Rather than attaching importance to it, it is more accurate to say that it is fear and fear. Zhou You was able to capture Guangxi quietly and without a single blow, gathering so many people and horses to make Guangxi an almost impenetrable territory. This ability and

The wrist is really terrible!

At the same time, the Taiping Army, which had been attacking Changsha for a long time, withdrew and headed north, passing through Yiyang, leaving Xiangyin, crossing Dongting, occupying Yuezhou, and then moved east along the Yangtze River by land and water, and captured Wuchang, an important town in Hubei Province, in early 1853.

, completely shocked the Qing court.

This was just the beginning. Next, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Army, which boasted 500,000 troops and more than 10,000 ships, and marched down the river in a mighty manner. They conquered Jiujiang, Anqing, and Wuhu. They were like a broken bamboo, and they were killed in just over a month.

Jiangnan important town was under the city of Jiangning and captured it in one fell swoop.

As a result, the Qing court, which shocked both the government and the public, focused its main attention on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After all, even if Zhouyou occupied Guangxi, it was just a poor province in the remote south, but Jiangning was too important. The Taiping Army

Occupying Jiangning will directly threaten the Qing Dynasty's prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to occupying half of the Qing Dynasty!

After occupying Jiangning, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital here, renamed Jiangning as Tianjing, and sent troops to capture Zhenjiang and Yangzhou as a barrier to Tianjing.

Immediately afterwards, the main force of the Qing army also rushed to intercept the Taiping Army. Xiang Rong, the imperial envoy who had been chasing the Taiping Army from Guangxi, led his troops to establish the Jiangnan Camp in the east of Tianjing City. Later, Manchu Qi, who was also appointed as the imperial envoy

Shanze led the troops and established the Jiangbei Camp outside Yangzhou City.

The two Qing army camps coordinated with each other, trying to prevent the Taiping Army from developing eastward and northward, and waiting for an opportunity to recapture Jiangning City.

While the Qing army was busy dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it completely controlled the movement around Guangxi, and also let its troops penetrate into Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Hunan. It was still a small group of troops disguised as rogues to deal with the local powerful and evil gentry.

Tian's strategy is to develop local armed forces and recruit enough people to surround the cities from the countryside and turn big cities into isolated islands.

Now, the Qing court was not so easy to fool. Faced with the situation of "rogue bandits" in several southern provinces, the top officials of the Qing court, realizing that the situation was not good, quickly dispatched Guangdong, Fujian, Guiyang, Yunnan and even

Soldiers and horses from Sichuan came to encircle and suppress them.

But facing the new roaming fighting style of Zhou You's troops, the Qing army soon felt deeply how difficult they were to deal with. These people were just as elusive as ghosts, and were more difficult to suppress than real rogues. Moreover, with the help of local people, on the contrary

The Qing army that came to 'suppress the bandits' became like a foreign invasion.

At the same time, Zhou You also carried out a series of drastic reform strategies in Guangxi, vigorously developed agriculture, promulgated some policies conducive to commercial development, and recruited talents, hoping to build Guangxi into a truly wealthy and stable rear area.

For a time, Zhou You quickly won the support and support of some knowledgeable people, scholars, especially businessmen on the basis of winning the hearts of the people. The states and counties in Guangxi also quickly established a new administrative system, and even attracted

After arriving in Guangdong, businessmen from Fujian came to Guangxi to do business.

The common people have fields, no more excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, they can have enough food and clothing, and gradually have more money in their hands. When the consumption level increases, it will naturally promote the development of commerce! Throughout the dynasties, the so-called peaceful and prosperous times have not always existed.

It’s like this outside!

Zhou You's men attacked the landlord class. After the land distribution, a series of reforms and policies to promote development immediately injected vitality into Guangxi, which was exploited by the Qing court and the people's livelihood was exhausted, making the people feel as if they had suddenly arrived in peace.

Like a prosperous age, this is more inspiring than any religious propaganda!

With talents, many factories and workshops have been established around the world. In addition to civilian production and processing workshops, there are also salt and iron mines, as well as factories that produce ordnance and even firearms. They also absorb Western talents to speed up the process of industrialization and

Development and innovation of science and technology.

