Wang Ji

Governor of Anping in the Guan Lu biography — his guest's household is cured when the two buried corpses under the west wall are found exactly where the diviner said.

Talks Sima Shi out of Zheng Mao's caution and then makes the decisive move. 'This is not a rising of the people, nor of the soldiers, but is the work of Guanqiu Jian. The people are merely his tools and cannot help themselves. The rebellion will go to pieces as soon as an army approaches the region.' Then identifies Nandun as the position the campaign turns on — 'Occupy it at once, for if not the enemy will do so' — and is sent to take it, which he does a day before Guanqiu Jian arrives to do the same. One of the three armies that finally surrounds Xiangcheng.

Commands the van of the two-hundred-sixty-thousand army, and wins the chapter's only clean fight: beats Zhu Yi in three bouts, beats Tang Zi in three more, then orders the general attack that breaks the Wu relief force and drives it fifteen miles back.

Wei's hardest-working general in the chapter. Commands the veteran rear with Chen Qian, springs the trap on the plunderers, is withdrawn from the south gate to leave Zhong Hui's opening, catches Zhu Yi's relief column from behind, and fights his way to the west gate at the fall of the city - where he meets Yu Quan and gets the answer that kills him.