In the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement of the late Qing Dynasty, Shi Dakai was undoubtedly a banner, the soul of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the great peasant hero who was most worthy of the praises of future generations. After the Tianjing Incident, Shi Dakai returned to Beijing to assist the Heavenly King in handling major state affairs, and finally because of the Suspicion of the Heavenly King, he had no choice but to leave Nanjing to find a way out for himself, at this time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was faced with the unfavorable situation of no one in the country, no generals in the DPRK, and heavy siege of the Qing legions outside. At this time, Hong Xiuquan promoted two young generals and let them command the military command of the whole country in order to revitalize the national situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Chen Yucheng was one of them.
Chen Yucheng, a native of Tengxian County, Guangxi, was the most important general in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whose talent far exceeded that of Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, and was a benchmark figure among the generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after the Tianjing Incident. Hong Renjie once said that if Chen Yucheng had not been betrayed and sacrificed by the traitors, then the siege of Tianjing would certainly be lifted. In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, Chen Yucheng fought under the leadership of the "Yong'an Kings", but had already shown his unique talents. He fought bravely, resourcefully, was good at circumventing and copying, killing back the horse gun, and was known as the "Luo Cheng" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the Tianjing Incident, Chen Yucheng turned the tide of the tide, broke through the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, won a great victory in Sanhe Town, and completely annihilated the Xiang Army's fierce general Li Xubin's department, so that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered another military heyday.
In 1851, Hong Xiuquan and other congregations of the Church of God launched an armed uprising in Jintian Town, Guangxi Province, and quickly moved north into Hunan Territory. Chen Yucheng was only fourteen years old, served in the Boy Scouts, and was not incorporated into the main force. Chen Yucheng was resourceful and brave in battle, and soon became the leader, often helping the Taiping Army to escort grain and grass supplies and protect the safety of the families of the army. In 1853, in the battle against Wuchang, Chen Yucheng came to the fore. At that time, the defense of Wuchang City was relatively tight, and the Taiping Army was unable to conquer Jiancheng for a long time, at this time Chen Yucheng led five hundred strong soldiers to the city, and the brigade continued to advance and conquer the city. Chen Yucheng won the first merit, ascended to the right thirty checkpoints of the temple, and unified the army's rear thirteenth army and the first four armies of the water camp. After fixing the capital at Tianjing, Chen Yucheng followed Qin Rigang, the King of Yan, to Zhenjiang, which was besieged by the Qing general Gil Hang'a Tuantuan. At that time, the number of Qing troops far exceeded that of the Taiping Army, Qin Rigang could not approach the city, and the two sides formed a tug-of-war state, at this time, Chen Yucheng alone drove a lone boat to break through the enemy's encirclement, braved the rain of bullets and bullets to enter Zhenjiang City, and got in touch with the defender Wu Ruxiao. In the end, under the internal and external attacks, Gilhang'a was defeated and fled, and the siege of Zhenjiang was lifted. Soon, Chen Yucheng cooperated with Shi Dakai and Qin Rigang to attack the Jiangnan camp, fighting with the enemy for four days and nights, the Commander of the Qing Army, Xiang Rong, fled to Danyang, hanged himself, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered its military heyday.
