Yang Feng 楊奉

When Li Jue and Guo Si were fighting each other in Chang'an, Li Jue's general Yang Feng plotted with Li Jue's military officer Song Guo and others to kill Li Jue, and when the plot leaked he turned against Li Jue at the head of his troops. As his followers deserted him, Li Jue gradually grew weak. According to Xu Huang's biography, while Xu Huang was a minor officer he followed Yang Feng, General of Chariots and Cavalry, against bandits and won merit, and when Li Jue and Guo Si threw Chang'an into turmoil, he urged Yang Feng to escort the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, and Yang Feng followed his plan. Records, Wei 6 §24–25Records, Wei 17 §57

When, through Zhang Ji's mediation, the Son of Heaven left Chang'an and reached the area between Xinfeng and Baling, Guo Si again tried to coerce him into returning to Mei County. The Son of Heaven fled to Yang Feng's camp, and Yang Feng attacked and defeated Guo Si, who fled to the Southern Mountains. Yang Feng set out on the road to Luoyang escorting the Son of Heaven together with the general Dong Cheng. Records, Wei 6 §25

When Li Jue and Guo Si, regretting that they had let the Son of Heaven go, joined forces again and caught up with him at Caoyang in Hongnong, Yang Feng hastily summoned Han Xian, Hu Cai, Li Le and others, former leaders of the White Wave bandits of Hedong, to join him, and fought a great battle, but was defeated. Li Jue and the others killed ministers and officials and carried off palace women, and the Son of Heaven crossed the Yellow River northward from Shan County and reached Dayang on foot. Yang Feng, Han Xian and the others made the Son of Heaven establish his capital at Anyi, where he rode in an ox cart. Han Xian, Hu Cai and Li Le became Generals Who Conquer the East, the West and the North, and held the government together with Yang Feng and Dong Cheng. Records, Wei 6 §26–27

As the generals could not command one another, superiors and inferiors fell into disorder and the provisions ran out, so Yang Feng, Han Xian and Dong Cheng escorted the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang. When they came out of the Ji Pass and went down the Zhi road, Zhang Yang met them on the way with provisions. The Annals of Emperor Wu records that in the 7th month, in autumn of the 1st year of Jian'an (196), Yang Feng and Han Xian brought the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, and that Yang Feng was stationed separately at Liang County. Records, Wei 6 §28Records, Wei 8 §33Records, Wei 1 §38

At this time Han Xian, Yang Feng, Dong Cheng and Zhang Yang were at odds and could not get along. Judging that Yang Feng's troops and horses were the strongest but that he had few allies, Dong Zhao wrote a letter to Yang Feng in Cao Cao's name. It said that the general should be the master within while Cao Cao would help from without, and that since Cao Cao had food and the general had soldiers, they should share with each other. Yang Feng was pleased and told the other generals that the Yan Province army was close by at Xu and had both soldiers and provisions, so that the state could rely on it; together they submitted a memorial making Cao Cao General Who Guards the East and letting him inherit his father's title of Marquis of Feiting. Xu Huang's biography records that Xu Huang urged Yang Feng to submit to Cao Cao, and that Yang Feng was about to follow this advice but later regretted it. Records, Wei 14 §50–52Records, Wei 17 §57

When Cao Cao reached Luoyang and, intending to move the Son of Heaven to Xu, was worried about Yang Feng's crack troops at Liang County, Dong Zhao said that Yang Feng had few allies and was brave but lacking in forethought, so he would not be suspicious. Cao Cao sent an envoy as Dong Zhao advised and moved the imperial carriage to Xu. Yang Feng lost hope over this and plundered and acted violently at Dingling with Han Xian and others. The Annals of Emperor Wu records that when the Son of Heaven came east, Yang Feng tried to intercept him from Liang County but did not reach him in time. In the 10th month, in winter of the 1st year of Jian'an (196), Cao Cao attacked Yang Feng, who fled south to Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao took his camp at Liang County. Xu Huang submitted to Cao Cao at this time. Records, Wei 14 §54–56Records, Wei 1 §40Records, Wei 17 §57

Yuan Shu, angry with Lü Bu, joined forces with Han Xian, Yang Feng and others and sent his senior general Zhang Xun to attack Lü Bu. Chen Gui said that Han Xian, Yang Feng and Yuan Shu were a hastily combined army that could not hold together for long, and that, as in the plan of his son Chen Deng, they were like chickens tied together and could be separated. Lü Bu sent men to Han Xian and Yang Feng proposing that they join him in attacking Yuan Shu's army and promising them all the army supplies, and when the two agreed, Zhang Xun was badly defeated. Records, Wei 7 §24

The Biographies of Dong Zhuo, the Two Yuans and Liu Biao records that Han Xian and Yang Feng, unable to uphold the laws of the king, each fled and plundered between Xu and Yang Provinces until they were killed by Liu Bei. In the Biography of the First Sovereign, after Liu Bei lost Xiapi to Lü Bu and moved to Haixi, he intercepted Yang Feng and Han Xian as they plundered between Xu and Yang Provinces and beheaded them all. The edict of the 18th year of Jian'an (213) enfeoffing Cao Cao as Duke of Wei counted among his merits that, when Han Xian and Yang Feng wielded authority and commands at will, he attacked them, removed the trouble they caused and moved the capital to Xu. Records, Wei 6 §30Records, Shu 2 §12Records, Wei 1 §121 · 123