In the first year of Xingping, Yanzhou was in turmoil. Dian Mo, a cook in Cao's camp, possessed strategic genius and came to prominence with a prophetic letter. His elder brother, Dian Wei, was peerlessly valiant and possessed the courage to withstand ten thousand men. The two brothers, one literary and one military, supported each other amidst troubled times. Dian Mo devised strategies while Dian Wei charged into battle. The two assisted Cao Cao in stabilizing the perilous situation, writing a legendary chapter belonging to the two brothers in the Three Kingdoms era of blazing fires.