Wen Pin

文聘
Courtesy name: Zhongye (仲業)
Ancestral home
Wan, Nanyang (Nanyang, Henan)
Also known as
Wen Ping
Book mentions
27
Roles:
general
Factions:
Cao Wei (primary) Liu Biao Liu Cong
Appears in 9 chapters:
  • Chapter 34 — Behind The Screen, Lady Cai Overhears A Secret; Across The Tan Torrent, The Dilu Horse Carries Its Master.
    Co-host with Wang Wei of the officers' banquet staged to draw Zhao Zilong away from Liu Bei; Zhao Zilong declines until Liu Bei himself tells him to go.
  • Chapter 41 — Liu Bei Leads His People Over The River; Zhao Zilong Rescues The Child Lord At Dangyang.
    Gallops up to fight the gate-opening Wei Yan through half a day of carnage; later, blocking Liu Bei's midnight flight, he is shamed off the field by one sentence - 'Turncoat! Can you still look humans in the face?' Arriving last to Cao Cao's muster out of shame for his lost master, his tears win him the Governorship of Jiangxia and a lordship.
  • Chapter 42 — Screaming Zhang Fei Triumphs At Long Slope Bridge; Defeated Liu Bei Marches To Hanjin.
    Chases the spent Zhao Zilong right up to Long Slope Bridge - and stops dead at the sight of Zhang Fei's glare and the dust of a phantom army in the trees.
  • Chapter 48 — Banquet On The Great River, Cao Cao Sings A Song; Battle On Water, Northerners Fight With Chained Ships.
    Brings thirty supporting ships to cover the doomed sortie and is worsted by the pursuing southerners until Zhou Yu's recall flag ends the chase.
  • Chapter 49 — On Seven-Star Altar, Zhuge Liang Sacrifices To The Winds; At Three Gorges, Zhou Yu Liberates The Fire.
    Volunteers to stop the oncoming 'grain ships' and takes an arrow in the left arm for it - the first casualty of the fire fleet's approach.
  • Chapter 50 — Zhuge Liang Foresees The Huarong Valley Episode; Guan Yu Lifts His Saber To Release Cao Cao.
    Wen Pin; with Cao Cao's burning fleet.
  • Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
    Rides out of the green ranks to protest the family monopoly on the prize - and matches Cao Xiu's bull's eye from the gallop.
  • Chapter 71 — At Opposite Hill, Huang Zhong Scores A Success; On The River Han, Zhao Zilong Conquers A Host.
    Wen Pin; with Cao Cao.
  • Chapter 86 — Using Words, Qin Mi Overcomes Zhang Wen; Setting Fire, Xu Sheng Defeats Cao Pi.
    Wen Pin; with Cao Pi.