A Brief Introduction to Yu Xiu Qing of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Yang (182 1 or 1823- 1856), formerly known as a native of Aixin Village, Zhenping City, Guangxi. He lives by clearing forests and burning charcoal. One of the important leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wang Zhiyi was named the King of East Five by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan. He was nine years old and was killed in the Tianjing Incident in 1856.

Yang (Zhang Zhizhong)

Yang, whose ancestral home is Jiaying (now Meixian) in Guangdong, is a Han nationality and a Hakka. [1] When he was a great-grandfather, he moved to Ping 'an New Village, Zijingshan, Guiping City, Guangxi, where he planted mountains and burned charcoal, which was passed down from generation to generation. Parents died young and lonely. Later, he accepted the revolutionary thought spread by Feng Yunshan, and gradually became the supreme military commander with strategy and courage of Taiping Army, and was a famous strategist of Taiping Army. 1848, Feng Yunshan was arrested and imprisoned, and Hong Xiuquan returned to Guangdong to try to rescue him. The worship of God will be leaderless, some congregations will shrink back, while others will waver. The worship of God will face the danger of division and disintegration. In order to reverse this serious situation, Yang "suddenly became dumb for two months and could not speak. The congregation felt strange and thought it was an ominous sign." He used this as an excuse to tell stories on behalf of the heavenly father and skillfully combined his keen insight with religious superstition, thus doing a lot of ideological work, clarifying many chaotic thoughts in the worship of gods, avoiding the disintegration of the worship of gods, consolidating the unity of the revolutionary ranks, and becoming a key turning point for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to prepare for the uprising. Before jintian uprising, Yang pretended to be deaf for more than two months. After jintian uprising, he suddenly spoke, claiming that his father sent him down to be alert and observant, organize the masses, instigate the uprising and direct military operations. Everything is in order. When Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan were besieged by the Qing army in Huazhou Village, Pingnan County, Yang quickly dispatched Meng.

Yang

With the help of the Ministry, the Qing army was defeated and Hong and Feng were rescued. Since then, Yang carved books with the rumor of father-in-stead as a raiders series, that is, he sent members of Taiping Army at all levels to study, which played a good catalytic role in the development and growth of Taiping Army.

In the early days of the Taiping Rebellion, Yang, as the actual commander of the Taiping Army, basically adopted the passive operational policy of preserving his strength and spinning around in the same place. 1851In late September, the Taiping Army captured Yong 'an House (now mengshan county) in Guangxi. When discussing the next direction of action, Hong Xiuquan put forward the strategic goal of seizing Nanjing. Yang fully agreed with this and started a strategic March with clear goals. 1in April, 852, Yang commanded Taiping Army to break through Yong 'an skillfully and attack Guilin City in the north. Because Guilin is surrounded by mountains and waters, the city is high and vigorous. Although the Taiping Army fought bravely for a month, it failed to conquer. Yang changed his campaign plan in time, ordered his retreat, marched northward, captured Quanzhou on June 3, and captured Daozhou in Hunan on June 12. Because Yang adopted the strategic policy of avoiding the real and avoiding the imaginary, he got rid of the passive situation of infighting and began to consciously fight outside the weak enemy. Therefore, he proposed that the future marching direction of Taiping Army is: "Today's best policy is to ... follow the river to the east, skip the castle, give up the key points and concentrate on Jinling, which is the foundation ...". On this basis, Yang did not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place. 1In late July of 852, when Changsha could not be captured, it took the initiative to evacuate, but it captured Yiyang, crossed Dongting Lake and occupied Yueyang. Hankou and Hanyang were captured in February. 1853 65438+ 10/0, and Wuchang. At this time, the Taiping Army rapidly developed to more than 500,000 people. On February 9, Yang was ordered to leave Wuchang, and he went hand in hand with land and went down the river. 18 attack Jiujiang, 24 attack Anqing. On March 8, the enemy arrived at the gate of Jinling, and after 12 days of attack, they captured Jinling on March 20. One of the important reasons why the Taiping Army marched so smoothly and quickly was that it benefited from Yang Gaochao's command strategy. At that time, the head of the Qing army commented: "If you can't attack Guilin, you will fall into the whole state. If you attack Changsha repeatedly, you will flee to Hubei; ....................................................................................................................................................... It was precisely because the Taiping Army avoided wasting time and consuming troops before the long-term establishment of the city that .......................... led to the successive victories of the peasant revolutionary war.