Is “Debated with Zhuge Liang before the battle and was scolded to death” true?
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According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biography of Wang Lang, Wang Lang died of illness in Luoyang in the second year of Taihe (228 CE) and never went to the front lines; the claim that he was scolded to death is purely fictional. The original text: 「太和二年薨，谥曰成侯。子肃嗣。」 (Source: Book of Wei, Biographies of Zhong Yao, Hua Xin, and Wang Lang.txt)
Wang Lang
In official history, he was a learned and erudite Minister of Education for the state of Wei, while in the novel he is portrayed as a villain who is scolded to death before the battle lines.
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