Sui and Tang · Adopted Son and Military Officer

Zhao Ba 趙霸

Zhào Bà

Attested AD 904

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhao Ba was an Adopted Son and Military Officer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 904 甲子年九月
Dated from the passage context · History of Liao 1, passage 29

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Liu Rengong (劉仁恭)
adopted son 養子 · Adoptive parentage
Directly stated · History of Liao 1, passage 29

References in the histories

History of Liao, Chapter 1Volume 1 Annals 1: Taizu 1 · 4 passages

九月，討黑車子室韋，唐盧龍軍節度使劉仁恭發兵數萬，遣養子趙霸來拒。 In the ninth month he marched against the Black-Cart Shiwei. Liu Rengong, Tang governor of the Lulong Army, raised tens of thousands of men and sent his adopted son Zhao Ba to meet him.

霸至武州，太祖諜知之，伏勁兵桃山下。 Ba reached Wuzhou; Taizu, warned by his scouts, lay in wait with elite troops beneath Peach Mountain.

遣室韋人牟裏詐稱其酋長所遣，約霸兵會平原。 He sent a Shiwei named Moli to pose as an envoy from the chieftain and invite Ba's army to a rendezvous on the open plain.

既至，四面伏發，擒霸，殲其眾，乘勝大破室韋。 When Ba came, ambushers rose on every side. They took Ba prisoner, wiped out his army, and drove on to shatter the Shiwei.