Hu Zhonghe (胡中和) | 24 Histories

Overview

Hu Zhonghe was a general.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1883 光緒九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 140

Attested activity

AD 1881 光緒七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 139
AD 1877 光緒三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 138
AD 1883 光緒九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 140
AD 1876 光緒二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 137
AD 1864 同治三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 130
AD 1863 同治二年春
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 127

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AD 1866 同治五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 135
AD 1862 同治元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 118
AD 1874 同治十三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 136
AD 1865 同治四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 132
AD 1861 咸豐十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 110

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Hu Zhonghe
mother 母
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 139

Career and standing

brigade general of Jianchang Garrison 四川建昌鎮總兵
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 109
Yunnan provincial military commissioner 雲南提督
AD 1862 同治元年 · Promoted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 118
Sichuan provincial military commissioner 四川提督
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 129
posthumous honors 賜卹
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 140
yellow riding jacket 黃馬褂
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 125

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 108

Events and relationships

Captured
Military · Commander · With Li Yonghe (李永和)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 124
Defeated
Military · Commander · With Shi Dakai (石達開)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passages 126, 128
Executed
Military · Commander · With Cai Changling (蔡昌齡)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 132

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 430Volume 430 Biographies 217: Lei Zhengwan, Tao Maolin, Cao Kezhong, Hu Zhonghe, He Shengbi, Xiao Qinggao, Yang Fudong, Zhou Dawu, Li Huiwu, Tang Yougeng · 9 passages

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中和選銳卒沿河設伏，自率羸師誘之，賊大出，伏發，截其歸路，俘斬無算，賊壘盡夷，進解大邑之圍，予二品封典。 Zhonghe posted elite troops in ambush along the river and led a depleted force forward as bait. The rebels poured out; the ambush struck, their line of retreat was severed, and the slaughter was immense. Every rebel fort was leveled, the siege of Dayi was lifted, and he received a second-rank fief privilege.

駱秉章督師蒞蜀，檄中和偕緒軍援綿州。 When Luo Bingzhang came to Sichuan as commander-in-chief, he ordered Zhonghe to march with the relief forces to Mianzhou.

中和馳援，賊分路來撲，中和突陣，矛傷顋，血殷衣，不顧，奮擊破之，解眉州圍。 Zhonghe galloped to the rescue. The rebels assailed him from several routes; he burst through the formation, took a spear wound in the cheek until his clothes ran with blood, yet fought on without pause until the enemy broke and the siege of Meizhou was lifted.

中和圍之，壘石牆，編木柵，外浚深壕，密布梅花椿。 Zhonghe besieged the position, throwing up stone walls, weaving wooden stockades, digging deep trenches around them, and planting dense rows of abatis.

賊知必死，突攻蕭慶高營，中和截擊，敗退，連戰七日。 The rebels, knowing death was certain, stormed Xiao Qinggao's camp. Zhonghe intercepted them and beat them back after seven days of fighting.

詔嘉中和運籌決勝，生擒渠魁，賜黃馬褂。 The court praised Zhonghe for devising the stratagem that won the day and taking the rebel chiefs alive, and granted him a yellow riding jacket.

石達開擾蜀邊，中和偕蕭慶高、何勝必合擊於橫江，走之。 When Shi Dakai raided the Sichuan frontier, Zhonghe joined Xiao Qinggao and He Shengbi in a combined attack at Hengjiang and drove him away.

中和督軍扼化林坪、瀘定橋，擊破之，賊走工卩部土司山中，達開旋就擒。 Zhonghe directed the army to block Hualinping and Luding Bridge, broke the rebels, and drove them into the mountains of the Gongbu tribes. Dakai was captured soon afterward.

四年，中和偕總兵周達武往剿，毀龍王廟、三官殿賊壘，逼階州城下，掘地道轟城，克之，斬賊酋蔡昌齡，盡殲其黨。 In the fourth year Zhonghe joined brigade general Zhou Dawu in the campaign, destroyed the rebel forts at Longwang Temple and Sanguan Hall, pressed to the walls of Jiezhou, tunneled under the walls and blew them open, captured the city, beheaded the rebel chief Cai Changling, and wiped out his entire following.