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Li Quan

Type Figure Region Shandong, China Time c. 1180–1231 Also known as Li Tieqiang、father of Li Tan

Li Quan (c. 1180–1231), a native of Beihai, Weizhou in the late Jin, led the Red Jacket Army and was famed for wielding an iron spear, earning the ni…

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  1. c. 1180–1213Beihai, Weizhou · ShandongBorn in Beihai, Weizhou, he traded cattle and horses and served as an archer in his youth; after his mother and brother died in the chaos of the Mongol invasion of Shandong, he gathered thousands and rose in arms around Beihai, Yidu and Linqu, answering Yang An'er's Red Jacket Army uprising.
  2. 1213–1218Moqi Mountain · ShandongAfter the Jin army's suppression Li Quan retreated to Donghai, then met Yang Miaozhen's forces at Moqi Mountain, where they married and merged their two armies, becoming the core armed force of Shandong's Red Jacket Army, with power across Weizhou, Laizhou and Yizhou.
  3. 1218–1230Chuzhou · JiangsuSong Ningzong recruited the volunteer forces; Li Quan led his men to submit to Song, was granted the title commander of the Zhongyi Army, and long garrisoned Chuzhou, jointly guarding eastern Huai with his wife Yang Miaozhen, repeatedly fighting Jin and Mongols, though disputes with the Song court deepened over arrears of pay.
  4. 1230–1231Wantou, Yangzhou · JiangsuIn winter of Shaoding 3 Li Quan rose against Song, taking Taizhou and Zhenzhou in succession and besieging Yangzhou; on the fifteenth of the first month of Zhengda 8, Song generals Zhao Fan and Zhao Kui set an ambush, and Li Quan fled to Xintang, stuck in mud and speared to death.

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