Although it is said that "Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second", if you really want to choose the most capable general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there may be a great controversy, because the answer in everyone's heart is different.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's generation of god of war, Shi Dakai, won hundreds of battles, and was invincible, and the Wing King Stone should be the choice of most people.
The Lone Army's Northern Expedition took the Qing court's Gyeonggi stronghold, begged Wang Lin Fengxiang and wang Li Kaifang, and although the grief ended in the end, it left a great name.
There are also gemini stars in the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: starry night Ke Wuchang, lonely boat to save Zhenjiang, Sanhe Town victory to severely damage the Xiang army, and the British king Chen Yucheng can be described as a star-studded star.
Breaking the southern and northern camps of the jiangnan and the north, opening up the base areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, when the empire was in danger, it was necessary to turn the tide of the tide and support the building, and Li Xiucheng, the king of loyalty, could also compete with the king of England.
Of course, there are many, many names worthy of the list, luo gang, the king of water warfare, Wei Zhijun, who is both offensive and defensive...
But if you want to say who is the most defensive general in the Taiping Army, then I am afraid that people familiar with the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will not hesitate to vote for this general- Lin Qirong.
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Lin Qirong, a native of Guiping, Guangxi, was born in the Jintian regimental camp, and during the Jintian Uprising, Lin Qirong was subordinate to Yang Xiuqing, acting as a card knife bearer and participating in the battle as a soldier of the Eastern King.
In the Taiping Army at that time, it can be said that the stars were shining and the fierce generals were like clouds, and such an unknown little person as Lin Qirong basically had a chance to perform.
In February 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's 600,000-strong army was launched by land and water, from Wuchang down the river to the east, and the soldiers pointed directly to Jiangning (Nanjing).
At that time, there were Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang and other brave generals in the army as the vanguard, and Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king, sat in the middle of the army to strategize, and Lin Qirong, as an ordinary member of the tens of millions of troops, was not conspicuous at all.
In March 1853, the Taiping Army won the Jinling, and in June of the same year, Yang Xiuqing sent the Spring Official Zheng Xiang Hu Yi huang and the Xia Official Deputy Minister Lai Hanying as the main and deputy commanders, leading 40,000 troops to start the Western Expedition.
Xiao served as the forwards of the Western Expedition by Zeng Tianyang, Shi Xiangzhen, and Wei Jun, and at this time, Lin Qirong, who was unknown in the early stage, began to be active in the military arena.
After conquering Anqing, the Western Expeditionary Army returned from Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, and then the Western Expeditionary Army was divided into two, all the way west to Hubei and all the way north to Anqing.
In September 1853, Wei Zhijun and Shi Xiangzhen, who were advancing west, jointly attacked Hukou and Jiujiang, and Lin Qirong served as the defender of Jiujiang.
"The golden scales are the things in the pool, and when they encounter the storm, they will turn into dragons", the once unknown card knifeman, finally grew into a general who was independent in the war, and history finally gave Lin Qirong, who was destined to be extraordinary, an opportunity to shine in Jiujiang City.
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The Westward Taiping Army was initially invincible, and after Jiujiang, it successively conquered the important town of Wuchang in Hubei, then went south into Xiang, and then captured Yuezhou, and the army reached Changsha, the capital of Hunan.
However, in April 1854, Lin Shaozhang, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army at the time, encountered the fledgling Xiang Army in Xiangtan, seven battles and seven defeats, tens of thousands of elite losses, thousands of warships were destroyed, and only the commander Lin Shaozhang escaped alone.
Xiangtan was defeated miserably, and the situation of the Western Expeditionary Army, which had been advancing in a high spirit, took a sharp turn for the worse, and the victorious Xiang Army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and once again went north to Kefu Yue prefecture and Wuchang, and had the potential to go down the Yangtze River to the east and directly attack Jinling.
Faced with the unfavorable situation of the Western Expedition, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of Tianjing, urgently dispatched Qin Rigang, the King of Yan, to lead 100,000 heavy troops to guard the town of Tianjia, a major area in eastern Hubei, in order to stop the counter-offensive of the Xiang army.
Clinker Qin Rigang was even more embarrassed by the big task, Yu Tianjia Town Half Wall Mountain passive defense, the result of facing a mere 10,000 Xiang army, was beaten to lose armor, the water division is even more completely destroyed.
