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Huangfu Hui 皇甫暉

Huángfǔ Huī

Attested AD 956

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Huangfu Hui was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 956 顯德三年二月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 36

Career and standing

military governor of Jiangzhou and campaign relief commander 江州節度使、充行營應援使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 43
Entered
Captivity
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passages 43, 56
Released
Pardon
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 56

Places and affiliations

Polity Southern Tang 南唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 116, passage 43

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 116Volume 116 Book of Later Zhou 18: Shizong Annals 3 · 7 passages

壬申，今上奏，破淮賊萬五千人於清流山，乘勝攻下滁州，擒偽命江州節度使、充行營應援使皇甫暉，常州團練使、充應援都監姚鳳以獻。 On renshen Zhao Kuangyin reported routing fifteen thousand rebels at Qingliushan, capturing Chuzhou, and presenting the captured false Jiangzhou governor and relief commander Huangfu Hui and false Changzhou commissioner and relief director Yao Feng.

〈（王銍《默記》：李景聞世宗親至淮上，而滁州其控扼，且援壽州，命大將皇甫暉、監軍姚鳳提兵十萬扼其地。 (Wang Zhi's Silent Records relates that when Li Jing learned Shizong had reached the Huai in person, he sent Generals Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng with one hundred thousand men to hold Chuzhou, the key to relieving Shouzhou.

太祖以周師數千與暉遇於清流關隘路，周師大敗，暉整全師入憩滁州城下，會翊日再出。 Kuangyin led a few thousand Zhou troops against Hui at Qingliu Pass and was badly beaten. Hui rested his intact army below Chuzhou and planned to march out again the next day.

太祖兵聚關下，且虞暉兵再至，聞諸村人，雲有鎮州趙學究在村中教學，多智計，村民有爭訟者，多請以決曲直。 Kuangyin's troops regrouped below the pass, anxious that Hui would attack again. Villagers told him of a Zhenzhou schoolmaster Zhao in the hamlet—a man of keen counsel whom locals trusted to settle disputes.

太祖大喜，且命學究以指其路，學究亦不辭，而遣人前導，即下令誓師，夜從小徑行，三軍跨馬浮西澗以迫城，暉果不為備。 Kuangyin was delighted, had the schoolmaster guide them, and marched by night along the hidden path. The whole army forded the swollen West Stream and rushed the walls while Hui was still unprepared.

奪門以入，暉始聞之，率親兵擐甲與太祖巷戰，三縱而三擒之，遂下滁州。）〉 They burst through the gate. Hui rallied his guards for street fighting with Kuangyin; three times he was captured and released before Chuzhou fell.)〉

乙亥，今上縶送所獲江南二將皇甫暉、姚鳳至行在，詔釋之。 On yihai Zhao Kuangyin escorted the captured generals Huangfu Hui and Yao Feng to headquarters, where an edict ordered them freed.