太平天国的北伐和西征,史学界对其研究已有很多。但我认为,学者们多是把两者分开来研究,而将两者有机结合起来从整体上去分析则略嫌不足。事实上,太平天国的领袖们是将北伐和西征作为战略上的一个整体来考虑和操作的。当我们把两者作为一个整体去考察时,有下面三个问题是必须弄 The Northern Expedition and Western Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have been studied by the historians for many reasons. However, I think that scholars mostly study the two separately, and it is not enough to analyze the whole from the organic combination of the two. In fact, the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom considered and manipulated the Northern Expedition and the Western Exposition as a strategic whole. When we examine the two as a whole, the following three questions must be made