Tragedy experts of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom served King Li Shixian one by one.
185 1 year, when Xiao Chaogui and Wei Changhui led the troops through tengxian, Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian joined the Taiping Army and became ordinary "holy soldiers". At this time, Li Shixian was unknown, and only became a junior officer in the war with Taiping Army. It is such a nobody who has no interest at all, but because of the fierce power struggle at the top of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he stepped onto the historical stage. After the Tianjing Incident broke out and Shi Dakai, the wing king, led his troops to leave, all the heroes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were wiped out, and there was a situation of "no one in the DPRK and no generals in the country". This gave the Taiping Army a new generation of young generals a chance to make their mark. Hong Xiuquan promoted a group of young generals with military talents and re-established the stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Among them, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng became the pillars, and Li Shixian became the commander-in-chief of Wuhu with the promotion and support of Li Xiucheng, ensuring Tianjing's water transportation. 1857, Hong Xiuquan established the commander-in-chief system of the five armies, with Meng Deen as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, Chen Yucheng as the former commander-in-chief, Li Xiu as the commander-in-chief of the rear army, Li Shixian as the commander-in-chief, and Wei Jun as the commander-in-chief of the right army. Since then, Li Shixian has entered the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Shortly after Li Shixian became the viceroy, he trapped Deng Shaoliang, the governor of Zhejiang Province, in the southeast of Wuhu. Then the first army wiped out 5,000 reinforcements worn by the company commander, and at the same time wiped out more than 7,000 Deng Shaoliang's troops, shaking the whole of southern Anhui. The general strategy and tactics of Taiping Army are to mobilize more troops, with fewer to fight more, but Li Shixian fought alone this time, with more than a dozen troops, and completed a beautiful war of annihilation. This is the first great victory since he led the army alone, which is of great significance and shows his independent ability.
1at the beginning of 858, the Qing court rebuilt its camp in Jiangnan and surrounded Tianjing. By the beginning of 1860, the Qing army had successively captured Xiaguan and Jiuzhou, west of Tianjing, and Tianjing was in jeopardy. In order to remove the siege of Tianjing, the leadership of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom decided to "encircle Wei to save Zhao" and then break the plan of Jiangnan Camp: first, pretend to attack Hangzhou to attract troops from Jiangnan Camp, and then quickly return to the division to clear up. Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian's troops carried out the task of attacking Hangzhou. 1860 and 1 year, Dong entered Zhejiang. In the process of attack, the two men cooperated very skillfully. Often, Li Xiucheng stormed head-on, Li Shixian detoured behind enemy lines, and sometimes divided his troops, so that the Qing army could not understand their true intentions; Sometimes we join hands to break the Qing army. On March 4, Erli led the army to defeat the Qing army at Hongxing Bridge in the southwest of Changxing, then captured Changxing and arrived in Huzhou. Then the two decided to divide their forces, and Li Shixian feinted Huzhou to contain the Qing army; Li Xiucheng led 7,000 soldiers to pretend to be the Qing army and raided Hangzhou day and night. On March 7th, Li Shixian arrived at the gate of Huzhou, which was his first visit to Zhejiang. He built siege equipment at the gates, which made the Qing army misjudge. He thought that the main attack direction of Taiping Army was Huzhou, so he sent troops to reinforce it. The success of Li Shixian's feint attracted the attention of the Qing army. On March 1 1, Li Xiucheng led his troops to Wulinmen, Hangzhou. At this time, in addition to the Eight Banners, there were less than 3,000 brave soldiers in Hangzhou. In the face of the sudden Taiping Army, Zhejiang Governor Luo Zundian rushed to deploy. Due to the shortage of troops, he can only adopt the strategy of "defending the main battle, not near". Due to the abandonment of the defenders, the Taiping Army first quickly captured Wulinmen and Qiantangmen, and then bypassed Nanping to occupy Phoenix Mountain, Huangyushan Mountain and Wansongling