Repeated Defeats and Repeated Battles: the Story of the Iron-Blooded Hunan Army

Three major defeats, one bloody flag. He was fished out of the river, and "serial defeats and repeated battles" were engraved into the bones of the Hunan Army. In the third year of Xianfeng's reign, at the foot of Yuezhou City, Zeng Guofan watched the Xiangxiang children scattered all over the mountains and swallowed the last tartary buckwheat from his hometown. Yanglousi's blood, Jiangxi's siege, Shi Dakai's knife—— Three collapses, three reunions. When the veteran guarded the commander's flag with his severed finger, when the remnant soldiers crawled hundreds of miles to return to the army, when the whole army shouted in their local accent, "The head can be cut off, the blood can be shed, but the Hunan Army flag will not fall down"—— A group of farmers who once knelt down to worship the land embroidered camellia flowers into their clothes and became the hardest bones of the mountains and rivers. Historical military + iron-blooded group portraits + growth in adversity Dedicated to all those who stand tall like a flagpole in desperate situations.