At that time, the Nian Army and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were not of the same nature. At first, they were just a group of smugglers, but when they grew up, they wanted to fight against the court. Zeng Guofan also understood that although they have certain influence, they are disorganized and have no distance, so they are loose and easy to deal with. At that time, Zeng Guofan was over 50 years old and didn't have much energy to deal with these things. In addition, he was already a very important person at that time and achieved the highest glory at that time. It's useless to get more credit. Li Hongzhang, who has been trained by himself, has no credit so far, so Zeng Guofan is ready to give this credit to Li Hongzhang.
In addition, Zeng Guofan ushered in an abandoned army at that time, and there was no decent army in his hand, so there was no way to fight against the northern army. Moreover, even if the Xiang army has not been cut, most of them are southern troops, which are suitable for water combat and not suitable for cavalry combat at all. So Zeng Guofan himself gave up this seemingly great contribution and prepared to give him to Li Hongzhang. At that time, China had formulated a series of measures to deal with Nian Jun, and gave them to Li Hongzhang when he left. Li Hongzhang not only responded to Zeng Guofan's measures, but also improved them.
He spent a lot of money to buy a foreign gun team to cooperate with foreigners at that time. Li Hongzhang is a young man after all. At that time, Nianjun was good at cavalry fighting and ran around like a loach. However, Zeng Guofan was also vulnerable in front of the iron drum that had been ambushed in advance. Li Hongzhang upgraded all the equipment, so he finally won the victory against the Nian Army. And Li Hongzhang also got a lot of credit for this battle. It's not about promotion. Promotion.