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Yang Duanhe
Qin commander under King Zheng who took Yanshi from Wei, joined Wang Jian in seizing nine Zhao towns, and led the Henei army that besieged Handan
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.
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Yang Duanhe was a Qin commander under King Zheng whose deeds appear only in brief entries of the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). In 238 BC he attacked Wei and took Yanshi. In 236 BC he joined Wang Jian and Huan Yi in an invasion of Zhao that captured Ye and eight other towns. When Qin launched its great attack on Zhao in 229 BC, Wang Jian led the troops of Shangdi through the Jingxing pass while Yang Duanhe brought the army of Henei to lay siege to the Zhao capital Handan, and the next year King Qian of Zhao was taken and the city fell. Nothing more is recorded of him, and the dates of his birth and death and the manner of his end are unknown.
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Dates Dates unknown; general under King Zheng of Qin