Du Wei (杜威) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Du Wei as a general, military officer, named individual, and official. This record brings together 54 passages from 14 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Du Wei	杜威	Dù Wēi
Personal name	Chongwei	重威	Chóngwēi
Given name	Chongwei	重威
Given	Chongwei	重威	Chongwei
Personal	Chongwei	重威	Chóngwēi
Surname	Du	杜	Du
Personal name	Du Chongwei	杜重威	Dù Chóngwēi
Personal name	Du Chongwei	杜重威	Du Chongwei
Personal name	Du Chongwei	杜重威
Personal	Du Chongwei	杜重威	Du Chongwei
Personal	Du Chongwei	杜重威	Dù Chóngwēi
Personal name	Du Wei	杜威	Dù Wēi
Personal name	Du Wei	杜威	Du Wei
Personal	Du Wei	杜威	Du Wei
Title	Duke Du at Zhenyang	鎮陽杜令公
Title	imperial son-in-law commander	駙馬都尉

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Value: male
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Roles

General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年 · Western Year: AD 948
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 三年十二月己未 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 三年十月辛未 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年；殺杜重威 · Western Year: AD 948
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Source Date: Text: 八月辛丑朔，劉知遠為北面行營都統，順德軍 · Western Year: AD 944
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Source Date: Text: 六年十二月 · Western Year: AD 941
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Source Date: Text: 六年十二月戊戌 · Western Year: AD 941
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Source Date: Text: 天祿三年秋八月 · Western Year: AD 949
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Source Date: Text: 天福中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 936 · End: AD 944
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Source Date: Text: 天福二年 · Western Year: AD 937
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Source Date: Text: 天福二年後；代知遠領忠武 · Western Year: AD 937
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Source Date: Text: 天福十二年；天雄軍節度使反 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 契丹之後 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 契丹犯京师 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 會同九年 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 會同九年 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 會同八年 · Western Year: AD 945
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Source Date: Text: 杜重威反於魏 · Western Year: AD 947
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Source Date: Text: 漢高祖討杜重威 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 948
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Source Date: Text: 討石重貴 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 開運三年冬十月辛未 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 開運三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 946
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Source Date: Text: 開運三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 946
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Family

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Parent of Son of Du Chongwei (杜重威之子)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Zhenzhou field-army campaign commissioner / 鎮州行營招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年十二月 · Western Year: AD 941
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Label: overall repression commissioner of the northern front / 北面行營都招討使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛未 · Western Year: AD 946
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Label: overall commander of the northern field army / 北面行營都招討使 · Action: appointed
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Label: overall repression commissioner / 都招討使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開運元年八月辛丑朔 · Western Year: AD 944
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Label: military governor of Tianping / 天平節度使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年十二月 · Western Year: AD 941
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Label: military governor of Tianxiong / 天雄軍節度使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福十二年 · Western Year: AD 947
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Label: Military governor of Dongping then Changshan / 鎮東平、常山 · Action: held
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Status: rebel · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天福十二年 · Western Year: AD 947
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Status: defector · Action: surrendered-to-khitan
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Places and affiliations

Label: Khitan / 契丹 · Relation: defected-to
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Label: Later Jin / 晉 · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: suppression commander · Action: campaigned against Zhang Congbin · Other Person Id: Zhang Congbin (張從賓)
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured Sishui Pass
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated Khitan at Yangcheng and Weicun · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開運二年三月庚申 · Western Year: AD 945
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: An Chongrong (安重榮) · Place: Zongcheng / 宗城 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年十二月戊戌 · Western Year: AD 941
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: encamped · Place: Zhongdu Ford / 中渡 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二月己未 · Western Year: AD 947
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Kind: military · Role: rebel · Action: rebelled at Wei; later surrendered
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Kind: military · Role: defector · Action: rebelled-and-surrendered · Counterpart: Khitan / 契丹 · Other Person Ids: Li Shouzhen (李守貞), Zhang Yanzhe (張彥澤) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年十二月 · Western Year: AD 947
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Kind: military · Role: surrendering-general · Action: surrendered at Hutuo River · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 會同 · Western Year: AD 947
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: surrendered · Other Person Id: Khitan lord (契丹主) · Place: Zhongdu / 中渡
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: surrendered
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Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Li Shouzhen (李守貞)
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Relation: opponent-of · Person Id: An Chongrong (安重榮)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: cursed by Empress Li at her deathbed · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Empress Dowager Li (李氏)
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Source notes

