Qing · Warlord who Surrendered to Qing

Sun Kewang 孫可望

Attested AD 1645

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

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Sun Kewang was a warlord who Surrendered to Qing.

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Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Kewang

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1645 順治間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 248, passage 219

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Zhengqi (徵淇)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 248, passages 219, 244
Parent of Zhenghao (徵灝)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 248, passages 219, 246
Parent of Zhengchun (徵淳)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 248, passages 219, 245

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History

13 passages

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 35: Xu Dingguo, Zuo Menggeng, Tian Xiong, Zhang Tianlu, Sun Kewang · 13 passages

初，定國自廣西入湖廣，兵益強，不復禀可望約束。 Earlier Dingguo had marched from Guangxi into Huguang. His army grew stronger and he no longer submitted to Kewang's authority.

會定國敗於衡州，使召詣沅州議事，將以為罪而殺之； When Dingguo was defeated at Hengzhou, Kewang summoned him to Yuanzhou on the pretext of consultation, intending to condemn and kill him;

可望聞，使執大學士吳貞毓等，凡預謀者盡殺之。 When Kewang learned of this, he arrested Grand Secretary Wu Zhenyu and others. Everyone involved in the plot was put to death.

可望舉兵反桂王，以雙禮留守，令文選統諸軍前行。 Kewang raised an army against the Prince of Gui. He left Shuangli to hold the rear and ordered Wenxuan to lead the advance.

可望遣其將張勝、馬寶等自尋甸間道襲雲南，而自率勁卒擊定國等。 Kewang sent his generals Zhang Sheng and Ma Bao by a hidden route from Xundian to strike Yunnan, while he himself led elite troops against Dingguo.

可望至貴陽，雙禮紿言追兵且至。 When Kewang reached Guiyang, Shuangli deceived him with word that pursuers were close behind.

可望知事去，將詣經略洪承疇請降，遣使先納款。 Kewang knew all was lost. He prepared to go to Frontier Commissioner Hong Chengchou to surrender and sent envoys ahead to offer submission.

承疇援兵至，乃得脫，將妻子詣長沙降，時順治十四年十月也。 When Chengchou's relief troops arrived, Kewang escaped. He brought his wife and children to Changsha to surrender in the tenth month of the fourteenth year of Shunzhi.

可望請從討雲南自效，下王大臣議，寢其奏。 Kewang asked to join the campaign against Yunnan to prove his loyalty. The memorial was referred to the princes and grand ministers and set aside.

徵灝請襲，御史孟飛熊疏言：「可望，獻忠餘黨，久據滇、黔，負固不服。 Zhenghao asked to inherit. Censor Meng Feixiong memorialized: "Kewang was a remnant of Xianzhong's band who long held Yunnan and Guizhou and stubbornly refused to submit.

獻忠敗，從可望入貴州。 When Xianzhong was defeated, he followed Kewang into Guizhou.

其緩桂王使得入雲南也，桂王封為鞏國公，令還貴陽慰諭可望，可望奪其兵，置軍中。 For delaying the move so the Prince of Gui could reach Yunnan, the Prince of Gui enfeoffed him as Duke of Gong and ordered him back to Guiyang to reassure Kewang. Kewang stripped him of his command and kept him in the ranks.

及將舉兵，諸將說可望原得文選為大將，可望使將前鋒，遂降定國，可望以是敗。 When Kewang was about to march, his generals urged that he should have Wenxuan as commander. Kewang made him lead the vanguard. Wenxuan then went over to Dingguo, and that was how Kewang was defeated.