Since the Huashan faction moved to Guangdong, Qiao Daqing has been in charge of the outer gate and created the Boat Gang, and I don't know how many martial arts masters he has fought with, and it is also famous in the rivers and lakes.

Since getting acquainted with Li Xian, Qiao Daqing and Li Xian are known as brothers, Li Xian was an instructor of the escort team when Leizhou was not yet rising, and he participated in several important battles later, and all of them had good performances.

Therefore, Qiao Daqing is a person with a very strong background, who has experienced many actual combat trainings, and also has unique views on military command, Li Xian privately believes that Qiao Daqing is more suitable for taking charge of the army than Wang Xiaoming and Chen Guangsheng.

Wang Xiaoming, Chen Guangsheng and others were originally just ordinary young people, but after getting acquainted with Li Xian, they came into contact with modern military knowledge, and after years of battlefield practice, they gradually became military commanders who were able to take charge of one side.

Compared with it, Qiao Daqing's own talent and knowledge accumulation are more profound, and the opportunities for battlefield practice are not less than theirs, and he has more strong martial arts support, once he joins the army, he is naturally more suitable to be a commander than Wang Xiaoming and others.

This would have been a good thing, but the problem also came, whether it was in terms of ability or personal relationships, Qiao Daqing was a first-class figure, and he reluctantly admitted that Li Xian's leadership was okay, and putting his position under Wang Xiaoming and the others and accepting their command was probably even more uncomfortable than killing him.

However, from the perspective of the army, no matter how strong Qiao Daqing is, he is only a battalion commander who led more than 500 people in the mercenary regiment, and as soon as he arrives in the regular army, he will be treated one level higher than Wang Xiaoming and other first-echelon officers, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Ling Hu Zhan and Lin Pingzhi also have similar problems, that is, they have outstanding abilities, but it is not appropriate to directly grant a high position, and they are a little unwilling to start from the bottom.

It is the other dozens of elite disciples sent by the Huashan faction and the Fuwei Dart Bureau, some of whom are still old men of the Fuwei Dart Bureau's musket team, who have been instructors for Wang Xiaoming and others, and their own abilities and experience are good, and they are not very willing to be subservient.

However, if they were given too high a position at the beginning, it would infringe on the interests of the Leizhou officers, and Wang Xiaoming and others might not be convinced, and when the time came, the two sides would secretly compete with each other, and it would be Li Xian who had a headache.

Li Xian's solution to this problem was to establish a marine corps of about 5,000 people, and arrange all the warriors into the marines.

Everything in the Navy is a start-up, and it is very easy to arrange people, and the commander of the Navy, Hu Chong, knows that his foundation is not thick, not only does he not make things difficult for Qiao Daqing and others, but he is also happy to cooperate, and finally solves this big trouble.

However, the result of this is that the navy is faintly divided into two major factions, namely the warship department headed by Hu Chong and the captains and officers recruited by him, and the marine team headed by Qiao Daqing and others.

Therefore, on the whole, Li Xian's subordinates are now divided into the Navy Department and the Army Department, and further subdivided, they can also be divided into the Hunter Department headed by Wang Xiaoming, the Fisherman Department headed by Hai Dagui, the Zongmen Department headed by Chen Guangsheng, and the Logistics Department headed by Zhang Sicheng;

The navy is divided into Hu Chong's warship department and Qiao Daqing and others' marine corps department, which are quite sincere on the surface, but it is inevitable that they will fight each other in secret.

In short, it's a bad debt, and sometimes Li Xian doesn't know what he should do with these factional struggles.

To get back to the point, this move of the Fuzhou Navy Division caused some trouble to the Huaxia Army and Navy.

According to the idea of the navy, it is to attract the Fuzhou Naval Division, and then give a devastating blow on the vast ocean, and destroy the only water force that may threaten Dayuan Island in one fell swoop.

However, the Fuzhou Navy Division was terrified of the Huaxia Army, and every time it came out of the mouth of the Minjiang River, it quickly retracted, and this kind of cowardly style of play was the most suitable for the current situation, which could not only effectively preserve its strength, but also maintain a kind of deterrent for the Huaxia Army.

If the Huaxia Army really wants to fight a decisive battle with the Fuzhou Naval Division, it can only go north from the Min River and fight a decisive battle with the Fuzhou Naval Division on the inland river, but the warships of the Huaxia Army are not as strong as the British warships after all, and that kind of fighting will increase the possibility of losses.

When attacking Fuzhou, the Fuzhou Navy Division had the experience of escaping upstream along the Min River, so that the navy gave up the pursuit after several deliberations.

The navy is not afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Fuzhou Naval Division, but once the mouth of the Min River is not blocked and the Fuzhou Naval Division is allowed to rush out, there is no need to really fight with the navy; as long as it harasses along the coastline of Dayuan Island or sails along the coast of Guangdong, it will seriously affect the various production activities of the Huaxia Army, and it will not be conducive to consolidating its rule over the rear.

After playing hide-and-seek with the Fuzhou Navy Division for more than a month, the Navy finally lost patience, the original idea of the Navy was to pay the minimum price to eliminate the Fuzhou Navy Division, since this plan could not be achieved, then go to play a big game, and continue to expand the scale of the war.

Soon after, the Huaxia Army's combat methods were greatly adjusted, that is, it did not stick to the coastal areas of Fujian, but continued northward from the northern part of Dayuan Island, directly harassing many cities along the coasts of Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

Relying on the strength of its navy and army, and the characteristics of a well-formed marine corps, the Huaxia Army made many landing operations along the coasts of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, first in some smaller county towns, and then began to capture some prefectures, and even broke through the naval blockade of Ningbo many times and reached Hangzhou Bay to spy on it.

Every time after the capture of the county seat or the capital city, the Huaxia army did not send troops to occupy it, but only looted all the grain and money from the imperial court official warehouses in the city, plundered the property of the officials, and did not commit any offense to the ordinary people and merchants.

What made the Qing court most angry was that every time the city was breached, the Huaxia army would take out a part of the money and grain from the captured money and grain and distribute it to the local people to buy people's hearts, and also forced the local people to tear down all the city walls, and at the same time allowed the local people to take away all the bricks of the original city wall.

Although the Huaxia army withdrew later, it would have a very bad impact on the rule of the imperial court in the local area, and even the imperial court did not know whether it could trust the local people in the future.

Moreover, those walls were built with great effort in various eras, and with the financial situation of the Qing court, it would be a huge expense to regain the city and rebuild it, and if the city walls were rebuilt, it would only be easier for the Chinese army to attack the city again next time.

Beacon fires spread everywhere along the coastline of the Qing Dynasty, and the impeachment of Yiliang and Fujian officials for their incompetence flew into the military plane like snowflakes, and for a time all the officials in the coastal provinces scolded Yiliang for being incompetent, unable to quell the rebels, and still less capable of protecting the people under his rule.

Yiliang was angry and frightened for a while, feeling that most of the black gauze hats could not be saved, and he had the heart to return to his hometown, but he felt a little reluctant.

Fortunately, several ministers and emperors of the Military Aircraft Department knew that it was not easy for Fujian to survive until now, although they issued an order to reprimand it for its incompetence, but at the same time, they also comforted him with gentle words, telling him not to think too much, and it was better to work hard to suppress the bandits.