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Wang Yanzhang was a general.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Took desheng south
Military · Commander
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 29Volume 29 Book of Later Tang 5: Zhuangzong Annals 3 · 7 passages
梁主聞鄆州陷，大恐，乃遣王彥章代戴思遠總兵以來拒。
The Liang ruler, hearing Yan was lost, panicked and sent Wang Yanzhang to replace Dai Siyuan and block the advance.
時朱守殷守德勝南城，帝懼彥章奔衝，遂幸澶州。
Zhu Shouyin held Desheng's south wall; fearing Yanzhang would burst through, the Emperor went to Chanyuan himself.
五月辛酉，彥章夜率舟師自楊村浮河而下，斷德勝之浮橋，攻南城，陷之。
On xinyou in the fifth month Yanzhang led boats by night from Yangcun down the river, severed Desheng's pontoon, stormed the south city, and took it.
王彥章以舟師沿流而下，各行一岸，每遇轉灘水彙，即中流交鬥，流矢雨集，或全舟覆沒，一彼一此，終日百戰，比及楊劉，殆亡其半。
Yanzhang's boats drifted down, one line on each bank; at every bend they fought in midstream under a rain of arrows, boats sinking whole; the duel lasted all day, and by Yangliu nearly half were gone.
己巳，王彥章、段凝率大軍攻楊劉南城，焦彥賓與守城將李周極力固守。
On jisi Yanzhang and Duan Ning stormed Yangliu's south wall; Jiao Yanbin and Li Zhou held with everything they had.
戊子，梁將王彥章、杜晏球領徒數萬，晨壓帝之新壘。
On wuzi Wang Yanzhang and Du Yanqiu of Liang brought tens of thousands and at dawn drove on the Emperor's new camp.
時板築雖畢，牆仞低庳，戰具未備，沙城散惡，王彥章列騎環城，虐用其人，使步軍堙壕登堞。
The tamped earth was up but the walls were low and weak, weapons were not ready, and the sandworks were rotten; Yanzhang ringed the place with horse, drove the people cruelly to fill the ditch and scale the wall.