Huo Fuyi, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, was an incredible genius. At the age of eighteen, he led eight hundred iron horses deep into the desert, killing more than 2,000 Xiongnu and capturing many Xiongnu nobles. Emperor Wu of Han made him the Marquis of Champion.
At the age of nineteen, Huo Fuyi led another 10,000 iron horses to attack twice, first killing 8,900 Xiongnu, and then going deep into the enemy territory, killing 30,000 Xiongnu, and capturing the five xiongnu kings and Shan Yu's Fu clan (queen). Emperor Wu of Han made him a general of the Hussars.
At the age of twenty-one, Huo Went ill led 50,000 cavalry deep into the north of the desert, sealed the wolf Juxu, and killed 70,000 Xiongnu. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made Huo Huo sick as the Grand Sima and made him a full-fledged emperor.
For the brilliant achievements of Huo's disease, some people feel a little incredible, and they feel that there is some moisture in it. Did Emperor Wu of Han, in order to set an example, count the achievements of others on the head of Huo Qiyi? Is it that the history books record that there are places for false rumors and so on? In short, many people just think that there can be no such genius in the world, how can a young man of twenty years old have the talent to command tens of thousands of troops?
However, a genius-level figure like Huo Fuyi does exist in the world, and in the distance, there is Charlie XII of Sweden; in the near future, Chen Yucheng, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is such a figure. Chen Yucheng can be called the reincarnation of Huo Fuyi, who commanded tens of thousands of horses at a young age and defeated the enemy army one after another. Let's introduce Chen Yu's famous works when he was only eighteen years old, and after reading it, you will no longer have any doubts about Huo's disease.
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Chen Yucheng was born in 1837, grew up in the poor ravine of TengXian County, Guangxi, and had never seen anything in the world nor read any books, which was far worse than Huo Fuyi and Charlie XII, who grew up in a rich family and received a good education.
In 1851, chen Yucheng, who was only fourteen years old, defected to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the uncles and uncles of the old Chen family, and from then on became a boy scout in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, beginning a career of birth and death.
Chen Yucheng's early deeds are rarely recorded, but it is certain that he was brave in battle, made many military achievements, and soon became a small leader in the Taiping Army, with a group of his brothers.
In 1854, Chen Yucheng finally had a brilliant performance that shocked the highest level of the Heavenly Kingdom.
In June of that year, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Western Expedition decided to conquer Wuchang. Wei Jun led more than 20,000 Taiping troops, including Chen Yucheng, to attack Wuchang. Before the all-out general offensive, of course, we should first reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and Wei Jun gave this task to Chen Yucheng and asked him to lead five hundred people to find out the arrangement of the enemy outside Wuchang City.
On June 26, Chen Yucheng led 500 people around Liangzi Lake to Zhonghe Gate in the east of Wuchang City. By this time it was dark, and the Qing army had already closed the city gates. It was said that the reconnaissance mission had ended, but Chen Yucheng, who was only seventeen years old, was not afraid of heaven, when he saw that the Qing army's defense in the city was lax, and as soon as he moved, he asked his brothers to wrap ropes around the battlements of the city wall, and five hundred people climbed up the city wall along the rope.
Arriving at the city wall, Chen Yucheng and the others suddenly waved their flags and shouted, shouting, "The Heavenly Soldiers have entered the city——""
The Qing army in Wuchang City collapsed in an instant, and they fled one after another, and Wuchang City was occupied by Chen Yucheng with 500 people.
This achievement alarmed Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King. He immediately promoted Chen Yucheng to be the thirty checkpoints on the right side of the palace, commanding the thirteenth army after the land camp and the first four armies in the water camp. That is to say, Chen Yucheng was able to command two armies at once, and at the age of seventeen, he became a corps-level general.
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After that, Chen Yucheng still fought under Wei Jun's men. He was Wei Jun's old subordinate. Later, Wei Jun surrendered to Qing rebellion, one of the reasons was that he could not bear that his former subordinates had become his superiors and began to give orders to himself.
