Yan Liang (颜良) was a general serving under Yuan Shao during the Eastern Han Dynasty period of ancient China. Portrait of Yuan Shao from a Qing Dynasty edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. ... The Han Dynasty (Traditional Chinese characters: 漢朝, Simplified Chinese characters: 汉朝, pinyin Hàncháo 202 BC - AD 220) followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. ...
During the subsequent conflict between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao over the lands north of the Yellow River, Yuan Shao dispatch Yan Liang to guard the river ford at Bai Ma. When Cao Cao first assaulted this position, he sent forth the generals Song Xian and Wei Xu, only to have them both killed by Yan Liang. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang then attacked, but were driven back in defeat. Desperate to defeat the general and restore morale, Cao Cao looked to the general Guan Yu, who had surrendered to Cao Cao during that time; Guan Yu agreed to kill Yan Liang, and - riding alone into the depth of the enemy formation - he beheaded Yan Liang and returned with his head. Cáo Cāo (曹操, pronounced Tsao Tsao) (155-220), courtesy name Mèngdé (孟德), was the self-appointed Imperial Secretarist of the Han Dynasty and the de facto ruler of Northern China (as the Kingdom of Wei) during the beginning of the period of Three Kingdoms. ... Song Xian was a general of the Later Han Dynasty who served under the warlord Lü Bu during the period. ... Zhang Liao (169 – 224) was a military general under the powerful warlord Cao Cao during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. ... Xu Huang (? – 227) was a prominent general under the powerful warlord Cao Cao and his successor Cao Pi during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. ... A statue of Guan Yu on an altar Guan Yu (關羽; style name Changsheng 長生, Yunchang 雲長; 160 – 219) was a military commander of Han Dynasty China. ...
Note: In the official histories, Guan Yu's defeat of Yan Liang isn't as great as the novel depicts it. It seems Yan Liang was unarmed and on foot when Guan Yu simply rode up to him and cut him down from behind.
Based on the one example of Zhuge Liang's entrusting his student Ma Su to an important task despite Liu Bei's warning that he was unsuited for anything important, Wei Yan's supporters believe that this was simply another example of Zhuge Liang's poor judgement of character as opposed to his supreme judgement of warfare.
In legend, Zhuge Liang was said to ask for an extension of his life in Wuzhang Plains, pointing to a candle and saying, if the candle continues to burn, he will continue to live; if it was extingushed, he would perish.
Wei Yan, stylename Wenchang, was a native of Yiyang.
To ensure a safe crossing of the Yellow River, Yuan Shao sent YanLiang to attack Baima (白馬, northeast of present day Huaxian, Henan) as a diversionary tactic, despite advisor Ju Shou's (沮授) counsel that YanLiang was too frivolous to handle the responsibility alone.
This comment foreshadows the first appearance of YanLiang in Chapter 25, where he was deployed by Yuan Shao as commander of a vanguard force to take Baima (白馬).
Shu: Fei Yi - Jiang Wan - Jiang Wei - Pang Tong - Zhuge Liang
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