Mountain. After fully occupying the surrounding area of Hangzhou, it began to storm Hangzhou city. After repeated fierce fighting, the Taiping Army bombed the wall of Qingbomen on March 9, 2009, and Li Xiucheng led a vanguard consisting of Tan Shaoguang, Wu Dingcai, Liu Shunde and 1250 to break the city. Hangzhou city was subsequently solved, and Governor Luo Zundian committed suicide. It took Li Xiucheng only nine days from the besieged city to the fall of Hangzhou. When the Qing court shook, Emperor Xianfeng was furious. He quickly ordered the commander-in-chief of Jiangnan camp, Chun and Zhang to send troops to rescue Zhejiang. Seeing that the Qing army had been successfully mobilized, Li Xiucheng voluntarily withdrew from Hangzhou on March 24th, and after meeting Li Shixian who besieged Huzhou, he branched into Tianjing as planned. Li Shixian maneuvered in the northeast and stormed Yixing, Jintan and Suzhou, forcing the Qing army to divide its forces in cities in southern Jiangsu. On April 23, Li Shixian suddenly turned to the northwest, easily won a sentence, and entered the capital. At this point, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, Yang Fuqing, Liu and other Taiping Army reinforcements have gathered outside Tianjing. On May 2, the Taiping Army went hand in hand and swooped down on the Jiangnan Camp. After a few days of fierce fighting in the rain, on May 5, the Jiangnan camp, which He Chun and Zhang painstakingly managed for two years, was completely destroyed, and Tianjing was cleared.
After Tianjing was cleared, Li Shixian was appointed to serve Wang Xiong Chitose. Although he is a military commander, at this time, Li Shixian's desire for self-reliance is not strong. He has no ruling experience in North Korea, and lacks the ability of overall consideration, so he often leaves strategic thinking to Li Xiucheng, who is only responsible for fighting. However, due to the "Tianjing incident", Li Shixian had already distrusted the upper echelons of Tianjing, and even after the big break of the Jiangnan camp, he did not step into Tianjing. As a long-term "foreign general", Li Shixian did not agree with the religious tricks of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was indifferent to the high-level officials headed by Hong Xiuquan. His backbone is his cousin Li Xiucheng.
On May 1860, 1 1 day, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made a strategic decision to March eastward into the Soviet Union and Changzhou. This decision was made for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to solve the food supply and prevent the resurgence of Jiangnan camp. There is also Li Xiucheng's plan to develop his personal power and run his own territory. On May 1860 and 15, the main force of Taiping Army moved eastward to Jiangsu and Changzhou. Li Shixian led his troops north to capture southern Anhui. After conquering Huizhou, Bing Feng cooperated with Zeng Guofan's old camp Qimen. It's a pity that his intelligence work is too bad to know that Zeng Guofan is just around the corner. /kloc-at the end of 0/860, Tianjing issued the order of westward expedition to Wuchang to relieve the siege of Anqing, and gave Li Shixian the task of entering southern Hubei from Jiangxi. As we all know, Li Xiucheng is fully managing his sufu province, and he has also built a grand loyal palace in Suzhou. He was not interested in the Western Expedition to Wuchang at all, but at least Li Xiucheng went to Hubei for a show. On the other hand, Li Shixian met the tough guy Zuo as soon as he entered Jiangxi. They met Leping twice in Jingdezhen. Li Shixian won first and then lost, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Using this as an excuse, Li Shixian no longer listened to Hong Xiuquan, but turned directly to Zhejiang to learn from his cousin Li Xiucheng and vigorously develop his own private power. After Li Shixian entered Zhejiang, he went to Yanzhou, Chuzhou, Taizhou and Ningbo. 186 1 On May 28th, he conquered Jinhua, built a gorgeous stone Wang Fu in Jinhua, took Jinhua as the base camp, and began to carefully manage his Zhejiang site. Li Shixian keeps accepting local peasant rebels and buying foreign guns. At this time, he has become a powerful vassal. In September of that year, Li Xiucheng led 700,000 people to enter Zhejiang on a large scale, and Li Bingbing divided into five roads and captured Ningbo, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Huzhou and other important towns. Taiping Army occupied nine provinces and 70 counties in Zhejiang 1 1 government, and Li Shixian became the owner of dozens of cities in Zhejiang, close to Sufu Province, the base of Li Xiucheng.
