Xu Yi

Appointed, failed and executed inside one chapter. Xu Chu's son, he volunteers as Leader of the Van on the strength of road and bridge work, is given five thousand horse and a thousand foot and told that 'any delay will entail punishment'. Attacks Nanzheng on his own initiative to make a name, and is shot to pieces by Lu Xu's crossbows. Then Zhong Hui's own horse puts its hoof through the planking of a bridge and nearly kills him, and Xu Yi is condemned for it. His colleagues plead his father's services, and Zhong Hui answers 'How can discipline be maintained if the laws are not enforced?' — and has his head exposed as a warning.