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Ren Fu defeated at Haoshuichuan

The Song shi basic annals record that in the second lunar month of Qingli 1 (AD 1041) Yuanhao (元昊) raided Weizhou (渭州), and Ren Fu (任福), deputy commander-in-chief of cavalry and infantry of Huanqing circuit (環慶路), was defeated at Haoshuichuan (好水川); Ren Fu and the officers and soldiers who died numbered more than six thousand.

Limits: The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The entry is dated only "in this month" (是月) without a day, and the fighting may have been entered when news reached the court; the death toll is as the annals report it. The rendering of Ren Fu's title is a working translation. The annals number this whole year Qingli 1 (慶曆元年), although they record the change of era name (改元) only in the eleventh month.

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Source: Song shi (History of Song), basic annalsRead the source