The Rsearch Of Li Hongzhang To Exeterminate The Nien

The Nien was an army force that actived in Huang-Huai region in the late Qing dynasty from 1853 to 1868, and it actived mainly in Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hubei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces. In the end of 1866, Li Hongzhang replaced Zeng Guofan as Imperial Inspector Minister, on the basis of the strategies of Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang insisted on the basis of the policy of flood-prevention work done on rivers, he perfected the strategy and innovatively put forward "The conjugate to take China", "borrow the right place to encircle and suppress", "shrink to enlace and encircle" and a series of strategies. He regained the passive to active prevention, by relying on complex conditions of geomorphology and hydrology, he appointed his army to encircle and suppress the Nien, surrounded the Nien by step and step, winded down the encirclement, forced the Nien cannot exploit the advantage of cavalry to full, at the same time, he implemented the policy of "strengthening the defenses and clearing the fields" and "offer amnesty and enlistment to rebels " to disintegrated the cohesion force of the Nien, and he took the initiative to arrange military deployment timely.Li Hongzhang had strong support and flexible command for Huai-army in the war, even his strategies and military deployment encountered internal contradictions obstruct and local officials’ resistance of the Qing government in the implement process, they did not affect the ending picture, eventually, Li Hongzhang success to exterminate the Nien. Since then, Li Hongzhang relied on the ranks of work and career to exterminate the Nien, this made an important stage for him become the enormously influential statesman of the influence of the political situation in late Qing dynasty.This paper is divided into three parts:preface, text and conclusion. The preface introduces the selected topic significance and purpose of this article, research methods and emphasis, and related academic research. The text is divided into five chapters, the first chapter briefly introduces the main content and specific performance of the strategies to exterminate the Nien by Li Hongzhang. The second and third chapters respectively analysis how these strategies implemented in the important battles in Hubei, Shandong and north of Jiangsu. The fourth chapter analysis Li Hongzhang encountered resistance in the process of implementation of these strategies. The fifth chapter analysis the reasons why Li Hongzhang practiced these strategies to conquer the Nien force successfully. The third part is the conclusion that is to make a brief summary for the full text.