Qing · General

Rong Weishan 榮維善

First attested AD 1868; died AD 1869

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Rong Weishan was a general.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1869 同治八年二月
Killed after capture · At Huangpiao 黃飄
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 157

Attested activity

AD 1868 同治七年夏
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passages 150, 152
AD 1869 同治八年二月
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passages 154-157

Career and standing

provincial military commander 提督
AD 1868 同治七年夏 · Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 150

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 150

Events and relationships

Captured city
AD 1869 同治八年二月 · Military · Commander · At Qingjiang 清江廳
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 154
Relation Acting commander for · Person Xi Baotian (席寶田)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 150

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 150

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 420Volume 420 Biographies 207: Han Chao, Tian Xingshu, Ceng Biguang, Xi Baotian · 5 passages

會丁繼母憂，回籍治喪，提督榮維善暫領其眾，尋詔奪情趣赴軍，進攻台拱。 He then entered mourning for his stepmother and returned home. Provincial Military Commander Rong Weishan temporarily took his command until an edict cut short his mourning and ordered him back to attack Taigong.

寶田請增兵萬人，按察使黃潤昌、道員鄧子垣領之出晃州為北路，寶田自當南路，令榮維善用雕剿法，轉戰山谷間，破諸苗砦，漸近鎮遠。 Baotian asked for ten thousand more troops. Judicial Commissioner Huang Runchang and Circuit Intendant Deng Ziyuan led them from Huangzhou on the northern route while Baotian took the south. He had Rong Weishan use swift encirclement tactics in the valleys, storming Miao stockades and closing on Zhenyuan.

八年二月，維善連破董敖、公鵝兩隘，遂克清江廳城。 In the second month of the eighth year Weishan stormed the passes at Dong'ao and Gong'e, then took the Qingjiang subprefectural city.

維善軍疾行先出險，潤昌軍誤以為陷伏中，爭道相擠，為賊所乘，潤昌、子垣皆戰歿。 Weishan's column marched fast and cleared the danger first. Runchang's men mistook them for trapped in ambush, crowded the path, and were overrun; Runchang and Ziyuan both fell in battle.

維善聞變，率二百人馳救，被圍，為苗所擒，遇害。 Hearing the disaster, Weishan galloped to the rescue with two hundred men, was surrounded, captured by the Miao, and killed.