Hunan Army Chronicles
by Wang Kaiyun
About This Novel
Wang Kaiyun himself had a close relationship with many Hunan Army generals, and he also admired Zeng Guofan. In order to write this book, in addition to personal experiences and word-of-mouth from visits, he also managed to borrow a large number of files from the Military Aircraft Department and asked people to make maps. It took seven years to complete the book. However, in addition to praising the heroic achievements of the Hunan Army in the book, he also described the fierceness of the Taiping Army in the early stage, the contradictions between the various factions within the Qing Dynasty, the devastation of the Hunan Army in the early stage of repeated defeats, and Zeng Guoquan's plundering and annexation of property after conquering Jiangning, and described them one by one. Therefore, as soon as the book was printed, it was attacked by the Hunan army generals, who considered it a "slanderous book" and forced Wang Kaiyun to hand over the original edition to Guo Jiutao for destruction to avoid disaster. For this reason, later generations of scholars once praised this work for its "brilliant writing style and the best sensual literature among the miscellaneous histories of our country in the past millennium" and as "the clearest judge of right and wrong, and the best history of the post-Tang Dynasty".
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