Once driving to a rural friend's house, passing by a place called Yangdian Village, I suddenly remembered the third mistake of Li Xiucheng's "Ten Mistakes of the Heavenly Dynasty":
Mistakenly because Zeng Lichang and others were defeated by Linqing, they failed to save Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang, and Qin Rigang, the king of Fengyan, led his troops to rescue them, and the soldiers were defeated at Yangjiadian in Shucheng.
Later, when I inquired about the local old man, it was true that the Shucheng Yangjiadian mentioned in this third mistake was located in Yangdian Village, Berlin Township, Shucheng County, Anhui Province.
This "Ten Mistakes of the Heavenly Dynasty" is the reason for the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in prison after Li Xiucheng, the King of Zhong, was captured, and the ten major mistakes made by the Taiping Army, the first three of which were related to the Northern Expedition.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army captured Nanjing in the spring of 1853, renamed Itai, and subsequently set its capital here.
In order to deter the Qing court, Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing and others made a grand plan to seize the Capital of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing. Subsequently, they sent more than 20,000 people led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang to start the Northern Expedition.
In May of that year, the Northern Expedition army set out from Yangzhou and entered Henan via Chuzhou, Fengyang, Huaiyuan, Mengcheng, and Bozhou. In July, he crossed the Yellow River and attacked Huaiqing Province. Before going down, he took the road to Jiyuan into Shanxi, occupying Xiangxian and Wu'an, and the army drove straight under it from then on, and Beijing shook.
In October, the Taiping Army occupied the towns of Jinghai and Duliu in Tianjin, but in the cold of the north, the soldiers were exhausted and gradually fell into a desperate situation, and in February of the following year, they had to go south to hejian .
In March, in Fucheng, it was heavily surrounded by Qing troops. At this time, the Northern Expeditionary Army, led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, had to send soldiers disguised as beggars to Nanjing to deliver letters.
Knowing that the Northern Expeditionary Army was in urgent need of support, in early 1854, Yang Xiuqing ordered Zeng Lichang as the main general, together with Chen Shibao and Xu Zongyang, to lead a team of 7,500 people from Anqing, through Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan to Feng County, and then crossed the river into Shandong.
As soon as the reinforcements came out, the Qing army fled along the way, and in just over a month, the reinforcements successfully arrived in Linqing, Shandong.
In April, the siege of Linqing. This Linqing was only more than two hundred miles away from Fucheng, where the Northern Expedition Taiping Army was trapped.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the Qing court sent Guarjia Shengbao to the south to encircle and suppress reinforcements. The battle was extremely fierce, and Zeng Lichang was forced to withdraw from Linqing and wanted to go north to meet the Northern Expeditionary Army. At this time, due to Chen Shibao, Xu Zongyang and others trying to prevent it, the reinforcements were forced to withdraw south.
On the way south, they were pursued by the Qing army, and on April 28, the reinforcements retreated to Feng County, Jiangsu. On the 30th, it will retreat to the Yellow River.
It was early summer, the Yellow River water soared, there was a natural danger of the Yellow River in front, and then there were Qing court pursuit soldiers, zeng Lichang personally broke, commanded the soldiers to ride across the river on horseback, and then fought with the Qing army with guns, and the rear body was exhausted, and the Prancing Horse entered the Yellow River, and died heroically.
However, this Shengbao was thus a battle, and he was successfully promoted to the rank of knight: Jiewen, reinstated, and added prince Shaobao. (Draft History of the Qing Dynasty)
However, the 7,500-strong Northern Expedition Rescue Army was the result of a battle, and only more than 300 people fled back to Tianjing, and almost the entire army was destroyed.
When the first rescue failed, Yang Xiuqing ordered the start of a second rescue, this time, the general Qin Rigang, one of the eight kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
This Qin Rigang, whose real name was Qin Richang, was renamed Rigang to avoid the northern king Wei Changhui. He is a native of Guixian County, Guangxi, and was born as a miner.
In the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang, he became acquainted with Hong Xiuquan, was loyal and courageous, and made many miracles for the Heavenly Dynasty. In the first year of Xianfeng, the Taiping army captured Yong'an Prefecture, and he killed and repelled the Qing army three times. In the second year of Xianfeng, he led the crowd to annihilate more than 5,000 enemies. Xianfeng for three years, the official Seal Zhen loyal to the state of The Heavenly Marquis. Xianfeng four years, April, Fengyan King.
Yang Xiuqing also said that as long as Qin Rigang led his army north to rescue Lin Fengxiang's troops and jointly attacked Yanjing, Yanjing would be the fiefdom of Qin Rigang, the king of Yan.
With a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and lured him to fame and fortune, this Yan king Qin Rigang, so he led the Northern Expedition reinforcements, starting from Jiangning, through Fengyang, Luzhou, to Shucheng.