In 1854, although the Taiping Army was still smooth sailing, its nemesis, the Xiang Army, had officially entered the stage and began to cause more and more trouble for the Taiping Army.
After the victory at the Battle of Xiangtan, the Xiang army launched a series of counterattacks, all the way north, and successively defeated the Western Expeditionary Army. In November 1854, the Xiang Army and the Western Expeditionary Army fought a fierce battle in the town of Tianjia in Wuxue, Hubei Province, and the Western Expeditionary Army was defeated and forced to withdraw from Hubei as a whole.
In this battle, Chen Yucheng, who was only seventeen years old, led thousands of people to guard Puzhou in Hubei Province, and also fought several small victories. This was the first time that Chen Yucheng had commanded a battle on his own. Due to the defeat of Tianjiazhen, Chen Yucheng became a lone army in Puzhou, so he had to abandon Puzhou and return to Anhui.
In January 1855, Shi Dakai, the wing king of the Taiping Army, was ordered to command the Western Expedition. He defeated the Xiang army at the mouth of the lake with clever tactics, turning the tide of the war, and the Taiping army took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack towards Hubei.
Chen Yucheng first followed Luo Gang, Wei Jun and others to recover Hanyang and Hankou, and then he led thousands of people to the west and began his own wonderful performance.
On March 1, Chen Yucheng led his troops to conquer Hanchuan. On March 9, Chen Yucheng killed Xiantao. Xiantao had four thousand reinforcements urgently sent by the Jingzhou general Wen. Chen Yucheng led his army to a fierce attack, four thousand Qing troops were killed, and the Qing general Lin Tianzhi was killed.
Subsequently, Chen Yucheng killed all the way to Tianmen County. The Jingzhou general Wen quickly sent the deputy capital Guisheng to lead troops to resist. On March 20, Chen Yucheng and Guisheng engaged in a fierce battle at Yuejiakou in Tianmen County. The Taiping army attacked back and forth, and the Qing army could not take care of the end and tail, and soon collapsed and was defeated. Guisheng fled in a daze.
On March 22, Chen Yucheng conquered Tianmen and immediately launched an attack on Qianjiang County, Hubei Province. Jingzhou counted the police in a day, and people were panicked.
At this time, Wei Jun decided to concentrate his forces to capture Wuchang for the third time, so he summoned Chen Yucheng back to Wuchang to participate in the battle. Chen Yucheng only then ended his journey to the west, returned to Wuchang, and successfully conquered Wuchang with Wei Jun.
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Chen Yucheng's wonderful performance is only a beginning, and more wonderful is still to come.
Because Wei Jun conquered Wuchang for the third time, the Xianfeng Emperor was very angry and quickly mobilized soldiers and horses to prepare to retake Wuchang.
Under the strict orders of the Xianfeng Emperor, Luo Zenan and Hu Linyi led 8,000 Xiang armies to attack Wuchang from south to north. The governor of Huguang, Yang Pi, was sitting at De'an Province (德安府, in modern Anlu, Hubei), and joined forces with reinforcements sent by the Jingzhou general Wen, and cobbled together about 10,000 men to attack from north to south. Attempted to attack from the north and south, and retake Wuchang in one fell swoop.
At this time, most of the main forces of the Taiping Army's Western Expeditionary Army were under the command of The Wing King Shi Dakai and launched an attack on Jiangxi. The Taiping Army in the northern direction of hubei took a defensive position and had limited troops.
Under these circumstances, Wei Jun, who was defending Wuchang, adopted the tactic of defending the south and attacking the north, he himself led the main force of the Taiping Army to hold Wuchang, and sent Chen Yucheng to lead nearly 10,000 troops north to attack the Qing army of Yang Pi. In this way, Chen Yucheng once again began his brilliant performance.
