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Volume 226 Biographies 13: Yang Guli, Lao Sa Zi Cheng Ni, Tu Lu Shen Zi Ba Shen Tai, Jue Luo Bai Shan Zi Shun Na Dai, Shun Na Dai Zi Mo Luo Hun, Xi La Bu Zi Ma La Xi, A Lan Zhu, A Lan Zhu Di Bu Er Kan Na Er Cha, Na Er Cha Zi Hu Sha, Da Yin Bu Lang Ge, Lang Ge Zi He Tuo, He Tuo Cong Di Xu Shun, Ma Er Tu Chang, Ma Er Tu Chang Zi Wu Ku Li, Ka La, Ka La Sun Shu Li Hun, Luo Duo Mo, Xiang Gu Tu, Ba Du Li Xia Biao Wen Zi

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Biographies in this volume include Xilabu and his son Malaxi, Alanzhu, Alanzhu's younger brother Bu'erkan, Na'ercha, and Na'ercha's son Husha.
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Also treated here are Dayin, Bulangge, Langge and his son Hetuo, Hetuo's younger cousin Yongshun, Ma'erdangtu, and Ma'erdangtu's son Wukuli.
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This volume also covers Kala, his grandson Shuli, Hun, Luoduo, Kuangutu, Baduli, Muketan and his son Aiyin, Tamuda, Zhuhu, and Yangguli. Yangguli belonged to the Shumulu clan and came from a family long settled at Hunchun. His father Langzhu was chief of the Kurka tribe and was the first to submit to Nurhaci. With regular contact established, the khan treated him generously and had Yangguli enter his personal service. When Langzhu was murdered by fellow tribesmen, his wife strapped the infant Namutai to her back, slung a quiver and drew her sword, shot in every direction, fought her way out the gate, and led her clan to join the khan. The rest of the tribe soon submitted to Nurhaci as well. Yangguli slew his father's killer with his own hand, cut off the man's ears and nose, and devoured them while they were still raw. He was only fourteen, and Nurhaci was deeply struck by it. He won increasing trust, was given a princess in marriage, and was styled an efu, an imperial son-in-law. When the Eight Banners were organized, he was assigned to the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner.
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Nurhaci posted Yangguli to guard the Yalu frontier. His precautions were so strict that no one dared cross it. During the attack on Huifa's Duobi Castle, the army was stopped by the river until Yangguli forded the swirling current; the men followed, closed on the city, and took many prisoners and heads. In guisi (1593) he raided the Zhusheli and Neyin routes; in wuxu (1598) he raided the Anzhulaku route, earning merit in both campaigns. In jihai (1599) he took part in the conquest of Hada, was first over the wall, and captured the beile Menggebulu. In the first month of dingwei (1607), when the Feiyucheng population was being moved, Yangguli and Hurhan escorted them with three hundred men while Ula intercepted the roads with ten thousand soldiers. Yangguli rallied the men: "We always say we would rather die fighting than die in bed—isn't this the moment to prove it?" He charged the enemy line with his spear, killed seven Ula soldiers, and forced them to give ground. The armies faced off across the river until the beiles' forces gathered and routed the Ula army completely. In the fifth month he joined the beile Bayara and others against the Woji tribe, seized the Hexihei route, and led the vanguard. When the villagers of Ma'erguli fled to the hills at the army's approach, he stormed the heights, swept down on them, wiped out every able-bodied man, and brought back the women and children as captives. In the ninth month, campaigning against Huifa, he crossed two palisade lines, was first into the city, and captured it. In the seventh month of gengxu (1610) he joined the taiji Abatai against the Woji, raided the Mulun route, and captured Wu'erhuma village. Spotting smoke in the woods, he rode to it three times over and brought back a great haul of prisoners and booty. In the ninth month of renzi (1612), on the campaign against Ula, he assaulted Jinzho; when the garrison met them with arrow fire, Yangguli charged through the hail of shafts and took the city. In the first month of guichou (1613), on the second Ula campaign, Yangguli went ahead of the main force to engage the enemy. At Qinghe the Ula beile Buzhan Tai's troops fought fiercely. Nurhaci sent word by arrow for the generals to pull back, but Yangguli refused, drove the men up to the walls, concentrated the attack on one corner, and stormed the place.
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In the third month of Tianming 4 (1619), the Ming grand coordinator Yang Hao invaded in force; regional commanders including Du Song attacked Jiefan, and the great beile Daishan led the army to meet them. Our forces camped at Jilin Cliff and the Ming at Mount Sarhu. When the armies clashed, Yangguli and the beile Abatai raced each other to the front, shattered the Ming line, and Du Song and his colleagues were all killed. That same evening the Ming commander Ma Lin arrived and pitched camp at Shangjian Cliff. At dawn they advanced to attack. Nurhaci told the wounded to stay behind, but Yangguli bandaged his injuries, strapped them to his wrist, led ten companies downhill in a charge, and routed Ma Lin's army completely. In the seventh month, attacking Tieling, he defeated and captured the Mongol beile Jiesai. In the third month of year six he joined Nurhaci's assault on Shenyang. The moats were deep and the walls strong, and the men hesitated; Yangguli drew his sword, led his bannermen up first, tore out the bamboo stakes the defenders had planted to block the assault, and took the city. At Liaoyang he again led the escalade, shattered the enemy formation, routed the infantry, seized the river bridge, and at Shaling delivered a crushing defeat to the Ming army. Once Liaoyang fell, Nurhaci praised his record of wounds earned in battle after battle, ranked him just below the eight beiles, gave him command of the left wing, made him a first-rank commander, and told him he must not expose himself in combat again.
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In year ten, while Yangguli held Yaozhou, the Ming commander Mao Wenlong sent three hundred men to raid the buckwheat fields south of the city. Yangguli pursued and wiped them out to the last man. He was soon promoted to third-rank duke. In the ninth month of Tiancong 3 (1629), hunting fugitives with Ashan and others at Ya'ergu, he came upon Mao Wenlong's men gathering ginseng across the border, killed ninety-six of them, and brought back three chiliarchs and sixteen followers. In the tenth month he joined the Ming campaign and closed on the capital, defeating Man Gui's force north of the city. When artillerymen were trapped in an ambush, Yangguli charged in with a dozen guards and rescued every one of them. On the march home he joined the beile Abatai in a raid on Tongzhou and burned more than a thousand vessels. At Jizhou, when Ming reinforcements arrived, Hong Taiji led the three right-wing banners against the west while Daishan led the four left-wing banners against the east. When the two Red Banners on the right wavered, Yangguli drove the Plain Yellow Banner straight into the enemy line and put them to flight. Hong Taiji fined the Red Banner officers in silver and gave the sum to Yangguli, who distributed it among his men and kept nothing for himself. In year six, while Hong Taiji campaigned against the Chahar, he left the beile Abatai and Yangguli to hold the home front. When Ming forces invaded, the beiles drove them back. At Jinzhou the Ming fought fiercely and six banners gave ground. Enraged, Yangguli charged alone with his banner and broke the enemy. He soon followed Hong Taiji into Ming territory again, struck Datong and Xuanfu, and with the beile Abatai captured Lingqiu and destroyed and took Wangjiazhuang.
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In the sixth month of year seven, when Hong Taiji asked his generals about strategy, Yangguli said, "Armies must not sit idle. If a year passes without action, the enemy uses the breathing space to strengthen their defenses and may spoil our next strike. When we have time, campaign twice a year; when we are pressed, at least once— that is the sound policy. We should now strike deep into enemy country and take fortified towns. Beiles and generals who have already had smallpox can stay to garrison; those who have not should return with Your Majesty to the capital. If we cannot take a place, burn the villages and hamlets; enroll those who surrender in our companies and bring back those who resist as captives. Let each banner present captives and reward companies in proportion to their haul; let soldiers keep whatever they seize themselves. That way every man will hunger for loot, buy horses with his own money without being driven, and fighting spirit will only grow. On frontier duty, beiles alone may rotate home; other officers and soldiers must not. Without enduring hardship, who can expand the realm and build an empire? Some object that frequent campaigns will harm farming. Wives and children march with the army and harvest as they go—how does that harm the harvest? Leave Korea and the Chahar for later; beyond Shanhaiguan, defer Ningyuan and Jinzhou and strike deep into the interior instead. Once the interior is ours, Korea and the Chahar will come over on their own." The other ministers largely agreed, and Hong Taiji settled on a policy of war against the Ming. In the fifth month of year eight his whole record of service was reviewed again; he was raised to super-rank duke, placed just below the beiles, and given a pearl-studded cap button.
