勒爾錦 Lè'ěrjǐn

Le'erjin, son of Lekedehun

His son Le'erjin inherited. In the eleventh year of Kangxi he was put in charge of the Imperial Clan Court. In the twelfth year Wu Sangui rebelled, and Le'erjin was appointed Grand General Who Pacifies the South and Quells the Bandits and led an army against him. In the thirteenth year he was stationed at Jingzhou. Sangui's troops took Yuanzhou and Changde, and a detachment reached Badong and threatened Xiangyang; he sent the Lieutenant-General E'nei with troops to hold it. In the third month Sangui's general Liu Zhifu brought a fleet against Yiling and set up five camps on both banks of the river; he sent the Commander of the Guards Esitai and others to attack by water and land together, and they routed him. In the fourth month Sangui's general Tao Jizhi came again from Yidu to attack, and was defeated again. In the seventh month he defeated Sangui's general Wu Yingqi and others. In the fifth month of the fourteenth year Sangui's troops attacked Junzhou, and he sent the Lieutenant-General Yilibu, who defeated them. In the sixth month the rebel general Yang Laijia came to attack; he drew up his lines on the mountaintop and came down the gully to cut our army's road, and the army struck them and took more than three thousand heads. Le'erjin memorialised: "The enemy presses on Yiling with many troops and many boats; I ask for more warships to cut their supply route." The emperor agreed. In the seventh month Sangui's general Wang Hui and others joined Laijia to attack Nanzhang; he sent Yilibu to join forces with the Governor-General Cai Yurong and attack them. In the eighth month he memorialised: "The rebels have built ramparts and dug trenches, and our cavalry cannot charge them. We should pick Green Standard infantry and build light arrow-screen carts and cannon carts to advance together, filling in the trenches and firing the cannon, with Manchu troops following on; then perhaps the rebels can be destroyed." The emperor again agreed. In the tenth month he recovered Xingshan. In the twelfth month he asked for troops of the capital guard to be sent to reinforce the army, and the emperor rebuked him for delay. In the fifteenth year he crossed the river from Jingzhou and defeated the enemy at Wencun and at Shishou; fighting again at Taipingjie, the army was defeated, and he fell back to hold Jingzhou. In the ninth month he sent the Deputy Lieutenant-General Saige to recover Yunxi. In the eighteenth year the Four Campaign Battalions were set up, commanding twelve thousand newly added troops. Edit

After Sangui died, he crossed the river again and took Songzi, Zhijiang, Yidu and Lizhou, and pressed on to take Changde; the enemy burned their houses and boats and fled ahead of him, and the Governor Li Yiyang, the Surveillance Commissioner Chen Baoyao and others whom they had appointed surrendered. He sent troops to Qingshi Ford, where Wu Shifan's general Pan Long came out to fight. The army struck from left and right together and pursued him to Pingyupu, killing beyond counting, and very many of the enemy fell from the cliffs to their deaths. He recovered Hengshan. Attacking Guizhou, he defeated Shifan's general Liao Jinzhong at Mahuang Mountain, pursued him to Xirang, and recovered Guizhou and Badong. In the nineteenth year an edict urged him to take Chongqing. He memorialised asking to leave the General Ga'erhan at Jingzhou and lead the army to Chongqing himself. He turned back halfway, memorialised impeaching himself, and asked to be relieved as Grand General and to go to the army at Yuanzhou to serve there; the emperor ordered him back to the capital. He was sent to the Board for judgement, found guilty of wearing out the army, wasting supplies and letting chances slip, and stripped of his rank. His son Le'erbei inherited. In the twenty-first year he died. His younger brother Yangqi inherited. In the twenty-sixth year he died. His younger brother Chongbao inherited. In the thirty-seventh year he died. His younger brother Bumuba inherited. In the fifty-fourth year he was found guilty of giving a saddled horse that the emperor had given him to an actor, and was stripped of his rank. His father's brother Nuoluobu inherited. Edit

Nuoluobu was the third son of Lekedehun. He was first made a First-Class Guardsman. He rose through office to General of Hangzhou. He inherited the rank. In the fifty-sixth year he died and was given the posthumous name Zhong. Edit