On March 30, 1855, at the age of eighteen, Chen Yucheng commanded more than 10,000 people and first reoccupied Hanchuan County. Then, the next day, he led his army in a fierce battle with the main force of the Qing army commanded by the Qing general Yang Changsi at Liu Jiajie, and the enemy was defeated in a battle.
When Yang Pi, the governor of Huguang, heard of the defeat at the front, he fled De'an Province in a panic and fled north to Suizhou.
Chen Yucheng took advantage of the victory to move forward. On 2 April, he conquered Yingcheng County. On 5 April, he occupied De'an Province. On April 6, he occupied Yunmeng County.
Yang Pi was so frightened that he didn't even dare to stay in Suizhou, and fled to Zaoyang in a puff of smoke.
Chen Yucheng's fierce attack dashed the Qing army's plan to attack Wuchang from the north and south, and the entire northern Hubei was threatened by him. The Xianfeng Emperor quickly dispatched his troops again and ordered the Xi'an general Zalafen to lead 8,000 Shaanxi Green Battalion soldiers to support Hubei.
With reinforcements from the Shaanxi troops, Yang Pi finally gained some courage. He led the Hubei Qing army back to Suizhou with the Shaanxi Green Battalion led by Zarafen, preparing to launch a counterattack against De'an Province.
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On May 17, Zarafen led the Shaanxi Green Battalion to Suizhou. At this time, the Qing army in Suizhou had reached 15,000 troops, and Chen Yucheng only had more than 7,000 mobile troops left due to the need to divide his troops to defend the newly occupied territories everywhere. The Qing army clearly had the upper hand.
However, Zarafen and Yang Pi are a pair of idiots who will not use soldiers at all. Faced with Chen Yucheng's limited strength, the two of them decided to fight in the form of division of troops. In this way, it just gave Chen Yucheng the opportunity to break through.
Chen Yucheng keenly seized the fleeting fighter and launched a preemptive attack on May 28. He concentrated all his forces and first launched a fierce attack on the Qing army in Pinglin City and Changlin Gang, and defeated the Qing army Yang Changsi in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, Chen Yucheng fought fiercely and fought continuously, and on May 29 and 30, he swept through the Qing forces in Suizhou's Huaihedian and Wangchenggang. By May 31, he had surrounded the main Qing forces at Wulidun. After fierce fighting, the Qing army was completely annihilated, the Xi'an general Zarafen was killed, and the Qing army lost nearly 10,000 people and collapsed. Chen Yucheng took advantage of the situation to occupy Suizhou, while Yang Pi, the governor of Huguang, fled to Tang County, Henan in a panic.
The killing of Zarafin was a major result of the Taiping Army. Zarafin was a garrison general of the Eight Banners and held a very high status, even surpassing that of the governor. He was killed by a young general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which was enough to shake the entire Qing court.
The Xianfeng Emperor was shocked and angry, and he quickly issued an edict to dismiss Yang Pi from his post and investigate, and immediately appointed the Jingzhou general Wen as the governor of Huguang, and appointed Xiling'a, who had just followed the monk Gelinqin to suppress the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as the minister of Qincha, and presided over the military affairs of Hubei. At the same time, he also drew soldiers and horses from all over the country to make up for the sores, and gathered nearly 20,000 people, handed over to Xi Ling'a to command, and launched a counterattack against Chen Yucheng.
In the face of a strong enemy, Chen Yucheng cleverly shrunk his front, took the initiative to abandon Suizhou, retreated to De'an, and prepared to meet the enemy army.
At the end of July, the landlord regiments in northern Hubei were rampant in their armed activities, and they successively conquered Yunmeng, Yingcheng and other places. Chen Yucheng's troops were actually in a state of encirclement, but the young Chen Yucheng was not afraid, still calmly and calmly faced the enemy, preparing for a decisive battle with the Qing army.
