1. Yue Jin, courtesy name Wenqian, was a military general serving under the warlord Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.
38 Facts About Yue Jin
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Yue Jin was noted as much for his short stature as for his valour and ferocity on the battlefield.
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Yue Jin participated in most of Cao Cao's early military exploits, and gained multiple successes in the campaigns against Lu Bu, Liu Bei, remnants of the Yellow Turban rebels, and Yuan Shao and his associates.
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Yue Jin was born in Yangping Commandery, which is present-day Qingfeng County, Henan, in the late Eastern Han dynasty.
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Yue Jin was small-sized and short but was known for his courage.
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Around early 190, when Cao Cao was raising troops to join the campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo who controlled the Han central government, Yue Jin was tasked to recruit soldiers for Cao Cao's camp, in which he brought back 1,000 men from his hometown.
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Yue Jin participated in Cao Cao's battles against Zhang Chao at Yongqiu and Qiao Rui at Ku County, in which he served as the vanguard and was the first to break the enemy's defences in both battles.
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Yue Jin was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Guangchang Village, and became highly valued in Cao Cao's camp.
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Between 197 and 198, Yue Jin followed Cao Cao to subdue Zhang Xiu, who feigned surrender and defeated Cao Cao at the Battle of Wancheng.
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Yue Jin then brought his troops to join Cao Cao's eastern campaign against Liu Bei, who had just killed Che Zhou, the Governor of Xu Province, and taken control of the province.
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Yue Jin was promoted to Colonel Who Attacks Bandits for his achievements.
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Yue Jin participated in the pivotal Battle of Guandu in 200, in which Cao Cao pitted his forces against those of his rival, Yuan Shao.
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Yue Jin then targeted the unit of Yan Jing, an officer under Yuan Shang, routed it.
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Yue Jin then followed Cao Cao to besiege Ye and breached the city's walls.
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Nevertheless, Yue Jin climbed the city wall and opened the east gate, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry took its revenge by taking Yuan Tan's head.
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Yue Jin was promoted to General Who Breaks and Charges by the Han imperial court in recognition of his contributions.
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Yue Jin outflanked Gao Gan by adopting a circuitous route to the north of Gao's position.
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Several battles were fought on the field, resulting in defeats on Gao Gan's side, but Gao Gan remained defiant, and Yue Jin was unable to take the pass alone.
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Yue Jin was ordered to station inside the city of Xiangyang, in anticipation of counterstrikes by Sun Quan's general Zhou Yu.
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When Liu Bei's general Guan Yu was attempting to cut the connection between Jiangling County and Xiangyang, he was stymied by Yue Jin, who led his army out and defeated him.
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Yue Jin forced the barbarians of southern Jing Province to surrender, and mimicked Guan Yu's infiltration strategy to attack Du Pu and Liang Da, the respective chiefs of Linju and Jingyang counties, which were Liu Bei's territories.
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Yue Jin defeated and totally routed the forces of Du Pu and Liang Da.
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Yue Jin was specifically granted imperial authority on the way to Hefei.
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Yue Jin was promoted to General of the Right for his contributions in the defence of Hefei.
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Yue Jin died in 218, but his cause of death was not documented in historical records.
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Yue Jin was given the posthumous title "Marquis Wei", which literally means the "awe-inspiring marquis".
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Yue Jin served as a military officer in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period.
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In 255, when the Wei generals Guanqiu Jian and Wen Qin started a rebellion in Shouchun, Yue Jin Chen served as a subordinate of the Wei regent Sima Shi, who led troops to Shouchun to suppress the revolt.
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Yue Jin is featured as a character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which dramatises the events leading to, and during the Three Kingdoms period.
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Yue Jin first appeared in Chapter 5, in which he joined Cao Cao's forces when the latter was rallying an army to participate in the campaign against Dong Zhuo.
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In Chapter 11, when Cao Cao was at war with Lu Bu, Yue Jin engaged Lu Bu's general Zang Ba in a duel but neither of them could defeat his opponent after fighting for more than 30 rounds.
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Yue Jin was described to be a skilful archer in the novel.
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In Chapter 68, in an engagement after the Battle of Xiaoyao Ford, Yue Jin duelled with Sun Quan's general Ling Tong for more than 50 rounds but neither of them won.
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Cao Cao later ordered Yue Jin to be carried into his tent for medical treatment.
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Yue Jin did not appear again in the novel after Chapter 68.
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Yue Jin is first introduced as a playable character in the eighth instalment of Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series.
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Yue Jin appears in Total War: Three Kingdoms, joining Cao Cao in 194.