In the official history, Yang Wen had two great achievements, one was to frighten Sima Shi to death, and the other was to resist foreign invasion as a loyal minister of Cao Wei who was guarding Huainan. When the Wen Yang family took charge of Sima Jia's government and killed the minister of Cao Wei, their hearts began to feel uneasy. Whether for serving the country or for survival, Huainan is doomed to be restless. In 255 AD, Sima Shi, the general of Cao Wei, deposed the young emperor Cao Fang and made Cao Mao, a noble township official, a pseudo-emperor. Since then, there have been two rebellions in Huainan, and Wu, the general of the town east, and Wen Qin, the secretariat of Yangzhou, took office one after another. Wen Yang, the son of Wen Qin, is only eighteen years old, but he is eyeing up and has the courage to "brave the three armed forces".
In the war with Sima Shi, Wen Yang showed the skill of a brave general. In the pursuit of being outnumbered, he went in seven times and out seven times on the battlefield surrounded by heavy troops, killing and injuring hundreds of enemy troops, like nobody's business:
Sima Ban, commander-in-chief of Zuo Changshi, led eight thousand young soldiers to chase him, and Yang rode thousands of horses and killed more than a hundred people, so he went out. In this case, he dare not force him to chase.
Finally, even the daring Sima Shi was frightened by Wen Yang's courage, and even his eyes ran out:
"T said in horror. The disease is outstanding, and I am afraid that everyone will know and bite it. "
Although it was not written in the Book of Jin, Sima Shi died on the way back from Huainan to Luoyang, and his younger brother Si Mazhao was ordered to take over the military power in a crisis, and was almost beaten by Cao Mao. From this point of view, Wen Yang did great harm to Sima Shi.
However, brave as Wen Yang was, the world had changed at that time. After the operation of Sima Yi and Sima Shi for two generations, the internal regime of Cao Wei has already changed, and Sima Shi is no longer surnamed Cao. So, even if Sima Shi died, Si Mazhao, who could succeed him in mastering the relieving, got the support of Cao Wei's ministers, quickly stabilized the situation and continued to pacify the Huainan rebellion.
In the continuous southward advance of the northern army, Wen Qin and his son had to flee Shouchun and take refuge in Wu Dong. During the three rebellions in Huainan, they led the Wu Dong army to assist Zhuge Dan, the town general guarding Shouchun. Unfortunately, Zhuge Dan is short-sighted, not only militarily, but also in employing people. He also had a dispute with Yang Wen's family and killed Wen Qin who came to help.
When Wen Qin died, all Wu Dong soldiers retreated, but Wen Yang had to leave Shouchun and go to Si Mazhao camp for help overnight. Finally, he was awarded the position of general and the title of Hou in Shanhaiguan. After Zhuge Dan's suicide failed, Sima family in Cao Wei was firmly established, and Wen Yang became the "loyal minister" of Sima family. Perhaps because Wen Yang defected many times, which violated his own nature, even though he had the courage of Lu Bu, there was always some irony in his evaluation by later generations. For example, Lu Bi said that he was "willful", and Luo Guanzhong made fun of Wen Yang in "Ode to Yu Quan Poems".
Sima was surrounded by Shouchun, and countless soldiers worshipped the car dust. Although there are heroes in Wu Dong, who and Yu Quan will be killed? After the establishment of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wen Yang continued to work for the Sima family in the Jin Dynasty, but no trace of Wen Yang was found in the historical materials. Visible, Wen Yang this 20 years, although the official position is very high (otherwise Wen Yang can't be governor of three states, go to war), but basically is abandoned, did nothing.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, under the dictatorship of Jia Nanfeng, the dissidents were eliminated vigorously, and the government was in chaos. It was under such circumstances that Wen Yang was killed.