In mid-November of the Yimao year, the Guangdong Tiandihui Uprising broke out. He Liu, the leader of the Dongguan Tiandihui Society, led his troops to revolt in Shilong Town, Dongguan County, and began to attack the county town on the 17th, opening the prelude to the Tiandihui Uprising near the Guangdong Provincial Capital. The uprising team quickly grew to more than 30,000 people and had more than 600 ships. On the 19th, Chen Kai, the head of the Foshan Tiandihui Society, launched an uprising at Fengning Temple in Shiwan, Foshan, and then began to attack Foshan Town belonging to Nanhai County. Then, Li Wenmao, Gan Xian, Zhou Chun and others were in Foling City in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou, Chen Xianliang and others gathered in Yantang in the east of the city, and Lin Qinglong and others on the south bank of the Provincial River (Pearl River). Guan Ju and He Bofen also led the Pearl River boatmen to respond.

The rebels shaved their hair and changed their clothes, wrapped their heads in red scarves or their waists in red belts, and called themselves the West Palace soldiers. After the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty cedeed land and paid compensation from outside, lost power and humiliated the country, and stepped up the crackdown on the people, making fish and meat, and the social crisis became more serious. Guangdong was the first to bear the brunt of the Opium War, and suffered the most. The war compensation shared after the war was the heaviest, so the Qing Dynasty exploited and oppressed the people more cruelly. With the uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiang

The southern half of the wall was lost, and as the only province with still money and grain surplus, Guangdong naturally exploited more and more. As the Qing Dynasty became more and more oppressed, more and more poor farmers and unemployed handicraftsmen, small vendors, boatmen, unemployed vagrants and others joined the Tiandihui organization and embarked on the road of anti-Qing struggle. Therefore, after the Tiandihui in Foshan and other places in Guangdong Province, the uprisings of Tiandihui in various places began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

Within two months, Chen Kai, He Jiu, Li Wenmao and other rebels conquered more than 40 prefectures, prefectures, and county towns, and formed several central areas one after another. In the areas near Guangzhou, in addition to Chen Kai, Li Wenmao and others, there were also Chen Jingang, Lian Sihu, Hou Chendai, Lin Danian, Chen Ji, Liang Ji, Liu Guanxiu, Chen Songnian, Lu Cuijin, Feng Kun and others led the Tiandihui Uprising in Huaxian, Sanshui, Qingyuan, Shunde, Longmen, Xinhui, Heshan and other counties respectively.

In the Zhaoqing area in the west, Chen Rong, Wu Baiji and others led the uprisings, and under the admiration of Shui Yong, they captured Zhaoqing Prefecture City (now Zhaoqing City). In the Shaozhou area in the north, the uprising was first launched by Chen Yihe of Yingde County and Ge Yaoming of Lechang County, and then together with other uprising troops, besieged Shaozhou Prefecture City (now Shaoguan City). In the Chaozhou and Huizhou area in the east, the uprising troops led by Chen Niangkang, Zheng Youchun, Wu Zhongshu, Zhai Huogu actively operated in Huilai, Chaoyang, Chenghai, Puning, Jieyang, Guishan (now Huiyang), Boluo and other places. In addition, Jiayingzhou, Gaozhou and Lianzhou Prefecture counties also had uprisings of varying sizes. The uprising troops in various places had tens of thousands of large stocks, and the small stocks had thousands or hundreds of small stocks.

Faced with the uprising wave of the rebels like a sea of ​​uprisings in the Heaven and Earth Come, the Qing army was surprisingly calm and calm. After the uprising of the rebels, the Qing army quickly gave up the surrounding towns and most of the troops retreated to the Guangzhou provincial capital. The remaining Hunan soldiers and Guangdong local regiments trained troops in key roads outside Guangzhou to guard the camps and guard them.

The intention of the Qing army was to attract several larger rebels around Guangzhou to attack Guangzhou, and to consume the rebels with Guangzhou's strong defense. The soldiers and horses on the periphery cut off the connection between Guangzhou and other prefectures and counties, and block the rebels from other places in Guangdong from coming to Guangzhou to meet. As long as the mutual connection between the rebels can be cut off and the rebels cannot form joint combat, the Hunan soldiers and local regiment training will have the opportunity to defeat one by one, and finally turn around and clean up the rebels in the outer city of Guangzhou.