Because the troops under Zhou You's command were infiltrating and developing outside, even if the Qing army came to encircle and suppress, the battles mainly took place in Guangdong, Yunnan, Guiyang and Hunan around Guangxi, which actually gave Guangxi an opportunity to develop peacefully.

And as Zhou You managed his home base of Guangxi in the rear more and more stably, he was able to provide more support to the troops who left Guangxi to expand their territory. With sufficient supplies of materials and ordnance, it was natural that the Qing army would be able to win over them.

The battle to suppress bandits became increasingly difficult. Instead of being able to eliminate the banditry, more and more rogue bandits were suppressed, and the suppression became more and more severe.

After all, the Qing army did not know the rules as well as the troops under Zhou You. Every time they went to a place, they first established good relations with the people. The Qing army who came to suppress bandits often 'exploited and harmed' the place, but they were better than the real bandit troubles!

At the same time, on May 13, 1853, the Taiping Rebellion's deputy prime minister Lin Fengxiang and local prime minister Li Kaifang led more than 20,000 people to leave Tianjing for the Northern Expedition. They passed through Anhui, Henan, Shanxi and Zhili and drove northward.

In just over five months, they reached Jinghai, southwest of Tianjin, which really shocked the Qing court.

It seems that they are unstoppable, but in fact they have violated the taboo of military strategists who go deep alone. Although Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang have a lot of troops, they still fight in the way of rogue bandits. Although they advance very quickly, they have not really conquered any territory. To put it bluntly,

It's just to avoid the enemy's sharp edge and rush forward.

When the Qing government sent the main elite troops to encircle and suppress the army, the Taiping Army of the Northern Expedition soon fell into a tight siege. In addition, it was the middle of winter and the lack of supplies made the situation even more difficult. They quickly broke through and were defeated, but were quickly defeated.

The persistent Qing army besieged them again.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sent seven or eight thousand reinforcements from Anqing, passing through northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and heading directly to Shandong for rescue, they were still like meat buns beating dogs. They were besieged by the main force of the Qing army. They had not even joined Li Kaifang and the others.

It was a rout.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! I have been paying attention to the situation in the north. After getting the news, I also led a small number of elite troops to travel north quickly. I happened to encounter and rescued some of the defeated troops of the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition reinforcements, and then integrated the troops and continued

Go north.

Zhou You never thought about relying on a small number of elite troops disguised as rogues to rescue the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition. Since the Northern Expedition chose to go deep alone, its eventual destruction was already doomed. Sending reinforcements from behind was just a tactic to add fuel to the fire.

It is undoubtedly unrealistic for the Northern Expeditionary Army, whose territory and troops are all in the south, to go deep into the north and gallop thousands of miles to rescue the Taiping Army. The reason why he made such a hard trip was mainly to save Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang

These are just two warriors of the Taiping Army.

It would be better if you could save more Taiping troops by the way. On the one hand, you can gain the favor of the Taiping troops, which will make it easier for you to recruit people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future. On the other hand, the purpose of traveling around is mainly to conquer Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang.

And by the way, some fire was left in the north to conduct operations behind enemy lines and prepare for the future Northern Expedition.

In Gaotangzhou, Zhou You came here again. Looking at the thousand-year-old city from a distance outside the city, he felt quite emotional about the thousand-year reincarnation. Before Zhou You arrived here, Li Kaifang, who led more than a thousand cavalry to break out from Lian Town to meet the reinforcements, had just been caught by surprise.

occupied this place.

Unfortunately, the reinforcements of the Northern Expeditionary Army had been defeated for more than a month. Fortunately, they waited until Zhouyou and the Taiping Army were defeated by Zhouyou's reorganization.

When I entered the city, I met Li Kaifang's Zhou You. After much talk, I finally persuaded him to give up Gaotang City, and then followed Zhou You to divide his troops into rural development. At the same time, he inquired about the situation over Lin Fengxiang's side. If you like movies and TV shows, please bookmark it: (www.
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