Five Dynasties · General

Yang Yan 楊兗

Attested AD 947 - AD 954

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Yan was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 954 顯德元年春
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 178
AD 947 高祖車駕至闕
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passages 48-49

Key source chapters

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 109 Volume 109 Book of Later Jin 11: Biographies 6: Du Zhongwei, Li Shouzhen, Zhao Siwan 2 passages
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 137 Volume 137: Foreign States Biographies 1: Khitan 1 passage

Career and standing

tribal general 蕃將
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passage 48

Places and affiliations

AD 947 高祖車駕至闕
At Mozhou 洺州 · Relation Traveled to
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passage 49

Events and relationships

Assisted
AD 954 顯德元年春 · Military · Commander · With Liu Chong (劉崇)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 137, passage 178
Turned back
AD 947 高祖車駕至闕 · Military · Relief general · At Mozhou 洺州
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passages 48-49

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 109Volume 109 Book of Later Jin 11: Biographies 6: Du Zhongwei, Li Shouzhen, Zhao Siwan · 2 passages

重威懼，閉城拒命，詔高行周率兵攻討，重威遣其子宏遂等告急於鎮州州麻答，乞師救援，旦以宏遂為質，麻答遣蕃將楊兗赴之。 Terrified, Chongwei shut the gates and defied the court. Gao Xingzhou was ordered to attack. Chongwei sent his son Hongsui to beg Maduo, governor of Zhenzhou, for relief, offering Hongsui as hostage that same day. Maduo dispatched the tribal general Yang Yan.

未幾，鎮州軍逐滿達勒，楊兗至洺州而回。 Before long the Zhenzhou garrison expelled Manduole, and Yang Yan turned back when he reached Mozhou.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 137Volume 137: Foreign States Biographies 1: Khitan · 1 passage

顯德元年春，太原劉崇將圖南寇，契丹將楊兗率騎萬餘以助之。 In the spring of Xiande 1 Liu Chong of Taiyuan prepared to invade the south, and the Khitan general Yang Yan led more than ten thousand horsemen to help him.