His Royal Highness Li Rongfa: After being captured, the Qing Dynasty gave him a maid as his wife, and he was a winner in life

The Titans who participated in the Taiping Rebellion were mostly executed by Ling Chi (cutting a thousand swords), such as the famous British King Chen Yucheng, Yi Wang Shi Dakai, Zun Wang Lai Wenguang, Gan Wang Hong Rengan, and so on. Of course, there are many lucky stars, even though they have killed a lot of soldiers, they still get a good death. For example, Wei Jun defeated Luo Zenan, the No. 2 Hunan Army's No. 2 figure, during his two defenses in Wuchang, and almost captured Hu Linyi, the governor of Hubei Province, a famous minister of Zhongxing. Seven children can be regarded as a "lucky star". However, if it is said who is the "king of luck" in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Gu Longxian may not be ranked. After all, he took 70,000 soldiers and three cities to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and his capital is relatively strong. So, who can be regarded as the "king of luck" should be Li Xiucheng's adopted son, and his Royal Highness Li Rong has made it. After this man was captured, the Qing officials saw him as extraordinary, so they secretly released him and gave him a maid as his wife. This is definitely a winner in life.

Li Rongfa, a native of Wuhan, Hubei, joined the Taiping Army in December 1852. He was 10 years old at the time. He was incorporated into the Boy Scouts and was also taken as an adopted child by Li Xiucheng. When Li Rongfa joined the Taiping Army, he did not worship the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but was forced to be helpless and lonely. He could hardly survive in the troubled times and had to join the army. After joining the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 10-year-old Li Rongfa basically had no chance of fighting. Instead, he served as a boy scout to pick out the spies of the Qing Dynasty who had mixed into the revolutionary camp in the Tianjing City. The Boy Scouts of the Taiping Army have two major characteristics. First, they are young, vigorous, and very enthusiastic. Second, the revolutionary belief is firm, and it is not easy to betray. Chen Yucheng, Tan Shaoguang, Fan Ruzeng and others are the representatives. Throughout the 14 years of the Taiping Movement, although the Boy Scouts are not the first-line fighting force, they always appear at critical moments, and the battle will be the final battle. For example, in the first battle of Wuchang, Chen Yucheng led 50 death squads to risk being blown up by landmines and rushed into the gap to kill the defending Qing army. Then Lin Fengxiang led the main force to keep up, and Wuchang was taken down.

The Boy Scouts are a relatively fanatical armed force, and Li Rongfa is no exception. With his extraordinary courage and strategy, he quickly acted as the commander of the Boy Scouts to catch traitors in Tianjing. In early 1854, Zhang Jigeng, the former magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, mixed into the revolutionary camp and acted as a spy, instigating a "three rivers and two lakes" soldier riots, provoking a "regional conflict" within the Taiping Army, and the two lakes and Guangdong and Guangxi soldiers killed each other. In addition, Zhang Jigeng also secretly contacted Xiang Rong, the commander of the "Jiangnan Daying", in an attempt to co-operate with the outside, and took the Tianjing in one fell swoop and destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, Li Rongfa couldn't escape the glaring eyes of the boy scout. After collecting information from Zhang Jigeng, he played Dongwang and assisted in the arrest. Zhang Jigeng got the news in advance and hid in the mountains without any news. At this time, Li Rongfa led more than ten boy scouts into the mountain to search, and happened to encounter Zhang Jigeng and his colleagues. After a fight, Li Rongfa successfully captured Zhang Jigeng. In this way, Li Rong became famous, became the new leader of the Boy Scouts, and received increasing attention from the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In May 1857, Yi Wang Shida led his department to go out alone, pulling away more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. The vitality of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was severely injured for a while, and it fell into a dangerous situation of "no one in the country, no general in the country". At this time, famous generals such as Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng stepped onto the front desk and assumed the heavy responsibility of Zhongxing Heavenly Kingdom. Li Rongfa, as the son of the loyal king Li Xiucheng, also began his military career, stepping onto the front line and killing the Qing army. At the beginning of 1863, Li Rongfa led 20,000 soldiers and horses to go northward, crossed the Yangtze River, and implemented the strategy of "advancing north and attacking south", even Ketianchang, Chuzhou, and Lai'an opened a good situation for Li Xiucheng. Then, Li Rongfa led his army to attack Lu'an, killing more than 1,500 people in the Qing army, but failed to conquer because the logistics supply could not keep up. In July, the loyal king Li Xiucheng's army returned to Beijing from Jiangbei, but was jointly blocked by the Hunan Navy's navy and the land division, and was trapped on the north bank. The situation was extremely dangerous. At the critical moment, Li Rongfa led his soldiers to act as a pioneer and cut a bloody path for King Zhong. Although the Taiping Army lost 70 or 80 thousand, after all, more than 10,000 people could cross the Yangtze River and return to Tianjing, thus avoiding the annihilation of the entire army. situation.

