A history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a history of the taiping army's war, from the Jintian Uprising in 1851 to the fall of Tianjing in 1864, for fourteen years, the flames were continuous, the smoke was difficult to calm, and wars occurred all the time.
Looking at the many generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are many people who have never been in the former on the battlefield, and there are countless cruel people who have sacrificed their lives and forgotten their deaths, but there are many people who really regard war as a kind of enjoyment, as if they are born to integrate the fierceness of death into the bloodline, I am afraid that only Wang Lin Fengxiang is the only one.
When the charge was brave, the three armies were brave, the desperate situation was calm, the leader destroyed the city and pulled out the village like a probe for things, and he was tortured by inches and looked at it, putting aside his political stance and class concepts, it seemed that it was not too much to use any praise to describe such a fierce and fierce general.
Today, let us read and understand the "deadly weapon" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the strongest tiger pioneer,—— and ask Wang Lin Fengxiang for a short and brilliant life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > bohemian teenage boy</h1>
Lin Fengxiang, a fengxiang, a native of Jieyang, Guangdong, who when he was young was "brave and fierce, and his eyes will be rewarded", fought with people in the township because of trivial matters, accidentally caused people's lives with his fists and feet, and in order to escape the pursuit of the government, he had to move to Guiping Baisha Village in Guangxi to avoid disaster.
During the Period of Guiping, coinciding with Feng Yunshan's missionary work, Lin Fengxiang became one of the earliest elder-level members of the Cult of God.
Although he is brave and fierce, he does not act recklessly, although he will repay his eyes, it is indeed a clear distinction between grace and resentment, Lin Fengxiang has a straight temper, a fiery personality, and more importantly, he is quite righteous, and the historical records record that he is "less debauched and unruly, and a little longer and brave."
Soon after Lin Fengxiang joined the Worship of God Sect, a large-scale armed struggle between the turks and the guests made him instantly famous in Guiping.
At that time, the congregation Li Desheng was unable to repay the debt owed to a local landlord, and his cultivated cattle happened to be fostered at Lin Fengxiang's house, and the landlord sent people to visit Lin Fengxiang's residence, and without saying a word, he wanted to pay the debt with the cow, which could be regarded as stabbing the honeycomb.
Lin Fengxiang who is also, he does not take the initiative to cause trouble, that is a loss, now the church brothers' cattle are handed over to their own foster care, how much responsibility and trust is it, just rely on your two or three landlords' lackeys and claws, saying that they want to lead away?
These landlords are not good at stubble, and with a large number of people, they do not put Lin Fengxiang, who is alone, in his eyes, and if his words do not match, he will use force to rob the cultivating cattle.
To solve the problem by force, Lin Fengxiang could not ask for it, that was his strong point, only to see his fists and feet, beating these people crying like a mother and fleeing.
But the matter was not over, the cattle were not robbed, the family was still beaten, the landlord could not give up, and immediately gathered more than two hundred people to go to the Lin family to seek revenge, and even muskets and earthen cannons were dragged out and placed at the door of the Lin family.
Seeing this kind of battle, let alone ordinary people, even the fierce people who lick the blood with the knife head are estimated to be frightened and trembling, but Lin Fengxiang will care about you coming hard, young king, the hidden violence and bloodiness are suddenly stimulated by the big scene.
Gathering about forty villagers, armed with simple agricultural tools, and shaking more than 200 people on the other side, Lin Fengxiang took the lead and rushed to the crowd, killing like a crazy tiger.
The narrow road meets the brave and wins, the landlord's armed forces are not regular troops, where have you seen such a murderous evil person, watching Lin Fengxiang cut melons and cut vegetables and generally kill several people, the rest of the people collapsed in an instant, scattered and fled.
The process and results of this large-scale armed struggle were soon fermented in the five miles and eight townships, and the public opinion was colorful and added to the oil and vinegar, spread to the end, and even evolved into the exaggerated experience of "one enemy and a thousand", and Lin Fengxiang became synonymous with bravery and invincibility, and his prestige did not go away.
Biao's life does not need to be explained, some people are lost to everyone from birth, some people are destined to be different, in 1851, on the eve of the drastic changes in Guangxi, Lin Fengxiang, who was dormant in the mountains, was going to soar with the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for nine days.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the strongest vanguard of the Taiping Army</h1>
After the Jintian Uprising in 1851, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went all the way from the barbaric land of southern Xinjiang to Hunan through Guangxi, from Hunan to Hubei, and was unstoppable.
Lin Fengxiang, who has long been famous, has unsurprisingly become the main general of the vanguard army, and has since begun a career of seeking the king to be on the battlefield and galloping across the horse.