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In the fifth month of Chongde 1 (1636), Ajige, Prince of Wuying, the Raoyu beile Abatai, and Yangguli led a Ming campaign across the border, captured twelve towns and counties in the capital region, won fifty-eight engagements without a loss, took the commander Chao Pichang and others, and brought back more than a hundred thousand captives. On the way out they defeated the Santunying garrison and the Shanhaiguan relief force. In the ninth month, when the army returned, Hong Taiji rode ten li outside the capital to welcome them. They reported their victory at a feast where he personally poured wine for the three commanders. In the eleventh month, reviewing breaches of discipline on the Ming campaign, Ajige was fined for not commanding the rearguard in person on the withdrawal, and Yangguli for failing to keep proper watch—both paid tuhele weile penalties.
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In the twelfth month Hong Taiji led a personal campaign against Korea, and Yangguli went with him. In the first month of year two the army crossed the Han and camped on its bank while Korean troops from Jeolla and Chungcheong circuits reinforced and pitched camp south of Seoul. On dingwei day Hong Taiji sent Prince Dodo of Yu and Yangguli to attack them in snow and murk. The Koreans formed below the hill; our men fought from foot to summit. Dodo blew the horn calling Yangguli up the slope to direct the fight. As Yangguli spurred forward, defeated Koreans lying in ambush by the cliff fired muskets and hit him. His wounds were mortal; he died at once, aged sixty-six. The next day Dodo advanced on the enemy camp; the Koreans had already fled overnight, and they recovered Yangguli's body. Hong Taiji came in person to mourn and sacrifice, and gave his own court robes and cap for the burial. When the funeral cortege returned, Hong Taiji met it outside the city and ordered burial beside the Fuling mausoleum. On the burial day Hong Taiji sacrificed in person once more.
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From his first days with Nurhaci, Yangguli was always first to break the enemy line in battle; wherever he charged, nothing stood before him. Hong Taiji forbade him to fight in the front line, yet whenever he met the enemy he forgot himself and could not hold back. Over more than forty years of campaigning and more than a hundred battles, his achievements were unmatched, yet in private life he was exceptionally restrained and careful. Hong Taiji once detailed the guards of his own company to watch Yangguli's gate, gave him two leopard-tail spears, and assigned twenty personal guards as his escort. At his burial, eight households from his company were assigned to guard his household. In the tenth month of that year he was posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Martial Merit and a stele was raised on the tomb road. Under Shunzhi, the Shunzhi Emperor ordered him honored with a place in the Imperial Ancestral Temple sacrifices. In Kangxi 37 (1698), the Kangxi Emperor toured Mukden to visit the tombs and personally sacrificed at Yangguli's grave. In year thirty-nine a new stele was erected with an inscription recording his deeds. In Yongzheng 9 (1731) the hereditary title was fixed as first-rank Duke of Yingcheng.
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Yangguli had two sons: the elder, Ahadan, received the jasak rank for military merit; the younger, Tazan, inherited the super-rank dukedom and was made a grand minister of the interior. In the eighth month of Chongde 6 (1641), Hong Taiji personally led the army against Hong Chengchou at Jinzhou. When the Ming force fled, he had Tazan lay an ambush and pursue, killing and capturing a great number. The army soon shifted camp to Songshan. When the Ming commander Cao Bianjiao raided the imperial camp by night, Tazan failed to repel him and was demoted one rank in the dukedom. He died in Shunzhi 4 (1647); his son Aisingga succeeded him and has a separate biography.
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Laosa. Laosa belonged to the Guwalgiya clan and came from a family long settled at Anzhulaku. When Nurhaci campaigned against the Warka and took Anzhulaku, Laosa submitted. When the Eight Banners were organized, he was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Red Banner. In Tianming 6 (1621) he joined the Ming campaign, helped conquer Liaodong, and was made a guerrilla colonel. In Tiancong 2 (1628) he campaigned against the Mongol Duotelo tribe and was promoted to second-rank brigade deputy. In year three he joined the Ming campaign and closed on the capital; with Tulushi and others he defeated the enemy outside Desheng Gate, took more than fifty heads and dozens of horses, and was promoted to first-rank brigade deputy. The Eight Banners picked elite troops for the vanguard, called the Gabsiheen. Laosa was a fierce fighter; he was made a commander with the title Galai janggin. On every campaign he rode ahead to scout the enemy and won merit wherever he fought. In the eighth month of year five he joined the Ming campaign and besieged Dalinghe. Learning that Ming reinforcements were marching from Jinzhou, the khan sent Laosa and Tulushi with two hundred men to scout; he and Prince Dodo followed with another two hundred. The Ming pursued Laosa's party to the Xiaoling River and nearly reached the khan. He crossed the river and fought in person; when the rear guard came up, they routed the enemy together. Our general Jueshan was surrounded and a deputy was locked in close combat with blades about to fall on him. Laosa charged in and rescued them all. When he reported back, the khan personally poured him a cup of gold. to reward his exertions. Zhang Chun, the Ming army supervisor, mustered forty thousand horse and foot, crossed the Xiaoling River, and formed a tight camp to give battle. Acting on the khan's orders, Laosa took the banner and led the charge, breaking the enemy stockade in fierce fighting. In the tenth month he again joined Tulushi to reconnoiter around Jinzhou and Songshan. They encountered Ming forces retreating toward Ningyuan and cut down more than ten of their standard-bearers.
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In the eleventh month, when word came that Chahar troops were approaching, Laosa led a hundred men to scout them. The Chahar force pulled back, and he pursued them across the Greater Khingan Range but could not catch up. He collected all the armor, weapons, camels, and horses left along the road and returned with them. In the fourth month of year six he joined the campaign against the Chahar. When the army encamped at Boluo Erji, Laosa pushed ahead and rounded up more than two hundred Mongols who had been scattered in flight. In the fifth month he and Ashan took a hundred men to scout at Karlamangnai, ran into Chahar patrols, chased them down, and killed them. Our spy Liu Ha was surrounded by nearly a hundred enemy troops. Laosa charged in with only seven horsemen, shouting as he broke the ring, pulled Liu Ha out, and the enemy broke and fled. He soon learned in scouting that the Chahar khan had abandoned his lands and was already far in flight. When he reported back, the khan withdrew from Bulongtu and marched the army to Kuhe. Laosa then rejoined the main force.
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In year seven the khan sent Laosa, Tulushi, and others with three hundred men to raid Ningyuan. Splitting into two wings, they stormed Shahe Station, killed three hundred men, and took one Ming deputy commander and two hundred seventy head of livestock. In the second month of year eight he again raided the Jinzhou-Songshan frontier and sent a letter to the Ming commander Zu Dashou at Jinzhou. In the fifth month he and Turgene took troops across the frontier, crossed the Liao River, and encamped along the Zhanggutai River to shield the Mongols and hold the Ming forces in check. Laosa repeatedly won victories against odds and piled up merit. He was promoted to third-rank deputy commander and given the honorific Suwengkolobaturu. In the twelfth month, when Chahar tribes submitted, he was ordered to lead a hundred men to meet and escort them in. In the fourth month of year nine he followed Prince Dorgon in accepting the surrender of the Chahar. On the return march he raided the Ming frontier; Laosa led a night attack that routed the Ningwu Pass garrison, broke through the pass, and pushed on to raid Daizhou. He pressed on to raid Xinzhou, crossed Heifeng Pass, encountered forty Ming scouts, killed them all, and seized their horses.
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使 使 使巿 使 西
In Chongde 1 (1636) he joined Wu Song and others in carrying letters to the Ming garrison commanders along Songpeng Road and at Panjiakou; while reconnoitering the passes he took many prisoners and heads. When Hong Taiji marched on Korea, he sent Laosa and Household Commissioner Ma Futa ahead with three hundred men disguised as merchants, traveling day and night. As they neared Korea the local garrison commander came out to fight; after a hard battle they wiped out his entire command. King Li Jong of Korea sent envoys to treat with the army outside the city, then slipped away in the interval to Namhansanseong. On the army's return, the officials held that Laosa had not guarded tightly enough and had let Jong escape; they recommended stripping his hereditary rank and imposing punishment. The khan ordered that his office be retained. In year two he was made a deliberative minister. In the second month of year three he joined the Khalkha campaign. The khan sent Laosa with a letter urging the Ming officials at Xuanfu to restore the annual payments and reopen trade. Laosa seized more than forty Khalkha men, confiscated their goods and livestock, and then let them go. After the army returned, the officials ruled that Laosa deserved death. The khan personally pardoned him. In the eighth month he joined Princes Yueto and Dudu on a Ming campaign, entering through Miyun's Qiangziling Pass. Yueto reported: "Commander Laosa of the Gabsiheen and others ran down fugitives and caught a Ming scout who said Qiangziling was strongly held and hard to storm, but the heights east and west of the ridge could be crossed." The force split into four columns and pushed deep inland. Eight thousand Ming horse and foot stood to fight. Alantai's Mongols gave a little ground, but Laosa, Tulei, and the others fought their way into the enemy ranks. The Ming line broke and fell back, then returned that night; Laosa beat them off again and entered their camp. He then led his own troops in pursuit, took more than one hundred seventy heads and ninety prisoners, and captured over one hundred thirty horses. He was promoted to second-rank meiren janggin.
