Lady Zhurong

Laughs from behind the screen at her despairing husband — 'though I am a woman, I want to go out and fight' — and rides out with five flying swords and an eighteen-foot signal staff on a curly reddish horse: wounds Zhang Ni out of the saddle with a thrown blade, hooks down Ma Zheng, and orders both executed before Meng Huo stays her hand. Too prudent for the first feigned flights, she is finally stung into pursuit by Wei Yan's insults, tripped by Ma Dai's ropes, and traded back for the two generals — to be taken again with the whole clan at the end.