Then, because Sanyuanguan wanted to protect the whole of Guangdong, at least 20,000 of the 30,000 troops had to be left to guard the base area, so that Wang Jiuxuan could only lead 10,000 soldiers and horses including the navy in the Northern Expedition, and the troops were insufficient, so he could only hand over the dominance of the Northern Expedition to others.

In contrast, the base of the Mixed Yuan Sect was mainly in remote state capitals such as Leizhou in the southwest of Guangxi, Yang Tianming in Qinzhou in the west, Guangzhou in the east, and Hainan Island under the care of the Tiandihui and Huashan faction in the south.

In this way, Li Xianbu firmly grasped the initiative in the Huaxia army in the process of the Northern Expedition, and could occupy more and better territory, and could occupy a wealthy state like Hangzhou as his own, while Sanyuanguan could only go to Ningbo, which was not much worse, and by the way, he had to help Mingyuanzong to see the back road, and not let the Qing army in Fujian or southern Zhejiang attack.

Generally speaking, it is precisely because the leaders of the two sides have different strategic visions that the current development potential is very different, and this potential gap will soon manifest itself as a real strength gap.

"At the beginning, Li Xian warned many times that if he occupied Guangzhou early, it would slow down our development speed and not be conducive to the rapid dispatch of troops.

It's a pity that the whole door was blinded by the prosperity of Guangzhou at that time, and they didn't pay attention to it at all, and now it is brewing such a bitter fruit. Yuan Fang said with a wry smile.

Wang Jiuxuan and Yuan Fang glanced at each other, their hearts were very bitter, now this situation is even no wonder Li Xian hid his private interests before, in fact, Li Xian explained many strategic things clearly several years ago, only because of his lack of strategic vision at that time, coupled with the greed for the small advantage in front of him, it led to today's backward situation.

"However, if we continue like this, the gap between our Sanyuan Concept and the Mixed Yuan Sect will widen more and more, and then we will be accompanying the prince to study. Wang Jiuxuan said.

"The gap of tens of millions of silver is not easy to reverse, unless we can go somewhere to grab such a sum of money. Yuan Fang proposed.

"It's not easy. In the whole of Asia, there are only two cities where there can be more than tens of millions of wealth, one is Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and the other is Nanjing.

Well, Nanjing, it's really the right place. ”

Wang Jiuxuan just replied casually, and then suddenly reacted, took out the map, and pointed out Nanjing to Yuan Fang.

In this era, money was very valuable, and the bilateral trade volume between Britain and Russia in this era was only about 10 million silver dollars, which was about the same as Turkey, and the bilateral trade volume with the United States was even less than 10 million.

In Asia, there are not many cities that can plunder more than 10 million dollars after the seizure, only a few rich capitals in the South Seas, and Japanese ports such as Edo and Nagasaki.

In China, there are still many cities that can grab 10 million yuan, but only two cities can grab more than 30 million yuan, of which the capital in the north can have at least 200 million yuan of property, and Nanjing should also have more than 50 million yuan.

Beijing is too far away and well defended, but Nanjing is almost all within easy reach, and with Suzhou occupied, it is not technically difficult to continue to march into Nanjing.

Wang Jiuxuan and Yuan Fang glanced at each other, and suddenly had an awareness in their hearts that if they wanted to bridge the gap between the Sanyuan Temple and the Mixed Yuan Sect, there was only one way to obtain Nanjing's property.

It's just that the Qing army in Nanjing is far superior to other places, and the city walls are tall and the defense facilities are complete, no matter the Qing court and the Yiren Palace, they will not easily give up Nanjing, and how to attack it must be carefully considered.

Beginning in 1847, the pace of the rebel forces accelerated markedly, and an anti-Qing revolution involving the whole of China was vigorously launched.

The major martial arts sects in the north gradually came out of the cave blessed land that had been trapped for hundreds of years, and sent a large number of disciples to move around the main world, making it more and more difficult for the Qing court to rule in the north.

More importantly, these sects sent a large number of young warriors south to Hangzhou or Guangdong to learn modern warfare.

Li Xian simply persuaded several forces that had rebelled earlier to establish the "Hangzhou Military Academy" and the "Guangdong Military Academy" to recruit a large number of northern warriors and outstanding officers in the army to learn all kinds of military theoretical knowledge and cultivate practical combat skills.

After the warriors in the north learn military affairs, they can enter the army to cultivate their actual combat ability, and then they can continue to serve in the army or return to their original sects to help the northern sects establish modern firearms units.

In the process, there are many troubles and contradictions, but compared with the final harvest, these difficulties are nothing insurmountable.

After the Mixed Yuan Sect gained a huge amount of wealth, it originally wanted to rest for a year or two, convert all the previous gains into actual combat power, and at the same time cultivate a new army, but they never thought that the development of the situation would repeatedly get out of their control.

In 1847, the Demon Sect gradually gained a foothold in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, playing a prestigious reputation, and the side effect was to cause the local gentry to resist in Hunan and other places.

After the rise of the Hunan army, it was valued by the Qing court and the Yiren Temple, and a large number of monks were sent to assist, and it was difficult to fight the demon sect in Hunan, Jiangxi and Anhui.

In the brutal battle, the Qing court certainly lost many famous generals, and the Demon Sect also lost the two great kings of the West and the South, and the world shook for a while.

However, there were also a lot of demon sect masters, and they quickly launched a counterattack, and it turned out that three of the four great monks of the Qing court had fallen, and only the great masters were left to support them.

This is just the five congenital masters who have fallen on the bright side, and there are not a few innate masters hidden by the rebel forces and the Qing court, but they are not clear to ordinary people, and there are many records in the history books.

In fact, after the war, the two sides counted that the number of innate masters who fell in 1847 alone exceeded 20, considering that the number of innate masters in the whole world was less than 100, we can speculate how fierce the battle between the two sides was.

In addition to land battles, the Huaxia Army and the Taiping Army united and fought hundreds of battles with the Qing army on the Yangtze River.

In fact, the large ocean-going ships of the Huaxia Army were not suitable for battles on narrow rivers, but fortunately, the Huaxia Army's shipbuilding capabilities were extremely excellent, and it quickly developed a variety of ship types that were conducive to fighting on the rivers, and quickly established its superiority in river and water warfare.

In September 1847, a big event that shook the world occurred, that is, Sanyuanguan and the Taiping army secretly cooperated, sent a large army to the city of Nanjing, and then caught the Qing army defending the city by surprise, and actually occupied this thousand-year-old city.

Sanyuanguan always cooperated with the Mixed Yuan Sect in previous battles, but this time he didn't communicate with the Mixed Yuan Sect beforehand, and afterwards he just said that the battlefield was changing rapidly, and he saw that there was an opportunity to capture Nanjing, so he made a decisive move, and he didn't have time to discuss with the Mixed Yuan Sect before he sent troops.