Li Shixian is powerful in Zhejiang, with more than 200,000 soldiers. Hong Xiuquan was extremely afraid of these heavily armed old masters, and Li Er was the first to bear the brunt. But Li Shixian did not want to maintain the authority of the heavenly king like Li Xiucheng. He directly and openly rebelled against Hong Xiuquan's restriction on him. Hong Xiuquan demanded that "all exhibits and seals should be written with the words Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother and Heavenly King, and those who don't follow them will be dismembered", "The army refers to the heavenly army, the people refer to the heavenly people, the country refers to the heavenly kingdom, the camp refers to the heavenly camp, and the soldiers refer to the heavenly soldiers", but all the generals including Li Xiucheng obviously obeyed, only Li Shixian ignored it, and Hong Xiuquan revoked his title, and Li Shixian still went his own way. Hong Xiuquan softened when he saw the hardness, and named Li Shixian as the "Zhong Zheng strategist", but Li Shixian still ignored it. Hong Xiuquan has lost control of local power groups like Li Shixian. Because Li Er ignored the siege of Anqing, Anqing fell and Chen Yucheng, the king of England, died, and the situation in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom went downhill again. Tianjing was besieged by Xiang army. At this time, Li Shixian's old rival Zuo also followed him to Zhejiang. At the beginning of 1962, Zuo led his troops from Wuyuan, Jiangxi, to Zhejiang, where he camped and set out to recover the lost land in Zhejiang. When Zuo Chu first entered Zhejiang, there were only more than 5,000 troops, but he invited his fellow Hunan Jiang Yili to help in Zhejiang. Jiang Yili is a vicious man who gnaws hard bones and is famous in the Xiang army. But he was bohemian and didn't get along well with Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi and others. Only Zuo has a good relationship with him. Zuo requested the imperial court to transfer Jiang Yili as the minister of Zhejiang. In this way, Jiang Yili came to Zhejiang with more than 8,000 people he raised. Zuo also set up a navy division, and invited Liu Peiyuan, who is familiar with water warfare, as the main soldier of Quzhou to command the navy division. Because the Taiping Army almost controls the whole territory of Zhejiang, and the border between Anhui and Zhejiang is the sphere of influence of the Taiping Army, the left situation is very difficult. He refused the imperial court's order to take Hangzhou directly, and adopted a slow and steady strategy, nibbling at Li Shixian's territory bit by bit. Based in Hua Kai, he successively recovered Changshan, Sui 'an and other places. Li Shixian in the face of the left approach, but also panicked. He wants to seek a decisive battle with the main force of the left. When the left advanced on Jiangshan, Li Shixian led an army to meet him, and the two sides fought fiercely in Jiangshan clear lake. Li Shixian was defeated and almost taken alive. Subsequently, Zuo made persistent efforts and defeated the Taiping Army twice in Shimen and Huayuan. In May of that year, the army led by Zuo arrived at the gates of Quzhou, an important town in western Zhejiang. After staying in Quzhou for a period of time, Li Shixian abandoned the city and retreated to Longyou and Tangxi under the pressure of the Left. Zuo immediately led his "Chu army" into Quzhou. Quzhou became the first big city recovered by Zuo in Zhejiang. 1in September, 862, Li Xiucheng led thirteen kings and hundreds of thousands of troops to Tianjing to clear up. Because of my cousin Li Xiucheng's kindness, Li Shixian arrived late with 70,000 troops. It was not until mid-June that 10 remembered to help Hong Tianwang. However, in the face of Ceng Guoquan's "iron bucket tactics", Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian are helpless. After being besieged in Yuhuatai Ceng Guoquan military camp for more than a month, they had to order the withdrawal. At this time, Li Hongzhang led the Huai army through Taicang, Kunshan and Wujiang, and then stormed Suzhou City. Suzhou Shoujiang longed for Wang Tan Shaoguang to be assassinated by traitors Shao Yongkuan and Wang, and offered his head to the city. Suzhou, the stronghold of Li Xiucheng, fell, and Wuxi also fell. Li Xiucheng had to retreat to Danyang. Before Li Shixian went to Tianjing, he was dealing with the harassment of the left Chu army in Quzhou. He was going to Taizhou and Wenzhou. After receiving Li Xiucheng's orders, he took 70,000 elite troops to Tianjing to participate in the Qing dynasty war, leaving 100,000 troops guarding Zhejiang. He told the garrison commander that he would only go for 50 days and would definitely come back then. However, he never returned to Zhejiang after he left. Li Shixian's Zhejiang clique is leaderless and is no match for the Left. Left the Chu army to connect Kelongyou, Tangxi, Lanxi and Jinhua, and the situation in Zhejiang turned sharply. The Taiping Army was losing ground, and Ningbo and Shaoxing were also lost. Li Shixian lost his territory in Zhejiang and had to retreat to Liyang in southern Jiangsu.
