The Taiping Army, which suffered a defeat in Guilin, continued its march northward into Hunan. At the dangerous Feiyidu outside Quanzhou, it was ambushed by Jiang Zhongyuan of the Qing Army. The two sides fought fiercely for two days and nights, and the Southern King Feng Yunshan was shot to death.

The Taiping Army then entered Hunan from the east bank of the Xiangjiang River and captured Daozhou. They reorganized their troops here, then abandoned Daozhou, marched eastward to occupy Chenzhou, and marched north towards Changsha.

At the same time, the traveling people quickly developed and penetrated into Guangxi, occupying large areas of rural areas, and started sporadic resistance struggles with the landlord class. Gradually, all the states in Guangxi were on fire. In just a few months,

It has developed to the point where it has begun to occupy some county towns.

Even so, the chaos in Guangxi still failed to attract enough attention from the Qing government, because at this time the Taiping Army was already besieging Changsha, and Changsha was in danger!

As Zhou You's men became more and more violent, Zhou You realized that the time had come and directly led his troops to besiege Guilin. Zou Minghe, the new governor of Guangxi, was shocked and hurriedly sent for help.

Zhou You led tens of thousands of troops to surround Guilin, but he was not in a hurry to attack the city. He just surrounded Guilin, naturally with the intention of encircling the city and calling for reinforcements.

Next, although Qing troops and local regiments came to rescue Guilin one after another, they were constantly ambushed and blocked along the way. It was as if Guangxi was full of bandits and bandits. It was difficult for them to move even an inch, and the food road was directly cut off. Faced with a

Villages and towns that had received information in advance on the road and adopted the strategy of strengthening their walls and clearing out the wilderness had no land to collect food on the spot.

In fact, how could there be any rogue bandits? They were all militiamen organized voluntarily by the people. Under their strategy of guerrilla harassment, the reinforcements from the Qing army were starving before they arrived in Guilin. So why fight?

In this way, in just one or two months, almost all the reinforcements of the Qing army in Guangxi were gone, but Zhou You's men and horses did not suffer much losses, but they also captured a lot of trophies.

Even if the Qing Dynasty reacted and mobilized soldiers and horses from Guizhou and Guangdong to assist Guangxi, once they entered Guangxi, it was like entering the ocean of peasant wars, and they were swallowed up without much waves.

Under the city of Guilin, in the Zhou army's camp, in the blink of an eye, Zhou You's troops have been besieging Guilin for two or three months. Zhou You is just like going out for an outing. He drinks tea, reads, and plays chess every day. He is very leisurely and comfortable. How can he be like this?

Come to fight!

However, from time to time, you can still hear news that your troops have won a battle or that they have captured a new county. Don't you think it's irritating to be able to just sit back and enjoy the gains?

After getting the news that Yong'an Prefecture was easily captured that day, Zhou You then learned the belated news from Hunan. Xiao Chaogui, the Western King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had died. Unfortunately, he was bombarded to death outside Changsha City.

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Zhou You, who sighed slightly in his heart, quickly sent someone to notify Hong Xuanjiao and Su Sanniang who were accompanying the army, and told them the new news.

"Xiao...Xiao Chaogui is dead?" When Hong Xuanjiao learned about this, she couldn't help but look surprised and complicated.

After all, this Xiao Chaogui almost became her husband, but now... The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has lost the great generals of the Southern King and the Western King Xiao Chaogui one after another before its great cause was achieved. It is really sad!

"The King of the West is dead, and the Taiping Army suffered another setback in Changsha. Will they withdraw to Guangxi? Once they come back, they will bring back the main force of the Qing army. Guangxi today..." Su Sanniang couldn't help but feel worried.

concern.

Nowadays, with the joint efforts of Zhou You, Su Sanniang, and Luo Gangxuan, Guangxi is in a good situation. It will not be too long to fully control Guangxi. It can be said that it is already Zhou You's base camp.

The power they have accumulated in Guangxi is so great that they may not be weaker than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or even stronger. If the Taiping Army comes back at this time, and there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, how can there be no conflict and acrimony?

"Sanniang, you don't need to worry too much!" Zhou You shook his head slightly and said: "Although the Taiping Army suffered a setback in Changsha, they also fought and won many battles along the way. Instead of getting weaker and weaker, they got stronger and stronger.

The stronger we are, otherwise we would not dare to attack Changsha casually."

"Xiao Chaogui's death was just an accident. The Taiping Army still has the strength to continue attacking Changsha," Zhou You continued: "Besides, even if Changsha cannot be captured, the Taiping Army can withdraw in time and continue to move north just like it did when it attacked Guilin.

, to attack Yuezhou, attack Wuchang, and even go all the way down the river to Jiangning. I think the King of Heaven and the others should have already thought about laying Jiangning as their foundation."

Hong Xuanjiao, who was taking a deep breath on the side, couldn't help but say after hearing Zhou You's words: "Ayou, do you think big brother and the others can really conquer Jiangning? It's so difficult for them to attack Changsha. Is Jiangning easier to conquer than Changsha?"

"Jiangning is not easy to fight, but when the Taiping Army actually reaches Jiangning, it will definitely be stronger than when they attacked Yong'an, Guilin and Changsha," Zhou You said noncommittally: "I look forward to the day when the King of Heaven and his companions capture Jiangning.

, or even build a capital in Jiangning, so that we can truly confront the Qing court and have the capital to compete with the Qing court for the world."

"Only I can act as a shield for you, so that you can follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and take advantage of it, occupy more territory, and have more troops, right?" Hong Xuanjiao rolled his eyes and wandered around: "No wonder you were unwilling to follow me before.

Big brother, it turns out you want to be the emperor yourself!"

Zhou You smiled awkwardly, but said directly: "Yes, I do want to compete for the world. And from the beginning, I am actually not optimistic about your eldest brother and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Maybe they can make a big fuss, but most of them

There is no hope of conquering the world."

"Throughout the history of China, no one has used religion to fool the people into revolting and finally conquered the world. This is because the strategy of fooling the people cannot truly win the hearts of the people, let alone the support and participation of truly knowledgeable people.

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Hong Xuanjiao opened her mouth, wanting to refute but didn't know what to say. In fact, during the more than a year since she was married to Zhou You, she had witnessed with her own eyes how Zhou You's men had developed and grown, and she increasingly felt that Zhou You was using

This method is more popular than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and develops faster. Naturally, it will have more hope of conquering the world than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future.

Although Guangxi is just a remote province, the harvest he gained from the things he traveled here has shown that his land distribution strategy has dealt a thorough blow to the landlord class, and it has simply drained the bottom of the cauldron.

Next, as almost all the counties in Guangxi were occupied one after another, those state capitals that were completely surrounded and blockaded also surrendered one after another. In the end, even Zou Minghe, the governor of Guangxi who could not wait for reinforcements, had no choice but to surrender in Kaicheng, because

There is no food in the city.

In this way, Zhou You almost conquered the entire Guangxi without a single blow, and managed it as a monolith. Then he promoted the idea of ​​​​universal unity in an attempt to recruit scholars and people of insight to join him and help him govern Guangxi and the future.

More territory will be gained.

Zhou You formally established the Datong Society, an organization that unified thought, and the men under his command also became the Datong Army. He did not call himself the king, but only claimed to be the leader of the Datong Army, but he still attracted the attention of the Qing court. Those who like movies and TV shows sign in
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