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Overview The translated histories identify Lu Bode as a general and military officer. This record brings together 11 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
Lu Bode
路博德
Lù Bódé
Title
Commandant of Guards
衛尉
Title
General Who Calms the Waves
伏波將軍
Personal name
Lu Bode
路博德
Lù Bódé
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Source Date: Text: 元鼎五年秋Western Year: BC 112
Source Date: Text: 元鼎六年冬Western Year: BC 111
Source Date: Text: 元鼎四年Western Year: BC 113
Career and standing Label: General Who Calms the Waves / 伏波將軍Action: appointed
Label: Commandant of Guards / 衛尉Action: held
Title: additional fiefs / 益封Action: granted
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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 113 Treatise on the Nanyue · 11 passages
令辯士諫大夫終軍等宣其辭，勇士魏臣等輔其缺，衛尉路博德將兵屯桂陽，待使者。
The court also ordered the eloquent Remonstrance Grandee Zhong Jun and others to present the arguments, the brave warrior Wei Chen and others to assist where needed, and the Commandant of Guards Lu Bode to station troops at Guiyang in readiness for the envoys.
元鼎五年秋，衛尉路博德為伏波將軍，出桂陽，下匯水；
In the autumn of the fifth year of the Yuanding era, the Commandant of Guards Lu Bode was appointed General Who Calms the Waves. He marched out from Guiyang and descended the Hui River.
元鼎六年冬，樓船將軍將精卒先陷尋陜，破石門，得越船粟，因推而前，挫越鋒，以數萬人待伏波。
In the winter of the sixth year of the Yuanding era, the General of the Tower Ships led his elite troops in capturing Xunxia first, then broke through the Stone Gate, seized Yue boats and grain stores, and pressed forward, blunting the Yue vanguard. He halted with tens of thousands of troops to await the General Who Calms the Waves.
伏波將軍將罪人，道遠，會期後，與樓船會乃有千餘人，遂俱進。
The General Who Calms the Waves, leading his convict soldiers, had a long march and arrived after the appointed time. When he linked up with the Tower Ships general, he had only a little over a thousand men. Nevertheless, the two forces advanced together.
伏波居西北面。
The General Who Calms the Waves took up position on the northwest side.
越素聞伏波名，日暮，不知其兵多少。
The Yue had long heard of the fearsome reputation of the General Who Calms the Waves. In the darkness, they had no way of knowing the size of his forces.
伏波乃為營，遣使者招降者，賜印，復縱令相招。
The General Who Calms the Waves set up camp, sent out messengers to offer terms to those willing to surrender, bestowed seals upon them, and then released them to recruit more defectors.
樓船力攻燒敵，反驅而入伏波營中。
The Tower Ships general pressed his attack and set fires, but in the chaos, the fleeing Yue soldiers were driven straight into the camp of the General Who Calms the Waves.
犁旦，城中皆降伏波。
By dawn, the entire city had surrendered to the General Who Calms the Waves.
伏波又因問所得降者貴人，以知呂嘉所之，遣人追之。
The General Who Calms the Waves interrogated the surrendered nobles to learn where Lu Jia had fled, then sent men in pursuit.
伏波將軍益封。
The General Who Calms the Waves was granted additional fiefs.