Wei Guan

Army Inspector on the campaign, named first among the eighty officers Zhong Hui assembles - Sima Zhao's own man travelling with an army whose commander his master has just privately described as a future rebel.

Army Inspector, and the only man who tells Zhong Hui he has exceeded his authority: 'Zhuge Xu is really a subordinate of Deng Ai and, admitting that he is in fault, his punishment should not have been pronounced by you, O Commander.' The answer he gets - that Zhong Hui would behead Deng Ai himself - is repeated to Deng Ai and starts the quarrel that destroys them both.

Carries Sima Zhao's private letter to Deng Ai alongside the public edict of promotion, and is then 'made the Inspector of the Forces and set over both armies, with special orders to keep a watch upon Deng Ai and guard against any attempt at insubordination'.

Orders the murder to save himself, and the chapter says so in his own words. He made the arrest; when Deng Ai's old soldiers start planning a rescue, 'he feared for his life. "If Deng Ai lives, I will die in his hand!"' - and gives Tian Xu the five hundred horse. Earlier he supplies the army that makes Hu Yuan's mutiny possible, and afterwards he is the one who restores order in the Forbidden City and sends the troops back to their camps. Set over the city of Chengdu by Jia Chong. He survives everyone.