How strong is the fighting capacity of Xiang? Why did Zeng Guofan say that China could not be defeated?

Since the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guopan has been leading the Xiang army to fight bloody battles for the country and the nation, so that he often hears that "Xiang people will not fall, and China will not die". Only eight years after World War I, Hunan Province was captured and occupied by the Japanese army for seven years! In these seven years, two million people from Hunan Province alone participated in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Changsha, the provincial capital, was in ruins in the battle of Changsha, and the official history was in this battle. Lao Jiang sighed. Hunan people's national integrity is printed in their bones. Hunan will not fail and China will not perish.