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In the fifth month of year five he and Wubai reconnoitered the Guangning frontier, entered from Zhonghousuo, swept south along the coast, and took two hundred heads. During the khan's personal assault on Jinzhou, Laosa held an ambush at Gaoqiao but allowed the enemy to pass without attacking. He was found guilty, reduced in hereditary rank, and stripped of his honorific title. In the fourth month of year six he followed Prince Jirhalang of Zheng against the Ming, besieged Jinzhou, laid an ambush, and hit Ming forces at Songshan, seizing one hundred ninety horses. While pursuing the Ming, Laosa saw enemy reinforcements approaching and sent a rider to Prince Jirhalang asking, "Reinforcements are here—what should we do?" Jirhalang took this for timidity and reported it to the khan, who said, "Laosa has always been fearless, and he is badly wounded besides; do not make much of a small lapse." In the fifth month Ming governor-general Hong Chengchou marched sixty thousand men to relieve Jinzhou and camped north of Songshan. Our forces were not yet gathered, but Laosa fought hard and routed the enemy vanguard. Once the khan ordered Prince Dorgon and others to bring up reinforcements, our troops engaged again and won a crushing victory. Laosa scouted east of Tashan, seized enemy cavalry, and captured the outer wall of Jinzhou. In the ninth month the khan ordered Laosa's hereditary rank and honorific title restored. He soon succeeded Hungnike as meiren janggin. That same month the khan personally commanded Dorgon and the others in the final battle with Chengchou. Laosa followed Dorgon into the enemy ranks, fought to the end, and was killed. After the victory the khan sent an inner minister with wine to mourn at his bier, posthumously ennobled him as third-rank angban janggin, and had his son Chengni inherit the rank.
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Chengni inherited the rank, received three grace edicts, rose to first-rank baron, and served as deliberative minister. In Shunzhi 9 (1652) he followed Prince Niken of Jingjin on the Hunan campaign. In the eleventh month he met the Ming general Li Dingguo at Hengzhou. Our army was beaten and he died in the fighting; he was posthumously granted the rank of tošaraha. In year twelve the court posthumously honored founding-era generals: Laosa received the temple name Zhongyi, Chengni received Chengjie, and stone monuments were raised to record their deeds.
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Laosa's younger brother Luobi, who had earlier earned the rank of adahaaha in battle, now also inherited Chengni's hereditary office and was raised to second-rank duke. At his death his son inherited at a reduced grade as first-rank baron. Two generations later the line failed; in the Qianlong reign a collateral branch was re-enfeoffed as second-rank viscount.
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Tulushi belonged to the Irgen Gioro clan and came from a family long settled at Yehe. He submitted to Nurhaci. When the Eight Banners were organized, he was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner. In Tianming 9 (1624) he was appointed niru ejen, company commander. He was promoted to jalan i ejen, and given command as jalan gashan. When Mongols deserted, he hunted them down and brought them back. In year ten he was ordered to Lüshunkou to hunt down bandits. He captured a great many prisoners and was granted a hereditary guerrilla colonelship.
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西 滿 祿 使
In Tiancong 3 (1629) he joined Hong Taiji on the Ming campaign. Tulushi rode ahead as vanguard scout. At Da'ankou the garrison sallied out; he charged alone, the main force came up, and the town fell. Marching from Zunhua toward the Ming capital, he found Ming troops from Jizhou trailing the army. Tulushi laid an ambush and beat them off. In the twelfth month the khan camped southwest of the capital and sent Tulushi and meiren janggin Ashan to ride around the walls and gauge the enemy strength. They took a spy who reported that Ming commanders Man Gui, Hei Yunlong, Ma Dengyun, and Sun Zushou had massed forty thousand men about two li south of Yongding Gate. Reporting back, he added, "The enemy is strong—we should hit them tonight while they do not expect it." At the third watch the horses were fed and the men ate where they lay. The Eight Banners and the Mongol left and right wings all moved out. Tulushi led his men in a headlong charge into the enemy camp. The Ming line collapsed, our troops poured in, and the Ming army was routed. Man Gui and Sun Zushou were killed; Hei Yunlong and Ma Dengyun were taken alive. With Laosa, Xierna, and others he ranged the field in mobile strikes and repeatedly took heads and prisoners. In the first month of year four he followed Princes Abatai and Jirhalang in running down and killing the rebel Liu Xingzuo and was promoted to second-rank brigade deputy. He then followed Prince Amin in holding Yongping. When scouts warned that Ming troops were coming, Tulushi went out with forty men while Baduri, Tunbulu, and others backed him with a hundred. Together they routed the Ming detached force under Zhang Hongmo. The full account appears in the biography of Baduri. Soon a large Ming force arrived. Amin abandoned Yongping and pulled the army back. Ordered to inspect the border wall, he divided fifty men into three squads, held the rest back, and rode ahead with only four companions to the foot of the pass. Several dozen Mongols sprang up between two walls and ringed them with arrows. Tulushi broke out, saw his men still trapped, and found one rider down with an arrow wound. He wheeled back with a shout, fought his way in again, and brought out three horsemen with the wounded man.
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In the eighth month of year five he joined the Ming campaign and assaulted Dalinghe. Two thousand Ming reinforcements marched from Songshan. Tulushi, Ashan, Laosa, and others met them with two hundred men, routed them, took more than a hundred heads, and seized three enemy banners. When they returned, the khan poured him a cup from a golden ewer to honor his exertions. In the ninth month, during the assault on Jinzhou, Ming reinforcements marched out from the city; he and Laosa followed the khan and helped rout them. The fuller account appears in the biography of Laosa. Again acting on the khan's orders, he had banners raised throughout the camp and cannon fired, making it seem that Ming relief was arriving so the garrison would sally out; when the ambush sprang, the enemy broke and fled. Zhang Chun, the Ming army supervisor, assembled relief columns from several routes, crossed the Daling River, and encamped at Changshan. Tulushi first blocked them with a flanking detachment and won a minor victory. On the evening of wuxu the khan personally led the cavalry in a night strike on the enemy camp. Tulushi went in first. After fierce fighting the Ming army was broken and Zhang Chun was captured. In the tenth month he reconnoitered Jinzhou and Songshan and killed Ming standard-bearers. In the eleventh month he chased Chahar troops across the Greater Khingan Range.
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祿 '退' 祿
In year six he joined the Chahar campaign. When the army paused at Boluo Erji to gather refugees, he did so alongside Laosa throughout. The khan ordered Harzan to prepare rations and store them at Ulanhada, with jalan i ejen Yanbulu and niru ejen Dongshan overseeing transport. They were late and supplies did not arrive on schedule. The officials ruled that they deserved death. The khan ordered a review; every opinion held that the law allowed no pardon. Tulushi said, "Your Majesty once proclaimed that retreat in battle merits death, yet grace has sometimes spared men even so; now if You punish Yanbulu and Dongshan yet spare their lives, that will truly be Your Majesty's grace alone." The khan agreed.
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In the second month of year eight he raided Jinzhou. In the fifth month he was raised to gabsiheen galai angban and promoted to third-rank deputy commander. In the sixth month he again joined the Chahar campaign. In the seventh month, reaching Guihuacheng, he met Chahar chiefs bringing twelve hundred households to submit and led them before the khan. That month the army breached the Ming border wall and entered Datong, defeating Ming commander Cao Wenzhao. With Hushibu and others he routed the army of Ming commander Zu Dabi, raided as far as Xuanhua, attacked Huaiyuan, laid an ambush west of Zuocheng, and sent Tulushi toward Xuanfu to scout. On intercalary eighth month, day yiyou, he encountered fifteen of Dabi's scouts. Tulushi charged alone on horseback into the enemy ranks. He plunged into the enemy line. An arrow struck him in the belly, yet he kept fighting, killed two men, and took thirteen prisoners. Tulushi was badly wounded. The khan went out in person to receive and tend him. On day dinghai he died in camp. He was granted the honorific Suwengkorobaturu and posthumously raised to third-rank commander-in-chief. Under Shunzhi he was posthumously honored with the temple name Zhongxuan.
