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To deal with Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, Hong Xiuquan had to keep a low profile, let Yang Xiuqing toss, and wait for him to play too far before he took advantage of Wei Changhui's hand to deal with it.It can be seen from this that Hong Xiuquan is completely scholarly and petty, without much strategy and skills.

Facing a strong dragon like Zhou You who is both powerful and popular, what can he do?What's more, Zhou You never admitted that he was from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he was able to get to where he is today because of his own hard work.Not only did he not do anything wrong to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he did a lot for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he lived up to the title of assistant king given to him by Hong Xiuquan.

More than two months later, in the golden autumn of 1856, Hong Xuanjiao, Luo Dagang, Su Sanniang, Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, Wei Jun, etc. rushed to the capital, and Zhou You officially proclaimed himself emperor in the Forbidden City. The name is Datong, Hong Xuanjiao is made queen, and meritorious ministers are rewarded, and the regime framework of the new dynasty begins to be constructed.

At the same time, Zhou You's change of dynasty also completely put aside the relationship with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which caused people's hearts to fluctuate in the Heavenly Kingdom, and the impact on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was even greater than the impact of the Tianjing Incident and Shi Dakai's departure.

But for Zhou You's men and those who belonged to him, it was exciting news.At the same time, Zhou You also entrusted important tasks to Zeng Guofan and other subordinate ministers.

Among them, Zuo Zongtang was transferred to Lin Fengxiang's army by Zhou You, and together with Seng Gelinqin, he assisted Lin Fengxiang and began to prepare to fight in Shanshan and Shaanxi.

Zeng Guofan also took the initiative to ask for orders to persuade the surrender and lead the troops to withdraw from Wuchang and enter Hulinyi in Sichuan, and cooperated with Luo Dagang, Su Sanniang, and Li Kaifang to attack Sichuan, Sichuan, and Yunnan, Guizhou and other southwestern provinces.

In addition, with the cooperation of Seng Gelinqin, after the establishment of the Great Zhou, the Mongolian Horqin tribe took the lead in choosing to belong to the Great Zhou. This undoubtedly set a benchmark, which will help Zhou You conquer the various ministries of Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, so as soon as possible Restoration of rule over Northwest and Northern Monan Mobei.

Next, with the continuous mobilization of the army of the Great Zhou, the newly established Great Zhou gained momentum day by day.On the other hand, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is obviously going downhill.

However, while the Zhou army was attacking the southwest and northwest and continuously winning victories, Hong Xiuquan also began to cheer up. He employed a group of young generals such as Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng. While operating southern Anhui, he also began to fight in Zhejiang. Go to the rich land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to strengthen the power of the kingdom of heaven.

Since the Qing court has been destroyed, its remnants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have long been panicked, so Li Xiucheng and the others quickly captured Hangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou and other places. When they marched into Shanghai, they were met by Western powers headed by Britain and France. The foreign gun team sent to block.

However, the Taiping Army, which concentrated its superior forces, still quickly swept through most of Zhejiang, and dealt a heavy blow to the remaining forces of the Qing court in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were dominated by the landlord class.

At the same time, after Shi Dakai and Yang Fuqing entered Fujian, they were like a broken bamboo. They even conquered Shaowu, Jianning and other counties and fought all the way to Fuzhou along the Minjiang River.

Lin Fengxiang, Zuo Zongtang and others divided their troops to attack Shanshan and Shaanxi, and Luo Dagang and Su Sanniang's attack on Guizhou also went relatively smoothly. Zeng Guofan also successfully persuaded Hu Linyi to return to Dazhou, and Li Kaifang immediately led the troops into Sichuan..

In the blink of an eye, in 1857, the second year of Datong, the Zhou army successively occupied Yunnan and Guizhou, and the battles in Sichuan, Shu and Shanshan were relatively smooth. The front pointed directly at Lanzhou in Gansu and Ningxia in northern Shaanxi.

The prosperity of the Great Zhou Bingfeng also caused the Mongolian tribes such as Monan Mobei, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet and other vassal forces to send envoys to join them. At the same time, Zhou You also sent troops to clear the Qing army outside the Northeast Pass. The vast northeast is in the bag.

In fact, as the Qing troops in Rehe and Shengjing were wiped out by the Zhou army, after Zhou You took the opportunity to send troops to occupy Rehe and Shengjing, the Qing troops under the generals of Jilin and Heilongjiang in the northeast were no longer a cause for concern. .

Therefore, when the Zhou army arrived outside the pass, in the sparsely populated northeast, it also marched at a rapid speed. With its breech-loading rifle, which was sharper than the flintlock musket, it was not at all inferior in the battle with the cavalry of the Qing army outside the pass. Even occupy an active advantage.

What's more, with the surrender of various Mongolian ministries and the recovery of Hetao and the Northwest, there are places suitable for raising horses and sources of war horses. The Zhou army does not lack cavalry, and even slowly will form more and more elite cavalry.

Qingqi Musketeers, on the battlefield of today's era, are the existences that can absolutely crush and sweep.In addition to attacking tough battles, the light cavalry musketeers who came and went like the wind almost completely abused the traditional cavalry, which was enough to make the traditional cavalry slowly withdraw from the stage of history.

Relying on the foresighted understanding of the development of firearm technology, coupled with the research on firearms in several worlds under Zhou You's control, the wisdom of ancient craftsmen cannot be overstated. The guns and artillery of the Western powers are gone, otherwise it would not be so easy to annihilate the British and French allied forces in Tongzhou and Tianjin.

In the autumn of the second year of Datong, the Zhou army basically recovered the northeast.Since then, except for the territory occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the southeast, almost all the territories previously ruled by the Qing Dynasty have belonged to the Great Zhou in name.

For a time, while dispatching elite officials and generals to continue their tours in the northeast and northwest, they were also urged by the courtiers to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as soon as possible and truly complete the unification of the world.

Even in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, many generals secretly expressed their intention to surrender to Da Zhou.Obviously, people of insight have already seen that the unification of the world by the Great Zhou is the general trend, and even the Western powers understand that it is difficult to stop the rise of the Great Zhou.

Therefore, when the future of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot be seen, more and more people will naturally choose a brighter future.

But what Zhou You didn't expect was that Shi Dakai would be the first one to choose to join.After he led the army to sweep Fujian and Guangdong, he used these two provinces as a gift to express his intention to surrender to Zhou You.

Shi Dakai's attachment undoubtedly caused a great sensation and influence.After De Zhouyou directly bestowed Shi Dakai with the title of "King of Ming" to praise his wise move, and let him continue to lead the army in Guangzhou, the generals of the Taiping Army in southern Anhui and Guangxi also chose to join him.

Unknowingly, the territory controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only remained around Tianjing and the newly conquered southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang lands, and only some generals who were more loyal to the Heavenly Kingdom remained to maintain the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Faced with such a situation, Hong Xiuquan, who knew that the situation was over, still pretended to be deaf and dumb, without any intention of bowing his head and surrendering, nor did he intend to become an enemy of Da Zhou.

On the contrary, the Western powers, who previously helped the remnants of the Qing Dynasty to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, are now supporting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to resist the Great Zhou Dynasty.

To Hong Xiuquan, this was undoubtedly giving him a pillow when he was sleepy, and it was exactly what he wanted. He readily accepted the "good intentions" of the Western powers, but this move made Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng and other loyal generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely alienated from him.

Just after the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and the representatives of the western powers confirmed the decision to jointly resist the Great Zhou, Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng directly led the troops to join the Great Zhou, which also caused more generals and troops of the Taiping Army to join the Great Zhou. Da Zhou obtained most of the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang almost without bloodshed.