Overview
Sun Yanling was a Guangxi rebel general.
Life and dates
Death
AD 1677
Killed by Wu Shizong
Attested activity
AD 1674 康熙十三年
AD 1673 康熙十二年
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 10 passages
十三年，孫延齡以廣西叛應之，圍雄鎮廨，脅降。
In the thirteenth year Sun Yanling rebelled in Guangxi in support of Wu Sangui, besieged Xiongzhen's headquarters, and tried to force him to submit.
延齡诇知之，幽雄鎮，置家人別室。
Yanling learned of this through his spies, imprisoned Xiongzhen, and confined his family in separate quarters.
會傅弘烈勸延齡反正，延齡躊躇未決，雄鎮得以間遣長子世濟齎疏詣京師，友亮導之出，客楊啟祥護行，至贛州，江西巡撫董衛國以聞。
When Fu Honglie urged Yanling to defect back to the Qing, Yanling hesitated. Xiongzhen used the opening to send his eldest son Shiji with a memorial to Beijing. Youliang guided him out, Yang Qixiang escorted him, and at Ganzhou Jiangxi governor Dong Weiguo reported the matter to the court.
又為延齡知，係其孥於獄。
When Yanling discovered this, he threw Xiongzhen's family into prison.
十六年十月，三桂遣其從孫世琮殺延齡，擁雄鎮至賊壘，迫使降，雄鎮大呼曰：「吾義守封疆，不能寸斬汝以報國，死吾分也！」
In the tenth month of the sixteenth year Sangui sent his grandnephew Shizong to kill Yanling and dragged Xiongzhen to the rebel camp to force his surrender. Xiongzhen cried out, "It is my duty to guard this frontier. I cannot cut you down to serve the throne—death is what I owe!"
及三桂反，將軍孫延齡、提督馬雄以廣西叛應之。
When Sangui rebelled, General Sun Yanling and commander Ma Xiong joined the revolt in Guangxi.
弘烈說延齡反正。
Honglie urged Yanling to defect back to the Qing.
鎮南將軍覺羅舒恕軍贛州，弘烈密致書言延齡妻孔四貞，定南王有德女，未忘國恩，延齡可招撫。
Southern Pacification General Aisin Gioro Shushuo was stationed at Ganzhou. Honglie wrote secretly that Yanling's wife Kong Sizhen, daughter of Prince Dingnan Kong Youde, still remembered the dynasty's favor and that Yanling could be won back.
吳世琮既殺延齡，陷平樂，襲弘烈梧州，弘烈擊敗之。
After Wu Shizong killed Yanling and seized Pinglo, he attacked Honglie at Wuzhou, but Honglie drove him off.
弘烈密疏言延齡舊部宜善為解散，又言之信怙惡反覆，當早為之所。
Honglie memorialized in secret that Yanling's former troops should be properly disbanded and that Zhixin, habitually treacherous, should be checked before he turned again.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 1 passage