Chapter 202

The eighth person, the late Qing Manchu general Sen Lingqin, 96 in force, 97 in command, 82 in intelligence, and 78 in politics; According to the record of "Mongolian Lineage", Seng Gelinqin is the twenty-sixth grandson of Genghis Khan's second brother Habtu Hasar, born on June 5 in the sixteenth year of Jiaqing (1811) in the Horqin Left Wing Rear Banner Hari Erge Sumu Baixingtu Gacha ordinary Taiji family, when he was young, Monk Gelingqin was poor in his family, and he had herded cattle for the rich with his father Bu and Deliger. When he was 12 years old, he was sent to study in Wenchang Palace, the old city of Changtu.

In the fifth year of Daoguang (1825), Seng Lingqin was selected as the heir of the king of Sotnamu Dobuzhai County, inheriting the king of Zhasak County, the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin. In December of the same year, he was ordered to walk in front of the emperor and enjoy the three-eyed flower.

In the sixth year of Daoguang (1826), the purple reins were appreciated. In the ninth year of Daoguang (1829), he wore a yellow coat. In February of the same year, he was ordered to take charge of Shangyu for standby. In September, he ordered the firearms camp.

In the fourteenth year of Daoguang (1834), he was awarded the former minister of the imperial court, the minister of the white flag and the minister of the guard, and the Mongolian capital of the blue banner. In September, he was the Minister of Houhu.

In the first month of the fifteenth year of Daoguang (1835), the Mongolian capital was inlaid with the red flag. In February, he was in charge of the Tiger Gun Camp. In July, the prime minister was ordered to camp. In December, he was the Minister of Military Parade.

In the sixteenth year of Daoguang (1836), he was awarded the white flag of Manchuria. In 1837 (the seventeenth year of Daoguang), the yellow reins were appreciated.

In September of the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), it was the capital of Manchuria under the Zhenghuang Banner. In the twenty-fourth year of Daoguang (1844), he served as a right-wing overseer and corrected the Blue Banner of Manchuria.

In February of the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845), he was the Minister of the Yellow Banner Guard. In May of the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang (1846), he was the Minister of the White Banner Guard.

In the thirtieth year of Daoguang (1850), it was the Mongolian capital with the yellow flag. In January, Emperor Daoguang died, and Seng Lingqin became one of the ministers. In September, he was ordered to go to Miyun County to suppress bandits and give him the left-wing overseer. In December, he rewarded the monk for his work in clearing the bandits, rewarded the four regiments of Zhenglong for making up for the service and allowed them to wear it.

In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), Seng Lingqin served as the former minister of the imperial palace and served as the secretary of Luanyi. He had asked for an order to send troops to suppress the anti-rent struggle of the tenant farmers of the rear banner of the left wing of Horqin.

In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), Wu Baotai, the leader of tenant farmers' resistance to rent, was arrested and imprisoned. Presided over the relocation and burial of Daoguang Emperor Zigong, respectfully engaged, and rewarded with three levels.

In May of the third year of Xianfeng (1853), he was appointed to supervise the patrol of the capital and served as the counselor. At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had set its capital at Tianjing, and sent troops to the Northern Expedition. Seng Lingqin was ordered to lead the Jianrui Battalion, the Outer Firearms Battalion, the Two-Wing Forward Battalion, the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, the Fifth Patrol Battalion and the officers and soldiers of Chahar, and the strong brigades of the Mongol kings of Zhelimu, Zhuo Suotu, and Zhaowuda went out of Beijing.

In August, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom invaded the Gyeonggi Fortress. Emperor Xianfeng personally awarded the sword used by the Qing Emperor Nurhachi to the monk Lingqin and ordered him to lead the army to suppress it. In September, the Bauhinia Pass was fortified. In October, a war was fought against the Northern Expeditionary Army at Nanwang Qingtuo in Tianjin. The Northern Expeditionary Army suffered heavy losses and retreated to the area around Lianzhen. In the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), the Northern Expeditionary Army was defeated in Lianzhen, and Emperor Xianfeng gave the monk Greenqin the title of "Tuan Duo Batulu".

In the first month of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), Monk Greenqin reorganized the army to fight the Taiping Army again, broke the Donglian Town Wooden City, the Taiping Army risked the conflict to the death, Monk Greenqin annihilated it, and captured Lin Fengxiang, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, Emperor Xianfeng crowned the monk Grinqin as the prince of Bodol Gatai in February, and rewarded a plate of pearls and a coat of four dragons. In April, the edict was hereditary, and the silver was doubled.

In June, Li Kaifang's troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were exterminated in Fengguantun, Shandong, and Li Kaifang was captured. Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang are all famous generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, brave and good at fighting, and Monk Greenqin has been wiped out in hundreds of battles in two years, none of which have escaped the net, so his prestige is shocked in the sea.

