Talk:Jiang Gan

Historical Info and Battle
Before we start undoing our edits all the time and stuff, me might just as well discuss the matter here.

As far as the "old friend" thing is concerned, the bit comes from Yu Bu's Jiang Biao Zhuan. While the Sanguozhi may state that they were barely acquianted, Pei Songzhi did include that bid from JBZ as an annotation. I think that Pei Songzhi is more reliable than Chen Shou, additionally the JBZ deals specifically with people from Jiangnan. Both Chen Shou and Yu Bu are roughly in the same time frame (Western Jin), that seems to make it a bit difficult to determine what's rather correct. Feel free to say how you feel about it exactly.

As for the Chibi bit, if we're going by that argumentation, then we'd have to delete numerous battles from other NPCs lists as well. You can argue that Jiang Gan wasn't specifically stated to have fought at Chibi in neither history nor novel, but this does also apply to Cai Mao and Zhang Yun since they were killed before the battle. Still, they have Chibi listed in their battles. And if we're going by the role of warrior or commander in a battle, then most strategists shouldn't have any battles listed as well since they didn't actually fight there. I would say, if a character was somehow involved in the overall campaign, why not list that battle for him. Jiang Gan followed Cao Cao to Chibi in the novel, even if his appearances themselves are limited to the prelude of the battle.