Chapter 92
— Zhao Zilong Slays Five Generals; Zhuge Liang Takes Three Cities.
Not an actor but an assumed identity — the name a trusted man of Zhuge Liang's uses to carry the forged appeal for help, as Zhuge Liang admits afterwards: 'I sent one of my trusty people to pretend he was a certain Pei Xu of Wei and so deceive this Cui Liang.' The impersonation takes Anding and fails at Tianshui, where Jiang Wei points out that 'Pei Xu is an unknown officer whom no one has heard of' — the very obscurity that made the name usable.