The siege of Tianjing became more and more serious, and Li Xiucheng was on pins and needles, bent on going back to Tianjing. He wanted to persuade Hong Xiuquan to give up Tianjing, preserve the strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and seek another development. At this time, Li Shixian suggested that my cousin go it alone, don't go back to Tianjing to die in vain, and don't pay attention to Hong Jiachao, because Hong Xiuquan couldn't help. At this time, there are still 65,438+elite Taiping rebels in Li Shixian. He even planned to kidnap Li Xiucheng, and then marched into Fujian, where the Qing court was weak. Li Xiucheng resolutely rejected Li Shixian's suggestion and went to Tianjing overnight to prevent being detained by Li Shixian. Since Li Shixian didn't want to go to Tianjing, Li Xiucheng had to let Li Shixian go to Jiangxi to prepare food, and wait until the autumn harvest next year to command the army to save Tianjing. 1July, 864, before the autumn harvest, Li Shixian raised grain and led the Xiang army to attack Tianjing. Hong Xiuquan committed suicide and Li Xiucheng was captured. The young king escaped from Tianjing and rushed to Jiangxi to go to Li Shixian, because Li Shixian was the strongest remnant of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at this time, and Li Shixian didn't care about the Hong family at all. He has always looked down on the old king Hong Xiuquan, who is incompetent and can only play politics, not to mention the young king who grew up in a "greenhouse".
Li Shixian didn't intend to meet the young king at all, and directly led the troops into Fujian via Guangdong. At this point, Li Shixian once again showed himself as an expert, killed Zhang, a famous Xiang soldier, and was on a roll, winning Lien Chan and conquering Zhangzhou. He successively killed three commanders of the Qing army and attacked Fujian prefect Lin Wencha. This greatly inspired the morale of the Taiping Army, and Li Shixian tried his best to play the banner of "reviving the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". At this time, Li Xiucheng, Hong and King Xiaotian were all killed. Li Shixian is one of the only remaining "commanders of the Five Armies" and the only sovereign who can visit the headquarters of Taiping Army. Many remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom came to submit to the Taiping Army. At that time, Li Shixian's strength was greatly increased and its sphere of influence was constantly expanding. Almost the whole of southern Fujian is in the hands of Taiping Army. But the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is out of luck, and people are not possessed. The Qing army quickly mobilized heavy troops from Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Guangdong to suppress it. Zuo, the nemesis of Li Shixian, and Liu Dian, Jiang Yili and other generals besieged Zhangzhou and Yongding. More than 30,000 Taiping troops surrendered to the Qing army, and the rest were either dead or fled. On May 1865 and 15, the Qing army broke through Zhangzhou City, and when Li Shixian broke through the West Gate and retreated to the Yongding Han River, he was besieged by the Qing army, and people scattered. Li Shixian night tour, most of his men drowned. Under the cover of local people, he shaved his hair and hid it in the mountains, and then went to Jiaying, Guangdong Province, to find his subordinate Kang Wang Wang Haiyang.
Wang Haiyang is very popular in Guangdong, and the arrival of Li Shixian made him nervous. He was afraid that Li Shixian would punish him for disobeying orders and not saving Zhangzhou, and that Li Shixian would take away his hard-won power with the power of "Commander in Chief of the Five Armies". So on August 23rd, while Li Shixian was sleeping, he sent four confidants to kill him, at the age of 365,438+0.