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Zhao Tingyin was a general.
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 64Volume 64: Hereditary House of Later Shu · 6 passages
知祥遣李仁罕、張業、趙廷隱將兵三萬人會璋攻遂州，別遣侯弘實將四千人助璋守東川，又遣張武下峽取渝州。
Zhixiang sent Li Renhan, Zhang Ye, and Zhao Tingyin with thirty thousand men to join Zhang in attacking Suizhou, dispatched Hou Hongshi with four thousand to help hold Eastern River, and sent Zhang Wu through the gorges to seize Yu Prefecture.
璋來告急，知祥大駭，遣廷隱分兵萬人以東，已而聞唐軍止劍州不進，喜曰：「使唐軍急趨東川，則遂州解圍，吾勢沮而兩川搖矣。
Zhang sent urgent word for help. Zhixiang was alarmed and sent Tingyin east with ten thousand men. Soon he learned the Tang army had halted at Sword Prefecture. He rejoiced and said: "Had Tang forces rushed on Eastern River, Suizhou would have been relieved, my momentum broken, and both circuits thrown into turmoil.
十二月，敬瑭及廷隱戰於劍門，唐師大敗。
In the twelfth month Jingtang and Tingyin fought at Sword Gate and routed the Tang army.
利州李彥珂聞唐軍敗東歸，乃棄城走，知祥以趙廷隱為昭武軍留後。
Li Yanke of Lizhou, hearing the Tang army had been beaten and was withdrawing east, abandoned the city and fled. Zhixiang made Zhao Tingyin acting regent of the Illustrious Martial Army.
而璋先襲破知祥漢州，知祥遣趙廷隱率兵三萬，自將擊之，陣雞距橋。
Zhang struck first, overrunning Zhixiang's Han Prefecture. Zhixiang sent Zhao Tingyin with thirty thousand men and took the field himself, drawing up battle lines at Cock's Spur Bridge.
知祥遣趙廷隱追之，不及，璋走至梓州見殺，光嗣自縊死，知祥遂並有東川。
Zhixiang sent Zhao Tingyin in pursuit but could not catch them. Zhang reached Zizhou and was killed; Guangsi hanged himself. Zhixiang thereby gained control of Eastern River as well.