Volume 417 Biographies 204: Dou Xinga younger brother: Xi Ling A, Fu Xing, Fu Minga, Shu Bao, Yi Xinge, Teng Jiasheng, Guan Bao

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Biography 204

都興阿弟西凌阿福興富明阿舒保伊興額滕家勝關保

Du Xing'a, his younger brother Xi Ling'a, Fu Xing, Fuming'a, Shubao, Yixing'e, Teng Jiasheng, and Guanbao

都興阿，字直夫，郭貝爾氏，滿洲正白旗人，內大臣阿那保孫。父博多歡，正黃旗蒙古都統。都興阿由廕生授三等侍衛，晉二等。咸豐三年，從僧格林沁赴天津剿粵匪，破之於杜家嘴，擢頭等侍衛。四年，克獨流，追賊阜城，破運河濱賊壘。五年，克連鎮，賊首林鳳祥就擒，加副都統銜、乾清門行走。尋授京口副都統。

Du Xing'a, whose style was Zhifu, belonged to the Gobulo clan and served as a Manchu bannerman of the Plain White Banner; he was a grandson of the interior minister Anabao. His father Bodohuan held the post of Mongol commandant-general of the Plain Yellow Banner. Through hereditary yin privilege Du Xing'a entered service as a third-class bodyguard and was later promoted to the second class. In the third year of Xianfeng (1853) he followed Sengge Rinchen to Tianjin to fight the Taiping rebels, routed them at Dujiazui, and was promoted to first-class bodyguard. The next year he took Duliui, pursued the rebels to Fucheng, and destroyed their fortifications along the Grand Canal. In the fifth year he captured Lianzhen and Lin Fengxiang, the rebel leader, was taken alive; he received the nominal rank of vice commandant-general and permission to walk within the Gate of Supreme Harmony. He was soon afterward appointed vice commandant-general at Jingkou.

弟西凌阿督師湖北，都興阿率馬隊往助剿，复德安，從總督官文進規武漢。時官文軍北岸，趨漢陽，巡撫胡林翼軍南岸，攻武昌。都興阿率騎兵護水師，敗賊沙口，薄漢陽西門。六年，賊由金鋪山上竄，都興阿揮步隊迎擊，分馬隊抄其後，斬馘甚眾，焚團風鎮屯糧，斬其酋。林翼燔漢陽城外賊艇，賊登岸遁，都興阿以馬隊遮殲之，擢江寧將軍。襄樊土匪方熾，都興阿馳援襄陽，解其圍。進圍武昌，賊糧盡援絕，棄城遁，复武昌、漢陽，乘勝克黃州、興國、大冶、蘄水、蘄州、廣濟、黃梅諸城，賜號霍欽巴圖魯。

When his younger brother Xi Ling'a took command in Hubei, Du Xing'a led a cavalry detachment to assist the campaign, recovered De'an, and joined Governor Guan Wen in the advance on Wuhan. Guan Wen's force held the north bank and pressed toward Hanyang, while Grand Secretary Hu Linyi attacked Wuchang from the south bank. Du Xing'a led cavalry to cover the fleet, defeated the rebels at Shakou, and closed on the west gate of Hanyang. In the sixth year rebels broke out from Jinpufu Hill; Du Xing'a met them with infantry, sent cavalry around to strike their rear, killed a great many and took many heads, burned the grain depot at Tuanfeng Town, and slew their leader. Linyi burned the rebel boats outside Hanyang; when the rebels fled ashore Du Xing'a used cavalry to cut them off and destroy them, and was promoted to General of Jiangning. With local bandits raging around Xiangyang and Fancheng, Du Xing'a hurried to Xiangyang and raised the siege. He pressed the siege of Wuchang until the rebels, out of food and cut off from relief, abandoned the city; he recovered Wuchang and Hanyang and, riding the momentum, took Huangzhou, Xingguo, Daye, Qishui, Qizhou, Guangji, Huangmei, and other towns, and was granted the honorific title Huoqin Batuer.

大軍進規九江，南路李續賓主之，北路都興阿主之。七年，賊由太湖竄窺黃梅，都興阿空城誘之，盡殲騎賊千餘，其由獨山鎮來襲者，馬步合擊，擒斬數千。進攻小池口，令多隆阿等破段窯、楓樹坳、獨山鎮賊巢。陳玉成大舉麕至，都興阿令多隆阿出黃梅，鮑超屯孔壟，自督馬步攻渡河橋，平二十餘壘，俘斬數千。會合楊岳斌、李續賓水陸軍攻童司牌，盡平賊壘。進克黃蠟山，先後殲賊萬餘，玉成遁走。詔都興阿幫辦官文軍務。攻小池口，燔其城，遂會克湖口，破賊彭澤，下望江、東流。八年，會克九江，被優敘。复黃安、麻城，分軍破賊彌陀鎮、南陽河，复太湖，偕李續賓軍會攻石牌，克之，授荊州將軍。會水師進規安慶，奪集賢關，薄安慶北門，破賊壘環攻。而李續賓戰歿三河，桐城、舒城再失，都興阿率軍退保宿松。多隆阿偕鮑超大破賊於花涼亭，楚師復振。

The main force then moved against Jiujiang, with Li Xubin in charge of the southern wing and Du Xing'a of the northern. In the seventh year rebels from Taihu probed Huangmei; Du Xing'a left the city empty as bait and wiped out more than a thousand cavalry; another column coming from Dushan Town was caught by a combined cavalry and infantry attack, and several thousand were killed or captured. He pushed the attack on Xiaochikou and ordered Dolonga and others to take the rebel strongholds at Duanyao, Fengshu'ao, and Dushan Town. When Chen Yucheng arrived with a large force, Du Xing'a sent Dolonga out from Huangmei, posted Bao Chao at Konglong, and personally led cavalry and infantry against the river-crossing bridge, leveling more than twenty fortifications and killing or capturing several thousand rebels. He joined Yang Yuebin and Li Xubin in a combined land-and-water assault on Tongsipai and cleared out every rebel fortification. He then took Huanglashan, killing more than ten thousand rebels in a series of fights, and Yucheng withdrew. The court ordered Du Xing'a to assist Guan Wen in military affairs. He attacked Xiaochikou and burned the town, then helped take Hukou, routed the rebels at Pengze, and pushed on to Wangjiang and Dongliu. In the eighth year he took part in the capture of Jiujiang and received special commendation. He recovered Huang'an and Macheng, sent detachments to defeat rebels at Mituo Town and the Nanyang River, retook Taihu, and with Li Xubin's army jointly stormed and took Shipai; he was then appointed General of Jingzhou. With the fleet he moved on Anqing, seized Jixian Pass, closed on the north gate, stormed the outer works, and laid siege to the city. When Li Xubin was killed at Sanhe and Tongcheng and Shucheng were lost again, Du Xing'a withdrew his army to Susong. Dolonga and Bao Chao then routed the rebels at Hualiangting, and the Hunan forces regained their momentum.

九年，曾國籓奏請於安徽上游北岸添馬步三萬人，以都興阿領其軍，會病足，薦多隆阿自代，詔赴荊州本任。十年，江南大營潰，上命都興阿帥馬步援江北，而以曾國籓總督兩江。時英法聯軍犯京師，都興阿備北援，馳抵壽州。和議成，命赴揚州督辦江北軍務。十一年，令總兵吳全美率師船攻和州江下關，毀賊壘，破內江口賊船。

In the ninth year Zeng Guofan asked that thirty thousand cavalry and infantry be added on the north bank of upper Anhui under Du Xing'a's command; Du Xing'a, however, fell ill with a foot ailment, recommended Dolonga to replace him, and was ordered back to his post at Jingzhou. In the tenth year the Jiangnan Grand Camp collapsed; the emperor ordered Du Xing'a to lead cavalry and infantry to reinforce the north bank of the Yangtze, while Zeng Guofan was appointed governor-general of the Two Jiangs. When the Anglo-French allied armies threatened Beijing, Du Xing'a prepared to march north in relief and hurried as far as Shouzhou. Once peace was concluded he was ordered to Yangzhou to take charge of military affairs north of the river. In the eleventh year he ordered Brigadier Wu Quanmei to take the war fleet against Jiangxiaguan below Hezhou, destroy the rebel fortifications, and smash their boats at the inner river mouth.

