Guangxi Hakka ● Qing ● Zhennanguan Great Victory Feng Zicai

Feng Zicai (1818-1903), the character Nangan, the number Cuiting, the ancestral home of Bobai, born in Qinzhou, Born in Xingwu. Famous general of the Qing Dynasty.

In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), he joined the Tiandihui rebel army led by Liu Ba, surrendered to the Qing army, and rewarded Qianzong.

Feng Zicai followed Xiang Rong and Zhang Guoliangwei to nanjing, and in 1853 assisted Xiang Rong in establishing a large camp in Jiangnan, besieging Tianjing and promoting deputy generals and general soldiers.

In May 1860, when the Taiping Army broke through the Jiangnan camp again, Zhang Guoliang defeated Danyang, and Feng Zicai gathered his remnants to retreat to Zhenjiang.

In 1862 (the first year of Tongzhi), he was promoted to viceroy of Guangxi, and cooperated with the Xiang Army, the Huai Army and the Taiping Army in the confrontation.

In 1875 (the first year of Guangxu), Feng Zicai was transferred to the viceroy of Guizhou

In 1881, he returned to Guangxi, and returned home the following year.

In December 1883, France provoked the "Sino-French War", and the Qing court and the war were uncertain, resulting in the defeat of the Qing army in northern Vietnam and the destruction of the Fujian Marine Division. When the border between Yunnan and Guizhou was tense, Feng Zicai should pay the two Guangdong general Zhang Shusheng. He supervised the regimental training of the four provinces of Gao, Lei, Qin, and Lian in Guangdong and participated in the War of Resistance Against France.

At the beginning of 1885, Peng Yulin, the military minister in charge of Guangdong, recommended zhang Zhidong, the new governor of Liangguang, to be the military deputy of Guangxi Guanwai and serve as the commander of the former enemy. Feng Zicai, witnessing the danger of the battle, actively prepared for the battle, personally led his soldiers to build a long wall at a strategic point ten miles inside Zhennan Pass (present-day Friendship Pass) and in front of the pass, and set up forts in the east and west ridges to strictly defend. Wang Xiaoqi, Wang Debang, and Su Yuanchun were sent to garrison the surrounding key areas, forming a deep echelon formation, adopting the strategy of "preemptively subduing the enemy" and sending troops to harass the French army. On March 23 and 24, he took the lead and commanded his generals to crush the main French army that attacked the long wall, annihilating more than 2,000 enemies. Then he took advantage of the victory to overcome Lang Shan, wounded the French commander Nigri, and achieved the "Lang Son Victory" and the French Joffrey cabinet fell. Just as Feng Zicai was planning to capture Hanoi and recover All Vietnam, the Qing court adopted Li Hongzhang's policy of "taking advantage of victory and reaping" and issued an armistice. Feng Zicai was forced to withdraw his troops and return to China, and he would run a border defense in Guangxi.

In 1886, he was appointed viceroy of Yunnan, but he did not arrive at the post due to illness.

In 1894, he was awarded the title of Shang Shu. When the "Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War broke out" in Tibet, he was stationed in Zhenjiang and returned to Guangxi after the war.

In 1899, he was appointed Viceroy of Yunnan. Two years later, he was transferred to the viceroy of Guizhou.

In 1903, he was appointed Minister of Military Affairs of Guangxi. On the 27th day of the seventh month of the same year, he died in Nanning at the age of 86.