Chapter 106
— Suffering Defeat, Gongsun Yuan Meets His Death; Pretending Illness, Sima Yi Deceives Cao Shuang.
Gongsun Yuan's Leader of the Van and the author of the Liaodong strategy, which is Sima Yi's own turned back on him: 'When the Wei army comes near, we will not fight. They will have come a long march and their supplies will be short… These were the tactics Sima Yi used against Zhuge Liang on River Wei, and Zhuge Liang died before the end of the expedition. We will try similar means.' It is a good plan, and Bei Yan talks him out of it in one sentence.