Talking about huang gai and Cheng Pu, veteran generals of the Three Dynasties of the Jiangdong Clique, it should be said that when Sun Jian started his family, there were four major generals who followed him, namely: Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Zu Mao. However, there are very few records about Zu Mao, and there is only one record of him in the historical records, that is, after Sun Jian was defeated by Dong Zhuo's general Xu Rong during his crusade against Dong Zhuo, he was surrounded and suppressed by Dong Zhuo's army, and Zu Mao led the enemy's pursuing troops with the red turban that Sun Jian often wore to cover Sun Jian's retreat. Later, zu Mao was chased too tightly by Dong Zhuo's pursuers, so he hung Sun Jian's red turban on a piece of dead wood, and he himself hid it, which allowed him to escape.
Therefore, since Sun Jian's uprising, the four major generals who have followed him have only Han Dang left, and today I will make up for this deficiency and talk about Han Dang.
Han Dang (?) –226), literally righteous. Like Cheng Pu, Han Dang was also from Hebei, except that Han Dang was a native of Lingzhi County, Liaoxi County (present-day Qian'an, Hebei), and Cheng Pu was a native of Tangshan.
So how did Han Dang, a native of Hebei, join the Jiangdong Sun Group? There are no relevant records or clues in the historical records, for which I can only speculate, it is likely to be similar to Cheng Pu, it was also during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, because Sun Jian was transferred by Zhu Juan to his army as a Sima of the Zuo Army, and Han Dang signed up to join Sun Jian's army at that time.
To say that Han Dang signed up for the army at that time had his own advantages, that is, he was very good at bows and arrows and riding, and he was very strong. This made him particularly prominent among the recruits who enlisted in the army at the same time, and thus he was particularly appreciated by the leader Sun Jian.
We know that Sun Jian himself is a fierce general, and the best thing he is good at is to lead the army to go out on the expedition, so since Han Dang followed Sun Jian, he followed Sun Jian around in conquest, the southern expedition to the northern war, and he had repeatedly escaped from danger in the midst of dangerous predicament, leading everyone to fall into the enemy together and making many military achievements. And Han Dang himself was also quite generous and extravagant, after handing over the captured booty and receiving the reward, he always shared the reward with his colleagues and friends who fought together, so he did not accumulate much property, but he was finally promoted by Sun Jian to be a sima of other departments because of his merits.
Later, in the war with Liu Biao, Sun Jian was ambushed by Liu Biao's general Huang Zu and was killed by a dark arrow. Han Dang continued to follow Sun Jian's son Sun Ce, and after Sun Ce asked Yuan Shu for orders to go to support his uncle Wu Jing, Han Dang followed him in attacking Danyang County, Wu County, and Huiji Commandery in Yangzhou. After the war, he was promoted to captain of the first rank (the first to climb is to be the first in every battle, or the first to climb to the head of the enemy city).
Like the veteran general Cheng Pu, after Han Dang's promotion, Sun Ce gave Han Dang 2,000 soldiers and 50 warhorses, especially to lead the battle.
Leading this force, Han Dang followed Sun Ce in his conquest of Liu Xun of Lujiang County, and defeated his father's vendetta in Shaxian County, Jiangxia County: Taishou Huangzu of Jiangxia County, Jingzhou. After returning to his division, he went to quell the rebellion in Poyang County, Yuzhang County, and also served as the governor of Le'an County, which made the Yue Thieves of Poyang Mountain quite afraid of him.
Later, Sun Ce was assassinated and died of serious injuries. Han Dang continued to follow Sun Quan, and in the following days, he fought diligently and courageously, continuously accumulating battle achievements, and gradually promoted to the first rank of Zhonglang General.
In the thirteenth year of Jian'an (208), the famous Battle of Chibi broke out, and Han Dang, under the leadership of the governor Zhou Yu, and a group of military generals in Jiangdong won few victories and refused to break Cao Cao's army. As we just said in the Huang Gai chapter, Han Dang happened to be found by the wounded Huang Gai in the wounded barracks and called for help, thus saving the veteran Huang Gai in time.
