In the picture scroll of Chinese history, the Taiping Rebellion is like a surging river, surging with anti-Qing passion and peasant struggle. This history,Take the uprising in Jintian Village, Guangxi as the endpoint,Hong Xiuquan's name is like a dazzling star, illuminating an era of peasant uprising.
The Taiping Rebellion began in 1851, when China was under the oppression of the Qing Dynasty, and foreign invasions made people's lives even worse. In this difficult and difficult time,Hong Xiuquan launched an uprising in Jintian Village, Guangxi, calling on the peasants to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. This was not only a peasant uprising, but also a powerful resistance to foreign invaders.
Li Xiucheng,A young man from a poor backgroundDeeply attracted by the call of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he joined the God Worship Society and became a member of the Taiping Army. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established Nanjing, Li Xiucheng's military exploits were so great that he was named the Loyal King and became an important general in the Taiping Heavenly ** team.
In 1863, Li Xiucheng was ordered to defend Tianjing and confronted the Hunan army for more than a year. Zeng Guoquan led the Hunan army, and became famous for his unique tactics of digging trenches and besieging the city, and was known as "Zeng Iron Bucket". The walls of Tianjing City are impregnableMorale was high, and the Taiping army was not an easy place to attack.
The tide of battle takes a dramatic turn in a tunnel scheme. Zeng Guoquan planned to approach the city wall by digging tunnels, but what he didn't expect was that the traces of these tunnels would be betrayed by the flowers and plants outside the walls of Tianjing City. Li Xiucheng was keenly aware of the abnormality and immediately took countermeasures.
So, on the city wall, the Taiping army lit a fire and closely observed the movements of the Hunan army. As soon as the road was opened, before the soldiers showed up, a pot of boiling water was already coming. While the Hunan army was digging in the tunnel, they were watered with hot boiling water, and the screams echoed outside the city. Zeng Guoquan's plan came to naught among the flowers and plantsThe predicament of the Hunan army can be described as a pit dug by itself, and it jumped into it by itself.
War is not a comedy, but a bloody battle. The Hunan army suffered a lot, and the tunnel scheme was like a bankrupt investment, which not only paid a painful price, but also gained nothing. The Taiping army skillfully defended with fire and hot soup, and successfully held the Tianjing City.
At this crossroads of history, Hong Xiuquan died, leaving a young son to take over the destiny of heaven. The Hunan army thought that the Taiping army was demoralizedplanned to attack the city, but found that the Taiping army still held on. Although the Tianjing City Wall has experienced twists and turns, it is still firmly in the hands of the Taiping Army in the end.
The memories of history are always so rich and colorful, and each participant has left their own legend. The Taiping Rebellion was an epic of peasants and a brave rebellion against oppression. And Li Xiucheng is a heroic general in this epicHis wisdom and decisiveness shine brightly in the torrent of history.
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