It is no exaggeration to say that from the beginning of serving as the vanguard of the Taiping Army to the Northern Expedition, a series of battles in the early stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely became a performance of Lin Fengxiang's personal heroism.
In January 1853, the Taiping Army approached wuchang city, besieged the city for sixteen days, and finally blew open the wall of Wenchangmen with the method of "attacking the city in the cave", Lin Fengxiang was a pioneer and led the army to rush in from the collapse.
In the rainy night and fog, the first Kewuchang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was also the first provincial capital town captured by the Taiping Army since the Jintian Uprising, and the vanguard leader Lin Fengxiang was the first to take the lead.
In March 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's million-strong army marched east along the river and reached Jiangning (Nanjing), which was the second largest city in China under the Qing Dynasty at that time, the land of gold powder of the Six Dynasties, and the capital of the Tiger Dragon Pan, although it was the same as Wuchang as the provincial capital, but its city size and defense intensity were more than three times that of Wuchang.
The Taiping Army pressed the border, the Tun army was at all gates around the city of Nanjing, and the main direction of attack was chosen outside the Yifeng Gate, and the vanguard officer was not the second candidate, naturally it was still the fierce general Lin Fengxiang.
In the early morning of March 19, the sky was dark, the fog was shrouded, the Yifeng Gate was hazy, the artillery outside the city and the tunnel explosives were threatened at the same time, the yifengmen city wall collapsed in two inches, and the Qing soldiers defending the city bravely scattered.
Lin Fengxiang led a commando team of 300 or 400 people to "trample on the city", and in the thick fog of the early morning, Lin Fengxiang entered through the Yifeng Gate and conquered Jinling in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Wuchang and Nanjing were the two most important cities conquered in the process of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rise to the top, and Lin Fengxiang, as the vanguard, was brave and brave in these two major battles, taking the lead in breaking through the city.
And personally, I think the most legendary performance of Qiu Wang is the battle of Yangzhou, which is unknown.
After the capital was Nanjing, Lin Fengxiang was ordered to march east to Yangzhou, and without much effort, he took Jiangling lightly, but after Yangzhou changed hands, the Qing army began to besiege the city, and in this battle, in the face of the overwhelming artillery fire outside the city, Lin Fengxiang was above the city tower, looking at ease and laughing.
The city shouted to kill the heavens, the smoke of gunfire filled the air, the arrows were like rain, and the shells flew wildly, while Lin Fengxiang was high above the city tower, facing the wind by the fence, and the guns and bullets did not move in the rain, like a god under the heavens.
Where had the Qing army outside the city seen such a general who put life and death aside, this kind of "bravery" that had surpassed normal human cognition instantly crushed the psychological defense line of the Qing army.
A soldier who surrenders without a fight is the best performance of the supreme vanguard and the first fierce general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the Northern Expedition</h1>
In May 1853, Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, used troops to the west and north at the same time to start the famous Western Expedition and Northern Expedition in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Although the size of the northern expedition was only 20,000, all of them were elite veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles, and the commander was still the strongest duo of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom--Lin Fengxiang, the deputy minister of the Heavenly Officials, and Li Kaifang, the deputy minister of the Prefecture.
The Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army has always been criticized a lot, with a mere 20,000 soldiers trying to overthrow a huge empire that has been in power for more than 200 years and still controls most of China's land and population at that time, and Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king, seems to be a little overconfident.
Before the expedition, Yang Xiuqing's program of action for the Northern Expedition, "The Road Between Divisions and Lines, Rushing to Yandu, and Not Greedy for Attacking the City for a Long Time" was the fundamental reason for the failure of the Northern Expedition.
Nanjing to Beijing, turning to war for thousands of miles, completely abandoning the occupation of cities along the way, and simply pinning on the hope of relying on elite troops to attack for a long distance and then achieving success in one fell swoop, is itself an act of military adventurism.
Blitzkrieg requires the movement ability of modern mechanized troops as a basis, and the flesh and mortal soldiers of the Taiping Army, why did they gallop unharmed for thousands of miles in a short period of time?
Moreover, with the lengthening of the front line and the arrival of severe cold weather, material supply and logistical support will become a huge problem.
In addition, the common people in the north were deeply afraid of the "long-haired bandits" of the chaotic courtiers and thieves, and lacked a mass base, and it was also difficult for the Taiping Army to solve the problem of grain and grass supply on the spot.
But I have to say that even in the face of this doomed war, the "golden partners" of the fierce generals Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang still jointly dedicated a magnificent performance to future generations.
