Tang Zi
Tang Zi | |
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唐咨 | |
General Who Stabilises Distant Lands (安遠將軍) | |
In office 258 –? | |
Monarch | Cao Mao / Cao Huan |
General of the Vanguard (前將軍) | |
In office 252 –258 | |
Monarch | Sun Liang |
Personal details | |
Born | Unknown Linshu County, Shandong / Lianyungang, Jiangsu |
Died | Unknown |
Occupation | General |
Tang Zi (fl. 200–262) was a military general of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) of China. In 258, he defected to Wu's rival state, Cao Wei, and became a general under Wei.
Life
Tang Zi was from Licheng Commandery (利城郡; between southeast of present-day
Between 235 and 236, Tang Zi participated in a campaign against the restive
In 252, Tang Zi fought at the Battle of Dongxing against Wu's rival state, Wei, alongside other Wu generals such as Liu Zan, Lü Ju and Ding Feng. He was promoted to General of the Vanguard (前將軍), granted imperial authority, and enfeoffed as a marquis for his achievements in the battle.
In 256, Tang Zi joined
In 257, when the Wei general Zhuge Dan started a rebellion in Shouchun (壽春; present-day Shou County, Anhui), he sent his son Zhuge Jing as a hostage to Wu in exchange for support from Wu against Wei. In the following year, Sun Chen ordered Wen Qin, Tang Zi, Quan Yi (全懌), Quan Duan (全端), Wang Zuo (王祚) and others to lead 30,000 troops to Shouchun to assist Zhuge Dan in his rebellion against Wei forces led by the Wei regent Sima Zhao. When the tide turned against Zhuge Dan by early 258, Zhuge Dan and Tang Zi tried to break out of the siege but failed. After being captured by Wei forces, Tang Zi agreed to surrender and defect to Wei. Sima Zhao appointed him as General Who Stabilises Distant Lands (安遠將軍). As Sima Zhao treated the surrendered Wu soldiers well, in return the Wu government did not harm Tang Zi's family members, who were still in Wu when he defected to Wei.
In 262, when Sima Zhao was planning an invasion of Wei's other rival state, Shu, he ordered Tang Zi to supervise the construction of warships to be used in a later campaign against Wu. Nothing about Tang Zi was recorded in history after that.
See also
References
- Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
- Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms(Sanguozhi zhu).