Sui and Tang · Warlord and General

Du Fuwei 杜伏威

Attested AD 618 - AD 622

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Du Fuwei was a warlord and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 618 to AD 622 杜伏威…武德四年…來朝
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 87, passages 128, 139, 144

Events and relationships

Accepted surrender
Political · Receiver · With Li Zitong (李子通)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 142
Came to court
Political · Subject
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 144
Encamped
Military · Commander · At Qingliu 清流
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 129
Took territory from
Military · Victor · With Li Zitong (李子通)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 135
Relation Commander of · Person Wang Xiongqian (王雄誕)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 139
Relation Commander of · Person Fu Gongshi (輔公祏)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 135

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 87Volume 87 Biographies 12: Xiao, Fu, Shen, Li, Liang · 7 passages

子通攻棱，棱窮，乞師於沈法興、杜伏威。 Zitong besieged Chen Leng, who, hard pressed, appealed to Shen Faxing and Du Fuwei for relief.

伏威自將屯清流，法興遣子綸屯揚子，間數十里。 Fuwei marched in person and encamped at Qingliu, while Faxing posted his son Lun at Yangzi, their camps scarcely thirty li apart.

子通納言毛文深請募吳人詐為法興兵夜襲伏威，二人遂交惡，無敢先戰者。 Zitong's counselor Mao Wenshen urged him to raise Wu men disguised as Faxing's army for a night attack on Fuwei; the two allies turned on each other, and neither would commit to battle.

會伏威命輔公祏拔丹陽，進屯溧水，子通戰敗，糧且盡，棄江都，保京口，伏威盡得其地。 Fuwei sent Fu Gongshi to seize Danyang and press on to Lishui; Zitong was beaten, his stores nearly gone, abandoned Jiangdu for Jingkou, and lost the rest of his domain to Fuwei.

武德四年，伏威遣將王雄誕討子通。 In the fourth year of Wude, Du Fuwei dispatched Wang Xiongqian against Li Zitong.

乃降，伏威受之，並樂伯通送京師。 He surrendered; Fuwei received him and sent him and Yue Botong to the capital.

及伏威來朝，子通語伯通曰：「東南未靖，而伏威來。 When Du Fuwei went to court, Zitong told Botong, "The southeast is still unsettled, yet Fuwei has left for the capital.