Lu Tuan

The old chronicles say

In the seventh year of the Yixi era, that is, 411, Lu Tuan was beaten and fled from Guangzhou. The Jin shu records: Tuan then made a surprise attack on Hop Pho, took it, and advanced on Giao Chau. At Long Bien, the inspector Do Tue Do defeated him by a stratagem. The Song shu tells it at greater length: Tue Do led six thousand men, civil officials and soldiers alike, out to block Lu Tuan at Thach Ky. On the other side were two sons of the governor Ly Ton, Ly Dich and Ly Thoat, who had fled to Thach Ky, banded together with the Ly and the Lao peoples, each of them with his own retainers, and gone over to Lu Tuan.¹²

The Song shu records the battle at Long Bien: on the Canh Ty day of the sixth month, Tuan reached the south landing at dawn, and ordered his whole army to take the city first and eat afterwards. That meal never came: Tue Do's side loosed fire arrows and pheasant-tail torches, foot soldiers lined both banks and shot from either side, every one of Tuan's ships caught fire, and in a moment his force broke apart. As for his death, the Song shu and the Jin shu tell it differently: one says he was struck by an arrow and leapt into the water and died, the other that he poisoned his wife and children, asked his concubines which of them would die with him, and then threw himself into the water, and Tue Do pulled the body out and cut off its head. The Complete Annals chose to follow the Jin shu's version.²¹³