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Chapter 82
— Sun Quan Submits To Wei, Receiving The Nine Dignities; The First Ruler Attacks Wu, Rewarding Six Armies.
Twenty-five, grandson-by-adoption of the Sun house — volunteers against the invasion with Xie Jing and Li Yi at his side and fifty thousand shared with Zhu Ran. Loses both generals, thirty bouts to Guan Xing, his camp to the night attack, and ends the chapter shut up in Yiling under siege on all four sides.
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Chapter 83
— Fighting At Xiaoting, The First Ruler Captures An Enemy; Defending The Three Gorges, A Student Takes Supreme Command.
Still shut up in Yiling, short of food — and left there deliberately: 'when Shu is broken, he will be free to come out,' rules the new commander.
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Chapter 84
— Lu Xun Burns All Consecutive Camps; Zhuge Liang Plans The Eight-Array Maze.
Freed from the Yiling siege exactly as Lu Xun foretold — the besiegers march off to rescue their Emperor, and he bursts out to hunt them: Zhang Nan and Feng Xi die between his force and the army they meet head-on.