After this battle, the Xiang army was more victorious, and Tianjia Town was lost, and the downstream Jiujiang River was already wide open, and Yang Xiuqing deserved to use his own bottom card- the wing king Shi Dakai was arranged to personally go to the front line and command the defense of the Jiujiang Lake Pass.
Jiujiang and Anqing are the two most important cities on the Yangtze River defense line of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, jiujiang city is broken, then the downstream Anqing is difficult to protect, Anqing falls, then Tianjing will have no danger to defend.
For the strategic position and significance of Jiujiang, both sides are well aware that a bloody battle of desperate efforts and bayonets is about to be staged, and our fierce general Lin Qirong is about to usher in a shining moment in his life.
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Lin Qirong, who had no previous experience in urban management, showed a fairly high governance ability after being ordered to enter Jiujiang.
Politically, it cracked down on the gentry, helped the poor, and publicized the program and policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in order to stabilize the people's hearts.
Militarily, we should step up the construction of inner and outer city defenses. On the outskirts, he relied on Xiaochikou on the north bank, Meijiazhou on the south bank, and Shi Zhongshan on the south bank, and sent heavy troops to hold them;
On the inner line, relying on the city walls, fortifications were built and heavy artillery was erected. "Building a city is like a belt, digging a trench is like a river, and it is unmatched."
In December 1854, the Xiang Army's land and water troops approached Jiujiang City, and zeng guofan could be said to be determined to win, and his generals such as Luo Zenan, Peng Yulin, Yang Zaifu, Taqibu, Zhou Fengshan, and Li Xubin came out of the nest.
The Xiang army was in full swing, and the marine division had taken advantage of the boats, and after clearing the Taiping Army's boat platoon between jiujiang and Xiaochikou, the whole army was moored in Meijiazhou and Balijiang inside and outside the mouth of Poyang Lake.
After capturing Xiaochikou on the other side of the Jiujiang River, the Lu Division moved its camp outside the south gate of the Jiujiang River and divided its army into four divisions to besiege the four gates of the Jiujiang River, east, west, south, and north.
Taqibu and Li Xubin were both brave and death-defying people in the Xiang Army, and under the cover of artillery fire, the two men took the lead and led the crowd to rush to the city.
Lin Qirong waited for work, and the Xiang army was still far away, so it crossed with artillery to attack and kill and injure the enemy as much as possible; when the enemy approached, he used rifles and shotguns to shoot. After three consecutive attacks, the Xiang army lost its troops and was defeated.
Not only that, the Jiujiang Taiping Army took advantage of the gap from time to time to attack, harassed the enemy, and every night it was guided by fireball rockets, and suddenly the golden drums sounded in unison, posing as if they were going out to fight in the camp.
The Xiang Army's marine and land divisions were unable to defend themselves, so they had to be on guard, and it was difficult to sleep peacefully, making them lose their energy and exhaust during the day. However, several times to the enemy camp to challenge, but because the defenders could not be strangled, they did not achieve results.
Under jiujiang city, the two armies stood together for more than two months, zeng Guofan saw that jiujiang was really difficult to shake, and had to move to the mouth of the lake downstream, but unexpectedly hit Shi Dakai's trick of luring the enemy, the marine division was cut off at the mouth of Poyang Lake, and the heavy warships and speedboats were separated inside and outside.
On February 11, 1855, the Taiping Army under the command of Shi Dakai, together with the Luo Gangbu at Xiaochikou and the defenders of Jiujiang Lin Qirong, simultaneously raised both sides of the strait and took advantage of the night to rush to the Xiang Army's large ships stranded on the Yangtze River with more than 100 light boats.
During the battle, the Xiang army collapsed, the painstakingly managed water division was destroyed, Zeng Guofan was ashamed and embarrassed, and almost wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water, while the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom turned the danger into the battlefield of the An Yangtze River, and Lin Qirong, who insisted on the Jiujiang River, was also promoted to deputy minister of the Winter Official because of his merits.
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In the first contest between Jiujiang's attack and defense, the Xiang army suffered heavy losses and returned without success, and the fierce general Taqibu was repeatedly frustrated under Jiujiang City and vomited blood and died violently in the army.
