Xiang Rong

Xiang Rong
Born 1810
Wuxi County, Chongqing, China
Died 9 August 1856
Danyang, China
Allegiance Qing Dynasty
Years of service 1830–1856
Rank Field Marshal,1854
Unit Army group
Commands held Chief commander of Jiang Nan Da Ying
Battles/wars First rout the Army Group Jiangnan,1853--1856
Awards

created the royal BATURU(Manchu:the Brave) in 1853

created Imperial yellow jacket(黃馬褂) in 1857
buried in the Nanjing Pantheon.

Xiang Rong 向榮(?--9 August 1856) born in Wuxi County Chongqing, was a general promoted from the ranks of a foot soldier in Qing Dynasty. He was involved in early military operations against the Taiping reform movement in Guangxi from 1850. From then he was a Senior Colonel,after one year the military promoted him be the tidu of Guangxi, even though he failed, he made the Taiping believers run away from Guangxi.

Continuing after Guangxi, Xiang Rong never gave up and tracked Taiping across 3 provinces,His Jiang Nan Da Ying army was constantly defeated by the Taiping rebel army outside Nanjing. The Taiping rebel army broke through his various encirclements and occupied Wuhan and Nanjing and gave rise to this huge civil war of the 19th century.

Wounded

He and his vice commander Zhang Guoliang commanded a 90,000 together from April 1853.

In 1856, Xiang Rong's army combated against Qin Rigang for one month and was defeated by Qin Rigang's militia,Xiang Rong wounded and died after several days in the Danyang City.

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