都興阿樂用楚軍，胡林翼分其軍以畀國籓，揚州兵單，留徐州鎮總兵詹啟綸從剿，令提督黃開榜焚三河賊船。賊由儀徵犯揚州，都興阿遣總兵王萬清防湖西，自率三百騎出覘賊，賊眾萬餘，列陣待。都興阿令騎皆下，自席地坐，賊疑有伏，不敢逼，後軍至，奮擊破之。賊又糾蘇州、句容悍黨分犯瓜洲、鎮江，都興阿乘其壘未成，令營總杜嘎爾率馬步軍衝擊，自督隊繼之，賊大潰。詹啟綸乘勢踏毀甘泉山賊壘，鎮江圍解。

Du Xing'a preferred Hunan troops, but Hu Linyi had detached part of his force for Guofan; with few men at Yangzhou he kept Xuzhou garrison Brigadier Zhan Qilun with him and ordered Admiral Huang Kaibang to burn the rebel boats at Sanhe. Rebels from Yizheng threatened Yangzhou; Du Xing'a posted Brigadier Wang Wanqing on the west shore of the lake and rode out himself with three hundred cavalry to scout the enemy, who numbered more than ten thousand and had formed for battle. Du Xing'a had his men dismount and sat on the ground himself; the rebels, suspecting an ambush, held back; when his reinforcements arrived he charged and routed them. The rebels then rallied tough bands from Suzhou and Jurong to strike Guazhou and Zhenjiang; before their works were complete Du Xing'a sent Battalion Commander Duga'er forward with cavalry and infantry and followed with his own column, and the rebels broke completely. Zhan Qilun pressed the advantage, overran the rebel camps on Ganquan Hill, and the siege of Zhenjiang was raised.

調江寧將軍，仍駐揚州督江北軍，文武悉聽調度。令副都統海全等破後石橋賊營，賊由常州窺鎮江，總兵黃彬統水師擊敗之。都興阿馳抵天長城下，平其壘卡，賊酋龔長春遁走，沿途截殺殆盡。黃彬等破賊船小河口、太平港，平瓜埠賊巢，尋會江南提督李世忠收降六合、天長二城。同治元年，江浦、浦口復陷，賊進犯揚州，北營甘泉山，南亙朴樹灣，都興阿親督諸軍連擊，敗走之。

He was transferred to the post of General of Jiangning but continued to reside at Yangzhou directing the northern army; all civil and military officers were placed under his command. He ordered Vice Commandant-General Hai Quan and others to take the rebel camp at Hou Shiqiao; when rebels from Changzhou probed Zhenjiang, Brigadier Huang Bin with the fleet drove them off. Du Xing'a rushed to Tianchang, destroyed the outworks and checkpoints, and when the rebel leader Gong Changchun fled his men were cut down almost to a man along the way. Huang Bin destroyed rebel boats at Xiaohekou and Taiping Harbor and cleared the nest at Guabu; Du Xing'a then joined Jiangnan Admiral Li Shizhong in accepting the surrender of Liuhe and Tianchang. In the first year of Tongzhi (1862) Jiangpu and Pukou fell again; rebels advanced on Yangzhou, camping on Ganquan Hill to the north and along Pushu Bay to the south; Du Xing'a personally led repeated assaults and drove them back.

時上游諸軍連克沿江要隘，進薄江寧，都興阿令總兵李起高駛至浦口，襲攻觀音門、燕子磯為聲援，曾國荃大營為援賊所圍，遣副將楊心純率二千五百人赴援，入壕助守，又令黃彬率水師援九洑洲。二年，賊謀入裡下河，都興阿遏之不得逞，別遣副將梁正源會江南軍焚中關、下關賊舟，李起高會收江陰。

While upstream forces were taking the Yangtze strongholds and closing on Jiangning, Du Xing'a sent Brigadier Li Qigao to Pukou to threaten Guanyin Gate and Yanziji as a diversion; when Zeng Guoquan's main camp was encircled by relief rebels he sent Deputy Commander Yang Xinchun with 2,500 men into the trenches to help hold the line and ordered Huang Bin's fleet to support Jiufuzhou. In the second year rebels tried to break into the Lixia River lowlands; Du Xing'a stopped them; he also sent Deputy Commander Liang Zhengyuan with Jiangnan forces to burn rebel boats at Zhongguan and Xiaguan, while Li Qigao helped recover Jiangyin.

三年，江寧合圍，江北無警，而陝、甘回亂益熾，詔都興阿赴綏遠城督防。時甘肅寧夏漢城陷於賊，滿城待援，召都興阿入覲，調西安將軍，督辦甘肅軍務，署陝甘總督。江寧克復，論功，予騎都尉世職。

In the third year, with Jiangning fully besieged and the north bank quiet, Muslim unrest in Shaanxi and Gansu intensified; Du Xing'a was ordered to Suiyuan to take charge of defense. The Chinese quarter of Ningxia had fallen while the banner city still held out; Du Xing'a was recalled to court, made General of Xi'an, put in charge of Gansu operations, and appointed acting governor-general of Shaanxi and Gansu. When Jiangning was recovered his services were rewarded with the hereditary rank of Cavalry Commandant.

六月，都興阿至定邊，奏言回酋馬化隆起靈州金積堡，佔踞城堡，蔓延千里。定邊距離尚遠，宜進兵花馬池，三路合攻，方期得力。令杜嘎爾等由草地繞石嘴山渡河，攻克薑家村、紅柳溝賊巢，追至寶豐，賊三路出撲，擊敗之，复寶豐，解平羅圍。軍進渠公堡，都興阿慮深入無繼，奏調荊州將軍穆圖善會剿。賊首馬叱吽踞通成堡，突出戰，為杜嘎爾等所敗，退踞清水堡。都興阿移營進逼，絕其糧道，攻克之。進金貴堡、王格莊，去寧夏城二十里，敗西路援賊。城賊抄官軍後，都興阿督諸軍迎擊，賊大潰。四年，列陣城東誘賊出，擊敗之，拔南路賊圩。鹽池、固原竄匪踞安化元城鎮，窺寧條梁糧路，都興阿遣軍分防花馬池、定邊、寧條梁，而靖遠南山賊焚堡據壩修堰，將決渠困官軍，乃移屯城東南。賊又踞堤築壘斷水道，並擊退，不得逞。都興阿親督隊敗賊於金貴堡，分軍屯定邊、花馬池，賊由固原趨平羅、寶豐，截擊於金貴堡，敗之。杜嘎爾擊賊於磴口，斃其酋馬生顏，花馬池、定邊兩路同捷，馘賊首孫義和。寧夏賊勢漸蹙，詭辭乞撫，計緩兵，而潛決西河水灌官軍。都興阿拒其降，益修戰備，進解滿城圍，克城東賊圩，敗之西門橋，分軍擊走大水坑、吳中堡踞賊，斬回酋馬有富，軍威頗振。

In the sixth month Du Xing'a reached Dingbian and reported that the Muslim leader Ma Hualong had risen at Jinjibao near Lingzhou, seized fortified places, and spread rebellion across a thousand li. Dingbian was still too distant; he argued that the army should advance to Huamachi and strike on three converging routes if the campaign was to succeed. He sent Duga'er by the grassland route around Shizui Hill to cross the river, took the rebel bases at Jiangjia Village and Hongliugou, and pursued to Baofeng; when the rebels sallied in three columns they were beaten, Baofeng was retaken, and the siege of Pingluo was raised. As the army pushed to Qugongbao, Du Xing'a worried about overextending without reserves and asked that Jingzhou General Mutushan be sent to join the campaign. The rebel leader Ma Chihong held Tongchengbao, came out to give battle, was beaten by Duga'er, and fell back on Qingshuibao. Du Xing'a moved his camp closer, cut their supply line, and took the place. He advanced to Jingui Fort and Wanggezhuang, twenty li from Ningxia, and routed the western relief column. When city rebels tried to cut the army's rear, Du Xing'a led a counterattack and they broke in rout. In the fourth year he formed east of the city to draw the rebels out, defeated them, and cleared the southern stockade villages. Raiders from Yanchi and Guyuan held Yuan Town in Anhua and threatened the grain route at Ningtiaoliang; Du Xing'a posted detachments at Huamachi, Dingbian, and Ningtiaoliang, while rebels south of Jingyuan burned forts, seized the dams, and prepared to breach the canal to flood the government camps; he shifted his headquarters to the southeast of the city. When the rebels seized the embankment, built works, and tried to cut the water supply, both attempts were repulsed. Du Xing'a personally led the force that beat the rebels at Jingui Fort and posted troops at Dingbian and Huamachi; when rebels from Guyuan moved on Pingluo and Baofeng he intercepted them at Jingui Fort and routed them. Duga'er struck the rebels at Dengkou and killed their leader Ma Shengyan; the Huamachi and Dingbian columns both won on the same day and took the head of Sun Yihe. As rebel pressure at Ningxia eased they pleaded for peace with false promises to buy time while secretly breaching the West River to flood the government camps. Du Xing'a rejected their surrender and redoubled preparations; he relieved the banner city, took the eastern stockades, routed them at Ximen Bridge, sent detachments to clear Dashuikeng and Wuzhongbao, beheaded the Muslim leader Ma Youfu, and the army's prestige rose sharply.

