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Shen Faxing was a warlord.
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 87Volume 87 Biographies 12: Xiao, Fu, Shen, Li, Liang · 5 passages
子通攻棱，棱窮，乞師於沈法興、杜伏威。
Zitong besieged Chen Leng, who, hard pressed, appealed to Shen Faxing and Du Fuwei for relief.
伏威自將屯清流，法興遣子綸屯揚子，間數十里。
Fuwei marched in person and encamped at Qingliu, while Faxing posted his son Lun at Yangzi, their camps scarcely thirty li apart.
子通納言毛文深請募吳人詐為法興兵夜襲伏威，二人遂交惡，無敢先戰者。
Zitong's counselor Mao Wenshen urged him to raise Wu men disguised as Faxing's army for a night attack on Fuwei; the two allies turned on each other, and neither would commit to battle.
又敗法興兵，遂取晉陵，以法興所署掾李百藥為內史侍郎，典文檄，尚書左丞殷芊為太常卿，司禮樂，繇是江南士人多歸之。
After another victory over Shen Faxing he seized Jinling, installed Li Baiyao—once Faxing's clerk—as Vice Director of the Secretariat to draft state papers, and Yin Qian, formerly Left Assistant of the Imperial Secretariat, as Director of Ceremonies to oversee ritual music; learned men across the lower Yangtze flocked to his court.
俄東走太湖，裒散兵二萬人，復張，襲法興吳郡，破之。
He soon fled east to Lake Tai, rallied twenty thousand scattered soldiers, struck Shen Faxing's Wu commandery, and routed it.