Zeng Guofan's Children Immigrants

In the Xiang Army Group, * * * has five major infantry units, namely, Jiang Zhongyuan brothers and Liu Changyou, Liu Kunyi's Xinning Chu military system, Liu Songshan's old Xiang military camp system, Liu Songshan's auspicious word military camp system, the left new Chu military system and Bao Chao's Ting military system. Among them, ji zi Battalion is the most outstanding one, the most developed one is the new Chu military system, but the most brave and skillful is undoubtedly Pavilion Battalion. Tingziying survived the great abolition of Xiang army. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (AD 1856), with the support of Hu Linyi, Tingziying was named Tingziying because of its leader Bao Chaozi's Spring Pavilion. The initial establishment of the battalion was about 3,000, and then it was gradually expanded to about 20,000. He successively moved to Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi and other provinces to participate in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, and then played a key and decisive role in the process of annihilating the Dongnian army. Zeng Guofan once praised whether the word Daoying was really feared by thieves, which was beyond the reach of Chu Yong, Xiang Yong and Huai Yong. Hu Linyi called it "extraordinarily brave". After the collapse of the Kingdom of Tian Ping, the Xiang Army Group began to be abolished on a large scale, from nearly 500,000 in its heyday to less than 654.38+10,000. Even he and his men were laid off 50,000 people at one time, while Zuo and his men were laid off 40,000 people, leaving only more than 20,000 troops. However, Tingziying survived the great abolition and was completely preserved because of its strong fighting capacity. Later, Bao Chao resigned in a rage on the grounds that he was seriously ill because of the contradiction between the East Twist Army and the Huai Army system. His department immediately became the target of various factions. Zuo wanted to take the camp to the northwest, Li Hongzhang wanted to bring it into the Huai system, and Zeng Guofan tried his best to hold it in his hand. Whether the word camp was infiltrated by the congregation of the society, such a powerful force valued by all parties, is not monolithic, but its interior has been infiltrated by the society from the beginning of enlistment. The gerocomium, also known as the fraternity, is generally believed to have been established in Sichuan by Hakka immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty. Sichuan dialect, also called Buddhists' Club, is a secret folk society with a certain anti-Qing color. The congregation of nursing homes call each other "Paoge", mostly craftsmen, bankrupt farmers, veterans and unemployed people. Although Xiang mainly recruited Ding Zhuang in rural Hunan, Bao Chao was originally from fengjie county, Kuizhou, Sichuan, so there were many Sichuan foot soldiers in Tingziying, and Sichuan was a very active area in society, and some people in the society were involved in the recruitment of foot soldiers. Bao Chao was born in the army, which is different from the fact that most generals in Xiang are Confucian scholars. The composition of foot soldiers recruited by this battalion is also different from that of other units. Other troops recruited are "simple and rustic farmers", while the foot soldiers in the camp are mostly unemployed people in the city. Bao Chao thinks these people are brave and desperate, so he makes more moves. In addition, outflanking lured them with benefits and the bid was strict, so they fought bravely. The gathering of Gelve people disintegrated the mutiny of the whole army, but these indifferent guys provided "fertile soil" for the continuous development of Gelve people in the army. By becoming sworn brothers, they helped each other in the war, and if anything happened, they wouldn't be bullied. After leaving the camp, the poor will meet with each other, get food and clothing, and do their best to avoid robbery. Therefore, most soldiers joined the meeting to protect their rights and interests from infringement. In addition to social infiltration, Bao Chao often selected elite soldiers from the surrendered Taiping Army to supplement Pavilion Camp, which was intertwined with a series of unstable factors such as social gathering, insufficient reimbursement and disarmament, which eventually led to the mutiny of the whole army in the fourth year of Tongzhi (AD 1865), and many Xiang troops in Anhui, Hubei and other provinces were also affected by Pavilion Camp mutiny, leading to one after another. In July of the sixth year of Tongzhi (AD 65438+August 0867), the main force of Nian Army was defeated by Tingziying, which was of no use at all. Zeng Guofan was really fed up with the corruption of military discipline, the reduction of soldiers and the proliferation of the congregation of the society. Because he was worried that the one-time abolition would lead to a larger mutiny, he changed to the abolition in batches, and abolished the cavalry 12 battalion and the 6 th battalion of the infantry for the first time. In the second year, after the Nian army was completely pacified, all the remaining troops were scattered and transferred to various provinces for resettlement.