Sui and Tang · Rebel Warlord

Li Zitong 李子通

Attested AD 619

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Zitong was a rebel Warlord.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 619 武德二年前後
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 87, passage 82

Career and standing

Suffered rout and desertions
Defeated
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 86

Places and affiliations

At Jiangdu 江都 · Relation Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 82

Events and relationships

Resisted then routed
Military · Defender · With Fu Gongduo (輔公祏)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passages 83, 86

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 87, passage 82

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 87Volume 87 Biographies 12: Xiao, Fu, Shen, Li, Liang · 3 passages

賊李子通據江都，伏威使公祏以精卒數千度江擊之。 The rebel Li Zitong held Jiangdu. Fuwei sent Gongduo with several thousand picked troops across the river to attack him.

子通拒戰，眾十倍，銳甚。 Zitong met them in battle with a force ten times larger and in high fighting trim.

俄而子通方陣而進，長刀千人皆決死鬥，公祏縱左右翼搏之，子通大潰，降其眾數千。 Soon Zitong advanced in tight formation. The thousand sabermen fought as if they had no lives to lose. Gongduo threw in his left and right wings, and Zitong's army collapsed. Several thousand of his men surrendered.