Kim Yeongyun金令胤
1Bangul dies and Yeongyun comes forward
金令胤，沙梁人，級飡盤屈之子。相祖欽春角干，眞平王時為花郞，仁深信厚，能得衆心。及壯，文武大王陟為冢宰，事上以忠，臨民以恕，國人翕然稱為賢相。大宗大王太宗大王七年庚申，唐高宗命大將軍蘇定方，伐百濟，欽春受王命，與將軍庾信等，率精兵五萬以應之。秋七月，至黃山之原，値百濟將軍階伯戰，不利。欽春召子盤屈曰：「為臣莫若忠，為子莫若孝，見危致命，忠孝兩全。」盤屈曰：「唯。」乃入賊陣，力戰死。令胤生長世家，以名節自許。神文大王時，高句麗殘賊悉伏，以報德城叛。王命討之，以令胤為黃衿誓幢步騎監。將行，謂人曰：「吾此行也，不使宗族朋友，聞其惡聲。」及見悉伏，出椵岑城南七里，結陣以待之。或告曰：「今此凶黨，譬如鷰巢幕上，魚戱鼎中。
Kim Yeongyun was a man of Saryang, the son of Bangul who held the rank of geupchan.
His grandfather Heumchun, who held the rank of gakgan, became a hwarang in the time of King Jinpyeong. His kindness ran deep and his good faith was firm, and he could win the hearts of many. When he had grown, King Munmu the Great raised him up and made him prime minister, and he served those above him with loyalty and came to the people with forbearance, and the people of the country with one voice called him a worthy minister.
In the seventh year of King Taejong the Great, a gyeongsin year, Gaozong of Tang ordered the great general Su Dingfang to strike Baekje, and Heumchun received the king's order and led fifty thousand picked troops, together with the general Yusin and others, to answer it.
In the seventh month of autumn they came to the plain of Hwangsan and met the Baekje general Gyebaek and fought, and it did not go well. Heumchun called his son Bangul and said, "For one who is a subject there is nothing like loyalty, and for one who is a son there is nothing like filial duty. To see danger and give up your life makes loyalty and filial duty both whole."
Bangul said, "Yes." Then he went into the enemy line and fought with all his strength and died.
Yeongyun was born and raised in a house of long standing, and he held himself to his name and his integrity.
In the time of King Sinmun the Great, Silbok, a bandit left over from Goguryeo, rebelled and held Bodeokseong, and the king ordered that he be struck and made Yeongyun bogigam of the Hwanggeum Seodang regiment.
When he was about to set out he said to those around him, "On this journey of mine I will not let my clan and my friends hear an ill word of me."
He saw Silbok come out seven li south of Gajamseong and form his line and wait for them, and someone told him, "These evil men now are like swallows nesting on a curtain, or fish playing in a cauldron."
Interlinear notes 1
或云欽純。
His grandfather Heumchun (欽春) is also called Heumsun (欽純).
2Yeongyun goes forward alone and dies
出萬死以爭一日之命耳。語曰：『窮寇勿迫。』宜左次以待疲極而擊之，可不血刃而擒也。」諸將然其言，暫退，獨令胤不肯之而欲戰。從者告曰：「今諸將豈盡偸生之人，惜死之輩哉？而以向者之言為然者，將俟其隙而得其便者也。而子獨直前，其不可乎！」令胤曰：「臨陣無勇，禮經之所識誡，有進無退，士卒之常分也。丈夫臨事自決，何必從衆？」遂赴敵陣，格鬪而死。王聞之，悽慟流涕曰：「無是父，無是子，其義烈可嘉者也。」追贈爵賞尤厚。
"They are braving ten thousand deaths only to fight for one more day of life. The old saying is, 'Do not press a cornered bandit.' It would be right to draw back to the left and wait until they are worn out and then strike them, and we may take them without wetting our blades in blood."
The generals thought his words right and drew back for a while, but Yeongyun alone was not content with this and wished to fight.
One of his followers told him, "Surely these generals are not all men who cling meanly to life, a crowd who hold death dear. They called those words right because they mean to wait for an opening and take their chance by it. And you alone go straight forward. That is not right."
Yeongyun said, "To have no courage when facing the battle line is what the Book of Rites warns against. To go forward and never draw back is the plain duty of a soldier. A man decides for himself when he faces a matter. Why must he follow the crowd?"
Then he went at the enemy line, and he closed with them and fought and died.
The king heard of it and was stricken and shed tears, and said, "Without such a father there is no such son. His right feeling and his fierce spirit are to be praised." He gave him rank and reward after his death all the more generously.