Labu 喇布

LABU 喇布 d. 1681, age twenty-eight (sui), member of the Imperial Family and second son of Jidu [q.v.], succeeded to the title of Prince Chien (簡親王 Chien Ch'in-wang) in 1670. In 1674 the emperor gave him the rank of Yang-wei Ta-chiang-chün 揚威大將軍 and ordered him to lead an army against Wu San-kuei [q.v.] and other rebels, and to garrison Nanking. In the following year, the emperor sent Labu to Kiangsi to take the place of Yolo [q.v.] who had been ordered to advance from Kiangsi into Hunan. Although Labu succeeded in several minor campaigns around Po-yang Lake, he was unable to prevent the invading army under Han Ta-jên 韓大任 and Kao Ta-chieh 高大節 (last word also written 傑 or 捷) from occupying Chi-an in 1676 and threatening the rear of Yolo's army. Labu was ordered to ease the situation by attacking Chi-an, but he was twice defeated by the brave rebel general, Kao Ta-chieh, when the Manchu army was routed and Labu fled. After Kao Ta-chieh's death, later in the year, Labu again besieged Chi-an, and by the following spring had reduced Han Ta-jên and his forces to starvation. A sudden sortie of the enemy took him by surprise and threw the Manchu troops into confusion, in the course of which Han Ta-jên and his men escaped. For this and for earlier defeats Labu was severely censured by the emperor, but at the beginning of 1678, with the help of Chinese soldiers under Governor-general Tung Wei-kuo 董衛國 (d. Jan. 1684), he succeeded finally in defeating Han Ta-jên and forcing him to surrender. He then advanced to Ch'a-ling in Hunan, which had been recovered a few months earlier. After the death of Wu San-kuei Labu's army advanced and at the beginning of 1679 he recovered Hêng-chou and other cities, continuing on into Kwangsi and Yunnan. In 1681, after seven years of campaigning, he was recalled to Peking where he soon died. A year after his death he was retrospectively accused of inefficiency in operations at Chi-an and posthumously stripped of his titles.

[1/221/9b; 34/124/16b; Liu Chien 劉健, 庭聞錄 T'ing-wên lu (1915, Yü-chang ts'ung-shu edition) 5/8b-11a; Tung-hua lu, K'ang-hsi 21: 6, 21: 12; Haenisch, E., T'oung Pao 1913, p. 85.]

George A. Kennedy

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喇布，濟度第二子。濟度初薨，以第三子德塞襲。康熙九年，薨，諡曰惠。是年，喇布襲爵。吳三桂反，十三年九月，命為揚威大將軍，率師駐江寧。十四年九月，移師江西，鎮南昌，屢遣兵援東鄉，擊鄱陽，破金谿、萬年。三桂將高得捷、韓大任陷吉安，詔趣進師。喇布駐南昌，不出師攻吉安，屯螺子山，敵來攻，師敗績。上遣侍郎班迪按敗狀，喇布乃督師圍吉安。十六年三月，敵引走，喇布入吉安，疏稱大任等屯寧都請降，詔報可。既而大任自寧都出擾萬安、泰和，喇布復請增兵。上諭曰：「簡親王喇布自至江西，無尺寸之功，深居會城，虛糜廩餉。迨赴吉安，以重兵圍城，而韓大任竄逸，竊踞寧都，復擾萬安、泰和，不能擊滅。喇布所轄官兵為數不為少，乃一大任不能翦除，宜嚴加處分，俟事平日議罪。」十七年正月，護軍統領哈克三等敗大任于老虎洞，燬其壘，斬六千級。大任奔福建，詣康親王傑書軍降。二月，移師湖南，駐茶陵。八月，三桂死於衡州，詔令自安仁進師。十八年正月，進復衡州。二月，分軍復祁陽、耒陽、寶慶。九月，進次廣西，駐桂林。十九年正月，馬承廕以柳州叛。五月，進攻柳州，承廕降。八月，移駐南寧。十月，詔選所部付大將軍賚塔進攻雲南。二十年八月，召還京師。十月，薨。二十一年，追論吉安失機罪，奪爵。