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Chapter 5
— Cao Cao Appeals To The Powerful Lords; The Three Brothers Fight Against Lu Bu.
Yue Jin; one of Cao Cao's first volunteer captains.
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Chapter 6
— Burning The Capital, Dong Zhuo Commits An Atrocity; Hiding The Imperial Hereditary Seal, Sun Jian Breaks Faith.
Yue Jin; part of Cao Cao's pursuit force at Xingyang.
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Chapter 11
— Liu Bei Rescues Kong Rong At Beihai; Lu Bu Defeats Cao Cao Near Puyang.
Answers Zang Ba's challenge before Puyang and trades thirty even blows; flees with Xiahou Dun when Lü Bu himself thunders in, and later helps Yu Jin cover the shattered night-raid retreat.
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Chapter 12
— Tao Qian Thrice Offers Xuzhou To Liu Bei; Cao Cao Retakes Yanzhou From Lu Bu.
Leads the right wing with Li Dian against Puyang, joins the six-general mobbing of Lü Bu, and at Dingtao kills Cheng Lian with an arrow.
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Chapter 14
— Cao Cao Moves The Court To Xuchang; Lu Bu Leads A Night Raid Against Xuzhou.
Rides with Cao Hong's reinforcement column presented to the Emperor outside ruined Luoyang; made a Commander in the Xuchang appointments.
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Chapter 16
— In The Camp Gate, Lu Bu Shoots The Halberd; At River Yu, Cao Cao Suffers A Defeat.
Among the four generals Cao Cao mistakenly sends against the 'mutinous' Yu Jin on the retreat from Wancheng.
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Chapter 23
— Mi Heng Slips His Garment And Rails At Traitors; Ji Ping Pledges To Kill The Prime Minister.
Claimed by Cao Cao among the bravest of the brave - and rated by Mi Heng as 'a fair reader of elegy'.
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Chapter 24
— Cao Cao Murdered The Consort Dong; Liu Bei Flees To Yuan Shao.
Holds the southwest point of the eight-point ambush and falls on Zhang Fei's rear while he duels Xu Huang.
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Chapter 26
— Yuan Shao Loses Another Leader; Guan Yu Abandons Rank And Wealth.
One of the two generals (with Yu Jin) placed under Guan Yu for the fifty-thousand-man Runan expedition.
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Chapter 31
— Cao Cao Overcomes Yuan Shao In Cangting; Liu Bei Seeks Shelter With Liu Biao In Jingzhou.
Fourth ambush company on the left in the ten-ambush battle; with Yu Jin his onfall strews the countryside with Yuan corpses, and at Runan he is the one who surrounds Zhang Fei.
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Chapter 32
— Jizhou Taken: Yuan Shang Strives; River Zhang Cut: Xun You Schemes.
Sent with Li Dian to waylay the five thousand reinforcements Yuan Shang grudged his brother - the half legion is destroyed to a man.
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Chapter 33
— A Gallant Warrior, Cao Pi Marries Lady Zhen; An Expiring Star, Guo Jia Settles Liaodong.
His storm of arrows at the Nanpi moat kills the fleeing Guo Tu; then he marches on Bingzhou with Li Dian and Zhang Yan and occupies Huguan Pass behind the tricked Gao Gan.
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Chapter 42
— Screaming Zhang Fei Triumphs At Long Slope Bridge; Defeated Liu Bei Marches To Hanjin.
One of the eight generals who line the west bank at the bridge, none daring to be first across into what might be Zhuge Liang's trap.
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Chapter 48
— Banquet On The Great River, Cao Cao Sings A Song; Battle On Water, Northerners Fight With Chained Ships.
Commands the left wing of the shore forces under the blue flag in the grand order of battle.
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Chapter 50
— Zhuge Liang Foresees The Huarong Valley Episode; Guan Yu Lifts His Saber To Release Cao Cao.
Named with Li Dian as Zhang Liao's aid for the all-important Hefei garrison.
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Chapter 53
— Guan Yu Releases Huang Zhong; Sun Quan Fights With Zhang Liao.
Rides out alone, one man and one sword, sidelong past the dueling champions - and nearly takes Sun Quan's head with one lightning slash, foiled only by the two crossed halberds.
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Chapter 67
— Cao Cao Conquers Hanzhong; Zhang Liao Terrorizes Xiaoyao.
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Chapter 68
— Gan Ning's Hundred Horsemen Raid The Northern Camp; Zuo Ci's Flung-Down Cup Fools Cao Cao.