勒克德渾 Lèkèdéhún

Lekedehun, Prince Shuncheng Gonghui of the Second Rank, son of Sahalin

Lekedehun, Prince Shuncheng Gonghui of the Second Rank, was the second son of Sahalin. When Adali was condemned to death, he was implicated with him and struck from the imperial clan. In the first year of Shunzhi he was restored to the imperial clan and made a Beile. In the second year he was appointed Grand General Who Pacifies the South, to take the place of Duoduo, Prince Yu of the First Rank, in holding Jiangning. At that time the Ming Prince of Lu, Yihai, held eastern Zhejiang and called himself Regent of the State; his Grand Secretary Ma Shiying and others led troops across the Qiantang River to spy out Hangzhou, and Lekedehun sent troops who drove them back. He also sent the meile ejen Zhumala to attack Shiying at Yuhang, and Hetuo to attack the Ming Brigade General Fang Guo'an at Fuyang; the two forces joined camp thirty li outside Hangzhou. Shiying and Guo'an again led troops across the river, and were defeated once more, by the meile ejen Jixiha; those who drowned were beyond counting. In the eleventh month, He Tengjiao, the Governor-General of Huguang appointed by the Ming Prince of Tang, Yujian, called in the remnants of Li Zicheng's forces, who seized and held various prefectures and counties; Lekedehun was ordered to lead an army, with the General Who Guards the State Gong'adai, to suppress them. In the first month of the third year the army halted at Wuchang; he sent the Commander of the Guards Bo'erhui and others to lead troops forward, and fighting at Linxiang they destroyed more than a thousand of the enemy. Halting at Yuezhou, he won the surrender of the Ming general Hei Yunchang. When he reached Shishou, the enemy had crossed the river to attack Jingzhou; he sent the Minister Jueluo Langqiu and others with a detached force out along the south bank, to wait for the enemy to cross and fall on them from ambush. The army rode hard through the night, reached the city walls at dawn, divided into two wings and trampled the enemy camps, routing them and killing and capturing very many. At dusk Langqiu and the others also came back, having seized all the enemy's boats. The next day he sent the General Who Supports the State Babutai and others in pursuit of the enemy, from Anyuan, Nanzhang, Xifengshan and Guanwang Ridge all the way to Xiangyang, killing almost all of them. When he halted at Yiling, Zicheng's younger brother Zi and his generals Tian Jianxiu, Zhang Nai, Li You, Wu Ruyi and others came before the army with five thousand horse and foot and surrendered, and more than twelve thousand horses, mules and oxen were taken. When the victory was reported, a gracious edict recalled the army, and he was given a hundred taels of gold and two thousand of silver. In the ninth month of the fifth year he was raised to Prince Shuncheng of the Second Rank. Soon afterward, with Ji'erhalang, Prince Zheng of the First Rank, he led troops against Xiangtan, took it, and captured Tengjiao. Moving the army into Guangxi, he attacked Quanzhou. He crushed Zhao Lian and took Yong'an Pass. He chased the local bandit Cao Gangzi and defeated him again at Daozhou. In the seventh year the army returned, and he was given fifty taels of gold and five thousand of silver. In the eighth year he took charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Justice. In the third month of the ninth year he died. In the tenth year of Kangxi he was given a posthumous name. Edit