Chapter 108
— In The Snow, Ding Feng Wins A Victory; At A Banquet, Sun Jun Executes A Secret Plan.
Holds Xincheng for months against a two-hundred-thousand army and wins by a legal fiction. When the northeast corner of the wall is shaken, he sends out all the city's register documents with a plausible messenger and an appeal to Wei regulations: a commander who has held out a hundred days without relief may surrender without penalty to his family, and Xincheng has held ninety - would Zhuge Ke allow him the few days needed to complete the count? The attack stops, and he uses the pause to pull down the houses near the corner and rebuild the wall with the material. Then he throws off the pretence from the rampart: 'I have half a year's provisions yet and will not surrender to any curs of Wu!'