Sui and Tang · Military Officer and Acting Governor

Liu Shouwen 劉守文

Attested AD 898 - AD 899

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Shouwen was a Military Officer and Acting Governor.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 899 二年正月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passages 35, 39
AD 898 光化元年三月
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passage 26

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Rengong (劉仁恭)
eldest son 長子
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passage 26

Career and standing

acting governor 留後
Appointed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passage 26

Events and relationships

Escaped alone on horseback
Military · Fugitive
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passage 39
Led troops
Military · Commander · With Shan Keji (單可及)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 135, passage 36

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 135Volume 135: Biographies of Usurpers 2: Liu Shouguang, Liu Zhi, Liu Chong · 4 passages

光化元年三月，令其長子襲滄州，盧彥威委城而遁，遂兼有滄、景、德三郡，以守文為留後，請節鉞於朝。 In the third month of the first year of Guanghua (898) he sent his eldest son to seize Cangzhou; Lu Yanwei abandoned the city and fled. Rengong then held Cang, Jing, and De, installed Shouwen as acting governor, and petitioned the court for the command baton.

仁恭兵圍魏州，聞汴軍在內黃，戒其子守文曰：「李思安怯懦，汝之智勇，比之十倍，當先殄此鼠輩，次擄紹威。」 Rengong besieged Weizhou. Learning that Bian troops were at Neihuang, he told his son Shouwen, "Li Si'an is a coward; in wit and courage you are ten times his better. Destroy these vermin first, then take Shaowei prisoner."

守文與單可及率漁陽精甲五萬，夾清水而上。 Shouwen and Shan Keji then led fifty thousand crack troops from Yuyang up the Clearwater.

燕人將引退，左右伏兵發，燕軍大敗，臨陣斬單可及，守文單騎僅免，五萬之眾無生還者。 As the Yan were about to pull back, the ambushers on both flanks struck; the Yan army was shattered. Shan Keji was killed in the field; Shouwen alone escaped on horseback. Of fifty thousand men, not one returned alive.