Is “Killed by Sima Yi's eight-day rapid march” true?
attested in history
The Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Chronicle of Emperor Ming and the Book of Jin record that Meng Da intended to rebel against Wei with Xincheng and return to Shu, and Sima Yi, taking him by surprise, marched rapidly for eight days and besieged and executed him. The existing local official history corpus contains: "新城太守孟达反，诏骠骑将军司马宣王讨之。" (Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Chronicle of Emperor Ming)
Meng Da
A general who was seen as capricious in official histories, defecting to Wei and then planning to return to Shu Han.
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