鸦片战争后,外国资本主义势力入侵我国,我国人民、特别是广大农民受到更加沉重的剥削和压榨。我国人民和帝国主义的矛盾、广大农民和清朝封建势力的矛盾空前尖锐,终于在一八五一年汇成全国规模的斗争——太平天国革命运动。洪秀全领导的金田起义爆发后,太平军迅速击溃了清军的围攻和地主团练的骚扰,一举攻克了桂林、长沙,夺取了岳州、武昌,接着顺长江东下,不到三年从广西打到南京,由不满一万人的队伍发展到一百万大军,并建立了太平天国革命政权。一八五三年建都天京(今南京)后,太平军继续北伐,扩大成果;同时沿江西征,准备夺取长江中游地区,以巩固下游,保卫天京。 After the Opium War, foreign capitalists invaded our country and our people, especially the vast majority of peasants, were subjected to even more exploitation and squeeze. The contradiction between the people of our country and imperialism, the vast number of peasants and the feudal forces in the Qing Dynasty was unprecedentedly sharp and finally converged into a national scale struggle in 1851 - the revolutionary movement of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the outbreak of the Jintian uprising led by Hong Xiuquan, the Taipings quickly defeated the siege by the Qing troops and the harassment of the landlords and regiments. They captured Guilin and Changsha in one fell swoop and seized Yuezhou and Wuchang and then eastward along the Changjiang River. They shot from Guangxi in less than three years To Nanjing, the army of less than 10,000 people has developed to a million troops and established the Taiping Heavenly Revolutionary Regime. After the capital city of Beijing (now Nanjing) was built in 1853, the Taipings continued their northern expedition and expanded its achievements. At the same time, they marched west to prepare for the capture of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River so as to consolidate the lower reaches and defend Tianjing.