【Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Series 368, Original Works of Little Buddha Saying History, Please Do Not Reprint】
During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, women can go to the battlefield like men and kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, so many people know a little about the female generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and today Xiao Buddha will give you a detailed explanation of Su Sanniang.
Su Sanniang is a Native of Guangdong, who studied martial arts with others when she was a child, and later married Su San, a leader of the Heaven and Earth Society. Many people are well aware that the Tiandihui is an anti-Qing organization that has always existed, they are enemies of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing government's spontaneous combustion also regards them as a thorn in their side.
In the last years of Daoguang, the people's lives were very difficult, and Su Sanniang's husband, Su San, and his colleagues played the banner of "fighting the rich and helping the poor, killing officials and releasing prisoners", robbing the government of money and grain, and asking local rich households to take out money and grain -- just to relieve the low-level people who were in difficulty in life. Thirty years after Daoguang, Su Sanniang's husband Su San was killed by a regimental training ambush organized by a rich family.
She hated the rich and hated the Qing Dynasty so much that she took over her husband's unfinished business, secretly gathered hundreds of people, killed the rich family, and avenged her husband, there is also a saying that Su Sanniang herself brought people to avenge but was restrained by the other party, so she asked for help from the Heaven and Earth Society, borrowed soldiers and horses from the Heaven and Earth Society, and avenged her husband. In either case, Su Sanniang killed the rich family who organized the group training, and she herself became a wanted criminal of the Qing Dynasty. Su Sanniang simply directly opposed the Qing Dynasty, played the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and was active in the Guangxi area, and for a while, the number of people from them reached thousands.
In the thirty-first year of Daoguang, Hong Xiuquan and others raised an anti-Qing banner in Jintian Village, but the local government believed that the people of the Heaven and Earth Society were the biggest threat, and the Taiping Army, which had just started, was not afraid, and did not pay attention to Hong Xiuquan and others at all, even if they were to be suppressed according to the requirements of their superiors, but just carried a gun out to deal with it. Su Sanniang was a branch of the Heaven and Earth Society, and had to be often surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army, Su Sanniang felt that she was in danger at any time, and after consideration, she took her 2,000 people to join the Taiping Army.
Hong Xiuquan was very happy to join Su Su Sanniang, after all, for the founding Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 2,000 veterans with combat effectiveness were a lot of wealth, between Su Sanniang's female identity and experience in leading soldiers, Hong Xiuquan entrusted her with a heavy responsibility - to serve as the military commander of the female battalion (there are more than 10,000 horses under a military commander, not much According to the records, the Taiping Army likes to say that 2500 people are 10,000 people, that is, the actual number of troops led by Su Sanniang in the women's camp in three years is about 3,000).
Although she was a woman, Su Sanniang was not inferior to a man when she fought. In the first few years of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's conquests, we can all see the figure of Su Sanniang: attacking Xiangzhou, Yong'an Prefecture, Guilin, and following the Taiping Army in the southern and northern wars along the way, until it entered the city of Nanjing. It is rare for a woman to lead troops to fight, Su Sanniang, a woman who also invaded Tianjing, attracted people's amazement, and her prestige spread in all directions, and even an official of the Qing Dynasty could not help but praise Su Sanniang: a good skill of the children of Lingshan Mountain, and a healthy woman in the city for ten years. Scarlet is publicly accepted by the official, and Mu Su breaks the enemy for her husband. The two arms have fought more than a hundred battles, and one shot has not fallen behind a thousand people. The drums and horns of the city head are loud, and the teeth and pawns are lined with flags. The east and west families walked stiffly, and passers-by competed to see Su Sanniang.
As soon as Tianjing fell, Su Sanniang and Luo Gang, two Taiping army generals who were originally the leaders of the Heaven and Earth Society, were sent to Zhenjiang. During the battle, Su Sanniang led the women's battalion to charge forward, and Zhenjiang City soon became the pocket of the Taiping Army, and from then on, Su Sanniang specially guarded Zhenjiang, and together with his colleagues led the soldiers to repulse many attacks of the Qing army.
As for the outcome of Su Sanniang, there is no unified theory, some people say that she died in the later Zhenjiang Defense War, and the statement in the "Chronicle of Heavenly Kingdom" is that she married Luo Ergang, "Yi Rong five years (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom calendar, that is, 1855) married Luo Gang, since then unknown." ”
References: Luo Ergang, History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; Chronicle of the Kingdom of Heaven