Is “Wang Bi was shot by Geng Ji and died from the arrow wound” true?
In Chapter 69 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is described that after suppressing the rebellion, "Wang Bi had already died from the arrow wound, and Cao Cao ordered a lavish burial." However, according to the main text of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biography of Emperor Wu, Wang Bi, together with Yan Kuang, "suppressed and executed" the rebels after Geng Ji and others set fire to his camp. There is no record of him being shot by Geng Ji or dying from an arrow wound. The novel fictionalizes his ending.
The novel fictionalizes the plot that Wang Bi was shot in the shoulder during the Geng Ji rebellion and later died from the arrow wound.
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