Dai Ling

Zhang He's Assistant General, and mostly the man Zhang He has to rescue. Marches on the left of the night approach to the Shu rear, is named alongside his chief in Zhuge Liang's offer of terms ('As you are leaders of no great importance, I shall not harm you'), is separated in the break-out and brought clear only because Zhang He turns back for him. Second-in-command again in the thirty-thousand pursuit, and ends the chapter taking refuge among the hills with what is left.

Second of the three sent into the Eight Arrays behind Zhang Hu, captured with the rest of the ninety, and returned to Sima Yi on foot with his face inked and his weapons and horse kept - the humiliation that goads Sima Yi into the general attack that costs him most of his army.