Dong Jue

Army Inspector of the southern expedition, with Fan Jian.

The River Lu sacrifice is his: Zhuge Liang bids him read the prayer aloud at midnight over the forty-nine mantou and the forty-nine lamps. Appointed Secretary to the expedition alongside Fan Jian.

With the army at Qishan. He and Fan Jian are the two Zhuge Liang summons to his tent when the illness will not lift, to be told the retreat into Hanzhong is happening and 'You are to keep my absence perfectly secret, for Sima Yi will certainly attack if he hears.' Sima Yi does not find out for five days.

One of the three generals Jiang Wei writes to from Tazhong when the invasion begins, ordered to march against the enemy while Jiang Wei holds his own station.

At the front, and the first to say what is about to happen. General Who Upholds the State, he brings twenty thousand men to Saber Pass, lets Jiang Wei's column through, and weeps as he reports what the Latter Ruler and Huang Hao have been doing at the capital. Then he names the danger exactly: 'Though we are holding this pass, yet Chengdu is well-nigh empty of soldiers. If it was attacked, it would go crack!' — and is reassured by Jiang Wei that the mountains make it impossible.

With Liao Hua he refuses to join the procession taking the deposed emperor to Luoyang, pleading illness. 'They died of grief soon after.'