In May 1853, the Northern Expedition army was launched from Yangzhou and moved all the way to Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, and several provinces directly under the command of the soldiers, and was invincible, and at the end of October, it reached the outskirts of Tianjin in victory.
Moreover, if it were not for the lack of boats to cross the north in Guide (Shangqiu), Henan, and had no choice but to travel west along the south bank to Surabaya to cross the river, and then detour to Shanxi, I am afraid that the Northern Expeditionary Army, under the leadership of Lin Fengxiang, would have marched even more rapidly.
The Northern Expeditionary Army went deep into Zhili, the troops approached Gyeonggi, the Qing court shook, the residents of the capital were panicked, and the Xianfeng Emperor was terrified, so he urgently dispatched the monk Greenqin to accompany the king with the Guanwai cavalry.
At this time, although the Qing government was already weakening the western mountains, the Eight Banners of Guanwai and the Mongolian horse team, as the capital of Aixin Jueluo's last life, could not be underestimated.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > winter is coming and the humility will wither</h1>
After more than two months of long-distance raids, the Northern Expeditionary Army was at the end of its strong crossbow, and the most fatal supply problem had begun to affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In July, after the defeat of the attack on Tianjin City, the Northern Expeditionary Army had no choice but to retreat, and Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang divided their troops to garrison Jinghai and Duliu, relying on each other with the momentum of the horns.
In the first confrontation, in the face of the Qing army's most able to lead the army to fight, Wang Ye Gelinqin, as well as the Mongolian iron horse that Ai XinJue Luo regarded as the old man of the family, Lin Fengxiang was still as strong and fierce as ever under extremely unfavorable circumstances, and as soon as the two armies fought, the Qing army cavalry was crushed, and then scattered and fled, while the Taiping army took advantage of the situation to withdraw south to Fucheng, Anhui.
After this battle, the monk Greenqin's confidence was frustrated, and he no longer dared to duel with the Northern Expeditionary Army in the movement war, so he adopted the method of encircling, chasing, blocking, and trapping for a long time, to avoid a direct conflict with Lin Fengxiang's troops, and this kind of war of attrition was the most unfavorable to the Taiping Army at that time.
There were heavy troops outside, there was a lack of grain and grass inside, and he was besieged by more than 100,000 Mongolian iron horses of the monk Gelinqin in the small city of projectiles, and seeing that the lone army was in danger, Lin Fengxiang was anxious, and several times sent people disguised to sneak back to Tianjing for help.
The two groups of support troops sent by Yang Xiuqing, the king of the Eastern Province, were unable to complete the rescue mission for various reasons, especially Zeng Lichang's troops had reached Linqing in Shandong As far as possible, and it was only two hundred miles away from the Lin and Li troops who had retreated to Fucheng, Anhui.
Waiting for reinforcements to arrive, grain and grass gradually exhausted, people were sleepy and lacking, and the cold weather in the north was also a severe test for soldiers from Liangguang, Lin Fengxiang had no choice but to break through from Fucheng to the east to Lianzhen.
At this point, Lin and Li divided their troops again, Lin Fengxiang and the main force held the town of Lian, while Li Kaifang led only 600 cavalry to the south to contact reinforcements. The two had last hope for a long-defunct rescue force.
Lin Fengxiang, who was trapped in Lianzhen, still showed strong resilience and determination in the face of the Qing army, which was several times larger than himself, and was unusually calm.
Although they were surrounded and impoverished, their grain and rice were cut off, they took people as food, fought or defended, calmly and unhurriedly, and there was no situation of rout--"Sangh Gelinqin Song Bao"
Several times stubbornly repelled the attack of the monk Greenqin's troops, killed and injured countless enemies, but had no choice but to persist to the end, running out of ammunition, and some soldiers were so hungry that they did not even have the strength to take up arms to protect themselves.
When manpower was finally exhausted, in 1853, Lianzhen was destroyed, and Lin Fengxiang led the crowd to fight in the laneway, and his body was wounded several times, and the blood flowed like a flood, and finally he was seriously injured by the Qing army.
In March 1855, Lin Fengxiang, a general who was Chinese New Year's Eve a year old, died in the West Market of Beijing by Ling Chi, and shi zai "where the knife is, the eyes are still looking straight at it, and finally there is no sound", so iron bones are rare in the world.
In 1863, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in turmoil, Hong Xiuquan posthumously honored Lin Fengxiang as a king and Li Kaifang as a king. Please, please, please the second king, during the Northern Expedition, the lone army was trapped, begging bitterly and could not be reinforced, and it was really regrettable to receive this kingship ten years after his death.