Qing · Military Officer

Wang Chengye 王承業

Wáng Chéngyè

Died AD 1680

Passages: 13
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Chengye as a general and military officer. This record brings together 13 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Chengye	王承業	Wáng Chéngyè
Courtesy name	Qiongshan	瓊山	Qióngshān
Personal name	Wang Chengye	王承業

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0131

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 1680 · Cause: cannon to the forehead / 砲中額，墜馬死 · Place: Yunnan capital / 雲南會城
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0147

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙初至十九年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1662 · End: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0133, qingshigao:259:s0147

Career and standing

Label: commander of Central Relief Battalion / 援剿中營總兵 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1678
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0135
Label: guerrilla / 游擊 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0134
Label: vice commander in Guangxi / 廣西副將 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0134
Label: Right Commander-in-Chief / 右都督 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0149

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0131
Place: Lujiang / 廬江
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0131
Place: Jiangnan / 江南 · Relation: native-region-of
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0131

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Ma Chengyin (馬承廕) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0140
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Wu Shizong (吳世琮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年至十九年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1679 · End: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0136, qingshigao:259:s0139

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: faced a formidable enemy at Yunnan · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0165

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 259Volume 259 Biographies 46: Yi Li Bu, Ha Ke San, A Er Hu, Lu Shen, Ya Ji, Kuo Er Kun, Wang Chengye · 13 passages

王承業，字瓊山，江南廬江人。 Wang Chengye, styled Qiongshan, was from Lujiang in Jiangnan.

十七年，將軍莽依圖徇廣西，以承業為新設援剿中營總兵，管副將事。 In Kangxi 17 (1678) General Mangyitu campaigned in Guangxi and appointed Chengye commander of the new Central Relief Battalion, acting at vice-commander rank.

十八年，吳世琮犯梧州，承業擊敗之。 In Kangxi 18 (1679) Wu Shicong attacked Wuzhou and Chengye defeated him.

世琮棄營宵遁，克潯州。 Shicong abandoned camp and fled by night; Chengye captured Xunzhou.

承業赴援，設奇與城兵相犄角，戰新村西山之巔，斬六千餘級，世琮負重傷敗走，南寧圍解。 Chengye marched to relieve Nanning, coordinated a pincer with the garrison, and on West Mountain at Xincun killed more than six thousand. Shicong was badly wounded and fled; the siege was raised.

遂自陶鄧山進剿柳州，叛將馬承廕以二萬人拒戰，擊敗之，乘勝定象州，承廕遂降。 From Taodeng Mountain he advanced on Liuzhou. Rebel general Ma Chengyin met him with twenty thousand men, was defeated, and surrendered after Chengye secured Xiangzhou.

其冬，將軍賚塔自南寧直進雲南，檄承業至西隆。 That winter General Caita advanced from Nanning toward Yunnan and summoned Chengye to Xilong.

十九年正月，承業奮勇入，連奪二隘口，复所城。 In the first month of Kangxi 19 (1680) Chengye stormed in, seized two passes, and recovered the post.

繼祖退據黃草壩，列象拒戰，承業疾擊之，自卯至未，毀其營二十有二。 Jizu fell back to Huangcaoba and deployed war elephants. Chengye attacked from dawn to mid-afternoon and destroyed twenty-two camps.

世璠將胡國柄、劉起龍出拒，承業引守備林廷燏鏖戰，自卯至午，突入賊陣，砲中額，墜馬死。 Shifan's generals Hu Guobing and Liu Qilong sallied forth. Chengye and garrison commander Lin Tingye fought from dawn to noon, broke into the rebel line, took a cannon ball in the forehead, and fell dead from his horse.

事聞，詔贈承業右都督，廷燏贈都司僉事。 The court posthumously made Chengye Right Commander-in-Chief and Tingye Vice Commissioner of the Regional Military Commission.

國柄等出戰，忠孝與承業、廷燏同時戰死，贈都督同知。 Guobing sallied forth; Zhongxiao fell in the same battle as Chengye and Tingye and was posthumously made Vice Commissioner-in-Chief.

承業戰沒雲南城下，悍敵致死，誠有不易當者。 Chengye died below the walls of Yunnan; the foe he faced was truly formidable.