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His son Bashitai inherited the title. He served Shunzhi. Three times favored by amnesty edicts, he rose to first-class baron. In the third month of Shunzhi 9 he was murdered before the emperor by a Mongol attendant and posthumously raised to third-class marquis. His son Zhuladai succeeded to the title. Under Kangxi the hereditary rank was fixed as first-class jingkini hafan. In Qianlong 1 the title was revised to first-class viscount.
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=Jueluo Baishan= Jueluo Baishan was a great-grandson of Baolang'a, the fifth younger brother of the dynastic ancestor Jingzu. Jingzu had six brothers, each ruling his own fort. Baolang'a was the fifth and lived at Nimala. When Nurhaci raised arms, many kinsmen resented his prowess and plotted his death; only Baolang'a's line refused to join and was first to rally to him. In the third year of his uprising Nurhaci attacked five Zhechen towns including Tuomohe and fought at Gioro. Baolang'a's great-grandsons Zhajin and Sanguli both took the field.
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Baishan entered the khan's service later than the rest of his kin. When the Eight Banners were organized he was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner. In Tianming 6 he followed Nurhaci against the Ming and joined the assault on Shenyang. Among the Ming commanders was a fighter known as Bald-Tailed Wolf. When they came up from the south of the city Baishan rode out to meet them, killed a deputy commander, and took their force intact. This Bald-Tailed Wolf fought with terrifying skill; Baishan cut him down in the thick of battle. The Ming force was wholly broken. When Liaodong fell he was given the rank of guerrilla colonel. In Tiancong 1 he followed Hong Taiji against the Ming. After failing to take Jinzhou the army turned on Ningyuan. When Jinzhou troops stole out and fell on the rear, Baishan and the company captain Bashi wheeled together to strike back—and Baishan was killed. Hong Taiji came in person to his funeral, poured wine and wept, granted households and livestock, and posthumously made him a third-rank brigade deputy. His son Gunadai succeeded to the title.
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Once Gunadai had succeeded, his office was revised in Tiancong 8 to third-rank meiren janggin. In Chongde 3 he joined the attack on the Ming, fought at Shanhaiguan, and routed the enemy. In the pursuit to Fengrun some men went out for firewood; when Ming troops struck, Gunadai galloped to their aid, drove the enemy back, and escorted his comrades home. Campaigning through Shandong he defeated the eunuch Feng Yongsheng and the regional commander Hou Yinglu, captured Boping, and rose to first-rank meiren janggin.
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In Shunzhi 1 Gunadai followed Dorgon through the passes as a baiduhai banner commander to fight Li Zicheng. In the tenth month he followed Dodo in chasing Zicheng to Shaanzhou. When the rebels drew up on the hills Gunadai and Turgut led the baiduhai in a headlong charge and cut down more than half the enemy. In the second month of Shunzhi 2, Zicheng's general Liu Yuanliang brought a thousand men to reconnoiter by night. Gunadai sallied forth and put them to flight. The Bordered Yellow, Plain Blue, and Plain White banners pressed forward; the rebels broke and ran. Tongguan fell, Xi'an was threatened, and Gunadai received an extra half stipend of seniority. In the third month he followed Dodo across Henan and the Huai River. In the fourth month they reached Yangzhou. With Erduqi and others Gunadai camped south of the city with the baiduhai and seized more than two hundred boats. The next day the combined armies closed on the walls; seven days later the city fell. The army pushed on to take Nanjing, ascended the Yangtze to Wuhu, fought the Ming commander Huang Degong, and smashed his fleet. The army then followed Prince Bolo into Suzhou, took Kunshan, and besieged Jiangyin, where cannon fire broke the walls, and Gunadai was the first over the ramparts when the city gave way. The army turned toward Zhejiang, overran Pinghu, won by land and water alike, and captured enemy warships. At Jiaxing the Ming came out to fight with their backs to the walls. Gunadai, Enggu, Handai, and others struck together—and won three times in three fights. When the army returned in the seventh month he was raised to third-rank angban janggin.
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In the fourth year he followed Dodo against the Sunites to punish Tenggis. When Tenggis fled to the Khalkha, Mongol detachments were sent after him and crushed him at Mount Otek; then marched west of the Tola and routed Khalkha forces at Zhajibulak. Shortly afterward an amnesty edict raised him to second-rank jingkini hafan. In the fifth year he followed Tan Tai into Jiangxi against Jin Shenghuan, reached Jiujiang, and shattered the rebel army; then died in the assault on Nanchang when a cannonball found him. He was posthumously made first-rank jingkini hafan, and his son Moluohun succeeded him.
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Moluohun was made a company commander. In Shunzhi 17 he followed Daisu into Fujian against Zheng Chenggong and led the attack on Xiamen, and was killed in the fighting. Because Baishan, Gunadai, and Moluohun had given their lives in three generations, Kangxi posthumously made Moluohun a third-class baron with the posthumous name Gangyong, "Steadfast and Brave."
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When Nurhaci first rose, his clansmen had not yet rallied. One Longdun—son of Suochanga, third elder brother of Jingzu and Nurhaci's uncle—worked hardest to thwart him. He leaked campaign schedules during Nurhaci's punitive raids on Nikhan Wailan and Li Dai, and set Nurhaci's half-brother Samuzhan to murder Gahashan and Hasihu—all his handiwork. Yet his nephew Wangshan remained loyal to Nurhaci. In Nurhaci's second assault on Zhaojia, when Ningguzhan was taken Wangshan was thrown by the enemy. A foe leaned over him, blade drawn to finish the kill; Nurhaci had not yet armored himself. He rode straight in, put an arrow through the man's forehead, and hauled Wangshan to his feet. He fought in many campaigns thereafter. In Tianming 10, together with Dazhuhu and Che'erge, the khan rode out to meet them, honored them with the embrace rite, and spoke to them with exceptional warmth. Che'erge led fifteen hundred men against the Warka and brought back a great haul of prisoners.
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When Nurhaci's power was fully established, Longdun's sons Duobi and Tuobohui both entered his service. In Tianming 7, during the campaign against the Ming, he left Duobi with Bei Heqi and Subuhai to hold Liaoyang. When Hong Taiji first took the throne he appointed eight grand ministers and made Tuobohui head of the Plain Blue Banner.
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Another was Tumublu, a grandson of Jingzu's youngest brother Baoshi. In the tenth year he was posted with Erdai, Maohai, Guangshi, and others to garrison Yaozhou. When Hong Taiji expanded the council to sixteen ministers, he and Sabihan were made Tuobohui's deputies.
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Langqiu and Bahana too were Suochanga's descendants; each rose to high office and receives his own biography.
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He entered Nurhaci's service and was made a jarguci. Xilabu came from a line long settled at Wanyan and took that place as the family name. At the outset of Nurhaci's uprising he brought his followers over and kept constant guard at the khan's side. In guisi, during the raid on Fuerjiaqi, a Hadah archer named Xitekü shot at Prince Bayara. Xilabu threw himself in the way, took two arrows, and died. He was mourned and posthumously made guerrilla colonel. He left two sons, Galu and Malaxi. When the banners were organized they were assigned to the Manchu Bordered Red Banner. Galu succeeded to the title and earned distinction at Shaling, rising to second-rank brigade deputy. He died leaving no son.
