Analysis On Hu Linyi's Military Thought

Hu Linyi is one of the important military officials of Xiangjun in late Qing dynasty. He was appointed as the governor of Guizhou for years. During his governor prefecture , he caught the robbers and did bandit suppression, thus his reputation rose. In Xianfeng fourth year, He was transferred to a new post in Hubei for the need of suppression of the Taiping Heaven Kingdom Movement. He died of illness in Wuchang in August of Xianfeng eleventh year. More than 10 years of military practice has helped him form a system of military thought ,which including:The founding thought on an armed force was to adopt reduces and recruits to play the phase modulation union, which wantonly armed forces founding an armed force. Not only was the election of the good would be given, also strict control of quantity and quality of troops would be done. Then formation of the initiation of military thought.The training troops thought was the standardized system, strict discipline; wife to Germany, and treat people with sincerity. Pay close attention to the management, internal relationships and the adjustment of civil-military relations, and ensure the armed forces combat capability.Strategic thought was the far-sight, comprehensive care to the whole to take over the system and step by step strategy. And pay attention to enemy forces, then take active defense, with the outside of the killing enemies strategy to achieve the objective of the territory.Tactical thought, inherited the outstanding ancient China's military thinking, is the "static to brake to the main hospitality to the entire Royal scattered to the Yat question"; the strategy in fighting with enemy, was to address the relationship between the concentration and dispersion, advocating " Early efforts will be seeking for the full use of the army, to divide the whole into branches before fight.Spy thought. he considered that a spy played an important role in the whole combat. Therefore, in the war, attention should be paid in four-exploration, detecting the actual situation about enemy. For the hardness to find informers, he proposed high reward strategy.Military technology thought. He paid attention to the rational use of weapons, advocated increasing marine armed ship models. But some people were in favor of guns, he proposed a opinion of"supply of copper Gun is suitable for guarding, for marine troops but not for the infantry". At the same time , he made full use of armed forces or organized army warring parties to meet confrontation. His analysis from actual combat pratices, giving full consideration to soldiers'psychological operations, developing a good combating system, greatly improved the military combating capability of Hunan and Hubei troops.Civil Defence thought was done on four aspects: Bao-Jia, Tuanlian, the fortress and towers. Bao-Jia was that"the first thing to do for guarding", to remve suffering from the Qing, a reminder of the fundamental Branch; Tuanlian is an integral part of resisting the foreign aggression,"was important for keeping integral". The two are mutually complementary . And about towers in, he believes that"no-wild while thieves ransacked while the fort was dependable". This is of use to the people and economic strength.Quartermaster thought was of "doing more and less work for the benefit of himself" principle, political education to the officials on virtues so as to ensure that the limited money was spent on more quartermaster.From Hu Linyi integrated military thought, we can feel its physical nature, transmission, development, practical features. It played a role in the history of China's military thought. By the former, it is because of his military thought deeply rooted in the traditional culture soil, imbued with the light of traditional military thought.Hu Linyi has made many new interpretation to traditional military studies , also made many rich references or propositions.It not only promoted the development of traditional military studies, but also had a great enlightenment for future generations.Of course, the military thought of Hu Linyi has obvious limitations. As a member of landlord class, its class nature is evident. In addition, compared with Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan cognitive gap, by ignoring of the view of emerging things, the conservative is also clear. But of Hunan military officers at that time, the people like Hu Linyi who had military achievements was rare. His military thought has had great impact on his and future generations. Studying on the military thought of Hu Linyi, we can not only get another interpretation for the failure of the Taiping Heaven Kingdom movement from a broader perspective, also promote the studying depth and breadth on history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and farmers war history. Much of the military thought of Hu Linyi is in line with the current modern military science , which provies a good reference to our modern army development and military studies.