Zuo Zongtang Hunan Xiangyin native, a scholar of Dongge in the late Qing Dynasty, minister of military aircraft, participated in the suppression of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement , repeatedly made extraordinary achievements, known as the "General of Changsheng". In 1866, he was granted the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu to manage the northwest strategy and stabilize the northwest territory. In the middle of the 19th century, the general of the Kokand state in Central Asia Aqubo led his army to invade Xinjiang and ruled Xinjiang in blood for 12 years. In August 1876, Zuo Zongtang led the Qing army of more than 60,000 people to start the anti-aggression war to recapture Xinjiang. , the strategy of suppressing and advancing. On June 29th, he commanded Urumqi and set up a cannon on the Liudaowan Mountain. With only one cannon, the enemy army collapsed and scattered, and Urumqi was recovered with the liberation. In order to commemorate this history, the Urumqi Municipal Government built the historic attraction ‘ with a shot at success ’ in Shuita Mountain. As a patriotic education base, tens of thousands of students come here every year to reminisce about the history.
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