The Twister Rebellion took place when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was set to be the capital of Tianjing. Influenced by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the large and small twister armies that were originally active in northern Anhui united with the Taiping Army to resist the decadent rule of the Qing Dynasty. In the autumn of 1855, the Zhulu Twister Army promoted Zhang Le as an ally at the Pheasant River In Bozhou, Anhui. At its peak, the Twister Army had hundreds of thousands of men and horses, and because they did not have a clear strategic goal, they never became a major climate.
After the "Tianjing Revolution", the main force of the Twist army under the leadership of Zhang Lexing descended south from the Huai River, and Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng, the rising stars of the Taiping Army, were operating the area around Tongcheng, Shucheng, and Lu'an in Anhui. Zhang Lexing took the initiative to send people to contact the Taiping Army, and the two sides met at Sanhejian in March 1857. After Chen Yucheng's recommendation to the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, Hong Xiuquan granted Zhang Lexing and other leaders the official position of heavenly kingdom, and from then on the twist army accepted the leadership of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the form of listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement.
In July 1864, when Tianjing was captured by the Xiang Army, Lai Wenguang, the King of Zun, who had made an expedition against Henan and Shaanxi by Fengying King Chen Yucheng, led the remnants of the Taiping Army to form a new Twist Army with zhang Zongyu and Renhua Bangbu when he failed to rescue Tianjing and the whole army was annihilated in Huoshan, Anhui Province, and Chen Decai committed suicide by taking poison. Lai Wenguang undertook to appoint Zhang Zongyu as the King of Liang and Ren Huabang as the King of Lu, and the whole army was reorganized according to the old system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Lai Wenguang was the leader of the whole army.
After Lai Wenguang's reorganization, the new Twister Army was mainly cavalry, and its battle against the enemy was known for its swiftness, and the person who led the Twister Army to charge was the famous cavalry general Ren Huabang of Lu.
Ren Huabang became one of the leaders of the Twist Army when he was less than twenty years old. He always took the lead in the battle, and his level of courage and good fighting was even impressed by li Hongzhang, who was scheming and calculating, calling him "the first riding general of today!" ”
After the Qing court learned of the formation of the new Twister Army, it immediately used the Mongol prince Monk Gelinqin to suppress the Twister Army. The fighting ability of the cavalry led by this monk Greenqin was at that time on a par with the Xiang and Huai armies of the Taiping Army, and Empress Dowager Cixi used him to use the fierce Mongol cavalry against the warlike Twister cavalry.
Since 1855, when the Town of Jinghai lian in Tianjin destroyed the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led by Lin Fengxiang, the monk Greenqin had always been relied upon by the imperial court, and his cavalry had been stationed near the capital, and the Xiang army named Gongwei Jingshi was actually defended against the changes of Zeng Guofan's Xiang army.
Fortunately, Zeng Guofan was wise, and after the Xiang army invaded Tianjing, he took the initiative to write to the imperial court to dismiss the Xiang army. This time, the new Twister Army held high the banner of righteousness, and Empress Dowager Cixi deliberately let the Xiang Army not use it, but ordered the monk Greenqin to quell the Twister Rebellion.
After the monk Gelinqin, who thought that the world's cavalry was unparalleled, received the will of the imperial court, he rushed to Caozhou, Shandong Province, day and night. When more than 30,000 tired Mongol cavalry entered the ambush circle of the Twister Army, with the order of Lai Wenguang, Ren Huabang rushed into the enemy group for the first time, and the thirty thousand tired Mongol cavalry rushed into the enemy group for the first time, and the thirty thousand tired Mongol cavalry fought in a panic, and the Mongol cavalry that the Twist army attacked in a few charge was unable to form an army, but the well-trained Mongol cavalry still made stubborn resistance, especially the guards of the Monk Greenqin were fighting around the monk Greenqin to the death. Until all were killed, the monk Greenqin himself fought until he was finally killed by zhang Pixiu, a young general of the Twist army.
The news reached Beijing, and the Qing court raised its head in mourning. Empress Dowager Cixi, while doing a funeral for the monk Gelinqin, urgently ordered Zeng Guofan to lead the Huai army to suppress the Twist army.
Upon learning of the arrival of Zeng Guofan's Xiang army, Lai Wenguang decided to divide his forces with Zhang Zongyu, the King of Liang, and historically called Zhang Zongyu's troops who marched to the Shaanxi area as Xituo, and Lai Wenguang and Ren Huabang's troops who marched into Henan as Dongtuo.
The old and slippery Zeng Guofan believed that if he wanted to destroy the Twister Army, he must first eliminate the Eastern Twister Army led by Lai Wenguang, who was good at planning, and Ren Huabang, who was good at war. However, the Huai Army belonged to Li Hongzhang, and although it originated from the Xiang Army, it was different from the Xiang Army, so Zeng Guofan was not very good at commanding, so he also lost consecutively in the battle against the Twist Army. The most tragic one was the Battle of yinlong River in the Hubei Mountains of the Huai Army, liu Mingchuan. In order to realize the plan of the Twist army to enter Sichuan and establish his own base area, Ren Huabang braved the Huai army's guns and guns to lead the cavalry to break Liu Mingchuan's defense line. More than 20,000 people of the Huai army were annihilated under the fierce impact of the cavalry led by Ren Huabang, of which none of the foreign gun team to which the foreign instructor Binel belonged survived, many Huai generals died under the twisted saber, and even Liu Mingchuan took off his yellow coat and sat on the ground to die. If it were not for the arrival of Bao Chao, the fierce general of the Xiang Army, Liu Mingchuan's troops would have been completely annihilated by the Twist Army.
Because of Zeng Guofan's consecutive defeats, the imperial court had to use Li Hongzhang to pacify the Twist army.
When Li Hongzhang rushed to the front of the army, Zeng Guofan summed up his experiences and lessons from his repeated defeats in the battle against the Twist army when he said goodbye to him, and worked out with Li Hongzhang a battle plan for eliminating the Twist Army.
Li Hongzhang adopted the method of building a long wall and laying heavy troops to fortify everywhere to deal with the Twister cavalry, and although it was still unfavorable to fight with the Twister Army in the early days, as the circle of operations of the Twister Cavalry became smaller and smaller, Lai Wenguang and Ren Huabang decided to wait for an opportunity to organize elite cavalry to break through Li Hongzhang's defense line in order to break the enemy's heavy encirclement.
In this great battle, both the Twist Army and the Huai Army fought the final battle with the determination to break the net of fish, and the Twist Army's Zun Wang Lai Wenguang, Lu Wang Ren Huabang, jing wang Niu Hongsheng, and shou wang Fan Ruzeng all went into battle.
At the beginning of the great war, Ren Huabang, the king of Lu, took the lead in launching a rapid attack on Liu Mingchuan's troops, and the Huai army gradually retreated under the attack of the Twist army cavalry, and just as Ren Huabang led the Twist army to highlight the heavy siege of the Twist army, Pan Guisheng, a traitor of the Twist army who was bribed by Liu Mingchuan with 20,000 silver and three pins, took advantage of the fog and suddenly fired several shots at Ren Hua Bang. After Ren Huabang fell, Pan Guisheng and his men shouted, "King Lu is dead!" King Lu is dead! After hearing the shouting, the Twister Army was suddenly in disarray, and tens of thousands of Twister soldiers and horses were killed under the siege of the Huai Army. Although Lai Wenguang, the King of Zun, led thousands of people through the siege, he was soon defeated by the Huai army in Yangzhou, and Lai Wenguang, the king of Zun, was captured and sacrificed, and the history of the Eastern Twister Army was also drawn by Li Hongzhang on this day.