Qin and Han · General

Zhao Punu 趙破奴

Attested BC 108 - BC 104

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhao Punu was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 104 太初元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 71, passages 128, 134
BC 108 遣從票侯破奴
Uncertain · Book of Han 71, passage 107

Events and relationships

Captured loulan king with 700 horse
Military · Commander · With King of Loulan (樓蘭王)
Directly stated · Book of Han 71, passage 128
Lost 20000 to xiongnu
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Book of Han 71, passage 148
Struck hu then jushi loulan
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Book of Han 71, passages 107-108

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 71Volume 61: Zhang Qian and Li Guangli · 3 passages

於是天子遣從票侯破奴將屬國騎及郡兵數萬以擊胡，胡皆去。 The emperor sent Marquis Congpiao Punu at the head of tens of thousands of allied horsemen and local levies; the nomads melted away.

天子以嘗使浞野侯攻樓蘭，以七百騎先至，虜其王，以定漢等言為然，而欲侯寵姬李氏，乃以李廣利為將軍，伐宛。 The emperor remembered how Zhuoye marquis had taken Loulan with seven hundred horsemen, believed the optimists, and wanting a fief for his favorite Lady Li's kin, named Li Guangli general and sent him against Ferghana.

其夏，漢亡浞野之兵二萬餘於匈奴，公卿議者皆願罷宛軍，專力攻胡。 That summer Han lost twenty thousand men under Zhuoye marquis to the Xiongnu; ministers urged abandoning the Ferghana campaign to hit the nomads alone.