The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement is actually a peasant uprising movement, the most powerful of which is the peasant uprising army named Heaven and Earth Society. There are three reasons why they are so powerful that they only tinker in Guangdong and Guangxi.
First, the peasant uprising army, as its name implies, is composed of peasants, whose knowledge and fighting capacity are not very strong. They have no special training and no powerful war equipment. At the same time, they lacked tactical vision, so they were finally beaten out of the water by the Qing army.
Second, the British participated in the strangulation of heaven and earth. At first, Britain launched a war of aggression against China on the pretext that Lin Zexu and Humen destroyed opium. In the end, China failed to resist, signed the treaty of nanking with Britain and was forced to cede Hong Kong. The uprising launched by Heaven and Earth Society is in Guangzhou, which is very close to Hong Kong. In order to prevent the insurgents from spreading to Hong Kong, Britain participated in the strangulation with the Qing army.
Third, the enemy facing its army is very strong. At that time, Ye was in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Ye's military level was relatively high. At the same time, he has a strong tactical vision. When there is a problem on our side, he remedies it in time to compete with heaven and earth. His evaluation is that there is no war, no peace, no defense, no death, no surrender and no going.