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 buried in the Nanjing Pantheon. |
Xiang Rong 向榮(?--9 August 1856) born in Wuxi County Chongqing, was a general promoted from the rank of a foot soldier in the 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 a huge civil war of the 19th century.
Wounded
He and his vice commander Zhang Guoliang commanded a 90,000 man force together from April 1853.
In 1856, Xiang Rong's army fought against Qin Rigang for one month and was defeated by Qin Rigang's militia, Xiang Rong was wounded and died after several days in Danyang City.