Liang Xing
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Liang Xing (d. 212) was a general of the Liang province during the Three Kingdoms period in China. He was a local of Zuopingyi commandery (左馮翊) of the capital province, Sili (司隸).
Liang Xing was one of the generals who answered Ma Chao calls to resist Cao Cao in 211. But after the disastrous Battle of Tong Pass, the alliance broke down and he was reduced to banditry. He raided the Zuopingyi commandery and caused the officials in the area to flee in panic. The Grand Administrator of the commandery, Zheng Hun (鄭渾), observed that the raiders were only held together by force and so Zheng used various physiological plots to chip away Liang's bandits. Liang Xing and his remaining followers became afraid and fled to their base at Fu city (鄜城, near present-day Lechuan in Shaanxi). Cao Cao then sent Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang to aid Zheng Hun to attack Fu city, and soon they took the head of Liang Xing and the rest of his party were all pacified.
In the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he was one of the eight knights serving under Han Sui. When relations between Ma Chao and Han Sui soured as a result of Jia Xu's ploy, Liang Xing and Ma Wan (馬玩) planned to assassinate Ma Chao. But Ma Chao got wind of the plot, and killed them preemptively.
[edit] References
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