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Yang Xingmi was a warlord.
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66: Hereditary House of Chu · 8 passages
宗衡等攻楊行密於揚州，未克，梁兵方急攻宗權，宗權數召儒等，儒不欲還，宗衡屢趨之，儒怒，殺宗衡，自將其兵取高郵，遂逐行密。
Zongheng and his forces besieged Yang Xingmi at Yangzhou without success. While Liang armies were tightening their assault on Zongquan, he kept calling Sun Ru back, but Ru refused to return. When Zongheng pressed him repeatedly, Ru in a rage killed Zongheng, took command of the troops himself, captured Gaoyou, and drove Yang Xingmi away.
行密據宣州，儒以兵圍之，久不克，遣殷與建峰掠食旁縣。
Yang Xingmi held Xuancheng, and Sun Ru laid siege for a long time without breaking the city. He then sent Yin and Liu Jianfeng to raid grain from the surrounding counties.
初，孫儒敗於宣州，殷弟賨為楊行密所執，行密收儒余兵為「黑雲都」，以賨為指揮使。
After Sun Ru's defeat at Xuancheng, Yin's younger brother Ma Cong fell into Yang Xingmi's hands. Xingmi enrolled Sun Ru's survivors in the "Black Cloud Corps" and appointed Cong its commander.
賨從行密攻戰，數有功，為人質重，未嘗自矜，行密愛之，問賨誰家子，賨曰：「馬殷弟也。」
Cong fought under Yang Xingmi with repeated distinction. Steady and never self-aggrandizing, he won Xingmi's affection. When Xingmi asked whose son he was, Cong answered, "I am Ma Yin's younger brother."
行密大驚曰：「汝兄貴矣，吾今歸汝可乎？」
Yang Xingmi was astonished. "Your brother has risen high," he said. "Shall I send you back to him now?"
他日又問之，賨謝曰：「臣，孫儒敗卒也，幸公待以不死，非殺身不足報。
On another day Xingmi asked again. Cong demurred: "I am only a beaten man from Sun Ru's army. You spared my life; nothing short of dying for you could repay that debt.
行密嘆曰：「昔吾愛子之貌，今吾得子之心矣。
Xingmi sighed. "Once I admired your face; now I have won your loyalty.
行密遣將劉存等攻杜洪，圍鄂州，殷遣秦彥暉、許德勛以舟兵救之，已而杜洪敗死，存等遂攻殷。
Yang Xingmi sent Liu Cun and others against Du Hong and besieged Ezhou. Yin dispatched Qin Yanhui and Xu Dexun with a fleet to aid Hong, but Hong soon fell and died, whereupon Liu Cun turned on Yin.