Song, Liao, and Jin · General

Aju 阿朮

Attested AD 1270

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Aju was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1270 1270
Directly stated · History of Yuan 161, passage 157

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 161, passage 157

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 48: Yang Dayuan, Liu Zheng · 3 passages

九月，偕都元帥阿朮督諸軍，圍襄陽，城鹿門堡及白河口，為攻取計，率兵五萬，鈔略沿江諸郡，皆嬰城避其銳，俘人民八萬。 In the ninth month he joined Supreme Commander Azhu in besieging Xiangyang, built Lumen Fort and Baikou Ford, led fifty thousand men to raid river districts—all walled up before his spear—and took eighty thousand captives.

且與阿朮計曰：「我精兵突騎，所當者破，惟水戰不如宋耳。 He told Azhu: 'Our elite horse and shock cavalry shatter all before them—only on water we are not Song's match.

諜知文煥將遣張貴出城求援，乃分部戰艦，縛草如牛狀，傍漢水，綿亙參錯，衆莫測所用，九月，貴果夜出，乘輪船，順流下走，軍士覘知之，傍岸爇草牛如晝，整與阿朮麾戰艦，轉戰五十里，擒貴于櫃門關，餘衆盡殺之。 Spies reported Wenhuan would send Zhang Gui for relief. They divided the fleet and lined the Han with straw oxen in tangled array so none could guess their purpose. In the ninth month Gui slipped out by night in paddle-wheel ships downstream. Scouts lit the straw oxen along the bank till daybreak. Zheng and Azhu led the fleet fifty li, captured Gui at Guimen Pass, and killed the rest.