牛金 / Niu Jin (late Han)

Overview

牛金 / Niu Jin is a Cao-side officer whose current wiki role is the leader of a small force surrounded outside Jiangling and extracted by Cao Ren.

Current Profile

Hanji 1112 says 曹仁 sends Niu Jin with three hundred soldiers against a much larger Wu vanguard below 江陵. Niu Jin’s group is surrounded, creating the crisis in which Cao Ren rides out with a small mounted party, reaches him, and returns for other trapped soldiers.

Niu Jin is therefore currently a narrow campaign actor rather than a fully developed commander profile. His importance in this evidence set lies in making the battlefield rescue observable as both personnel recovery and a signal to the watching garrison.

Key Characteristics

• Leads a small forward detachment in the Jiangling defense.
• Becomes surrounded under severe numerical disadvantage.
• Survives through Cao Ren’s mounted extraction.

Evidence

• Encirclement and rescue: Hanji 1112 identifies Niu Jin as the leader of the reported three hundred soldiers and the first target of Cao Ren’s rescue.

Qualifications

The current evidence does not provide Niu Jin’s broader biography, exact command status, tactical intent, casualty count, or independent account of his conduct inside the encirclement. Force totals remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Established Niu Jin’s narrow Jiangling campaign role.

Relationships

• 曹仁 - commander who sends and then extracts him.
• 江陵 - battlefield setting of the encirclement.
• 主将冒险式士气信号 - command effect created by the rescue.