Wen Yang 文鴦

Chen Shou's main text records that in the 1st month of the 2nd year of Zhengyuan (255) Wen Qin raised troops together with Guanqiu Jian against the General-in-Chief Sima Jingwang (Sima Shi); at Lejia he tried to make a night attack on Deng Ai and the others, but when day broke and he saw how strong the main army's forces were, he turned his troops back, was heavily defeated by the swift cavalry sent in pursuit, and fled to Wu. Wen Yang's name does not appear in the Biography of Guanqiu Jian or the Annals of the Three Young Emperors, which record this battle. Records, Wei 28 §20–21 · 23–24 · 27Records, Wei 4 §54

In the 5th month of the 2nd year of Ganlu (257), when Zhuge Dan rebelled at Shouchun and asked Wu for help, Wu gave 30,000 men to Quan Yi, Quan Duan, Tang Zi, Wang Zuo and others and had them come secretly together with Wen Qin. Taking advantage of the fact that the siege lines of Wang Ji, General Who Guards the South, had not yet closed, Tang Zi, Wen Qin and the others made their way into the city from its northeast side, using the hills and the rugged terrain. When the General-in-Chief Sima Wenwang (Sima Zhao) laid a double siege, inside and out, with 260,000 troops from the capital and the provinces, Wen Qin and the others sallied out several times to strike at the siege lines but were driven back each time. 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 attacked the southern siege lines day and night for five or six days, but their siege engines were burned and smashed, and they went back into the city. When food ran out, Wen Qin proposed sending out all the northerners to save food and holding out firmly with the men of Wu, but Zhuge Dan would not listen, and they quarrelled and resented each other. The two, who had been at odds from the start, grew more suspicious of each other the more pressing matters became, and when Wen Qin went to see Zhuge Dan to discuss affairs, Zhuge Dan at last killed him. Records, Wei 28 §39–40Records, Wu 3 §18

Wen Qin's sons Wen Yang and Wen Hu were commanding troops in the small city; when they heard that Wen Qin was dead, they put their troops in order and rushed to him, but their men would not follow. The two of them fled alone, climbed out over the city wall and submitted of their own accord to the General-in-Chief. When his military officers asked to execute them, 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 killed, but that Wen Yang and Wen Hu had come to entrust their lives to him when cornered, and since the city had not yet fallen, killing them would only harden the resolve of those inside. Records, Wei 28 §40

He therefore pardoned the two and had them lead several hundred horsemen galloping 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 then submitted a memorial making Wen Yang and Wen Hu generals and granting each of them the rank of Marquis Within the Passes. Those inside the city were glad yet unsettled, and grew hungrier and wearier by the day, until Zhuge Dan, Tang Zi and the others were at the end of their wits and strength. When the General-in-Chief came to the siege lines in person and advanced his troops from all four sides, no one inside dared move, and Zhuge Dan, who broke out through a small city gate, was cut down by the troops of Hu Fen, Major under the General-in-Chief. The Biography of Zhuge Dan records that he rebelled in the 5th month of the 2nd year of Ganlu and was destroyed in the 2nd month of the 3rd year. Records, Wei 28 §41–43

After Shouchun was pacified, of the commanders, officials, soldiers and common people of Huainan who had been coerced or carried off by Zhuge Dan, only the ringleaders were executed and all the rest were pardoned. Wen Yang and Wen Hu were permitted to collect Wen Qin's body, and were given a cart and oxen to bury him in the old family tomb. Records, Wei 28 §47

These three passages are the only places where Wen Yang appears in Chen Shou's main text. His courtesy name, origin, later career and death are not recorded, and he does not appear in Chen Shou's assessment in Records of Wei 28, which judges Wang Ling, Guanqiu Jian, Zhuge Dan, Zhong Hui and Deng Ai. Records, Wei 28 §40–41 · 47 · 140