Wu Shizong (吳世琮) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Shizong as a general, military officer, and rebel. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wu Shizong	吳世琮	Wú Shìcóng
Personal name	Wu Shicong	吳世琮
Personal name	Wu Shizong	吳世琮	Wú Shìcóng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0136

Roles

General
Military Officer
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0136
Source Date: Text: 康熙十六年 · Western Year: AD 1677
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0135

Family

Kin of Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
Kinship Role: grandnephew

Events and relationships

Kind: biographical-event · Action: attacked Fu Honglie at Wuzhou after taking Pinglo and was defeated
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0166
Kind: biographical-event · Action: killed Sun Yanling and tried to force Ma Xiongzhen to surrender
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0135
Kind: biographical-event · Action: repeatedly tried and failed to persuade Fu Honglie to submit
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0180

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 3 passages

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十六年十月，三桂遣其從孫世琮殺延齡，擁雄鎮至賊壘，迫使降，雄鎮大呼曰：「吾義守封疆，不能寸斬汝以報國，死吾分也！」 In the tenth month of the sixteenth year Sangui sent his grandnephew Shizong to kill Yanling and dragged Xiongzhen to the rebel camp to force his surrender. Xiongzhen cried out, "It is my duty to guard this frontier. I cannot cut you down to serve the throne—death is what I owe!"

吳世琮既殺延齡，陷平樂，襲弘烈梧州，弘烈擊敗之。 After Wu Shizong killed Yanling and seized Pinglo, he attacked Honglie at Wuzhou, but Honglie drove him off.

世琮百計說之，罵益厲。 Shizong tried every argument to win him over, but Honglie only cursed him more fiercely.

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 · 4 passages

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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.

世琮以十萬人分屯貴州、廣西諸要隘，而自將兵圍南寧。 Shicong posted a hundred thousand men at key passes in Guizhou and Guangxi while he personally besieged Nanning.

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.