Among the leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, Yang Xiuqing was undoubtedly the most capable of military ability, although he had not read a book and did not know the art of war. However, the marching army was often haunted, which caused headaches for the Qing army. From the beginning of the uprising, in the face of the continuous encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, Yang Xiuqing took the Taiping Army and jumped out of the encirclement circle of the Qing army countless times, turned the danger into a disaster, and finally rushed out of Guangxi. The first battle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to meet the Lord can be called the most representative battle.
Before the Jintian Uprising, the Worship of God Society already had thousands of members, which also made Hong Xiuquan think that the time had come for the uprising, often wearing bright yellow robes, wandering among the mountains and forests, shouting: I am the Taiping Heavenly Son. This frightened Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui, who were responsible for planning the uprising at that time, and played the role of Heavenly Father Tian's brother Xiafan, ordering Feng Yunshan to take Hong Xiuquan and hide in the family of Hu Yihuang in the mountain village of Pingnan County.
In 1850, Hong Xiuquan ordered the worshippers of the Society of God to come to the Camp of Jintian Village. Shi Dakai led a thousand people from Gui County to arrive, and Lai Jiu of Yulin, Huang Wenjin of Bobai and others also led troops to surrender. After the gathering of the centaurs, Hong Xiuquan wanted to start an incident immediately, but Yang Xiuqing was ill, and the Worship of God Society could only suspend its activities. The work of the uprising was presided over by Xiao Chaogui and Wei Changhui.
By October of that year, after Yang Xiuqing had recovered from his illness, Hong Xiuquan ordered the congregation to attack the Qing army.
At this time, the Heaven and Earth Society was revolting all over Guangxi, and the Qing army had to deal with the Heaven and Earth Society first. The main people who led the troops to recruit were Liu Jizu, the alternate prefect, and Li Mengqun of Guiping Zhi County, and the two gathered their forces in Xinwei and marched on land and water, hoping to crush the Taiping Army in one fell swoop. Yang Xiuqing calmly responded to the battle and commanded skillfully, and the Qing army repeatedly failed.
The Qing army woke up like a dream, became angry, and sent the general Zhou Fengqi to lead two thousand Qianyong people in Guizhou to surround and suppress the Worship god Society. At the same time, deputy general Li Dianyuan and others were also sent to assist in attacking the mountain village where Hong Xiuquan and others were hiding.
Li Dianyuan did not have many men and horses, and when he arrived at the mountain village, he was defeated by Hu Yihuang's men, and the Qing army was killed by fifty-six people. Hu Yihuang took advantage of the victory to pursue, and led his troops to burn the home of the regimental commander of Hualiang Village.
The Qing army mobilized a large army and tightly besieged the mountain people's village. At the same time, Li Dianyuan led his troops to besiege Siwang in the south of Shanren Village, and the tiger looked at him. Hong Xiuquan and others are in critical condition.
Yang Xiuqing divided three thousand troops and handed them over to Mengde'en, who led them to the rescue.
Monte was the leader of the Worship Society in Pingnan County and was familiar with the terrain. After Meng De'en arrived in Siwang, he divided the three thousand men into two teams, one as a reserve, personally led the other team, and launched an attack on the Qing army with lightning speed, directly attacking Li Dianyuan's army.
As soon as Monte'en and the Qing army engaged in battle, he immediately led the army to retreat.
The Qing army was overjoyed, led the troops to pursue them relentlessly, and chased out for several miles, and another group of men and horses from Mengdeen suddenly killed and killed the Qing general Zhang Yong, and the Qing army was in chaos.
At this time, Yang Xiuqing also immediately led an army to attack, defeated the Qing army, and successfully lifted the siege of shanren village.
The prefect Chen Ruilan personally led a large army to support, and the Mengdeen army fell into the siege of the Qing army. Seeing that Meng De'en could not support it immediately, Yang Xiuqing came to summon Wei to save Zhao and led his troops to attack the county seat. The Qing army was forced to withdraw, and the Taiping army in Shanren Village rushed out at the same time to attack the Qing army, and the Qing army collapsed.
Li Dianyuan was punished, and Zhou Fengqi sent another 1,000 elite green battalion officers and men led by the Qing army Yiktanbu to attack Xinwei, where the Taiping Army was located, and was ambushed by the Taiping Army at the CaijiangCun Bridge, and Qianzong Tian Jishou, General Pan Jibang, Yang Wanfu, Liu Honghai, Baoding Qing, He Qizhuang, and Foreign Minister Peng Changyong were also killed.
This battle showed Yang Xiuqing's genius military command ability, because the main strategic purpose was to welcome Hong Xiuquan back to Jintian, so it was called the Battle of the Lord.