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What other cases of "literati leading troops" were there in the Qing Dynasty?

Another situation of "literati leading troops" in the late Qing Dynasty was the Xiang Army system founded by Zeng Guofan, which directly took literati as officers to lead troops. According to Luo Ergang's book Military Records of Xiang Army, among the 182 generals at all levels found in historical records, there are actually 104 with literary background, accounting for 58%. In particular, most senior generals above the command level are literati and scholars, and military attaché s are only at the grassroots battalion level. This can be said to be an unprecedented phenomenon in history, indicating that the rule of the Qing Dynasty was indeed at the most critical moment, and Zeng Guofan successfully interpreted the crisis of the rule of the Qing Dynasty as the crisis of China's traditional famous religion, thus successfully mobilizing so many literati to join the army, and he did not want to get involved anyway. Later, Li Hongzhang modeled the Xiang Army system to form the Huai Army, but there was no such prominent phenomenon as literati leading troops. According to Wang's Records of the Huai Army, among the 432 generals of the Huai Army, only 5% were literati, and most of the Huai Army shogunate was composed of literati, which was still the traditional system of "using literature to control martial arts". Of these shogunate officials, 65,438+00 later became governors and governors, but only four of the military commanders reached this position.