Ming · General and Official

Hong Chengchou 洪承疇

Attested AD 1635 - AD 1635

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Hong Chengchou was a general and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1635 八年三月
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 268, passage 104
AD 1635 六月
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 268, passages 119, 122, 135
AD 1635 四月
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 268, passages 106, 108-109

Career and standing

governor-general 總督
Held
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 104

Places and affiliations

Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 104
AD 1635 八年三月
At Xinyang 信陽 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 268, passage 104
AD 1635 四月
At Ruzhou 汝州 · Relation Encamped at
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 268, passage 106
At Lingbao 靈寶 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 108

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Cao Wenzhao (曹文詔) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passages 110, 123-125

Events and relationships

Appealed to court for reinforcements
Military · Commander · Negated Outcome no-orders-received
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 119
Beat breast and wept
Personal · Mourner · With Cao Wenzhao (曹文詔)
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 135
Ordered Suizhou attack
Military · Commander · With Cao Wenzhao (曹文詔)
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 105
Planned Guanzhong return and assigned passes
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passages 107-108
Relation Commander of · Person Cao Wenzhao (曹文詔)
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passages 105, 109

Assessments and attributes

Assessment greatly pleased with Wenzhao · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 268, passage 105

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

History of Ming, Chapter 268Volume 268 Biographies 156: Cao Wenzhao, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong · 9 passages

會賊高加計已殲，而鳳陽告陷，遂整兵南，以八年三月會總督洪承疇於信陽。 Gao Jiaji's band was already destroyed, but Fengyang had fallen; Wenzhao marched south and in the third month of Chongzhen 8 joined Hong Chengchou at Xinyang.

承疇大喜，即令擊賊隨州，文詔追斬賊三百八十有奇。 Chengchou was delighted and sent him against the rebels at Suizhou; Wenzhao pursued and killed more than three hundred eighty of them.

四月，承疇次汝州。 In the fourth month Chengchou made camp at Ruzhou.

分命諸將扼要害，檄文詔入關，文詔乃馳至靈寶謁承疇。 Generals were posted at key points and Wenzhao was summoned into the passes; he galloped to Lingbao to see Chengchou.

承疇以賊在商、雒，聞官兵至，必先走漢中，而大軍由潼關入，反在其後，乃令文詔由閿鄉取山路至雒南、商州，直搗賊巢，復從山陽、鎮安、洵陽馳入漢中，遏其奔軼。 Chengchou judged that rebels in Shang and Luo would flee to Hanzhong once they heard government troops were coming, leaving the main army entering through Tong Pass behind them. He ordered Wenzhao by mountain paths from Wenxiang to Luonan and Shangzhou to strike their lair, then through Shanyang, Zhen'an, and Xunyang into Hanzhong to cut off their escape.

承疇以文詔所部合張全昌、張外嘉軍止六千，眾寡不敵，告急於朝，未得命。 Chengchou saw that Wenzhao, together with Zhang Quanchang and Zhang Waijia, had only six thousand men—far too few—and appealed urgently to court, but received no reply.

文詔聞之，瞋目大罵，亟詣承疇請行。 Hearing this, Wenzhao glared and cursed; he hurried to Chengchou and asked to go at once.

承疇喜曰：「非將軍不能滅此賊。 Chengchou said gladly: "Only you can destroy these rebels.

承疇聞，拊膺大哭，帝亦痛悼，贈太子太保、左都督，賜祭葬，世蔭指揮僉事，有司建祠，春秋致祭。 Chengchou beat his breast and wept; the emperor mourned him deeply, posthumously making him Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent and Left Chief Commander, granting state burial and a hereditary vice commandership, and ordering a shrine with spring and autumn sacrifices.