Hu Lie 胡烈

When Zhuge Dan rebelled at Shouchun, Sun Chen of Wu had Zhu Yi lead the general Ding Feng and others, 50,000 men in all, to attack Wei, leaving the baggage train at Dulu. When Zhu Yi was defeated by Wei's Army Supervisor Shi Bao and Zhou Tai (州泰) and fell back, Hu Lie, Wei's Administrator of Taishan, raided Dulu by a byway with a surprise force of 5,000 and burned all of Zhu Yi's supplies and provisions. Sun Chen beheaded Zhu Yi at Huoli for not obeying his order to fight to the death. Records, Wu 19 §85–86

In the 4th year of Jingyuan (263), when Zhong Hui led a host of more than 100,000 against Shu, he passed straight through and went west out of the Yang'an Pass, and had the Protector of the Army Hu Lie and others go ahead to attack and break the pass fortress (Guancheng), obtaining the grain stored in its granaries. Jiang Wei, who had been returning from Tazhong to go to the pass fortress, heard that it had already fallen, withdrew toward Baishui, and joined Zhang Yi, Liao Hua and others to hold Jiange. Records, Wei 28 §103 · 105

When Deng Ai beheaded Zhuge Zhan at Mianzhu, Jiang Wei and the others led their troops east into Ba, and Zhong Hui advanced to Fu County and sent Hu Lie, Tian Xu, Pang Hui and others to pursue Jiang Wei. When Liu Shan surrendered to Deng Ai and ordered Jiang Wei and the others to surrender to Zhong Hui, Jiang Wei reached Qi County in Guanghan Commandery, had his soldiers lay down all their weapons, sent his tally and passes to Hu Lie, and then went by the eastern road to Zhong Hui and surrendered. Zhong Hui reported in a memorial that he had sent the Major Xiahou Xian, the Protector of the Army Hu Lie and others by way of Jiange to come out at Xindu and Dadu and cut off Jiang Wei and the others in front. Records, Wei 28 §114–115

After Deng Ai pacified Shu and conferred offices in the name of carrying out the emperor's commission, Sima Wenwang (Sima Zhao) had the Army Supervisor Wei Guan admonish him not to act on his own authority, and Deng Ai repeatedly sent letters arguing back. Zhong Hui, Hu Lie, Shi Zuan and others all reported that Deng Ai's conduct was perverse and rebellious. An edict was issued to summon Deng Ai in a cage cart. Records, Wei 28 §79–80

Zhong Hui arrived at Chengdu on the 15th day of the 1st month of the 5th year of Jingyuan (264). The next day he summoned all the Protectors of the Army, Administrators, Gate Commanders and Cavalry Commanders and above, and the former officials of Shu, held mourning for the Empress Dowager in the court hall of Shu, and forged a testamentary edict of the Empress Dowager ordering him to raise troops and depose Wenwang. He confined all the officials he had summoned in the office buildings of Yi Province, shut the city gates and palace gates, and had them surrounded and closely guarded by troops. Records, Wei 28 §124–125

Qiu Jian, Zhong Hui's Commander of the Headquarters Guard, had originally belonged to Hu Lie; Hu Lie had recommended him to Wenwang, and Zhong Hui had asked to have him in his own following and trusted and favored him. Qiu Jian, pitying Hu Lie for being confined alone, asked Zhong Hui to let one of Hu Lie's personal guards in to go out and fetch food and drink, and the various Gate Commanders likewise each had one man let in. Records, Wei 28 §125

Hu Lie told his personal guard a lie and also wrote a letter to his son: 'Qiu Jian has secretly told me that Zhong Hui has already dug a great pit and prepared several thousand white cudgels. He means to call in all the troops outside, give each man a white cap, make them supernumerary generals, and then beat them to death one after another with the cudgels and bury them in the pit.' The personal guards of the various Gate Commanders all passed on this story too, and in a single night it spread to everyone. Someone told Zhong Hui to kill all the Gate Commanders and Cavalry Commanders and above, but Zhong Hui hesitated and could not decide. Records, Wei 28 §125–126

At noon on the 18th day, when Hu Lie's troops marched out of the gate beating drums together with Hu Lie's son, the soldiers of the various armies all came out drumming and shouting without any prior agreement, and with no one urging them on they rushed to the city, each trying to be first. Zhong Hui sent troops to kill all the confined Gate Commanders and Administrators, but those inside lifted tables to brace the doors and kept them shut. The Gate Commanders and Administrators escaped over the roofs and joined their own soldiers, and the crowd cut down Jiang Wei and rushed forward to kill Zhong Hui. Records, Wei 28 §127–128

In the 2nd month of the 7th year of Yong'an of Wu (264), when Lu Kang of Wu and others besieged Luo Xian, who was guarding Badong for Shu, Wei gave the general Hu Lie 20,000 infantry and cavalry to invade Xiling and relieve Luo Xian, and Lu Kang and the others withdrew their troops. Chen Shou's main text does not record where Hu Lie came from, or when or how he died. Records, Wu 3 §45–46