Gao Qiu
Cao Zheng recommends Yang Zhi join the outlaw band led by DengLong at Mount Twin Dragons () in Qingzhou. When Yang is approaching the hill, he runs into Lu Zhishen, and the two, assuming the other is hostile, fight each other to a standstill. They finally think it is wiser to know the other's identity. Lu, who is running away from arrest by Grand Marshal Gao Qiu for having thwarted his plot to murder Lin Chong, tells Yang that Deng Long would not accept him and has barricaded the only way up the hill. The two head to the inn of Cao Zheng, who proposes a plan to get into the stronghold.