This is no traditional historical biography, but a heroic epic reverberating through cyberspace. This book will take you through the mists of time and back to the cataclysmic mid-nineteenth century, recreating the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s most dazzling military star, Prince Ying Chen Yucheng, through immersive prose, multidimensional perspectives, and powerful emotion.
Barely into his twenties, he had already shaken the land with his renown and earned the enemy’s title of “the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s finest warrior.” Rising from humble beginnings, he campaigned across the Yangtze and Huai regions and, for a time, held up the kingdom as it teetered on the brink of collapse. This book focuses not only on the military legends of his “turnabout charge” that broke through the Northern Jiangsu Camp and his annihilation of elite Xiang Army troops at Sanhe Town, but also delves into his loyalty, hardship, and struggles as a pillar of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. You will meet a Chen Yucheng who is fully human: his idealism about the kingdom, his complicated relationship with the Hong family, his desperate efforts to hold things together after the bloodbath of the Tianjing Incident, and finally his controversial fall at Shouzhou and his valiant death at Yanjin, Henan.