會奉天馬賊猖獗，調都興阿盛京將軍移剿，而以穆圖善代之。穆圖善主撫，寧夏賊尋降，納砲械縛渠以獻。五年，穆圖善劾都興阿受降入城，仍戮回酋章保立，部下殺掠。詔斥都興阿剿撫無定見，下議褫職，改留任。都興阿至奉天，馬賊漸平，奏定緝捕章程，搜剿餘匪，尋定。

Mounted bandits then flared up in Fengtian; Du Xing'a was made General of Shengjing to suppress them, and Mutushan took his place in Gansu. Mutushan favored negotiation; the Ningxia rebels soon surrendered, handed over arms, and bound their leaders for presentation. In the fifth year Mutushan accused Du Xing'a of accepting surrender and entering the city only to execute the Muslim leader Zhang Baoli while his men looted and killed. The court rebuked him for wavering between suppression and pacification, debated stripping his rank, but let him remain in office. At Fengtian the mounted bandits gradually quieted; he drew up pursuit regulations, hunted down the remnants, and soon restored order.

七年，西捻張總愚竄畿輔，李鴻章、左宗棠率兵入衛，賊流竄直隸、河南、山東，數月未定。詔召都興阿入京，管理神機營，授欽差大臣，以副都統春壽，提督張曜、宋慶，侍衛陳國瑞四軍隸之，列名在鴻章、宗棠上。視師天津，捻匪尋蕩平，仍回本任。光緒元年，卒於官，賜卹，贈太子太保，諡清愨。奉天士民請與大學士文祥、將軍崇實合建三賢祠，揚州亦請與將軍富明阿合祠。

In the seventh year the western Nian leader Zhang Zongyu raided the capital region; Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang marched in to defend Beijing while the rebels ranged through Zhili, Henan, and Shandong for months without being crushed. He was summoned to Beijing to command the Shenji Camp, made Imperial Commissioner, and given four armies under Vice Commandant-General Chunshou and Admirals Zhang Yao, Song Qing, and Bodyguard Chen Guorui; in seniority he ranked above Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang. He took the field at Tianjin; the Nian were soon destroyed, and he returned to his former post. In the first year of Guangxu (1875) he died in office; the court granted funeral honors, posthumously made him Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent, and gave him the posthumous name Qingque. The people of Fengtian asked for a Three Worthies Shrine shared with Grand Secretary Wenxiang and General Chongshi; Yangzhou likewise asked for a joint shrine with General Fuming'a.

西凌阿，都興阿弟。由拜唐阿授侍衛。道光中，從揚威將軍奕經援浙江，迭晉頭等侍衛，累擢察哈爾都統。咸豐三年，率黑龍江騎兵從琦善防浦口，因不能阻★匪北竄，褫職留營，責令追賊。偕將軍托明阿等馳解開封圍，又敗之汜水。賊渡河圍懷慶，援軍會集，西凌阿戰最力，圍解，復原官。追賊，迭戰王屋、邵原、平陽、洪洞，由山西入直隸，命幫辦勝保軍務。至靜海，賊踪始定，會軍圍攻。四年春，賊走阜城，西凌阿追至後康莊，破之。從僧格林沁連破城外賊屯，賊走踞東光、連鎮，攻戰數月，西凌阿常為軍鋒，五年正月，克之，擒賊首林鳳祥，予二等輕車都尉世職，賜號伊精阿巴圖魯。又從僧格林沁克馮官屯，俘李開芳，錫封三等男爵，授欽差大臣，督辦湖北軍務。初至隨州，戰不利，命其兄都興阿往助，尋褫職，以官文代督師。從復德安府城，復原官，原駐以固北防。

Xi Ling'a was Du Xing'a's younger brother. He entered service through the rank of baitang'a and was appointed a bodyguard. Under Daoguang he followed General Yijing to Zhejiang, rose to first-class bodyguard, and was eventually promoted to Chahar commandant-general. In the third year of Xianfeng he led Heilongjiang cavalry with Qishan to hold Pukou; when he failed to stop the rebels' breakout northward he was dismissed but kept with the army and ordered to pursue them. With General Tuoming'a and others he relieved Kaifeng and defeated the rebels again at Sishui. When the rebels crossed the river and besieged Huaiqing, relief forces gathered and Xi Ling'a fought hardest; the siege was raised and his rank restored. He pursued the rebels through Wangwu, Shaoyuan, Pingyang, and Hongtong, entered Zhili from Shanxi, and was ordered to assist Sheng Bao. At Jinghai the rebels were finally pinned down and the allied armies closed in. In the spring of the fourth year the rebels fled to Fucheng; Xi Ling'a caught them at Houkangzhuang and routed them. With Sengge Rinchen he stormed the outer camps repeatedly; the rebels withdrew to Dongguang and Lianzhen and fought for months with Xi Ling'a often in the van; in the first month of the fifth year the place fell and Lin Fengxiang was captured; he received the hereditary rank of Second-class Commandant of Light Chariots and the title Yijing Batuer. He again followed Sengge Rinchen to take Fengguantun and capture Li Kaifang, was ennobled as a third-class baron, made Imperial Commissioner, and put in charge of Hubei operations. On first reaching Suizhou he met defeat; his brother Du Xing'a was sent to help; he was soon dismissed and Guan Wen took command. He took part in recovering De'an and had his rank restored, remaining posted to hold the northern line.

六年，僧格林沁薦之，率馬隊赴河南剿捻匪。七年，復以屢挫，褫職留任，破張洛行白龍王廟老巢，復之。八年，命駐防山海關。十年，授鑲藍旗蒙古都統，從僧格林沁赴山東剿捻匪，尋命幫辦軍務。十一年，戰菏澤失利，下部嚴議。破賊於東昌，焚賊巢，克七級鎮，進克張秋。又破曹州紅川口匪圩，進敗賊於劉家橋、大張寺。同治元年，以腿疾回京，授鑲藍旗漢軍都統。五年，卒，賜卹，諡勇毅。

In the sixth year Sengge Rinchen recommended him and he led cavalry to Henan against the Nian. In the seventh year, after further defeats, he was again dismissed but kept on duty; he destroyed Zhang Luoxing's stronghold at Bailongwang Temple and regained his rank. In the eighth year he was posted to garrison Shanhaiguan. In the tenth year he became Mongol commandant-general of the Bordered Blue Banner, followed Sengge Rinchen to Shandong against the Nian, and was soon ordered to assist in operations. In the eleventh year he was beaten at Heze and the ministry opened a severe inquiry. He defeated the rebels at Dongchang, burned their base, took Qiji Town, and advanced to Zhangqiu. He also took the rebel stockade at Hongchuankou in Caozhou and routed them at Liujia Bridge and Dazhang Temple. In the first year of Tongzhi he returned to Beijing with a leg ailment and was appointed Han commandant-general of the Bordered Blue Banner. In the fifth year he died; the court granted funeral honors and the posthumous name Yongyi.

