Yeolgi裂起
1Yeolgi goes to Su Dingfang
裂起，史失族姓。文武王元年，唐皇帝遣蘇定方，討高句麗，圍平壤城。含資道摠管劉德敏傳宣國王，送軍資平壤。王命大角干金庾信，輸米四千石、租二萬二千二百五十石，到獐塞，風雪沍寒，人馬多凍死。麗人知兵疲，欲要擊之。距唐營三萬餘步而不能前，欲移書而難其人。時裂起以步騎監輔行，進而言曰：「某雖駑蹇，願備行人之數。」遂與軍師仇近等十五人，持弓劒走馬，麗人望之，不能遮閼。凡兩日致命於蘇將軍，唐人聞之，喜慰廻書。裂起又兩日廻，庾信嘉其勇，與級飡位。及軍還，庾信告王曰：「裂起、仇近，天下之勇士也。臣以便宜許位級飡，而未副功勞，願加位沙飡。」王曰：「沙飡之秩，不亦過乎？」庾信再拜曰：「爵祿公器，所以酬功，何謂過乎？」王允之。
The histories have lost Yeolgi's clan and surname.
In the first year of King Munmu, the emperor of Tang sent Su Dingfang to strike Goguryeo, and he surrounded Pyeongyangseong. Liu Demin, the commander of the Hamja route, passed on the order to the king of Silla to send army supplies to Pyeongyang.
The king ordered Kim Yusin, who held the rank of daegakgan, to carry four thousand seom of rice and twenty-two thousand two hundred and fifty seom of grain. They came to Jangsae, and in the wind and snow and the freezing cold many of the men and horses died of the cold. The men of Goguryeo knew that the troops were worn out and meant to fall upon them.
They were more than thirty thousand paces from the Tang camp and could not go forward, and they wished to send a letter, but it was hard to find the man for it.
At that time Yeolgi had gone with them as bogigam, and he came forward and said, "I am slow and dull, but I ask to be counted among those who go."
So with the officer Gugeun and the others, fifteen men in all, he took bow and sword and rode hard, and the men of Goguryeo saw them but could not block them. In two days they delivered the message to General Su, and the men of Tang heard it and were glad and comforted, and sent a letter back. Yeolgi returned in two days more, and Yusin thought well of his courage and gave him the rank of geupchan.
When the army came home Yusin said to the king, "Yeolgi and Gugeun are brave men of the whole world. I gave them the rank of geupchan as the case allowed, but it does not yet match what they did. I ask that you add to it the rank of sachan."
The king said, "Is not the grade of sachan too much?"
Yusin bowed twice and said, "Rank and stipend are vessels held in common, and they are the means of repaying merit. How can it be called too much?" The king allowed it.
2What came afterward to Yeolgi and Gugeun
後庾信之子三光執政，裂起就求郡守，不許。裂起與祗園寺僧順憬曰：「我之功大，請郡不得，三光殆以父死而忘我乎？」順憬說三光，三光授以三年山郡大守太守。仇近從元貞公，築西原述城，元貞公聞人言，謂怠於事，杖之。仇近曰：「僕嘗與裂起入不測之地，不辱大角干之命，大角干不以僕為無能，待以國士，今以浮言罪之，平生之辱，無大此焉。」元貞聞之，終身羞悔。
Afterward, when Samgwang the son of Yusin held the government, Yeolgi went to him and asked to be made a commandery prefect, and he did not allow it.
Yeolgi said to Sungyeong, a monk of Jiwonsa, "My merit is great, and I asked for a commandery and did not get it. Has Samgwang perhaps forgotten me because his father is dead?" Sungyeong spoke with Samgwang, and Samgwang gave him the post of prefect of Samnyeonsan commandery.
Gugeun went with Wonjeonggong to build Sulseong at Seowon, and Wonjeonggong listened to what others said and thought him idle at the work, and had him beaten with the rod.
Gugeun said, "Once I went with Yeolgi into a land past all reckoning, and I did not bring shame on the order of the daegakgan, and the daegakgan did not call me useless but treated me as one of the country's best men. Now you punish me on empty words, and there is no greater shame in all my life than this."
Wonjeong heard of it, and to the end of his life he was ashamed and full of regret.