Fan Jiang 范疆

In Chapter 81 of the Romance, Zhang Fei, having returned to Langzhong, orders the army to prepare white flags and white armor within three days so that the three armies can attack Wu in mourning dress. The next day the junior officers of his headquarters Fan Jiang and Zhang Da come into his tent and ask for the deadline to be extended, since there is no way to prepare white flags and white armor at present; Zhang Fei, in a great rage, has his guards tie the two to a tree and give each of them fifty lashes on the back. Zhang Fei says that if everything is not ready by tomorrow he will kill the two as an example, and blood pours from both men's mouths. Romance, Ch. 81 §13–14

Back at their camp, as they talk it over, Fan Jiang says that the man's temper is as fierce as fire, and that if they cannot finish everything by tomorrow, the two of them will both be killed. When Zhang Da says, 'Rather than have him kill us, better that we kill him,' Fan Jiang replies that they cannot get near him, and Zhang Da says that if the two of them are not fated to die, Zhang Fei will be lying drunk on his bed. Romance, Ch. 81 §14–15

That night, when Zhang Fei has drunk with his subordinate officers and lies down in his tent very drunk, the two traitors Fan and Zhang, around the first watch, each with a dagger hidden on him, enter the tent, pretend that they have an important secret matter to report, and get right up to his bed. Zhang Fei never closed his eyes when he slept, and because his whiskers are bristling and his eyes wide open they at first dare not act; only when they hear his snoring like thunder do they stab Zhang Fei in the belly with a dagger. That same night the two cut off Zhang Fei's head and, leading several dozen men, flee through the night to Eastern Wu. Romance, Ch. 81 §16–17 · 19

Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao comes to the First Sovereign's camp, throws himself on the ground in tears and reports: 'Fan Jiang and Zhang Da have killed my father and fled to Wu with his head!' At the end of the same chapter, Fan Jiang and Zhang Da present Zhang Fei's head to the Marquis of Wu and give a detailed account of what happened, and Sun Quan takes the two in. Romance, Ch. 81 §23 · 38

In Chapter 83, the First Sovereign, who in the middle of the 2nd month of the 2nd year of Zhangwu (222) faces the Wu army at Xiaoting, later sets up a spirit tablet for Lord Guan in the imperial camp and offers sacrifice. When Zhang Bao weeps and asks on what day his father's grievous wrong can be avenged, the First Sovereign says that he will surely capture the two traitors and let Zhang Bao mince them himself into pickled meat to offer in sacrifice to his father. To Sun Quan, who has grown fearful, Bu Zhi says that of those the ruler of Shu hates, only the two men Fan Jiang and Zhang Da are in Eastern Wu, and proposes capturing them and sending them back together with Zhang Fei's head to seek peace. Sun Quan puts Zhang Fei's head in a box of aloeswood, has Fan Jiang and Zhang Da bound and locked in a cage cart, and sends Cheng Bing as envoy with a letter of state to Xiaoting. Romance, Ch. 83 §9–10 · 27–30

When a close attendant reports that an envoy from Eastern Wu has returned the head of General of Chariots and Cavalry Zhang and brought the two traitors Fan Jiang and Zhang Da as prisoners, the First Sovereign raises both hands to his forehead and says, 'This is a gift from Heaven, and also the work of my third brother's spirit!', and has Zhang Bao set up a spirit tablet for Zhang Fei. Zhang Bao himself takes a sharp blade and puts Fan Jiang and Zhang Da to death by slow slicing, ten thousand cuts, as a sacrifice to his father's spirit. Even when the sacrifice is over, the First Sovereign's anger does not subside, and he does not accept peace. Romance, Ch. 83 §31–33