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Malaxi received a company assistant command in Tiancong 9. He soon succeeded to his brother Galu's hereditary post. In Chongde 2 he joined Yekeshu's campaign against the Gualicha. In the seventh month of Chongde 3 he became a minister of the Board of Punishments. In the eighth month he was transferred to Mongol meiren ejen. In the fourth year he was promoted again to gushan ejen. During Dorgon's siege of Jinzhou he was fined under law for winking at princes who sent men home and camped too far from the walls. He followed Abatai through Huangyakou afterward and won at every turn. In the fourth month of Shunzhi 1 he followed Dorgon through the passes, routed Li Zicheng, and chased him to Qingdu. In the twelfth month he joined Ashan in the Shaanxi campaign, forded the Yellow River at Puzhou, and struck the rebels. For his service he was raised to first-rank jalan janggin with an extra half stipend of seniority. He was soon ordered south with Dodo below the Yangtze. In the fifth month of Shunzhi 2 he crossed from Guide to the Huai River bridge north of Si. When the Ming commander burned the bridge and fled, the army crossed by night. With Baiyintu he took Wugang Stockade with red-barreled cannon and marched east. At Changzhou he broke Huang Fei and ten thousand foot soldiers, took Yixing, and along the way destroyed the Ming river force. At Kunshan, while Enggu was still battering the walls, Malaxi led his men to a crumbling breach, was first over, and took the city—then seized Changshu as well. On the army's return he was raised to third-rank meiren janggin.
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In the eighth month of Shunzhi 4 he followed Suha into Shaanxi as far as Hanzhong. When the rebel He Zhen fled to Xixiang, Malaxi and Oboi split their forces, chased him through Chu and Hu, and took a great toll of heads—earning Malaxi promotion to second-rank ashan-i hafan. In the fifth year, while Dorgon was out hunting, Malaxi was punished for going on unauthorized hunts with Gadahun and other generals and was reduced in rank. In the eighth year, when Shunzhi took personal rule, an edict restored him to office. Favored again by an amnesty edict, he rose to third-rank jingkini hafan. In the ninth month of Shunzhi 9 he was ordered with Altin, the Pacifier of the South, to bring Guangdong under control. In the tenth month his troops were reassigned to garrison Hanzhong. In the twelfth month he was ordered to move again and pacify Chenzhou, Changde, and the other routes of Huguang. In the eleventh year he died.
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In the twelfth year the Shunzhi Emperor ordered a retrospective honor roll of founding generals: each was treated as a first-rank minister, given a posthumous title, and granted a stele at the tomb road. Xilabu received the title Shunzhuang and Malaxi Zhongxi.
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Among Nurhaci's generals, while the dynasty was still being forged, many fell on campaign. Others honored in the same way as Xilabu included the jarguci Alanzhu and the meiren ejen Na'ercha.
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Alanzhu belonged to the Dong'o clan and came from a family long settled at Warkashi. His father Agebayan and his uncle Duiqibayan both served as village headmen. When Nurhaci attacked Hangjia Castle, the garrison commander was Agebayan's father-in-law, who ordered him to help defend the walls. Agebayan refused: "It is right to put down rebellion with virtue. How can I aid rebels and turn away a righteous cause?" Soon he and Duiqibayan each led their people to join Nurhaci. When the Eight Banners were organized, he was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Red Banner. Duiqibayan's sons Ga'erhuji and Alanzhu were made niru commanders and given separate charge of their households. Alanzhu was soon made jarguci. In the war against Ula he led the charge; man and horse were both wounded. He fought on foot and died in the line. He was posthumously made third-rank jalan janggin, and his younger brother Bu'erkan inherited the rank. Under Shunzhi he was posthumously titled Shunyi.
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Bu'erkan inherited the post and was appointed jalan ejen. In Tiancong 4, with Wulai and Haning'a he led a hundred elite troops against the Ming border, took three spies, crossed the Daling River, killed more than forty, and captured one hundred sixty. In the eighth year the niru household rolls were reorganized, and one hundred newly submitted Hurha were placed under Bu'erkan. He later garrisoned Niuzhuang, captured a Mongol deserter, and was promoted to second-rank jalan janggin. He died in Chongde 1.
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Na'ercha of the Niohuru clan came from Antu in the Sukusuhu River group. At the dynasty's founding he came over, received the rank of beyde, and was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner. In wushen he joined Nurhaci's campaign against Ula, was first over the wall at Yihan Alin Castle, and was made meiren ejen. At Shaling he pushed ahead before the main force arrived and fell in battle; his eldest son Fosuoli inherited the hereditary rank. Under Shunzhi he was posthumously titled Duanzhuang.
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Husha was Na'ercha's second son. He was first made niru ejen. In Tiancong 6 he followed Hong Taiji's Ming campaign and entered Datong. While scouting with Tulushi he met four hundred Ming troops, strung his bow, spurred straight into their ranks, and sent them flying. The columns pushed to Guo County and repeatedly routed Ming forces. In Chongde 3 he joined Yueto's Ming campaign. With Oboi in the lead he met three hundred Ming horsemen; Husha with eight riders beat them back. He then led Left Wing bayara troops past Yanjing and through Shandong. When Gao Qiqian and other Ming eunuchs marched out, Husha and Roshi won a string of fights and chased them north for miles. Judging Fosuoli unfit, the khan transferred the hereditary rank to Husha and made him gūsa beise janggin. In the sixth year he joined the Ming campaign, fought at Jinzhou, and ranged between Songshan and Xingshan with repeated captures. In the seventh year he received half a step of salary. In the tenth month Abatai led an expedition against the Ming. The khan ordered Husha to accompany the force and, once it had crossed the border, to ride back with a military report. In the spring of the eighth year, when the army returned, Husha was sent with Nushan, the gūsa beise angbang, and others at the head of ninety men to Jieling Pass to welcome the returning army and captured a great many of the enemy.
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At the start of Shunzhi he crossed the pass to strike Li Zicheng. At Yipianshi, Husha led his banner's gūsa beise cuha against Tang Tong, Li's general, and chased Li Zicheng to Qingdu; then, with Xitek, the gūsa beise angbang, he set a trap, drew the enemy in, and crushed them in a converging attack. In the sixth month he marched into Shanxi under Yechen, reached Fenzhou, and with Daola, Tuerse, and others broke the force of Li's general Bai Hui. In the second year he followed Prince Ying Ajige into Shaanxi and took Suide and Yan'an. When the niru commander Harhan'eban was caught on Nanshan and killed, Husha charged in with a handful of riders and brought his body back. Li Zicheng fled into Huguang. The pursuit reached Anlu, where they routed his general Shao Zhang and captured his boats downstream. At Jiujiangkou he and Xitek led twenty vanguard fighters, stormed a rebel stockade, and chased Li Zicheng to Jiugong Mountain. After Li Zicheng's death, Husha joined Subai, Xiergen, and others in mopping up the remnants, took more than two thousand heads, and was raised to third-rank jalan janggin. In the third year he followed Suha against Zhang Xianzhong in Hanzhong. When the rebel He Zhen marched out to fight, Husha smashed his line, clearing the way for Suha to slay Xianzhong. In the fifth year he was promoted to second-rank ada hafan. He pursued Zhang Xianzhong's remnants to Xichong and wiped them out.
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In the sixth year he joined Prince Jirhala's sweep through Hunan. The Ming Prince of Gui, Youlang, still held Guangxi, and his governor He Tengjiao defended Xiangtan. After Changsha fell the army crossed the Xiang and assaulted the city. When the defenders sallied from three gates, Husha and Xitek broke the western force and took Tengjiao alive. The Ming line broke, Xiangtan fell, and Hengzhou, Baqing, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and the rest followed. He was promoted to second-rank ashan i hafan. In the ninth year he became Mongol vice commander of the Bordered Yellow Banner and was sent with Academician Sunahai to try a case in Korea. In the eleventh year he also served as vice minister of Works. In the twelfth year he became Mongol commander of his banner and joined the Deliberative Council. In the fifteenth year he followed Prince Xin Duoni's campaign into Yunnan. In the sixteenth year he took part in the capture of Yongchang. In the seventeenth year the army returned. When Yongchang first fell he had let his men plunder the city; he was demoted to third-rank ashan i hafan. He died in Kangxi 3. The hereditary rank was divided: the fifth son Hubitu inherited first-rank ada hafan, and the second son Shuobohai inherited baitalabula hafan.
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Dayinbu of the Tatara clan came from a family long settled at Zhakumu. In Tianming 3 he came over, joined the Manchu Plain White Banner, and served as niru janggin. When men were lured away and fled to the Mongols, Dayinbu and Leng'e Li pursued them, and in Nurhaci's wars he always led the van; for repeated merit he received the rank of beyde. At Dadatai he beat back Mongol raiders and recovered fugitives from newly submitted groups. In the sixth year, during Nurhaci's raid on Fengji Fort, Dayinbu led the van, killed enemy scouts, and was made guerrilla commandant. The Zhalute beile Ang'an had seized a Qing envoy and sent him to Yehe, and repeatedly waylaid envoys and drove off livestock. In the eighth year Nurhaci sent the taiji Abatai with three thousand men against him. Dayinbu, then gūsa beise angbang, with Yaxican and Bo'erjin took fifty horsemen ahead of the army, crossed the Liao by night, raided Ergele, and rode more than a hundred li to Ang'an's camp. Ang'an put wife and children in ox carts and came out with some twenty riders. Yaxican and Bo'erjin dismounted with thirty riders to fight; Dayinbu held a dozen horsemen in reserve. Ang'an meant to flee, then charged the line to break out. As Dayinbu drew his bow, Ang'an's men thrust short spears at him, wounding Dayinbu in the mouth and knocking him from his horse. The Qing line surged forward; Ang'an, his son, and their followers were all killed and their families taken. Dayinbu died of his wounds. On the army's return he received posthumous honors and the hereditary rank was raised to guerrilla commandant.
