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Liu Zheng was a general.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Kinship Role grandsons · Count 9
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Dragon-Tiger Guard Grand General, Right Chancellor of the Secretariat 龍虎衛上將軍、中書右丞
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posthumous name Wumin 諡武敏
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- Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
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History of Yuan, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 48: Yang Dayuan, Liu Zheng · 11 passages
整又曰：「自古帝王，非四海一家，不為正統。
Zheng added: 'From antiquity, no emperor has been orthodox unless the four seas are one family.
襄陽帥呂文煥登城觀敵，整躍馬前曰：「君昧於天命，害及生靈，豈仁者之事！
Commander Lü Wenhuan watched from the wall. Zheng rode forward: 'You ignore Heaven's mandate and harm the people—is that humane?
文煥不答，伏弩中整。
Wenhuan did not reply; a hidden crossbow bolt hit Zheng.
諜知文煥將遣張貴出城求援，乃分部戰艦，縛草如牛狀，傍漢水，綿亙參錯，衆莫測所用，九月，貴果夜出，乘輪船，順流下走，軍士覘知之，傍岸爇草牛如晝，整與阿朮麾戰艦，轉戰五十里，擒貴于櫃門關，餘衆盡殺之。
Spies reported Wenhuan would send Zhang Gui for relief. They divided the fleet and lined the Han with straw oxen in tangled array so none could guess their purpose. In the ninth month Gui slipped out by night in paddle-wheel ships downstream. Scouts lit the straw oxen along the bank till daybreak. Zheng and Azhu led the fleet fifty li, captured Gui at Guimen Pass, and killed the rest.
宋荊湖制置李庭芝以金印牙符，授整漢軍都元帥、盧龍軍節度使，封燕郡王，為書，使永寧僧持送整所，期以間整。
Song Commissioner Li Tingzhi sent a gold seal and tally making Zheng Han supreme commander and Lulong Military Commissioner, enfeoffing him Prince of Yan, with a letter carried by a Yongning monk to sow discord.
永寧令得之，驛以聞于朝，敕張易、姚樞雜問，適整至自軍，言宋怒臣畫策攻襄陽，故設此以殺臣，臣實不知。
The Yongning magistrate seized it and reported by courier. Zhang Yi and Yao Shu were ordered to interrogate him. Zheng had just arrived from camp and said the Song, furious at his Xiangyang strategy, fabricated this to destroy him—he knew nothing of it.
詔令整復書謂：「整受命以來，惟知督厲戎兵，舉垂亡孤城耳。
An edict had Zheng reply: 'Since I took command I have done nothing but drive the troops and press this dying lone fortress.
時圍襄陽已五年，整計樊、襄唇齒也，宜先攻樊城。
The siege of Xiangyang had lasted five years. Zheng judged Fan and Xiang interdependent and that Fan City must be taken first.
整言於丞相伯顏，令善水者斷木沉索，督戰艦趨城下，以回回砲擊之，而焚其柵。
Zheng told Chancellor Bayan to send swimmers to cut the timbers and sink the chains, drive the fleet to the wall, batter it with Muslim catapults, and burn the palisades.
整入朝，奏曰：「襄陽破，則臨安搖矣。
Zheng came to court and said: 'Once Xiangyang falls, Lin'an will shake.
丞相伯顏入鄂，捷至，整失聲曰：「首帥止我，顧使我成功後人，善作者不必善成，果然！」
When Bayan took E Prefecture and victory arrived, Zheng exclaimed: 'The supreme commander held me back so others could reap what I sowed—good planners need not be good finishers—so it proves!'