Cui Yong 崔勇

In Chapter 13 of the Romance, when Zhang Ji arrives with a large army, reconciles Li Jue and Guo Si and asks the Emperor to journey to Hongnong, Li Jue has the imperial carriage made ready and sends it off eastward. When the carriage reaches Baling, two generals guarding the bridge on Guo Si's orders block its way, but once the curtain is raised and the Emperor admonishes them, they make way. Declaring that he had meant to fool Zhang Ji, seize the carriage and bring it back into Mei Fortress, Guo Si beheads the two generals and raises troops to pursue it, and just as the carriage reaches Huayin County, battle cries shake the heavens behind it. Romance, Ch. 13 §35–38

As the Emperor weeps that he has only just escaped the wolf's den and now meets the tiger's jaws, Yang Feng comes out from behind a hill leading more than a thousand troops, preceded by a great banner bearing the four characters 'Yang Feng of the Great Han'. Stationed at the foot of Mount Zhongnan since his defeat by Li Jue, Yang Feng has come to escort the carriage on hearing that it was approaching. When he draws up his battle line, Guo Si's general Cui Yong rides out and loudly reviles Yang Feng as a 'rebel'. Romance, Ch. 13 §39–40

Enraged, Yang Feng looks around his ranks and asks, 'Where is Gongming?' A general with a great axe in hand gallops a swift Hualiu steed straight at Cui Yong. The two horses meet, and in a single bout that general cuts Cui Yong down from his horse. Yang Feng presses the advantage and attacks, and Guo Si's troops are heavily defeated and fall back more than 20 li. Romance, Ch. 13 §40–41

When the Emperor asks who it was that just slew the rebel general, Yang Feng has that general bow below the carriage and reports that he is a man of Yang Commandery in Hedong, surnamed Xu, named Huang, styled Gongming. Yang Feng escorts the carriage to Huayin and halts there. This one passage is the only place in the Romance where Cui Yong's name appears. Romance, Ch. 13 §40–41