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Timeline

1. 1617–1644Shengjing · ShenyangBorn into the Later Jin imperial clan, a descendant of Nurhaci's brother Šurhaci's line, his father Abatai was an important early Qing general. From youth he trained with the army, participating in campaigns against the Ming during the Chongde era, accumulating combat experience that laid the groundwork for large-scale southern campaigns after the conquest of the pass.
2. 1645–1650Nanjing · NanjingIn the second year of Shunzhi (1645) he went south with Dodo, captured Nanjing, pursued remnants of the Southern Ming Hongguang regime, and then pacified anti-Qing forces across Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He then turned to Fujian and Zhejiang, defeating forces of the Lu regime, earning merit for Qing control of key regions south of the Yangtze.
3. 1651–1665Fujian · FujianIn the 1650s he was appointed to direct military and civil affairs in the southeast, suppressing Southern Ming Zheng forces and local anti-Qing resistance; in 1658 he participated in planning attacks on Zheng Chenggong's coastal defense system. Early in the Kangxi reign he was elevated to Prince Zhaoxun, continuing to lead campaigns in Fujian and Guangdong, and died in battle in the army at Quanzhou in 1665, one of the highest-ranking imperial clan generals to fall in the early Qing unification wars.