PersonAD 179 – AD 251

Sima Yi

Also called: Sima Zhongda

Wei general and minister, who held off Zhuge Liang’s northern campaigns and in 249 overthrew Cao Shuang, putting the Sima clan in control of Wei

Where they went

AD 228 – AD 234Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expeditionscommander
Shu Han’s chancellor Zhuge Liang submitted his Memorial on Dispatching the Troops and attacked Wei five times. He achieved little and died in camp on the Wuzhang Plains in 234.
AD 234A Dead Zhuge Puts a Living Zhongda to FlightAnecdoteleader
An anecdote from the Han-Jin Chunqiu: pursuing the Shu army after Zhuge Liang’s death, Sima Yi pulled back in alarm when it turned to face him.
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AD 234Battle of Wuzhang Plainscommander
On his last northern expedition Zhuge Liang camped on the Wuzhang Plains and faced Sima Yi for over a hundred days. Sima Yi refused battle; when Zhuge Liang died of illness, the Shu army withdrew.
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AD 249Incident at the Gaoping Tombsleader
Wei’s Sima Yi staged a coup and destroyed the faction of the regent Cao Shuang. From then on real power in Wei passed to the Sima clan.

Zhuge LiangAD 181 – AD 234
Chancellor of Shu Han, who proposed the plan to divide the realm in three to Liu Bei in 207 and died of illness on the Wuzhang Plains in 234 during his northern campaigns
Liu ShanAD 207 – AD 271
Second and last emperor of Shu Han, who surrendered when Wei’s Deng Ai reached Chengdu in 263

The Three KingdomsAD 184 – AD 280
From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the Jin reunification — a century of Wei, Shu and Wu, the age of Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan