赵昂 / Zhao Ang (late Han)

Overview

赵昂 / Zhao Ang is a late-Han Liangzhou official presented through the resistance to 马超 around Ji. His role joins local military participation to an extreme family-collateral decision: he and 王异 send their son Zhao Yue as Ma Chao’s hostage and continue supporting the uprising despite the risk.

Current Profile

Hanji 1137 places Zhao Ang in the conspiracy before open action. 杨阜 and 姜叙 recruit him as an outside military participant while Zhao Qu and Liang Kuan prepare to act inside Ji. Because Zhao Ang controls force, Ma Chao demands Zhao Yue as a hostage; Zhao Ang asks 王异 whether refusal would reveal the plot.

Hanji 1138 supplies the answer and outcome. Zhao Ang sends Zhao Yue after Wang Yi supports accepting the risk, participates in the Qishan position while Ji is closed against Ma Chao, and continues the resistance before Ma Chao kills the hostage. The source presents this as loyalty, but the transferred family cost remains part of the profile rather than incidental background.

Key Characteristics

• Local late-Han official aligned with resistance to Ma Chao around Ji.
• Outside military participant recruited into a plan coordinated with insiders at Ji.
• Husband of Wang Yi and father of Zhao Yue, whom Ma Chao holds as a hostage.
• Participates in the Qishan branch while internal collaborators close Ji against Ma Chao.
• Embodies a loyalty judgment whose political objective and family cost cannot be separated.

Evidence

• Recruitment and dilemma: Hanji 1137 places Zhao Ang in the conspiracy and ends with his conflict between refusing the hostage demand and exposing the plan.
• Hostage decision: Hanji 1138 says Zhao Ang sends Zhao Yue to Ma Chao after Wang Yi supports accepting the risk.
• Resistance role: Hanji 1138 places Zhao Ang with the anti-Ma-Chao forces around Qishan and Ji.
• Collateral outcome: Hanji 1138 reports that Ma Chao later kills Zhao Yue.

Qualifications

The current profile rests on two sequential structured popular-history summaries rather than a primary-source collation. Zhao Ang’s office, troop control, exact operational sequence, dialogue, family deliberation, and responsibility for accepting Zhao Yue’s exposure require broader verification. “Loyalty” records the sources’ moral framing and does not erase the ethical problem of transferring mortal risk to a child.

What Changed

• Established Zhao Ang as a disambiguated late-Han entity.
• Joined his resistance role to the hostage cost borne by Zhao Yue.
• Backfilled his recruitment, outside-force role, and pre-decision fear that refusing the hostage demand would expose the conspiracy.

Relationships

• 王异 - wife and participant in the decision to accept their son’s hostage exposure.
• 马超 - ruler opposed by Zhao Ang and holder of Zhao Yue as a hostage.
• 杨阜 - leading participant in the uprising Zhao Ang joins.
• 姜叙 - fellow resistance actor in the Ji-Licheng sequence.
• 忠义牵连困境 - framework for evaluating the transfer of political risk onto Zhao Yue.