福興，穆爾察氏，滿洲正白旗人，都統穆克登布曾孫。以一品廕生授三等侍衛，出為直隸懷安路都司，累擢督標中軍副將。咸豐元年，擢廣東高州鎮總兵。二年，平羅鏡匪凌十八及鬱林、博白土匪，賜號剛安巴圖魯，擢廣西提督。命援湖南，偕向榮分路追賊湖北，以遷延，奪職留營。三年，從援江寧，屯朝陽門外，屢擊賊，予三品頂戴，充翼長。偕提督鄧紹良破賊東壩，復高淳，會克太平，回軍江寧，迭擊賊於高橋門、上方橋、通濟門、雨花台，晉二品頂戴，署江寧將軍。母憂，奪情留軍。

Fu Xing, of the Murca clan, served as a Manchu bannerman of the Plain White Banner and was a great-grandson of Commandant-General Mukedengbu. Through first-rank yin privilege he became a third-class bodyguard, served as commander of Huai'an Route in Zhili, and rose to deputy commander of the provincial army's central brigade. In the first year of Xianfeng he was promoted to brigadier-general of the Gaozhou garrison in Guangdong. In the second year he suppressed the Luojing bandit Ling Shiba and bandits in Yulin and Bobai, received the title Gang'an Batuer, and was made provincial admiral of Guangxi. Ordered to reinforce Hunan, he and Xiang Rong pursued the rebels in Hubei by separate routes; delays cost him his rank, though he remained with the army. In the third year he joined the relief of Nanjing, camped outside Chaoyang Gate, fought repeatedly, received third-rank insignia, and served as wing commander. With Admiral Deng Shaoliang he took Dongba, recovered Gaochun, helped capture Taiping, returned to Nanjing, and fought repeatedly at Gaoqiaomen, Shangfang Bridge, Tongji Gate, and Yuhuatai; he rose to second-rank insignia and became acting General of Jiangning. On his mother's death he was recalled from mourning to stay with the army.

六年，授西安將軍，幫辦向榮軍務。偕張國樑援鎮江，敗賊丁卯橋。江寧大營潰，向榮退保丹陽，上切責諸將，福興革職留任。榮病卒，命偕張國樑同任防剿。上聞福興與國樑不和，諭怡良察之，遂命福興赴江西會辦軍務。七年，复樂平，攻東鄉、金谿。石達開自安慶竄浮梁、樂平，圍貴溪。八年正月，福興至弋陽，賊來犯，福興兵少，多為疑兵，賊不敢偪，擊走之，竄浙江，福興進屯衢州東關，賊迭來撲，皆擊退。回駐玉山，防賊复竄廣信。尋又赴衢州，攻東關賊營。福興右腿受傷，尋以傷重乞假，召回京。十一年，署鑲紅旗漢軍都統。

In the sixth year he became General of Xi'an and assisted Xiang Rong. With Zhang Guoliang he relieved Zhenjiang and routed the rebels at Dingmao Bridge. When the Nanjing Grand Camp collapsed, Xiang Rong fell back on Danyang; the emperor sharply rebuked the generals and stripped Fu Xing of rank while keeping him on duty. When Xiang Rong died, he and Zhang Guoliang were ordered to share command of defense and suppression. Hearing that Fu Xing and Guoliang were at odds, the court had Yiliang investigate and then sent Fu Xing to Jiangxi to join operations there. In the seventh year he retook Leping and attacked Dongxiang and Jinxi. Shi Dakai broke out from Anqing toward Fuliang and Leping and besieged Guixi. In the first month of the eighth year Fu Xing reached Yiyang; when rebels attacked his small force he used decoys so they would not close in, then drove them into Zhejiang; he advanced to Quzhou's east pass and repelled every assault. He returned to Yushan to block another rebel thrust into Guangxin. He soon returned to Quzhou to attack the east-pass rebel camp. Wounded in the right leg, he soon sought leave on account of the injury and was recalled to Beijing. In the eleventh year he became acting Han commandant-general of the Bordered Red Banner.

同治四年，從尚書文祥會剿奉天馬賊，戰大凌河、北井子，擒斬甚眾。進援吉林，迭破賊於張登、望城岡，署盛京將軍。五年，擒賊首馬傻仔於黃旗堡，誅之。事平，凱旋，授察哈爾都統，調綏遠城將軍。六年，以舊傷發乞休，光緒四年，卒，賜卹，諡莊愨。

In the fourth year of Tongzhi he joined Minister Wenxiang against Fengtian mounted bandits, fought at Daling River and Beijingzi, and killed or captured a great many. Advancing into Jilin he repeatedly defeated rebels at Zhangdeng and Wangchenggang and became acting General of Shengjing. In the fifth year he captured the bandit leader Ma Shazai at Huangqibao and had him executed. After the campaign he returned in triumph, became Chahar commandant-general, and was transferred to General of Suiyuan. In the sixth year old wounds forced him to retire; he died in the fourth year of Guangxu; the court granted funeral honors and the posthumous name Zhuangque.

富明阿，字治安，袁氏，漢軍正白旗人，明兵部尚書崇煥裔孫。崇煥裔死，家流寓汝寧，有子文弼，從軍有功，編入寧古塔漢軍。五傳至富明阿，以馬甲從征喀什噶爾，授驍騎校，洊升參領。

Fuming'a, whose style was Zhian, was a Yuan-clan Han bannerman of the Plain White Banner and a descendant of the Ming Minister of War Yuan Chonghuan. After Chonghuan's line died out the family settled at Runing; a son Wenbi won merit in service and was enrolled in the Ningguta Han banners. Five generations later came Fuming'a, who served as armored cavalry in the Kashgar campaign, became commandant of valiant cavalry, and rose to company commander.

咸豐三年，從欽差大臣琦善軍揚州，戰於洞清鋪，受槍傷，裹創奮鬥，斬馘數十，擢協領，特賜玉《角枼》。四年，破賊瓜洲，賜花翎，管帶寧古塔兵。五年，戰虹橋，戒所部距賊二十步始發矢，射斃賊酋，分兩翼搜伏賊，賊潰走，加副都統銜。六年，署寧古塔副都統，迭敗賊於徐家集、硯台山。攻瓜洲，又率隊及六合練勇攻江浦，敗賊於十里橋，賜號車齊博巴圖魯。又敗賊於朴樹灣、土橋、五新橋。七年，會攻瓜洲，連敗賊富家井、白廟，以副都統記名。是年冬，克瓜洲，詔以副都統侭先題奏。充江北軍翼長，進攻江浦。八年春，迭破援賊，復其城。進屯六合，攻滁州，克來安，加頭品頂戴。八月，德興阿兵敗浦口，富明阿馳援失利，傷亡幾半。退儀徵，收集散卒，復成軍，扼萬福橋，破賊於運河東，授寧古塔副都統。偕張國樑克揚州、儀徵，又破賊於冶鋪橋。

In the third year of Xianfeng he followed Qishan at Yangzhou, was shot at Dongqingpu, bound his wound and kept fighting, killed dozens, was promoted to deputy company commander, and received a jade horn cup as a special gift. In the fourth year he defeated rebels at Guazhou, received the peacock feather, and took command of Ningguta troops. In the fifth year at Hong Bridge he ordered his men to hold fire until twenty paces, killed the rebel leader, swept both flanks for ambushers, routed the enemy, and received the nominal rank of vice commandant-general. In the sixth year, as acting vice commandant-general of Ningguta, he repeatedly defeated rebels at Xujiaji and Yantaishan. He attacked Guazhou, led troops and Liuhe militia against Jiangpu, routed rebels at Shili Bridge, and received the title Cheqibo Batuer. He also defeated them at Pushu Bay, Tugiao, and Wuxinqiao. In the seventh year he joined the siege of Guazhou, beat rebels at Fujiajing and Baimiao, and was marked for promotion to vice commandant-general. That winter Guazhou fell, and an edict gave him priority nomination as vice commandant-general. He became wing commander of the northern army and advanced on Jiangpu. In the spring of the eighth year he repeatedly defeated relief forces and recovered the city. He encamped at Liuhe, attacked Chuzhou, took Lai'an, and received first-rank insignia. In the eighth month, when Dexing'a was beaten at Pukou, Fuming'a's relief force failed and lost nearly half its men. He fell back to Yizheng, rallied his scattered troops, re-formed the army, held Wanfu Bridge, routed rebels east of the canal, and was appointed vice commandant-general of Ningguta. With Zhang Guoliang he took Yangzhou and Yizheng and again defeated rebels at Yepu Bridge.

九年，德興阿以失律罷黜，江北軍不署統帥，命歸和春節制，別選謀勇可當一面者，和春以富明阿薦，詔幫辦和春軍務。時六合、浦口皆未復，富明阿督軍進攻，迭戰百龍廟、李家營及六合城外。既而賊數万撲營，分股繞襲後路，遂大挫。富明阿身被十二創，詔許開缺回旗醫治，傷已成殘，命以原品休致，食全俸。十一年，召至京，命訓練京營。

In the ninth year Dexing'a was dismissed for misconduct and the northern army lacked a commander; troops reverted to He Chun's control until He Chun recommended Fuming'a as a man fit to hold an independent command, and the court ordered him to assist He Chun. With Liuhe and Pukou still in rebel hands, Fuming'a led repeated attacks at Bailong Temple, Lijia Camp, and outside Liuhe. Then tens of thousands of rebels stormed the camp while other columns circled to cut the rear, and the army suffered a major defeat. Fuming'a took twelve wounds; the court let him vacate his post and return to his banner for treatment; crippled by his injuries, he retired at full pay on his former rank. In the eleventh year he was called to Beijing to train the capital garrison.

