While Jiang Wei scrambles to mount a last-ditch defense, his old nemesis searches for a way to go around his roadblock.
Meet two statesmen who really mastered the art of saying, “That’s not in my job description.”
Tired of Shu’s perpetual encroachment on its borders, Wei decides to take the fight to its nemesis.
Jiang Wei finally gets the better of Deng Ai, but even that ends up backfiring.
Discord between lord and vassal simmers in the court of Shu, while things boil over in the court of Wei.
While the Shu and Wei continue to slug it out in the West, the kingdom of Wu deals with internal unrest at the highest level.
Sima Zhao takes the emperor on a buddy road trip to put down another insurgence in a particularly troublesome part of the kingdom.
Oh look: Another Northern campaign by the kingdom of Shu. Yawn.
We say so long to the novel’s pivotal player and wonder if he was really the genius the book made him out to be.
A couple generals down South stir up trouble for Sima Shi. Now if only their forces knew the way to his camp ….