Qing · Official and Administrator

Lu Jianying 陸建瀛

First attested AD 1852; died AD 1853

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Lu Jianying was an official and Administrator.

PeriodQing
IdentityHistorical · Male

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 397Volume 397 Biographies 184: Lu Jianying, Yang Wending, Qing Lin, Chong Lun, He Guiqing · 14 passages
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三年正月，賊棄武昌，蔽江東下，建瀛欲行，或謂賊鋒銳難驟當，建瀛尚輕之，檄壽春鎮總兵恩長為翼長，領標兵二千當前鋒，自率兵千餘進次九江。 In the first month of Xianfeng 3 (1853) the rebels left Wuchang and swept downriver. Jianying meant to engage them; others warned that the rebel spearhead was too sharp to meet head-on, but he still underestimated them. He appointed Shouchun garrison commander En Chang wing commander with two thousand banner troops as vanguard and advanced to Jiujiang with a little over a thousand men of his own.
於是祥厚、宿藻等疏劾建瀛棄險失機，進退無據，並及江蘇巡撫楊文定違旨去江寧，上大怒，諭曰：「陸建瀛一戰兵潰，不知收合餘燼，與向榮大軍協力攻擊； Xianghou, Suzao, and others then impeached Jianying for abandoning key positions, missing his chance, and acting without plan, and also accused Jiangsu governor Yang Wending of leaving Nanjing against orders. The emperor was furious and declared: "After one battle Lu Jianying's troops routed, yet he did not rally the survivors to join Xiang Rong's main force in a coordinated attack;