Sui and Tang · General

Li Chengguang 李承光

Lǐ Chéngguāng

Attested AD 755 - AD 756

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Li Chengguang was a general.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 104Volume 100 Biographies 50: Yin Sizhen, Li Jie, Jie Wan, Bi Gou, Su Xiang, Zheng Weizhong, Wang Zhiyin, Lu Congyuan, Li Chaoyin, Pei Cui, Wang Qiu · 2 passages
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及安祿山反，上以封常清、高仙芝喪敗，召翰入，拜為皇太子先鋒兵馬元帥，以田良丘為御史中丞，充行軍司馬，以王思禮、鉗耳大福、李承光、蘇法鼎、管崇嗣及蕃將火拔歸仁、李武定、渾萼、契苾寧等為裨將，河隴、朔方兵及蕃兵與高仙芝舊卒共二十萬，拒賊於潼關。 When An Lushan rebelled, because Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi had been defeated, the emperor summoned Han and appointed him Vanguard Commander of the Heir Apparent's Army; Tian Liangqiu was made Vice Censor-in-Chief and Campaigning Major; Wang Sili, Qian'er Dafu, Li Chengguang, Su Fading, Guan Chongsi, and the barbarian generals Huoba Guiren, Li Wuding, Hun E, Qibi Ning, and others were made deputy generals — Hexi, Longyou, and Shuofang troops and barbarian soldiers together with Gao Xianzhi's old troops, two hundred thousand in all, to resist the rebels at Tong Pass.