Bei Yan

Gongsun Yuan's Commander-in-Chief and one of the two men the Liaodong war turns on. Holds Liaosui with eighty thousand behind a seven-mile wall and thorn barriers. He is also the one who reads Sima Yi's feint correctly — 'They are going to attack Xiangping, which they know has few troops. If that base be lost, this position is useless' — which is exactly what pulls him out of the fortifications and into the ambush on the River Ji. Rides out to challenge the Wei army — 'You rebels! Do not try trickery, but dare you fight in the open?' — and falls to Xiahou Ba after a few bouts, and his army breaks on the news.