Phó Minh Duyên (Eordisverse)
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| Born | 29 May 1902 Hue Tho, Son Lãnh Province, Quenmin |
| Died | 13 July 2002 (aged 100) Haigia, Tuy Ngãi Province, Quenmin |
| Allegiance |  Empire of Quenmin |
| Branch | .svg){kind=small} Imperial Quenminese Army |
| Rank |  General |
| Commands held | 16th Army |
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| Spouse(s) | Võ Mộng Vi |
| Children | 4 |
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Phó Minh Duyên (29 May 1902 – 13 July 2002) was a Quenminese general officer who possessed a noteworthy career during the Second Europan War. He is known by three nicknames: "Young General" and "Horsepower Duyên" and "Almost Töbedar." The former was attained for being the youngest officer in the Army to be promoted to a General, and the latter two was for his innovative use of mechanized infantry and armoured warfare. Duyên is known for his emphasis and unique application on rapid movements and mobile offensives, which his observers frequently compared his style of warfare to that of the Töbedar horde.
Duyên was born in Hue Tho in 1902 to a father who was a veteran of the Aichi War. At adolescence, he was inspired to embark on a military career path after seeing tanks deployed to the front during the First Europan War. Alongside, he began playing and competing in chess, and won at his town's competitions in 1925 and 1927. Duyên attended the Móng Giá Imperial War College and graduated as a captain. During the Fifth Lorican-Quenminese War, Duyên was promoted to colonel and commanded the 275th Mechanized Infantry Regiment upon the death of his commanding officer in the Northern Theatre. At that time, Duyên executed swift mobile offensives which were noticed by Marshal Mạc Hiếu Quang, and was consequentially promoted to Major General. Subsequently, in April 1936, he was promoted to General to command the 16th Army, and helped to conclude the subjugation of Lorica in the Final Northern Lorican Expedition. In 1942, when Marshal Quang was transferred to command the newly formed Western Combined Expeditionary Front, Duyên's field army was requested, and his tactics helped to throw Allied divisions into disarray during the Pakistania Offensive and battles of the first years of the Northern Indiae and Nepali-Bhutania campaigns. During the Manas River Offensive, Duyen contributed his forces into bringing the Allied forces into their heels, which observed the latter's near destruction; military historians noted that if not for Brian Regnitz's successful counterattack, Duyên would have wrought significant damage to Allied formations, including the annihilation of the Free Bethausian Army of the East and the Estharian and Balambian Expeditionary Force. After Quang surrended to the Allies after the Battle of Trashigang, he participated in the final years of the conflict under Thạch Hung Sõn Chiến's command. Duyên would have arguments with Chiến over strategy and material, and observed his armored divisions inflicted with irreplacable losses, notably at the Battle of Ratheyinegyun. He would surrender to the Allies in 1945, and officially retire from the military in 1948 after the conclusion of the Post Second Europan War Crisis of 1945 and lived the rest of his life as an instructor and author until his death in 13 July 2002, aged 100.
Duyên remains to the present one of Quenmin's acclaimed military officers. His tactics on mechanized warfare and mobility are still taught in military academies in Quenmin, and are disseminated through his post-retirement works which remain in use. From his adept career, Duyên is somtimes referred to as the "Father of Quenminese Mechanized Infantry."