In May of the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857), the monk Greenqin was ordered to set the red flag and the Han army was unified. In the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), the governors of Zhili, Tan Tingxiang and Tuo Ming'a, were defeated in defending the Dagu Haikou in Tianjin, and the Qing court lords and factions signed the Treaty of Tianjin with British representatives.

When Seng Lingqin learned of this, he petitioned Emperor Xianfeng and resolutely demanded the withdrawal of the negotiators, advocating the mobilization of soldiers from all over the country, pouring grain from all over the country, reorganizing the army, and driving out the Western invaders. However, because the Lord and the faction prevailed, his opinion was not adopted.

In the ninth year of Xianfeng (1859), Emperor Xianfeng ordered the monk Greenqin to Tianjin to supervise the defense of Dagukou and Jingdong. Drawing lessons from the defeat in the first Dagukou Campaign, Seng Greenqin actively prepared for the construction of fortifications at Dagu Haikou and Shuanggang, purged the army, and made various preparations against aggression.

The new British and French ministers to China, Prussia and Bourblon, led the so-called exchange fleet from Shanghai to the north along the waterway. The fleet, consisting of one cruiser and 13 gunboats, defied the Chinese army's fortifications, did not heed the Chinese army's dissuasion and warnings, and brazenly broke into the mouth of Dagu, arousing great indignation among the Chinese officers and men.

Monk Greenqin issued a battle order to resolutely counterattack the invaders, supervised the battle, destroyed 3 British warships, killed and wounded 464 British soldiers, and the British naval commander Hubb was seriously wounded. After several days of fighting, the British and French warships withdrew.

The Battle of Dagukou was the first major victory of the Chinese army against foreign invasion since the invasion of the Western capitalist powers in 1840. The Qing court rewarded the monk and the meritorious soldiers. Marx, the teacher of the proletarian revolution, also paid full attention to and affirmed this matter.

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the British and French troops invaded Tianjin, and the Seng Lingqin army was defeated and retreated to Tongzhou. Emperor Xianfeng ordered to remove the three-eyed dazzling feather of the monk Greenqin, cut off the minister of the Yellow Banner Guard, and the Blue Flag Manchuria. Then the battle was repeated, and they were defeated at Zhangjiawan and Bali Bridge, and the British and French troops invaded Beijing, and the Old Summer Palace was destroyed. The lord and the ministers complained that the monk Grinqin had angered the foreigners. Emperor Xianfeng went to the monk and the prince of Lingqin County still stayed in the post of minister.

In September of the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the army in Zhili, Shandong and Hejian Prefecture rose in all directions. The Qing court restored the prince of Seng Lingqin County and ordered him to lead more than 10,000 Qing troops to Shandong to fight against the Twist army.

On December 24 of the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), according to the request of Seng Lingqin, the post of head of the Jelimu League was conferred by the Prince of Darhan, Sotnamu Pengsuk.

In the first year of Tongzhi (1862), he returned the prince of Bodol Gatai, and soon the edict was hereditary. The imperial court authorized Seng Lingqin to dispatch soldiers and horses from the five provinces of Zhi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and Anhui. Seng Lingqin led the Mongolian cavalry and the troops provided by the five provinces to defeat the Twist army many times, and collected and surrendered more than 100,000 Twist troops at Heishidu, Huoshan Mountain, Eastern Hubei Province, and scattered more than 100,000 people, and the Qing army also suffered heavy losses.

In May of the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865), Seng Lingqin was lured to a high-rise village in Caozhou, Shandong (now Heze City, Shandong), and then fell into a heavy siege. On the evening of 18 May, Seng Lingqin led a small number of followers to break through the siege at the risk of death, and when he fled to Wujiadian in the northwest of Caozhou, he was killed in a wheat field by a soldier of the Twist Army, at the age of 55. Monk Greenqin died in battle, which shocked the Qing court, and they all regretted the loss of the "pillar of the country".

Because the monk Lingqin Ping loved the people and treated the soldiers well, when he heard the news of his death, the people boycotted the market and wept in the alleys. When the coffin returned to Beijing, there were more than 70 umbrellas for the people, and the soldiers and the people all greeted the sacrifices, and the cry shook the ground.

The Qing government held a funeral ceremony for the monk Greenqin with the prince's specifications, and the Tongzhi Emperor and Cixi came to pay tribute in person, gave the name "Zhong", and enjoyed the Taimiao, and built the "Zhaozhong Temple" in Beijing, Shandong, Henan, Shengjing and other places, and painted the Ziguang Pavilion. In the left rear banner of the Kezuo Gilga Langbo royal mansion, an ancestral hall was built in the east to enshrine the image of the monk king. In the place of Ebulil Xieriga, another statue of the monk king was built, and the image of the purple light pavilion was painted.

In July of the same year, the Qing government sent personnel to escort the coffin of Monk Lingqin to the north and be buried in the hereditary flag mausoleum of the left wing of Horqin (now Gongzhuling Village, Sijiazi Township, Faku County, Liaoning Province).