Note: dropped Chong under Jin Outgoing Emperor to avoid taboo; restored under Han
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References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 85Volume 85 Book of Later Jin 11: Emperor Shao 4 · 11 passages

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辛未，以鄴都留守杜威為北面行營都招討使，以侍衛親軍都指揮使、鄆州節度使李守貞為兵馬都監，兗州安審琦為左右廂都指揮使，徐州符彥卿為馬軍左廂都指揮使，滑州皇甫遇為馬軍右廂都指揮使，貝州梁漢璋為馬軍都排陣使，前鄧州宋彥筠為步軍左廂都指揮使，奉國左廂都指揮使王饒為步軍右廂都指揮使，洺州團練使薛懷讓為先鋒都指揮使。 On xinwei Du Wei, military governor of Yedu, was appointed overall commander of the northern field army; Li Shouzhen, commander of the Imperial Guard and military governor of Yunzhou, became overall supervisor of troops and horses; An Shenqi of Yanzhou commanded both wings; Fu Yanqing of Xuzhou the left wing of cavalry; Huangfu Yu of Huazhou the right wing of cavalry; Liang Hanzhang of Beizhou marshal of the cavalry array; Song Yanyun, former prefect of Dengzhou, the left wing of infantry; Wang Rao of the Fengguo left wing the right wing of infantry; and Xue Huairang, regimental trainer of Mozhou, vanguard commander.

是月，北面行營招討使杜威率諸將領大軍自鄴北征，師次瀛州城下，貝州節度使梁漢璋戰死。 That month Du Wei, northern field commander, marched a great army north from Ye with his generals; the force halted below Yingzhou, where Liang Hanzhang, military governor of Beizhou, was killed in battle.

杜威等以漢璋之敗，遂收軍而退。 After Hanzhang's defeat Du Wei and his commanders withdrew the army.

己未，杜威奏，駐軍於中渡橋。 On jiwei Du Wei reported that the army was encamped at Zhongdu Bridge.

辛酉，詔澤潞、鄴都、邢洺、河陽運糧赴中渡，杜威遣人口奏軍前事宜，勢迫故也。 On xinyou Ze-Lu, Yedu, Xing-Mo, and Heyang were ordered to ship grain to Zhongdu; Du Wei sent couriers to report orally from the front because the crisis was acute.

壬申，始聞杜威、李守貞等以此月十日率諸軍降於契丹。 On renshen came the first report that on the tenth Du Wei, Li Shouzhen, and the rest had surrendered the armies to the Khitans.

孫臣某言：今月十七日寅時，相州節度使張彥澤、都監傅住兒部領大軍入京，賫到翁皇帝賜太后書示，於滹沱河降下杜重威一行馬步兵士，見領蕃漢步騎來幸汴州者。 Your grandson-subject reports: at the yin hour on the seventeenth Zhang Yanzhe, military governor of Xiangzhou, and chief inspector Fu Zhu'er entered the capital with a great army, bringing the letter the Imperial Father sent the empress dowager; Du Chongwei's horse and foot had surrendered at the Hutuo, and Khitan and Han forces were now marching on Bianzhou.

帝過中渡橋，閱前杜威營寨之跡，慨然憤嘆，謂左右曰：「我家何負，為此賊所破，天乎！ Crossing Zhongdu Bridge the emperor looked over Du Wei's old camp, sighed in rage, and said to his attendants, "What had my house done to be ruined by this traitor—O Heaven!

