Qing · Qing Fujian Commander

Ma Degong 馬得功

Attested AD 1645

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

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Ma Degong was a Qing Fujian Commander.

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Degong

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AD 1645 順治間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 248, passage 111

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Parent of Sanqi (三奇)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 248, passage 139

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 35: Xu Dingguo, Zuo Menggeng, Tian Xiong, Zhang Tianlu, Sun Kewang · 14 passages

得功，亦隸漢軍鑲黃旗。 Degong was also enrolled in the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Han Army.

得功獲誼泐，誅之。 Degong captured Yile and put him to death.

四年，大學士洪承疇請以得功署副將。 In the fourth year Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou asked that Degong be appointed acting vice commander.

巡撫張學聖诇成功方出，令得功攻廈門，克之。 Governor Zhang Xuesheng learned that Chenggong was away and ordered Degong to attack Xiamen. Degong took the city.

得功退守泉州，與固山額真金礪會師解漳州圍。 Degong withdrew to defend Quanzhou. He joined banner commander Jin Kan, and together they raised the siege of Zhangzhou.

以得功初克廈門貪取財物為成功所乘，命逮治，援赦免。 Because Degong had looted greedily when he first took Xiamen, giving Chenggong his opening, he was ordered arrested. He was pardoned on appeal.

得功自陳與雄同降，援雄例乞世職，授一等精奇尼哈番，加都督同知。 Degong reported that he had surrendered together with Xiong and, citing Xiong's precedent, asked for a hereditary rank. He was granted a first-rank jingqi niha banner rank and the additional title of Vice Commander-in-Chief.

林忠复據永春、德化、尤溪、大田諸縣，巡撫宜永貴令得功率師討之。 Lin Zhong seized Yongchun, Dehua, Youxi, Datian, and other counties again. Governor Yi Yonggui ordered Degong to lead an expedition against him.

師行，寇自閩安迳攻會城，得功引師還，與城兵夾擊，圍解。 While his army was on campaign, the rebels from Min'an struck straight at the provincial capital. Degong turned back, joined the garrison in a pincer attack, and broke the siege.

十四年，與浙閩總督李率泰等合兵克閩安，成功屢內犯，得功擊卻之。 In the fourteenth year he joined Zhe-Fujian Governor-General Li Shuaitai and others in taking Min'an. When Chenggong repeatedly raided inland, Degong drove him back each time.

二年，師進攻廈門，得功克烏沙，以舟師出海。 In the second year, as the army advanced on Xiamen, Degong took Wusha and led the fleet out to sea.

南風起，寇乘上流來戰，得功奮擊，沒於陣。 When a south wind rose, the enemy used the current from upstream to attack. Degong fought hard and fell in battle.

李率泰以聞，進一等侯，諡襄武。 Li Shuaitai reported his death. Degong was advanced to first-rank marquis and given the posthumous title Xiangwu.

乾隆十四年，定諸侯、伯封號，雄曰順義，得功曰順勤。 In the fourteenth year of Qianlong the formal designations for marquises and earls were fixed: Xiong's line was called Shunyi, Degong's Shunqin.