In 1851, Chen Yucheng joined the Taiping Army and became a member of the "Boy Boy Soldiers".
In 1857, Chen Yucheng was promoted to the head of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and became the pillar of the Taiping Army!
In 6 years, from a small soldier to the Optimus Prime of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, how did Chen Yucheng do it?
Kurina Elementary School Graduate
In 1851, the Kaneda Rebellion broke out.
Chen Yucheng joined the Taiping Army with 28 uncles and nephews.
Among these people, the leader is called Chen Chengying, who is Chen Yucheng's uncle. This Chen Chengying later became the head of the hundred officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for a time, and his status was very high. Therefore, there are many friends who think that this uncle of Chen Yucheng may have brought him some help.
In fact, Chen's rise has little to do with his uncle.
First of all, in the early days of the Taiping Army, it was originally organized by families and villagers, and many people could have a relationship with a certain big person.
In contrast, Chen Chengying really can't be regarded as a strong backer.
At the same time, Chen Chengying himself also relied on power to get up on his own, and in the early days, others who only brought 28 people to "join the gang" were soft-spoken, and they really couldn't help much.
Therefore, when Chen Yucheng first joined the Taiping Army, he was an ordinary boy soldier with no background.
Volunteer to learn and exercise more comprehensively
Boy soldiers are not in the regular army of the Taiping Army.
The Boy Scouts were organized into their own formations, and in the same way that women were organized into women's battalions, they were organized into men's battalions as "pai tails".
Although the boy scouts sometimes have to participate in battles, as "card tails", there are not many opportunities for meritorious service.
However, Chen Yucheng is not satisfied with only competing among his peers, he always pays attention to the overall trend of the war and looks for opportunities to make contributions.
Soon, Chen Yucheng learned: Luo Xuan, as a pioneer, was ordered to attack Yong'an!
Chen Yucheng then volunteered to find Luo Xuan on foot, saying that he was very familiar with the terrain along the way and was willing to be a guide.
As a result, Chen Yucheng also became Luo Xuan's guard, exercising and studying with Luo Xuan.
Luo Xuan, one of the most outstanding generals in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, took on many combat missions such as raids, and was brave and changeable.
Chen Yucheng followed Luo Xuan's side, and naturally he was also familiar with it, growing up faster, and it was easier to attract the attention of "adults"!
Once Wuchang is broken, it will be the first to ascend
In December 1852, the Taiping army attacked Wuchang.
At that time, Yang Xiuqing adopted the method of tunnel blasting to attack the city.
To succeed in tunnel blasting, one is to dig the tunnel smoothly, the second is to succeed in blasting, and the third is to be able to control the gap immediately after successful blasting!
Previously, the Taiping army attacked Changsha and successfully blasted several times, but all of them fell short because the gap was not controlled.
This time, Chen Yucheng led 50 boy soldiers to undertake the task of seizing the gap.
After the successful blasting, Chen Yucheng led 50 boy soldiers to jump up, brave the bricks and stones, rushed into the smoke, charged first, pounced on the enemy who rushed to block the gap, occupied the gap, and the army followed and embraced, and then conquered Wuchang!
Chen Yucheng and other fifty boy soldiers made the first contribution!
As a result, Chen Yucheng began to get the attention of Yang Xiuqing and others.
Stick to the front line
After conquering Tianjing, Chen Yucheng was appointed as the canonical holy grain of the Fourth Army of the Left Army, and served as the same as the supervising army.
This is a logistical and auxiliary administrative position.
In such a position, it is relatively safe not to rush to the front at the risk of life and death.
However, Chen Yucheng was bent on going to the front line, unwilling to do logistics work, and asked to go on the expedition to make meritorious contributions.
Yang Xiuqing was very commended, but he still did not allow his request at first.
Later, the scale of the Western Expedition expanded and there was a lack of talents on the front line, so Yang Xiuqing asked Chen Yucheng to attack Hubei and Hunan with the army.
Chen Yucheng was born to belong to the battlefield!
一战成名
Chen Yucheng originally went to Hubei with Wei Jun to fight.
