Zhou Tai 州泰

Chen Shou appended Zhou Tai of Nanyang, a man of the same locality and generation as Deng Ai, to the end of the biography of Deng Ai. He too, it is said, loved to achieve merit and was skilled in handling troops. Records, Wei 28 §91–92

In the 2nd year of Jiaping (250) Wang Chang submitted a memorial saying that Sun Quan had banished his worthy ministers and that his legitimate and secondary sons were divided and quarreling, so that Wei could take advantage of the rift to subdue Wu and Shu. Between Baidi and Yiling, he said, Qian, Wu County, Zigui and Fangling all lay north of the Yangtze, and their inhabitants, Chinese and non-Chinese, bordered on Xincheng Commandery, so they could be taken by surprise attack. Accordingly the Administrator of Xincheng, Zhou Tai, was sent to raid Wu County, Zigui and Fangling, while Wang Ji, Inspector of Jing Province, advanced on Yiling and Wang Chang on Jiangling. Records, Wei 27 §40 · 42

Wang Chang defeated the Wu commander-in-chief Shi Ji, beheaded his generals Zhongli Mao and Xu Min, and returned, and the Biography of Wang Chang records that Wang Ji and Zhou Tai also both won merit. The Annals of the Three Young Emperors record that in the 1st month of spring of the 3rd year of Jiaping (251) Wang Ji, Inspector of Jing Province, and Zhou Tai, Administrator of Xincheng, attacked and defeated Wu, taking the surrender of several thousand people, and that in the 2nd month Yiling County was established in Nan Commandery to settle those who had come over. Records, Wei 27 §43–44Records, Wei 4 §32

In the 5th month of the 2nd year of Ganlu (257), when the court summoned Zhuge Dan to be Minister of Works, he rebelled at Shouchun. In the 6th month the imperial carriage set out east on campaign and reached Xiang County, and the General-in-Chief Sima Zhao, leading 260,000 troops of the capital and the provinces, reached the Huai and encamped at Qiutou. Sima Zhao had Wang Ji, the General Who Pacifies the East Chen Qian and others surround the city on all sides, and also had the Army Supervisor Shi Bao, the Inspector of Yan Province Zhou Tai and others select crack troops to form a mobile force to guard against enemies from outside. Records, Wei 28 §35 · 37

Wu sent Wen Qin, Tang Zi, Quan Duan, Quan Yi and others with 30,000 men to relieve Zhuge Dan, and Zhu Yi, leading 30,000 men, encamped at Anfeng as support for Wen Qin. When the Inspector of Yan Province Zhou Tai blocked Zhu Yi at Yangyuan, Zhu Yi was defeated and withdrew, and under Zhou Tai's pursuit he lost 2,000 killed or wounded. Records, Wu 19 §84

Sun Chen encamped at Huoli and again sent Zhu Yi with the generals Ding Feng, Li Fei and others, 50,000 men in all, to attack Wei. Zhu Yi encamped at Lijiang and gathered 6,000 brave men to build a pontoon bridge, cross by night and build a crescent-shaped rampart, but they were defeated by Wei's Army Supervisor Shi Bao and Zhou Tai and fell back. When Zhu Yi again formed a camp of wagons ringed like a box and advanced on Wumu, Shi Bao and Zhou Tai attacked him, and he was defeated and turned back. At this time the Administrator of Taishan, Hu Lie, raided Dulu by a byway and burned all of Zhu Yi's supplies and provisions. Sun Chen beheaded Zhu Yi at Huoli. Records, Wu 19 §85–86

The Biography of Zhuge Dan also records that the Wu general Zhu Yi twice led a great army to meet Zhuge Dan and the others and crossed the Lijiang River, but Zhou Tai and others met him in battle and each time broke his spearhead, and that Sun Chen, angry that Zhu Yi fought without advancing, put him to death. Records, Wei 28 §38

Zhou Tai's offices rose to General Who Subdues Barbarians, with the Staff of Authority, and Commander of All Military Affairs South of the Yangtze. When he died in the 2nd year of Jingyuan (261) he was posthumously made General of the Guards, and his posthumous name was Marquis Zhuang. The assessment of Records of Wei 28, which contains the biography of Deng Ai, discusses only Wang Ling, Guanqiu Jian, Zhuge Dan, Zhong Hui and Deng Ai and does not mention Zhou Tai. Records, Wei 28 §92 · 140