What will happen if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not leave Guangxi?

1in July, 859, Shi Dakai once again led his team back to Guangxi, the base of the Taiping Rebellion. More than 100,000 people from Shi Dakai Third Route Army went straight from Hunan to Guangxi and returned to their hometown after such a long separation. It has been eight years since jintian uprising.

After a long separation from my hometown, the wind and cloud are swaying. The road of revolution was born with blood and fire. Back to the old place should be happy, but Shi Dakai is not happy at this time.

Da-Kai Shi

Shi Dakai was forced to return to Guangxi. Half a year ago, he led an army from Anqing to Jiangxi, followed by Zeng Guofan's army, which saved the situation that Tianjing in the lower reaches was besieged by heavy troops. In Qingyuan, Shi Dakai besieged for more than half a year and failed to win. As a result, the casualties of the troops increased, so he had to give up Qingyuan and go south to Guangxi.

Shi Dakai, led by his younger brother Shi, led 30,000 people to attack Quanzhou, Guangxi from Huajian Road, Hunan Province, joined Shi Dakai's army and besieged Guilin in the south. Shi Dakai besieged Guilin, and the dispersed team developed separately.

Unexpectedly, Shi and Tao died successively, and all his men were scattered. Shi Dakai lost its elite, and the strategy of returning to Guangxi fell apart. Shi Dakai is faced with the tragic situation that he can't enter Chu, dare not enter Hunan and have no hope of staying in Guangxi.

Just eight years later, why can't Shi Dakai, who has always been invincible, gain a foothold in his hometown in Guangxi?

There are many reasons for Shi Dakai's defeat in Guangxi, but one important reason has been ignored by the world. That is, Shi Dakai lost his only comrade-in-arms-Guo Cheng.

When it comes to Dacheng, many people don't know. This is a peasant regime established by Guangdong Heaven and Earth Association after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Tianjing its capital. Guangdong Heaven and Earth Society, led by leaders Chen Kai and Li, raised the anti-Qing banner, and the rebels wrapped their heads in red headscarves, imitating Zhu Yuanzhang's Red Scarf Army to attack the yamen. Unexpectedly, it was besieged by the Qing army and suffered heavy losses. He returned to Liuzhou, Guangxi, Guixian and other places, and established a "big country".

The jurisdiction of a big country is centered on Liuzhou, including Zhou Xun, Wuzhou, Nanning, Sien, Qingyuan and Pingle. In addition, in Guidong, there is Zhu's Heavenly Uprising.

Originally, Shi Dakai attacked Guilin, Liuzhou Dacheng and Chen Kai, which could form a corner to attack the Qing army. However, when Shi Dakai was attacked in Guilin, Dacheng held his ground without any support; As a result, Shi Dakai was defeated at the gates of Guilin, unable to leave the city, and missed the opportunity.

Later, Shi Dakai's younger brother Shi led the Taiping Army to capture Pennsylvania (now Binyang), which was the territory of Huang, Duke of Dacheng. Shi coerced Huang to leave Pennsylvania with superior forces and expelled Huang's team. At this time, many big city officials took refuge in the stone, and the contradiction between the big city and the Taiping Army became deeper and deeper.

From 1859 to 12, most of the Qing army pursued Shi Dakai from Hunan, and Liuzhou, a big country, was the first to bear the brunt. It turns out that a large number of Qing troops were imported from Shi Dakai. In the bloody battle between Dacheng Prefecture and the Qing army, Shi Dakai, who was behind Qingyuan, chose not to support it, which eventually led to the fall of Liuzhou, and Dacheng Prefecture suffered serious losses. Soon after, Guo Cheng organized military forces to counterattack the Qing army again, and Shi Dakai did not give any support. This battle directly led to the great defeat of Da Guo Cheng and never recovered. Shi Dakai has also been isolated in Qingyuan tiny place, more passive.

Of course, Shi Dakai also knew the importance of Dacheng's power to himself, and he also actively cooperated with Dacheng against the Qing army. But these battles did not have much substantive effect. There is irreconcilable contradiction between Shi Dakai and Dacheng, which makes them unable to deal with the enemy together with Qi Xin.

Dacheng was the last straw for Shi Dakai to gain a foothold in Guangxi, but Shi Dakai let it fall. After Dacheng's death, Shi Dakai was expelled from Guangxi.

Shi Dakai couldn't hold on to Shanglin and Pennsylvania and didn't immediately send troops to Guizhou. But with the attitude of striving for cooperation with Dacheng, Shi Dakai met ll in Dacheng. Shi Dakai's condition is to make a big country believe in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and take it as the guiding ideology. Dacheng country is a political power formed by heaven and earth and has its own independent beliefs. Even if ll is willing to accept it, many soldiers in Dacheng state may not be able to accept it.

So the cooperation between the two people collapsed. Dacheng and Shi Dakai were able to cooperate in some battles, but they also made some achievements. However, due to their irreconcilable unity, Dacheng did not save Shi Dakai first, and Shi Zhen Ji invaded Dacheng later. Shi Dakai asked Dacheng to submit to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and give up his faith, which made Dacheng suspicious of Shi Dakai. It is under this series of factors that Shi Dakai and Dacheng formed a detached relationship.

When Xiujing (the capital of a big city) was besieged by the Qing army, Chen Kai was forced to beg for Shi Dakai's assistance, while Shi Dakai only provided support from a distance and did not send troops directly to clear the gap. Chen Kai had to fight to the death with the superior Qing army. As a result, Xiujing fell and Dacheng perished.

In the whole battle of Dacheng, Shi Dakai did not give active support, but retreated his troops to Longshan to avoid the attack of the Qing army. However, doing so killed Dacheng.

After the fall of Dacheng, the only foothold in Shi Dakai was gone; Shi Dakai was forced to leave Guangxi, headed for Guizhou, passed through Guizhou and entered Sichuan, and was finally defeated and killed in Dadu River.

It can be said that Shi Dakai's failure to gain a foothold in Guangxi is due to strategic mistakes, encirclement and suppression by the Qing army, insufficient military pay and other reasons. One of the most important factors is that Shi Dakai can't flexibly unite Dacheng to resist the Qing army, thus losing hundreds of thousands of Dacheng's troops in vain, and it is also the only force that can unite in Guangxi.

The contradiction between Shi Dakai and Dacheng is very complicated, but one thing, they can't reach an agreement on the overall situation, so that the other side died in defeat and was carved up by the Qing army. In the end, Dacheng perished, and Shi Dakai lost the last strength to rely on, so he had to embark on a journey full of thorns, and was finally wiped out.