彰泰 Zhāngtài

Zhangtai, Beizi, son of Bohetuo

Zhangtai inherited the rank and was raised in it. In the spring of the thirteenth year of Kangxi, when Wu Sangui took Hunan, the emperor appointed the Beile Shangshan Grand General to lead an army down on Yuezhou, with Zhangtai as counsellor in military affairs. In the fifteenth year an edict rebuked them for the slowness of the campaign. Zhangtai and Shangshan agreed to advance by water and land together, and sent Esitai and others, who defeated the enemy on Dongting Lake and took more than fifty boats. The enemy planted stakes at the gorge mouth of Chuntao Lake to block our army. In the seventeenth year he led troops to clear the stakes, rowed light boats to defeat the enemy at Liulinzui, and destroyed their boats with cannon fire. In the eighth month Shangshan died with the army, the Beile Chani took his place as Grand General, and Zhangtai was made General Who Soothes Distant Lands. In the ninth month he led troops out of Nanjin Harbour. In the tenth month he defeated the enemy at Lushikou, camped at Baimitan, and cut the supply route of Sangui's troops. In the eighteenth year Sangui's general Chen Po and others came out and surrendered for lack of food, and Wu Yingqi fled to Hengzhou. The Lieutenant-General Zhuman and others took Xiangyin, and Zhangtai took Huarong and Shishou. Just then Yuele, Prince An of the First Rank, recovered Changsha, and Labu, Prince Jian of the First Rank, recovered Hengzhou, and an edict told Zhangtai to join forces with them. Advancing from Hengzhou to attack Wugang, he defeated Sangui's general Wu Guogui and others. In the eleventh month Yuele was recalled to the capital, and Zhangtai was ordered to take his place as Grand General Who Settles Distant Lands and Pacifies the Bandits. Edit

In the nineteenth year he recovered Yuanzhou and Jingzhou, and the commanders and officials whom Sangui had set up at Suining, and the native chieftains nearby, all surrendered. He memorialised: "The General Cai Yurong commands the Chinese troops; now that we are advancing on Guizhou, if we do not keep each other informed, I fear chances will be lost." An edict ordered that Yurong's military affairs be reported to the Grand General. In the tenth month Zhangtai halted at Zhenyuan, sent troops to attack Zhenyuan Pass and seize its narrows, and with Yurong led troops to trample the enemy ramparts. The troops he had sent also took Shixiangkou, defeated the enemy at Dayanmen, and chased them to Pianqiao Guard; and so Zhenyuan was recovered. He advanced to take Pingyue and Xintian Guard and made for Guiyang. Sangui's grandson Shifan, Yingqi and the others all fled back to Yunnan. One after another he took the prefectures of Anshun, Shiqian, Duyun and Sinan. In the eleventh month he recovered Yongning, defeated the enemy at Anlongpu, and chased them to the iron-chain bridge on Jigongbei Mountain; the army camped at Guiyang. An edict urged Zhangtai to advance and plan for Yunnan. Edit

In the first month of the twentieth year he crossed the Pan River, defeated the enemy at Shazishao, advanced to Lajiapo, recovered the Xinxing garrison post, pursued the fleeing enemy for thirty li, and took Pu'an and Zhanyi. The Grand General Laita came in from Guangxi to Qujing, and they met at Songming Department and together surrounded the provincial capital of Yunnan from thirty li away. Shifan's generals Hu Guobing, Liu Qilong and others drew up more than ten thousand men with elephants in their line to give battle. Laita's army took the right and Zhangtai's the left; from early morning until noon they fought to the death, broke the enemy line, killed Guobing, Qilong and others, and captured men beyond counting. He ordered the armies to hold Nanba, Sashi Guard, Zoumajie, Shuangta Temple, Desheng Bridge, Chongguan and other places, and then the commanders and officials whom Shifan had appointed in Dali, Lin'an, Yongshun, Yao'an and Wuding came to the army one after another to surrender. Edit

Shifan's generals Ma Bao, Hu Guozhu and others from Sichuan, and Xia Guoxiang from Guangxi, came back to rescue Yunnan; Zhangtai sent troops to meet them, and Bao, halting at Yao'an, also asked to surrender. Guozhu fled to Heqing and Lijiang; Xifu attacked Yunlong Department, and Guozhu hanged himself. Guoxiang fled to Guangxi; Li Guoliang and others surrounded him at Xibanqiao, and Guoxiang too surrendered, and he and Bao were sent to the capital in cages. The General Zhao Liangdong arrived with his army from Sichuan, and Zhangtai, with Laita, Liangdong and others, defeated the enemy again and again at Nanba, Desheng Bridge, Taiping Bridge, Zoumajie and other places. The army pressed up to the city and attacked it on all sides; Shifan hanged himself, and his general He Jinzhong and others came out and surrendered. Zhangtai forbade his officers and men to kill or plunder, entered the city to calm the people, took over the granaries and treasuries, mutilated Shifan's corpse, and sent his head in a box to the court. Yunnan was pacified. Zhangtai was made Left Clan Supervisor. In the tenth month of the twenty-first year the army returned, and the emperor welcomed them twenty li south of the Lugou Bridge. Edit

In the twenty-second year, when the crime of delay in the first descent on Yuezhou was judged, he was not punished, because of his merits. He was given twenty taels of gold and a thousand of silver. In the twenty-fourth year he was found guilty of recommending unfit men as officials of the Imperial Clan Court, and was removed as Left Clan Supervisor. In the first month of the twenty-ninth year he died. His son Tunzhu inherited as Duke Who Guards the State. He was made Left Clan Supervisor and Minister of Rites. In the fifty-seventh year he died. He was made Beizi posthumously, with the posthumous name Kemin. His grandson Fengxin held the rank of Duke Who Assists the State, to be inherited for all generations. Edit