However, Lin Shaozhang was defeated in Xiangtan, and Wei Jun urgently entered Hunan, so Chen Yucheng also went to Hunan.
However, when Chen Yucheng passed outside Wuchang City, Yang Xiuqing issued a strict decree asking the Taiping army to take Wuchang as quickly as possible!
At that time, the Taiping army had been conquering Hanyang and other places for a long time, but it was just unable to take Wuchang for a long time.
Shi Fengkui, who was ordained, was at a loss.
Chen Yucheng then asked to stay in Shi Fengkui's army and was granted.
Immediately, after Chen Yucheng conducted reconnaissance, he learned that the garrison in the east of Wuchang City was empty, so he took the initiative to offer advice: it was difficult to attack openly, and it was unprepared, but it could be attacked.
Shi Fengkui smiled: You can say it, do you dare to do it?
Chen Yucheng was overjoyed: I must go, please send me!
So, Chen Yucheng led 500 strong men to secretly enter Liangzi Lake from Wuchang County (now Ezhou City), and then went around to the east of Wuchang Provincial City, went up to the city, planted the yellow flag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom all over the city, and shouted: The heavenly soldiers have landed in the city!
Immediately, Chen Yucheng led 500 strong men to continuously defeat the attacking Qing army, and cooperated with the army to capture Wuchang!
If it is said that Chen Yucheng was only the captain of a death squad when he was in Wuchang, then this time, from the reconnaissance of the siege, to the designation of the strategy, to the specific implementation, all of them were handled by Chen Yucheng, and the strategy and courage were all revealed!
In this way, Chen Yucheng became famous in one fight!
The king of heaven praised: What a hero out of a boy!
In this way, Chen Yucheng jumped up four levels, was promoted to the 30th inspection point on the right side of the palace, and ordered the 13th army of the army and the first 4th army of the water division!
In this way, Chen Yucheng has become the most famous rising star in the Taiping Army!
Thirty checkpoints returned to the pistol, and rose in defeat
After that, the Taiping army's westward expedition entered a period of low point.
The Hunan army rose, and the Taiping army lost most of Hunan and Hubei one after another, retreating all the way to Jiujiang, and was defeated in successive battles.
However, during this trough period, Chen Yucheng's performance became even more dazzling!
In Yuezhou, Chen Yucheng once again played his heroic nature. He led eighteen warriors, pretended to be the Qing army, mixed into the Qing army's naval division, and took the opportunity to set fire to more than 300 ships of the Hunan army... It was only because of the rain and the change in wind direction, as well as the rapid rescue of the Hunan army's land division, that the Taiping army's surprise attack, which could have turned the tide of the battle, failed.
After that, the Taiping army withdrew from Hunan, and Chen Yucheng moved to various parts of Hubei.
When Qin Rigang came to patrol the defense of the Yangtze River, Chen Yucheng guarded the Qizhou area and put him in charge of blocking and delaying the Qing army in Jiangbei.
As a result, Chen Yucheng began to become a leader in his own way!
During this period, Chen Yucheng fought a series of fierce battles in Hubei with inferior forces and the Hunan army, which was in full swing and won consecutive battles.
In this process, Chen Yucheng's "30 checkpoints back to the horse pistol" tactics shined on the stage: he often chose the terrain before the war, ambushed the elite soldiers, and confronted the Qing army head-on with a team, and fought until the evening, that is, the troops were collected and retreated, luring the enemy to chase deeply, and then seizing the fighter plane, taking the enemy by surprise, suddenly returning to the flag to counterattack, and the ambush soldiers outflanked from behind, often putting the enemy in a dilemma and a defeated situation.
During this time, the Qing army also began to pay attention to this young genius and praised him!
Chen Yucheng fought in Jiangbei, delayed the attack of the Hunan army's land division, and played a key role in Shi Dakai's later defeat of the Hunan army in Jiujiang and Hukou and the reversal of the battle!
At this time, Shi Dakai has already shown the quality of a first-class general!
Soon after, Luo Xuan died in battle.
Yang Xiuqing then promoted Chen Yucheng and asked him to succeed Luo Outline and become the prime minister of Dongguanzheng!
