Bao Su 鮑素

In Chapter 111 of the Romance, Jiang Wei, who has won west of the Tao and is staying at Zhongti, gathers his generals to discuss attacking Wei again. The Clerk Fan Jian remonstrates, and Xiahou Ba too says that Deng Ai, now General Who Pacifies the West, will surely have made preparations everywhere, but Jiang Wei declares that he will first take Longxi and drives on toward Qishan. At Qishan the Wei army has already set up nine camps in the formation of a long snake, head and tail supporting each other, and Jiang Wei says that, judging from what Deng Ai has done, he is not inferior to his teacher, Chancellor Zhuge. Romance, Ch. 111 §5 · 7–9

Returning to his main camp, Jiang Wei has his generals put up his banners as a deception and set up a camp at the mouth of the valley. Every day they are to send out a hundred or so horsemen to scout, changing their armour and banners each time they go out, alternating among those of the five directions, blue, yellow, red, white and black. Saying that he himself will lead the main army secretly out to Dongting and make straight for Nan'an in a surprise attack, he has Bao Su station troops at the mouth of the Qishan valley and sets off for Nan'an with the whole main army. Romance, Ch. 111 §9–10

Deng Ai, who has set up camp with Chen Tai and is waiting, sees that the Shu army has not offered battle for days and that five times a day scouting horsemen come out, ride ten or fifteen li and go back, and he tells Chen Tai that Jiang Wei is not there but has gone by way of Dongting to make a surprise attack on Nan'an. The scouts are only these few horses coming and going with changes of armour, so the horses are all exhausted, and the commander there must be an incompetent; if Chen Tai attacks with one detachment he can break that camp, and once it is broken he should strike the Dongting road and cut off Jiang Wei's rear. Chen Tai says that he will attack the camp here himself, and Deng Ai leaves for Mount Wucheng. Romance, Ch. 111 §11–13

Checked by Deng Ai at Mount Wucheng and badly defeated at Duangu by the three-way pincer attack of Shi Zuan, Deng Zhong and Deng Ai, Jiang Wei is rescued only when Xiahou Ba drives in. When Jiang Wei wants to go back to Qishan, Xiahou Ba tells him that the Qishan camp has already been broken by Chen Tai, that Bao Su has been killed in battle, and that all the men and horses of the camp have withdrawn to Hanzhong. Unable to take the Dongting route, Jiang Wei returns by hidden mountain paths and is trapped by Chen Tai, and Zhang Ni, General Who Sweeps Away Bandits, charges into the encirclement to get Jiang Wei out and is killed by arrows. While Deng Ai and Chen Tai celebrate their victory, the Wei ruler Cao Mao changes the 3rd year of Zhengyuan into the 1st year of Ganlu. Romance, Ch. 111 §15 · 19–21 · 23