Liu Fang (劉方) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Fang as a general and military officer. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Fang	劉方	Liu Fang
Title	commander-in-chief of the Huanzhou route army	驩州道行軍總管
Title	Grand General	大將軍
Personal name	Liu Fang	劉方	Liú Fāng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043

Career and standing

Label: Commander-in-chief of the Huanzhou route army / 驩州道行軍總管 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043
Label: Grand General / 大將軍 · Action: held
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043

Places and affiliations

Polity: Sui / 隋 · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: attacked · Other Person Id: Fan Zhi (梵志) · Place: Linyi / 林邑 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043, suishu:082:s0044, suishu:082:s0047
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured-capital-and-eighteen-gold-spirit-tablets · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0049
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: feigned-retreat-and-routed-elephant-army · Other Person Id: Fan Zhi (梵志) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0045, suishu:082:s0046, suishu:082:s0047
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: withdrew · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁壽末 · Western Year: AD 604
Explicit · suishu:082:s0050
Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Ning Changzhen (甯長真)
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Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Li Yun (李暈)
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Relation: commander-of · Person Id: Qin Xiong (秦雄)
Explicit · suishu:082:s0043

Assessments and attributes

Item: eighteen ancestral spirit tablets cast in gold / 廟主十八枚，皆鑄金為之 · Relation: seized
Explicit · suishu:082:s0049

References in the histories

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Book of Sui, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 47: The Nanman · 7 passages

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仁壽末，上遣大將軍劉方為驩州道行軍總管，率欽州刺史甯長真、驩州刺史李暈、開府秦雄步騎萬餘及犯罪者數千人擊之。 Near the close of the Renshou era the emperor appointed Grand General Liu Fang commander of the Huanzhou expeditionary force. Liu Fang marched with Prefect of Qinzhou Ning Changzhen, Prefect of Huanzhou Li Yun, colonel Qin Xiong, over ten thousand foot and horse soldiers, and several thousand penal conscripts to strike Linyi.

其王梵志率其徒乘巨象而戰，方軍不利。 King Fan Zhi arrayed his warriors atop great elephants, and Liu Fang's forces suffered at first.

方於是多掘小坑，草覆其上，因以兵挑之。 Liu Fang ordered countless shallow pits dug, masked with turf, and baited the enemy with skirmishers.

梵志悉眾而陣，方與戰，偽北，梵志逐之，至坑所，其眾多陷，轉相驚駭，軍遂亂。 Fan Zhi drew up his full army; Liu Fang fought, then feigned defeat. Fan Zhi gave chase; when his men reached the pits masses stumbled in, terror rippled through the ranks, and the host collapsed into chaos.

方縱兵擊之，大破之。 Liu Fang unleashed his troops and routed them completely.

方入其都，獲其廟主十八枚，皆鑄金為之，蓋其有國十八葉矣。 Liu Fang entered the capital and took eighteen ancestral spirit tablets, all cast in gold—proof that the dynasty had ruled for eighteen generations.

方班師，梵志復其故地，遣使謝罪，於是朝貢不絕。 When Liu Fang withdrew, Fan Zhi regained his old lands and dispatched envoys to sue for pardon; from then on tribute flowed without interruption.