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Rather than paying attention to it, it is more accurate to say it is jealousy and fear.Zhou You was able to take Guangxi silently and without bloodshed, gathered so many people and horses, and turned Guangxi into a territory that was almost impenetrable. This kind of ability and skill is really terrifying!

At the same time, the Taiping Army, which had been attacking Changsha for a long time, also withdrew from the encirclement and marched northward, passed through Yiyang, left Xiangyin, crossed Dongting, occupied Yuezhou, and then went east along the Yangtze River by water and land, and captured Wuchang, an important town in Hubei in one fell swoop in early 1853. , completely shocked the Qing court.

This is just the beginning. Next, Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Army, which claims to have 50 troops and more than [-] ships, and went down the river in a mighty manner, even defeating Jiujiang, Anqing, and Wuhu. Under Jiangning City, and conquered it in one fell swoop.

As a result, the Qing court, which was shaken by the ruling and opposition parties, focused its main attention on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.After all, even if Zhou You occupied Guangxi, it was just a poor province in the remote south, but Jiangning was too important.The occupation of Jiangning by the Taiping Army will directly threaten the Qing Dynasty's rich and prosperous Jiangnan, which is equivalent to occupying half of the Qing Dynasty's country!

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

Immediately afterwards, the main force of the Qing army also rushed to intercept it. The imperial envoy Xiang Rong, who had been chasing the Taiping army from Guangxi, led his troops to establish a Jiangnan camp in the east of Tianjing City.Subsequently, Manchu Qishan, who was also appointed as the imperial envoy, led the troops to establish the Jiangbei Camp outside Yangzhou City.

The two Qing army battalions supported each other in an attempt to prevent the Taiping Army from developing eastward and northward, and took the opportunity to recapture Jiangning City.

While the Qing army was busy dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they took full control of Guangxi and traveled around. They also allowed their troops to infiltrate and develop into Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Hunan. According to Tian's strategy, develop local armed forces and recruit enough troops to encircle the cities from the countryside and turn big cities into isolated islands.

Now, the Qing court is not so easy to fool.Faced with the situation of "rogue bandits everywhere" in several southern provinces, the senior officials of the Qing court realized that the situation was not good, and quickly dispatched troops from Guangdong, Fujian, Guiyang, Yunnan and even Sichuan to encircle and suppress.

However, in the face of Zhou You's new-style roaming combat style, the Qing army also quickly felt their difficulty. The Qing army who came to 'suppress the bandits' became like a foreign enemy invading.

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 business development, and recruited talents. He wanted to build Guangxi into a truly rich and stable rear area.

For a time, on the basis of winning the hearts of the people, Zhou You also quickly won the support and support of some insightful people, scholars, especially businessmen. The states and counties in Guangxi also quickly established a new administrative system, and even attracted Merchants from Guangdong and Fujian came to Guangxi to do business.

The common people have land, no extortionate miscellaneous taxes, can eat and wear clothes, and gradually have surplus money in their hands, and the consumption level will increase, which will naturally promote the development of commerce!Throughout the dynasties, the so-called peaceful and prosperous times are nothing more than this!

The people under Zhou You attacked the landlord class. After the land was divided, a series of reforms and policies to promote development injected vitality into Guangxi, which was exploited by the Qing government and the people's livelihood was exhausted, and made the people feel as if they had come to Taiping all at once. Like a prosperous age, this is more inspiring than any religious propaganda!

With talents, Zhou You also let people build a lot of factories and workshops. 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, and absorb Western talents to speed up the process of industrialization and The development and innovation of science and technology.

Because Zhou You's men and horses infiltrated and developed outwards, even if the Qing army came to encircle and suppress, the fighting mainly took place in Guangdong, Yunnan, Guiyang and Hunan around Guangxi. On the contrary, it gave Guangxi a chance to develop peacefully.

And as Zhou You managed Guangxi, his home base in the rear, to become more and more stable, he was able to give more support to the troops who left Guangxi to expand the territory, and with sufficient supplies of materials and ordnance, it was natural that the Qing army would be happy. The battle of "suppressing bandits" became more and more difficult. Instead of being able to eliminate the banditry, it made the "bandits" more and more suppressed, and the suppression became more and more severe.

After all, the Qing army did not know the rules as well as the people under Zhou You's command. Every time they went to a place, they first established a good relationship with the people.The Qing army who came to suppress bandits from other places often "exploited and harmed" places, but it was better than the real banditry!

At the same time, on May 1853, 5, Lin Fengxiang, the deputy prime minister of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Li Kaifang, the local official prime minister, led more than 13 people to leave Tianjing for the Northern Expedition. They drove northward via Anhui, Henan, Shanxi, and Zhili. In just over five months, they killed Jinghai in the southwest of Tianjin, which really shocked the Qing court.

It seems that the momentum is overwhelming, but in fact it has violated the taboo of military strategists who go deep alone.Although Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang had a lot of troops, they still fought in the way of rogues. Although they marched very fast, they didn't really lay down any territory.

After the Qing court dispatched the main elite soldiers to encircle and suppress, 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. The chasing Qing army besieged again.

Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sent seven or eight thousand reinforcements from Anqing, through northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and went straight to Shandong for rescue, they were besieged by the main force of the Qing army like meat buns beating dogs. It was a rout.

I have been paying attention to the situation in the north, and got the news that Zhou You, who also led a small number of elite troops to the north quickly, happened to meet and rescued some of the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition reinforcements, and then integrated the troops and continued to go north.

Zhou You never thought to rescue the Northern Expedition Army of the Taiping Army with a small number of elite troops disguised as bandits. Since the Northern Expedition Army chose to go deep alone, the final destruction was already doomed.Sending reinforcements later is just a refueling tactic.

For Zhou You, whose territory and troops are in the south, it is undoubtedly unrealistic to go deep into the north and gallop thousands of miles to rescue the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Taiping Army.The reason why he made the hard trip was mainly to save Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, two titans of the Taiping Army.

It would be even better if we could save some more Taiping troops by the way.On the one hand, you can use this to gain the favor of the Taiping Army, making it easier for you to gather the troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the future; on the other hand, traveling around is mainly to subdue Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang, and by the way, leave some kindling in the north to fight behind the enemy lines, for the future Prepare for the Northern Expedition.

Gaotang Prefecture, once again came here for a tour, looking at the thousand-year-old city from outside the city, feeling a little bit like a thousand-year-old reincarnation.Before Zhou You arrived here, Li Kaifang, who led more than a thousand riders to break through from Lianzhen to meet the reinforcements, just occupied this place by surprise.

It's a pity that the reinforcements of the Northern Expedition Army have been defeated for more than a month. Fortunately, they waited until Zhou You, and the Taiping Army was defeated by Zhou You's reorganization.

When I entered the city, I met Li Kaifang's Zhou You, and after all, I finally persuaded him to give up Gaotang City, and then followed Zhou You to divide troops into the countryside for development, and at the same time inquired about Lin Fengxiang's situation.