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Wen'an was a general.
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History of Yuan, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 48: Yang Dayuan, Liu Zheng · 14 passages
文安尋遣其兄子應之，往招都勝、茂竹、廣福三城，自將大軍，以為聲援，皆降之。
Wen'an soon sent his nephew Yingzhi to receive Dusheng, Maozhu, and Guangfu while he led the main army in support; all three submitted.
文安焚其外城，梁山軍恃忠勝軍為固，力攻拔之，殺守將王智，擒部轄景福，圍梁山四十日，世安隨方備禦，竟不降。
Wen'an burned the outer works. The Liangshan garrison leaned on Zhongsheng Army as its bastion; a forced assault took it, killing the defender Wang Zhi and capturing Controller Jing Fu. Liangshan was besieged forty days; Shi'an met each threat, yet would not yield.
文安乃移兵攻萬州之牛頭城，殺守將何威，遷其民，進圍萬州，守將上官夔戰守甚力。
Wen'an then moved against Niutou City in Wanzhou, killed the defender He Wei, relocated the inhabitants, and pressed the siege of Wanzhou, where Shangguan Kui resisted with fierce determination.
文安乃遣監軍楊應之、鎮撫彭福壽，會東川行院兵，出小江口以牽制援兵，果與之遇，戰敗之，擒緫管李皋、花茂實等。
Wen'an sent Supervisor Yang Yingzhi and Pacification Commissioner Peng Fushou with Eastern Chuan Branch Secretariat troops out from Xiaojiangkou to pin down relief columns. They met the enemy as expected, defeated them, and captured Supervisors Li Gao, Hua Maoshi, and others.
萬州固守不下，文安乃解圍去。
Wanzhou would not yield; Wen'an lifted the siege and withdrew.
冬，進白帝城，夔帥張起巖堅守不出，文安以師老，乃還。
In winter they advanced on Baidi City. The Kui commander Zhang Qiyan held fast and refused to sally. With his troops exhausted, Wen'an withdrew.
宋都統弋德復據開州，文安乃築城神仙山以逼之，令元帥蔡邦光、萬戶紀天英屯守。
The Song commander Yi De reoccupied Kaizhou. Wen'an built a fortress on Shenxian Mountain to threaten him and stationed Marshals Cai Bangguang and Myriarch Ji Tianying there.
文安以白德輝，德輝大喜，即遣文安將兵，奉王旨往招之，世安遂降。
Wen'an informed Dehui, who was delighted and at once sent Wen'an with troops under the prince's commission to receive him; Shi'an submitted.
夔守張起巖來救，遣鎮撫彭福壽迎擊，破之，盡殺其舟師，俘其將宋明。
Zhang Qiyan came to relieve the siege. Wen'an sent Pacification Commissioner Peng Fushou to intercept, routed him, destroyed his river force, and captured the general Song Ming.
萬州奪氣，文安復傳王旨，諭夔使降，夔終不屈。
Wanzhou's morale collapsed. Wen'an again conveyed the prince's summons for Kui to surrender, but Kui would not bend.
文安盡銳攻城，潛遣勇士梯城宵登，斬關而入，夔巷戰而死。
Wen'an threw his best troops at the walls. By night assault teams scaled the ramparts, cut the gate-bar, and broke in; Kui fell fighting in the alleys.
十四年夏，進兵攻咸淳府，時宋以六郡鎮撫使馬堃為守，文安與堃同里閈，諭之使降，堃不從，乃列柵攻城。
In the summer of the fourteenth year he advanced on Xianchun Prefecture. The Song had made Ma Kun, Pacification Commissioner of six circuits, its defender. A fellow townsman, Wen'an urged him to submit; Kun refused, and palisades were raised for the siege.
文安乃遣元帥王師能，將舟師與俱，張起巖竟以城降。
Wen'an sent Marshal Wang Shineng with river forces to join them, and Zhang Qiyan at last surrendered the city.
夏，入覲，文安以所得城邑繪圖以獻，帝勞之曰：「汝攻城略地之功，何若是多也！」
In summer he presented himself at court and offered maps of the cities he had won. The Emperor praised him: 'Your conquests in storming cities and seizing territory—how can there be so many!'