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In the Chongde period, His son Ajigenikan and Ajigenikan's son Yilibu are each given separate biographies. His third son Daigun fought in many campaigns and held a hereditary rank. In Chongde 2, while besieging Jinzhou, he fell in battle and was posthumously made beyde. Dayinbu's death was the most valiant, yet although his line rose to noble rank, Shunzhi never granted him a posthumous title.
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Among Nurhaci's company officers who died in service, the niru ejen Kala fell fighting Liu Ting. The niru ejen E'erna and Eheyi also garrisoned Shenhe with five hundred men, fought Liu Ting in the woods, and died. The jalan ejen Buha and Shi'ertai and the niru ejen Langge followed the attack on Shenyang. When Chen Ce and other Ming generals came to relieve the city, all three died in the fighting. Ma'erdangtu died besieging Jinzhou under Nurhaci. When Kala, E'erna, and Eheyi fell, the dynasty was still being founded and no posthumous honors yet existed. Buha was posthumously made regimental commander; Shi'ertai and Langge received guerrilla commandant; Ma'erdangtu already held that rank when he died. Langge's son Hetuo and Ma'erdangtu's son Wukuli served Hong Taiji; Kala's grandsons Shulihun, Luoduo, and Kuangutu served Shunzhi—all won distinction, and their honors passed down the line.
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Langge of the Dong'o clan was Duiqibayan's son and Alanzhu's younger brother. Duiqibayan's coming over is told in Alanzhu's biography. He died in battle and left a hereditary rank that passed to his eldest son Dongshilu. When the banners were organized, the family was assigned to the Manchu Bordered Red Banner.
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Hetuo was Langge's second son. In the first month of Chongde 7 he was made meiren ejen of his banner. He joined Prince Jirhala's campaign against the Ming and helped besiege Jinzhou. When Zu Dashou surrendered Jinzhou, the army pushed on and took Tashan. Prince Jirhala tallied the spoils and sent Hetuo back to court with the report. The throne ordered Hetuo to distribute rewards among the army's wounded and dead and to carry an edict to the Ming commander at Xingshan: 'Win him with fair words; if he yields, so be it; otherwise bombard the place—and if he submits after the guns open fire, accept that as well.' Hetuo reached the front, delivered the orders, opened fire, and the Ming commander surrendered. On the army's return he was handsomely rewarded. When commanders who had let their men break discipline were later called to account, Hetuo should have paid a fine, but past service won him a reprieve. In the tenth month he joined Beile Abatai's raid into Ming territory, smashed the border wall at Jieling Pass, and pushed on to Huangyakou. The command planned a pincer attack; Prince Fu Feiyanggu put Hetuo in charge of the left wing and ordered scaling ladders built for the assault. After riding all the way around the defenses, Hetuo said, 'The wall can be taken without ladders.' He then took forty bayara troops through a breach in the wall, killed a garrison commandant, and routed the rest. He rejoined the right wing to invest Jizhou, routed the Ming generals Bai Tengjiao and Bai Guang'en, then swept through Shandong and captured Yanzhou, Laizhou, and Qingzhou. The following year, on the army's return, he was made a minister of the Board of Civil Appointments and retained his post as meiren ejen.
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In Shunzhi 1 he crossed into China with the army against Li Zicheng and received the hereditary rank of niru janggin. The throne sent Vice Minister Wang Aoyong to pacify Shandong, while the Ming vice commander Yang Wei held Dengzhou. Aoyong asked for reinforcements, and the court ordered Hetuo, Li Shuaitai, and Emuge to march against Yang Wei. Aoyong reached Qingzhou only to be killed by the turncoat Zhao Yingyuan. Hetuo's force arrived and summoned Governor Chen Jin and Commander Ke Yongsheng to combine and close on Qingzhou. Yingyuan offered to surrender again; Hetuo and Li Shuaitai feigned acceptance, then sent men by night to capture and execute him and dozens of his partisans, pardoned the compelled followers, and Qingzhou was secured. Chen Jin took Dengzhou as well. Hetuo and Li Shuaitai were ordered into Henan to link up with Prince Dodo's drive into the south; they received gold and sable furs, and Hetuo's hereditary rank rose to third-class jalan janggin. In Shunzhi 2 he joined Beile Lekdehun's campaign through Zhejiang and helped secure Hangzhou. When Fang Guo'an advanced with his army, Hetuo took the left wing at Fuyang, killed two vice commanders, two regimental commanders, and five guerrilla commanders, and routed Fang's force completely. He broke the enemy again at Xiaguan Zhigou and tore down their timber palisade. Hetuo and Jumala were ordered to station their Manchu and Mongol troops at Hangzhou. He died in the fourth month of Shunzhi 3.
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Yongshun, a younger kinsman of Duiqibayan, held the post of niru ejen. Fearless in combat, he invariably led the van. He rose step by step to become gusai ejen of the Bordered Red Banner. In Tiancong 3 he joined the campaign against the Ming, besieged Zunhua, and led his banner's men in storming the southwest corner of the city. In Tiancong 4 he helped take Yongping and received a hereditary second-rank regimental commander's rank. When Beile Amin abandoned Yongping and pulled back, Yongshun alone defended the decision; he was removed from office, stripped of his hereditary rank, and his estate was confiscated. In Tiancong 7 he joined Beile Yoto's naval assault on Lüshun; though Huang Long held the city, the fleet carried it. In the reckoning of honors, Baqilan and Samushka were credited with first scaling the bluff; while Yongshun and Jumala were credited with first mounting the wall—and their hereditary ranks were restored. In Chongde 2 he joined the capture of Pi Island and was made meiren ejen. In Chongde 4 he campaigned against the Solon, ambushed and routed the enemy, and rose to first-rank regimental commander. In Chongde 6, assaulting Jinzhou, he was unhorsed, seized another mount, and led his banner toward the left wing; and once the right wing prevailed, he charged in and raced his men to meet the foe. Convicted of deceit, he was spared the harshest penalty but lost his post as meiren ejen. Early in Shunzhi an amnesty raised him to second-rank ashan i hafan and restored him as gusai ejen. He died. His son Gengtu, already a baitalabure hafan for earlier service, eventually held first-rank ashan i hafan as well.
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Ma'erdangtu of the Zakuta clan came from a family long settled at Heketongji. Under the Taizu he led a little more than a hundred men and received the rank of guerrilla commandant. He joined the siege of Jinzhou and fell in battle.
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His son Wukuli took the field at sixteen. Hong Taiji made him jalan ejen and heir to Ma'erdangtu's hereditary rank. In Chongde 3 he joined Beile Yoto's raid into Shandong; when the Ming eunuch Feng Yongsheng marched out, Wukuli routed him; at Jinan, before the ladder corps arrived, he scaled the parapet first, brought his men up after him, and seized the city. On the march home he and Samushka covered the rear; the enemy dared not close, and at Taipingzhai he beat them again in a running fight. In Chongde 7, back at Jinzhou and Songshan, he drove off the foe, then smashed their regrouped camp on North Mountain in three straight victories.
