Shamoke

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Shamoke (沙摩柯; d. 222) was a barbarian Shu general during the period in China known as the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), originally being the leader of the local tribesmen (the Miao people). He is described in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms (in the battle of Yiling) as below:

His face was spotted with red as if splashed with blood, and his eyes were green and big. He rushed among Gan Ning's troops wielding a spiked iron mace with bone pendants, and he had two bows slung at his belt. He was terrible to look upon.

In the next paragraph he shoots the ill Wu general Gan Ning in the back of the head with an arrow and kills him. Later on in the battle he was attacked by fire and fled, where he was pursued by Zhou Tai who caught up and cut him down.

Gan Ning was not killed by Shamoke historically. This was a fictional event in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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