Chang (鋹) | 24 Histories

Overview

Chang was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 970 開寶三年
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 481, passages 139-141
AD 969 to AD 970 開寶三年前書問往還
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passages 116, 133, 136, 138

Family

Kinship Role imperial-clan-members · Quantity nearly wiped out
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 142

Career and standing

Imposed
Imprisonment · With Shen Yi (慎儀)
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 138

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Han 南漢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passages 138, 142
At Guangzhou 廣州 · Relation Defended
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 159

Works and attributed material

Letter · Addressee · With Yu (煜)
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passages 116, 133, 136, 138
Letter · Author · With Yu (煜)
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 138

Events and relationships

Dispatched defenders
Military · Issuer of orders
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 144
Ordered eastern moat trenches
Military · Defender
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 159
Ordered Pan Chongche to He River
Military · Issuer of orders
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 151
Sent Wu Yanrou to relieve He
Military · Issuer of orders
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 146
Subject of campaign
AD 970 開寶三年 · Military · Target
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 139
Trained war elephants
Military · Organizer
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 156

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Veteran generals killed on slander; clan nearly wiped out; eunuchs held arms
Political · Ruler
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 142
Relation Successor of · Person Shen (晟)
Strongly inferred · History of Song 481, passage 143

Assessments and attributes

Assessment answered in most insolent terms · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 138
Assessment indulged in feasts and revelry; walls and weapons neglected · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 143

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Song 481, passage 138

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 481Volume 481 Biographies 240: Hereditary Houses 4: Southern Han and Liu Clans Liu Chang (Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu, Pan Chongche) · 6 passages

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鋹得書，遂囚慎儀，驛書答煜，言甚不遜，煜上其書。 Chang received the letter, imprisoned Shen Yi, and answered Yu by courier in terms most insolent; Yu forwarded the letter to the throne.

鋹賀州刺史陳守忠告急於鋹。 and Chen Shouzhong, Chang's prefect of He, reported the emergency to him.

鋹遣大將伍彥柔領兵赴賀，美等以奇兵伏南鄉岸。 Chang sent the great general Wu Yanrou with troops to relieve He; Mei and the others laid ambush troops on the southern bank.

美等督戰艦，聲言順流趨廣州，鋹令都統潘崇徹將兵五萬屯賀江。 Mei and the others led the war fleet, proclaiming they would sail downstream toward Guangzhou; Chang ordered Commander-in-Chief Pan Chongche to lead fifty thousand troops to encamp on the He River.

初，鋹教象為陣，每象載十數人，皆執兵仗，凡戰必置陣前，以壯軍威。 Earlier Chang had trained elephants for battle; each elephant carried a dozen armed men and was placed at the front of every formation to bolster the army's prestige.

鋹始令塹廣州東壕，遣郭崇嶽統兵六萬屯馬逕，列柵以拒之。 Chang at last ordered trenches dug along Guangzhou's eastern moat and sent Guo Chongyue to command sixty thousand troops at Majing, setting palisades to resist.