1856 was the heyday of Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In the words of our party, the situation was very good. At this time, the heavenly kingdom greatly replaced the dominance of the Qing Dynasty in China.
Just at this time, a major change occurred in the Taiping Heavenly Heaven that Emperor Xianfeng dared not even dare to imagine in his dreams. The result of the accident was that the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing , who was passed down from heaven's father's words, was killed by the Northern King Wei Changhui. Shortly afterwards, due to Wei Changhui's rebellious actions, in order to calm public anger, his main envoy behind the scenes, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, killed Wei Changhui again. This major rebellion not only killed the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing and the Northern King Wei Changhui, but also killed 20,000 elites from the Jintian Uprising Qin Rigang and the head of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zuo Tianhou Chen Chengying under the pressure of Wing King Shi Dakai , and 20,000 elites from the Jintian Uprising were also killed in this major rebellion.
Then, the king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, who had been severely stimulated, forced away the only remaining kings of the First Rebellion, Shi Dakai. The Qing army in all directions launched a continuous attack on the Taiping Army. The important cities occupied by the Kingdom of Heaven were captured by the Qing army. The Jiujiang City, which Lin Qirong, who had been guarding for many years, was captured by the Hunan Army of Zeng Guofan and without food and grass inside and reinforcements outside. All the soldiers in the city died for the country. Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Hunan Army, proudly declared to the public that "I will not worry about injustice to the Guangdong bandits this year."
In this autumn of the survival of the Kingdom of Heaven, fortunately, the king of Heaven Hong Xiuquan boldly activated the rising stars of Heaven Chen Yucheng , Li Xiucheng and other young generals. The situation in the Kingdom of Heaven quickly stabilized through the hands of the two.
Chen Yucheng, a young general of the heaven who joined the army for fourteen, became the enemy for the 18th, was a king for twenty-three, and died for the country at the age of twenty-six, had his short life as brilliant as the short morning glow. In his short twelve years of military career, as he said, "Where there are many officers and soldiers, I will rush to wherever I will go?" Fighting Wuchang , taking Anhui Province, breaking the three rivers, killing the Qing army's imperial envoys, and destroying the Qing Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps. Chen Yucheng's handsome and brave figures were everywhere. Even Chen Yucheng's old opponent Zeng Guofan had to praise him as a thief who "has rare since the Han and Tang Dynasties."
However, this young and successful military genius in heaven is very short-sighted in politics. Since Chen Yucheng was a general who was named king for his merits after the Tianjing Rebellion, he was inevitably very proud of himself when he was young. The king of heaven, Hong Xiuquan, said that "If you don't decide on internal affairs and if you don't decide on external affairs, you will ask the King of Ying". Soon, Chen Yucheng got away from Li Xiucheng, who had worked closely with him. As Li Xiucheng's relationship with the two kings was almost broken, the two subordinates even had an out-of-war situation. What is particularly regrettable is that Chen Yucheng forced the rebellion of the Northern King Wei Changhui, also one of the head generals of the Five Armies, is known for his good fighting and guarding, making him the mortal enemy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
Tianjing Portal Anqing was killed by the Hunan Army. Although it has a lot to do with the other kings of the Kingdom of Heaven and the power to rescue, it is also not unrelated to Chen Yucheng's political shortsightedness. As the military commander of the Heavenly Kingdom, he was unable to mobilize the generals to work together to rescue An Qing because of his incompetence. He also made a fatal strategic mistake of military adventure, resulting in the complete destruction of his ace army and his fierce general Dingmaster General Liu Zhilin. With the fall of Anqing, Chen Yucheng was dismissed from office and held accountable, and he himself was in chaos, and Chen Yucheng's army no longer had the majesty of the past.
Just as Chen Yucheng was about to "sit in Luzhou, foolish and loyal to the country", news came from Shouzhou , not far from Luzhou. This news comes from the letter from Miao Peilin, who was born in the army and was already a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He told Chen Yucheng that he had already trained a million troops and asked His Highness the King of Ying to come to Shouzhou early to work together to restore the great cause of heaven. He has always been confident that he does not want to go back to Tianjing, and he does not want to show his favor to Li Xiucheng. Chen Yucheng, despite the advice of everyone, led his civil and military personnel and guards to break through to Shouzhou overnight.
When Chen Yucheng arrived in Shouzhou, he saw the city gate lying on the ground and paying homage to him as his contact person with Miao Peilin. Yu Anding of Guan Bailin Tianyan and Miao Peilin's nephew Miao Jingkai, so he rested on his guards of 2,000 people outside the city, and he brought only more than 20 followers into the city without doubt.
Three days later, Miao Peilin suddenly attacked, and the life of Chen Yucheng, a generation of military genius and famous King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, came to an end.
