Due to political factors, Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, is a famous political, economic and cultural center in the history of this city. At that time, this area was the best developed among the areas they conquered. With a mature economy and an ancient cultural capital, it is rich in celebrities and outstanding people.
Human factors, when we hit Nanjing, urgently needed to solve the inconvenience caused by guerrilla warfare. At this time, establish base areas, stabilize people's hearts and consolidate development. This has become a top priority. What I have to do.
It is these reasons, coupled with Nanjing's own superior conditions, that prompted the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to build Nanjing as its capital and change its name to Tianjing.
Generally speaking, it is undoubtedly correct for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to make Tianjing its capital, especially the timing is more appropriate. But in terms of space, this place is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is not an ideal place. This is also its shortcoming and expedient measure. Later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had to invest a lot of troops to defend Tianjing. In the tug-of-war between attack and defense, the defender is quite difficult. Wang Hao, who is in charge of Tianjin's defense, should have realized the limitations of Tianjin earlier. During his administration after the Tianjing Incident, he was too busy cleaning up the situation to make major strategic adjustments. As the aftermath of the Tianjing incident drew to a close and Wang Hao was ready to make a difference, Hong Xiuquan was stimulated by the Tianjing incident and his mentality changed greatly. He made a big mistake by publicly forcing Wang Hao to step down. After Wang Yi left Beijing, besides cooperating with Tianjing, he never forgot to look for new base areas in order to open up a new situation. After years of exploration and comparison, he turned his attention to the Chengdu Plain, which is known as the "land of abundance", and launched a thrilling strategic expedition to Bashu. At that time, Qin's national strength increased greatly, and finally it annexed six countries to unify China. On this basis, Hanwang, Liu Bang and Chu overlord Xiang Yu competed for the world. During the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Bei's war made a decisive contribution to the establishment of Shu, which fully showed Wang's strategic vision of commanding the overall situation. This is a good way to break the deadlock and get rid of the predicament. It can be described as a new good move. Unfortunately, it cannot be understood by Hong Xiuquan and most generals. How many days? What a pity.
As the most important city in the south of the Yangtze River, Nanjing has a very important strategic position. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, once took Nanjing as the capital, and gradually unified the whole country on this basis. At the beginning of the uprising, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not have a stable base. For a long time, the actions of the Taiping Army were similar to those of bandits, lacking the support of stable base areas. Yang's idea of establishing a stable base area centered on Nanjing in the affluent south of the Yangtze River is a good choice. In fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also established a base area in this area, namely Sufu Province, which is the basis for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to persist for so long.
In addition, the Qing government at that time was different from the Yuan Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang faced. Although the Taiping Army won many battles with the Qing army, the Qing government, which still controlled most of the country's financial resources and territory at that time, still had great strength, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the main enemy of the Qing government at that time. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Nanjing, the Qing army quickly established Jiangnan Camp and Jiangbei Camp in Xiaolingwei and Yangzhou, threatening the security of Tianjing. This also shows that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not form a military advantage over the Qing government, but needed the support of a base area. In addition, in the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army, although the Taiping Army won many battles, it failed to effectively control the occupied areas, went deep alone, and finally fell into the encirclement of the Qing army, lost supply support in the rear, and finally failed, which also showed the shortcomings of mobile operations and the importance of having base areas.