Dong Xi

The eight-span Kuaiji native who walks into camp carrying Yan Baihu's head as his introduction - and, remembering his own healed spear wounds, points Sun Ce to Yu Fan and thence to the surgeon Hua Tuo.

General in the Xiakou expedition: with Gan Ning he mans the hundred light craft - fifty picked men to a boat - that row through the arrow storm and cut the hawsers of Huang Zu's chained fleet.

Given the fourth army with Lu Xun in Zhou Yu's muster.

Marches on Hanyang to fall on the enemy along the River Han under the white-flag signal, with Pan Zhang's three thousand behind him.

Dong Xi; with Sun Quan.

Proposes the earth-hill assault at Huancheng, and his boat carries the rescued Sun Quan — and then the wounded Ling Tong — to safety after the ford.

Holds his ships in the storm, cutting down a half-score of deserters — 'my orders are to hold this point; we dare not abandon the ships!' — until the rolling deck throws him into the river and he drowns with his men. Sought, found, and buried with honors.