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Han Quanyi was a general.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Assessment cowardly, greedy, undisciplined · Mode historian-judgment
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 12 passages
崔鄧魏衛李韓盧高
Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li, Han, Lu, and Gao
韓全義，家素寒，史失其先世。
Han Quanyi came from a family that had always been poor, and the histories have lost record of his forebears.
全義素懦貪，無紀律，為下靳狎。
Quanyi was by nature cowardly and greedy, without discipline, and his subordinates treated him familiarly and slightingly.
是夜，噪而亂，全義縋以逸，殺其親將王棲巖、趙虔曜等，軍虞候高崇文誅亂首，眾乃定，全義得赴屯。
That night they clamored and rioted; Quanyi lowered himself by rope and escaped; they killed his close generals Wang Qiyan, Zhao Qianyao, and others; the army adjutant Gao Chongwen executed the ringleaders, and the troops then settled down; Quanyi was able to take up his post.
德宗以文場素為全義地，因用為淮西行營招討使，以陳許節度使上官涚副之，諸鎮兵皆屬。
Emperor Dezong, because Wenchang had always been Quanyi's patron, appointed him pacification commissioner for the Huainan West campaign, with Chenxu military governor Shangguan Shui as his deputy; troops from all the circuits were placed under his command.
全義無它方略，號令悉稟監軍，每議攻戰，宦豎十數紛爭帳中，小人好自異，互詆訾不能決。
Quanyi had no strategy of his own; all orders were submitted to the army supervisors. Whenever attack and battle were discussed, a dozen eunuchs quarreled in the tent; petty men liked to differ from one another and mutually slandered until no decision could be reached.
遇賊廣利城，方暑，地沮洳，士皆病癘，全義未嘗存之。
They met the rebels at Guangli City in midsummer on damp, marshy ground; the soldiers all fell ill with miasma, and Quanyi had never looked after them.
是時，唯陳許將孟元陽、神策將蘇光榮守溵水，全義誘潞、滑州數大將殺之，然卒不振。
At this time only Chenxu general Meng Yuanyang and Shence general Su Guangrong held the Wen River; Quanyi enticed and killed several great generals of Lu and Hua prefectures, yet in the end could not recover.
少誠度無能為，即謾書謝監軍，求洗前咎。
Shaocheng judged that Quanyi could do nothing more and at once sent a deceitful letter thanking the army supervisor and asking to be forgiven his former faults.
全義班師，過闕下，托疾不入謁。
Quanyi withdrew the army, passed below the palace gates, feigned illness, and did not enter for an audience.
帝曰：「全義誘少誠歸國，功大矣！
The emperor said, "Quanyi enticed Shaocheng to return to allegiance—the merit is great!
憲宗在藩，疾之，既嗣位，全義大懼，願入覲，不復用，以太子少保致仕卒。
When Xianzong was still heir apparent he detested him; once he succeeded to the throne, Quanyi was greatly afraid and wished to enter for an audience, but was not again employed and died after retiring as grand guardian of the heir apparent.