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Early in Shunzhi he entered the Pass with Yechen's assault on Taiyuan. Riding round the walls with ten horsemen, he was caught in a sudden sally; Wukuli and jalan ejen Sabitu fought back fiercely. He then followed Prince Ajige in pacifying Shaanxi, Huguang, and Jiangxi. On the return march the army reached Chizhou. They killed or captured a great many. Scouting the Ming officer Huang Fei, he attacked and seized twelve boats. Back in the capital he was made a minister of the Board of War and given half a step of promotion. In Shunzhi 3 he joined Prince Hooge's descent into Sichuan against Zhang Xianzhong and defeated Gao Rulü; pursuing Xianzhong, he routed him a second time. In Shunzhi 5 he joined the campaign against Jiang Xiang and assaulted Ningwu Pass; Jiang Hui and Liu Weisi marched out with three thousand relief troops, and the besiegers and defenders struck from both sides. Wukuli led bayara from three banners in fighting below the pass; when Jiang's ten-thousand-man force formed for battle, Wukuli shattered them and blasted the city open with cannon. At Pianguan and the Xihe Camp too he won seven battles without defeat. As the army approached Zuoyun, Jiang Xiang's troops were wiped out. In Shunzhi 8 he rose to first-rank adaha hafan. In Shunzhi 10, when Zheng Chenggong threatened Fujian, he and Eheli were ordered to lead the imperial guard and the Jiangning and Hangzhou garrisons to the coast; at Haicheng the enemy blocked the defiles with gunfire, and Wukuli stormed fort after fort. When the enemy broke the bridge, Wukuli was first across on horseback; they broke and ran, and the whole army got over; then three thousand more held the shore, and he beat them in a foot fight. Working with Jin Li and others, he reduced dozens of enemy forts, accepted thousands of surrenders, and was again granted tooshan hafan.
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In Shunzhi 12 he became president of the Court of Judicial Review and submitted a memorial: Manchu troops campaigning year after year paid for their own horses and arms while their families stayed in the capital—he asked that they be rewarded. Wherever armies passed, people were often uprooted; though relief was ordered, they needed settlement and a way to live—he asked that the ministries weigh practical measures. For Green Banner men fallen in service, he asked that the proper offices be ordered to provide for their families. On the coasts and rivers of Jiangsu, Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang, bandits roamed; he urged heavy garrisons at critical points under provincial supervision. In the northwest the Oirats, Russians, and other peoples still lay outside regular contact; he asked the Court of Colonial Affairs to frame trade rules and open exchange. All five proposals were sent to the ministries for review and implementation.
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He was soon sent to inspect a breach in the Yellow River. In Shunzhi 13 he became director-general of grain transport. In Shunzhi 17 he was made superintendent of Shengjing. In Kangxi 1 the superintendency became a generalship, and Wukuli kept the command. Shengjing then had boards of Revenue, Rites, and Works; Wukuli asked that Punishments be added, and the court agreed. He died in Kangxi 4. His hereditary honors were split: the eldest son Emuketu took third-rank adaha hafan; the second son Fobao to baitalabure hafan with tooshan hafan.
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Kala of the Dong'o clan came from a family long settled in Walha. Under the Taizu his clan submitted. Campaigning brought him distinction; he became niru ejen and was named Baturu. In Tianming 4 he faced Liu Ting's Ming force, fought until he took seven wounds, and died of them.
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His son was Zhafuni. In Tiancong 4, campaigning against the Ming at Luanzhou, he plunged into the enemy line to rescue three men captured by the foe. For this he received the hereditary rank of beyu. In the twelfth month of Tiancong 8 he joined Baqilan's expedition on the Amur and gained half a step of promotion.
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Shulihun was Zhafuni's son. He first entered service as a bayara da. He joined the siege of Dalinghe and routed the Mongol force. On Zhafuni's death he inherited the family rank. In Shunzhi 2 he followed Prince Ajige west in the pursuit of Li Zicheng to Yan'an and won seven engagements. When Zicheng fled into Huguang, Shulihun followed, halted at Anlu, and seized fourteen boats. In Shunzhi 3 he joined Prince Dodo's northern campaign against Tengjisi, fought hard, took many heads and prisoners, and defeated the Khalkha Tüsiyetü and Sholoi khans. On the army's return he was made niru ejen. In Shunzhi 6 he joined Prince Bolo's western sweep toward Datong and defeated Jiang Jianxun and other officers of Jiang Xiang. In Shunzhi 11 he was made bayara tuwakibure janggin. In Shunzhi 15 he was made meiren ejen of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner. He joined Prince Duoni's southern expedition into Yunnan, fought at Liangshuijing, and routed the Ming commander Li Chengjiao; then at Shuanghekou defeated Li Dingguo. On the army's return he was promoted to third-class ashan i hafan. He died in the eighth month of Shunzhi 18.
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Luoduhuan was Shulihun's younger brother. On campaign he helped take Lüshun and besiege Jinzhou, earning merit in both. In Chongde 7 he joined Beile Abatai's raid into Ming territory, was first into Shunde Prefecture, and received the title Baturu. He rose through the ranks to first-class adaha hafan with tosoro hafan.
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Kuanggutu was another younger brother of Shulihun. Under Shunzhi he served under General Chen Tai in the Fujian campaign, took Xinghua Prefecture, and led the assault. He rose from bayara da to jalan ejen. When Luoduhuan died in Shunzhi 17, he inherited the family rank. In Kangxi 13 he joined Vice Commandants Yabai and Akeni against Geng Jingzhong, advanced from Anqing into Jiangxi, routed the rebels at Xiaogushan, and retook Pengze, Yihuang, Chongren, Le'an, and other counties. In Shunzhi 15 he turned against Wu Sangui, attacked Pingxiang, defeated Xia Guoxiang, and pushed the army into Hunan. In Shunzhi 18 he fought at Fengmuling, routed Wu Guogui, and retook Wugang. He died in Kangxi 24. His son Duobohai inherited the rank.
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Te'erle was Shulihun's grandson. Under Kangxi he served under Laibao in the campaign against Wu Shifan, routed He Jizu, and took Shimenkan and Huangcaba; then by night seized Songming and Dancheng and helped take Yunnan. He also joined Commander Xifu in the pursuit of Ma Bao and the defeat of Hu Guozhu. For these services he received the hereditary rank of baitalabura hafan. He died.
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Taizu once prayed Heaven on behalf of the old minister Yabahai: "Let him be reborn into my clan!" He also prayed for Buhusun, Langge, and six others: "Forgive their small lapses!" Before Taizu took up arms there was a clan feud; his attendant Pahai died in it—probably Yabahai himself. Nothing further is recorded of Buhusun and the others.
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Baduli's clan had long lived at Tongjia and took that place as their surname. Early in the Tianming era he submitted with his younger brother Meng'atu. Taizu organized their followers into two niru under the Manchu Plain White Banner. Seeing Baduli's ability, Taizu appointed him a jarguci. After repeated service in the field he received the rank of guerrilla commandant. In Tianming 10, the Ming sent troops by sea to Lüshun, rebuilt the old fort, and left a garrison. Baduli joined Beile Mang'ergutai's assault, took the city, and wiped out the Ming force. In Tianming 11 Mao Wenlong sent a night raid against Sarihu; the defenders met it with cannon and arrows, the Ming force fell back and made camp. Baduli swept down from the hills with a shout, routed the enemy, and pursued them, taking more than two hundred heads.
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In Tiancong 3 he joined the Ming campaign and distinguished himself at the capture of Zunhua. The Emperor personally poured him wine from a golden cup to honor him and promoted him to second-class vice general. In the first month of Tiancong 4 he joined Beile Jirhalang in the defense of Yongping. In the third month Zhang Hongmo invaded; Tulushi led forty men as vanguard, and Baduli followed with Tunbulu and a hundred troops. When the ambush sprang, Tunbulu broke and ran; Baduli and Tulushi covered the retreat. Keyue was wounded and nearly unhorsed, so Baduli killed a foe, seized his mount for his brother, cut down thirty-odd men, and drove the enemy off. In the fifth month Luanzhou was besieged; Amin, holding Yongping, delayed relief until the city was near collapse, then sent Baduli, who broke through by night and entered the town. As they debated a last stand, the enemy's heavy guns set the gate tower ablaze; Namutai and the other commanders saw the defense was hopeless, abandoned the city for Amin's camp, and Amin in turn abandoned Yongping and withdrew east. When the court reviewed the commanders' failures, Baduli was cleared because he had fought his way in to relieve the city.
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In Tiancong 5 he was made Minister of Rites. In Tiancong 6 he was dispatched to Korea to set the tribute quotas. In the eighth month of Tiancong 8 the Emperor led a campaign against the Ming; Baduli followed to Yingzhou and was ordered with Beile Abatai to take Wangjiazhuang in Lingqiu. Baduli led the assault on a fort; though wounded he kept fighting until a stray arrow killed him. The Emperor wept when he heard and said: "He was an old servant of mine who fought for decades and fell on the battlefield—this is a grievous loss!" He was posthumously honored with the rank of third-class vice general. In Shunzhi 13 he was posthumously given the posthumous name Minzhuang. His son Zhuoluo has his own biography.
