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Wei Changhui in the TV series
Author Lantai
The most underrated person in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was Wei Changhui, the King of the North.
Wei Changhui's talent and power among the kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were second only to yang Xiuqing, the eastern king, far superior to Shi Dakai, who was currently boasted of being very powerful.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was essentially a group of Hakka villages in the Liangguang area that were ostracized by the locals to warm up.
Therefore, to evaluate the ability of the kings in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, we must not only look at their personal talents, but also look at how many relatives the kings have and how many township parties they have.
Why did Shi Dakai basically not fight any decent victories after the Tianjing Incident? Why did Shi Dakai take more than 100,000 troops with him when he fled from Tianjing, and why did these armies choose to return to Tianjing one after another?
The actual reason was that Shi Dakai did not have enough clans and enough township parties to control these armies as middle- and lower-level officers, and these armies were not so much Shi Dakai's subordinates as they were only following Shi Dakai as their allies, just as in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the Kwantung princes would ally with Dong and Yuan Shao as their allies.
Taiping Rebellion
After losing several battles against the Qing army, these Taiping Heavenly Kingdom generals who had their own calculations felt that Shi Dakai could not be done, so they chose to return to Tianjing one after another.
Unlike the Shi Dakai clan and the township party, Wei Changhui was the first five kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the best economic conditions and the largest number of township parties.
According to historical records, Wei Changhui's family has hundreds of acres of land in the local area, which is considered to be a large household in the local Hakka family, and Wei Changhui also donated the name of a prisoner in order to avoid being bullied by the locals.
And when Wei Changhui participated in the Taiping Rebellion, how many clans and township parties supported it?
According to Wei Jun, who later surrendered to Zeng Guofan and was awarded the title of Deputy General of Erpin, at that time, more than a hundred people from Wei Changhui's family participated in the uprising; according to Hong Renxuan, more than a thousand people participated in the uprising with Wei Changhui: "Wei Zheng alone led his people about a thousand. ”
Wei Jun's "more than 100 people" should refer to the close branch of the Wei Changhui family, while The "more than a thousand people" hong Renxuan said included Wei Changhui's distant relatives, in-laws, and township parties, after all, the historical records record that even Luo Xinfen, the accountant of the Wei Changhui family, and Huang Qifang, the tutor, participated in the Taiping Rebellion.
To what extent are Wei Changhui's clan relatives and township parties?
After the Taiping Rebellion, when Zeng Guofan wanted to abolish the "Wei Zi Camp", there were 23 "Wei Family Members" in the "Wei Zi Camp" who served as the general manager and general of the thousands.
Unlike Shi Dakai, who rebelled and separated from each other in the later period, and the army had no combat effectiveness, Wei Jun, as the younger brother of "Wei Rebellion", was able to firmly control the army after the Tianjing Incident, and was appointed by Hong Xiuquan as the main general of the Right Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, leading the whole army to surrender to Zeng Guofan without any opposition, and repeatedly defeated Chen Yucheng, relying on these "Wei family" who served as middle- and lower-ranking officers in the army.
Some people will ask, this can only prove that Wei Changhui township has many parties and great power, and it cannot prove that Wei Changhui is talented? Why do you say that Wei Changhui's talent is second only to Yang Xiuqing?
Taiping heavenly kingdom
As I said earlier, the essence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a collection of Hakka villages and societies, which is embodied in the military, that is, each has its own small group, such as the 30,000 troops of Wei Jun of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which can never completely obey the orders of Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai; similarly, Yang Fuqing, as Yang Xiuqing's brother, cannot fully obey the command of Wei Changhui.
In other words, no matter how much military ability there is, it is impossible without relatives and township parties.
Why did Yang Xiuqing become the military leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before the Tianjing Incident?
In addition to Yang Xiuqing's own ability, what is more important is that Yang Xiuqing became the leader of the small one thousand charcoal burning workers together with Xiao Chaogui when he was in Zijing Mountain, and after that, these more than a thousand charcoal burners earned money by helping the Hakka family fight under the leadership of Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui, which was equivalent to training a group of grass-roots officers with a certain military level.
In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the nearly 1,000 charcoal-burning workers under Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui were the most powerful small group of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they were basically the backbone of the original Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army.
In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the largest number of people and the most powerful were the charcoal burners led by Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui and the Wei Changhui family, but although the number of clan relatives and township party members brought by Wei Changhui was similar to that of Yang Xiuqing's charcoal workers, their combat effectiveness was far worse, so after Xiao Chaogui's death, Wei Changhui became Yang Xiuqing's deputy.
Yang Xiuqing was really suspicious of Wei Changhui, not Shi Dakai, and everyone can see that Yang Xiuqing mobilized Wei Changhui back and forth by looking at the historical materials, and he sent Wei Changhui to Hubei, and before leaving, he sent Wei Zhijun to go instead. Later, he wanted to send Wei Changhui to Hubei, Wei Changhui had just walked to the quarry, and Yang Xiuqing sent Shi Dakai to go instead.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom battle robes
And the person Yang Xiuqing really hit when he pretended to be "Heavenly Father Under The Mortal" was Wei Changhui, and the reason why he hit Wei Changhui was really out of jealousy.
Here I briefly introduce the combat effectiveness of Wei Jun's army, which is 100% controlled by Wei Changhui:
Wei Jun defeated the Qing army in Huangzhou, Hubei, and Wu Wenrong, the governor of Huguang, was killed in battle;
Wei Junbu killed Chen Huilong, the general of the Qing Dynasty, and Chu Ruhang, a Taoist soldier, in Hunan;
Wei Jun defeated Yang Pi, the governor of Qinghuguang, at Guangji.
Wei Jun's troops engaged Luo Zenan, seriously injuring Luo Zenan's left forehead, and Luo soon died of his wounds.
After Wei Jun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he defeated Chen Yucheng many times. Even Zeng Guofan praised Wei Jun's combat effectiveness in his letters:
Wei Junjun, Yu Ben didn't think much of it. Since receiving the letters of his brother on the fifteenth and sixth days, saying that Wei yu is good at using soldiers, and saying that his heart is good, Yu Sui intends to use Wei as the commander and act alone.
Obviously, Wei Jun's troops should have been the most effective army in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom before the Tianjing Incident, except for the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, and the total number of the "Wei Family Army" was about 20,000 people, which was similar to the number of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Northern Expedition led by Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, and it could be regarded as one of the most important heavy army groups in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
If Wei Changhui did not die under the Tianjing Incident, but successfully resolved the Tianjing Incident, then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom under Wei Changhui's leadership must be better than the historical Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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