Judging from Li Xiucheng s performance after being captured, does he really want to surrender to the

After Li Xiucheng was defeated and captured, he wrote a confession of 50,000 or 60,000 words, but this long confession was not completely preserved, but was deleted by Zeng Guofan, and only more than 30,000 words remained. So if Li Xiucheng can write so many words, does he really want to surrender? Since it was a surrender, why was Zeng Guofan so angry after seeing it?

Soon after Li Xiucheng handed in his confession, he was killed by Zeng Guofan, which shows that Li Xiucheng's surrender must have been boring. Let's analyze whether Li Xiucheng really surrendered.

1. Li Xiucheng said that he was afraid of death and saved his life. Some people say that Li Xiucheng is afraid of death, so he wrote so many confessions, and he explained everything in detail, just to save his life. But this claim does not seem to hold water.

We can take a look at Lee so-sung's performance during his lifetime. After Li Xiucheng participated in the Taiping Army, he fought in the south and the north, and he has always been a brave man. This is obviously the opposite of Li Xiucheng's personality characteristics.

Second, it is said that Li Xiucheng surrendered sincerely. As a general, Li Xiucheng can take charge alone, and there is no lack of opportunities to surrender, but in fact, Li Xiucheng has had many crises and difficult moments, and he has turned the danger into a disaster and did not do so. When Hong Xiuquan was crowned king, Li Zhaoshou provoked the relationship between Li Xiucheng and Hong Xiuquan, and secretly persuaded Li Xiucheng to surrender to the Qing army in Pukou.

Even Hong Xiuquan began to be wary of Li Xiucheng everywhere, but Li Xiucheng loyally guarded the gate on the north bank of Tianjing. Hong Xiuquan was very moved, and named Li Xiu as the loyal king.

3. Li Xiucheng surrendered fraudulently. When Zeng Guofan went from Anhui to Tianjing to interrogate Li Xiucheng, Li Xiucheng not only expressed his willingness to surrender, but also proposed a "charter for collecting all of them." Last night, Cheng Lao Zhongtang was transferred to the pre-drive interrogation, and the favor was revealed, and there was no reason for the true report."

Now seeing the kindness of the old Zhongtang, the crime will be rewarded in advance." These words all played a role in inducing Zeng Guofan, so Li Xiucheng should have surrendered by fraud.

It should be a fraudulent surrender, Li Xiucheng wrote a confession of fifty or sixty thousand after being captured, and then was deleted to more than 30,000 by Zeng Guofan, if he really wants to surrender, why is Zeng Guofan so angry after reading it, the confession was handed over and he was killed shortly after, it can be seen that Li Xiucheng's surrender is greasy, and it is likely to be an expedient measure to save his life.

He surrendered by fraud, and he once gathered the rest of his Taiping army to support Zeng Guofan's claim as emperor, and it can be seen that he is still not giving up.

There are different theories, some people say that Li Xiucheng is afraid of death, so he wrote so many confessions, and explained everything in detail, just to save his life.

In order to cover up the atrocities of the Hunan army. Why did Zeng Guofan want to execute Li Xiucheng quickly after he wrote his confession? There are also several rumors about this.

First, after Li Xiucheng was captured, Zeng Guofan said that he "offered mercy" and wanted to emulate Jiang Wei, a famous Shu Han general during the Three Kingdoms period. Jiang Wei won the attention of Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, and after his death, he was in charge of the military alone. In the seventh year of Jingyao (263), Wei attacked Shu, and the later lord Liu Chan surrendered, Jiang Wei vowed to recover Shu, knowing that Wei General Zhong would have the heart of rebellion, so he pretended to surrender and conspired with Zhong Hui to rebel and was killed.

Second, it is rumored that Li Xiucheng lobbied Zeng Guofan to rebel against the Qing Dynasty in prison and was killed after unsuccessfully. This is also mentioned by the Taiping historian Mr. Luo Ergang in his writings, and Zeng Guofan's granddaughter also talked about this with her children in her later years. Speaking of Mr. Luo Ergang's historical book about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it took him ten years of painstaking work to build, and later due to the appearance of the original work, Mr. Luo overturned and rewrote it.

The third is to cover up the atrocities of the Hunan army. It is said that after the capture of Tianjing, the Hunan army obtained a lot of property, and only a part of it was handed over to the imperial court. In addition, if Li Xiucheng goes to Beijing, what he wants to say, Zeng Guofan is somewhat taboo.

