Zhang Shang 張尚
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Profile
Zhang Shang is a Jin general who appears in Chapter 120 of the Romance. When Du Yu, Grand Commander of Jin, advances on Jiangling, Sun Hao, the Lord of Wu, sends out Wu Yan, Lu Jing and Sun Xin along three routes. When the troops of Zhou Zhi, whom Du Yu had sent across the river beforehand to hide at Bashan, raise fires on the city wall and cut down Sun Xin, Lu Jing, seeing from his boat the fires on the south bank and Du Yu's banner, goes ashore in alarm to save his life, but Zhang Shang gallops up and cuts him down. Romance, Ch. 120 §33 · 38–40
He appears in only one of the Romance's 120 chapters, Chapter 120, and his name is in no chapter title. The Jin general Zhang Shang does not appear in Chen Shou's main text or in Pei Songzhi's notes. The Biography of Lu Xun in Chen Shou's main text records only that on the guihai day of the 2nd month of the 4th year of Tianji (280) Lu Jing too was killed, and does not say who killed him. The Zhang Shang of the same name who appears in Chen Shou's main text is a grandson of Zhang Hong, a minister of Wu who became Palace Attendant and Prefect of the Palace Writers under Sun Hao, was sent to Jian'an to build ships, and was executed there a long time afterward. Romance, Ch. 120 §40Records, Wu 13 §88–89Records, Wu 8 §9–10
In the Romance
In Chapter 120 of the Romance, Sima Yan, the ruler of Jin, on Yang Hu's advice makes Du Yu Grand General Who Guards the South in charge of the affairs of Jing Province, and on receiving Du Yu's memorial makes him Grand Commander and sends him with 100,000 troops to advance on Jiangling. Wang Jun, General Who Soars Like a Dragon, and others also sail east down the river, so that the land and naval forces number more than 200,000 and the warships several tens of thousands. Romance, Ch. 120 §28 · 33–34
On hearing the news, Sun Hao, the Lord of Wu, on the advice of the Chancellor Zhang Ti makes Wu Yan, General of Chariots and Cavalry, Commander and sends him to Jiangling to meet Du Yu, and following the plan of the Regular Attendant Cen Hun has iron chains stretched across every vital point along the river and iron spikes set in the water. Romance, Ch. 120 §35–37
Du Yu gives his subordinate general Zhou Zhi eight hundred boatmen to cross the Yangtze secretly in small boats and lie in ambush at Bashan, and the next day advances by land and water together. When the Lord of Wu sends Wu Yan out by the land route and Lu Jing by the river route, with Sun Xin as vanguard, to oppose him along three routes, Du Yu falls back as soon as the first clash comes, then falls on Sun Xin, who has landed to pursue him, from all sides and routs him, while Zhou Zhi's eight hundred men mingle with the fleeing Wu troops and raise fires on the city wall. Romance, Ch. 120 §38–39
Sun Xin, alarmed, tries to fall back and is cut down by Zhou Zhi. Lu Jing, seeing from his boat the flames on the southern bank of the river and the banner reading 'Jin's Grand General Who Guards the South, Du Yu' on Bashan, is greatly alarmed and goes ashore to save his life, but the Jin general Zhang Shang gallops up and cuts him down. Wu Yan too abandons the city and flees, but is captured by troops in ambush and beheaded by Du Yu, and Du Yu takes Jiangling. In the Romance, this is the only passage in which Zhang Shang's name appears. Romance, Ch. 120 §40–41
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Abilities
There is no record in the main text of Chen Shou’s Records, so only the Romance score is given.
- LEA45
- STR58
- INT35
- POL33
- CHA35
- VIR42
- ADP38
- SCH31
- DIP31
- DIS31
Evidence by ability
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NGalloped up and cut down the Wu general Lu JingCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
NNo direct record — estimated from his role as a Jin generalCh. 120 §40
Romance Unverified No direct record; scored from their actions (evidence grade C)
3KDEX scoring — the Records use the main text of Chen Shou’s Records of the Three Kingdoms; the Romance uses the 120-chapter Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Click a source tag to open that passage in the reader.
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