以駙馬都尉杜重威等領駕下精兵甲禦之於中流渡橋。 Du Chongwei, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Son-in-Law, and others led the court's best armored troops to meet them at Zhongliu Crossing.

既而契丹之眾已深入，而重威等奏報未到朝廷。 The Khitans had already penetrated deep inland before Chongwei's reports reached court.

未幾，杜重威之徒降於契丹，少主遂北遷。）〉 Soon Chongwei and his men surrendered to the Khitans, and the Young Lord was driven north.)〉

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 86Volume 86 Book of Later Jin 12: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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三年秋八月，晉李太后病，無醫藥，仰天號泣，戟手罵杜重威、李守貞曰：「吾死不置汝。」 In the eighth month of autumn of the third year Empress Li of Jin fell ill; there were no medicines; she wept to Heaven and, pointing with her hand, cursed Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen, saying: "When I die I will not let you go."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 1 passage

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杜重威之鎮東平也，瑜父欽祚為節度副使，及重威移鎮常山，瑜乃詭計於重威，使奏己為恒州節度副使，竟代其父位。 While Du Chongwei held Dongping, Yu's father Qinhuo served as his deputy. When Chongwei was transferred to Changshan, Yu persuaded him by a ruse to recommend him as deputy military governor of Hengzhou, and in the end took his father's place.

History of Liao, Chapter 75Volume 75 Biographies 5: Yelu Dilie, Yelu Duozhen, Wang Yu, Yelu Tulujiong · 2 passages

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從討石重貴，杜重威擁十萬餘眾拒滹沱橋，力戰數日，不得進。 In the campaign against Shi Chonggui, Du Chongwei held more than a hundred thousand men at the Hutuo bridge; after days of fierce fighting the army could not break through.

於是塞其餉道，數出師以牽撓其勢，重威果降如言。 They blocked the enemy supply lines and sent out repeated raids to harry their forces; Chongwei surrendered exactly as Tulujiong had predicted.

History of Liao, Chapter 76Volume 76 Biographies 6: Yelu Jieli, Yelu Balide, Yelu Shuogu, Yelu Lubugu, Zhao Yanshou, Gao Mohan, Zhao Siwen, Yelu Oulisi, Zhang Li · 11 passages

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會同九年伐晉，師次滹沱河，奪中渡橋，降其將杜重威。 In the ninth year of Huitong, when the army marched against Jin, it halted at the Hutuo River, seized the Zhongdu Bridge, and forced the Jin general Du Chongwei to surrender.

九年，再舉兵，次滹沱河，降杜重威，戰功居多。 In the ninth year the army marched again, camped at the Hutuo River, and forced Du Chongwei to surrender; Balide's share of the fighting was the greatest of all.

時晉主石重貴渝盟，帝親征，晉將杜重威擁眾拒滹沱。 When the Jin emperor Shi Chonggui broke the alliance, the emperor marched in person; the Jin general Du Chongwei massed his troops to block the army at the Hutuo.

朔古與趙延壽據中渡橋，重威兵卻，遂降。 Shuogu and Zhao Yanshou held the Zhongdu Bridge; Chongwei's army fell back and he surrendered.

晉人以為然，遣杜重威率兵迎之。 The Jin took him at his word and sent Du Chongwei with an army to welcome him.

太宗潛由他渡濟，留延壽與耶律朔古據橋，敵不能奪，屢敗之，杜重威掃厥眾降。 Taizong secretly crossed at another ford, leaving Yanshou and Yelu Shuogu to hold the bridge; the enemy could not take it, and after repeated defeats Du Chongwei surrendered with his entire force.

延壽至營，杜重威、李守貞迎謁馬首。 When Yanshou reached the camp, Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen came out to pay their respects at his stirrup.

晉以魏府節度使杜重威領兵三十萬來拒，模翰謂左右曰：「軍法在正不在多。 Jin sent Wei prefecture military governor Du Chongwei with three hundred thousand men to oppose him; Mohan told his attendants, "The art of war rests on justice, not on numbers.