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Meng'atu rose from niru ejen to meiren ejen, but was dismissed for establishing private estates. In Tiancong 3 he joined the Ming campaign and routed the enemy at Zunhua. When the army returned the following year, the Emperor went out to the suburbs to feast and reward the troops. He received a hereditary guerrilla rank and was made Minister of Works, with concurrent charge of the ministry's affairs. He was soon ordered to lead a campaign against the Warka and took prisoners. In Chongde 3 he retired on account of age; when summoned he was told: "You old ministers always gladden me when I see you—come visit whenever you wish!" He died soon after.
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Of the early generals who built the dynasty under Taizu and then died campaigning under Taizong, Laosa and Tulushi stand highest; Baduli, Muketan, and Na'erte rank next; Dazhuhu was killed by prisoners. Under Shunzhi they all received posthumous honors. Na'erte's career is recorded in his father Yaxichan's biography.
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He came over and was made niru ejen. He followed Taizu on campaign. Muketan, of the Daijia clan, came from Hangjian in Hada territory. Following his father and elder brother into war, he always led the charge and was first over the wall; he received the title Baturu. When Chahai Huse rebelled and fled to Hada, Muketan followed his father and brother in pursuit; both were killed in the fight. When his nephew E'ernuo also defected to Hada, Muketan rode after him alone and killed him. When the Eight Banners were organized he was placed in the Manchu Bordered Blue Banner. In Tianming 1, campaigning against the Warka, the army was beaten and Mengku Gaha's officers fled; Muketan and seven others including Yanburi broke into the enemy line and rescued Shusai and Arhuda as they were about to be captured. On the army's return Taizu rebuked Mengku Gaha and transferred his spoils to Muketan. In Tianming 6 a defector fled and the pursuit went badly. Muketan joined a Ming campaign, was first into Yaozhou, took the city, and was left to garrison it. When the Mongol Haise and his band charged shouting, Muketan rode straight at them, killed Haise, and routed the rest. For this he received the rank of second-class vice general. When Taizong came to the throne each banner received a dispatch minister; Muketan served in that role for his banner. In the fourth month of Tiancong 1 he joined the Korean campaign. In the sixth month Ashan and Adahai rebelled and fled toward the Ming; Amin pursued by night with Muketan, who shot Adahai; Adahai fought back, knocked Muketan from his horse with his blade and nearly killed him, but both brothers were seized and brought back. In Tiancong 5 he joined the siege of Dalinghe; Muketan commanded his banner's troops under Gushan Ejen Panggu on the city's southwest. When the garrison sallied forth, Tulei led and Muketan followed; they reached the moat, fought on foot, and were pressing the enemy back into the ditch. Arrows from the wall rained down; fresh defenders poured out, fought hard, and he fell in the field. Taizong mourned him, saying: "Muketan was an old servant of mine—he ought not to have died like this!" He was posthumously made first-class vice general, inheritable by his heirs. Under Shunzhi he received the posthumous name Zhongyong and a stele was raised at his tomb. His son was Aiyintamu.
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Aiyintamu inherited his father's rank, took over Muketan's old niru, and received fifty additional fighting men. Early in Shunzhi he crossed into China and helped defeat Li Zicheng. He then joined Prince Dodo's sweep of Henan; with Meiren Ejen Sharhuda he repeatedly routed the rebels, pursued them to Tongguan, and as rearguard beat back three successive attacks from the rear—Aiyintamu's work. In Shunzhi 2, after Henan was pacified, he joined the conquest of Jiangnan. In the eighth month of Shunzhi 6 he followed Prince Jirhalang into Huguang. The Ming Prince of Gui, Youlang, held Wugang, and half of Hunan's prefectures and counties remained in Ming hands. Aiyintamu marched south from Changsha, took Baqing, and distinguished himself against Ma Jinzhong and Wang Jincai. Li Zicheng's general Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi's band held ten stockades at Hongjiang along the Yuan River. Aiyintamu and Minister Ahanikan crossed the river, stormed the rebel camps one after another, routed the enemy, and garrisoned Yuanzhou together. In the twelfth month, when the rebel general Wang Qiang attacked, he and Ahanikan joined forces and drove him back. In Shunzhi 9 an amnesty edict raised his rank step by step to second-class jingkini hafan. In the eleventh month he marched under Pacification-of-the-South General Zhuma'la with forty thousand men, drawing up an elephant formation, seized the mountain passes, and the armies settled into a standoff. then pushed into Guangdong. While the Ming general Li Dingguo besieged Xinhui, Prince Pingnan Shang Kexi hurried to relieve the city, and the two sides remained deadlocked. When Aiyintamu's column arrived, the combined force routed the enemy, chased them more than twenty li, and Li Dingguo fled. In the intercalary fifth month of Shunzhi 12 his service was rewarded with promotion to first-class jingkini hafan. He died in Kangxi 19.
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His son Gongtu succeeded to the title. In Kangxi 35 he joined Grand General Feiyanggu's campaign against Galdan at Jao Modo, won the battle, and was raised to third-class baron. His son Yongtai succeeded at a reduced rank to second-class jingkini hafan. In Qianlong 1 the hereditary title was revised to first-class viscount.
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=Dazhuhu= Dazhuhu, of the Zhaojia clan, came from Neyin. His grandfather Da'erchu submitted in the dynasty's earliest days. When the Eight Banners were organized he was assigned to the Manchu Plain Blue Banner. Dazhuhu began as niru ejen. He followed Nurhaci against Ula and took four thousand heads. He helped take Xilintun and returned with prisoners; when pursuers caught up he wheeled about, routed them, and took five thousand heads. On campaign against Yehe he killed three hundred and captured fifty. He came upon Ming subjects gathering ginseng across the border, killed thirty, and took six prisoners. When enemies raided Ningguta he marched out, killed their general and a hundred men, and seized a hundred suits of armor and three hundred horses. He was made third-class vice general. In Tianming 11 he fought the Eastern Sea Walgari and then the Guarca tribes, distinguishing himself in both. When Hong Taiji took the throne he created sixteen great ministers; Yisun and Dazhuhu served as deputies of the Bordered Yellow Banner. In Tiancong 1 Hong Taiji invaded Korea, captured Uiju, left a garrison, and put Dazhuhu in command of part of the force. He soon led another expedition against Walgari. On the march home he was killed by prisoners. In Tiancong 8 his son Wengadai succeeded to third-rank meiren janggin. When Hong Taiji sent another force against Walgari he warned them: "When I dispatched Dazhuhu before, his lack of caution got him killed. Remembering his long service, I allowed his son to inherit the title only because of that. You have not earned what Dazhuhu earned. If you fail to watch yourselves and expect special favor, you will not receive it." Under Shunzhi he received the posthumous name Xiangmin, "Assisting and Keen."
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Wengadai inherited the rank of jalan janggin. He joined the campaign against the Hurha and received half a step of seniority. He rose through the censorate to become meiren ejen of the Plain Blue Banner. While the siege of Jinzhou was at its height, he and Meiren Ejen Duojili were ordered to garrison the lines and hunt down deserters. In Chongde 6 he joined the siege of Jinzhou and repeatedly defeated the Ming governor-general Hong Chengchou. He then pushed on to Songshan, fought hard, and fell in battle. The court granted a thousand taels of silver and posthumously raised him to first-rank meiren janggin. He left no son; his nephew Jimubu succeeded. Under Kangxi the hereditary title descended at a reduced rank to first-class ashan-i hafan. In Qianlong 1 the title was revised to first-class baron, inheritable in perpetuity.
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=Commentary= The historians write: A rising state needs warriors fierce as bears and tigers and ministers whose loyalty never wavers—men who give their bodies to their lord and meet death without a backward glance. Only then can borders widen, enemies fall, and the great work be brought to completion. Yangguli had the talent of a field marshal; his achievements stand alongside those of Eidu and Fei Yingdong; Laosa and Tulushi were the bravest men in the army, always leading the vanguard into the enemy line; Jueluo Baishan's line gave three generations of steadfast loyalty; Loyal service: Xilabu, Dayinbu, Baduli, and others who died in the ruler's service rank just below. In Taizu's prayers to Heaven one sees how tenderly he remembered his old commanders; Hong Taiji held Dazhuhu up as a warning, and when Gonggun disobeyed orders—even though he died in battle—the case still went before the magistrates. In enforcing discipline, cherishing able commanders, and wielding kindness and severity together, the dynasty laid the foundation of its rise.
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