Five Dynasties · General

Tujie 禿餒

Attested AD 928

Passages: 6
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Tujie was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 928 契丹遣禿餒
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 46, passage 112

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 46Volume 46 Miscellaneous Biographies 26: Zhao Zaili, Huo Yanwei, Fang Zhiwen, Wang Yanqiu, An Zhongba, Wang Jianli, Kang Fu, Guo Yanlu · 6 passages

都遣人北招契丹，契丹遣禿餒將萬騎救都。 Du sent north for the Khitan. They sent Tujie with ten thousand horse to save him.

晏球聞禿餒等兵且來，留張延朗屯新樂，自逆於望都。 Yanqiu heard Tujie was near. He left Zhang Yanlang at Xinle and went to meet him at Wangdu.

都與禿餒入城，不敢復出。 Du and Tujie entered the city and did not dare come out again.

自晏球擊敗禿餒，又走惕隱，其餘眾奔潰投村落，村落之人以鋤耰白梃所在擊殺之，無復遺類。 Yanqiu broke Tujie and routed Tiyin. The rest fled into villages. Villagers with hoes, flails, and white staves killed them wherever they met until none were left.

久之，都城中食盡，先出其民萬餘人，數與禿餒謀決圍以走，不果，都將馬讓能以城降，都自焚死。 Long after, the city ran out of food. They sent out more than ten thousand civilians, plotted with Tujie several times to break out, and failed. Du’s officer Ma Rangneng surrendered the city. Du burned himself to death.

其擊禿餒，既因敗以為功，而諸將皆欲乘勝取都，晏球返，獨不動，卒以持久弊之。 He had turned defeat into merit against Tujie, yet every general wanted to press on and take Du. Yanqiu held back alone and in the end wore them down by waiting.