Before the Tianjing Incident, although Chen Yucheng had made outstanding achievements in battle, he had almost always cooperated with the kings at that time to fight, and he did not have the opportunity to stand alone. After the Tianjing Incident, Chen Yucheng ushered in a turning point in his life, after Shi Dakai left, the military situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom suddenly deteriorated, and the battlefields were in a hurry, and almost all the senior generals within the Heavenly Kingdom were killed by the Tianjing Incident. In order to reverse the crisis, Hong Xiuquan could only rebuild the leadership core, at this time, the two generals left behind after Shi Dakai left came into Hong Xiuquan's field of vision, that is, Chen Yucheng, the king of England, and Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong, who later made the Qing army uneasy day and night. Chen Yucheng finally ushered in a turning point in his life, just like Blue Jade finally waited for Zhu Yuanzhang's reuse, and then led the army to the Northern Expedition and went straight to the Fishing Sea to eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. After Chen Yucheng was appointed as the former military commander, he immediately summoned various generals to hold a military conference in Zongyang, Anhui Province, to discuss the strategy of breaking the large camps in the north and south of the Jiangsu Province to break the siege of Tianjing. After the meeting, Chen Yucheng sent troops to Hefei, Anhui Province, and joined Li Xiucheng in Wuyi, and other generals also acted in accordance with the established strategic guidelines, and multiple large armies simultaneously advanced into the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army stationed at Pukou, and the commander Shengbao was defeated, the Jiangbei camp was destroyed, and the grain road in Tianjing was unimpeded from then on.
In 1858, Chen Yucheng took advantage of the fact that the Jiangbei camp was breached and the morale of the Taiping Army was booming, and divided his troops to attack all parts of northern Anhui to consolidate the outer barrier of Tianjing. After Luzhou was occupied by the Taiping Army, Zeng Guofan was so anxious that he quickly commanded various Xiang armies to march towards northern Anhui. Soon, Luzhou City gathered a large number of elite troops from both sides, Zeng Guofan since joining the army, repeatedly with the Taiping Army, there are victories and defeats, although the famous ministers Jiang Zhongyuan and Luo Zenan died in the battle, but the development of the Xiang Army is unstoppable. After rebuilding the leadership core, the Taiping Army won successive victories in various battlefields, and its morale was high, like a majestic and mighty division. It can be said that at this time, both sides are looking forward to the arrival of victory and are full of confidence in this upcoming fierce battle. Chen Yucheng's opponent at this time was Li Xubin, who had conquered Jiujiang City, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and had never lost a battle against the Taiping Army, known as the god of war of the Xiang Army, Chen Yucheng had been defeated under his hands, this time the two met again, and it was worth looking forward to who died in the hands of the deer. For this fierce general, Chen Yucheng naturally did not dare to take the enemy lightly, so in addition to strengthening the fortifications of Sanhe Town in advance, he also sent people to contact Zhang Luoxing, the leader of the Twist Army in Huaibei, and others, so that they could attack Li Xubin together. At this time, Li Xubin's light enemy ventured forward, and before the large troops had time to catch up, he alone led the elite troops of the six thousand Xiang Army to fight all the way to Sanhe Town, and what awaited him was the Tianluodi net that the Taiping Army had already arranged, Li Xubin committed suicide in desperation, and zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guohua was also sacrificed with him. Wang Anding of the Qing Dynasty commented in his book "Records of the Xiang Army": "Since the rise of the army, the chaos in the southeast has been extremely strong, but there have been no more martyrs than anhui. ''
Chen Yucheng, who had made great achievements in battle, took advantage of the favorable period of the Three Rivers Victory to march south, cooperated with Li Xiucheng and Hong Rengui in battle, carried out the previously established plan of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao", and finally conquered the Jiangnan camp, and the siege of Tianjing was lifted. In 1862, anqing fell, the western gateway to Tianjing was opened, the grain road encountered threats, Chen Yucheng was revoked the title of King of England due to the failure to rescue Anqing, but still fought in northern Anhui. At the time of the siege of Luzhou, Chen Yucheng thought about the strategic plan of going to Shaanxi to recruit troops and then take Beijing directly from Henan, but due to the trick of listening to the traitor Miao Peilin's persuasion to go to Shouzhou in order to make a comeback, Chen Yucheng abandoned Luzhou and went to Shouzhou, and what awaited him in Shouzhou was the trap that Miao Peilin had already designed. After Miao Peilin arrested Chen Yucheng, he sent him directly to the Camp of the Qing commander Shengbao, who was unwilling to surrender to the Qing army because of his loyalty to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was eventually executed by Ling Chi.