Jukjuk竹竹
1Jukjuk holds the fortress
竹竹，大耶州人也，父郝勢為撰干。善德王時為舍知，佐大耶城都督金品釋幢下。王十一年壬寅秋八月，百濟將軍允忠領兵，來攻其城。先是，都督品釋，見幕客舍知黔日之妻有色，奪之，黔日恨之。至是為內應，燒其倉庫，故城中兇懼，恐不能固守。品釋之佐阿飡西川，登城謂允忠曰：「若將軍不殺我，願以城降。」允忠曰：「若如是，所不與公同好者，有如白日。」西川勸品釋及諸將士欲出城，竹竹止之曰：「百濟反覆之國，不可信也。而允忠之言甘，必誘我也。若出城，必為賊之所虜。與其竄伏而求生，不若虎鬪而至死。」品釋不聽開門。士卒先出，百濟發伏兵，盡殺之。品釋將出，聞將士死，先殺妻子而自刎。竹竹收殘卒，閉城門自拒，舍知龍石謂竹竹曰：「今兵勢如此，必不得全，不若生降以圖後效。
Jukjuk was a man of Daeyaju. His father Hakse became a chan'gan. In the time of Queen Seondeok, Jukjuk became a saji and served under Kim Pumseok, the governor of Daeyaseong.
In the eighth month of autumn in the eleventh year of the queen, an imin year, Yunchung, a general of Baekje, led troops and came to attack that fortress.
Before this the governor Pumseok had seen that the wife of Geomil, a saji on his staff, was beautiful, and he took her from him, and Geomil held it against him. When this time came Geomil answered the enemy from within and burned the storehouses, and so those in the fortress were downcast and afraid, and they feared they could not hold firm.
Seocheon, who held the rank of achan and was Pumseok's aide, climbed the wall and said to Yunchung, "If the general will not kill me, I ask to give up the fortress and surrender."
Yunchung said, "If you do so and I do not stand in friendship with you, there is the bright sun to see it."
Seocheon urged Pumseok and the officers and soldiers to go out of the fortress, and Jukjuk stopped them and said, "Baekje is a country that turns this way and that, and it cannot be trusted. Yunchung's words are sweet, and he is surely luring us. If we go out of the fortress we will certainly be taken by the bandits. Rather than hide and crouch and beg for life, it is better to fight like tigers and meet death."
Pumseok did not listen. He opened the gate and sent the soldiers out first, and Baekje brought out troops from hiding and killed them all. Pumseok was about to go out, and when he heard that his officers and soldiers were dead he first killed his wife and children and then cut his own throat.
Jukjuk gathered the soldiers who were left and shut the gate of the fortress and held out by himself, and Yongseok, a saji, said to Jukjuk, "The strength of the troops is now such that we surely cannot come through whole. It would be better to surrender alive and look for a way to do our part later."
Interlinear notes 1
一云沙飡祗之那。
He is also called Jijina (祗之那), of the rank of sachan.
2He may be broken but he will not bend
」答曰：「君言當矣，而吾父名我以竹竹者，使我歲寒不凋，可折而不可屈，豈可畏死而生降乎？」遂力戰，至城陷，與龍石同死。王聞之，哀傷，贈竹竹以級飡，龍石以大奈麻，賞其妻子，遷之王都。
He answered, "What you say is right. But my father named me Jukjuk (竹竹) so that I should not wither in the cold season, and that I might be broken but not bent. How can I fear death and surrender alive?"
Then he fought with all his strength, and when the fortress fell he died together with Yongseok.
The queen heard of it and grieved and was stricken, and after their deaths she gave Jukjuk the rank of geupchan and Yongseok the rank of daenama, and she rewarded their wives and children and moved them to the royal capital.