In 263 AD, as the main general, he led the army to attack Shu. After hard battles, he fought with Jiang Wei in Jiange, and it was difficult to get off the road. He felt hopeless of victory and was ready to withdraw his troops. Suddenly, good news came, and Jiang Wei led his people to surrender. It turned out that Deng Ai smuggled into Yinping and directly inserted into the hinterland of Shu Han. After the bloody battle in Mianzhu, he forced the latter to surrender. After Liu Chan surrendered to Deng Ai, in order to show his sincerity, he issued an edict to Jiang Wei surrender to Zhong Hui, and Shu Han was destroyed.
Zhong Hui made great contributions to destroy Shu. Why did he rebel and end up with a genocide? If you carefully analyze the relevant historical materials, you will know that there are three reasons.
One, Zhong Hui saw that his companion Deng Ai was suspicious of Sima Zhao, and ended up in prison, and the rabbit died and the fox was sad.
Wei State destroyed Shu. The two biggest heroes were Zhong Hui and Deng Ai. One of them attracted the firepower of the Shu Han general Jiang Wei in front, and the other was detouring the rear to open up a second battlefield, surrounding the two of them to cooperate in cleverly, and then destroyed Shu Han. If one of them was missing, it would be difficult to destroy Shu Han. However, after destroying Shu, Zhong Hui was dissatisfied with Deng Ai's self-pride in Chengdu, so he wanted to get rid of Deng Ai. He wrote a secret letter to Sima Zhao, reporting that Deng Ai was treasonable, so Sima Zhao ordered Deng Ai to be escorted back to Beijing with a prison cart.
Although Zhong Hui got rid of Deng Ai in this move, he felt very sad. Deng Ai, who had been through life and death for the Sima family, actually said that he was taken down and was taken down. If it were Zhong Hui himself, the same would happen. Sima Zhao didn't trust Deng Ai and Zhong Hui, and wanted to get rid of them. Zhong Hui might as well start first, and there may be a glimmer of hope.
Han Xin was because of the kindness of a woman, and was beheaded by Empress Dowager Lu for her kindness. If Han Xin had resisted early, he would have been likely to have a three-legged rival to Liu Bang and Xiang Yu and entered the Three Kingdoms era ahead of schedule.
Secondly, Zhong Hui was dissatisfied with Sima Zhao's overturning Cao Wei .
Cao Wei has been in control of the Gaopingling Incident in Sima Yi , and has experienced three people, Sima Yi, Sima Shi , Sima Zhao and his son. At that time, Cao Wei experienced three little emperors, Cao Fang, , Cao Mao, , and Cao Huan, and had long been dead in name only. The emperor's majesty was not as good as the Cao Cao Emperor Xian of Han Liu Xie.
However, the Wei State also had officials loyal to the Cao family, such as Wang Ling , Van Qiu Jian , Wenqiu , Zhuge Dan and other Cao Wei generals who launched the three rebellions in Huainan. Zhong Hui is the youngest son of Taifu Zhong Yao. Zhong Yao was born in the Zhong family of Yingchuan . He followed Cao Cao very early and was deeply trusted by Cao Cao. He was compared to Xiao He by Cao Cao. After the establishment of Cao Wei, Zhong Yao was appointed as the court lieutenant and was later promoted to the Taiwei, the leader of the three dukes. Emperor Ming of Wei During the reign of Cao Rui, Zhong Yao was promoted to the Taifu, a true elder of Cao Wei. As Zhong Yao's son, Zhong Hui may also be loyal to Cao Wei. Before he had the military power, he obeyed the Sima family's will, perhaps in order to lie on firewood and taste gall, gain the trust of the Sima family, and then counterattacked the Emperor of Wei.
Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei were in rebellion in Chengdu, claiming to the public that they were following the will of the late Empress Dowager Guo (the empress of Emperor Ming of Wei Cao Rui), calling on ministers loyal to Wei to serve the king and attack Sima Zhao. Therefore, Zhong Hui still had a trace of loyalty to Cao Wei in his heart.
Third, Zhong Hui had personal ambitions, but was instigated by Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei, who surrendered to Zhong Hui, is a restless person. Although he surrendered to Zhong Hui on the surface, he still has little in his stomach. His plan was rather sinister, and he instigated the relationship between Zhong Hui and Deng Ai, so that he could kill each other, and then waited for an opportunity to retake Chengdu, return the power to the later ruler Liu Chan, and restore Shu Han.
Zhong Hui also has ambitions. He is no longer satisfied with being named Situ and County Marquis, but wants to be king or even become emperor. A person's ambition is proportional to his power. Before the Gaopingling Incident, the Sima family did not underestimate the Cao Wei royal family and became the second Cao Cao's ambition.After the Gaopingling Incident, Cao Shuang and his followers were killed, and the Sima family seized the power of Cao Wei's government, and then the idea of replacing it.
Zhong Hui and Jiang Wei hit it off. Zhong Hui had a good relationship with Jiang Wei and hoped that Jiang Wei would help him. Jiang Wei "give advice" to Zhong Hui, in fact, in order to muddle the situation and profit from it.
Conclusion
Zhong Hui's rebellion was the above three reasons. When he saw Deng Ai's fate, he was sad, and had a little loyalty to the State of Wei, and had a personal ambition. He was instigated by Jiang Wei and rebelled in Chengdu and raised an army to attack Sima Zhao. However, due to poor luck, his troops were all loyal to Sima Zhao at that time, and finally failed and ended up being in a different position.
(This article mainly refers to "The Three Kingdoms")
