While the three Western countries were actively working to smooth the obstacles that hindered the expedition for the sake of the Far East, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also actively trying to smooth out the obstacles that hindered the future resistance of the expeditionary actions of the Three Kingdoms. The Manchu Qing Dynasty has shown an irreversible defeat on various battlefields across the country, just like in the later period of the Liberation War in later history, after the million-strong army crossed the Yangtze River, the people's hearts and the army's aspirations, and it was difficult for the rebels to organize an effective counterattack.

In China's thousands of years of history, there are very few examples of the southern regime trying to defeat the northern regime, and the most brilliant is undoubtedly the Northern Expedition of Ming Taizu, the Taiping army borrowed several successful practices from the Ming army's Northern Expedition, so they are now in great shape. The first was the solid rear, and like Ming Taizu, the Taiping army consolidated its rule in the rich areas south of the Yangtze River, and was able to provide a steady stream of blood - soldiers, food, and weapons needed for war. Second, like the Great Yuan, the Manchu Qing had internal problems in the north, which consumed their own strength, whether it was the expedition of the British and French forces or the rebellion of Mianyu and Ronglu, they all restrained the Manchus from too much energy, and then the Taiping army suddenly surrounded Beijing, which made the Manchus have to exhaust the last drop of blood in order to keep the capital. The third is that the Taiping Army, like the Ming Army, has carried out the same innovation of weapons and has organized a large number of new modern troops, which ensures the Taiping Army's great advantage in fighting against the Qing Army.

And the Taiping Army also made a strategic attempt, which Ming Taizu did not do, that is, to carry out strategic encirclement and detour. The Taiping Army's strategic encirclement of the Manchus was mainly in two directions. One is the chess pieces that have been laid out a few years ago, Tan Shaoguang's Taiping Army in Sakhalin, Temple Street, and Dalian Bay. Tan Shaoguang's subordinates concentrated the outstanding young guards in the Taiping Army, as well as a large number of elite forces in the original North Palace. The soldiers, horses, and men who had done those killings for the King of the West during the Tianjing Incident were finally gathered here, and they stayed away from the land of right and wrong, and they were promised by the King of the West that as long as they stayed in the north, they would not be liquidated in the future. As a result, Tan Shaoguang commanded such people to actively expand in the north, whether it was the Manchus or the Russians, they were attacked by the Taiping army in the north, and the Russians were forced to retreat to the area of Nebuchu. The Manchus, on the other hand, were compressed into a ring of defense such as Ningguta, Shengjing, and Qiqihar. Tan Shaoguang's strategic roundabout group has completed their task very well, even if the Manchus lose Beijing in the future, it is impossible to retreat outside the Guan, Tan Shaoguang's Ministry will deal a heavy blow to the Manchus from this direction.

The strategic detour in the other direction is Chen Yucheng's department, this strategic detour group from Liangguang to Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, and finally from Shaanxi and Gansu to prominence, and finally they will become a formidable force in the northwest that can quickly break into the hinterland of Mongolia, which can threaten Mongolia, and can also cut off the Manchu delusion of fleeing to the northwest. Tan Shaoguang and Chen Yucheng's two troops and horses are like two huge pincers, which will finally firmly contain the last hope of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. And completely shatter this hope.

On the day Wittoma returned to Egypt, the Taiping army launched a winter offensive, uncharacteristically carrying out a large-scale winter offensive operation in the north. In the history of the Northern Expedition, weather was also an important cause of failure in many cases. The soldiers who were accustomed to the warm winter days in the south had difficulty exerting their combat effectiveness in the cold climate of the north, and these troops of the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition were the elite of the long-term and brutal military tests, especially Lin Fengxiang and other units. It has also been engaged in tug-of-war in Lianghuai all year round, and a large number of winter military training has been added to the training of various units of the Taiping Army. They overcame the weather factor. And there is also a guarantee that the Taiping Army has a very advanced logistics support system.

