There is an old saying that mud can't hold up the wall. It means that the mud is too thin to be smeared on the wall, and the metaphor is that due to poor ability or low level, it cannot become a climate, or it is impossible to see the world. Today, when we talk about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, although the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan once sealed more than 2,700 princes in one go, most of them were all crowned kings from Guangxi, their relatives in the family were also crowned kings, and those who donated money and grain were also crowned kings." Because there are too many kings, the deeds of some people are difficult to verify, but there is a prince who should be the most saccharine in the kingdom of heaven, he holds 200,000 troops, but he commits suicide by taking poison!
The name of this prince is also very interesting, named Fu Wang, which means that he can be counted on to help the poor and rescue the precarious heavenly kingdom, I did not expect that there was a support in the name, in fact, the mud could not support the wall, this person was Chen Decai.
Chen Decai, also known as Chen Decai, a native of Xinwang Village, Teng County, Guangxi, although he joined the Taiping Army in his early years, but usually did not have much opportunity to perform, in the early years, he was just an ordinary general who could no longer be ordinary, and had no sense of existence, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "Tianjing Incident" broke out, first Wei Changhui North Hall killed Yang Xiuqing East Hall, and then the Heavenly King divided the Northern King's five horses into corpses, then the Wing King killed Qin Rigang YanDian, and finally Shi Dakai ran away, taking more than 100,000 elites by the way, and the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom was seriously injured, falling into "no one in the country." There is no danger situation in which the DPRK and China will not be able to"
Faced with such a dangerous situation, Hong Xiuquan had to promote a group of young generals in "old Guangxi", among which Chen Yucheng, the king of England and Li Xiucheng, the king of loyalty, who were known as the pillars of optimus in the late heavenly kingdom, were the best, and Chen Decai was the uncle of Chen Yucheng, the king of England.
Chen Decai was a nephew of king Ying, who followed the king to fight in western Anhui for many years, because of his outstanding military achievements, he was crowned as the king of Fuwang Chitose at the request of the king of England, and slowly became one of the four great generals under the command of yingdian, xiao yong was invincible, in September 1861, the "Battle of Anqing" that lasted for nearly two years came to an end, because the senior generals of the Taiping Army had selfish intentions, a strong sense of territory, did not rescue each other, and did not fight with all their strength, the strategic town of Anqing fell into the hands of the Xiang army, and the west gateway of Tianjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was opened, and there was no danger to defend. After the fall of Anqing, Hong Xiuquan did not ask qinghong, scolded Chen Yucheng with a split head and covered his face, and stripped him of the title of king.
At this time, Chen Decai was stubbornly guarding the fortress of Luzhou in northern Anhui, providing a large rear for the large troops to rest. Chen Yucheng could only go north to Luzhou to join Chen Decai, intending to make a comeback and create glory again. Soon, Chen Yucheng asked Chen Decai to lead Lan Chengchun, Liang Chengfu, Lai Wenguang, and other generals to detour through Henan to Shaanxi to develop, recruit troops and horses, and strive to open up bases in Guanzhong, and then lead a large army back to save the situation in northern Anhui.
But who knows, shortly after Chen Decai set out, Duolong'a led an army to approach Luzhou and destroy the fortress outside the city, and Chen Yucheng wrote to the king to let him fire the troops back to help. At this time, Chen Decai had gone deep into the hinterland of Shaanxi and failed to receive the letter in time. In desperation, Chen Yucheng was ill and went to the hospital, but he was caught in the traitor Miao Peilin's treacherous scheme, became a prisoner of the Qing army, and was executed by Ling Chi in Yanjin County, Henan. A generation of famous generals died at the age of 26, unfortunately. After Chen Yucheng's death, Hong Xiuquan asked Li Xiucheng to control the old department of the British king, and Chen Had to be under the command of Li Xiucheng, of course, this was only nominal.
At this time, Zeng Guoquan's "Jizi Battalion" led an army to besiege Tianjing, Zuo Zongtang's Chu army and Li Hongzhang's Huai army attacked Zhejiang, Suzhou, and Shanghai, and the Qing army had surrounded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on three sides, and the Taiping army in southern Jiangsu was in trouble. To this end, Chen Decai, the King of Fu, made an agreement with Li Xiucheng: he led his army into Shaanxi again, recruited troops, and 24 months later led a large army to the south to rescue Tianjing and lift the siege of Jingshi.
Chen Decai entered Shaanxi, the Qing army was defeated one after another, more than ten cities were destroyed in succession, and the Qing generals He Langui, Xiao Qingsi, and the deputy general Li Kaizhang were all killed one after another. In this way, Chen Decai's name shook Guanzhong and became Hong Xiuquan's last hope for lifting the siege of Jing, which was also the main reason why the Heavenly King was unwilling to "let the city go".
In January 1864, Jiangsu and Zhejiang all fell, and Tianjing was in danger. At this time, chen Decai and Li Xiucheng's agreed date of "two years to go south to rescue the Beijing siege" was getting closer and closer, and the king of Fu was so anxious that he personally led more than 200,000 troops to the south in three ways, preparing to copy the rear of the Xiang army and force Zeng Guofan to return from the front line. In addition to the setbacks of the Zhonglu Army and the retreat to Shaanxi, the South Road and North Road armies were invincible all the way, entering Henan in February and Lianke Huang'an, Macheng and Pushui in April. Shi Zai: "Its crowd was hundreds of thousands, spreading for hundreds of miles, and the atmosphere was quite fierce; it wanted to circumvent Yu and Chu in order to disturb the back roads of the Anhui army and relieve the siege of Jinling, which was quite cunning." ”
Chen Decai led an army of 200,000 to rescue Tianjing, and the Qing army in Hubei was difficult to resist and collapsed. At this time, Chen Decai decided to march east to Jinling and attack the Xiang army inside and outside the defenders, and the battle was decided. This is a fresh force, but also Hong Xiuquan's last hope, the overall situation of the kingdom of heaven, it depends on the king.
