Sui and Tang · Bandit

Meng Rang 孟讓

Attested AD 617

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Meng Rang was a Bandit.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 617 四月
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 84, passage 96

Places and affiliations

At Changbai Mountain 長白山
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 84, passage 96
At Changbai Mountain 長白山 · Relation Based at
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 84, passage 96

Events and relationships

Joined with followers
AD 617 四月 · Military · Surrenderer · With Li Mi (李密)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 84, passage 96
Plundered and burned
AD 617 四月 · Military · Attacker · At Tianjin Bridge 天津橋
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 84, passage 98
Struck and held
AD 617 四月 · Military · Commander · At Huiluo Granary 回洛倉 · With Pei Renji (裴仁基)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 84, passage 97

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 84Volume 84 Biographies 9: Li, Mi · 2 passages

四月，隋虎牢將裴仁基、淮陽太守趙佗降，長白山賊孟讓以所部歸密。 In the fourth month, Sui Hulao General Pei Renji and Huaiyang Prefect Zhao Tuo surrendered, and Meng Rang of the Changbai Mountain bandits came with his followers to join Mi.

以仁基為上柱國，與讓率兵二萬襲回洛倉，守之。 He made Renji a Grand Illustrious Pillar of State and, together with Rang, led twenty thousand troops to strike Huiluo Granary and hold it.