Most opinions believe that the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the period of prosperity of the Three Kingdoms, because countless talented people appeared in the world, competing everywhere, creating resounding legends in history.
It is also possible that because that period exhausted the `essence` of the Central Plains, by the end of the Three Kingdoms period, the source of talent declined in all countries, especially the Shu Han dynasty.
There is even a saying `The Shu dynasty has no generals, Liaohua is the vanguard` to describe the prospect of the Shu dynasty’s demise.
However, a decline in talent does not mean that a talented general does not exist.
Those are Khuong Duy, Chung Hoi and Dang Ngai
Of these three people, Khuong Duy was the earliest to die.
Initially he was a general of Cao Wei, but during Zhuge Liang’s first invasion of the North, Khuong Duy was abandoned by Cao’s army, had to flee to Shu and was greatly admired by Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang later trusted Khuong Duy and chose Khuong Duy as his lifelong quintessence.
However, the late master Luu Thien trusted the eunuch Hoang Hao and quit his official duties.
Luu Thien told Hao about it again and forced Hao to apologize to him.
Immediately afterwards, the Cao Wei dynasty launched a war to destroy Shu, in charge of this battle were Chung Hoi and Dang Ngai.
While Khuong Duy confronted Chung Hoi’s army, Dang Ngai took a shortcut through Am Binh, defeated the Shu general Gia Cat Chiem at Mien Truc and then headed straight to Chengdu.
The late master Luu Thien helplessly surrendered to Dang Ngai, and the Shu dynasty collapsed.
However, Khuong Duy still did not give up and wanted to find an opportunity to restore the Thuc dynasty.
However, the plan was revealed and Khuong Duy died amid the military chaos in Chengdu.
If Dang Ngai had not secretly destroyed Thuc and Chung Hoi had not intended to rebel, Khuong Duy would not have had to surrender to Chung Hoi and perish in the army chaos.
As for Chung Hoi, after Khuong Duy died amid the rebel army, he was also killed immediately afterward.
The Wei generals thought that Chung Hoi only listened to Khuong Duy and wanted to bury them alive, so they got angry and gathered their soldiers and soldiers with Ve Quan to attack Chung Hoi.
Chung Hoi and Khuong Duy could not resist and died together among the rebels.
The other person is Dang Ngai.
This is also the pinnacle victory and also the last battle of Dang Ngai.
Sima Zhao believed Chung Hoi’s words, so he sent Wei Quan to Chengdu to arrest Dang Ngai and his son and take them to Luoyang.
Meanwhile, Wei Quan received news from the Wei generals who had been imprisoned by Chung Hoi before, so he secretly sent people to rescue him and sent troops into Chengdu, killing Chung Hoi.
The generals under Dang Ngai’s command saw that Chung Hoi was dead and quickly chased the prison vehicle carrying Dang Ngai’s father and son, robbed and saved Dang Ngai.
The Guard in Chengdu feared that Dang Ngai would resent his arrest, so he sent Dien Tuc to lead troops to kill Dang Ngai and his son at Tam Tao communal house west of Mien Truc.
Although he did not die directly at the hands of Khuong Duy and Chung Hoi, it was because of Khuong Duy’s incitement, combined with Chung Hoi’s jealousy, that Dang Ngai had to be imprisoned and completely weeded out by Ve Quan.