Five Dynasties · General

Gao Xingzhou 高行周

Gāo Xíngzhōu

Attested AD 936

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Gao Xingzhou was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 936 清泰三年八月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 139

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 139

Events and relationships

Attacked rebels at moat and fought Khitan
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 48, passages 139, 141

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 48Volume 48 Book of Later Tang 24: Later Emperors Annals 3 · 2 passages

辛巳，張敬達奏，賊城內出騎軍三十隊、步卒三千人衝長連城，高行周襲殺入壕，溺死者大半，擒賊將安小喜以下百餘人，甲馬一百八十匹。 On xinsi Zhang Jingda reported that from within the rebel city thirty cavalry units and three thousand infantry had charged the long linked camps. Gao Xingzhou attacked them as they entered the moat; more than half drowned. Over a hundred rebel generals including An Xiaoxi were captured, along with one hundred eighty suits of armor and horses.

時契丹主自率部族來援太原，高行周、符彥卿率左右廂騎軍出鬥，蕃軍引退。 At the time the Khitan ruler personally led his tribes to relieve Taiyuan. Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing led the left and right wing cavalry out to fight, and the barbarian army withdrew.