Five Dynasties · Warlord and Rebel

Dong Zhang 董璋

First attested AD 930; died AD 932

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Dong Zhang was a warlord and Rebel.

Life and dates

Death

AD 932 長興三年前後
killed 見殺
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 91

Attested activity

AD 930 to AD 932 長興
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 67

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Dong Guangsi (董光嗣)
son 子
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 89

Kinship Role sons and grandsons · Quantity unspecified · Negated false
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 64, passage 81

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 64, passages 81, 85

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History

13 passages

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 64Volume 64: Hereditary House of Later Shu · 13 passages

知祥遣李仁罕、張業、趙廷隱將兵三萬人會璋攻遂州，別遣侯弘實將四千人助璋守東川，又遣張武下峽取渝州。 Zhixiang sent Li Renhan, Zhang Ye, and Zhao Tingyin with thirty thousand men to join Zhang in attacking Suizhou, dispatched Hou Hongshi with four thousand to help hold Eastern River, and sent Zhang Wu through the gorges to seize Yu Prefecture.

唐師攻劍門，殺璋守兵三千人，遂入劍門。 Tang forces attacked Sword Gate, killed three thousand of Zhang's garrison troops, and broke through.

璋來告急，知祥大駭，遣廷隱分兵萬人以東，已而聞唐軍止劍州不進，喜曰：「使唐軍急趨東川，則遂州解圍，吾勢沮而兩川搖矣。 Zhang sent urgent word for help. Zhixiang was alarmed and sent Tingyin east with ten thousand men. Soon he learned the Tang army had halted at Sword Prefecture. He rejoiced and said: "Had Tang forces rushed on Eastern River, Suizhou would have been relieved, my momentum broken, and both circuits thrown into turmoil.

知祥聞重誨誅死，而唐厚待其家屬，乃邀璋欲同謝罪，璋曰：「孟公家屬皆存，而我子孫獨見殺，我何謝為！」 Hearing of Chonghui's execution and the Tang court's generous treatment of his family, Zhixiang invited Zhang to submit a joint plea for pardon. Zhang said: "Your household is intact, Lord Meng, while my sons and grandsons were slaughtered—what have I to apologize for!"

知祥三遣使往見璋，璋不聽，乃遣觀察判官李昊說璋，璋益疑知祥賣己，因發怒，以語侵昊。 Zhixiang sent envoys three times; Zhang refused to see them. Zhixiang then sent administrative aide Li Hao to reason with him. Zhang grew more convinced Zhixiang meant to betray him, flew into a rage, and insulted Hao to his face.

而璋先襲破知祥漢州，知祥遣趙廷隱率兵三萬，自將擊之，陣雞距橋。 Zhang struck first, overrunning Zhixiang's Han Prefecture. Zhixiang sent Zhao Tingyin with thirty thousand men and took the field himself, drawing up battle lines at Cock's Spur Bridge.

知祥得璋降卒，衣以錦袍，使持書招降璋，璋曰：「事已及此，不可悔也！」 Zhixiang took Zhang's surrendered troops, dressed them in brocade robes, and sent them with letters urging Zhang to yield. Zhang said: "Matters have gone too far for regret now!"

璋軍士皆噪曰：「徒曝我於日中，何不速戰？」 Zhang's soldiers clamored: "You leave us baking in the midday sun—why not fight at once?"

璋即麾軍以戰。 Zhang immediately ordered his army into battle.

兵始交，璋偏將張守進來降，知祥乘之，璋遂大敗，走。 As battle was joined, Zhang's flank general Zhang Shoujin defected. Zhixiang pressed the advantage, and Zhang was routed and fled.

因與璋俱走。 He therefore fled together with his father.

知祥遣趙廷隱追之，不及，璋走至梓州見殺，光嗣自縊死，知祥遂並有東川。 Zhixiang sent Zhao Tingyin in pursuit but could not catch them. Zhang reached Zizhou and was killed; Guangsi hanged himself. Zhixiang thereby gained control of Eastern River as well.

然自璋死，知祥卒不遣使謝唐。 Yet after Zhang's death Zhixiang never sent envoys to thank the Tang court.