Chapter 120
— Recommending Du Yu, An Old General Offers New Plans; Capturing Of Sun Hao, Three Kingdoms Becomes One.
Named as the author of the book Du Yu could not put down: the Zuo Volume, 'the book of commentaries composed by Zuo Qiuming upon the Spring and Autumn Annals'. Du Yu's nickname, 'Zuo mad', is the last piece of characterisation the novel gives anyone.