An Chongrong (安重榮) (died January 21, 942[1][2]), nickname Tiehu (鐵胡), was a major general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Jin.
[3] During the Changxing era (930-933) of the Later Tang emperor Li Siyuan, An Chongrong served as a military commander at Zhenwu (which was then headquartered in modern Shuozhou).
He had once committed an offense and was imprisoned, and then-military governor (Jiedushi) of Zhenwu, Gao Xingzhou, wanted to put him to death.
However, An Chongrong persuaded his older brother and mother that if he could use two arrows to hit targets 100 steps away, they would be signs that Shi would become emperor and that he would be a military governor.
Khitan's Emperor Taizong agreed and, in fall 936, arrived at Taiyuan and crushed Zhang Jingda's troops.
Believing defeat to be inevitable, Li Congke committed suicide with his family, ending Later Tang.
[4] During the transition from Later Tang to Later Jin, the Chengde Circuit (成德, headquartered in modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei) officer Mi Qiong (秘瓊) used the opportunity to seize control of the circuit (with Chengde's military governor Dong Wenqi (董溫琪)'s having been captured by the Khitan) while trying to aid Zhang).
[7] This aggravated An, who had long been (at least publicly) ashamed of how Shi had submitted to Emperor Taizong, not only as subject, but also titularly as son.
In 941, he submitted a lengthy, public petition to Shi, in which he urged, in harsh terms, the repudiation of the alliance with Liao.
He also wrote letters with similar contents to the important officials at the imperial court and the military governors throughout the Later Jin realm.
Shi's advisor Sang Weihan, then the military governor of Taining Circuit (泰寧, headquartered in modern Jining, Shandong), wrote him and suggested that he (Shi) head to Yedu (鄴都, Tianxiong's capital) and take up court there, so that he could react quickly if An did rebel.
[7] At the same time, Shi sent Liu Zhiyuan to Hedong to serve as its military governor, to also monitor the situation with An.
Liu enticed the Tuyuhun chieftain Bai Chengfu (白承福), who had previously submitted to An Chongrong, into joining the Hedong army with his tribesmen.
That, and the failure of Dada and Qibi (契苾) tribesmen to join An Chongrong (as he had claimed that they would), hampered the impact of An's public pronouncements.
[7] In spring 942, a Chengde officer opened a water gate and allowed Du's army into the city, and An was captured and executed.