What people did not expect was that Chen Decai's army arrived at the junction of Hubei and Anhui at the turn of the spring and summer of 1864, when due to continuous war and famine, Henan, Hubei, and northern Anhui were thousands of miles away. Chen Decai's army had only just left Shaanxi, and the grain supply had a problem and could not advance, waiting for the autumn harvest before entering the army, at this time the Taiping army was surrounded and blocked by the Qing army and the landlord regiment.
When Tianjing fell, Chen Decai's army went to the eastern part of Hubei, planning to enter northern Anhui from eastern Hubei to rescue Tianjing, but in July 1864, tianjing fell, and the Qing court sent the monk Greenqin to supervise the Qing army to attack Chen Decai's department, and Chen Decai's men began to shake their hearts since they knew that Tianjing had fallen, that hong xiuquan had died, and that the young king Hong Tianguifu had been captured.
Chen Decai then returned to the northwest of the division, breaking the prefecture and Keshangcheng, at this time Tianjing had just fallen, the Qing army had not yet gathered, and there was still room for cross-cutting. Chen intended to enter Songzi Pass, go north to collect grain and grain, and fight in Lu'an. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yao in Henan had already strangled Jinjiazhai, and Chen sent the front lan chengchun to attack Jinjiazhai and failed to take the road, so he changed his route to Liubo, and before Liubo could establish a firm foothold, the Qing governor Zhang Desheng killed from Lu'an, Chen led the army to the east, and Tuhuo Mountain. At the Buddha's Temple, after Zhang Desheng's tail attack, the Huoshan Qing army in front of him had already set up a position to meet the battle, and was at the end of the enemy.
Chen Decai could not attack the Qing army's stronghold city, could not get grain and supplies, and the whole army would collapse without a fight, but lead the army south to advance into Yingshan. When Lan Chengchun, the King of Hu, arrived at the Manshui River, the Qing general Senggelinqin led the Manchu Andmeng Eight Banners cavalry stationed at the Middle Boundary Ridge to stop his advance. Decai led an army to explore the way, and the Daoist priests rushed out of the two rivers and tried to attack Yingshan mountain by the western boundary ridge. Who knew that there were also Qing troops there, so they garrisoned Changshan Chong (in present-day Changling Township), 5 kilometers away from the western boundary ridge and 15 kilometers away from the Manshui River.
At this time, the king of Horqin County, Greenqin, oversaw Hubei and commanded tens of thousands of Mongolian iron horses to arrive at the battlefield, preparing to encircle and annihilate this Taiping army. In November, the two sides launched a decisive battle at Heishidu, Chen Decai personally came to the front line to command, using strong fortifications and firearms to block the Mongol iron horse, another cavalry was sent around the rear of the Qing army flank, launched a surprise attack, the Senggelinqin army was in chaos, one after another, more than a thousand Mongol cavalry were killed in a fierce battle.
Chen Decai defeated the Mongol Iron Horse, but did not break the Qing blockade line. After the defeat of Senggelinqin, he no longer fought hard head-on and charged hard, but instead adopted the strategy of dealing with the Northern Expeditionary Army, the "long trench tactic", digging long trenches around the Taiping Army camp, building fortresses, building fences, and playing a protracted battle.
The monk Greenqin adjusted his tactics, and The King of Fu, Chen De, could not be eaten. You know, the daily consumption of these 200,000 troops is not a lot, and they do not have a stable rear, and sooner or later they will be killed by the Qing army. For this reason, Chen Decai led his troops to kill many times, but he lacked heavy weapons in his hands, failed to break through the blockade line, and suffered a lot of losses.
What he did not expect was that Chen Decai's forward troops were led by Huang Zhongyong and had more than 10,000 people, while the Qing army that was ordered to intercept was only 1,500 people. But no one expected that as soon as the two sides engaged, the Taiping Army shot out a white flag. Upon learning of Huang Zhongyong's surrender, Ma Rong, the taiping general who led the second team, immediately led his army in pursuit. When the Qing army was waiting for work and preparing for battle, there was another accident, and Ma Rong led more than 70,000 people to surrender to Yinghan, the envoy of Anhui Province.
Ma Rong offered a plan to the Qing Dynasty, "The hearts of the other armies have been scattered, and each has a way to survive", so it is necessary to quickly surrender. After that, the Taiping Army general Fan Lichuan and others led more than 110,000 people to surrender. At this point, the 200,000-strong army disintegrated in an instant, and the disheartened Chen Decai felt desperate and committed suicide by taking poison in the valley!
After the collapse of Chen Decai's army of more than 200,000 people, the young heavenly king Hong Tianguifu suddenly lost his target, and the Taiping army that escorted the young heavenly king to Hubei was soon defeated by the Xiang army, Hong Ren, Hong Tianguifu and others were captured, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was doomed to perish and doomed to be difficult to revive. Chen Decai was not an excellent military commander, he did not have a complete strategic plan, nor did he prepare sufficient food, and later in Chen Decai's troops, Lai Wenguang's troops were still roughly intact, and he continued to resist the Qing in cooperation with the Twist Army, but he also failed in the end.