同治元年，授正紅旗漢軍都統，管理神機營。尋命赴揚州幫辦都興阿軍務。江北里下河十餘縣未被賊擾，鹽場之利如故，偕都興阿疏請運鹽濟餉，軍用得給。長江下游南北岸要口四十餘處，排椿駐船，分撥水師扼要駐防，疏陳部署情形，詔特嘉其諳悉地勢。賊屢糾捻匪窺伺江北，迭擊走之。分軍渡江助馮子材守鎮江。是年秋，親率精銳援臨淮，會僧格林沁剿苗沛霖，詔幫辦軍務，令部將詹啟綸、克蒙額會陳國瑞等進攻，連破賊，沛霖伏誅。傷發，請假就醫清淮，疏陳皖北圩練之弊，詔下僧格林沁、曾國籓議加整頓。

In the first year of Tongzhi he became Han commandant-general of the Plain Red Banner and commanded the Shenji Camp. He was soon sent to Yangzhou to assist Du Xing'a. More than ten counties of the Lixia lowlands had escaped the rebels and salt profits continued; he and Du Xing'a memorialized to ship salt for provisions, keeping the army supplied. At more than forty key points along the lower Yangtze he posted piles and ships and divided the fleet for defense; the court especially praised his grasp of the terrain. Rebels repeatedly sent Nian allies to probe the north bank, and he drove them back each time. He sent troops across the river to help Feng Zicai hold Zhenjiang. That autumn he led elite troops to Linhuai, joined Sengge Rinchen against Miao Peilin, was made assistant commander, and through Zhan Qilun, Kemonge, and Chen Guorui won successive victories until Peilin was killed. When his wounds reopened he took leave for treatment at Qinghuai and memorialized on abuses among northern Anhui stockade militia; the court ordered Sengge Rinchen and Zeng Guofan to tighten regulation.

三年春，都興阿赴陝、甘剿回，詔促富明阿回揚州坐鎮，署江寧將軍，尋實授。遣詹啟綸率兵渡江助剿，克丹陽，賜黃馬褂。江寧克復，予騎都尉世職，仍督所部水陸諸軍留防江北。於是裁撤紅單船，由提督吳全美率回廣東，酌裁陸軍數千。疏言：「江寧駐防，亂後僅存男婦六百餘人，現設官二十七員，兵二百五十八名，稍存營製。京口駐防，尚存四千餘人，官兵挑補足額，俸餉不能全支，房屋均已焚毀。請飭撥餉修蓋房屋，使有依歸。」從之。

In the spring of the third year, as Du Xing'a went to Shaanxi and Gansu, Fuming'a was ordered back to Yangzhou, made acting then substantive General of Jiangning. He sent Zhan Qilun across the river, took Danyang, and received the yellow jacket. After Nanjing was recovered he received the hereditary rank of Cavalry Commandant and continued to command his forces guarding the north bank. The foreign red-banner fleet was then disbanded and sent back to Guangdong under Admiral Wu Quanmei, and several thousand infantry were cut. He reported: "After the rebellion the Nanjing garrison had only about six hundred people left; it now has twenty-seven officers and 258 soldiers and retains something of camp organization. The Jingkou garrison still has over four thousand people with ranks filled, but pay is incomplete and all buildings are burned. I ask that funds be allocated to rebuild housing so they have somewhere to live." The court approved.

四年，因腿傷未痊，請開缺，予假赴京醫治，許坐肩輿，至京，仍命管理神機營。傷病久不愈，詔允回旗。五年，起授吉林將軍，督剿馬賊。力疾進搜山險，遣將分捕，數月肅清。招撫金匪，開闢閒田至數万頃。不及十年，遂開建郡縣焉。在任四年，復以傷病陳情乞罷，允之，仍在家食全俸。光緒八年，卒，優恤，諡威勤。吉林、揚州請建祠。

In the fourth year, with his leg wound unhealed, he asked to vacate his post and was granted leave for treatment in Beijing, permitted a sedan chair, and on arrival was again put in charge of the Shenji Camp. When his wounds and illness persisted, the court let him return to his banner. In the fifth year he was recalled as General of Jilin to suppress mounted bandits. Despite illness he pushed into the mountains, sent generals on separate sweeps, and pacified the region within months. He pacified gold miners and opened tens of thousands of mu of idle land. Within ten years prefectures and counties were established there. After four years he again pleaded illness and was allowed to retire at home on full pay. He died in the eighth year of Guangxu; the court granted special honors and the posthumous name Weiqin. Jilin and Yangzhou asked for shrines in his honor.

子壽山，官至黑龍江將軍，光緒中，俄羅斯犯邊，殉難；永山，官三等侍衛，亦於鳳皇城拒日本，力戰死事：皆自有傳。

His son Shoushan became General of Heilongjiang and died defending the border when Russia invaded in the Guangxu era; Yongshan, a third-class bodyguard, likewise died fighting Japan at Fengcheng: each has his own biography.

舒保，字輔廷，舒穆魯氏，滿洲正黃旗人。由護軍累擢護軍參領。咸豐四年，從僧格林沁剿粵匪，攻圍連鎮，賊乘大風出竄，舒保截殲之。五年，竄踞馮官屯，引水灌之，功最，賊渠俘獲，加副都統銜。荊州將軍綿洵奏調赴湖北，率馬隊破賊德安。六年，迭破黃州李先集、團風賊壘。胡林翼之圍武昌也，官文令舒保率馬隊三百渡江助戰。城賊、援賊分八路來犯，舒保以勁騎馳突，賊大奔。平魯家港賊壘，又敗之沙子嶺、小龜山、雙鳳山。旬日之間，大小二十八戰，胡林翼奏稱舒保馬隊之力特多，賜號倭什洪額巴圖魯。偕知府唐訓方合剿襄陽土匪，迭敗之黃龍橋、餘山店，解襄陽圍。克樊城、老河口賊巢，復光化、房、竹山三城。雪夜擒匪首高二張家集，誅之，襄陽平。餘匪遁入河南境，陷內鄉，七年，舒保躡至，會豫軍殲之。

Shubao, whose style was Futing, belonged to the Shumulu clan and served as a Manchu bannerman of the Plain Yellow Banner. He rose from guardsman to guards company commander. In the fourth year of Xianfeng he followed Sengge Rinchen against the Taiping rebels at Lianzhen; when they broke out on a strong wind he cut them off and destroyed them. In the fifth year the rebels held Fengguantun and were flooded out; Shubao's merit was greatest, the leader was captured, and he received the nominal rank of vice commandant-general. Jingzhou General Mianxun transferred him to Hubei, where his cavalry defeated rebels at De'an. In the sixth year he repeatedly took rebel stockades at Li Xianji in Huangzhou and at Tuanfeng. During Hu Linyi's siege of Wuchang, Guan Wen sent Shubao with three hundred cavalry across the river to help. When city and relief rebels attacked in eight columns, Shubao charged with elite cavalry and they broke and ran. He cleared the stockade at Lujia Harbor and again defeated them at Shaziling, Xiaoguishan, and Shuangfengshan. In ten days he fought twenty-eight engagements; Hu Linyi praised his cavalry above all and he received the title Woshihonge Batuer. With Prefect Tang Xunfang he suppressed Xiangyang bandits, repeatedly beat them at Huanglong Bridge and Yushandian, and raised the siege of Xiangyang. He took rebel nests at Fancheng and Laohekou and recovered Guanghua, Fangxian, and Zhushan. On a snowy night he captured the bandit leader Gao Er at Zhangjiaji and executed him, and Xiangyang was pacified. Survivors fled into Henan and took Neixiang; in the seventh year Shubao pursued them and, with Henan forces, destroyed them.

八年，授鑲黃旗漢軍副都統。舒保方駐防商城，而賊由六安進犯湖北，陷麻城，急回軍趨黃州。南勇敗於望天畈，為賊追逼，舒保迎擊，戰一晝夜，賊始退。又偕李續宜破諸蘄水。

In the eighth year he became Han vice commandant-general of the Bordered Yellow Banner. While Shubao was at Shangcheng, rebels from Lu'an invaded Hubei and took Macheng; he rushed back toward Huangzhou. When southern militia were beaten at Wangtianfan and pursued, Shubao met the attack and fought for a day and night before the rebels withdrew. He again joined Li Xuyi in clearing rebel positions around Qishui.

