Deng Liang 鄧良

Deng Zhi was a man of Xinye County in Yiyang Commandery. After Zhuge Liang died he became Army Instructor of the Front and General of the Front and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Yangwu Precinct; in the 6th year of Yanxi (243) he was promoted to General of Chariots and Cavalry, and he died in the 14th year of Yanxi (251). At the end of the Biography of Deng Zhi, Chen Shou wrote that his son Deng Liang succeeded to the title, became a Gentleman of the Left Selection Bureau of the Masters of Writing during the Jingyao era, and served the Jin court as Administrator of Guanghan. Records, Shu 15 §2 · 7–9

According to Records of Shu 3, in the summer of the 6th year of Jingyao (263) Wei ordered the General Who Conquers the West Deng Ai, the General Who Guards the West Zhong Hui and the Inspector of Yong Province Zhuge Xu to attack together along several routes, and that year the era name was changed to Yanxing. In winter, when Deng Ai defeated the General of the Guards Zhuge Zhan at Mianzhu, the Later Sovereign, Liu Shan, adopted the plan of the Grandee of Splendid Happiness Qiao Zhou, surrendered to Deng Ai and submitted a letter. Records, Shu 3 §43

At the end of that letter the Later Sovereign said that he was sending the Palace Attendant Zhang Shao, the Grandee of Splendid Happiness Qiao Zhou and the Commandant Escort of Imperial Equipages Deng Liang, appointed on his own authority, to carry the seal and ribbon, to ask for his fate and declare his sincerity, and that the decision of life or death was left solely to Deng Ai's discretion. Records, Shu 3 §45

That day Liu Chen, the Prince of Beidi, grieving at the fall of the state, killed his wife and children and then took his own life. Zhang Shao and Deng Liang met Deng Ai at Luo County. On receiving the letter Deng Ai was overjoyed and at once wrote a reply, sending Zhang Shao and Deng Liang back ahead; afterwards, when Deng Ai reached the north of the city, the Later Sovereign, with a coffin loaded on a cart and his own hands bound, went to the gate of his camp. Deng Liang does not appear again in the Biography of the Later Sovereign after this, nor does he appear in the assessments of Records of Shu 3 and 15. Records, Shu 3 §46 · 53Records, Shu 15 §85