Bloody War: the History of the Hunan Army's Conquests

The Hunan Army is an armed force that commands the attention of both China and foreign countries in modern Chinese history. At a time when China's destiny was in the sunset and the Qing government was in danger and almost unsustainable, the appearance of the Hunan Army was a shot in the arm for the Qing court. It was not only the hope of the Qing court in stabilizing the domestic political situation, but also the force that the Qing court relied on to fight externally and maintain the overall situation of unification. As a result, the late Qing court also had a vague atmosphere of resurgence. At the same time, it was this army that created the status of Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Peng Yulin and others as famous officials of the ZTE. This book uses rich historical materials to comprehensively tell the history of the Hunan Army's civil war and foreign wars. The civil war mainly includes the bloody battles between the Hunan Army and the Taiping Army and the Nian Army. The foreign war mainly includes the struggle between the Hunan Army and foreign enemies such as the Agub invaders, Tsarist Russia, France, Japan, and Germany, such as Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang, the Sino-French War, and the Sino-Japanese War of 1888-1895. Every battle is concrete and tangible, and the characters are described with flesh and blood. At the same time, this book provides an in-depth and three-dimensional interpretation of this highly distinctive armed force that "does not need officials, money, or lives" from many aspects such as personnel composition (soldiers are selected as generals, and soldiers are generals), military training concepts (military discipline, and ideological education), strategies and tactics (static), humanistic character (Hunan people's domineering character). Yang Du once said, "If China is destroyed, all the people of Hunan must die!" This is an extremely accurate explanation of the Hunan Army's loyalty, iron-bloodedness, and good fighting skills.