時欽差大臣勝保援固始，兵未利，而商城又告警。勝保嚴檄舒保助剿，胡林翼疏言：「舒保樸訥忠勇，在楚有年，洪山之戰，襄陽之役，蘄、黃之捷，實能為人所難為，從無就易避難之意。今以特簡二品大員，勝保乃嚴札驅迫，加以苛辭。師克在和，古有明訓。束縛馳驟，必誤戎機。挾權任術，馭不肖之將，或可取快一時，若忠良之士，不煩督率而自奮也。臣謂舒保一軍，應審楚、豫各路賊勢，相機進剿，毋庸強歸鄰省節制調遣。」上命舒保仍回羅田、麻城勦賊。

Imperial Commissioner Sheng Bao was relieving Gushi without success when Shangcheng was threatened again. Sheng Bao sternly ordered Shubao to assist; Hu Linyi wrote: "Shubao is plain, loyal, and brave; he has served in Huguang for years; at Hongshan, Xiangyang, and the victories around Qishui and Huangzhou he has done what others could not and never shirked hard duty. Though specially appointed a second-rank officer, he is driven by Sheng Bao's harsh dispatches and abusive language. Armies win through harmony; the ancients taught as much. Binding and hurrying him will surely ruin the campaign. Power plays may cow unworthy generals for a moment, but loyal men need no driving to fight hard. I hold that Shubao's force should watch rebel movements in Huguang and Henan and strike as opportunity allows, not be forced under a neighboring province's command. The emperor ordered Shubao back to Luotian and Macheng to fight rebels.

固始圍解，陳玉成復犯湖北，舒保偕續宜破之麻城。李續賓既克九江，會師攻黃安，下之。既而續賓戰歿三河，楚邊大震，舒保以所部四百騎自武昌東下。林翼次黃州，增舒保軍千人，以新補西丹游牧蘄水、上巴河，而令率舊部赴太湖，為多隆阿聲援。會別賊又陷德安、黃州、孝感諸府縣，將軍都興阿檄調舒保未至，奏劾其觀望，下部議。十一年，偕道員金國琛會攻德安，先克孝感，復會水陸軍圍攻德安，克之，加都統銜。

After Gushi was relieved, Chen Yucheng invaded Hubei again; Shubao and Xuyi defeated him at Macheng. After Li Xubin took Jiujiang, the allied armies attacked and captured Huang'an. When Xubin was killed at Sanhe and the Huguang frontier shook, Shubao led his four hundred cavalry east from Wuchang. Linyi halted at Huangzhou, added a thousand men to Shubao's command, posted newly recruited Xidan cavalry around Qishui and Shangbahe, and ordered his veteran troops to Taihu to support Dolonga. Meanwhile other rebel columns took De'an, Huangzhou, Xiaogan, and neighboring seats; General Du Xing'a summoned Shubao in vain and memorialized that he was holding back; the matter was sent to the Board for review. In the eleventh year he and Circuit Intendant Jin Guochen attacked De'an, took Xiaogan first, then with combined land and river forces besieged and captured De'an; he received the nominal rank of commandant-general.

同治元年，授護軍統領。粵、捻諸匪分兩路竄湖北，總兵穆正春擊其西路，舒保擊其東路，連敗之於黃陂、廣濟、應山，賊竄回豫境，賜黃馬褂。賊復回應山，撲孝感城，舒保啟南門奮擊，賊已卻，突別賊數千潛由北城入，副都統德克登額、署知縣韓體震等死之。舒保還戰城中，賊复敗逸，追殺三十餘裡。二年，賊由應城圖襲漢口，為官軍所卻。轉撲孝感，舒保迭戰李家灣、倉子埠，陣斬老捻千餘，遂引去，被珍賚。三年，擊捻匪於德安西，追抵壽山，日暮，層岡深澗，不利騎戰，賊來益眾，舒保陷重圍中，越坎落馬，力竭陣亡，贈太子少保，予騎都尉兼雲騎尉世職，入祀昭忠祠，湖北建專祠，諡貞恪。

In the first year of Tongzhi (1862) he was made commander of the Guard Corps. Taiping and Nian rebels split into two columns and raided Hubei; Brigadier Mu Zhengchun hit the western column and Shubao the eastern, routing them at Huangpi, Guangji, and Yingshan; when the rebels fled back into Henan he was awarded a yellow riding jacket. The rebels returned to Yingshan and stormed Xiaogan; Shubao sallied from the south gate and drove them off, but thousands of another band slipped in through the north wall; Vice Commandant Dekedenge, Acting Magistrate Han Tizhen, and others were killed. Shubao fought on inside the city, routed the rebels again, and pursued them for more than thirty li. The next year rebels from Yingcheng tried to strike Hankou and were driven off by government forces. They then turned on Xiaogan; Shubao fought at Lijiawan and Cangzibu and killed more than a thousand veteran Nian in battle; the rebels withdrew and he was richly rewarded. In the third year he fought Nian rebels west of De'an and pursued them to Shoushan; at dusk, on broken ridges and in deep ravines ill suited to cavalry, the enemy swelled around him; trapped in heavy encirclement, Shubao cleared a ridge, was thrown from his horse, and died fighting; he was posthumously made Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, granted hereditary Master Commandant of Cavalry and Junior Cloud Commandant, enshrined in the Temple of Loyal Loyalty, given a private shrine in Hubei, and honored with the posthumous name Zhenke.

伊興額，原名伊清阿，字松坪，何圖哩氏，蒙古正白旗人，吉林駐防。從征喀什噶爾，除驍騎校，選授侍衛。入京召對，宣宗以原名不合清語，命改名伊興額。道光十九年，擢三等侍衛，改隸滿洲。

Yixing'e, originally named Yiqing'a and styled Songping, belonged to the Hetu'ri clan; he was a Mongol bannerman of the Plain White Banner garrisoned at Jilin. He served in the Kashgar campaign, was made a vanguard commandant, and was selected for appointment as a bodyguard. Summoned to audience in the capital, the Daoguang Emperor ruled that his original name was not proper Manchu and renamed him Yixing'e. In the nineteenth year of Daoguang (1839) he was promoted to third-class bodyguard and transferred to Manchu registration.

咸豐三年，自請從軍，發揚州大營。琦善令援江浦，初至，示弱不戰，斫賊營，大敗之柳樹壩，破九洑洲，累擢頭等侍衛。賊圍和州急，伊興額不待令，督軍進擊，解其圍。駐江浦三年。六年，剿捻匪夏白、任仲勉於澮河北岸，殲賊二千餘，仲勉斃於陣。夏白糾雉河賊黨圍宿州，伊興額率千騎往援，四戰皆捷，解其圍。分軍防徐州、宿州，張洛行來犯，偕總兵傅振邦擊走之。時潁、亳、蒙、宿諸捻蜂起，徐、宿百里內宴然，耕穫不輟。賊首王廣愛、梁振貴眾數万聚張七家樓，圖北竄。伊興額選精銳數百，疾馳掩入賊壘，擒王、梁二賊，賊黨來援，擊走之，以副都統記名，賜花翎。

In the third year of Xianfeng (1853) he volunteered for active service and was sent from the Yangzhou headquarters. Qi Shan ordered him to reinforce Jiangpu; he first feigned weakness, then struck the rebel camp, routed them at Liushuba, took Jiufuzhou, and was promoted to first-class bodyguard. When rebels tightly besieged Hezhou, Yixing'e attacked without waiting for orders and relieved the city. He remained garrisoned at Jiangpu for three years. In the sixth year he fought Nian leaders Xia Bai and Ren Zhongmian on the north bank of the Hui River, killed more than two thousand rebels, and Zhongmian fell in battle. Xia Bai gathered Zhihe rebels and besieged Suzhou; Yixing'e led a thousand horse to the relief, won four straight fights, and broke the siege. He posted detachments to guard Xuzhou and Suzhou; when Zhang Luoxing attacked, he and Brigadier Fu Zhenbang drove him off. While Nian rebels swarmed across Ying, Bo, Meng, and Su, the hundred li around Xuzhou and Suzhou stayed quiet and farmers kept harvesting. Rebel leaders Wang Guang'ai and Liang Zhengui mustered tens of thousands at Zhangqijialou and planned to break north. Yixing'e took several hundred picked troops, stormed the rebel stronghold, and captured Wang and Liang; when reinforcements came he beat them back, was noted for vice commandant-general, and received the peacock feather.

