Heukchi Sangji黑齒常之
1Heukchi Sangji
黑齒常之，百濟西部人，長七尺餘，驍毅有謀略，為百濟達率兼風達郡將，猶唐刺史云。蘇定方平百濟，常之以所部降。而定方囚老王，縱兵大掠。常之懼，與左右酋長十餘人遯去，嘯合逋亡，依任存山自固，不旬日，歸者三萬。定方勒兵攻之，不克。遂復二百餘城。龍朔中，高宗遣使招諭，乃詣劉仁軌降，入唐為左領軍員外將軍洋州刺史。累從征伐積功，授爵賞殊等。久之，為燕然道大摠管，與李多祚等，擊突厥破之。左監門衛中郞將寶璧，欲窮追邀功，詔與常之共討，寶璧獨進，為虜所覆，擧軍沒。寶璧下吏誅，常之坐無功。會，周興等誣其與鷹揚將軍趙懷節叛，捕繫詔獄，投繯死。常之御下有恩，所乘馬為士所箠，或請罪之。答曰：「何遽以私馬，鞭官兵乎？」前後賞賜分麾下，無留貲。及死，人皆哀其枉。
Heukchi Sangji was a man of the western district of Baekje. He stood more than seven cheok tall, he was quick and hardy and full of stratagem, and he became a dalsol of Baekje and commander of Pungdal commandery, which is said to be the same as a governor in Tang.
When Su Dingfang put down Baekje, Sangji surrendered with the men under him. But Dingfang shut up the old king and let his soldiers loose to plunder on a great scale, and Sangji took fright. With more than ten chiefs of his own following he slipped away, called together the men who had scattered and fled, and held out on Imjonsan, and in less than ten days thirty thousand had come back to him. Dingfang drove his troops against them and could not win. In the end they took back more than two hundred fortresses.
In the Longshuo years Gaozong sent an envoy to summon him and win him over, and so he went to Liu Rengui and surrendered. He entered Tang and became supernumerary general of the Left Guard Command and governor of Yangzhou. He went out on campaign again and again and piled up merit, and the ranks and rewards he was given were of an uncommon grade.
After a long time he became grand commander of the marching army of the Yanran route, and with Li Duozuo and the others he struck the Tujue and broke them. Baobi, a general of the Left Gate Guard, wished to chase them to the end and take the credit, and an edict had him make the attack together with Sangji. But Baobi went forward alone, was overthrown by the barbarians, and his whole army was lost. Baobi was handed to the officers of the prison and put to death, and Sangji was charged with having gained nothing.
Just then Zhou Xing and others falsely accused him of rebelling along with the yingyang general Zhao Huaijie. He was seized and bound in the imperial prison, and he put his neck in a noose and died.
Sangji was kind in his dealings with those below him. A soldier once beat the horse he rode, and someone asked that the man be punished. He answered, "Am I to whip a soldier of the state over a horse of my own?" The rewards he was given, first and last, he shared out among his men, and he left no property behind. When he died, everyone grieved at the wrong done to him.