For more than 100 years, because Li Xiucheng surrendered to Zeng Guofan, the evaluation of him by later generations has been constantly changing.

Li Xiucheng can be said to be the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After Hong Xiuquan's death, Li Xiucheng, as the loyal king, accompanied the little king in the conflict, but unfortunately, in the process of breaking through, Li Xiucheng and the large army were separated, and on July 23, 1864, Li Xiucheng was captured and put into the hands of Zeng Guoquan. Zeng Guofan knew that Zeng Guoquan interrogated Li Xiucheng in the camp, and Li Xiucheng wrote tens of thousands of words to Zeng Guofan, but he didn't expect that Zeng Guofan immediately executed Li Xiucheng.

1. Zeng Guofan interrogated Li Xiucheng. Zeng Guofan knew that Li Xiucheng was arrested, so he rushed to Zeng Guoquan's military camp to interrogate Li Xiucheng as soon as possible, and on July 28, the first arraignment began, and on July 30, Li Xiucheng began to write his own statement. In his self-report, he described all the things he had done since he joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, including all the inside stories of the Taiping Army, and sprinkled as many as 50,000 or 60,000 words, which shows that Li Xiucheng's attitude of admitting mistakes is good, but in less than 10 years, on August 7, Li Xiucheng was executed.

Second, Li Xiucheng wrote about the killing of the Hunan army. According to the records of Zhao Liewen, a staff member of Zeng Guofan:

On the day of the city breaking, the people are killed, the house is burned, the children are jade, and the number of sweeps is all entered into the Hunan army, which coincides with June, and the corpses are blocked and smellyThe city is surrounded by old and wide bandits, and the old and weak local people who cannot carry the burden and have no cellar to dig are killed. Nine out of ten of the dead along the street were elderly, and their young children under the age of two or three were also killed as a play, crawling on the road.

There is no one in the age of forty, none of the women are injured, or more than ten knives, the sound of wailing reaches far away, Qinhuai is long, and the corpse is like a mess, which can be outrageous.

You must know that the Hunan army is Zeng Guofan's heart, if such a text is seen by the Qing **, then Zeng Guofan will only have to mention it, so Zeng Guofan must execute Li Xiucheng and destroy this evidence.

3. Li Xiucheng instigated Zeng Guofan to raise troops to resist. There is also a saying that Li Xiucheng once instigated Zeng Guofan to oppose the Qing Dynasty, after all, Zeng Guofan had hundreds of thousands of troops under him at that time, and there were also some surrendered troops. But Zeng Guofan is a loyal figure, and his side is full of the eyes of the imperial court, if this kind of words reach the ears of the imperial court, Zeng Guofan can't say it clearly, so he can only execute Li Xiucheng immediately.

There is no way to verify the truth about him, but it can still be roughly guessed from the few words. At that time, Li Xiucheng, who had pretended to surrender, had been inducing Zeng Guofan to establish himself as king and rebel against the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and Zeng Guofan at that time seemed to be indeed a little shaken. In addition, Li Xiucheng also mentioned the various atrocities of the Hunan army in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

These are all extremely unfavorable things for Zeng Guofan, so in order to save his reputation and life, Zeng Guofan finally got rid of Li Xiucheng.

Zeng Guofan immediately put him to death, which shows his anger. Then it is not difficult to speculate that Li Xiucheng must have said something that angered Zeng Guofan, and he did not blindly give in, but insisted on his own opinion.

Personally, I feel that he should have really surrendered, after all, survival is still more important.

After Li Xiucheng was captured, he really surrendered because he wanted to live.

I think he really surrendered, because he had long been disappointed in Hong Xiuquan.

Li Xiucheng really defected to the enemy, he was already dissatisfied with Hong Xiuquan, and after being captured, he surrendered to Zeng Guofan for his own future.

This fierce general is Zhu Hongzhang. Although Zhu Hongzhang was the first to rush into Tianjing and capture Li Xiucheng, Zeng Guopan found several reasons to give Zhu Hongzhang's credit to others, and Zhu Hongzhang ranked third.

His ending is still very good, because he has made a lot of achievements, so he has a good life in the second half of his life.

Zeng Guofan won the title of named commander for other generals, and Zhu Hongzhang could only get the rank of commander-in-chief.