Overview
Wang Lang was a rebel and Diviner.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 23 初，純從攻王郎
AD 23 及王郎起
AD 25 建武元年
AD 23 to AD 30 王郎
AD 23 to AD 24 王郎兵起至敗
AD 23 to AD 24 王郎時
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Places and affiliations
- Polity Wang Lang regime 王郎 · Relation Ruled
Events and relationships
Raised troops
Military · Rebel leader · At Hebei 河北
Rose
AD 23 及王郎起 · Rebellion · Leader
Sent force against Xindu
Military · Commander sender · At Xindu 信都
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 24Volume 21: Biographies of Ren, Li, Wan, Pi, Liu, Geng · 16 passages
及王郎起，郡國皆降之，光獨不肯，遂與都尉李忠、令萬脩、功曹阮況、五官掾郭唐等同心固守。
When Wang Lang rebelled, every district around them capitulated; Ren Guang alone held out, standing shoulder to shoulder with Commandant Li Zhong, Magistrate Wan Xiu, merit officer Ruan Kuang, registrar Guo Tang, and the rest to defend the city.
廷掾持王郎檄詣府白光，光斬之於市，以徇百姓，發精兵四千人城守。
A clerk arrived at headquarters with Wang Lang's summons; Ren Guang had him beheaded in the market as a warning to the people, then mobilized four thousand elite soldiers to hold the walls.
進圍巨鹿，未下，王郎遣將攻信都，信都大姓馬寵等開城內之，收太守宗廣及忠母、妻，而令親屬招呼忠。
While the army was still besieging Julu, Wang Lang sent a force against Xindu. Powerful local families led by Ma Chong betrayed the city, seized Governor Zong Guang and Li Zhong's mother and wife, and tried to lure Li Zhong through his kin.
世祖乃使任光將兵救信都，光兵於道散降王郎，無功而還。
Emperor Guangwu then sent Ren Guang to relieve Xindu, but Ren Guang's men melted away on the march and defected to Wang Lang, so the expedition accomplished nothing.
世祖因使忠還，行太守事，收郡中大姓附邯鄲者，誅殺數百人。
Guangwu then sent Li Zhong back as acting governor to round up leading families who had backed Wang Lang of Handan; several hundred were executed.
世祖北至薊，會王郎兵起，使其將徇地，所到縣莫不奉迎，唯和成、信都堅守不下。
Guangwu then rode north to Ji just as Wang Lang's rebellion erupted. Wang's officers swept the countryside, and county after county opened its gates—only Hegcheng and Xindu refused to submit.
又卜者王郎，假名因勢，驅集烏合之眾，遂震燕、趙之地；
Wang Lang the fortune-teller had seized power with a borrowed name and a rabble, yet he still overawed Yan and Zhao.
比至堂陽，堂陽已反屬王郎，彤使張萬、尹綏先曉譬吏民，世祖夜至，即開門出迎。
By the time they reached Tangyang, the town had gone over to Wang Lang. Pi Tong sent Zhang Wan and Yin Sui to reason with the people; Guangwu arrived after dark, and the gates flew open in welcome.
信都復反為王郎，郎所置信都王捕系彤父弟及妻子，使為手書呼彤曰：『降者封爵，不降族滅。』
Xindu rebelled again to Wang Lang. Wang's puppet Prince of Xindu seized Pi Tong's father, brothers, wife, and children and forced him to write: "Surrender and win a title; resist and your clan dies."
會更始所遣將攻拔信都，郎兵敗走，彤家屬得免。
Soon an imperial general sent by the Gengshi court recaptured Xindu, Wang Lang's men fled, and Pi Tong's family went free.
王郎起，植與弟喜、從兄歆率宗族賓客，聚兵數千人據昌城。
When Wang Lang rebelled, Liu Zhi, his brother Liu Xi, and cousin Liu Xin rallied clan and clients, several thousand strong, and held Changcheng.
時真定王劉揚起兵以附王郎，眾十餘萬，世祖遣植說揚，揚乃降。
The Prince of Zhending, Liu Yang, had thrown in with Wang Lang at the head of more than a hundred thousand men; Guangwu sent Liu Zhi to parley, and Liu Yang yielded.
會王郎反，世祖自薊東南馳，純與從昆弟訢、宿、植共率宗族賓客二千餘人，老病者皆載木自隨，奉迎於育。
Wang Lang's revolt broke out while Guangwu was racing southeast from Ji; Geng Chun and his cousins Geng Xin, Geng Su, and Geng Zhi brought more than two thousand kinsmen and clients—even the elderly carried firewood as provisions—to meet him at Yu.
是時，郡國多降邯鄲者，純恐宗家懷異心，乃使訢、宿歸燒其廬舍。
Many districts had gone over to Wang Lang; fearing divided loyalties in his own clan, Geng Chun sent Geng Xin and Geng Su home to burn the family compounds.
及至鄗，世祖止傳舍，鄗大姓蘇公反城開門內王郎將李惲。
At Hao, Guangwu halted at the post station. A local magnate named Su betrayed the town to Wang Lang's officer Li Yun.
初，純從攻王郎，墮馬折肩，時疾發，乃還詣懷宮。
Earlier, in the war on Wang Lang, he had broken a shoulder in a fall from his horse; now an old malady flared and he withdrew to the Huai palace.
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