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宋翼 / Song Yi (late Han)

宋翼 / Song Yi (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 966 as 王允’s fellow-commandery appointee in the Chang’an crisis. The SongYiLateHan key disambiguates him from 宋义, the Chu commander in the Julu branch.

The episode makes Song Yi the central negative case for Rigid Obedience Crisis Failure / 危机僵化奉诏. 王宏 argues that Song Yi and Wang Hong still deter 李傕 and 郭汜 because they hold outside military offices; if they answer the court summons, Wang Yun and their own families will lose the last shield. Song Yi instead treats the imperial summons as impossible to resist, even though the court is operating under Li-Guo coercion.

The result is execution rather than loyal success. Song Yi’s choice removes Wang Hong’s ability to act alone and lets the remnant commanders kill Wang Yun, Song Yi, Wang Hong, and their families. The page preserves the host’s criticism as source-scoped, while the structural claim is that formal obedience under captured authority can destroy the practical leverage needed to protect the court.

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