Is “Did Le Jin shoot and kill Guo Tu and fight with Ling Tong?” true?
The novel adds many specific achievements for Le Jin. For example, in Chapter 33 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it writes that he shot and killed Guo Tu: "Guo Tu saw the formation in chaos and urgently rode into the city. Le Jin saw him, drew his bow and fitted an arrow, shot him down into the moat, and both man and horse fell in." Chapter 68 writes about his fight with Ling Tong and being wounded by Gan Ning's arrow: "The two fought for fifty bouts, neither winning nor losing... An arrow hit Le Jin in the face, and he turned over and fell from his horse... Sun Quan said: 'The one who shot the arrow to save you was Gan Ning.'" However, the official history Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Wei, Biographies of Zhang, Yue, Yu, and Zhang Xu only records that he "was famous for his bravery and decisiveness," followed Cao Cao in campaigns everywhere and "was the first to ascend," without mentioning the details of killing Cheng Lian, Guo Tu, or being hit by an arrow in a duel with Ling Tong.
Le Jin's military achievements and injury experience
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