Hu Ban

Wang Zhi's general, ordered to burn the rest house with the travelers inside. Creeping in to see what the famous warrior looks like, he finds Guan Yu reading by lamplight - 'really a god!' - receives his own father's letter, and opens the city gates instead of lighting the fire.

Hu Hua's son, come to Jingzhou to join Guan Yu — loved for his father's sake and for the old rescue at Xingyang — and sent on to the Prince of Hanzhong in Fei Shi's train.

Zhang Fei's commander who memorializes the assassination to the throne — and, when the escort is settled, receives the Van Leader's mandate himself.

The Van Leader's advance with unstained swords — everything submits to the rumor of his coming until Yidu. There he authors the counter-ruse: fake deserters feed Zhu Ran the raid plan, the relief column walks into the valley ambush, and the three-sided night attack burns Sun Huan's camp.

Holds the Yiling siege lines and welcomes the runaway veteran — and in the Emperor's ambush scheme draws the bait role: ten thousand inferior troops camped close to the enemy, under orders to flee.

Plays the bait to perfection — invalids, insults, bare bodies — though Lu Xun refuses to bite; then lifts the Yiling siege to rescue the Emperor, breaks through where Zhang Nan and Feng Xi die, and is picked up by Zhao Yun on the road to Baidicheng.

Appointed Center Army Rear General for the Northern Expedition.

Set with Wu Yi to lie outside the Wei camp and cut the retreat. Catches Zhang Hu and Yue Chen on their way back from the empty Shu camp; they fight through bravely, but only into Guan Xing and Zhang Bao's arrows.

One of the four feigned-retreat generals, under Zhuge Liang's instruction 'to observe the enemy and, if the enemy seemed confident of victory, to retire, fighting at intervals, till they saw Guan Xing come up.'

Detached with secret orders early and sprung on Qin Liang's five thousand at the valley mouth with Wu Yi, front and rear, while Guan Xing and Liao Hua close the road behind. Then one of the four who lead the disguised Wei-uniformed party into Cao Zhen's camp.

One of the four left to guard the Qishan camps while the main body goes to Lucheng and Longshang, and one of the commanders of the two-division withdrawal at the end.

Given the job of burning Sima Yi's nine floating bridges with Wu Yi — a hundred rafts piled with straw and five thousand marines — and sends half his force down the current into Zhang Hu and Yue Chen's archers waiting on the north bank. 'Zhang Hu and Yue Chen stationed near the bridges shot clouds of arrows at them, and the Shu leader, Hu Ban, was wounded. He fell into the river and was drowned.' The crews swam for it and the rafts were taken by Wei; the failure of his attack is what forces the whole Beiyuan operation to be called off.