After Zhou You's explanation and narration, Hong Xuanjiao, Su Sanniang and Luo Dagang looked at each other, they were all full of emotion and sincerely convinced!

"I kind of understand why Zhou You gathered so many people in such a short period of time, no wonder they are willing to follow you!" Su Sanniang said with emotion.

She, Su Sanniang, also came from a bitter background, so she naturally knows what the land means to the people, it is the lifeline!The strategy of traveling around and dividing the land is to get rid of the roots of the landlord class, but it has won the support of the poor people!

Compared with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's use of religious ideas to fool the people, Zhou You's ideas on the basis of dividing land are undoubtedly more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In fact, there is one thing that Zhou You didn't say. The reason why he developed in remote mountainous areas was also based on the principle of keeping a low profile. He focused on development when his strength was not strong at the beginning.

Coupled with the fact that the Taiping Army is outside to attract the attention of the Qing Army, it can also buy him time to grow rapidly.

After the Taiping army swept through and destroyed the Qing army's vital forces, it was Zhou You who carried out the second revolution and developed Guangxi, a relatively remote place in the country, into his own base.

Taking Guangxi as the foundation, and then following the tail of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to pick up cheap ones, with the Taiping Army holding back the main force of the Qing army, it would be difficult for Zhou You to develop slowly.

After the Qing army and the Taiping army reacted, Zhou You had really risen and grown stronger, and established his own solid territory. By then, his troops would be even more difficult to deal with than the Taiping army.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the entanglement between the Red Scarf Army and the main forces of the Yuan Army, and confronted each other to consume each other. In Jinling, he "accumulated food and became king slowly", and finally accumulated his strength to clean up the rivers and mountains, and won the world in one fell swoop.

Zhou You's development guidelines and strategies are undoubtedly more sensible and far-sighted than those of the Taiping Army's top brass.

Temporary victory or defeat is nothing, and the capture of a big town is not of decisive significance. The key is who can bear the temper and have the last laugh.

When Zhou You continued to develop in a low-key manner in the mountainous area, expanding his territory and influence, and accumulating troops and strength, the Taiping Army established as a king in Yong'an really did not leave in a hurry, and tried to develop based on Yong'an.

And how could the Qing army sit back and watch them occupy Yong'an?Naturally, Seshan'a quickly mobilized the main force of the Qing army to encircle and kill Yong'an.

However, Seshan'a was also very clear that since the Taiping Army had occupied Yong'an and defended the city, it would be even more difficult to deal with it.

If the main force of the Qing army attacked the city directly, there would be heavy casualties, and it would cost too much to regain Yong'an.If the troops are damaged and cannot be breached within a short period of time, he, Cezanah, will also be held accountable.

It happened that the Qing army captured Zhou Xineng, a commander of the Taiping Army who came to join Yong'an. Cezanne's clever words shook his faith, and he used it as an internal response to help the Qing army regain Yong'an.

After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conquered Yong'an, their momentum rose greatly, so they were naturally eager to recruit troops.Zhou Xineng was in charge of recruiting troops. This time, Cezanne asked him to bring some soldiers from the Taiping Army pretending to be recruited by the elite Qing army into Yong'an City, just to cooperate with the outside world.

But Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing are easy people?They quickly saw Zhou Xineng's abnormality, so they resorted to tricks, lured the Qing army to attack the city, and then ambushed outside the city, and broke through the Qing army's camp in one fell swoop, killing the Qing army and defeating it.

But soon, Sezan'a recruited the main force of the Qing army to besiege Yong'an City.This time, Seshan'a had learned his lesson and adopted the strategy of encircling without attacking. He besieged for several months in a row, trying to make the Taiping army run out of ammunition and food, and finally broke down without attacking.

Although the Taiping Army guarding Yong'an did not fight any battles with the Qing Army and did not suffer any major losses, it was also difficult for them to continue to grow.

On the contrary, Zhou You, in just over half a year, has developed tens of hundreds of villages around the Guiping mountain area, pretending to be bandits and ransacking some notorious rich households and evil gentry, quietly sharing land and food for the common people, organizing The militia has made the strength of the people under its command grow rapidly, and it has really won the support of the local poor people.

Even Zhou You's men and horses were deliberately divided into many small teams, pretending to be bandits and going to Guiping and surrounding areas to develop, deal with local evil gentry, attract officers and soldiers to go out of the city to investigate, and then wipe them out, weakening the government's control over the villages and towns below. It is also a strategy of benefiting the people by quickly controlling those villages, promoting the division of land, and promoting traveling around.

For a while, "banditry" became rampant in the Guiping area, and the evil gentry and big households suffered greatly from it. The grain and rent could not be collected, but the life of the people improved.The main force of the Qing army who was busy besieging Yong'an did not care about suppressing the bandits, and the officers, soldiers and regiments of the counties were also powerless to suppress the bandits.

At the same time, Hong Xiuquan and others, who had been besieged by the Qing army for half a year, finally realized that Yong'an was not a place to live for a long time. It cannot be kept.

Therefore, after discussing with Yang Xiuqing, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing decided to break out of the siege and go north.Next, Hong Xiuquan was more inclined to fight Changsha than to attack Guilin.

Although Guilin is the provincial capital of Guangxi, it is still on the safe side.You can go out of the land of the two lakes in Changsha, and you can directly peek at the Central Plains. This Changsha is an important town for the two lakes!Once laid down, it will definitely shake the world.

After deciding on the strategy to break out of the encirclement, Hong Xiuquan sent someone to inform Zhou You after he quickly withdrew from Yong'an. It was obvious that he wanted to ask Zhou You to lead his troops to go north with the Taiping Army.

Knowing that the Taiping Army had escaped, Cezanne naturally quickly dispatched troops to pursue them, intending to catch up with and wipe out the Taiping Army.Therefore, the Taiping Army's road to break through is destined to be difficult.Moreover, the Taiping Army also brought many old and weak women and children, which also slowed down the speed of the march.

After a series of bitter battles, more than 2000 old and weak civilians who followed the Taiping Army were caught up and brutally slaughtered by the Qing Army on the way to break through.

In this battle, the Taiping Army fought with their backs. With fearless determination and courage, the Qing army realized the power that the people who were driven to a desperate situation could unleash. Not only did they win a big victory, but they also killed the Qing army in one battle. The four generals of the army are another decisive victory since the capture of Yong'an.

This battle allowed the Taiping Army to escape and go northward smoothly, and determined the strategy of attacking Guilin first, to test whether Guilin could be captured first, and even if it could not, it could serve the purpose of mobilizing the Qing army, while the Taiping Army continued to go northward, Take Changsha as the next important attack target.

Zhou You, who quietly led the army to the north, also soon got the news that the Taiping Army was frustrated under the city of Guilin, and stopped the march more than a hundred miles away from Guilin. Go touch it, why bother?"

"Ayou, what shall we do next? Shall we lead our troops to meet up with Big Brother?" Hong Xuanjiao, who was worried about Hong Xiuquan and came with Zhou You, couldn't help but ask.

"No, we didn't bring many people this time, even if we meet up with the king of heaven, it won't be of much help." Zhou You shook his head and said, "They hit a wall in Guilin and learned their lesson. We will not easily attack Dacheng and Jiancheng again. We have to get busy, first develop our strength to the whole of Guangxi, and build this place well. In this way, even if the king of heaven and the others are defeated, there will be a way out in the future. Moreover, with this With a firm rear, we can boldly expand outward, and even attack some big cities."

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