Ji Ling

Yuan Shu's champion with the heavy three-edged sword, sent with one hundred thousand troops against Liu Bei at Xuyi. He trades thirty even bouts with Guan Yu, calls a rest and never returns to the duel - sending the doomed Xun Zheng instead - then falls back to the mouth of River Huaiyin.

Fobs off Gao Shun's demand for the reward Yuan Shu promised Lü Bu - 'my lord has gone away; I will settle this when I see him' - the stall that nearly turns Lü Bu against Shouchun.

Marches a hundred thousand on Xiaopei only to be hauled into Lü Bu's tent 'as if he had been a child' and bound by the halberd-shot wager. Back at Shouchun he invents the next snare himself: the 'Relative-above-Stranger' marriage alliance between Yuan Shu's son and Lü Bu's daughter.

Commands Yuan Shu's reserves; caught at daylight between Lü Bu's pursuit and the turncoats Yang Feng and Han Xian, he is forced to flight.

Sent to force a way through Liu Bei's blocking army; Zhang Fei attacks without a parley and cuts him down in the tenth bout.