At the end of 1856, after the recapture of Wuchang, the Xiang army made a comeback, and on January 4, 1857, 8,000 people of Li Xubin's Xiang army entered Jiujiang City, and cooperated with More than 400 divisional ships of Yang Zaifu to attack Jiujiang.
On the other side, Du Xing'a led the horse to attack the mouth of the small pond. The Qing army on the Jiujiang battlefield totaled 20,000 people. The battle to defend Jiujiang began again.
In the face of the large-scale attack of the Xiang army, Lin Qirong commanded Ruoding, and the two sides fought fiercely for six days and nights, and the Xiang army still had no way to take the hard bone of Jiujiang.
Zeng Guofan had already suffered from Lin Qirong, and seeing that a strong attack could not be done, he took out the killer weapon of "hardening the village and fighting a stupid battle" and surrounded Jiujiang City with deep trenches and fortifications.
Lin Qirong organized 4,000 men and horses to fight to the death, hoping to destroy the encirclement of the Qing army, but did not succeed, in the face of the enemy's long-term siege and long-term trapping strategy, Lin Qirong was deeply disturbed, and rushed to the aid of Tianjing.
However, after the Tianjing Incident in 1856, the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was not as great as before, and the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan was also stretched at this time, and could only send the title of "Zhentianhou" to Lin Qirong, who was in the middle of the defense, to encourage him.
However, the title of Marquis of Zhentian could not change the dilemma faced by Lin Qirong at all, and the Xiang army outside the city was not eager to break the city, and it was trapped in a lonely city, there was no reinforcement outside, and there was a shortage of grain and grass inside.
However, it is not exhausting, at this time, the wing king Shi Da Kaizheng Chen Bing in the lower reaches of the Jiujiang River, Anqing, the two cities are within easy reach, as long as the wing king swings his division to the west, the two people attack inside and outside, there will be a great opportunity to change the situation in which jiujiang is besieged.
But the reality once again disappointed Lin Qirong, why was the Wing King in Anqing? It was because of the unfair treatment after the Tianjing Incident that Shi Dakai, although still using the name of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had actually embarked on the road of competing with the central government.
In the face of the besieged Lin Qirong's blood letter from Jiujiang, Shi Dakai not only did not extend a helping hand, but instead went south to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.
Shi Dakai's desperation and indifference destroyed the last straw of life for more than 10,000 Taiping Army generals in Jiujiang, but Lin Qirong in the desperate situation did not have a trace of fear and anger, "the general will inevitably die before the battle," he had already put his life and death aside. The Taiping Army was even more united in their will, vowing to coexist and die with Jiujiang.
He ordered his generals to plant wheat in the gaps in the city, at the head of the city, and in the gaps in the defensive lines outside the city, so as to alleviate the embarrassment of food shortage in the army, and reduced the ration quota of the troops, hoping to support the arrival of reinforcements.
Outside the city, the Xiang army did not stop attacking the city for a moment, repeatedly exploding the Jiujiang city wall, and Lin Qirong repeatedly led the crowd to risk death to repair it.
In May 1857, the southeast city wall was destroyed by more than 100 zhang, and the Taiping Army, which was already at the end of the crossbow, was no longer able to plug such a huge gap.
Outside the city, the Xiang army swarmed in from the breach to resist the death charge, and the Taiping army was hungry and exhausted, and gradually became unsupported, retreating into the city to fight in the streets.
Li Xubin and others retaliated madly, bloodbathed jiujiang, and more than 17,000 soldiers and civilians in the city were heroically sacrificed. Zhentian Marquis Lin Qirong and other generals were gloriously martyred, and Jiujiang, which he had held out for six years, finally fell.
After the city was destroyed, Li Xubin, the commander of the Xiang Army, could not believe that Lin Qirong could hold out for such a long time under the condition that the grain and grass were cut off, and he opened Lin's stomach, but he saw that his abdomen was full of grass roots and bark. Hearing this scene, even Zeng Guofan could not help but sigh that "Lin Qirong's stoicism, my generation can not reach it."
In 1863, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom posthumously named Lin Qirong as the deputy Xia staff of the former military department of the palace, Ding Tianfu Dynasty Gangqin Wang Mao Chitose, the late Wang Jue, can also be regarded as the best way to comfort this tough and tenacious general who martyred the country with his body, in the spirit of heaven.