Wen Hu 文虎

In the 5th month of the 2nd year of Ganlu (257), when Zhuge Dan was summoned to be Minister of Works, he rebelled at Shouchun. Wu sent Quan Yi, Quan Duan, Tang Zi and others with 30,000 men to come secretly together with Wen Qin in support of Zhuge Dan, and Tang Zi, Wen Qin and the others, making use of the hills and rugged terrain to the northeast of the city, led their men into the city. In the 6th month the General-in-Chief Sima Wenwang (Sima Zhao), commanding 260,000 troops from the capital and the provinces, reached the Huai River and had Wang Ji, Chen Qian and others surround Shouchun on all four sides, so that the siege lines formed a double ring, inner and outer. Records, Wei 28 §35–37

In the 1st month of the 3rd year of Ganlu (258), Zhuge Dan, Wen Qin, Tang Zi and the others built siege engines on a large scale and attacked the southern siege lines, but failed to break through and went back into the city. When food in the city ran out, Wen Qin proposed sending out all the northerners to save food and holding out firmly together with the men of Wu, but Zhuge Dan would not listen, and they quarreled and resented each other. The two, who had long been at odds, grew ever more suspicious of each other as matters became urgent, and when Wen Qin came to see Zhuge Dan to discuss affairs, Zhuge Dan finally killed him. Records, Wei 28 §39–40

Wen Qin's sons Wen Yang and Wen Hu were in the small fortress commanding troops; on hearing of Wen Qin's death they put their troops in order and rushed to him, but the men would not follow them. The two fled alone, climbed over the city wall and gave themselves up to the General-in-Chief. When the army officers asked to have them executed, the General-in-Chief issued an order saying that Wen Qin's crimes could not be atoned for even by death and his sons ought by rights to be put to death, but that Wen Yang and Wen Hu had come to entrust their lives to him in desperation, and since the city had not yet fallen, killing them would only harden the resolve of those inside. Records, Wei 28 §40

So he pardoned Wen Yang and Wen Hu and had them lead several hundred horsemen riding around the city, calling out to those inside, 'Even the sons of Wen Qin have not been killed; what do the rest of you have to fear?' He memorialized that the two be made generals, and each was granted the rank of Marquis Within the Passes. Those in the city were pleased yet unsettled, and when the General-in-Chief came to the siege lines in person and advanced his troops from all four sides, no one in the city dared move. Zhuge Dan tried to break out through a small city gate and was beheaded by the troops of Hu Fen, Major under the General-in-Chief. Records, Wei 28 §41–42

Of those in Huainan who had been coerced or carried off by Zhuge Dan, only the ringleaders of the rebellion were executed and all the rest were pardoned, and Wen Yang and Wen Hu were allowed to collect Wen Qin's body and were given carts and oxen to bury him in the old family tomb. In Chen Shou's main text these three passages are the only places where Wen Hu appears; his courtesy name, his later career and his death are not recorded, and there is no assessment of him. Records, Wei 28 §47 · 40–41