Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General

Yang Yu 楊昱

Attested AD 520 - AD 529

Passages: 11
Chapters: 3
Histories: 3

Overview

Yang Yu was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 527 to AD 529 大通初
Dated from the passage context · Book of Liang 32, passage 50
AD 529 中大通元年五月丁巳
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33
AD 529 五月戊辰
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0035b
AD 529 五月癸酉
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0035m
AD 520 to AD 525 正光中
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 15

Family

Kin of Yang Yin (楊愔)
paternal cousin 從父兄 · paternal line
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 15

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Left Vice Director 左僕射
AD 527 to AD 529 大通初 · Held
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 50
Grand Commander of the Southeast Circuit 東南道大都督
AD 529 中大通元年五月丁巳 · Held
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33
Palace Attendant 黃門侍郎
Held
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 34, passage 15
Not killed
Spared · Authority Yuan Hao (元顥) · Negated false
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0035p; zizhitongjian:153:s0035q

Places and affiliations

Polity Wei 魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33; zizhitongjian:153:s0035b
AD 529 中大通元年五月丁巳
At Yingyang 滎陽 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33
At Yingyang 滎陽 · Relation Defended · Force 70000
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0035b

Events and relationships

Captured
AD 529 五月癸酉 · Military · Captive · At Yingyang 滎陽
Dated from the passage context · zizhitongjian:153:s0035m
Held Yingyang against Yuan Hao with Yuan Qing and Yuan Xiangong
AD 527 to AD 529 大通初 · Military · Defender · With Yuan Hao (元顥)
Directly stated · Book of Liang 32, passage 50
Posted to Yingyang
AD 529 中大通元年五月丁巳 · Military · Garrison commander
Dated from the passage context · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33
Refused surrender
Military · Defender · With Yuan Hao (元顥)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0035d
Subordinates executed
Legal · Principal · Count 37 · thirty-seven commanders beheaded and eaten
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0035r

Assessments and attributes

loyal minister 忠臣
Assessment loyal minister · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Yuan Hao (元顥)
Directly stated · zizhitongjian:153:s0035p

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance 153, passage 33

References in the histories

Search passages

History

11 passages

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 34Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi · 2 passages

愔從父兄黃門侍郎昱特相器重，曾謂人曰：「此兒駒齒未落，已是我家龍文。 Yin's cousin by the father's line, palace attendant Yu, especially valued him and once told others, "This boy's colt teeth have not yet fallen, yet already he is our family's dragon pattern.

昱嘗與十餘人賦詩，愔一覽便誦，無所遺失。 Yu once composed a poem with more than ten men; Yin read it once and recited it, missing nothing.

Book of Liang, Chapter 32Volume 32: Chen Qingzhi; Lan Qin · 2 passages

魏左僕射楊昱、西阿王元慶、撫軍將軍元顯恭率御仗羽林宗子庶子衆凡七萬，據滎陽拒顥。 Left Vice Director Yang Yu, Prince Qing of Xi'a, and Pacification Army General Yuan Xiangong led seventy thousand imperial guards and cadets to hold Yingyang against Hao.

魏將元天穆大軍復將至，先遣其驃騎將軍尒朱吐沒兒領胡騎五千，騎將魯安領夏州步騎九千，援楊昱； Yuan Tianmu's main army was closing in. He first sent Cavalry General Erzhu Tumener with five thousand barbarian horse and Cavalry Commander Lu An with nine thousand mixed troops from Xia province to reinforce Yang Yu;

Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Chapter 153Volume 153 Liang Records 9 · 7 passages

五月，丁巳，魏以東南道大都督楊昱鎮滎陽，尚書僕射爾朱世隆鎮虎牢，侍中爾朱世承鎮崿□。 In the fifth month, on dingsi, Wei posted the grand commander of the southeast circuit, Yang Yu, at Yingyang; the Vice Director of the Imperial Secretariat, Erzhu Shilong, at Hulao; and the palace attendant Erzhu Shicheng at the Yao pass.

楊昱擁眾七萬，據滎陽。 Yang Yu held seventy thousand men and fortified Yingyang.

顥遣人說昱使降，昱不從。 Hao sent envoys to urge Yu to surrender; Yu refused.

將士即相帥蟻附而入，癸酉，拔滎陽，執楊昱。 Officers and men swarmed up like ants; on guiyou they stormed Yingyang and captured Yang Yu.

諸將三百餘人伏顥帳前請曰：「陛下渡江三千里，無遺鏃之費，昨滎陽城下一朝殺傷五百餘人，願乞楊昱以快眾意！」 More than three hundred commanders knelt before Hao's tent and said, "Your Majesty marched three thousand li without wasting a shaft; yet below Yingyang we lost over five hundred in a single morning—grant us Yang Yu to appease the troops!"

楊昱忠臣，奈何殺之！ Yang Yu is a loyal minister—how can we kill him!

於是斬昱所部統帥三十七人，皆刳心而食之。 Thereupon thirty-seven of Yu's commanders were beheaded; each had his heart cut out and was eaten.