Reinforcements marched all the way to battle, expanding their strength to tens of thousands of men along the way.
On November 11 of that year, Qin Rigang's troops arrived at Shucheng, and it was originally planned to go north to Shandong to aid the Northern Expeditionary Army, clinker, in the territory of Shucheng, they encountered the desperate resistance of the qing general Qin Ding's three departments.
This Qin Dingsan was a famous general of the Qing court, and he was also a famous martial arts eye, who could make 120 pounds of heavy swords and extraordinary martial arts.
At Yangjiadian in Shucheng, tens of thousands of reinforcements from Qin Rigang and the Qing army of Qin Dingsan fought for eleven days, and finally because they were outnumbered and suffered heavy losses, they were forced to retreat south: "There are many demon soldiers on the north road, and it is difficult to get to the soldiers." (Qin Rigang)
In this battle, Qin Rigang quickly withdrew from Shucheng after more than ten days, and some people believe that the real reason is that Yang Xiuqing, jealous of Wei Changhui and Qin Rigang, deliberately sent Qin Rigang out to rescue in order to divide and disintegrate the Wei and Qin duo, so Qin Rigang returned in a hurry.
In fact, at that time, the Taiping Army had the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition, the battle line was too long, and the strength of the troops was limited, naturally overstretched, taking care of one or the other, and the Qing army, the power in the north was already strong and difficult to conquer. In the south, before Qin Rigang attacked Shucheng, the county order of Shucheng had already gathered nearly 20,000 local regiments to train nearly 20,000 people to reinforce Qin Ding's three departments, and the Qin Rigang reinforcements from afar were naturally difficult to compete with.
Therefore, in the Battle of Yangjiadian, the Qing court later rewarded Qin Dingsan for his outstanding military achievements in recovering Shucheng, and sealed him with the post of Lieutenant of the Four Pins: Sui Fu Shucheng, annihilated more than 4,000 thieves, and gave him the post of Lieutenant of the Riding Capital. (Draft History of the Qing Dynasty)
On the side of the Taiping Army, Qin Rigang's reinforcements failed to retreat south, and he was still sent to Anqing Town to defend, and to Chizhou to belong to Yi'anmin.
This Anqing, originally the wing king Shi Dakai, was here to settle the people, and his political achievements were remarkable, which aroused Yang Xiuqing's jealousy, so he sent Qin Rigang to guard Anqing on behalf of the wing king, while Shi Dakai was sent to the west.
In Anqing, later, Qin Rigang increased the number of troops by more than 3,000 people, and the military capacity was very prosperous, which aroused Yang Xiuqing's suspicions, so he sent him to assist the Northern Expeditionary Army.
In July of the sixth year of Xianfeng, Qin Rigang sneaked back to Tianjing at the behest of The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, and together with the Northern King Wei Changhui, he killed Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and later killed more than 20,000 of the Eastern King's subordinates and their families.
The Tianjing Incident caused the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to suffer a great loss of vitality and the whole country was uneasy, and the wing king Shi Dakai strongly demanded that the murderer be punished.
In order to win back the hearts and minds of the army, Hong Xiuquan summoned Shi Dakai back to Beijing to assist the government, and at the same time ordered the execution of Wei Changhui and more than 200 of his henchmen, and at Shi Dakai's request, he subsequently executed Qin Rigang, who was "loyal and courageous, faithful, and faithful to the heavenly king", and deposed his title.
In this bloody game of power struggle, whether it is Wei Changhui, the Northern King, or Qin Rigang, the King of Yan, are undoubtedly pawns used by Hong Xiuquan to eliminate political enemies.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which lasted for fourteen years, from the initial Jintian Uprising, to the yong'an kingship, to the capital Nanjing, and then through the southern conquest and northern war, cruel infighting, the later rulers were indulged in pleasure, indulging in the quagmire of materialism, beauty and privilege, unable to extricate themselves, and finally defeated.
Li Xiucheng, the loyal king who had made great contributions to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, wrote tens of thousands of words in prison after the Xiang army captured Tianjing and was captured, and he said that the head of the erroneous country was the Northern Expedition, and it was regrettable that Zeng Lichang was defeated in Linqing, and lamented that the Qin Rigang soldiers went to Shucheng Yangjiadian to return, but they did not know, thousands of mistakes, the most mistaken is the Taiping Army ruler who occupies half of the country, taking a corner of the country, indulging in wealth, and has long forgotten the original intention and mission of the revolution, at this time, what is the difference between them and the faint and corrupt Qing court rulers?
As Marx said in his Chronicle of China: "Their whole mission [of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom] seems to be to oppose stagnation and decay with ugly destruction, which has no signs of construction work.
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