Lin Fengxiang was born in 1825 (
Ace unitary year
), Wumingren, Guangxi. He is
A warrior of the Zhuang clan
He was rich and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sought kingship, yes
Famous general of the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
。 His record was very brilliant, but in the end he only ended up with Ling Chi's execution. At the moment when Lin Fengxiang was escorted into Beijing, Xian Feng, the Qing Emperor who should have been happy, just looked at him.
Without saying a word, LiangJiu sighed, "The number of Great Qing Qi has been exhausted!" Why?
Just out of the woods
During the reign of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, local government officials were heavily corrupt and had to pay high taxes to the Qing government. So they hit the idea on the common people.
The people were not allowed to discuss the matter by increasing taxes, and notices were posted everywhere, and the people dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
In May of the twenty-fourth year of Daoguang (1844), Hong Xiuquan, Feng Yunshan, and others spread the ideas of Christianity, God, and equality from Guangdong to Guiping and Guixian.
The peasants were organized to rebel against the government's oppression of the people, so that they won the love of the people. Ordinary people also
Attend the worship of God
。 Lin Fengxiang and his brother Li Kaifang also heard about the Worship of God Society, and they did not want to be oppressed and exploited by the Qing government anymore.
Together with more than a dozen young people, he left his hometown to join Guiping Bauhinia Mountain and participated in the worship of God. Xianfeng first year (1851) January 11,
Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang participated in the famous Jintian Uprising. This uprising was the beginning of the modern Chinese national revolution.
In April of the second year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1852), Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang moved north, entered Hunan in June, and then occupied Daozhou. Jianghua, Yongming, Guiyang, Chenzhou and other places, on September 11, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army reached changsha city, Lin Fengxiang rushed to the southern peak and launched a fierce attack on the Qing army
。 The qing army was defeated, which also made Lin Fengxiang have a certain majesty and admirer in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army.
Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang then entered Changsha City with their army to fight the remnants of the Qing army. The two fought bravely and eliminated the remaining Qing forces, Lin Fengxiang was appointed non-commissioned officer Zheng general, and on December 2 of the same year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army occupied Yiyang, and Yang Xiuqing ordered Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to attack Yuezhou and Hanyang.
In just 10 days, they occupied the important town of Hanyang in Hubei Province with lightning speed, because of their excellent leadership and command skills, Lin Fengxiang was promoted to the left commander, and Li Kaifang was the second right commander. This also made the status of the two men in the military rise again.
Go up high
Finally, on January 12, the third year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1853), the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army made the largest battle and they would capture Nanjing.
Nanjing has been the capital of several dynasties since ancient times, and it is naturally prosperous to the extreme
, so the defensive force is also incomparable with other cities.
Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led an army to attack Wuchang. As a springboard for attacking Nanjing. Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang first ordered their subordinates to lay mines at the city gate to blow up the city gate and enter the city to engage in a bloody battle with the Qing army.
After defeating the Qing army, the Qing army was slaughtered. On February 9, the two men began to let the troops cooperate with the army and the water army to directly capture Jiujiang, Tongling and other places to prepare for the attack on Nanjing.
On March 15 of the same year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army approached the city of Nanjing, and the generals in the city led by the Nanjing defenders went out to meet the battle and were quickly defeated. Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led 5,000 men from Jubaomen into the city of Nanjing while the defenders were fighting the Taiping Army.
On March 19, the Taiping Army cleared the defenders of the city.
Nanjing was occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
finish. After this battle, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, ordered Lin Fengxiang to be the deputy minister of heavenly officials and Li Kaifang to be the deputy minister of the prefecture official, on the recommendation of Yang Qingxiu, the eastern king. At this point, Lin Fengxiang's highlight moment began.
Invincible
In April of the same year, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang led the Taiping Army to attack Yangzhou, which was also Lin Fengxiang's most military talent. On the 15th of the same month, Lin Fengxiang's troops went to Yangzhou City and first let the troops wrap the barrier tightly. The flag covered the sky, and the soldiers practiced all day, which made the Qing army in Yangzhou City feel fear in their hearts.
At that time, Lin Fengxiang's name was already a household name in the Qing army.
At that time, it was early summer, the weather was unusually hot, and there were corpses and bones outside the city, and the smell was abnormal, Lin Fengxiang was worried that he would have fear in the hearts of the soldiers, and said to the soldiers
Beheading a Qing army rewards 100 taels of silver, and beheading a Qing general is rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver.