七年，招降王家墟捻黨陳保元五千人，斬其渠李月，賜號額圖渾巴圖魯。因病回徐州，勝保劾其不遵調度，報捷不實，褫翎頂。尋率馬隊攻喬家廟，擒斬捻首梁思住，夜進攻酆家墟，誅賊渠劉大淵，偕總兵史榮椿破賊趙家屯。渦河兩岸肅清，复翎頂。八年，授正紅旗蒙古副都統。破捻匪於紀家莊，解蒙城圍。攻薛家湖賊巢，砲傷股，裹創力戰，毀其墟，加頭品頂戴。尋捻首劉添祥由六安北竄，眾號數万，伊興額以孤軍無援，退屯蕭縣。賊陷豐縣，坐奪職。

In the seventh year he induced five thousand Nian under Chen Baoyuan at Wangjiaxu to surrender, executed their leader Li Yue, and received the title Etuhun Batuer. He returned to Xuzhou on sick leave; Sheng Bao accused him of disobeying orders and fabricating victory reports, and his peacock feather and rank button were removed. He soon led cavalry against Qiaojiamiao, captured and executed Nian chief Liang Sizhu, struck Fengjiaxu by night and killed rebel chief Liu Dayuan, and with Brigadier Shi Rongchun routed the enemy at Zhaojiatun. Both banks of the Wo River were pacified and his peacock feather and rank button were restored. In the eighth year he was made vice commandant-general of the Mongol Plain Red Banner. He defeated Nian rebels at Jijiazhuang and relieved Mengcheng. Storming the rebel nest at Xuejiahu he was hit in the thigh by artillery, bound his wound and fought on, destroyed the stronghold, and received the first-rank cap button. When Nian chief Liu Tianxiang broke north from Lu'an with a force said to number in the tens of thousands, Yixing'e, unsupported and alone, fell back to Xiaoxian. The rebels took Fengxian and he was dismissed from office.

九年春，起佐傅振邦剿捻，接統袁甲三所部兵，詔復職，督辦河南軍事。伊興額率騎千三百赴援，躡賊商水老湖坡。賊眾數倍，列車陣拒戰，潛分兵繞賊後夾擊之，賊潰走，窮追三晝夜，歷沈丘、項城至太和孫家圩，先後斃賊二萬餘，被旨嘉獎。時總兵邱聯恩戰歿舞陽，舞陽去商水二百里，及戰勝，舞陽賊聞風遁。

In the spring of the ninth year he was reinstated to aid Fu Zhenbang against the Nian, assumed command of Yuan Jiasan's troops, was restored to office, and put in charge of Henan military affairs. Yixing'e led thirteen hundred horse to the relief and tracked the rebels to Laohupo in Shangshui. Outnumbered several times over, the rebels formed wagon defenses; he split his force to circle behind them and attacked from both sides; the enemy broke and fled; a three-day pursuit through Shenqiu and Xiangcheng to Sunjiawei in Taihe killed more than twenty thousand; the court praised him by decree. Brigadier Qiu Lian'en had just been killed at Wuyang, two hundred li from Shangshui; when news of Yixing'e's victory spread, the Wuyang rebels fled.

勝保復奏劾：「伊興額性情乖僻，商水之役，僅擊退別股，並未迎剿。舞陽賊眾僅六千，而疏報輒稱二萬三千。」詔奪頭品頂戴，交勝保差遣。所請獎老湖坡戰勝員弁，下署漕督袁甲三察奏。伊興額遂謝病回徐州，距復起僅三月。尋詔飭赴甲三營勦賊，稱疾不赴。蕭縣民鄭立本等以伊興額去，賊复熾，叩閽請還鎮。德楞額复代奏：「徐州紳民以伊興額在徐養病，請飭就近治軍。」先後諭詢伊興額病狀，伊興額固以篤疾辭，上怒，褫職，勒令回旗。都察院奏上安徽監生張鴻文呈，言伊興額前功，懇令總辦討賊事宜，不報。

Sheng Bao again impeached him: "Yixing'e is willful and difficult; at Shangshui he only repulsed a separate column and failed to meet the main force. The Wuyang rebels numbered only six thousand, yet his reports claimed twenty-three thousand." The emperor stripped his first-rank cap button and placed him under Sheng Bao's command. His request to reward the officers who fought at Laohupo was referred to Acting Grain Transport Governor Yuan Jiasan for review. Yixing'e then resigned on grounds of illness and returned to Xuzhou, only three months after his reinstatement. Soon an edict ordered him to Jiasan's camp to fight rebels; he pleaded illness and refused. When Yixing'e left, rebels resurged in Xiaoxian; Zheng Liben and others petitioned at court to have him return. Deleng'e memorialized again: "Xuzhou gentry and commoners ask that Yixing'e, recuperating there, be ordered to command troops locally." The throne repeatedly asked after his health; Yixing'e insisted he was gravely ill; the emperor grew angry, dismissed him, and ordered him back to his banner. The Censorate forwarded a petition from Anhui licentiate Zhang Hongwen praising Yixing'e's past service and asking that he be put in overall charge of anti-rebel operations; it went unanswered.

十年，僧格林沁疏薦，予六品頂戴，尋加三品，敕辦徐、宿團練。伊興額再起，其舊部多不隸麾下，所將五百騎未及訓練，以賊竄曹州，僧格林沁趣援。十一年春，偕徐州鎮總兵滕家勝率騎二千馳往，擊賊於東平、汶上，累捷。追至臥虎岡，風霾忽作，急退楊柳集。伏起，家勝馬躓，歿於陣。伊興額揮百餘騎衝入賊中，索之不得，突圍出，從騎僅隨者十餘人，賊圍之數匝，力竭死之。詔復原官，予騎都尉世職，諡壯愍，建祠徐州、汶上、宿州、永城。

In the tenth year Sengge Rinchen recommended him; he received a sixth-rank cap button, soon a third-rank one, and was ordered to organize militia in Xuzhou and Suzhou. When Yixing'e returned to service, most of his old troops no longer answered to him; his five hundred horse were barely trained when rebels raided Caozhou and Sengge Rinchen ordered him to reinforce. In the spring of the eleventh year he and Xuzhou Garrison Brigadier Teng Jiasheng led two thousand horse to Dongping and Wenshang and won a series of victories. Pursuit reached Wohugang; a sudden sandstorm blew up and they fell back hastily to Yangliuji. Ambushers sprang up; Jiasheng's horse stumbled and he was killed in battle. Yixing'e charged into the enemy with a little over a hundred horse to find Jiasheng, broke out with only a dozen riders still with him, was surrounded many times over, and died when his strength gave out. The court restored his rank, granted a hereditary Master Commandant of Cavalry, posthumously named him Zhuangmin, and built memorial shrines at Xuzhou, Wenshang, Suzhou, and Yongcheng.

滕家勝，湖南乾州廳人。由行伍從江忠源勦賊湖北，累擢游擊。繼從袁甲三剿捻於皖、豫之間，擢參將，賜號伊博格巴圖魯。勝保薦其少年勇敢，超授四川川北鎮總兵，調徐州鎮，幫辦徐、宿軍務。家勝舊隸伊興額部下，至是同戰歿，贈提督，予騎都尉並云騎尉世職，諡武烈。

Teng Jiasheng was a native of Qianzhou Subprefecture in Hunan. Enlisting as a common soldier, he followed Jiang Zhongyuan against rebels in Hubei and rose to colonel. He then served under Yuan Jiasan against the Nian in Anhui and Henan, was made brigadier, and received the title Aibojia Batuer. Sheng Bao praised his youth and courage; he was specially made brigade general of the northern Sichuan garrison, transferred to Xuzhou, and assigned to assist in regional military affairs. Jiasheng had once served under Yixing'e; he fell beside him in the same battle; posthumously made provincial commander-in-chief, granted hereditary Master Commandant of Cavalry and Junior Cloud Commandant, and honored as Wulie.

