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Shi Heng was a general.
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History of Ming, Chapter 170Volume 170 Biographies 58: Yu Qian · 5 passages
武臣如石亨、楊洪、柳溥者，宜用為將帥。
Military men such as Shi Heng, Yang Hong, and Liu Pu should serve as commanders.
石亨議斂兵堅壁老之。
Shi Heng urged pulling troops inside the walls and waiting the enemy out.
亟分遣諸將，率師二十二萬，列陣九門外：都督陶瑾安定門，廣寧伯劉安東直門，武進伯硃瑛朝陽門，都督劉聚西直門，鎮遠侯顧興祖阜成門，都指揮李端正陽門，都督劉得新崇文門，都指揮湯節宣武門，而謙自與石亨率副總兵范廣、武興陳德勝門外，當也先。
He immediately sent out his generals with two hundred twenty thousand men, drawing up battle lines outside the nine gates: Tao Jin at Anding, Liu An at Dongzhi, Zhu Ying at Chaoyang, Liu Ju at Xizhi, Gu Xingzu at Fucheng, Li Duan at Zhengyang, Liu Dexin at Chongwen, Tang Jie at Xuanwu—while Qian himself, with Shi Heng, led Vice Commanders Fan Guang and Wu Xing, arrayed outside Desheng Gate to meet Esen head-on.
謙令亨設伏空舍，遣數騎誘敵。
Qian had Heng lay ambush in empty buildings and sent a few horsemen to bait the enemy.
寇轉至西直門，都督孫堂禦之，亨亦分兵至，寇引退。
The enemy shifted to Xizhi Gate; Sun Tang held them off, and Heng arrived with reinforcements, and the invaders withdrew.