Pang Xun (龐勳) | 24 Histories

Overview

Pang Xun was a rebel.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 3
AD 869 咸通十年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 11
AD 868 to AD 869 龐勳亂
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 114, passages 147, 158
AD 868 to AD 869 從討龐勛
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 14, passage 107
AD 868 to AD 869 懿宗時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 52, passages 246, 248

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Career and standing

grain-supply judge 糧料判官
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 147
Became
Rebel leader
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 147

Places and affiliations

At Xuzhou 徐州 · Relation Rebelled at
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 11

Events and relationships

Campaigned against and defeated
AD 869 咸通十年 · Military · Rebel target · With Kang Chengxun (康承训) · At Xuzhou 徐州
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 11-12
Captured Suzhou and recruited
Military · Attacker
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 151
Killed Yanzeng and staff
Violence · Killer · With Cui Yanzeng (崔彥曾)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 158
Led northward mutiny to Sikou
Military · Rebel commander
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 147
Rebelled
Military · Rebel
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 3
Rebelled
Rebellion · Leader · Outcome Sixty or seventy thousand joined him
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 248

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Took Xuzhou imprisoned Yanzeng
Military · Attacker · With Cui Yanzeng (崔彥曾)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 156
Tried to force office on Xu Duo
Political · Coercer · With Xu Duo (許鐸)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 172

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 114, passage 147

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History

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 2 passages

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咸通中，從討龐勳，以功為振武都校。 In the Xiantong era he took part in the suppression of Pang Xun and, for his service, was appointed metropolitan commandant of Zhenwu.

父德成，初為天寧軍使，從獻祖討龐勳，以功授朔州刺史。 His father Decheng had first served as military commissioner of Tianning. He followed the Offering Ancestor against Pang Xun and, for his service, was made prefect of Shuozhou.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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及龐勛反，附者六七萬。 Pang Xun's rebellion drew sixty or seventy thousand followers.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 114Volume 114 Biographies 39: Cui Rong and Descendent Cong, Descendent Neng, Neng's Nephew: Shen You, Neng's Nephew an Qian, Neng's Son: Yan Ceng, Xu Yanbo, Su Weidao, Dou Lu Qin Wang · 9 passages

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戍者怒，殺都將王仲甫，脅糧料判官龐勳為將，取庫兵，剽湘、衡，虜丁壯，合眾千餘北還，自浙西趨淮南，達泗口。 The garrison rose in fury, killed Commander Wang Zhongfu, and forced grain-supply judge Pang Xun to lead them; they seized arsenal weapons, raided Xiang and Heng, took captives, and with more than a thousand men marched north from Zhexi through Huainan to Sikou.

勳遣吏紿言士思歸，不敢遏，請至府解甲自歸，彥曾斬其吏。 Xun sent an envoy falsely claiming his men only wanted to go home and asking to surrender at the prefectural seat; Yanzeng had the envoy beheaded.

勳陷宿州，發廥錢募兵，亡命者從亂如歸，船千艘，與騎夾岸，噪而進。 Xun captured Suzhou, spent treasury funds to recruit troops, and fugitives flocked to him; a thousand boats and horsemen lined both banks, advancing with a clamor.

俄而勳傅城，城中大霧如墮。 Soon Xun invested the city, and a dense fog settled over it as if the sky had fallen.

彥曾悉誅賊家屬，勳眾四面超墉入，囚彥曾大彭館。 Yanzeng had executed the rebels' families; Xun's men scaled the walls on every side, seized the city, and imprisoned Yanzeng in the Great Peng Lodge.

有曹君長者說勳曰：「貴者不並處，今朝廷未以留後命公，蓋觀察使存爾。」 A man named Cao Junzhang told Xun: "Two masters cannot share one seat. The court has not named you acting commissioner because the observation commissioner is still alive."

勳乃殺彥曾於寢，自監軍使逮官屬皆死。 Xun then killed Yanzeng in his quarters, and every official from the army supervisor down was put to death.

審中率死士應官軍，開南白門，官兵入，因得破勳。 Shenzhong led a suicide squad to aid the government forces, opened the south White Gate, let the troops in, and helped break Xun's rebellion.

有許鐸者，罷武城令，客于徐，勳脅以官，不從。 A former magistrate of Wucheng named Xu Duo was staying in Xuzhou when Xun tried to force an office on him; he refused.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 4Volume 4 Later Tang Annals 1: Zhuangzong 1 · 2 passages

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