The year after Cao's defeat at the Battle of Chibi, in the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209), the Lujiang people Chen Lan and Mei Cheng occupied six counties, including QiXian County, and Cao Cao sent Yu Ban and Zang Ba to attack Meicheng, and ordered Zhang Liao to lead Zhang Gao and Niu Gai to attack Chen Lan.
In order to smoothly carry out the counter-rebellion, while Zhang Liao was attacking Chen Lan, Cao Cao also ordered Zang Ba to leave Yu Ban and others alone to go to Anhui City to attract the attention of the Jiangdong army, thus leaving Sun Quan without time to rescue Chen Lan. Han Dang led his army to snipe Zang Ba, and the two sides fought at Fenglong, and then Han Dang mobilized his troops to block the attack at Jiashi, but both attacks were broken by Zang Ba. As a result, the Jiangdong army was unable to go north to rescue Chen Lan, and Chen Lan was eventually pacified by Zhang Liao.
Subsequently, when Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang City and Fancheng in the north, Han Dang followed Lü Mengbai across the river to attack Jiangling City in Nan County, so he was promoted to a partial general and led Taishou of Yongchang County, Yizhou. In this battle, Liu Bei not only lost Jingzhou, but also damaged the general Guan Yu.
Liu Bei could not swallow this evil breath, and finally led an army to march east to Jiangdong, and held the Jiangdong army led by Lu Xun, the governor of Eastern Wu, for half a year at Yiling. Finally, in the first year of Huang Wu (222), the governor of Dadu, Lu Xun, led the Jiangdong army to launch a counterattack, and Han Dang, together with the Zhaowu general Zhu Ran and other generals, burned Liu Bei's company camp in Zhuoxiang, Nan County, and broke the Shu army and won a complete victory. After the war, Han Dang was promoted to the rank of General of WeiLie for his merits, and was given the title of Marquis of Tingting.
After the Battle of Yiling, Cao Pi ordered the general Cao Zhen to lead an army south to attack Nan Commandery, and Han Dang was responsible for leading an army to guard the southeastern side of Nan Commandery.
When Han dang commanded the army, as a general, he could encourage his subordinates to stick to the same heart, and he could respect the superiors or officials, lead by example, and obey the laws, which Wu Wang Sun Quan was very appreciative of. Why is this specifically emphasized? Because at that time in the Jiangdong camp, many generals were often allowing their subordinates to do something illegal because they had quite a battle achievement, and even tried the law by themselves, of which the more typical one was Pan Zhang. Sun Quan's approach to this is often not to be pursued, so for a disciplined and law-abiding general like Han Dang, Sun Quan naturally appreciates it more.
The following year, in the second year of Huang Wu (223), Sun Quan made Han the Marquis of Shicheng, promoted to general of Zhaowu, and led the champion Taishou. Later, he added the title of Governor.
In the fifth year of Huang Wu (226), Han Dang commanded the death squad and reconciled the camp, with a total strength of 10,000 troops, to quell the rebellion of the thieves in Danyang County.
Shortly after the Rebellion against Danyang, Han Dang fell ill in office and eventually died.
When Han Dang had just died of illness, he was just in time for Sun Quan to personally lead an army to Shiyang County in Yuzhang County, because Han Dang's son Han Zong was serving in the mourning period, so he left him in Wuchang and did not accompany the army. However, Han Dang's indisputable son Han Zong was sexually committed adultery during this period, and the matter was learned by Sun Quan, who did not ask questions for the sake of his father Han Dang.
However, Han Zong himself was very weak-hearted and fearful, so one night, he led his mother, family members, and thousands of people to flee to Wei with the body of his father Han Dang, who had not yet been buried. Poor Han Dang, as the third veteran of the Sun clique in Jiangdong, eventually buried wei guo because of his own unworthiness.
After Han Zong surrendered to Cao Wei, he was used as a general and made the Marquis of Guangyang. After that, he invaded the borders of Wu several times and killed the people, and Sun Quan gritted his teeth and hated him to the extreme. In the Battle of Dongxing in 252, Han Zong, as the forward of the State of Wei, was defeated and killed, zhuge Ke beheaded him, and sent the first rank to Sun Quanling to worship.