Qing · Naval Officer

Chen Buyun 陳步雲

First attested AD 1797; died AD 1850

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Chen Buyun was a Naval Officer.

PeriodQing
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 350Volume 350 Biographies 137: Li Changgeng Son: Ting Yu, Hu Zhensheng, Wang Delu, Qiu Lianggong, Chen Buyun, Xu Songnian, Huang Biao, Lin Guoliang, Xu Tinggui · 8 passages
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從良功追蔡牽，步雲以四十人駕舟徑逼牽艦鏖鬥，舟小不相當，見兩提督至，亟投火罐焚賊艦，以長戟鉤舷，率數卒躍登，短兵相搏，殲牽妻及其黨。 Serving under Lianggong in the pursuit of Cai Qian, Buyun took forty men in a small boat straight at Qian's flagship. Though his craft was no match in size, when the two commanders-in-chief arrived he hurled fire pots onto the pirate ship, hooked its rail with a long halberd, led a handful of men aboard, fought at close quarters, and killed Qian's wife and her followers.
總督孫爾準欲裁減師船，步雲言李提督所造船高大堅緻，其利遠勝同安夾板、快駒諸船、裁之緝匪無具，有事不能制敵，議乃寢。 When Governor-General Sun Erzhun proposed cutting the naval fleet, Buyun argued that the large ships built by Commander Li were tall, sturdy, and far superior to Tong'an double-planked craft and swift cruisers. Without them, he said, the navy would lack the means to hunt pirates and could not overcome the enemy in a crisis. The proposal was abandoned.