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Chapter 10
— Gathering Arms, Ma Teng Moves To Rescue The Emperor; Commanding A Force, Cao Cao Marches To Avenge His Father.
Cao Bao; Tao Qian's general defending Xuzhou against Cao Cao's vengeance army - the campaign that will define the early chapters of Liu Bei's rise to Xuzhou rule.
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Chapter 14
— Cao Cao Moves The Court To Xuchang; Lu Bu Leads A Night Raid Against Xuzhou.
LÜ BU's father-in-law (he pleads 'if you saw my son-in-law's face, you would pardon me'). Forced to drink and then flogged fifty strokes by the drunken Zhang Fei, he opens Xuzhou's gates to Lü Bu that same night - and dies in the moat with Zhang Fei's spear-wound in his back.
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Chapter 16
— In The Camp Gate, Lu Bu Shoots The Halberd; At River Yu, Cao Cao Suffers A Defeat.
Named as the father of Lü Bu's late secondary wife, Lady Cao, in the accounting of the household.