#338 - Taiping 15: The Summer of 10,000 Years
The Taiping Army is riding high. Having finally broken two massive, three-year-long sieges over the course of a single summer, ultimate victory seems within their grasp. Yet, that taste of triumph act...
19 Heinä 40min
#337 - Taiping 14: Tears Enough to Swell the River
Three months after the biggest win of his life, Zeng Guofan tries to drown himself.Again.His fleet gets ambushed, split in half, & set ablaze by a 23-year-old nobody bothered to worry about – right up...
13 Heinä 42min
#336 - Taiping 13: The Order of Caps and Shoes
Zeng Guofan goes to war to defend a fixed universe – and nearly drowns proving how unfixed his own place in it actually is. Across a single year, Hunan's most unlikely general brutally finds out that ...
7 Heinä 42min
#335 - Taiping 12: The Man In Hunan
While the Northern Expedition dies in the freezing mud of Shandong, the Taiping's second strike — the Western Expedition — turns its sights on the provinces they've already ridden through on the Yangt...
30 Kesä 37min
#334 - Taiping 11: The Spear of Heaven and the Winter Wolf
The Taiping Army commits to one of its most audacious acts yet – an assault on the Qing throne itself, a thousand miles north in Beijing. To reach it, it will launch its great Northern Campaign: a sin...
23 Kesä 31min
#333 - Taiping 10: All Things In Common
Finally pooled and stilled at Nanjing, in the afterglow of victory, the Taiping reflect on what they’ve become, and what they’ve yet to accomplish. In the cold light of the morning after, though, drea...
15 Kesä 39min
#332 - Taiping 9: Heaven Is A Place On Earth
The Heavenly Host arrives at last before the walls of the South Capital. What follows is not a battle so much as a verdict – rendered in powder, fire, and seven days of smoke and blood. A city is take...
8 Kesä 37min
