Jiangnan DaYing

Jiangnan DaYing (Chinese: 江南大營 or the Army Group Jiangnan; (first： 1853 - 1856 and second： 1857 - 1860) was an army group in China. The Qing government raised the Green Standard Army to quell the Taiping Rebellion. Qing twice surrounded Nanjing (the capital of the Taiping Rebellion) and lost at last.

1853—1856: when the armies of the Taiping Rebellion occupied Nanjing, after 10 days Xiang Rong in command of a 10,000 strong Green Standard Army tracked them to Taiping and stationed outside the Nanjing wall.

The headquarters of the Jiangnan DaYing were located in Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.

Imperial Commissioner： First Class Senior General Xiang Rong (向榮)

Military commander： Second Class Senior General Her Chyun

Lieutenant General： Zhang GuoLiang

Shi Dakai, Yang Xiuqing, Qin Rigang (秦日綱), Li Xiucheng

The 80,000 soldiers in the regular Army faced 460,000+ in the Taiping Rebellion militia force.

On June 1, 1856, an army tried to stop the Taiping forces but the Governor of Jiangsu Jeer Hungar (吉爾杭阿), Mayor of Nanjing, lost and his army of 7,800 were all killed.

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