On January 11, 1851, Hong Xiuquan (1814-1864) launched the Jintian Uprising in Jintian Village, Guangxi, which was named Taiping Tianwen, and the rebel army was called the Taiping Army. On March 19, 1853, the Taiping army occupied Nanjing and changed Nanjing to Tianjing. After setting the capital Tianjing, he sent Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Ji Wenyuan and others to lead more than 20,000 people to the Northern Expedition. In May 1853, the Northern Expeditionary Army set out from Yangzhou, passed through Anhui, Henan and other places, entered Zhili, approached Tianjin, and Emperor Xianfeng declared martial law in Beijing. In August, the Northern Expeditionary Army failed to attack Tianjin. In March 1855, Lin Fengxiang broke through the siege of Lianzhen and was captured. On April 3, he was inaugurated in Beijing. Li Kaifang retreated to Fengguantun in Shandong. After being captured, he was escorted to Beijing, where he was executed on June 11. After the Second Opium War, the Qing government borrowed troops from Britain and France to suppress the Taiping Movement. Incidents such as Yang Wei's rebellion and Shi Dakai's departure occurred within the Taiping Heavens. In 1862, Zeng Guofan besieged the Taiping army in three ways, and the main force attacked Tianjing from Anqing. On June 3, 1864, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and on July 19, Tianjing fell, and the Taiping Heavenly Palace fell.

The Taiping Army's Northern Expedition, a lone expedition, drove six provinces, although it was an elite division, but the support did not continue, and the whole army was inevitably wiped out. The vast number of soldiers fought bravely, shook the heart of the Qing Dynasty, pinned down a large number of Qing soldiers, and objectively played a supporting role in the struggle of the Taiping Army in the south and the people in the north.

Attack Changsha

In 1852, the Taiping army entered Hunan. After the expansion of the army in southern Shonan, it went all the way north, and the momentum was like a bamboo. In July, it had reached the south gate of Changsha, and at this time, it encountered the fierce resistance of the Qing army stationed in Changsha. Since the Taiping army entered Hunan Province, it did not encounter a single decent resistance from the Qing army, and the attack was quite smooth, so that it gradually despised the Qing army's combat effectiveness and considered it vulnerable. At this time, Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, took it lightly and attacked Changsha with light cavalry. During the attack on the city gate of Tianxin Pavilion in the south of Changsha, the Qing army was killed by a cannonball, and the Qing army got the corpse of Xiao Chaogui under the Miao Peak, and burned it. This incident shocked the entire Taiping army. After that, the Taiping army completely besieged Changsha and did not conquer it for several months.

At that time, after the Taiping army expanded its army in southern Hunan, there were tens of thousands of people. In the case of repeated attacks on Changsha, the army was tired, so they found a place to camp in the south of the city. This place was chosen at the foot of Erhu Mountain (now the Erhu Mountain Group of Jinping Village), as for why the Taiping Army stationed its troops here at that time, there are three reasons:

First, at the foot of Erhu Mountain at that time, there is a well, the name of the royal well, this well has excellent water quality, sweet taste, rich water source, the water level has not dropped in the year of the great drought, and the name of this well is very much in line with the psychology of Hong Xiuquan "called the emperor": drink the water of this well, it is a royal person. So it was decided to be stationed here. This well is located in the Zhujiaqiao Group of Jinping Village, named Wangjiajing, and is still an important water source for the production and life of the local and surrounding people and agricultural irrigation, and is applying for key protection of cultural relics.

Second, the north side of Erhu Mountain is a group of mountains and mountains, the terrain is dangerous, forming a natural barrier, the advance can be attacked, the retreat can be defended, the strategic location of the camp is very superior. So yellow flags were planted all over here to create momentum and boost morale, and all the soldiers were able to recuperate here. At that time, the place where the yellow flag was planted was today's Huangqiling Group in Jinping Village.

Third, according to legend, when the Taiping army attacked Changsha, a bronze bell in Nanjing City suddenly failed to ring for unknown reasons, and Nanjing City was the place where the Taiping Army was preparing to capture and serve as the capital. After a period of investigation and speculation, it was believed that the cause was a place where the Taiping army passed through Changsha - Lion Rock (now Simentang Group of Jinping Village). Why is it related to this mountain, according to the local elders, there was originally a temple on this mountain, named Zhang Shi'an, and there is an ancient tomb next to the temple. When the Taiping army passed by here, they did not go up the mountain to worship according to local customs, breaking the rules. After this matter was heard by the Wing King Shi Dakai, he was furious: Taiping Tianwan named me Shi Dakai as 5,000 years old, it was you'Zhang Shi'an' who made me jealous of Shi Dakai, how can I worship you. He then ordered his subordinates to destroy Zhang Shi'an and the ancient tomb. And stationed strongly around it.

After that, the Taiping army attacked Changsha, and after several months, it went to Ningxiang.