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Lu Xun was a rebel.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
AD 411 六月庚子
AD 411 七年……其年春
AD 410 盧循之難
AD 404 to AD 410 盧循竊據廣州
AD 411 義熙七年
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Kinship Role sons · Count 2
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id eastern-jin · Relation Rebelled against
- At Guangzhou 廣州 · Relation Seized
Works and attributed material
Events and relationships
Assaulted southern ford
AD 411 六月庚子 · Military · Attacker · At Southern Ford 南津
Beheaded and head sent to capital
Legal · Executed after death
Fought
Military
· Commander
· With Du Huidu (杜慧度) · At Shiji
石碕 · Outcome Defeated; Sun Jianzhi captured
Overran
AD 411 七年……其年春 · Military · Attacker · At Hepu 合浦
Sent envoys for alliance
Diplomatic
· Sender
· With Du Yuan (杜瑗) · Outcome Envoys executed
- Relation Superior of · Person Sun Jianzhi (孫建之) · Chief clerk
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Book of Song, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 9: Sun Chu, Kuai En, Liu Zhong, Yu Qiujin · 17 passages
盧循之難，於石頭捍柵，戍越城、查浦，破賊於新亭。
During Lu Xun's rebellion he held the palisade at Shitou, garrisoned Yuecheng and Zhapu, and routed the rebels at Xinting.
循守戰士猶有數千人，城池甚固。
Xun still had several thousand defenders, and the city was strongly fortified.
循於左里奔走，而眾力猶盛，自嶺道還襲廣州。
Xun was in flight at Zuoli, but his army was still formidable, and he came back over the mountain passes to strike Guangzhou.
季高距戰二十餘日，循乃破走，所殺萬餘人。
Jigao fought him off for more than twenty days until Xun was routed and fled; more than ten thousand were killed.
追奔至鬱林，會病，不得窮討，循遂得走向交州。
He pursued the fugitives as far as Yulin, but fell ill and could not finish the hunt, and Xun escaped toward Jiaozhou.
臣更思惟盧循稔惡一紀，據有全域。
Yet I further consider that Lu Xun had grown wicked over a full twelve-year cycle and held an entire region.
而季高汎海萬里，投命洪流，波激電邁，指日遄至，遂奄定南海，覆其巢窟，使循進退靡依，輕舟遠迸。
Instead Jigao crossed ten thousand li of open sea, staking his life on the raging waters; riding wind and wave he arrived within days, swiftly secured Nanhai, and destroyed their stronghold, leaving Xun with nowhere to turn and driving him to flee in light boats.
盧循逼京邑，恩戰於查浦，賊退走。
When Lu Xun threatened the capital, En fought at Zhapu and drove the rebels back.
與王仲德等追破循別將范崇民於南陵。
With Wang Zhongde and others he pursued and defeated Lu Xun's deputy commander Fan Chongmin at Nanling.
循既走還廣州，恩又領千餘人隨劉藩追徐道覆於始興，斬之。
After Xun fled back to Guangzhou, En led more than a thousand men under Liu Fan to pursue Xu Daofu at Shixing and killed him.
盧循逼京邑，徐赤軍違處分，敗於南岸。
When Lu Xun threatened the capital, Xu Chite's army disobeyed orders and was defeated on the south bank.
循南走，鍾與輔國將軍王仲德追之。
Xun fled south, and Zhong with General Who Assists the State Wang Zhongde pursued him.
循先留別帥范崇民以精兵高艦據南陵，夾屯兩岸。
Xun had earlier left his deputy Fan Chongmin with elite troops and tall warships to hold Nanling, with camps on both banks of the river.
元興元年，又從高祖東征臨海，於石步固與盧循相守二十餘日。
In the first year of Yuanxing he again followed the Founding Emperor east against Linhai and at Shibu fortress held Lu Xun at bay for more than twenty days.
盧循逼京邑，孟昶、諸葛長民等建議奉天子過江，進廷議不可，面折昶等，高祖甚嘉之。
When Lu Xun threatened the capital, Meng Chang, Zhuge Changmin, and others proposed moving the emperor south across the Yangzi. Qiujin argued before the court that this was unacceptable and openly refuted Chang and his allies; the Founding Emperor was greatly pleased.
循遣將英紏為上饒令。
Xun sent the general Ying Gou to serve as magistrate of Shangrao.
循又遣童敏之為鄱陽太守，據郡，進從餘干步道趣鄱陽，敏之退走，追破之，斬首數百。
Xun then sent Tong Minzhi as Administrator of Poyang to hold the commandery. Qiujin advanced overland from Yugan toward Poyang; Minzhi fled, and Qiujin pursued, defeated him, and took several hundred heads.
Book of Song, Chapter 92Volume 92 Biographies 52: Liang Li · 8 passages
盧循竊據廣州，遣使通好，瑗斬之。
Lu Xun had seized Guangzhou and sent envoys offering alliance; Yuan had them executed.
詔書未至，其年春，盧循襲破合浦，徑向交州。
Before the imperial appointment arrived, that spring Lu Xun overran Hepu and marched directly on Jiaozhou.
慧度乃率文武六千人距循於石碕，交戰，禽循長史孫建之。
Huidu led six thousand troops to meet Lu Xun at Shiji, fought a battle, and captured Xun's chief clerk Sun Jianzhi.
循雖敗，餘黨猶有三千人，皆習練兵事。
Though defeated, Lu Xun still had three thousand seasoned fighters among his remnants.
循知弈等與杜氏有怨，遣使招之，弈等引諸俚帥眾五六千人，受循節度。
Knowing that Li Yi and his brothers bore a grudge against the Du family, Lu Xun sent envoys to win them over. They brought five or six thousand Li warriors under his command.
六月庚子，循晨造南津，命三軍入城乃食。
On the gengzi day of the sixth month, Lu Xun reached the southern ford at dawn and ordered his three armies not to eat until they had entered the city.
循眾艦俱然，一時散潰，循中箭赴水死。
Lu Xun's entire fleet burst into flame and broke apart. Lu Xun was struck by an arrow, fell into the water, and drowned.
斬循及父嘏，並循二子，親屬錄事參軍阮靜、中兵參軍羅農夫、李脫等，傳首京邑。
They beheaded Lu Xun, his father Gu, and his two sons, along with his kinsmen Ruan Jing, Luo Nongfu, Li Tuo, and others, and sent their heads to the capital.