Talk:Battle of Jiangnan (1860)

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What the hell is this? Babelfish? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.65.245.7 (talk) 15:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This article seems inconsistent and biased. Both the first and second routings of the Jiangnan army groups presumably involved besieging Nanjing (judging from the Battle of Nanking (1856) article, and the introduction passage in this article), whereas the main body of this article seems to have nothing to do with this. Should the main body of this article be deleted? Ravensburg13 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:20, 8 January 2011 (UTC).[reply]

I think having a look at the map from the zh version of this article helps, my reading of the map is that in laying the siege lines, the Qing guarded their river supply route by placing detachments in towns commanding the river. Rather than attack the Qing siege lines around Nanking directly, the Taiping general chooses to pocket the towns in the surrounding countryside (solid red lines), threatening to cut the Qing supply route by taking the towns down river. The Qing general sends 36000 men on a wild goose chase to prevent this. The Taiping army eludes these 36000, and heads back to Nanking (dashed red line) and in concert with a sortie by Taiping troops in the city routs the besieging Qing.--KTo288 (talk) 17:08, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]