It would have been a good thing for Nanjing City to be breached, but Li Xian was very angry after hearing the news, and even accused Wang Jiuxuan of using troops without authorization, breaking the tacit understanding that the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple had been advancing and retreating together for many years.

As for the Heaven and Earth Society and the Northern Sect, they had complicated moods and ambiguous attitudes, but they didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the two sides.

It's not that Li Xian didn't want to fight Nanjing, but wanted to use Nanjing to attract more troops from the Qing court and the Yiren Palace, and then go down with one drum to lay the foundation for further Northern Expeditions in the future.

Moreover, the Mixed Yuan Sect had recruited 50,000 recruits before, and the training of the recruits was just at a critical time, so he thought that he would not attack Nanjing until the spring of 1848, but he did not expect that he would let Sanyuanguan and the Taiping army take the first place and take the richest city in the south of the Yangtze River without paying attention.

Sanyuanguan explained in many ways afterwards, saying that his side was just taking advantage of the situation, and did not have the intention of getting rid of the mixed yuan sect to go it alone, but just looking at the large number of troops and materials invested by Sanyuanguan in this battle, he knew that this was a battle that Sanyuanguan had prepared for a long time, and it was by no means a temporary play.

However, the matter has come to this point, and it is useless for the people of the Mixed Yuan Sect to be excited, and the overall strategy has to be adjusted according to the current new situation.

Soon after the fall of Nanjing, Mixed Yuanzong sent a navy into the Yangtze River to deal a devastating blow to the remnants of the Qing court's Yangtze River sailors, and immediately seized the right to control the Yangtze River.

This was not enough, Mixed Yuanzong took advantage of the uneven distribution of spoils between Sanyuanguan and the Taiping Army in Nanjing, and quickly dispatched troops at the moment of quarreling, and defeated Zhenjiang and Yangzhou not far from it.

Zhenjiang is also repaid, Yangzhou is also famous, the population of the city alone is more than 600,000, and the mixed Yuanzong has harvested 15 or 6 million yuan of property in this battle, although it is not as good as the harvest of Nanjing, but it is not without compensation.

On the other hand, the Sanyuanguan and the Demon Sect also had a harvest of 50 or 60 million yuan in Nanjing, but then in order to occupy more of these belongings, they almost used knives against each other.

In the end, it was the intervention of a large number of sects of the Huaxia League, especially the sending of 30,000 troops to the city of Nanjing, in the name of cheering for the allies.

This scene was naturally ridiculed by the Mixed Yuan Sect, and later it was taken out many times to ridicule these two sects.

After that, both the Sanyuanguan and the Demon Sect wanted to take Nanjing as their base, but they were unwilling to share it with each other, and even broke out an innate war for this, and many innate masters who were good friends with these two sects shot in the name of martial arts competition, and secretly competed.

In the end, Sanyuanguan considered that he also had a strong navy, and even if he couldn't get Nanjing, it would not be difficult to find a large enough city to occupy on the long coastline, so he agreed to give Nanjing City to the Demon Sect as a base area, but also let the Demon Sect take out a full five million taels of silver as the cost of buying out Nanjing City.

The royal literati of the Qing court hyped up this matter, saying that the rebels were full of internal disputes, and that even if the imperial court did not fight them, they might also be angry themselves, believing that even if the rebels were strong for a while, it would be a matter of time before they would be destroyed.

After that, the Huaxia army sent troops to recapture Suzhou, and Sanyuanguan occupied Changzhou between Suzhou and Nanjing, posing as a joint confrontation with the Qing court.

In this way, the most feared thing of the Qing court happened, the Taiping army in the west and the Huaxia army in the east achieved a de facto convergence under the city of Nanjing, almost cutting off the communication between the area south of the Yangtze River and the north, and the Qing court troops in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River were left to be broken by each one.

The subsequent development of the war also proved that this concern was very correct.

Mixed Yuanzong has always been reluctant to occupy more territory and do not want to divide troops to garrison the city, but after capturing Yangzhou, Mixed Yuanzong did not only grab property and then withdraw like before, but sent a force of 20,000 people to be stationed in Yangzhou, which became the northernmost bridgehead for attacking the Qing court.

At this time, everyone suddenly woke up, the total strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect had reached 80,000, and there were still more than 50,000 recruits in the base areas from south to north being trained, which was far from the previous situation where there were few skilled soldiers.

Li Xian sent to garrison Yangzhou was the original Marine Corps commander Qiao Daqing, after he was stationed in Yangzhou, relying on the terrain to establish a very solid defensive position, and through the Yangtze River to obtain various supplies and support, after the Qing army counterattacked Yangzhou many times, but all ended in failure, but achieved Qiao Daqing's prestige.

In the period that followed, the Qing armies in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian were almost unable to organize any effective resistance, and basically surrendered to the wind.

Whether it was the Mixed Yuan Sect, the Sanyuan Temple, the Taiping Army, or even the Heaven and Earth Society and other rebel allies, during this period, they were rapidly expanding their forces and occupying more territory, and their military strength changed dramatically.

In the spring of 1849, Li Xian finally led 50,000 elites to re-land in Putian, and then went to Jiulian Mountain, advancing step by step, never advancing, and had many desperate battles with the defenders of the Yiren Hall who stayed behind in Jiulian Mountain.

After all, the Cave Heaven Blessed Land is another world, and it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to survive in it, and it is very troublesome to use troops, so even if the main world has an absolute advantage, it is by no means easy to attack the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, which is garrisoned by a large number of masters.

Otherwise, the Qing court owned the world before, and with the assistance of the monks of the Inhuman Temple, it would not only be able to occupy more than a dozen Dongtian blessed lands, and the rest of the places would be occupied by martial arts sects hostile to themselves, even places like Sanyuan blessed land, which were very close to Guangzhou, were also operated by Sanyuanguan.

Fortunately, Li Xian was fully prepared this time, there were countless masters in the army, but there were more than twenty innate masters, and the strength of Jiulian Mountain had been greatly weakened in the previous battle, and a large number of masters had been transferred, and the defensive strength at this time was at the bottom of hundreds of years.

However, this battle was still turned upside down, and it took half a year for the Mixed Yuan Sect to take down Jiulian Mountain and recover the famous Southern Shaolin blessed land.

This battle, on the one hand, greatly boosted the morale of the world's martial arts, and on the other hand, it also marked that the Mixed Yuan Sect had its own independent blessed land, and there was no need to squeeze together with the Sanyuan Temple.

By the end of 1849, more than ninety percent of the area south of the Yangtze River had fallen into the hands of the rebels, which brought about a fundamental change in the balance of power between the rebels and the Qing court.

It's just that as more and more territory is occupied, the friction between the rebels is becoming more and more frequent, not to mention anything else, the Guangxi Demon Sect holds itself as the orthodox inheritance left by the Demon Venerable, and even calls itself the Taiping Army, unwilling to join the Huaxia Alliance composed of various major factions, and only admits that it is an ally with the Huaxia League, and its thoughts are obvious.

However, in this way, the Demon Sect also offended most of the sects of the Huaxia League, and the dispute between good and evil that had been shelved for more than a hundred years did not necessarily subside completely, and the Demon Sect began to be isolated by the Huaxia League, intentionally or unintentionally.