In mid-August, Xi Ling'a led his men and horses approached De'an Province. He thought that he had even defeated the powerful Northern Expeditionary Army, and it was not a problem to deal with Chen Yucheng's partial division, but in fact, he was far worse than Chen Yucheng. On August 14, Chen Yucheng once again took the initiative to attack and launched a fierce attack on Xiling'a, which had reached the port of Sanpi in De'an Province. Xiling Was caught off guard, the Qing army was defeated again, and Chen Yucheng's troops once again occupied the city of Pinglin. Xi Ling'a fled back to Suizhou.
In the rear, the governor of Huguang, Guan Wen, learned of Xiling'a's defeat and hurriedly sent 5,000 reinforcements, which allowed Xiling'a to stabilize his position.
After some preparations, Xiling'a launched another attack on De'an Province in mid-October.
This time, Chen Yucheng adopted the tactic of luring the enemy to go deeper, first sending more than a thousand people to lure the Qing army into the ambush circle he had set up in advance. On October 21, thousands of Qing troops were surrounded by the Taiping Army and almost completely annihilated. Subsequently, Chen Yucheng took advantage of the situation to launch a full-scale counter-offensive and once again attacked the Xiling'a military camp located in Sanpi Port. The Qing army collapsed and fled back to Suizhou.
When the Xianfeng Emperor learned of Xiling'a's crushing defeat, he was furious and removed him from his post and placed him under the direct command of The Governor of Huguang, Guan Wen.
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By November, the Xiang army's attack on Wuchang was becoming increasingly urgent. Wei Jun had to dispatch Chen Yucheng's troops several times to support Wuchang. Chen Yucheng's troops were greatly reduced, and he was unable to take the initiative to attack, so he could only hold on to De'an Province.
At this time, chen Yucheng recruited and recruited the Qing army to surrender the troops. Ma Chaoqun, the commander-in-chief of lu changnian and supervising the army, was originally an officer of the Qing Dynasty, and was captured by Chen Yucheng and incorporated into the Taiping Army. The two of them secretly contacted the Qing army and agreed on a time for the inside and outside to be combined. On the night of November 13, the Qing army secretly attacked De'an Province, and Lu Changnian and Ma Chaoqun took the opportunity to set fire to the city, and the city was immediately in chaos.
Chen Yu saw that the general situation was gone, so he led his men and horses to withdraw from the South Gate and withdraw to Wuchang via Xiaogan. Chen Yucheng's battle in northern Hubei ended in this way.
Although Chen Yucheng's Battle of Northern Hubei was eventually defeated, at the age of eighteen, he commanded more than 10,000 people and horses, and for eight months, he successively thwarted the attacks of the Qing army, and defeated the three commanders of the Qing army, which was a brilliant victory.
It is inconceivable that an eighteen-year-old man, who can still be called a teenager, can command tens of thousands of battles and win repeatedly. You must know that Chen Yucheng's achievements are all sorted out from the information of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty will certainly not exaggerate to praise Chen Yucheng, which proves chen Yucheng's Heavenly Indulgence Divine Martial Arts!
Obviously, Chen Yucheng, who has not read a book or attended a military academy, has an innate talent in the military field. He is bold and careful, good at catching fighters, and brave in combat, daring to take the initiative. Once attacked, they would bite the opponent's weakness until the enemy army was completely destroyed. Chen Yucheng did not have a modern staff headquarters around him, no combat staff officer to help him draw up a battle plan, and no intelligence staff officer to inform him of the enemy's situation. Chen Yucheng is fighting with a kind of intuition, and this intuition is always correct, this is talent, a kind of military talent. Even if most officers have endured all their lives, they cannot obtain the intuition of Chen Yucheng for combat, which further shows the value of a genius like Chen Yucheng.
Since there is indeed a young genius like Chen Yucheng in the world, huo's record of going to the disease should naturally be real. Eighteen-year-old Chen Yucheng can achieve the same feat, and Huo Fuyi, who is about twenty years old, can also achieve it. What's more, Huo Fu's illness was deeply trusted by Emperor Wu of Han and had his full support in terms of manpower and material resources, so it was not surprising that he could achieve such brilliant military achievements.