The prerequisite for differentiation and win over is to determine who is the main enemy of the Taiping Army and who is the secondary enemy. [No doubt, the Manzhou people are the main enemy of the Taiping Army and even the Han people in the world. The relationship between the two is to die, and any compromise to the Manzhou people is a betrayal of the Han people. Therefore, what the Taiping Army has to do to the great enemy of Manzhou is to attack and eliminate it, and eliminate it without mercy.

As for the Mongols, they can win over them a little when they are hit. The propaganda slogan proposed by the Qing Dynasty was "Manchu and Mongolian Family", which is actually just the words of Manzhou people. According to the confession of Gushan Ezhen Surile and others of the Mongolian Eight Banners who surrendered to the Taiping Army, only the Mongolians and Manzhou people of the Mongolian Eight Banners were truly integrated. This is because the Mongolian Eight Banners were all small Mongolian tribes that voluntarily surrendered to Manchu in the Later Jin Dynasty in the early years, or were conquered by Manzhou. Over the past few decades, these Mongols had already formed a complex relationship with the Manzhou people, or they had already become Manzhou and no longer regarded themselves as Mongolians, but called themselves bannermen. The most obvious evidence is that the Mongolians of the Mongolian Eight Banners were all shaved, while the Mongolians of the Mongolians did not.

Surile's ancestor was Beizi Kualkar, a small Mongolian tribe. At that time, he brought more than 300 tribes to Nurhaci and was the first Mongolian to be incorporated into the Mongolian military flag. Among the majority of Mongolian tribes outside the pass, only Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert, such as Korqin tribes, had close relationships with the Manchu people, and the relationship between other Mongolian tribes and the Qing people was limited to cooperative relations. In other words, they were partners who robbed together. In addition, the Manchu people could not effectively command the Mongolian tribes. The former ruler of Mongolian in the south of the desert, the Chahar tribe was also extremely hostile to the Manchu people.

The original Khan of the Chahar tribe was Lin Danhan, the direct heir of the Golden Family. Unfortunately, he died of acne in the eighth year of Tiancong of the Later Jin Dynasty. Later, his wife, Empress Dowager Su Tai, and his son Ezhe led his troops to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court organized his troops into six banners and appointed him as the prince's commander. After Ezhe died of illness, his younger brother Abunai attacked him as the prince. However, unlike his brother's obedience to the Qing Dynasty, Abunai was always resentful of the shame of his ancestors, and always had the wish to revive the Great Mongolians in his heart, and was unwilling to be ruled by the Manchu people. Therefore, he replaced his brother as the Queen of Chahar. He did not visit Shunzhi in Beijing for many years, so the Qing court dismissed him from prison and imprisoned him in Shengjing.

Abunai had two sons, the eldest son Burni and the second son Luo Buzang. After Abunai was imprisoned in Shengjing, the Qing court regarded his eldest son Burni as the prince, but Burni's attitude was the same as his father and he was also unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Because his father Abunai was imprisoned, Burni's hatred for the Qing Dynasty deepened. He had been plotting against the Qing Dynasty to rescue his father and led his tribe members to revive the glory of the Great Mongolian. The Qing court knew this very well, but because the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the south had not been pacified, he could not free up his hands to solve Burnie, and could only rely on the close Korqin and other ministries to take surveillance and restrain the Chahar tribe.

During the Shunzhi period, the parts of Mongolia were also regarded as inner and outer Mongolia. Inner Mongolia referred to the tribes in the south of the desert, and Outer Mongolia referred to the tribes in the north of the desert, Zhungeer and Moxieruth. For the tribes in the Inner Mongolia, due to the long-term implementation of intermarriage since Nurhaci and relying on them to act as the pioneer in massacre of the Han people, the Qing court took great care of them and tried every means to plunder the interests of the Han people and shared them with them. However, they ignored the tribes in the Outer Mongolia and used them as cannon fodder and slaves.

Not only that, in order to avoid the growth of Mongolian tribes, the Qing Dynasty used the Lamaism to rule Mongolia, and stipulated that seven of those with eight brothers must be lamas; four of those with five brothers must be lamas; only one person can marry and have children for civilians. In this way, Mongolian women did not serve as a blessing for lamas, but they were difficult to find a considerable spouse, so they all became the targets of Manchu people to vent their desires. This naturally made the tribes of Outer Mongolia more hostile to Manchu and were unwilling to pay tribute to the Qing court.

The relationship between Mongolia and Manchu is in harmony and many tribes are not allies of the Qing Dynasty, which naturally led Zhou Shi to adjust his strategy against Mongolia. The enemy of the enemy is a friend. Even if this friend is essentially an enemy of the Han people, he can still win over this friend temporarily before eliminating the common enemy Manchu.

The number of Mongolian Eight Banners in the Qing army in the southwest was about 30,000, including thousands of Mongolian soldiers in the outer world. Whether it is the outer world Mongolian soldiers or the Mongolian Eight Banners, Zhou Shixiang has the same attitude. Cooperation can be done together, but if it does not cooperate, it will be killed. The Taiping Army and the Mongols have a natural advantage in cooperation, that is, there are nearly 4,000 Mongolian soldiers in the Taiping Army. These people will play a certain role in dividing the Mongolian army in the Qing army now and in the future.

As for the Han army and the Green Camp, given that these people were Han people and most of them were officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang thought they could give them a new choice. In other words, for the heads of Han army such as Guoan, Wu Sangui, Zhou Shixiang actually wanted to win over them. If the Han soldiers who occupied more than 70% of the Qing army in the southwest turned around and bite the remaining 20% ​​of the Manchu and Mongolian Qing army, the Qing Dynasty could be said to be dead and would not die.

Zhou Shixiang did not issue a strict order to wipe out Guoan, the line of Guoan, as long as he could hold on to Guoan, the reason was that. If he wanted to be able to fight back, the premise was that he could not see that the Qing army in the southwest could win or escape.

Zhou Shixiang was preparing to attack Luo Keduo, the Prince of Ping of the Qing Dynasty in Yuanzhou. Once Luo Keduo was wiped out, the line Guoan, who was alone and his subordinates, would probably consider the future of his own and his subordinates. Luo Keduo was defeated, and the line Guoan changed his lintel. Wu Sangui, the King of Pingxi in Yunnan and the surrendered Ming army might become the targets of the Qing army commander Doni. Even Shunzhi, who was far away in Beijing, would wake up in the middle of the night, considering whether to send envoys to discuss the matter of traitor scholars to rule the river.

However, things will never follow the scripts that Zhou Shixiang imagined. Xing Guoan is a general who does not play by routines. In other words, Xing Guoan is a good general and he is qualified to not follow the scripts.
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