Making the soldiers extremely fierce,
Frightened the Qing army, it was frightening.
The qing government's top brass heard that general Zhang Guoliang had been sent to Yangzhou to supervise the battle.
Zhang Guoliang was good at using tactics and brave and good at war. The Qing army's military spirit began to rise when they heard about the battle, because the Qing army's armor was very thick, and the Taiping army's only thin single clothes were unfavorable to the Qing army for morning combat, so he ordered people to fight the Taiping army in the morning. This dealt a blow to the Taiping Army.
Soon Lin Fengxiang felt that he would not be able to take Yangzhou City if he continued to fight like this, so he sent a messenger to Zhu Xikun, another powerful general of Yang Qingxiu, the Eastern King, to raid Yangzhou City.
On the morning of the 23rd of the same month, Lin Fengxiang led 6,000 Taiping troops to fight against the Qing army, and the Taiping army demolished all the tents early in the morning, making the Qing army think that they were going to fall out of the nest, Zhang Guoliang ordered 1,000 elite soldiers to guard the city of Yangzhou, and the remaining soldiers followed him to fight Lin Fengxiang in blood.
Lin Fengxiang pretended to be a bloody battle and the VietnamEse war retreated to lead the Qing army to a valley, Zhu Xikun led the army to capture the city of Yangzhou, and then pursued the Qing army into the valley, so that the Qing army was defeated, Zhang Guoliang wanted to flee back to Yangzhou City, and go back to see that Yangzhou had been lost. Yang Tian then drew his sword and killed himself.
This battle brought Lin Fengxiang's prestige in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army to its peak.
The Northern Expedition hit a wall
In May of the third year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1853), the Taiping Army northern expedition, Lin Fengxiang was ordered to join
Li Kaifang, the Marquis of Dinghu, and Ji Wenyuan, the Marquis of Pinghu, together led the more than 20,000 troops from Yangzhou to the north of Chuzhou, Anhui.
In June, he captured the important town of Guide (present-day Shangqiu) in Henan, defeated more than 5,000 Qing troops, and captured many iron cannons, gunpowder, and guns.
This made the Qing army jealous of his reputation. Later, because they did not carry a boat, they were unable to cross the Yellow River to the north.
The main force crossed the Yellow River in July of the same year from the south bank of the Yellow River to the west. After crossing the Yellow River, he directly captured Lower Huaiqing (present-day Qinyang), because the Qing army was stubbornly resisting and the Taiping army was proud and arrogant, and was surrounded inside the city, and broke out of the encirclement in September of the same year.
After passing through Shanxi into the Taihang Mountains, it directly enters the territory of Hebei Province. When the Qing government heard this news, it held Tianjin in the west of Tianjin, and Hong Xiuquan heard that the Northern Expeditionary Army had suffered a defeat in Tianjin. In February of the following year, troops were dispatched to Anqing to the north to provide support, causing Lin Fengxiang to withdraw. This too
The beginning of Lin Fengxiang's decline.
Defeated
On May 5, 1854, Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang divided their troops, and Lin Fengxiang defended the city in Dongguang County, surrounded by Qing troops, with no grain and grass inside and no reinforcements outside. With several times the inferior strength of the Qing army, he stubbornly resisted and fought against the loss of the monk Greenqin in February of the following year.
The Commander of the Qing Army, Monk Greenqin, surrounded Lin Fengxiang's army and thought that he could retake Dongguang County in a few days, but he did not expect Lin Fengxiang to be so tenacious, so he waited until the rainy season to open the South Canal, submerging the county, and forcing the Taiping Army to surrender.
On March 7 of the same year, the monk Gelinqin detained Lin Fengxiang back to Beijing.
Under the severe torture of the Qing government, Lin Fengxiang left a 403-word "confession".
After Lin Fengxiang was detained and returned to Beijing, the Xianfeng Emperor had thought that such a terrible person had three heads and six arms, and after seeing it, he sighed that if Lin Fengxiang was a great evil person, it could be understood as having a bad heart, but why would such a person of Wen Zou Zou be so frightened of the Qing army.
This was forced out by the Qing government
！
The Xianfeng Emperor thought of this,
I couldn't help but shiver,
He had the feeling of falling into the abyss. I didn't speak for half a day, but just sighed a long sigh: The number of great Qing Qi has been exhausted!