death_place death_date birth_place allegiance awards |serviceyears battles birth_date rank article_title name
yangzhou , nanjing , qing empire 10 january 1868 meizhou -lrb- 梅縣 -rrb- , guangdong , qing empire qing 1864 -rrb- nien rebellion -lrb- to 1868 -rrb- empire -lrb- to 1849 -rrb- taiping -lrb- to king of jun 1856 -- 1868 eastern front 1827 colonel general lai wenguang
 lai wenguang
lai wenguang

lai wenguang -lrb- 賴文光 , 1827 -- 1868 -rrb- , born in mei county -lrb- now meixian district -rrb- , guangdong , and later worked in guangxi , was an eminent military leader of the taiping rebellion and nien rebellion , and known during his military tenure as the king of zun -lrb- 遵王 -rrb- -lrb- `` believe god '' -rrb- .
he served under hong xiuquan 's taiping administration , and was hong xiuquan 's wife young brother .
he led taiping forces to many military victories .
in june 1865 , he commanded nien cavalry forces of 90,000 in surrounding and attacking the capital beijing , nearly successfully .
he was executed by li hongzhang after interrogation in february 1868 .
lai wenguang attracted many northern chinese to unite fighting against the qing government because people believed the aisin gioro had a secret agenda to stage a coup against empress dowager cixi .
his elder brother lai hanying was the taiping rebellion 's king early on , and one of the few of kings still alive after the civil war ended in 1870 .
as a child , future revolutionary sun yat-sen often heard the story of the taiping rebellion .
when mao zedong occupied beijing in 1949 , he commissioned lai first beijing military region commander , to commemorate him .
