Li Chengsi (李承嗣) | 24 Histories

Overview

Li Chengsi was a general.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 896 明年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 55, passages 132, 135

Places and affiliations

Polity Hedong 河東 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 55, passage 132

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 55Volume 55 Book of Later Tang 31: Biographies 7: Kang Junli, Xue Zhiqin, Shi Jiantang, Li Chengsi, Shi Yan, Gai Yu, Yi Guang, Li Chengxun, Shi Jingrong · 3 passages

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明年，與李承嗣率騎渡河援兗、鄆。 The following year he and Li Chengsi led cavalry across the river to relieve Yan and Yun.

及朱瑾失守，與李承嗣等奔淮南。 When Zhu Jin lost his territory, he fled with Li Chengsi and others to Huainan.

其後並鍾傳，擒杜洪，削錢鏐，成行密之霸跡者，皆儼與承嗣之力也。 Their later conquests of Zhong Chuan, capture of Du Hong, and reduction of Qian Liu—the steps by which Xingmi built his hegemony—owed to the strength of Yan and Chengsi.