After crossing the river and returning to Beijing, the Southern Jiangsu base camp was in a hurry. Suzhou and Changzhou were attacked by the Huai army and the "foreign gun team". Tan Shaoguang and Chen Kunshu resisted hard, and the Taiping army suffered heavy casualties. In early 1864, Li Rongfa rate 2Wan Jingbing rescued Changzhou, fought against the Titans such as Liu Mingchuan, Pan Dingxin, Zhang Shusheng, Huang Yisheng, Guo Songlin, and intercepted the Gordon gun team who had come for reinforcements. Directly attacking the Huai army camp, Li Rongfa did not achieve the results of the Great War, so he led the main force to attack Changshu, Jiaxing and other places, attracting the Qing army to divide its forces and destroy it in the field. Li Rongfa rushed to Changshu, while Gordon led the 4000 "foreign gun team" to rescue. Hearing that Gordon had committed the crime, Li Rongfa set up an ambush in the valley beforehand and sent elite soldiers to lure the "foreign spear team" to pursue. When Gordon came to the valley, the cavalry ambushing on both sides of the valley suddenly shot out, attacking the "foreign guns" on both sides. At this time, there was heavy rain, the firearms of the "Foreign Gun Team" could not be used, and the Taiping Army slammed forward, and the two sides engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat. Li Rongfa personally directed the battle, and the Taiping Army became more and more courageous, killing more than 800 members of the "Foreign Spear Team". Gordon himself was interrupted with his thumb.

Li Rongfa defeated Gordon, but still unable to save the overall situation, Changzhou was still taken by Liu Mingchuan, and Tianjing was also at stake. In July, the "Jizi Camp" of the Hunan Army broke through Tianjing, the loyal king Li Xiucheng was captured, and Li Rongfa led a bloody battle against the Hunan Army to cover the young king Hong Tianguifu's breakthrough, and went to Huzhou to find King Huang Wenjin. After arriving in Huzhou, Li Rongfa escorted the Young Heavenly King to Hubei to find Fu Wang Chen Decai, hoping to go to Guanzhong to establish a base to preserve the essence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then make a comeback. However, Li Shixian, Wang Haiyang and others left Jiangxi with more than 200,000 troops. Huang Wenjin and Li Rongfa did not respond, and Huang Wenjin also performed personal heroism. As the coach, he was on the front line every time he charged and was killed by a single shot. . Once Huang Wenjin died, Li Rongfa was soon unable to support it, and was captured alive by Chen Baozhen, the alternate magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, and became a prisoner. According to common sense, the leaders of the rebel army, especially those who were captured, were generally punished with sluggishness and cut a thousand knives in order to behave like others. Li Rongfa, a boy scout, has a firm conviction and is unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

was very lucky. It was Chen Baozhen, not Zeng Guofan, who captured Li Rongfa. Not only did he not be bullied, he was able to get away smoothly and married Chen Baozhen's maidservant as his wife. Why is this? Chen Baozhen, an enlightened person in Jiangxi, supported the "Reform Reform" when he was governor of Hunan, and was the only official in Xinjiang who supported the reform. Chen Baozhen saw Li Rongfa's handsome appearance, extraordinary craftsmanship, and young age, and couldn't bear to put him to death. For this reason, Chen Baozhen secretly released Li Rongfa and gave him his handmaid as his wife, so that the two of them hurriedly returned to the countryside and kept their names incognito. As a prisoner of the Qing army, His Royal Highness Li Rongfa not only was not Ling Chi, but also married the servant girl of an official of the Qing Dynasty. He should be regarded as the "king of luck" in the Taiping Army and a winner in life. By the way, Chen Baozhen is also very good. He is well educated and cultivates a good grandson-the four famous teachers of Tsinghua Chinese Studies, the professor among the professors, Mr. Chen Yinke.

Bibliography: "The Complete History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War", "The General History of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom"