Zhuge Dan, a native of Yang Du (now Yinan, Shandong Province), was a general of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Dan is a descendant of Zhuge Feng and is related to Zhuge Liang and Zhu Gejin. Together with Sima Shi, he put down the rebellion of Wu and Wenqin. At the beginning, Shang was appointed as the governor of Xingyang. When he was a businessman in Zhuge Dan, he and his servants shot Duji in Taohe River to test the performance of the ship. The ship sank into the river, and so did Zhuge Dan and Du Ji. Hu Ben sailed to save Zhuge Dan, and Zhuge Dan asked him to save Du Ji first, but he fainted and drifted to the river, and was later saved.
Zhuge Dan entered Kyoto and was appointed as the official department minister. When someone asked Zhuge Dan for something, Zhuge Dan first spread what he said and then used it. Everyone thinks that if he doesn't speak properly, he will demote himself, so officials are very cautious about the people recommended by Zhuge Dan.
After that, Zhuge Dan was promoted to Cheng and Shangshu in the imperial examination, and became friends with assistant minister. Later, because Wei Mingdi hated Xia Houxuan and Zhuge Dan, he pursued glitz and was dismissed. After Ming Di's death, Cao Fang succeeded to the throne and was ruled by General Cao Shuang. Cao Shuang appointed Xia Houxuan and others, and Zhuge Dan was reinstated as Yangzhou secretariat and general Jia Zhaowu.
25 1 year (the third year of Jiaping), Wang Qiuling planned to rise up, overthrow Sima Yi and make Cao Pi, the king of Chu, emperor. After this matter was exposed by Huang Hua, the secretariat of Yanzhou, Sima Yi led the troops to crusade, and appointed Zhuge Dan as the general of Zhendong, appointed him as the commander-in-chief of Yangzhou military affairs, and closed the mountain and sealed the pavilion.
In 252 (the fourth year of Jiaping), Zhuge Dan built a new Dongxing levee for Wu Dong, built two cities and was guarded by troops. He thought it was an invasion of Wei, so he proposed to divide his troops and attack Wu in three ways: Wang Chang attacked Jiangling, Wu attacked Wuchang, and contained the upstream Wu Jun; Then directly attack Dongxing Second City with elite soldiers. At that time, Wang Chang, Wu and Hu Zun all participated in the attack on Wu. Because of the different strategies of the generals, Sima Shi finally decided to attack Nanjun by Wang Chang, a general who was conquering the south. General Zhennan attacked Wuchang without Qiu Jian; Zhuge Dan, the general of Zhendong, and Hu Zun, the general of Zhengdong, led 70,000 troops to attack Dongxing, crossing the water as a pontoon bridge and capturing the two cities.
But because the city is high, it can't be captured at the moment. Zhuge Ke, a Soochow teacher, learned that Dongxing was in an emergency and led 40,000 troops to rescue Dongxing day and night. At that time, it was snowing heavily, Hu Zun and others were having a party to drink, and Wei Jun didn't stand guard. Ding Feng won the front of Wei Jun, and Lv Zhi and Liu Zan arrived one after another. Wei Jun fled in a hurry and struggled to cross the pontoon bridge. Tens of thousands of people died from broken and overloaded bridges, drowning and self-trampling. Han Zong, the former governor of Wei, and Jia Huan, the prefect of Le 'an, drowned successively. Wu, Wang Chang and others were defeated by Dongxing, and they all burned out. The battle was defeated by Wu Dong's teacher Zhuge Ke.
After Dongxing's defeat, Sima Shi blamed himself for all the responsibilities and said, "I don't listen to public holidays, so that's it." I've done this before. What would you do? "Finally, he was demoted because he was an army supervisor, and Zhuge Dan and other military commanders were also demoted, but in another department, he was replaced by a general in Town East and a general in Town South.
How did Zhuge Dan die in the end?
Conspiracy to replace Wei, and accused Jia Chong of testing Zhuge Dan's attitude. Zhuge Dan absolutely opposes it. Jia Chong returned to Beijing to report the change. Si Mazhao secretly communicated with Chen Le, the secretariat of Yangzhou, and prepared a crusade. Zhuge Dan seized Yangzhou, killed it, and ordered the son to surrender Wu Wei as a hostage to be a foreign aid. Send troops to crusade against Si Mazhao. Si Mazhao heavily besieged Shouchun City. In the first month of the third year of Ganlu (258), the grain and grass in the city gradually dried up, and Zhuge Dan, Wen Qin and Tang Zi tried their best to break through, but suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw to the city.
Zhuge Dan even killed Wen Qin and made his sons Wen Yang and Hu Wen surrender to Cao Wei because of the bad blood with Wen Qin in the past and the difference of saving food for northerners. Surrender to two people, and even let him do the inside Shanhaiguan pass. He broke down the resistance of Shouchun's soldiers and civilians with their surrender, and finally successfully conquered Shouchun in February. Zhuge Dan led several cavalry to flee Shouchun, and was killed by Sima Hufen's soldiers. Zhuge Dan was also wiped out by the three clans.
Hundreds of Zhuge Dan's men were captured in Shouchun, determined not to surrender, and even said, "I don't hate dying for Zhuge Gong." During the execution, they lined up, and everyone who was beheaded handed over the next one, but no one surrendered.