Hunan Army: Upper Middle Lower

"Xiang Army" is the name given to the local armed forces in Hunan during the late Qing Dynasty. It was first called "Xiang Yong" and later called "Xiang Army". It was an armed force that commanded both domestic and foreign forces in modern Chinese history. This book is a comprehensive and in-depth general history of the Hunan Army. In the late Qing Dynasty, the peasant movement led by the Taiping Rebellion was raging, and the court was unable to maintain stability. Under the urgent situation, Emperor Xianfeng made an exception and promoted civil servants and generals from the grassroots. As a result, a generation of Hunan scholars emerged from the countryside. Zuo Zongtang, Jiang Zhongyuan, Liu Changyou, Luo Zenan and others joined the battle to defend the imperial court. Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Luo Bingzhang, Guo Songtao and other civil and military officials of the previous dynasty would also withstand the baptism of war. This book uses documentary techniques and starts from historical facts to describe the legendary life of the Hunan Army generals who were victorious in every battle. It panoramically reproduces the magnificent history of the Hunan Army's golden war and iron horses. It also shows a major change that profoundly affected the direction of China's modern times. Since 1851, the Hunan Army fought in most of China, fighting against the Taiping, suppressing the Nian Army, pacifying the northwest, establishing military camps, running Westernization, resisting the French, and resisting the Japanese invaders. Until the Battle of Niuzhuang in 1894, the Hunan Army was completely wiped out, and a period of history was vividly written. The author focuses on reproducing the multi-faceted nature of the Hunan Army generals, imitating more than a dozen famous officials in the late Qing Dynasty, including Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Hu Linyi, and discovering hundreds of Hunan Army generals who have been lost in the dust of history.