Yuan · General

Meng Gong 孟珙

Attested AD 1280

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Meng Gong was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1280 1280
Directly stated · History of Yuan 161, passage 133

Places and affiliations

Polity Song 宋 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 161, passage 133

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 48: Yang Dayuan, Liu Zheng · 3 passages

金亂，入宋，隸荊湖制置使孟珙麾下。 When the Jin realm collapsed he entered Song service under the Jing-Hu Commissioner Meng Gong.

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.