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Chapter 2 — Zhang Fei Whips The Government Officer; He Jin Plots To Kill The Eunuchs.

Sun Zi the Strategist, named as the famous ancestor of Sun Jian when the general makes his entrance before Wancheng.

Chapter 47 — Kan Ze Presents A Treacherous Letter; Pang Tong Suggests Chaining The Ships.

The Famed Strategist: Jiang Gan finds Pang Tong crooning over his 'Art of War' by lamplight, and Pang Tong's flattery of the camp invokes him - Sun Zi reappeared could do no better.

Chapter 57 — Sleeping Dragon Mourns In Chaisang; Young Phoenix Intervenes At Leiyang.

Cited twice: even Sun Zi the Famed Strategist could not guarantee Zhou Yu's western war, and Pang Tong's plans equal his.

Chapter 60 — Zhang Song Turns The Table On Yang Xiu; Pang Tong Proposes The Occupation Of Shu.

The model Cao Cao's 'New Book' is written on — and the standard Zhang Song says Cao Cao's military skill fails to illumine.

Chapter 84 — Lu Xun Burns All Consecutive Camps; Zhuge Liang Plans The Eight-Array Maze.

Invoked by Lu Xun against his officers' brute courage — the principles of war they have not read.

Chapter 94 — Zhuge Liang Defeats The Qiangs In A Snowstorm; Sima Yi Captures Meng Da By A Rapid March.

Quoted twice. Zhong Yao uses him to argue that Cao Zhen is outmatched — 'Know the enemy, know thyself, and every battle is a victory' — and Cao Rui uses him at the end as the measure Sima Yi has exceeded: 'You are wiser than both the great strategists of old — Wu Qi and Sun Zi.'

Chapter 95 — Ma Su's Disobedience Causes The Loss Of Jieting; Zhuge Liang's Lute Repulses The Army Of Sima Yi.

Quoted once, by Ma Su, against the advice of everyone present: 'Sun Zi says that victory lies in desperate positions. If they cut off our water, will not our soldiers be desperate and fight to the death?' The water is cut off, the soldiers mutiny and open the gates, and the campaign ends.

Chapter 96 — Shedding Tears, Zhuge Liang Puts Ma Su To Death; Cutting Hair, Zhou Fang Beguiles Cao Xiu.

Quoted by Zhuge Liang to refuse Jiang Wan's plea for Ma Su's life, with tears already falling: 'Sun Zi maintains that the one way to obtain success is to make the law supreme. Now confusion and actual war are in every quarter. If the law be not observed, how may rebels be made away with? He must die.' The same authority Ma Su had cited on the hilltop one chapter earlier.

Chapter 97 — Sending A Second Memorial, Zhuge Liang Renews The Attack On Wei; Forging A Letter, Jiang Wei Defeats The Northern Army.

Named with Wu Qi in the memorial as the standard of generalship Cao Cao matched — 'He could wield armies like the great strategists of old, Sun Zi and Wu Qi' — which makes the list of his near-disasters that follows the sharper.

Chapter 103 — In Gourd Valley, Sima Yi Is Trapped; In Wuzhang Hills, Zhuge Liang Invokes The Stars.

Named in passing only, in Cao Rui's compliment to the enemy who has just outmanoeuvred him: 'Lu Xun knows the art of war even as did Sun Zi and Wu Qi.' (This is the strategist, the same row ch95 and ch96 settled on for quotations of the Art of War, not the Wei official Sun Zi.)

Chapter 104 — A Falling Star: The Prime Minister Ascends To Heaven; A Wooden Statue: The Commander-In-Chief Is Terrified.

Alluded to in Yuan Weizhi's elegy, paired with Wu Qi, as the standard of generalship Zhuge Liang is said to have exceeded. (The strategist row, as in ch95, ch96 and ch103.)

Chapter 107 — The Ruler of Wei Hands Over The Power To Sima Yi; Jiang Wei Is Defeated At Ox Head Hills.

Quoted by Fei Yi against the expedition: 'Remember the saying of the wise Sun Zi: "Know thyself and know thine enemy, then is victory sure."' (The strategist row, as in ch95, ch96, ch103 and ch104.)