Gwanchang官昌
1Gwanchang
官昌，新羅將軍品日之子。儀表都雅，少而為花郞，善與人交。年十六，能騎馬彎弓。大監某薦之太宗大王。至唐顯慶五年庚申，王出師，與唐將軍侵百濟，以官昌為副將。至黃山之野，兩兵相對。父品日謂曰：「爾雖幼年，有志氣，今日是立功名取富貴之時，其可無勇乎？」官昌曰：「唯。」卽上馬橫槍，直擣敵陣，馳殺數人。而彼衆我寡，為賊所虜，生致百濟元帥階伯前。階伯俾脫胄，愛其少且勇，不忍加害。乃嘆曰：「新羅多奇士，少年尚如此，況壯士乎？」乃許生還。官昌曰：「向吾入賊中，不能斬將搴旗，深所恨也。再入必能成功。」以手掬井水，飲訖，再突賊陣疾鬪。階伯擒斬首，繫馬鞍送之。品日執其首，袖拭血曰：「吾兒面目如生，能死於王事，無所悔矣。」三軍見之，慷慨有立志，鼓噪進擊，百濟大敗。大王贈位級飡，以禮葬之，賻其家唐絹三十匹、二十升布三十匹、穀一百石。
Gwanchang was the son of Pumil, a general of Silla. His bearing and his looks were handsome and refined, and while he was young he became a hwarang, and he made friends well. At sixteen he could ride a horse and draw a bow. A certain daegam recommended him to King Taejong the Great.
In the fifth year of Hyeongyeong in Tang, a gyeongsin year, the king sent out an army and went with the Tang general to invade Baekje, and he made Gwanchang a deputy commander.
When they came to the field of Hwangsan and the two armies stood facing each other, his father Pumil said to him, "You are young in years, but you have will and spirit. Today is the time to raise up merit and a name and take wealth and honor. Can you be without courage?"
Gwanchang said, "Yes." At once he mounted his horse and held his spear across and charged straight at the enemy line, and he rode among them and killed several men. But the enemy were many and the Silla side few, and he was taken by the bandits and brought alive before Gyebaek, the supreme commander of Baekje.
Gyebaek had his helmet taken off, and he held the boy's youth and courage dear and could not bear to harm him, and he sighed and said, "Silla has many remarkable men. If a boy is like this, what must the grown soldiers be?" So he let him go back alive.
Gwanchang said, "A while ago I went in among the enemy, and I could not cut down a general or pull up a flag. That is my deep regret. If I go in again I will surely make my merit."
He scooped up well water with his hand and drank it, and then he charged the enemy line again and fought fast and hard. Gyebaek took him and cut off his head and tied it to a saddle and sent it back.
Pumil took up the head and wiped the blood with his sleeve, and said, "My child's face is as if he were alive. He was able to die in the affairs of the state, and I have nothing to regret."
The three armies saw it and were moved to anger and set their wills, and they beat the drums and raised a shout and went forward and struck, and Baekje was heavily beaten.
The great king gave Gwanchang the rank of geupchan and buried him with rites, and he sent to his house thirty bolts of Tang silk, thirty bolts of cloth of twenty seung, and one hundred seom of grain.
Interlinear notes 1
一云官狀。
He is also called Gwanjang (官狀).