Died
271
Ancestral home
Anfeng, Lujiang (Lujiang County, Anhui)
Book mentions
53
Roles:
general
Factions:
Eastern Wu (primary)
Appears in 15 chapters:
  • Chapter 38 — Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
    Ding Feng; named in passing among Wu officers.
  • Chapter 49 — On Seven-Star Altar, Zhuge Liang Sacrifices To The Winds; At Three Gorges, Zhou Yu Liberates The Fire.
    Rides overland with a hundred archers to behead the wind-caller - finds only fluttering flags and guards: 'he has just gone down.' On the bank he talks his comrade out of the hopeless chase: Zhuge Liang is too clever, and the boatman is the hero of Dangyang.
  • Chapter 51 — Cao Ren Withstands The South Land; Zhuge Liang Angers Zhou Yu.
    Feigns defeat to draw Niu Jin's five hundred into the encirclement, and later drags the bolt-struck Zhou Yu from under Niu Jin's rush at the risk of his own life.
  • Chapter 55 — Liu Bei Rouses The Spirit Of Lady Sun; Zhuge Liang A Second Time Angers Zhou Yu.
    Shares the roadblock camp and the humiliation - 'we are but men of lowly rank; we dare not dispute with Lady Sun' - and stands aside.
  • Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
    Ding Feng; with Zhou Yu.
  • Chapter 75 — Guan Yu Has A Scraped-Bone Surgery; Lu Meng Crosses The River In White Robe.
    Ding Feng; with the Wu army.
  • Chapter 76 — Xu Huang Fights At The River Mian; Guan Yu Retreats To Maicheng.
    Ding Feng; with the Wu pursuit force.
  • Chapter 83 — Fighting At Xiaoting, The First Ruler Captures An Enemy; Defending The Three Gorges, A Student Takes Supreme Command.
    Ding Feng; in Lu Xun's army.
  • Chapter 84 — Lu Xun Burns All Consecutive Camps; Zhuge Liang Plans The Eight-Array Maze.
    Ding Feng; with Lu Xun's army.
  • Chapter 86 — Using Words, Qin Mi Overcomes Zhang Wen; Setting Fire, Xu Sheng Defeats Cao Pi.
    Ding Feng; with Xu Sheng's defence at the Yangtze; one of Cao Pi's pursuit officers Sun Shao spears off his horse.
  • Chapter 108 — In The Snow, Ding Feng Wins A Victory; At A Banquet, Sun Jun Executes A Secret Plan.
    Ding Feng; the chapter's hero. At Dongxing Pass, ordered by Zhuge Ke to lead the assault, has his men strip to undershirts in the dead of winter and charge bare-armed across the snow into the Wei camps. The Wei pickets, drunk and underdressed, are run over. The novel's iconic 'cold-steel-in-the-snow' charge.
  • Chapter 113 — Ding Feng Makes A Plan To Slay Sun Chen; Jiang Wei Arrays A Battle To Defeat Deng Ai.
    Ding Feng; in the Wu court; will be Sun Xiu's instrument against Sun Chen.
  • Chapter 117 — Deng Ai Gets Through The Yinping Mountains; Zhuge Zhan Falls In The Battlefield Of Mianzhu.
    Ding Feng; commands the Wu relief column; reaches the frontier but Shu has already collapsed.
  • Chapter 119 — The False Surrender: A Wit Scheme Becomes A Vain Plan; The Abdication: Later Seeds Learn From The Ancient.
    Ding Feng; in Wu.
  • Chapter 120 — Recommending Du Yu, An Old General Offers New Plans; Capturing Of Sun Hao, Three Kingdoms Becomes One.
    Ding Feng dies. The last great Wu officer; dies in this chapter of old age. The Sun-clan's last institutional bulwark gone.