Catherine's Room

"Well, okay. I'm a bit rusty on the subject, but here we go..." Aiden repeats what he'd said earlier, then starts to get into more detail. He starts with the Han campaign in Kuaiji, and manages to get all the way to the battle of Hefei Castle in 215 before realizing that he's gone on for a while.

"Oh, and Wu's ruling family claimed to be descended from Sun Wu, whom everyone calls Sun Tzu nowadays. That claim's impossible to verify, though, and most people take it with a heap of salt." Aiden shrugs. "Don't use me as a definite source, either. Go read some de Crespigny, he's way more thorough than I was."