Dong Zhang
Dong Zhang () (died June 10, 932) was a Chinese military general and politician of the
Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Liang and
Later Tang states. After submitting to Later Tang after Later Liang's destruction, he became a general favored by both Later Tang's founding emperor
Li Cunxu and Li Cunxu's chief of staff
Guo Chongtao, causing Guo to commission Dong as the military governor (''
jiedushi'') of Dongchuan Circuit (東川, headquartered in modern
Mianyang,
Sichuan) after Guo's conquest of
Former Shu. Because of this, after Li Cunxu's downfall and succession by his adoptive brother
Li Siyuan, Li Siyuan's chief of staff
An Chonghui came to suspect both Dong and
Meng Zhixiang, the military governor of neighboring Xichuan Circuit (西川, headquartered in modern
Chengdu,
Sichuan). Dong and Meng jointly rebelled against Li Siyuan and were successful military, forcing the imperial government to eventually move into a reconciliatory posture. Dong, however, as his son Dong Guangye () and Dong Guangye's family were slaughtered, refused the imperial overture, and later launched an attack on Meng, as Meng was moving to reconciliation with the imperial government. Meng defeated him, and he was later killed by his own subordinates.
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