This strategy was suggested to Ye Mingchen by Ronglu in the name of the admiral of the guest army Xiangyong. Since Ronglu led 8,000 Hunan Yongs into Guangdong, he has gradually seen that the conflict between the government and the people in Guangdong has reached an irreconcilable point. At the same time, the forces of the Heaven and Earth Association in Guangdong are mixed, and it is not as simple as the Shanghai Xiaodao Society back then. Therefore, Ronglu changed his strategy. He first led the Hunan soldiers to clean up local regiments and trained local regiments loyal to the Qing Dynasty, cleared the Tiandihui gangs in the regiments, and then led the Hunan soldiers and regiments to garrison in various important roads, and divided the entire Guangdong prefectures and counties and Guangzhou provincial capital. The intention was to divide the rebels in various parts and wait for the rebels to rise up and encircle them in pieces.

Sure enough, after the rebels in various places were uprising one after another, they found that they could not move closer to the provincial capital of Guangzhou. At the same time, with the cooperation of Xiang Yong, the regiments of various places began to counterattack. Due to lack of unified leadership and lack of combat experience, most of them were defeated by the regiments organized by the Qing army and the landlords and gentry.

In the first month of the Bingchen year (1856), except for the rebels of Chen Kai and Li Wenmao who were still besieging Guangzhou, most of the other rebels were wiped out. Only Zhai Huogu, Ge Yaoming and other troops moved to Jiangxi, Fujian and other places to surrender to the Taiping Army. Some of the Chen Jingang tribes moved to the border areas of Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, while others were forced to surrender to Zhu Hongying, and He Gou went there.

Although the land passage in Guangzhou was surrounded, and the rebel army was also involved in the rebel army. He Bofen's boat army blocked the inland river in the Pearl River. However, they were unable to close the waterways in Guangzhou. The Qing army was able to get supplies from the sea, and the great powers also began to sell guns, ammunition, money and food to the Qing army.

Governor Ye Mingchen of Guangdong and Guangxi, and governor Bai Gui of Guangdong personally led troops to guard Guangzhou. There were more than 4,000 Green Camp soldiers in Guangzhou, and more than 1,300 Eight Banners soldiers in the city jointly defended the fort and the water and land pass. The gentry and landlords from all over the country were ordered to quickly form a group training, and used "give good food" and "double wages to pay", etc. to hire more than 27,000 rural heroes from the provincial capital, Xiangshan, Xin'an, Dongguan, Xinhui, Chaozhou and other places, and added hundreds of inland warships, selected water and artillery braves and 16,000 relatives to cooperate with the Eight Banners and Green Camp.

He also requested the Qing government to quickly transfer troops from Fujian, Hunan and other provinces to Guangdong to fight for the suppression, and formed a "funding bureau" led by the comprador Wu Chongyao. Later, he shamelessly begged the British Hong Kong authorities to send troops to rescue him. Although he was rejected, the great powers began to sell weapons and food to the Qing government in Guangzhou.

As early as when Ronglu entered Guangdong, he had discussed with Ye Mingchen, Bai Gui, Guangzhou General Muten, right-wing vice-president Toen Dong'e and others and made specific strategies to defend Guangzhou. After the rebel army began to siege Guangzhou, Ye Mingchen and others quickly acted according to the strategy set at that time. General Wei Zuobang led his troops to be stationed in the East Road and defended the Baoli Fort; General Huang Darong and Xiong Yingrong led the green camp and some regiments to guard the key passes outside the Xiaobei Gate; guerrilla Zeng Tingxiang, general Jishan led the green camp and some regiments to guard the important places in the north of the city; guerrilla Chen Dingbang led the green camp and the cannon to guard the Qiding, Gongji, Bao

The magnificent fortress; the assistant leader came to the capital, Wang Zhenxiong and Zuolingge led the Eight Banners to guard the Yongkang Fortress outside the North Gate; the guerrilla Chen Guohui and the navy led the general Wang Xian and others to fight against the Green Camp to fight against the Xishan Temple and Nicheng in the west of the city; the assistant leader Yunquan, Tai Chengen, Guoyin and others led the Eight Banners and some of the regiments to guard the old city; the deputy general Waitabu led the Guangzhou Green Camp to defend the new city. Ye Mingchen and others climbed the five-story building of Xiushan (Zhenhailou) every day to command it himself. Among the above strategies, the north of the city was the focus, followed by the east and west of the city, and at the same time, the guard of the fortress was strengthened to ensure that the river channel from Guangzhou to the outer sea was unobstructed.

