Gangbian 鐵鞭·鋼鞭

In Chapter 5 of the Romance, Sun Jian leads four generals to the front of the pass, and the Romance names as the second of them Huang Gai of Lingling, courtesy name Gongfu, saying that he used an iron whip. In Chapter 6, when Kuai Yue and Cai Mao block Sun Jian's way, accusing him of hiding the Heirloom Seal of the Realm, Sun Jian in great anger sends Huang Gai out to fight. After a few bouts Huang Gai swings his whip and strikes Cai Mao squarely on his breastplate mirror, and when Cai Mao turns his horse and flees, Sun Jian presses his advantage and fights his way past the border crossing. Romance, Ch. 5 §22Romance, Ch. 6 §36–37

Chapter 110 concerns events after Guanqiu Jian raises troops in the 1st month of the 2nd year of Zhengyuan (255). Wen Qin offers to hold the city of Lejia with his son Wen Yang and 5,000 troops, and Wen Yang, standing beside his father with his whip hanging at his side, proposes attacking along two routes before Sima Shi's camp is complete. That night Wen Yang, in full armor with a steel whip at his waist and his spear leveled, charges into the camp from the north, and everyone who resists him is speared or struck with the whip and killed. Romance, Ch. 110 §1 · 13–15 · 17

His father has not come by daybreak, and when Deng Ai's troops bear down, Wen Yang flees south alone. When several hundred Wei generals are about to catch him near Lejia Bridge, he wheels his horse and plunges into the midst of their ranks, and wherever his steel whip rises, generals fall from their horses. When a hundred more pursue him, he rides in whip in hand and beats several of them to death, and single-handedly drives back four or five pursuits. Romance, Ch. 110 §18–20