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The Taiping Army, which was defeated in Guilin, continued to march northward into Hunan. At Suoyidu outside Quanzhou, where the situation was dangerous, it was ambushed by the Jiang Zhongyuan Department of the Qing Army. The two sides fought fiercely for two days and nights. The Southern King Feng Yunshan was shot and killed.

The Taiping Army then entered Hunan from the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, captured Daozhou, reorganized the team here, then abandoned Daozhou, marched eastward to occupy Chenzhou, and marched northward to direct Changsha..

At the same time, the wandering people quickly developed and infiltrated Guangxi, occupying large tracts of rural areas, and engaged in sporadic and sporadic resistance struggles with the landlord class. It has developed to the point where some county towns have begun to be occupied.

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

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

Leading tens of thousands of horses to surround Guilin, he was not in a hurry to attack the city. He just surrounded Guilin.

Next, although the Qing army and local regiments came to rescue Guilin one after another, they were constantly ambushed and blocked along the way. It seemed that there were bandits and bandits everywhere in Guangxi. On the way, the villages and towns that had received the news in advance and adopted the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness had nowhere to go if they wanted to collect food on the spot.

In fact, how can there be any bandits and bandits?They are all militias organized by the people spontaneously. Under their strategy of guerrilla harassment, the reinforcements of the Qing army would be hungry 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 troops did not suffer much loss, and on the contrary, they also captured a lot of spoils.

Even if the Qing Dynasty reacted later 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 camp of the Zhou army, in a blink of an eye Zhou You's troops have besieged Guilin for two or three months.Traveling around is like going out for an outing. Drinking tea, reading books, and playing chess every day is very leisurely. It doesn't look like you are here to fight!

However, from time to time, you can still hear news about the victories of the troops under your command or which county has been newly occupied.It's like sitting back and enjoying what you get, don't you think it's annoying?

Just got the news that Yong'an prefecture was easily captured that day, and then Zhou You got the news that came from Hunan belatedly. Xiao Chaogui, the western king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, died. Unfortunately, he was bombarded to death outside the city of Changsha. .

Sighing slightly in his heart, Zhou You quickly sent people to inform Hong Xuanjiao and Su Sanniang who were with the army to come over and told them the new news.

"Xiao...Xiao Chaogui is dead?" Hong Xuanjiao couldn't help being a little surprised and complicated when she heard this.

After all, this Xiao Chaogui almost became her husband, but now he is.... The great cause of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has not been achieved, and the Southern King and Western King Xiao Chaogui have been lost one after another. It is really embarrassing!

"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. Today's Guangxi..." Su Sanniang couldn't help but feel a little worried concern.

With the joint efforts of Zhou You, Su Sanniang, and Luo Dagang, Guangxi is now in a good time, and it will not be too long before they can completely control Guangxi. It can be said that it is already Zhou You's base camp.

The power they have accumulated in Guangxi today may not necessarily be weaker than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or even stronger.If the Taiping army came back at this time, there would be no room for two tigers on one mountain, how could there be no conflict and filth?

"Sanniang, you don't need to worry too much!" Zhou You shook his head slightly and said, "Although the Taiping Army suffered setbacks in Changsha, they fought and won many battles along the way. Instead of getting weaker and weaker, they fought more and more. The stronger you are, otherwise you wouldn't dare to attack Changsha casually."

"Xiao Chaogui's death was just an accident, and the Taiping Army still has the strength to continue attacking Changsha," Zhou You continued, "Besides, even if Changsha cannot be conquered, the Taiping Army can withdraw the siege in time and continue northward just like they attacked Guilin before. , to attack Yuezhou, attack Wuchang, and even go down the river to Jiangning. I think the Heavenly Kings should have already thought about taking down Jiangning as their foundation."

Hong Xuanjiao, who took a deep breath at the side, couldn't help but said after hearing Zhou You's words: "Ayou, do you think Big Brother and the others can really defeat Jiangning? It is so difficult for them to attack Changsha, so Jiangning is easier to fight than Changsha?"

"Jiangning is not easy to fight, but when the Taiping Army actually kills Jiangning, it will definitely be stronger than when they attacked Yong'an, Guilin and Changsha." , or even establish a capital in Jiangning, only then can we truly confront the Qing court and have the capital to compete with the Qing court for the world."

"It can also be used as a shield for you, so that you can follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to take advantage of it, occupy more territory, and have more troops, right?" Hong Xuanjiao rolled his eyes and wandered around: "No wonder you didn't want to follow me before. Brother, it turned out that he wanted to be the emperor himself!"

Zhou You smiled awkwardly, but said straightforwardly: "Yes, I really want to fight for the world. And from the beginning, I was actually not optimistic about your elder brother and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Maybe they can make a lot of noise, but most likely There is no hope of winning the world."

"Throughout the history of China, there is no one who used religion to fool the people to revolt and finally won the world. Because the strategy of fooling the people cannot really win the hearts of the people, let alone the support and participation of truly insightful people. "

Hong Xuanjiao opened her mouth, wanting to refute but didn't know what to say.In fact, during the more than a year of being married to Zhou You, she has witnessed how Zhou You's men and horses have grown and grown, and she also feels more and more that Zhou You's method is more popular and develops faster than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. , Naturally, it will be more hopeful than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to win the world in the future.

Although Guangxi is only a remote province, what he did here and what he got, has already shown that his strategy of dividing the land has completely and thoroughly hit the landlord class, and it is simply a draw from the bottom.

Next, as almost all the counties in Guangxi were occupied one after another, those state capitals that were completely surrounded and blocked were gradually attached. In the end, even the governor of Guangxi, Zou Minghe, who had been waiting for reinforcements, had no choice but to surrender in Kaesong, because There is no food in the city.

In this way, Zhou You acquired the whole of Guangxi almost without bloodshed, and managed it like a monolith, and then promoted the idea of ​​​​a great harmony in the world, hoping to recruit scholars and people of insight to help him govern Guangxi and the future. More ground will be laid.

Zhou You formally established the Datong Society, an organization that unifies his thinking, and the people under his command also became the Datong Army.He did not proclaim himself king, but only claimed to be the leader of the Datong Army, but he still attracted the attention of the Qing court.