Wang Tiange (汪田哥)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Tiange as a general and military officer. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Tiange	汪田哥	Wāng Tiángē
Personal name	Tiange	田哥	Tiángē
Given	Tiange	田哥	Tiángē
Surname	Wang	汪	Wāng
Personal name	Wang Tiange	汪田哥	Wāng Tiángē

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:003:s0059
Sex: male
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Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年癸丑春正月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Western Year: AD 1253
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Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…冬十月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 1258
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Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…十二月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Lunar Month: 12 · Western Year: AD 1258
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Source Date: Text: 二年壬子…八月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Lunar Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 1252
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Source Date: Text: 六月丁巳 · Western Year: AD 1259
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Career and standing

Label: commander (of Lizhou) / 總帥 · Action: ordered to hold Lizhou · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年壬子…八月 · Regnal Year: 2 · Lunar Month: 8 · Western Year: AD 1252
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Places and affiliations

Name: Yuan / 元 · Relation: served
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Events and relationships

Kind: engineering · Role: commander · Action: built a pontoon bridge at the Baishui River at the Emperor's order and was granted gold and silk with his men · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…冬十月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 1258 · Other Person Id: Möngke (蒙哥)
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: held Lizhou so ably that Shu did not dare attack, and was granted a cup of wine in commendation · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…冬十月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 1258 · Other Person Id: Möngke (蒙哥)
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: night-assault-on-outer-wall-cavalry-fort · Place: outer-wall Cavalry Fort / 外城馬軍寨 · Outcome: killed fort commander and defenders · Other Person Id: Wang Jian (王堅) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六月丁巳 · Western Year: AD 1259
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: repaired Lizhou and opened fields for garrison farming, so that the people of Shu did not dare encroach · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年癸丑春正月 · Regnal Year: 3 · Season: spring · Lunar Month: 1 · Western Year: AD 1253 · Place: Lizhou / 利州
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: struck Xiangru and other counties with divided forces · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…十二月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Lunar Month: 12 · Western Year: AD 1258 · Place: Xiangru / 相如
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Relation: military-opponent-of · Person Id: Wang Jian (王堅)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: held Lizhou ably though its walls were not deep or strong, so that Shu never dared attack · Provenance: Mode: narrative-report · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…冬十月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 1258
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Item: a jade belt / 玉帶 · Relation: bestowed on him · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年戊午…冬十月 · Regnal Year: 8 · Season: winter · Lunar Month: 10 · Western Year: AD 1258
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References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 3Volume 3 Annals 3: Xianzong · 7 passages

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八月，忽必烈次臨洮，命總帥汪田哥以城利州聞，欲為取蜀之計。 In the eighth month Kublai halted at Lintao and ordered the commander Wang Tiange to hold Lizhou as the first step toward taking Shu.

三年癸丑春正月，汪田哥修治利州，且屯田，蜀人莫敢侵軼。 In the third year (guichou), in the first month of spring, Wang Tiange repaired Lizhou and opened garrison farms; the people of Shu did not dare raid across the border.

癸未，如利州，觀其城池並非深固，以汪田哥能守，蜀不敢犯，賜卮酒獎諭之。 On guiwei day he entered Lizhou. The walls were neither deep nor strong, but Wang Tiange had held them so well that Shu had never dared strike; the Emperor raised a cup of wine in praise.

帝渡嘉陵江，至白水江，命田哥造浮梁以濟，梁成，賜田哥等金帛有差。 The Emperor crossed the Jialing to the Baishui and ordered Tiange to build a pontoon bridge. When it was ready he rewarded Tiange and his men with gold and silk in graded gifts.

賜田哥玉帶及犒賞士卒，留精兵五百守之。 Tiange received a jade belt and the troops were given bounty; five hundred picked men were left to hold the pass.

十二月壬午，楊大淵率所部兵與汪田哥分擊相如等縣。 On renwu day in the twelfth month Yang Dayuan and Wang Tiange split their forces to strike Xiangru and neighboring counties.

六月丁巳，汪田哥復選兵夜登外城馬軍寨，殺寨主及守城者。 In the sixth month, on dingsi day, Wang Tiange again handpicked a force that climbed the cavalry redoubt on the outer wall by night and killed its commander and the men holding it.