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{{Infobox military person
|name=Li Xiucheng
|birth_date={{birth date|1823|0|0|df=y}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1864|8|7|1823|1|1|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Teng County|Teng]] (藤縣), [[Guangxi]], [[Qing Empire]]
|death_place=[[Jiangning District|Jiangning]], [[Nanjing]], [[Qing Empire]]
|image=StatueofLiXiucheng.jpeg|caption=Li Xiucheng |
|nickname= Philanthropist |
|allegiance= [[Qing Empire]] (to 1849)<br /> [[Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]] (to 1864)|
|serviceyears=1852–1864 |
|rank=Field Marshal |
|commands=
|unit=
|battles=Eastern campaign
*[[First rout the Army Group Jiangnan]](1856)
*[[Second rout the Army Group Jiangnan]](1860)
*Battle of Shanghai (1861--1863)
*[[Battle of Cixi]](1862)
*[[Determined battle of Northern Jiangsu]](1863)
*[[Battle of Suzhou]](1863)
*[[Third Battle of Nanking]](1864)
Western campaign
*Second Battle of [[Wuhan]](1854)
*[[Battle of Sanhe]](1858)
|awards=Loyal King|laterwork=}}

[[File:Li Xiucheng.jpg|Li Xiucheng]]
{{family name hatnote|[[Li (surname)|Li]]|lang=Chinese}}
'''Li Xiucheng''' ({{zh|c=李秀成|p=Lǐ Xiùchéng}}; 1823 &ndash; August 7, 1864) was an military commander during the [[Taiping Rebellion]], he borned in a poor peasant family, and known as the '''Loyal King''' (忠王)during his military tenure. This title was given because a general form [[Qing]] tried to bribe him to kill the leader of the [[Taiping Rebellion]]-[[Hong Xiuquan]], but he refused and told it to [[Hong Xiuquan]]. Bedsides, his loyalty led Taiping's forces to make a lot of military victories under [[Hong Xiuquan]]'s Taiping Administration. He was executed by [[Zeng Guofan]] after a interrogation in 1864. Li was the most important general during the latter part of the [[Taiping Rebellion]].

==Notable victories against the Qing military forces==
===Second rout of the Jiangnan Army Group===
The [[Army Group Jiangnan]] (江南大營) was an important [[Qing]]'s army barracks in [[Nanjing]]. Li Xiucheng tried to besieged it and let the [[Qing]]'s army starve out. This circumvent used twice by Li Xiucheng, besides; in the second encirclement, the [[Qing]] army commanded 200,000 soldiers to fight with Taiping forces from March 1858, but they were routed by Li Xiucheng in May 1860. After that, Li went on to occupy all of [[Jiangsu]] provinces except [[Shanghai]].

===The Two Attacks on Shanghai===
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*[[Battle of Shanghai (1861)]] (the second time)

==Escaped from Suzhou: Sadness==
Li Xiucheng's palace in [[Suzhou]] is the only one from the Taiping Rebellion that exists today. In July 1863, Li ordered his daughter's husband, [[Tan SauGuan]], to take over control of Suzhou. But [[Li Hongzhang]] lead the [[Why Army]] combined by the "Ever Victorious Army," which, having been raised by an American named [[Frederick Townsend Ward]], was placed under the command of [[Charles George Gordon]]. With this support, [[Li Hongzhang]] gained numerous victories leading to the surrender of [[Suzhou]].

==Determining battle: lead defend capital Nanjing==
===Chiang Donkey===
The Chiang Donkey (蔣驢子) was Li Xiucheng's [[stable]] manager. Before the fall of [[Nanjing]] after three months in 1864, Li Xiucheng took his wealth, including much treasure, to Chiang Donkey and asked Chiang to take it out of Nanjing quickly and wait for Li Xiucheng somewhere. Chiang promised and took treasure by 20 horses and [[cow]]s car, but Li was executed at last. Thus, Chiang Donkey became rich in Nanjing after the [[civil war]].


===Writing===
In ''[[Zhong Prince Li Xiucheng Describes Himself]]'' (《忠王李秀成自述》), the autobiographical account of a prince of the Heavenly Kingdom written shortly before his [[Execution (legal)|execution]] ([[Pseudohistory]] saying Li was suicide admitted by [[Zeng Guofan]] gave Li a sword because Zeng respected Li, even [[Li Hongzhang]] had been read this describes and praised '''Li Xiucheng was a [[hero]]''' on a letter to Zeng).

== Li's sword ==
When Li withdrew from [[Suzhou]], his sword—the symbol of his power—was given to his young brother [[Li Shixian]]. Li Shixian took this sword but lost and was captured by [[Charles George Gordon]] in [[Liyang]]. 

When [[Charles George Gordon]] came back to the [[UK]] with Li's sword, he gave it to [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]]'s cousin's brother, chief commander of the military the [[Duke]] of [[Cambridge]]. Who gave the sword to his brother's daughter.

On the 30. August 1961 a professor of history at the [[University of London]] discovered this sword. He was very excited, certain that the sword had belonged to the great revolutionary Li Xiucheng.

In 1981, this sword was returned to China and is currently stored in the [[National Museum of China]].

==Children==
Son
*[[Li Ronfar]] Battle of Shanghai (1861)

Li Xiucheng had three daughters, their husbands were Taiping generals:
*[[Tan SauGuan]]
*[[Chen Binwen]]

==Sources==
Tiān Guó Zwi(天國志)

[http://www.mrzl.com/mrjs/zhengjie/200603/mrjs_418.html]

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