Is “The troop strength and specific division of labor when rescuing Zhuge Dan” true?
based on fact
The official history 'Records of the Three Kingdoms', Book of Wu, Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, Ding, only records 'sent Zhu Yi, Tang Zi, etc. to rescue'. The novel 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', Chapter 111, adds the detail 'Zhu Yi and Tang Zi as vanguard, Wen Qin as guide, raising 70,000 troops, advancing in three columns'.
Zhu Yi
Wu state generals
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