finally failed in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , it was in February 1866 when the Qing army besieged the city of Jiaying, Guangdong (now Meizhou ). Tan Tiyuan, the last commander of the Taiping Army, failed several times. Finally, on the night of February 7, Tan Tiyuan broke through to the southwest and was intercepted by the Qing army. Tan Tiyuan was unfortunately shot during the battle. The remnant entered Liutian and fell into a heavy siege, but was wiped out by the Qing army.
However, a small part of the Taiping army broke through from Guangdong and entered Vietnam and Laos. He even ransacked the Royal Palace of Luang Prabang in Laos and killed a crown prince. The local army in Laos could not stop these Taiping troops.
In the local Indochina Peninsula , there are many mountainous people known as slave hunters. Slave looting occurs almost every year after the crops are harvested. They not only kidnapped the residents of the valley, integrated them into the mountain society or sold them to the valley market; they also kidnapped the vulnerable mountain population, turned them into slaves or sold them.
But in the eyes of the Taiping Army, these mountain talents are real prey. Soon the black flag army , which belonged to the Taiping Army, also entered the northern part of Vietnam under the leadership of Liu Yongfu . Because of helping Vietnam clean up these bandits and slave hunters, and gradually gaining the trust of Vietnam, he was recruited by Vietnam to become the "Three Prophet Admiral" and awarded the first-class baron.
Soon the remnants of the Taiping Army appeared in the eastern border area of Thailand in 1870. Even the Taiping army with only five or six hundred men captured the capital of Laos under the protection of the Thai army Vientiane ,It also captured Luang Prabang, the old capital of Laos in the classical era. The remnants of the Taiping Army controlled the entire Luang Prabang under the call of the black flag.
In 1887, the main force of the Thai army was divided into two groups, and finally defeated a small number of Taiping troops in Luang Prabang. However, the arrival of the Taiping Army also set off a popular uprising in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, and everyone began to dissatisfy the township and village chiefs under the feudal system.
In fact, Thailand did not have the strength to truly defeat the Taiping Army, it was just that the main force of the Taiping Army’s black flag was fighting with the French in Vietnam at that time. In the battle of 1873, the French army colonel An Ye was beheaded, and the French army was ambushed in the battle of 1883, and the French army colonel Li Weiye was killed.
In fact, in the late period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, both the Qing army and the Taiping army were equipped with a large number of imported foreign guns, that is, smoothbore guns, most of which were still in production in the first half of the 19th century. British Brown Beth-type smooth-bore rifle that has been widely promoted overseas. By the time of the Taiping Army’s Black Flag, a relatively new type of front-mounted rifled gun, also known as the musket gun, began to be available. However, the Taiping Army's black flag is mainly a mixture of hot and cold weapons. There are both the old-fashioned front-mounted rifled gun , and the relatively new front-mounted rifled gun, as well as the domestic soil gun .
Later, the United States dumped a large number of surplus guns from the Civil War to China, such as the Winchester Continuous Carbine and the famous 1847 Colt revolver. Therefore, the Qing Army and the Taiping Army, and later the Taiping Army Black Flag also had many American Winchester rifles and revolvers .
However, although the Taiping Army's black flags fought bravely, their discipline and organization were still not comparable to those of the Western armies of the same period. Their fighting methods should still be traditional Chinese. But still, it far exceeds the local military and armed forces in Southeast Asia.
But imagine that the Taiping Army’s black flag is still very strange. These people use turbans on their heads, carry British-made muskets or American Western cowboys ’s favorite Winchester burst Gun, with a revolver pinned to his waist. There were also people carrying large knives and spears to wipe out bandits and slave hunting tribes everywhere in the exotic subtropical Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, seize the Lao palace, fight against the French colonial army, and even black soldiers brought by the French army.
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