Ye Mingchen and Ronglu agreed that the Qing army in Guangzhou would hold on until the peripheral troops led by Ronglu destroyed the rebels from other places and returned to Guangzhou. The two armies jointly wiped out the rebels from Chen Kai, Li Wenmao and other troops under the city of Guangzhou.

The news that the great powers sold weapons and food to the Qing army in Guangdong was immediately passed back to Shanghai. The Western King Xiao Yungui, who was still fighting diplomatic wars with the great powers, was not surprised. The great powers were demonstrating to themselves in this way and putting pressure on them.

After the end of the Crimean War, the Northern Army of the Taiping Army, as a mercenary, refused to withdraw troops from Miaojie and Sakhalin Island on the grounds that the war ended and the employment relationship was completed. This annoyed the ministers of Britain and France, but the Taiping Army had a legal advantage. The first is that there was indeed an end to the war in the employment contract. The terms of the employment relationship ended immediately, and it was agreed that when the war was negotiated between the two parties, the employer would not bear any combat responsibility of the coalition forces as a combat force. In other words, the war ended.

Later, the Taiping Army was no longer under the command of General Grant, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. The second was that Miaojie and Sakhalin were still the territory of the Qing Dynasty at that time. The Taiping Army, as a rebel, occupied its own territory and was indecent in the face of Britain and France, which remained neutral in diplomatic relations. Even the Russian minister did not justify asking the Taiping Army to withdraw from these two places, because the legal treaty between the Qing Dynasty and Russia can be traced back to the Treaty of Nebchu during the Kangxi period, which clearly stated that Miaojie and Sakhalin were Chinese.

The Taiping Army of Xidian, which had both legal and military advantages, naturally gained the upper hand. At the same time, before the freezing period of the Tatar Strait, the Taiping Army's merchant supply fleet sent enough supplies to the troops there for more than three months, and established maritime business roads in Sakhalin, Box Hall, Nagasaki, Shanghai and other places. The money earned back and forth was enough to pay the supplies of the troops in the north. After solving the supply problem, the Taiping Army did not want to retreat from Miaojie and Sakhalin Island.

The direct chain reaction of the Taiping Army's appearance in the Northeast was that Xianfeng suspended the transfer of Heilongjiang Horse Team from the Northeast to the south, and instead transferred some of the Chahar Horse Team and the Mongolian Horse Team to the Northeast for defense. He was also afraid that the Taiping Army would seize the way for him to recover from the Qing Dynasty's Longxing Land.

As a result, a large number of Qing troops flocked to the northeast, and the Russians in the northeast began to frighten. They followed the supply points, outposts, and temporary docks secretly established along the Heilongjiang coast to appear in front of the Qing army. Previously, General Yige of Heilongjiang had reported that the Rakshasa Kingdom often transported troops eastward through Heilongjiang. At that time, the Qing court was busy dealing with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. There was no time to explore. As the Northeast had grown hair, the Qing army in the northeast did not dare to sleep. When they woke up, they found that the Rakshasa people had built so many towns, military stations, outposts, docks, etc. on the land north of Heilongjiang.

Yige also saw the seriousness of the matter. Not only did the hair grow might threaten the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, but even the Russians began to pay attention here instead of the Rakshasa people who had previously thought that the court had just borrowed Heilongjiang to cross the army.

So the Qing army in the northeast moved, Yi Ge was removed from his post, and another important minister of the royal family, Yishan, took over as General Heilongjiang. In the northeast, there was a strange confrontation between the Qing Dynasty, Russia and the Taiping Army.

The Taiping Army did not withdraw from Miaojie and Sakhalin Island. The negotiations between Britain and France and Russia in the Far East were even more difficult than those of the Paris Peace Conference. Russian Minister Tuzakov insisted that Miaojie and Sakhalin Island were captured by the British and French coalition forces and should be returned to Russia. The British and French ministers had no choice but to say that the reason was, but the Russian ministers were firmly aware of this and demanded that Britain and France make concessions on the treaty in the Far East. Therefore, under this circumstance, Britain and France began to support the Qing Dynasty in Guangzhou, which was to put pressure on the Western King.

But the Western King ignored this pressure for the time being. He is now dealing with the Eastern King with all his strength...
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