Chapter 96
— Shedding Tears, Zhuge Liang Puts Ma Su To Death; Cutting Hair, Zhou Fang Beguiles Cao Xiu.
Cao Xiu's Leader of the Van. Rides out to rail at the Wu line — 'Rebel leader, come and surrender!' — is outfought by Xu Sheng and withdraws, then is posted with twenty thousand in the southern ambush at Shiding. In the dark he takes Zhu Huan's approaching column for friends, goes out to meet them, and is killed on the spot.