Ren Zhu (任柱) | 24 Histories

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Ren Zhu was a rebel and Bandit.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1867 同治六年
Already dead by Tongzhi 6
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 33
AD 1867 同治六年十月
Killed in battle · At Ganyu 贛榆 · Killed by Pan Guisheng (潘貴升)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 411, passage 92
AD 1867 陣斬任柱
Killed in battle
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 216
Killed in battle · At Ganyu 贛榆
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 16

Attested activity

AD 1865 任柱、賴文光復竄豫
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 461, passages 18, 22
AD 1865 任柱
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 183
AD 1866 任柱
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 212
AD 1860 to AD 1868 任柱等困慶登州
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 461, passage 103
AD 1866 同治五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 411, passage 76
AD 1867 同治六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passages 33, 82, 156

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AD 1867 同治六年十月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 411, passage 92
AD 1862 同治間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 11

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Places and affiliations

Qing 清
Relation Active in
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 11
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Opposed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passages 183, 212
Organization Nian 捻 · Relation Leader of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passage 103

Events and relationships

Besieged Song Qing at Dengzhou
Military · Rebel leader · With Song Qing (宋慶) · At Dengzhou 登州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passage 103
Defeated
AD 1867 同治六年 · Military · Chief · At Ganyu 贛榆
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 82
Destroyed
AD 1867 同治六年 · Military · Chief · At Ganyu 贛榆
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 156
Eastern Nian leader; killed at Ganyu by Pan Guisheng
AD 1867 同治六年十月 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 411, passages 76, 92
Led eastern Nian
AD 1867 同治六年 · Military · Chief
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 33
Slipped into Henan
Military · Rebel · At Henan 豫
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passage 22

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 405Volume 405 Biographies 192: Ceng Guofan · 3 passages

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捻首四人，曰張總愚、任柱、牛洪、賴文光。 There were four Nian chiefs: Zhang Zongwan, Ren Zhu, Niu Hong, and Lai Wenguang.

時牛洪死，張總愚竄陝西，任柱、賴文光竄湖北，自是有東西捻之號。 Niu Hong was dead; Zhang Zongwan fled into Shaanxi while Ren Zhu and Lai Wenguang fled into Hubei—from then on they were called the Eastern and Western Nian.

官軍陣斬任柱，賴文光走死揚州。 Government forces killed Ren Zhu in battle, and Lai Wenguang fled and died at Yangzhou.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 411Volume 411 Biographies 198: Li Hongzhang · 2 passages

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時曾國籓督軍剿捻久無功，命回兩江，而以鴻章署欽差代之，敗東捻任柱、賴文光於湖北。 At that time Zeng Guofan had long led the campaign against the Nian without success; he was ordered back to the Two Jiangs, and Hongzhang served as acting Imperial Commissioner in his place, defeating the Eastern Nian leaders Ren Zhu and Lai Wenguang in Hubei.

十月，追至贛榆，降酋潘貴升斃任柱於陣，捻勢漸衰。 In the tenth month, pursuing as far as Ganyu, the surrendered chief Pan Guisheng killed Ren Zhu in battle, and Nian power gradually waned.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 431Volume 431 Biographies 218: Guo Songlin, Li Changle, Yang Dingxun, Tang Diankui, Tang Dingkui, Teng Siwu, Luo Guozhong · 3 passages

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時東捻任柱已斃，餘黨走壽光，松林要擊，破之杞城。 The eastern Nian chief Ren Zhu was already dead; the survivors fled to Shouguang. Songlin cut them off and crushed them at Qicheng.

破任柱於贛榆，要賴文光於濰縣，長樂等並力奮擊，賊鳧水東走，躡至餘家寨，賊受創甚鉅，复要之壽光南北洋河、巨瀰河間，擒斬三萬，文光竄揚州被擒，賜黃馬褂。 They broke Ren Zhu at Ganyu and caught Lai Wenguang at Weixian. Changle and the others hammered the rebels until they fled east across the rivers; the pursuit reached Yujia stockade and inflicted crippling losses. At Shouguang, between the Yang and Mi rivers, thirty thousand were killed or captured. Wenguang fled to Yangzhou and was taken. Changle received the yellow riding jacket.

六年，殄任柱於贛榆，破賴文光於壽光，所部殺賊最多。 That year he destroyed Ren Zhu at Ganyu and routed Lai Wenguang at Shouguang; his troops accounted for more rebel dead than any other unit.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 2 passages

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任、賴各逆复乘虛北擾，鶴年以賊踪無定，防河尤急。 Ren and Lai then seized the moment to strike north again; since rebel movements were unpredictable, Henian insisted that river defense was the top priority.

善慶及淮軍劉銘傳大敗賊贛榆，任柱被戕死。 Shan Qing and Liu Mingchuan of the Huai Army won a crushing victory at Ganyu, where Ren Zhu was killed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 461Volume 461 Biographies 248: Song Qing, Lv Benyuan, Xu Bangdao, Ma Yukun, Yi Ke Tang A, Rong He, Zhang Shun · 2 passages

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而任柱、賴文光復竄豫，湘軍將劉松山助慶軍盡驅入楚疆，豫略平。 but Ren Zhu and Lai Wenguang slipped back into Henan; Liu Songshan of the Xiang Army joined Qing in driving them all into Huguang, and Henan was largely pacified.

任柱等困慶登州，玉昆銳身馳救，圍立解，繇是以驍果名。 When Ren Zhu and other Nian leaders had Song Qing trapped at Dengzhou, Yukun dashed to the rescue in person; the siege lifted at once, and from that day his reputation for fierce courage spread.