Qin and Han · General

Swift Cavalry General 驃騎

Piaoji

Attested BC 121 - BC 119

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Swift Cavalry General was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 119 其明年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 30, passage 105
BC 121 其明年
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Grand Historian 30, passage 63

Places and affiliations

Polity Western Han 西漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 30, passage 63

Events and relationships

Attacked
BC 119 其明年 · Military · Commander · Counterpart Hu 胡 · Outcome Obtained eighty or ninety thousand heads and captives · With Great General (大將軍)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 30, passage 105
Attacked
BC 121 其明年 · Military · Commander · Counterpart Hu 胡 · Outcome Took forty thousand heads
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 30, passage 63

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 30Treatise on the Balanced Standard · 2 passages

其明年，驃騎仍再出擊胡，獲首四萬。 The next year, the swift cavalry again went out to attack the Hu and took forty thousand heads.

其明年，大將軍、驃騎大出擊胡，得首虜八九萬級，賞賜五十萬金，漢軍馬死者十餘萬匹，轉漕車甲之費不與焉。 The next year, the great general and swift cavalry greatly went out to attack the Hu, obtained eighty or ninety thousand ranks of heads and captives, and rewarded and bestowed five hundred thousand gold. The dead horses of the Han army numbered more than a hundred thousand, and the expenses for transport, ferrying, chariots, and armor were not included in this.