Zhaohui was a Manchurian Zhenghuangqi native, of the Wuya clan, who was related to Yongzheng's biological mother, Princess De, and was a grandson of her clan according to her generations. During the Yongzheng period, he worked in various departments. Because the level of education is not high, the performance is not outstanding, and it is not valued by the organization. In the Qianlong Dynasty, Zhaohui worked in the household department, and at this time, his talent was displayed.
Although Zhaohui Wenke is not good, but the mathematics is very powerful, the arithmetic problems such as soldiers and horses, money and food, others hold the abacus for a long time, he can easily get the result. Therefore, he was entrusted with important tasks such as raising grain and salary many times, and also followed Fu Heng to Jinchuan to supervise the grain transportation. Later, Zhaohui official luck hengtong. When Qianlong was recruiting Dzungar, Zhaohui was stationed in Ulyasutai, not only responsible for the dispatch of grain and wages, but also assisted in military affairs.
Twenty years after Qianlong pacified Dzungar for the first time, Amir Sana was dissatisfied with the aftermath of the imperial court and openly confronted the imperial court. When the Qing court had withdrawn its troops and Xinjiang was empty, Amir Sana called on the Ili people to rebel together and quickly occupy northern Xinjiang. The general Bandi of the Qing court front committed suicide in defeat.
When the news reached the capital, Qianlong reappointed a number of generals and adjusted the candidates for the four Khan kings of the Dzungars. However, the new general was unfavorable, fell into the enemy's plan, and was soon dismissed. Therefore, Qianlong changed commanders again, arranged for Zhaohui to be the right deputy general, and ordered him to garrison Ili.
After the Qing army and the Dzungars drove back and forth, Ili had long been dilapidated and had a serious loss of personnel. As soon as Zhaohui took office, he first began to deal with some aftermath issues, including displaced people in the hukou to prevent them from cooperating with the rebels; at the same time, re-establishing the border to avoid future border conflicts.
At this time, the leaders of southern Xinjiang saw that there was a change in northern Xinjiang, and they also began to be restless, and detained Torentai, who was sent by the Qing court to southern Xinjiang to appease. After Zhaohui asked Qianlong, he sent the deputy governor Amin Dao, led more than a thousand people, surrendered the rebels near Ush, and heard the news of Torentai. Xiaohe table in southern Xinjiang saw that the army was threatening, and quickly returned Toruntei. Later, Zhaohui saw Kowa's betrayal intentions and secretly sent Amindo to send troops quickly.
In the winter of the twenty-first year of Qianlong, the Dzungar rebels besieged Ili. At this time, Ili was already an isolated city, and Zhaohui had to lead the men and horses to retreat. However, during the retreat, the Dzungar rebels pursued them and soon surrounded Zhaohui.
Zhaohui wanted to break through, but he was outnumbered, so he had to send a small group of men and horses to cover the breakthrough by the main force. The people who broke out, without stopping, found Barikun's minister of affairs, Yar Hassan, and asked for rescue.
Yarhaha sent his bodyguard Tulun Chu to take people to rescue Zhaohui. At this moment, the Dzungar rebels who were besieging Zhaohui suddenly appeared smallpox, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and when reinforcements arrived, they had already withdrawn their troops. Zhaohui joined forces with the rescue army and quickly pursued the rebels. However, due to insufficient food and wages, they chased after a few days and then collected the soldiers.
In the twenty-second year of Qianlong, the imperial court ordered Chenggun Zabu and Zhaohui to divide into two roads and vigorously encircle and suppress the Dzungars. In the process of marching, some soldiers were left in charge of reclamation, and another group of local soldiers were recruited. In this way, the problem of military food was solved, and the retreat route of the Dzungars was cut off.
The Dzungar region was popular with smallpox and civil unrest, and it was already vulnerable in front of the Qing army, so Zhaohui could drive straight in and basically did not encounter effective resistance. Pursued by the Qing army, Amir Sana fled in a hurry and hid in Kazakhstan.
Zhaohui immediately sent someone to negotiate with the Kazakhs, asking the other side to assist the Qing army in capturing Amir Sana. The Kazakhs had already "sent envoys to pay tribute" to the Qing court and promised to help. The Kazakhs seized Amir Sana's horses, and the sensitive Amir Sana saw that the situation was not right and fled north into Russia.
The Russians took in Amir Sana, but he had bad luck and died of smallpox not long after. Later, the Russians saw that he had died and had lost its use value, so they returned his body to the Qing court. Qianlong ordered Zhaohui not to withdraw his troops, but to garrison himself on the spot, and after the winter, he would pursue and suppress the remnants of Amir Sana.
In the twenty-third year of Qianlong, Zhaohui surrounded the remnants of the rebels and conducted a carpet search. Whether it is a poor village or a valley along the river, hundreds of thousands of people have been searched, as long as they are rebels, all of them are righteous. It took another four years for the Qing army to completely eradicate the Dzungar rebels. Afterwards, the imperial court set up a Manchurian garrison and transferred the Green Battalion to Tuntian. In the 27th year of Qianlong, the imperial court set up the general Ili, and since then, the Dzungar Department has become a region where the Qing Dynasty immigrated to Shibian.
Qiu Mei said: Zhaohui was able to completely pacify Dzungar in a short period of time, which has a lot to do with the two "Tianshi", one is because the previous generals have already severely damaged Dzungar, and when Zhaohui took over, the "dish" was almost ripe; second, because the smallpox and civil unrest in Dzungar further depleted their own strength, making the already damaged tribe worse.
Of course, Zhaohui's own ability should not be underestimated, not only is the will to fight a firm will, and it is not surrendered when it is encircled and suppressed, but also the use of tactics is also quite flexible. This was particularly evident in his subsequent campaign to pacify southern Xinjiang.