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Liu Jianfeng was a warlord.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Assessment mediocre commander who drank with the ranks · Mode historian-judgment
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66: Hereditary House of Chu · 9 passages
唐中和三年，蔡州秦宗權遣孫儒、劉建峰將兵萬人屬其弟宗衡，略地淮南，殷初為儒裨將。
In the third year of the Zhonghe reign (883), Qin Zongquan of Caizhou dispatched Sun Ru and Liu Jianfeng with ten thousand men under his younger brother Zongheng to seize territory in Huainan, and Yin began as a junior officer under Sun Ru.
行密據宣州，儒以兵圍之，久不克，遣殷與建峰掠食旁縣。
Yang Xingmi held Xuancheng, and Sun Ru laid siege for a long time without breaking the city. He then sent Yin and Liu Jianfeng to raid grain from the surrounding counties.
儒戰敗死，殷等無所歸，乃推建峰為帥，殷為先鋒，轉攻豫章，略虔、吉，有眾數萬。
When Sun Ru was defeated and killed, Yin and his comrades had nowhere to turn. They made Liu Jianfeng their leader, with Yin as vanguard, swung toward Yuzhang, overran Gan and Ji prefectures, and mustered tens of thousands of men.
潭州刺史鄧處訥發邵州兵戍龍回關，建峰等至關，降其戍將蔣勛。
Deng Chuna, prefect of Tanzhou, sent Shaozhou troops to hold Longhui Pass. When Jianfeng's army arrived, the garrison commander Jiang Xun submitted to them.
建峰取勛鎧甲被先鋒兵，張其旗幟，直趨潭州，至東門，東門守者以為關兵戍還，開門內之，遂殺處訥，建峰自稱留後。
Jianfeng clad his vanguard in Jiang Xun's armor, flew Xun's banners, and marched straight on Tanzhou. At the east gate the guards mistook them for the Longhui garrison coming off rotation and let them in. They killed Deng Chuna, and Jianfeng declared himself acting military governor.
僖宗授建峰湖南節度使、殷為馬步軍都指揮使。
Emperor Xizong appointed Jianfeng military commissioner of Hunan and made Yin overall commander of the horse and foot forces.
蔣勛求為邵州刺史，建峰不與，勛率兵攻湘鄉，建峰遣殷擊勛於邵州。
Jiang Xun sought appointment as prefect of Shaozhou, but Jianfeng refused. Xun then marched on Xiangxiang, and Jianfeng sent Yin to fight him in Shaozhou.
建峰庸人，不能帥其下，常與部曲飲酒歡呼。
Jianfeng was a mediocrity who could not keep discipline among his men and spent his time drinking and carousing with the rank and file.
軍卒陳贍妻有色，建峰私之，贍怒，以鐵楇擊殺建峰。
A soldier named Chen Shan had a beautiful wife whom Jianfeng seduced. Enraged, Shan killed Jianfeng with an iron mace.