Xu Zhi

The Wei army's best man for most of the chapter. Volunteers when Sima Shi asks who will go west, is made Leader of the Van on Sima Shi's high opinion of him, and fights with 'a mighty splitter-of-mountains ax': beats Liao Hua off in a few bouts, beats Zhang Yi off after him, and breaks the Shu line so that Jiang Wei has to retire ten miles. Takes the bait of the wooden-ox convoy on the Iron Cage road, finds the way back blocked with carts and the brushwood burning on both sides twice over, loses his army to Liao Hua and Zhang Yi, and rides on alone until horse and man are spent — straight into Jiang Wei's spear.