The most important key to the success or failure of the southern army of the Northern Expedition has always been their logistical supply line, and several Northern Expeditions of the Song Dynasty were due to problems with the logistical supply line. At the same time, Ming Taizu directly launched the Northern Expedition after the end of the ten-month siege of Suzhou, the last stronghold of Zhang Shicheng, and completed the food preparation required for the early Northern Expedition very covertly, which greatly surprised the Yuan army, so it was able to quickly open the situation of the Northern Expedition. The Taiping army also did this, and Lin Fengxiang's long-term two-Huai tug of war and steady and steady fighting provided sufficient material preparations for the Taiping army of the Northern Expedition of Shandong and Henan. In Yunnan-Guichuan and other places, the Taiping Army organized a huge number of people's mules and horses to transport materials to ensure the supply of materials for the Northwest Taiping Army and the troops out of Sichuan. The ancient tea and horse road in Yunnan-Guichuan is known as the second land Silk Road, its volume is actually very large, and the people engaged in caravan transportation are familiar with the road, which has brought great convenience to the material transportation of the Taiping army, so that even in Yunnan-Guichuan and other mountainous and forested places, the Taiping army can also ensure the supply of materials.

At the same time, in order to alleviate the pressure on logistics and transportation, the logistics quartermasters of the Taiping Army were always able to find enough blacksmiths and craftsmen to organize them to use some of the machinery and equipment carried by the Taiping Army to produce ammunition on the spot. The improved Carman Ryder rear-loading rifled rifles widely used by the Taiping Army are all using Minne bullets, the manufacturing process of Minne bullets is not complicated, as long as there are sufficient materials, a large number of bullet molds and tools carried by the Taiping Army can be produced, because the Taiping Army followed a lot of skilled craftsmen and was able to teach local craftsmen how to produce Minne bullets.

In the winter offensive, in addition to ensuring the army's ammunition and food, the military uniforms of the Taiping Army also provided a good effect of keeping the soldiers warm, and the huge demand for military uniforms also directly stimulated the textile industry in Jiangnan, Yunnan, Guichuan and other places. The warm new military uniforms allowed the Taiping soldiers to fight in the harsh cold climate of the north, instead of the tragic Taiping Army's 20,000 Northern Expedition experience, in which the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition of Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang was affected by the severe climate, and many Taiping soldiers were frozen to death and frostbitten by the severe cold.

The winter offensive made the Qing army in the north extremely uncomfortable, and the winter in the north was already very cold. Armies in various localities also had to carry out operations, and Shanxi and other places also had to supply Beijing with grain. It directly accelerated the great rout of the Qing army in various places.

Throughout Shandong, the Qing army was confined to a few large cities. The rest of the places were directly abandoned, and the Taiping army Li Xiucheng and Lin Fengxiang's troops who went north converged on the eleventh day of the lunar month. Subsequently, the Taiping Army opened up the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the materials from the south of the Yangtze River were continuously transported north to the Nanyuan Camp in the capital, and the Taiping Army Camp in the capital, which ensured the transportation line, was no longer a lonely army.

The progress of the Taiping army in Henan was also very smooth, and the Qing army in Henan had been carrying out a strategic retreat after the Lianghuai defense line was broken through, and was finally compressed by the Taiping army in Kaifeng, Zhengzhou and other large cities. During the month of Layue, Henan's largest Qing army training horses under the leadership of their leader Miao Peilin, the whole army surrendered to the Taiping Army, and the destruction of the Qing army in Henan has entered the countdown.

The character of Miao Peilin is extremely complex. In history, this person has always wavered between the Taiping Army and the Qing Army, one time was the Qing Army, one time was the Taiping Army, and finally was completely wiped out by the Qing Army, during which Miao Peilin also did a major event to trap the British King Chen Yucheng. And in this time and space, due to the strength of the Taiping Army in Lianghuai before, Miao Peilin has always relied on the Qing army, and there is no precedent for surrendering the Taiping Army, and this surrender is the first time Miao Peilin surrendered to the Taiping Army. Lai Wenguang, the commander of the Henan army of the Taiping Army, gladly accepted Miao Peilin's surrender. After surrendering, Miao Peilin was in a hurry to make meritorious contributions, and his counterattack against the Qing army was even more fierce, just as he did to the Taiping army in history.

