Feng Yi

Also known as Zi Gongsun · Dashu Jiangjun

Feng Yi, courtesy name Gongsun, came from Fucheng in Yingchuan, loved books and knew the Zuo Tradition and Sunzi's Art of War. As a commandery officer overseeing five counties at the end of Wang Mang's reign he was captured by Liu Xiu's troops and joined him. When Liu Xiu was in desperate straits in Hebei, Feng brought him bean gruel at Wulou pavilion and barley rice at Nangong. Whenever the generals sat together boasting of their merits, he would withdraw alone beneath a tree, and the army called him the General of the Great Tree. Made Marquis of Yangxia in 26, he routed the Red Eyebrows at Yaodi the next year, and the emperor wrote that though he had drooped his wings at Huixi he had soared at Mianchi, losing in the east and gaining in the west. He then governed the Guanzhong region for years and died in 34 while campaigning against Wei Xiao, posthumously named Marquis Jie, and was counted among the twenty-eight generals of the Cloud Terrace.