Wen Qin

Imperial Protector of Yangzhou, named with Guanqiu Jian as raising armies 'with the declared design of restoring the deposed emperor' — the first consequence of Cao Fang's deposition, and the report the chapter ends on.

Co-raises the rebellion and loses it by getting lost. A former client of Cao Shuang's, he brings twenty thousand men and offers his son as Leader of the Van. On the night of the Lojia attack he takes the southern route and never arrives - 'In the darkness he lost his way among the precipices and gullies, whence he only got out as day dawned' - and comes back to find the battle over and his son gone. Refuses to read Yin Damu's coded offer, abuses him and threatens to have him shot, finds Shouchun already held by Zhuge Dan and Xiangcheng closing, and flees to Wu to serve Sun Jun.

Back in service: sent by Sun Chen as Military Guide of the seventy-thousand relief force — the obvious choice, since he raised the last rebellion in the same place — and he joins Zhuge Dan at Shouchun with both his sons in the chapter's closing lines.

Killed by Zhuge Dan for the most reasonable suggestion anyone makes in the siege. Holding the citadel with his two sons and watching the garrison starve 'till the sight became unbearable', he proposes that 'The northern troops should be sent away in order to save food' - and gets 'Do you want to kill me that you propose to send the northern soldiers away?' and immediate execution. His death is the hinge of the chapter.