Overview
Liu Zheng was a general.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Courtesy name |
Wuzhong |
武仲 |
Wuzhong |
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- Polity Song 宋 · Relation Served
- Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
- At Fanchuan, Jingzhao 京兆樊川
- At Rangcheng, Deng Prefecture 鄧州穰城 · Relation Migrated to
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History of Yuan, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 48: Yang Dayuan, Liu Zheng · 11 passages
劉整字武仲，先世京兆樊川人，徙鄧州穰城。
Liu Zheng, style Wuzhong, came originally from Fanchuan in Jingzhao; his family had moved to Rangcheng in Dengzhou.
整沉毅有智謀，善騎射。
Zheng was grave, resolute, and strategically minded, and excelled at mounted archery.
珙攻金信陽，整為前鋒，夜縱驍勇十二人，渡塹登城，襲擒其守，還報。
In Gong's assault on Jin Xinyang, Zheng led the vanguard. By night he took twelve picked riders across the ditch, scaled the wall, and seized the defender in a surprise raid, then reported back.
珙大驚，以為唐李存孝率十八騎拔洛陽，今整所將更寡，而取信陽，乃書其旗曰賽存孝。
Gong marveled, comparing him to Tang's Li Cunxiao, who with eighteen horsemen stormed Luoyang—yet Zheng had fewer men and took Xinyang. He inscribed Zheng's banner: Surpassing Cunxiao.
整以北方人，扞西邊有功，南方諸將皆出其下，呂文德忌之，所畫策輒擯沮，有功輒掩而不白，以俞興與整有隙，使之制置四川以圖整。
A northerner with merit on the western frontier, Zheng outranked the southern commanders. Lü Wende envied him, blocked his plans, and suppressed reports of his victories. Yu Xing, who bore a grudge, was made Sichuan Commissioner to undermine him.
興以軍事召整，不行，遂誣搆之，整遣使訴臨安，又不得達。
Yu Xing summoned him on military business; Zheng refused to come and was falsely accused. His envoys to Lin'an never reached the court.
及向士璧、曹世雄二將見殺，整益危不自保，乃謀款附。
After the generals Xiang Shibi and Cao Shixiong were killed, Zheng saw that he could not survive and resolved to defect.
中統二年夏，整籍瀘州十五郡、戶三十萬入附。
In the summer of Zhongtong year 2, Zheng offered the fifteen prefectures of Luzhou and three hundred thousand households in submission.
俞興攻瀘州，整出寶器分士卒，激使戰，戰數十合，敗之。
Yu Xing attacked Luzhou. Zheng distributed treasure among the ranks to stir them to battle and, after dozens of engagements, defeated him.
四年五月，宋安撫高達、溫和，進逼成都，整馳援之。
In the fifth month of the fourth year the Song commissioners Gao Da and Wen He pressed Chengdu; Zheng rode hard to relieve it.
宋兵聞賽存孝至，遁去，將擣潼川，又與整遇于錦江而敗。
Hearing that Surpassing Cunxiao had arrived, the Song force fled. Marching on Tongchuan, they met Zheng on the Jin River and were beaten.