曾国藩作为一介书生,行军打战不是他的本行。咸丰三年,他奉命出山举办团练,参与镇压太平天国起义,才真正接触到军事活动。此后经历了十多年的戎马生涯,曾国藩不断地总结与太平天国农民军作战的经验,并继承了中国古代优秀的兵法思想,逐步形成了一整套因地制宜,切中实际的建军思想。成了一个“足于古今中外名将相须顽而毫无逊色”的军事家。 Tseng Kuo-fan as a scholar, marching is not his line. Xianfeng three years, he was ordered out of the mountains to organize a group training, to participate in the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion, the real exposure to military activities. After more than a decade of military career, Zeng Guofan constantly summed up the experience of fighting the Peasant Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and inherited the excellent thought of the war art in ancient China and gradually formed a set of ideas for the establishment of the army in line with the local conditions and actual conditions. Became a “enough at all times and in all the famous stubborn stubbornly noisy ” military strategist.