頃之，杜重威等復至滹沱河，帝召模翰問計。 Before long Du Chongwei and his force were again at the Hutuo River; the emperor summoned Mohan to ask his counsel.

已而杜重威等降。 Before long Du Chongwei and his men surrendered.

既而晉將杜重威逆於望都，據水勒戰。 Soon afterward the Jin general Du Chongwei met them at Wangdu, holding the river line and forcing a fight.

History of Liao, Chapter 85Volume 85 Biographies 15: Xiao Talin, Xiao Guanyinnu, Yelu Tizi, Yelu Xieli, Yelu Nugua, Xiao Liu, Gao Xun, Xi Heshuonu, Xiao Taliege, Yelu Sahe · 1 passage

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會同九年，與杜重威來降。 In the ninth year of Huitong (946) he surrendered to Liao together with Du Chongwei.

History of Liao, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 43: Rebellious Officials 2 · 2 passages

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八年，伐晉，敗晉將杜重威，追至望都。 In the eighth year he campaigned against Jin, routed the Jin general Du Chongwei, and pursued him as far as Wangdu.

及我師伐晉，至滹沱河，降晉將杜重威，牒蠟功居多。 When the Liao army marched against Jin and reached the Hutuo River, the Jin general Du Chongwei surrendered, and Diepa's contribution was the greatest.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu · 4 passages

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東都巡檢張從賓反，留守判官李遐死之，奉國都指揮使侯益、護聖都指揮使杜重威討之。 Zhang Congbin mutinied at the eastern capital; Defender’s aide Li Xia was killed. Hou Yi of Fengguo and Du Chongwei of Husheng marched against him.

辛酉，杜重威克汜水關。 On xinyou Du Chongwei recovered Sishui Pass.

天平節度使杜重威為鎮州行營招討使。 Du Chongwei of Tianping was made campaign commissioner against Zhen.

戊戌，杜重威及安重榮戰於宗城，敗之。 On wuxu Du Chongwei met An Chongrong at Zongcheng and broke his army.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 9Volume 9 Later Jin Annals 2: the Emperor That Fled · 7 passages

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八月辛丑朔，劉知遠為北面行營都統，順德軍節度使杜威為都招討使。 On the xinchou new moon of the eighth month Liu Zhiyuan took command of the northern field army as overall commander, and Du Wei of Shunde was named overall repression commissioner.

甲寅，杜威克滿城。 On jiayin Du Wei captured Mancheng.

庚申，杜威及契丹戰於陽城，敗之，追奔至於衛村，又敗之。 On gengshen Du Wei routed the Khitan at Yangcheng, chased them to Weicun, and defeated them again.

六月丁卯，射於繁臺，幸杜威第。 On dingmao of the sixth month he practiced archery at Fantai and called at Du Wei’s mansion.

辛未，杜威為北面行營都招討使，李守貞為兵馬都監。 On xinwei Du Wei was named overall repression commissioner of the northern front, and Li Shouzhen overseer of army and horse.

十二月己未，杜威軍於中渡。 On jiwei of the twelfth month Du Wei’s army camped at Zhongdu Ford.

杜威、李守貞、張彥澤以其軍叛降於契丹。 Du Wei, Li Shouzhen, and Zhang Yanze turned their armies and defected to the Khitan.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 10Volume 10 Later Jin Annals 1: Gaozu, Emperor Yin · 4 passages

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已而以杜重威代知遠領忠武，徙知遠領歸德，知遠恥與重威同制，杜門不出。 Du Chongwei soon took over Zhongwu in his place and Zhiyuan was shifted to Guide. He was shamed to hold equal rank with Chongwei and refused to leave his residence.

十一月壬申，杜重威降。 On renshen of the eleventh month Du Chongwei surrendered.

天雄軍節度使杜重威反，杜重威於晉出帝時避出帝名去「重」，至漢而復之。 Du Chongwei, military governor of Tianxiong, rebelled. Under the Later Jin Deposed Emperor he had dropped the character “Chong” to avoid the emperor’s name; under Han he restored it.

