The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement arose in the late Qing Dynasty, although it ultimately failed, but we should pay attention to an objective fact, that is, the Qing Dynasty in that year consumed a lot of national strength in order to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which also indirectly accelerated the speed of the qing Dynasty's demise a lot, we know that the doctrines believed in by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are not some of the traditional teachings of our country, more like Hong Xiuquan's own things, but their purpose is to completely eliminate the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a completely incompatible attitude with the Qing Dynasty in its policy toward the Manchus, with the following slogan on the couplet of Hong Xiuquan's Heavenly King's Palace:
Emperor Wei Da De Risheng, with Xia Changyi, to drive out the European and American non-Austrian people, to return to my territory is unified; Yu Wenzhige was a warrior, and the chaos was rectified, and there were no blue, white, red, and yellow flags, and the various clans were served for thousands of years.
As a result, there is no room for maneuver between the Qing Dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, whether ideologically or on the issue of race, either the Qing Dynasty is wiped out and the Manchus are basically wiped out, or the Qing Dynasty wipes out the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely.
Under such a purpose, almost every time the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupies a city, it must first kill all the flag people in the city, regardless of men, women, children, and children, and no one is left, which is why when the city was destroyed, some Qing Dynasty flag officials or generals would rather cut themselves off or die on the battlefield than let themselves and their families fall into the hands of the Taiping Army.
And this is also the Qing Dynasty in the face of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, there is no way back to choose, must go all out to defeat the Taiping Army, because if the Qing Dynasty can not win, then including all the imperial families, the Banner people will be killed by the Taiping Army, in the process of the Qing Dynasty army and the Taiping Army, the Taiping Army's fierceness towards the Flag People They have seen a lot.
However, it is really not the Eight Banners of the Manchus that finally destroyed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but the Xiang Army of the Han People, which is really a bit ironic.