds during the march. On the way back, Sima Division The master then drove Hexi to the west. After the Gaoping Ling Incident, the military and political power of Cao Wei was in the hands of the Sima family. Knowing that Sima Shi was dead, Wei Emperor Cao Mao wanted to seize power at this juncture, so he issued an edict to use the pacification of the southeast as an excuse to let Sima Zhao stay. Xuchang took the opportunity to seize Sima Zhao's military power. Zhong Hui and Fu Gu secretly agreed to advise Sima Zhao to retreat to the south of Luoshui. The court had no choice but to hand over power to Sima Zhao again. Later, Zhong Hui repeatedly made ingenious strategies in Sima Zhao's campaign against Zhuge Dan.
The agency calculated and was defeated for life
In fact, the peak moment of Zhong Hui’s life was during the Shu-Han War. As a general, he participated in the battle of Wei to destroy Shu. Zhong Hui had been named General Zhenxi. After Zhuge Liang's death, the Shu Han army commanded by Jiang Wei had been dragged down by successive wars, almost to the point of collapse. Sima Zhao of Wei State began to plot a plan to destroy Shu, so Sima Zhao and Zhong Hui discussed the current situation, surveyed the offensive route, etc. In 263, the Wei-Shu War finally began. At the beginning, the soldiers led by Deng Ai were responsible for containing Jiang Wei of the Shu Han Dynasty. More than 100,000 soldiers led by Zhong Hui marched from Xiegu and Luogu. Among them, because Xu Chu's son Xu Yi was killed by Zhong Hui because of a mistake in building a bridge.
On the way Zhong Hui and Zhuge Xu gathered their troops and went straight to Jiange, Zhong Hui had a small idea and wanted to monopolize the power in the army, so he wanted Sima Zhao to tell Zhuge Xu that he was timid in fighting. Poor Zhuge Xu was put into the prison car and brought back to the capital. The Shu Han army led by Jiang Wei defended the Jiange Pavilion. This gave Zhong Hui a headache. They could not conquer the Jiange Pavilion for a long time. Moreover, the roads to Shu were rugged and food and grass could not be supplied in time. So he secretly thought about withdrawing his troops. To his surprise, Deng Aina turned around. While sneaking across Yinping, Po Mianzhu killed Zhuge Zhan and his son, and went straight to Chengdu. Before Jiang Wei could reach Chengdu, Liu Chan had already led his troops out of the city to surrender. In this way, the Shu Han was destroyed, but Jiang Wei on the other side He also led his troops to surrender to Zhong Hui.
Zhong Hui's brother once said to Sima Zhao, "Although Zhong Hui is very smart and proficient in power, I am afraid that he will be detrimental to you in the future." Unexpectedly, his brother's words came true when Zhong Hui destroyed Shu Han. At the same time as Shu was destroyed, Zhong Hui, who had a cunning and cunning heart, also had his own ambitions. At this moment, he occupied Shu Han and had dozens of people. Wan's soldiers wanted to realize their ambitions and separate one side to become a vassal. So under Jiang Wei's instigation, he falsely conveyed the secret order of Empress Dowager Guo and launched an army to attack Sima Zhao. At this time, Deng Ai had been accused of treason by Zhong Hui. Killed for the crime.
However, most of the family members of the Wei soldiers in the army at that time stayed in Luoyang, and most of the Shu soldiers had no intention of fighting anymore because of the war. Zhong Hui's ambitions were due to the instability of people's hearts. The whole situation was shattered when Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei were killed in a mutiny in 264 AD. And because of the losses caused by this war, it is quite sad to think about it in later generations. Many of Zhong Hui's soldiers were killed, Jiang Wei's wife and children were also killed in this rebellion, and even Guan Yu's The descendants were also wiped out by Pound's son. Later, under the control of Wei Guan, this carefully planned mutiny was put down.
It’s a pity that the exhaustion of the agencies ended up costing his own life. Poor people in the world compared his strategy to Zhang Liang in the early Han Dynasty, which was worse than that of Zhang Liang in the early Han Dynasty. It’s sad that no matter how good it is, His strategy cannot go against the wheel of history, and can only be silently and mercilessly crushed.