Volume 5, Chapter 32: Blood Shed by Loyal Patriots

  

Volume 5, Chapter 32: Blood Shed by Loyal Patriots


While the Daizhou army serving as the vanguard charged forward, Tingfei himself led his personal army to try and break out in order to draw the core of the Yong army. The core of the Northern Han army broke through to the northeast. Long dreading Tingfei’s fighting prowess, the Yong army concentrated its forces to prevent Tingfei from escaping. After attacking for a day and a night, the horses of Tingfei’s personal army were exhausted. He and his men were trapped by the Yong army. With dozens of injuries, Tingfei could not move. Great Yong’s Prince of Qi was fond of Tingfei’s fierce bravery and personally arrived on the front line to try to attain his capitulation. Tingfei sternly declined, and after entrusting his last words, committed suicide. At the time, Tingfei was thirty-three years old. Of his surviving several hundred personal troops, all of them followed him in suicide. The general’s beloved warhorse threw itself into the Qin River to its death. The Prince of Qi ordered that the General’s Tomb be erected in the wilderness, accompanied by the Graves of the Loyal and Righteous and Righteous Horse Mound. Afterwards, the common people established a shrine at the back of the tomb, making sacrifices during the spring and autumn. All those who were loyal and righteous would enter the shrine to pay their respects and frequently saw supernatural phenomena.—Northern Han Dynastic Records, Biography of Long Tingfei

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