Gong Jing 龔景

In Chapter 1 of the Romance, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, on the orders of Liu Yan, Grand Administrator of You Province, go out with Zou Jing, defeat the Yellow Turban commander Cheng Yuanzhi at the foot of Mount Daxing and return. The next day a dispatch arrives from Gong Jing, Grand Administrator of Qing Province, saying that the Yellow Turbans have surrounded his city, which is about to fall, and asking for relief. When Liu Bei says he will go to the rescue, Liu Yan gives Zou Jing five thousand troops and sends him to Qing Province with Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Romance, Ch. 1 §13 · 25–26 · 28

Seeing the relief force, the rebels divide their troops to meet it, and Liu Bei, with too few men, cannot win and falls back thirty li to make camp. Liu Bei gives Guan Yu and Zhang Fei a thousand men each and hides them to the left and right of a hill, and the next day advances with Zou Jing, then falls back to draw the rebels over the ridge, and at the sound of the gongs they attack from three directions. When the rebels collapse in rout, they pursue them straight to the walls of the city of Qing Province, and the Grand Administrator Gong Jing too leads out the militia from the city to help in the fighting. The rebels are heavily defeated, countless numbers are killed, and at last the siege of Qing Province is lifted. Romance, Ch. 1 §29–31

After Gong Jing has held a feast to reward the troops, Zou Jing prepares to go back. Liu Bei, hearing that the General of the Household Lu Zhi is fighting the rebel chief Zhang Jue at Guangzong, says that since he once served Lu Zhi as his teacher he will go to help him, and sets out for Guangzong with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the head of five hundred of his own men. In the Romance, Gong Jing's name appears only in these three passages of Chapter 1. Romance, Ch. 1 §28 · 31 · 33