The little guard of Luo Outline back then, and now he has taken over Luo Outline's class!
Lone Hero
In 1856, the Taiping army began to attack the Jiangbei and Jiangnan camps.
At that time, Zhenjiang had been besieged by the enemy for a long time, and the water was impassable, and internal and external news was cut off.
If the Taiping army wants to break the siege, it must cooperate with the outside and the outside, and it must first communicate with the city!
At this time, Chen Yucheng was already the prime minister of Dongguan and a proper senior cadre.
However, no matter how big an official he is, Chen Yucheng is still the indomitable teenager!
So, Chen Yucheng volunteered to risk his life to contact inside and outside Zhenjiang!
So, Chen Yucheng only took a few soldiers, took a small boat, rushed through the enemy's siege, and entered Zhenjiang!
So, inside and outside, the Taiping army won the battle!
Yang Xiuqing, who has always been serious, also praised: Chen Yucheng is full of courage, and Zhao Zilong couldn't compare to him back then!
Chen Yucheng is already a legendary hero in the Taiping Army!
Beat out the Optimus Prime
Next, the Tianjing Incident broke out.
The Qing army took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, Wuchang fell again, and a large area of Jiangxi was also lost, and the situation of the Taiping army was extremely unfavorable.
Only Chen Yucheng is in northern Anhui and is still playing well.
As a result, after Shi Dakai took office, he formed a strategic concept: to turn to the defense in various places, strengthen Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng, launch a counteroffensive in northern Anhui, open up the situation, and then attack Hubei in Jiangbei to reverse the situation of the war!
Chen Yucheng also performed really well.
He first united with Li Xiucheng and conducted a series of mobile operations in northern Anhui, inflicting heavy losses on the Qing army and stabilizing northern Anhui.
Then, Chen Yucheng led 30,000 people from Tongcheng and entered Hubei.
Chen Yucheng soon created the base in eastern Hubei and mobilized a large number of hungry people to join the army, which grew in scale and posed a huge threat to the enemy!
At that time, Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei, had even asked Li Xubin, who was besieging Jiujiang, to withdraw from the siege of Jiujiang and return to Hubei.
In fact, the Qing army, which was originally going to attack Jiujiang and other places at that time, was also attracted to the Hubei region in large numbers, and there were only about 5,000 Hunan troops in the Jiujiang area!
At that time, Shi Dakai, who had the largest number of troops, would break the siege in one fell swoop almost without any suspense, which might fundamentally turn the tide of the war!
However, Shi Dakai had already decided to run away at that time, not to save Jiujiang, and led the army to the south of Jiangxi to develop...
In this way, Chen Yucheng was unable to support himself and withdrew from Hubei...
It can be said that during this period, Chen Yucheng's performance in politics and military was the most prominent.
Politically, he resisted Shi Dakai's separatist acts; Militarily, he also fought alone and went through hardships...
Reality has irrefutably shown that difficult times create heroes, and Chen Yucheng is loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the glorious and arduous historical responsibility in the future is waiting for this young commander to undertake!
A tower of strength
Shi Dakai wants to leave, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom needs a new leadership team!
Hong Xiuquan knew that it would not work on his two rice bucket brothers.
So, Hong Xiuquan tried to let his henchmen pick up the burden at the beginning.
He chose to let Meng Deen take the lead and lead the overall situation.
However, Mundeen is a mediocre talent, so where can he afford to take on the heavy responsibility?
The crowd was not convinced, and the situation became even more critical.
In desperation, Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to use the most famous Chen Yu to become the main leader, and Li Xiu to become the deputy leader.
As a result, people's hearts are at ease.
In this way, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng have become the new pillars of optimus.
In recent years, there has been a lot of controversy about the Taiping Rebellion and its figures, and there has even been a tendency to demonize them.
As far as Chen Yucheng is concerned, his life has been full of gains and losses, bright spots and gloomy points.
However, in the early struggles, Chen Yucheng was just an ordinary person who rose up to resist because he couldn't survive.
In this process, he is brave and strong, wise and brave, from a nobody, to a towering tree, is a hero worthy of respect and admiration!