Early leaders Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan were repeatedly suppressed by the Qing army for cultivating Christians and brewing uprisings in Guangdong.
Later, he moved into the deep mountains of Guangxi, and launched a massive Jintian village uprising in 185 1 year to capture Yong 'an City. Then he broke through the encirclement of the Qing army and launched an attack on Guilin, the capital of Guangxi at that time, but failed to break the city. Turning to Quanzhou failed to break the city. Subsequently, the insurgents fought and expanded their troops in Hunan, but failed to achieve good results in Hunan. Then he moved to Hubei and attacked Wuchang several times. The water army went down the river and broke through Nanjing, which became the turning point of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War, and then the Western Expedition and the Northern Expedition. The Western Expedition captured a large territory of Wuchang and Hunan and Hubei. However, the Northern Expedition was too weak. The Northern Expeditionary Army with only 20,000 troops split into two roads, all the way to Tianjin, just in time for the Second Opium War, and Beijing was empty. If it weren't for the rainy season, the insurgents would have taken Beijing. Then the Northern Expeditionary Army lost.
After that, the leaders of the Kingdom of Tian Ping began to think about how to replace the Qing Dynasty, but enjoyed success and only wanted to split the party. The rebels began an internal struggle. Yang and Wei Changhui, one of the founders of the Taiping Rebellion, were killed in the infighting, resulting in the death of all their 50,000-strong troops. After the political situation, Shi Dakai came to power, but Hong Xiuquan suspected that Shi and Shi escaped, which caused some strategic mistakes of the rebel army. The form of rebellion began to turn downward. Although the use of young generals Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng saved some situations, the decline of the insurgents was irreversible. In Li Xiucheng's wrong strategy of attacking Shanghai and Zhejiang instead of saving Anqing, Chen Yucheng died and the Qing army began to surround Nanjing. Nanjing was broken after being besieged for two years, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was basically destroyed after half a year.