未及封而高祖崩，祕不發喪，殺杜重威。 Before the enfeoffment could happen, Gaozu died. The court concealed the mourning and killed Du Chongwei.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 29Volume 29 Later Jin Biographies 9: Sang Weihan, Jing Yanguang, Wu Luan · 2 passages

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契丹屯中渡，破栾城，杜重威等大军隔绝，维翰曰：「事急矣！」 Khitan troops held Zhongdu Ferry and took Luan City; Du Chongwei’s host was severed. Weihan said: “We are at the brink!”

契丹至中渡，延广屯河阳，闻杜重威降，乃还。 Khitan troops reached Zhongdu Ferry. Yanguang held Heyang, heard Chongwei had surrendered, and turned back.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Miscellaneous Biographies 30: Wang Jun, Wang Yin, Liu Ci, Wang Huan, Zhe Congruan · 2 passages

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後從漢高祖討杜重威，先登力戰，矢中其腦，鏃自口出而不死，高祖嘉之，以為侍衛步軍都指揮使，領寧江軍節度使。 He followed Han Gaozu against Du Chongwei, climbed first, and fought hard. An arrow struck his brain and the head came out his mouth, yet he lived. Gaozu praised him and made him Palace Foot Guard commander with Ningjiang.

從杜重威破鎮州，以先登功拜泌州刺史。 He followed Du Chongwei at Zhen, climbed first, and was made prefect of Bi.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 53Volume 53 Miscellaneous Biographies 33: Wang Jinchong, Zhao Suwan, Murong Yanchao · 5 passages

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杜重威反於魏，高祖以天平軍節度使高行周為都部署以討之，以彥超為副。 When Du Chongwei rebelled at Wei, Gaozu named Gao Xingzhou of Tianping overall commander against him and made Yanchao his deputy.

行周有女嫁重威子，彥超揚言行周以女故，惜賊城而不攻，行周大怒。 Xingzhou's daughter was married to Chongwei's son. Yanchao openly claimed that Xingzhou spared the rebel city for his daughter's sake. Xingzhou was furious.

是時，漢兵頓魏城下已久，重威守益堅，諸將皆知未可圖，方伺其隙，而彥超獨言可速攻，高祖以為然，因自督士卒急攻，死傷者萬餘人，由是不敢復言攻。 By then the Han army had sat before Wei for a long season while Chongwei's defense hardened. Every general knew the city was not yet ripe, yet Yanchao alone insisted on a quick assault. Gaozu agreed and personally drove a furious attack. More than ten thousand men fell, and afterward no one dared urge another assault.

後重威出降，高祖以行周為天雄軍節度使，行周辭不敢受，高祖遣蘇逢吉諭之曰：「吾當為爾徙彥超。」 When Chongwei finally surrendered, Gaozu offered Xingzhou the Tianxiong command. Xingzhou refused. Gaozu sent Su Fengji to tell him: "I will move Yanchao elsewhere for you."

李河中、安襄陽、鎮陽杜令公，近歲之龜鑒也。」 Li at Hezhong, An at Xiangyang, and Duke Du at Zhenyang are the warnings of our own day."

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69: Hereditary House of Nanping · 1 passage

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漢遣國子祭酒田敏使於楚，假道荊南，從誨問敏中國虛實，以為契丹之後，兵食皆殫，意欲以誚敏，敏為言：「杜重威悉以晉戈甲降虜，虜置之鎮州，未嘗以北，而晉兵皆漢有也。」 Han sent the Guozi libationer Tian Min as envoy to Chu, traveling through Jingnan. Conghui asked about the central state's strength, assuming that after the Khitan invasion its armies and supplies were exhausted, and meant to mock him. Min replied, "Du Chongwei surrendered all Jin arms and armor to the invaders. The Khitans stored them at Zhen Prefecture and have never brought them north, while the Jin soldiers themselves are now Han's."