Zhu Yi (Eastern Wu)

Zhu Yi
朱しゅ異こと
General Who Guards the South (鎮南將軍しょうぐん)
In office 252 (252) – 26 September 257 (26 September 257)
Monarch	Sun Liang
General Who Spreads Martial Might (揚あげ武將ぶしょう軍ぐん)
In office ? (?)–252 (252)
Monarch	Sun Quan
Lieutenant-General (偏へん將軍しょうぐん)
In office 241 (241)–? (?)
Monarch	Sun Quan
Cavalry Commandant (騎き都と尉じょう)
In office 237 (237)–241 (241)
Monarch	Sun Quan
Personal details
Born	Unknown Suzhou, Jiangsu
Died	(257-09-26)26 September 257 Chaohu, Anhui
Parent	Zhu Huan (father)
Occupation	General
Courtesy name	Jiwen (季き文ぶん)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhu.

Zhu Yi (died 26 September 257 A.D.), courtesy name Jiwen, was a military general of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China.

Life

Zhu Yi was the son of the Wu general Zhu Huan, who was from Wu County, Wu Commandery, which is present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu. He gained his first military appointment as a Cavalry Commandant (騎き都と尉じょう) after his father's death in 238. His first field assignment was in 241 when he followed Zhu Ran in the latter's assault on the Wei fortress at Fancheng, but it would be his victory over the Wei general Wen Qin that cemented his reputation as a capable commander. Zhu Yi personally led 2,000 troops to destroy all seven of Wen Qin's encampments, decapitating several hundred men in the process, and earning him a promotion to Lieutenant-General (偏へん將軍しょうぐん). The Wu emperor Sun Quan remarked afterward that Zhu Yi was even braver and sturdier than he had heard.

In 252, Zhu Yi thwarted a Wei invasion when he led a naval force to attack and destroy the floating bridges built by the Wei generals Hu Zun (胡えびす遵) and Zhuge Dan in their attempt to cross the Yangtze River into Wu territory.

In 257, when the Wei general Zhuge Dan started a rebellion against the Wei regent Sima Zhao, the Wu regent Sun Chen dispatched an army of 30,000 to aid Zhuge Dan in Shouchun (present-day Shou County, Anhui), and dispatched another 30,000 troops led by Zhu Yi to a county just south of Shouchun to act as the rear guard. The Wei general Zhou Tai defeated Zhu Yi's army and inflicted over 2,000 casualties. Sun Chen then ordered another 50,000 men, commanded in part by Zhu Yi, to attack the Wei forces. Leaving his baggage train and the bulk of his forces at Dulu (都みやこ陸りく), he travelled upstream and made a night crossing on floating bridges with 6,000 of his bravest fighters, but the Wei generals Zhou Tai and Shi Bao (石いし苞つと) detected his forces and defeated them. Zhu Yi regrouped but was again driven back. Later, the Wei officer Hu Lie (胡えびす烈れつ) led 5,000 men to launch a sneak attack on Zhu Yi's baggage train and managed to burn down his supplies.

Sun Chen sent another 30,000 men to assist Zhu Yi and fight the Wei forces to the death, if necessary, but Zhu Yi was unwilling to fight without supplies or food. Sun Chen was so enraged that he had Zhu Yi executed at Huoli (鑊裡; in present-day Chaohu, Anhui).

See also

• Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

References

• Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
• Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).