Chapter 106
— Suffering Defeat, Gongsun Yuan Meets His Death; Pretending Illness, Sima Yi Deceives Cao Shuang.
Gongsun Yuan's Prime Minister and one of the two men sent to beg terms. Let down from the wall by ropes because no gate can be opened, he asks Sima Yi to withdraw seven miles so the officers can come out and surrender — and is beheaded for coming in his master's place: 'Why did not Gongsun Yuan himself come? He is rude.' His head is thrown back over the wall.