Guangxi Hakka (Daping Heavenly Kingdom Seeking King) Lin Fengxiang

The Great Plain Heavenly Kingdom asked King Lin Fengxiang

Lin Fengxiang (1824-1855), as Lin Fengxiang, a native of Baisha, Guiping County, in his youth, in addition to farming, often went to nearby towns and mountainous areas to do business and make a living. Before the Jintian Uprising, he joined the Worship Belt Association

During the Jintian Rebellion in the 30th year of Daoguang (January 1851), Lin Fengxiang was a subordinate of the Xiao Dynasty, serving as a pioneer of the former army, making battle merits, and waiting for the Imperial Forest to be guarded. Cumulative promotion of command, inspection

In 1853 (the third year of Xianfeng), he led an army to attack Changsha and Hankou, and made his first ascent to Wuchang City, and was promoted to deputy minister of heaven.

In March of the same year, when attacking Nanjing, it first attacked the Yifeng Gate. Later, he and Li Kaifang led their troops to conquer Yangzhou and cut off the Qing army's north-south transportation

In the third year of Xianfeng (May 1853), Lin Fengxiang was ordered to go on a northern expedition, and together with Li Kaifang led an army of 20,000 people from Yangzhou, through Anhui and Henan, across the Yellow River, into Shanxi, and then returned to Yongnian County in Hebei province to defeat more than 10,000 people directly under the general Nar Jing' institute. He also attacked Ren County, Longyao, ZhaoZhou, Jin County, Shenzhou and other county seats in a row. The Qing court was greatly shocked, and Lin was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Jinghu and continued to take Xianxian County and Cangzhou in the east. At the end of October, he arrived at Yang Liuqing, but because the lone army was deep, the long-term turn and the weakening of the military strength, so that the strong attack on Tianjin was blocked, and the Tun army retreated to Jinghai, Hebei.

In February 1854, due to the lack of food and ammunition and cold clothes, reinforcements were not reached, and Lin Fengxiang led his troops to retreat south through Dacheng and Xianxian. In May, he retired to LianZhen, Dongguang County, Hebei Province.

7 March 1855. The town fell, and all the defenders were martyred. Lin Fengxiang was seriously wounded and captured, and was executed by Ling Chi on March 15 in Xishi, Beijing.

In 1863, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was posthumously crowned king.