Lu county rebellion
| Lu county rebellion | |||||||
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| Part of the Red Cliffs campaign | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Chen Lan and Mei Cheng Sun Quan | Cao Cao | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Chen Lan Mei Cheng Sun Quan Han Dang |
Zhang Liao Yu Jin Zang Ba Zhang He | ||||||
In 209, after the Battle of Red Cliffs, the former Yuan Shu general Chen Lan and Mei Cheng (梅成) started a rebellion in Lu county (六縣; in present-day Lu'an, Anhui). Cao Cao sent two separate forces to suppress the rebellion: Yu Jin and Zang Ba to attack Mei Cheng and the other force consisting Zhang Liao, with Zhang He and Niu Gai (牛蓋) as his deputy.
As soon as the two forces clashed, Mei Cheng pretended to surrender to Yu Jin, and then led his men to join Chen Lan at Mount Tianzhu as soon as Yu Jin and Zang Ba left.[1] On the other hand, Zhang Liao was worried that Sun Quan would send his general, Han Dang, with an army to assist Chen in resisting Cao Cao's forces. Han Dang was in charge of defending Huan, a major city in Lujian at that time, so Zhang Liao sent Zang Ba to attack Han Dang in Huan to ensure that he could not move to reinforce the rebels. Zang Ba attacked Huan, but Han Dang defended the city well and succeeded in driving Zang Ba back. Later Sun Quan dispatched a force of some 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers to assist Chen Lan but Zang Ba was able to ambush and drive off the reinforcement sent by Sun Quan.[2] However Zang Ba did not stop there as he gave chase at night and attacked in the morning. Many soldiers of Sun Quan could not board their ships, and were forced into the water and drowned. Without the intervention from Sun Quan, Zhang Liao suppressed Chen Lan's rebellion and both he and Mei Chen were beheaded.[3]
Notes
- ↑ (陳蘭、梅成以氐六縣叛，太祖遣于禁、臧霸等討成，遼督張郃、牛蓋等討蘭。成偽降禁，禁還。成遂將其衆就蘭，轉入灊山。灊中有天柱山，高峻二十餘里，道險狹，步徑裁通，蘭等壁其上。遼欲進，諸將曰：「兵少道險，難用深入。」遼曰：「此所謂一與一，勇者得前耳。」遂進到山下安營，攻之，斬蘭、成首，盡虜其衆。太祖論諸將功，曰：「登天山，履峻險，以取蘭、成，盪寇功也。」增邑，假節。) Sanguozhi vol. 17.
- ↑ (權遣數萬人乘船屯舒口，分兵救蘭，聞霸軍在舒，遁還。)San Guo Zhi.
- ↑ Chapter 58 of the Chronicle of Han [containing Part 8 of the reign of Emperor Xian] quoting San Guo Zhi and Zizhi Tongjian mention Chen Lan beheaded at the end