Zhu Hongzhang (Chinese: 朱洪章; pinyin: Zhū Hóngzhāng; 1820?
– 1895), born in Liping, Guizhou, was a Han Chinese official and a military general of the late Qing Dynasty in China.
He joined the Xiang Army to fight against the Taiping Rebellion and to restore the stability of the Qing state.
During the Battle of Nanjing (1864), on 19 July the attackers detonated explosives in a tunnel under Taiping Gate (太平), bringing somewhere between 2 and 10 km of the wall down.
Zhu led 1800 soldiers through the breach, into the city, but 460 were killed by the bombs of the weakened Taiping defenders.