This episode recounts Zhuge Liang's northern campaign, where vanguard Zhao Yun valiantly slays five Wei generals and advances to besiege Nan‘an Commandery. Wei's Commander-in-Chief Xiahou Mao defends the city with fortified defenses, and the Shu forces are unable to breach its walls. Zhuge Liang devised a strategy to first capture Anding Commandery, then breach Nan‘an Commandery, capturing Xiahou Mao alive, and simultaneously press the attack on Tianshui Commandery. Employing a counter-espionage plot, he secured the defection of the intelligent and courageous Jiang Wei, conquered Tianshui, advanced his main forces toward Qishan Mountain, and pressed on toward the Central Plains.
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