Gu Li 谷利

In Chapter 67 of the Romance, when Sun Quan comes in person with an army of 100,000 to attack Hefei, Zhang Liao, following the instructions in the box sent by Cao Cao, decides to go out and fight together with Li Dian, and has Li Dian lie in ambush north of Xiaoyao Ford to cut the Xiaoshi Bridge. Sun Quan puts Lü Meng and Gan Ning in the vanguard and himself stays with the central army together with Ling Tong, and on hearing that the front army has won, he reaches the north of Xiaoyao Ford. At that moment Zhang Liao's troops charge in from the left and Li Dian's from the right, while Ling Tong has only some three hundred horsemen under him. Romance, Ch. 67 §44 · 46–48

Ling Tong shouts to him to cross the Xiaoshi Bridge at once and turns to fight to the death. Sun Quan spurs his horse onto the bridge and sees that its southern end has already been cut away for more than a zhang, with not a single plank left. To Sun Quan, frozen in alarm and at a loss, his officer Gu Li shouts, 'My lord, rein your horse back, then give it its head and charge forward to leap across the bridge!' Sun Quan backs his horse up more than three zhang, then slackens the reins and lays on the whip, and flies across to the south side of the bridge in a single bound; the Romance compares this, in a poem by a later writer, to the Dilu leaping the Tan Stream. Romance, Ch. 67 §49–51

Once Sun Quan has crossed the bridge, Xu Sheng and Dong Xi come with boats to meet him, and Ling Tong and Gu Li hold off Zhang Liao. The Wu army loses more than half its men and all of the three hundred or so under Ling Tong are killed, and Ling Tong, wounded by spears in several places, barely gets back across the river in the boat Dong Xi rows over. When the commanders escort Sun Quan back to camp, Sun Quan gives generous rewards to Ling Tong and Gu Li, and withdraws his army to Ruxu. Romance, Ch. 67 §52–53