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Zhang Jun
Southern Song general, one of the three great commanders against the Jin, who sided with Qin Hui, gave up his army first, helped frame Yue Fei and was made Prince of Qinghe
At dusk on a hilltop, a large tent stands open with a table holding a map marked with small stones inside, a saddled horse tethered outside, and fire stands burning; campfires dot the river plain below, and one tiny sentry stands on the slope.
Also known as Zi Boying · Qinghe Junwang · Zhong Lie
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Zhang Jun, courtesy name Boying, came from Chengji in Fengxiang and enlisted at sixteen as a frontier archer. After the fall of Kaifeng he followed Prince Zhao Gou, the future Emperor Gaozong, and in 1129 joined Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi in suppressing the Miao-Liu mutiny. Early in 1130, when Jin cavalry pursued the emperor to Mingzhou, he drove them back below the city walls. In 1141 he beat a Jin army at Zhegao, but that same year he sided with Qin Hui, was the first to surrender his command, became head of the Bureau of Military Affairs and helped interrogate Yue Fei's officer Zhang Xian in the case that destroyed Yue. After the peace he was made Prince of Qinghe and amassed estates yielding six hundred thousand bushels of rent grain a year. He died in 1154 at sixty-nine and was posthumously made Prince of Xun; a kneeling iron statue of him stands with those of Qin Hui and others before Yue Fei's tomb in Hangzhou.
Life and times
Dates 1086 CE–1154 CE