Gou An 句安

In the spring of the 12th year of Yanxi (249), the General-in-Chief Cao Shuang and others were executed in Wei, and the General of the Right Xiahou Ba came over to Shu. In the autumn of that year the General of the Guards Jiang Wei set out to attack Yong Province. According to the account of Chen Tai, Jiang Wei led his host to build two forts backed against Mount Qu and had the Generals of the Standard Gou An, Li Xin and others hold them, and he gathered Qiang and Hu hostages and others to raid and press upon the commanderies. Records, Shu 3 §29Records, Wei 22 §39

Chen Tai, who at the beginning of Jiaping had replaced Guo Huai as Inspector of Yong Province, discussed with Guo Huai, General Who Conquers the West, how to resist them. He said that although the Qu forts were strong, they were far from Shu and the road was steep, so grain would have to be carried to them, and that the Qiang and other peoples, suffering under Jiang Wei's labor levies, would not be willing to follow him, so if they surrounded and took the forts they could capture them without staining their blades with blood. Guo Huai followed this plan and had Chen Tai lead Xu Zhi, Protector of the Army for the Campaign against Shu, Deng Ai, Administrator of Nan'an, and others forward to surround them, and the Wei army cut off their supply route and the flowing water outside the forts. Records, Wei 22 §38–40

Gou An and the others offered battle, but the Wei army would not accept it, and the officers and men, reduced to dire straits, shared out their grain and gathered snow to get through the days. When Jiang Wei came to the rescue, emerging from Mount Niutou to face Chen Tai, Chen Tai ordered the armies to hold their ramparts firmly and not to fight, and sent a messenger to Guo Huai saying that if he himself crossed the Baishui River to the south and went east along it while Guo Huai went to Mount Niutou and cut off the road of retreat, they could capture not only Gou An and the others but Jiang Wei as well. When Guo Huai led the armies forward and encamped on the Tao River, Jiang Wei took fright and fled, and Gou An and the others, left isolated, in the end all surrendered. Records, Wei 22 §40–41

The Biography of the Later Sovereign records that in the autumn of this year Jiang Wei attacked Yong Province but returned without success, and that the generals Gou An and Li Shao (李韶) surrendered to Wei. The account of Guo Huai records that Guo Huai, who had been transferred to General Who Conquers the West in the 1st year of Jiaping (249), combined plans that year with Chen Tai, Inspector of Yong Province, and forced the surrender of the Shu General of the Standard Gou An and others at Chishang. The edict of the following year, declaring that in recent years Guo Huai had crushed Liao Hua and captured Gou An and that his achievements were conspicuous, made him General of Chariots and Cavalry with ceremonial status equal to the Three Excellencies. Records, Shu 3 §29Records, Wei 26 §77–78

In the autumn of the 4th year of Jingyuan (263), Wei issued an edict and attacked Shu. According to the report Zhong Hui submitted, when Jiang Wei, Zhang Yi, Liao Hua, Dong Jue and others tried to make for Chengdu, Zhong Hui sent the Major Xiahou Xian, the Protector of the Army Hu Lie and others to cut them off in front, and had the Army Adviser Yuan Jing, General Gou An and others follow on their heels. Chen Shou's main text does not state whether this General Gou An was the same man as the Gou An who surrendered at Mount Qu, and it does not record his origin or his death either. Records, Wei 28 §103 · 115