Is “The specific process of Zhuge Dan killing Yue Lin is a fictionalized account in the novel” true?
When Zhuge Dan rebelled and killed Yangzhou Inspector Yue Lin, the official history Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biographies of Zhang, Yue, Yu, and Zhang Xu only records: 'Zhuge Dan rebelled and launched a surprise attack, killing Lin.' The novel enriches the details of the siege and the killing: it describes his subordinates 'flying up to the city wall, scattering the soldiers, and throwing open the city gates,' and Zhuge Dan, chasing to the tower, angrily rebukes Yue Lin: 'Not thinking of repaying your country, but instead wanting to follow Sima Zhao?' Finally, 'Before Lin could reply, he was killed by Dan.'
The specific process of Zhuge Dan killing Yue Lin was dramatized in the novel
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