To the northwest, Chen Yucheng's troops had completed the Hanzhong Campaign before Layue. A month after the Taiping army besieged the city, under the cover of artillery fire, they conquered Hanzhong, a famous city in the northwest, and the fertile Hanzhong Plain also fell into the hands of the Taiping army. The last realistically developed and relatively well-developed grain production base of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also lost. After more than ten days of rest and recuperation in the Hanzhong area, Chen Yucheng's troops quickly began the Xi'an Campaign. Let the Qing army in the northwest have no room for respite.

The Qing army in Hubei is more interesting, Hu Linyi guards Jingxiang. Fiercely attacked by the Taiping Army's Sichuan Lin Qirong Department and Wuchang Shida Kaibu, Jingzhou, Yichang and other places were quickly lost, Hu Linyi had to retreat to Xiangfan, and the Taiping Army's Sichuan Lin Qirong Department then surrounded Xiangfan with heavy troops, and Shi Dakaibu then arrived. Hu Linyi knew that he would never be able to stop the superior attack of the Taiping army on both roads, and when Hu Linyi felt desperate, Shi Dakaibu did not stop in Xiangfan, but bypassed Xiangfan and went directly to the northwest. Lin Qirong's troops did not rush to attack Xiangfan, but after stabilizing the position outside the city, they sent troops to surround the two cities of Xiangfan and trap the Qing army in the city, while the rest of the soldiers and horses actively swept all over Hubei.

The Taiping army did not storm Xiangfan, so that Hu Linyi's preparation was useless, he originally planned to use Xiangfan's strong city defense and the Taiping army to carry out brutal street battles and city defense battles, but Lin Qirong directly gave up the strong attack, his approach was more like to besiege Xiangfan, until the city was exhausted and the city was broken. As a result, the Lin Qirong Department of the Hubei Taiping Army surrounded Xiangfan with peace of mind, and the remaining troops quickly launched to sweep away the Qing army forces in the rest of Hubei, while Shi Dakai's division went to the northwest, making Hu Linyi a little hesitant.

Of course, Shi Dakaibu did not go to support Chen Yucheng's department, Li Kaifang, the representative of the Wing Hall and the West Palace, reached an agreement in Wuchang, and the Wing King gave up the Hubei region to open up the Shaanxi region, and went to the northwest for the Heavenly Kingdom, Xinjiang and other places to open up the territory and expand the territory, and in exchange for the promise of the northwest of the Wing Hall Yongzhen, the West King's yang conspiracy succeeded again, and people had nothing to say, the Wing King was unwilling to return to the Tianjing Supervision Kingdom, and he chose to go out of the northwest of the town, it seems that the West King's approach has nothing to blame, on the contrary, many people criticize the Wing King for being too heavy behind his back.

Xiao Yungui, the king of the West who was far away in the Nanyuan camp in the capital, finally ended the situation of being isolated after the canal and waterway were opened, and the news from all sides could be delivered to the Nanyuan camp accurately and timely. Miao Peilin's surrender made Xiao Yungui feel uncomfortable, but in view of the fact that this person did not make any out-of-the-ordinary moves now, on the contrary, he became a banner for the Taiping Army to surrender and rebel, and it was not good to do anything to him, anyway, in the future, this person will be under the hands of the Taiping Army, and after slowly dividing and disintegrating so that he has no soldiers and horses in his hands, he is not a toothless tiger, if this person obediently acts obediently in the future, it will be fine, if there is any outrageous behavior, Xiao Yungui does not mind cleaning up this person.

Xiao Yungui didn't have much excitement about the Winged King's final choice, which was expected, just like the Winged King would rather part ways with Tianjing in history, in fact, the Winged King's ambition was not small, and the Winged King's departure from Tianjing in history also laid a hidden danger for the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, this time the Wing King went to the northwest, maybe he could create another situation for himself...... (To be continued......)