關保，烏扎拉氏，滿洲正黃旗人，吉林駐防。道光初，從征喀什噶爾有功，洊升三姓佐領。咸豐三年，隨侍郎恩華剿粵匪，解懷慶圍，追敗之平陽，屯正定。勝保檄充營總，勦賊於深州、靜海，攻獨流鎮，擢協領。四年，從僧格林沁戰阜城三里莊，槍傷額，奮擊破賊，賜號年昌阿巴圖魯。從勝保援臨清，追賊至豐縣，殲之，以總管升用。五年，從僧格林沁克馮官屯，從西凌阿赴湖北，尋調河南，又調安徽，從和春克廬州，加二品銜。六年，偕副都統麟瑞破賊五河，斃黃衣賊目二人，殲賊千餘，敗邳州援賊，解壽州圍。擊賊潁上，五戰皆捷，所部馬隊，各省爭欲得之助剿。尋隸河南巡撫英桂軍，敗賊馬村橋，進亳州雙溝，遇賊姬橋，殲之。又連敗賊三丈口、舊縣集，安徽巡撫福濟疏調赴蒙城，英桂仍請留河南，詔令和衷商榷，先赴所急。其冬，率軍趨懷遠，越境敗捻匪於徐州。漕運總督邵燦疏請留徐州，報允。

Guanbao, of the Uzala clan, was a Manchu bannerman of the Plain Yellow Banner garrisoned at Jilin. In the early Daoguang era he served with distinction in the Kashgar campaign and rose to company commander at Sanxing. In the third year of Xianfeng he followed Vice Minister En Hua against the Taiping rebels, relieved Huaiqing, pursued and defeated them at Pingyang, and encamped at Zhengding. Sheng Bao made him camp chief; he fought rebels at Shenzhou and Jinghai, attacked Duliuzhen, and was promoted to battalion commander. The next year he fought with Sengge Rinchen at Sanlizhuang outside Fucheng; shot in the forehead, he pressed the attack and routed the enemy, earning the title Nianchang'a Batuer. He followed Sheng Bao to relieve Linqing, pursued the rebels to Fengxian and destroyed them, and was promoted to superintendent. In the fifth year he helped Sengge Rinchen take Fengguantun, went to Hubei with Xi Ling'a, was transferred to Henan and then Anhui, helped He Chun take Luzhou, and received nominal second rank. In the sixth year he and Vice Commandant Lin Rui defeated rebels at Wuhe, killed two yellow-clad chiefs and more than a thousand men, beat off Pizhou reinforcements, and relieved Shouzhou. Fighting at Yingshang he won five straight victories; every province wanted his cavalry to help. He then served under Henan Governor Ying Gui, defeated rebels at Macunqiao, advanced to Shuanggou in Bozhou, met them again at Jiqiao, and wiped them out. He then beat them at Sanzhangkou and Jiuxianji; Anhui Governor Fu Ji asked for him at Mengcheng while Ying Gui wanted him in Henan; the court told them to compromise and send him where need was greatest. That winter he marched toward Huaiyuan, crossed into Xuzhou, and defeated Nian rebels there. Grain Transport Governor Shao Can asked that he remain at Xuzhou, and the request was granted.

七年，偕總兵史榮椿攻永城岳家集，捻首李月先遁，焚其巢，尋以病歸。八年，命率吉林、黑龍江、察哈爾兵千八百赴袁甲三徐州營。九年，會攻澮北捻首曹金斗，破其圩，乘勝擊捻首張寶全，破之。張洛行陷泗州，踞草溝民寨，關保率民團奪圩外砲台，毀其寨，賊分竄，自相踐踏。餘賊竄五河雙渡口，奪船爭渡，追殪過半，擒賊目張起等，以副都統記名。命幫辦傅振邦三省剿匪事，斬捻首張添福，進搗任乾畢圩，圩民內應斬乾，餘黨盡殲。接統伊興額軍，命督辦河南防務，佐振邦剿匪三省如故。

In the seventh year he and Brigadier Shi Rongchun attacked Yuejiaji in Yongcheng; Nian chief Li Yue escaped, their stronghold was burned, and Guanbao soon went home ill. In the eighth year he was ordered to bring eighteen hundred troops from Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Chahar to Yuan Jiasan's Xuzhou camp. In the ninth year he jointly attacked Nian chief Cao Jindou north of the Hui River, took his fortified village, and then routed Zhang Baoquan. When Zhang Luoxing took Sizhou and held the Caogou militia stockade, Guanbao led local militia to seize the outer batteries, destroyed the stronghold, and sent the rebels fleeing over one another. Survivors fled to Shuangdukou in Wuhe and fought for boats to cross; pursuit killed more than half and captured chiefs including Zhang Qi; Guanbao was noted for vice commandant-general. Ordered to assist Fu Zhenbang in three-province operations, he beheaded Nian chief Zhang Tianfu, stormed Ren Ganbi's fortified village with inside help that killed Gan, and wiped out the rest. He assumed command of Yixing'e's troops, was put in charge of Henan defenses, and continued to assist Zhenbang across three provinces.

授黑龍江副都統。破亳州竄匪，捻首孫葵心聚黨永城，圖分竄，詔勿令攔入山東邊境。飭關保截賊西路，逼之歸巢。已而賊眾二萬分擾商丘、柘城，圍睢州，開封戒嚴，上命由鹿邑赴援。賊趨蘭儀，分擾通許、尉氏，關保馳抵陳留，合諸軍夾擊，賊南走。馳援許州，遣副將王鳳翔率騎兵敗賊洪河北岸，又敗之臨潁城下，陣擒葵心親屬孫套。夜，簡精騎劫賊營，斬馘無算，拔難民千餘，賊東奔，偵別賊竄扶溝、太康，要擊之王隆集。沿途搜捕，豫境肅清。十年，命勝保督辦河南軍務，關保仍副之。賊擾虞、夏邑、鹿邑，遣將擊走之，俄又大至，逼近省垣，詔詰責。尋轉戰汝寧、確山皆捷，分兵破賊鹿邑劉集，解丘集圍。賊复糾黨來攻，擊走之。傷發，予假調理。同治元年，赴黑龍江任，八年卒。

He was appointed vice commandant-general of Heilongjiang. He routed rebels fleeing from Bozhou; when Nian chief Sun Kuixin gathered forces at Yongcheng to scatter northward, the court ordered that they not be allowed into Shandong. Guanbao was ordered to block the western line and drive them back to their base. Soon twenty thousand rebels raided Shangqiu and Zhecheng and besieged Suizhou; Kaifeng went on alert and the emperor ordered Guanbao to reinforce from Luyi. The rebels moved on Lanyi and sent columns against Tongxu and Weishi; Guanbao raced to Chenliu, joined other forces in a pincer, and drove them south. He rushed to Xuchang, sent Vice General Wang Fengxiang to rout the enemy on the north bank of the Hong River, beat them again below Linying, and captured Kuixin's kinsman Sun Tao in battle. By night he sent picked cavalry to raid the camp, killed countless enemies, and freed more than a thousand civilians; when the rebels fled east he learned another band was moving through Fugou and Taikang and ambushed them at Wanglongji. Mopping up along the route, he cleared Henan of rebels. In the tenth year Sheng Bao was put in charge of Henan military affairs, with Guanbao as his deputy. When rebels raided Yucheng, Xiayi, and Luyi he sent officers to drive them off, but they soon returned in force near the provincial capital and the court rebuked him. He then won fights at Runing and Queshan, sent detachments to defeat rebels at Liuji in Luyi, and relieved Qiuji. When the rebels gathered and attacked again, he beat them back. An old wound reopened and he was granted leave to recover. In the first year of Tongzhi (1862) he took up his Heilongjiang post and died in the eighth year of Tongzhi (1869).

論曰：都興阿雅量寬閎，知兵容眾，胡林翼稱其有豐、鎬故家遺風，當時滿洲諸名將，半出部下。舒保亦以樸勇為林翼所倚重，及林翼歿，無人善用，倉卒殞寇，世咸惜之。富明阿始終江北軍事，其勳勞出托明阿、德興阿之上，晚膺邊寄，亦稱賢帥。伊興額剿捻盡瘁，最得民心，為驕帥齮齕，未竟其用。關保善將騎，群帥爭相引重，其遭際為獨幸焉。

The commentators say Du Xing'a was magnanimous and broad-minded, skilled in war and tolerant of talent; Hu Linyi said he carried something of the old Zhou aristocratic temper; half the famed Manchu generals of the day had served under him. Shubao too was valued by Linyi for his plain courage; after Linyi's death no one used him properly, and his sudden death in battle was widely mourned. Fuming'a directed Jiangbei operations throughout; his record surpassed Tuoming'a and Dexing'a, and in his later frontier assignment he too was judged an able commander. Yixing'e gave his all against the Nian and won the people's trust, but jealous proud commanders undermined him and his talents were never fully used. Guanbao was an excellent cavalry commander whom fellow generals eagerly sought; in fortune his career was unusually blessed.

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