What's more, with such a huge additional income, he can greatly shake off allies such as Sanyuanguan in the economic field and become the richest force in the entire Martial Arts Alliance.

At present, there is not much difference between the annual income of the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple, both of which are around four million yuan.

If the trade with Fusang is launched, the increased income through trade will be about 5 million to 10 million, and this income will be shared by the Mixed Yuan Sect, the Sanyuan Temple, the Heaven and Earth Society, and other sects and forces.

According to the estimation of the General Staff, after the Mixed Yuan Sect occupied Hangzhou and other three prefectures, the overall income could exceed 10 million yuan in the first year and 20 million yuan in the second year, which was more than double the income of all the other rebel forces combined.

At that time, the position of the Mixed Yuan Sect among the allies will be truly unbreakable and become the real dominant.

In comparison, any other conspiracy and strategy, whether it is a conspiracy or a strategy, are just floating clouds.

After realizing the importance of Hangzhou, the Mixed Yuan Sect secretly began to prepare to seize Hangzhou, after all, what the Mixed Yuan Sect wanted was not to go to Hangzhou and leave, but to occupy it for a long time, and even not allow too tragic wars to occur near Hangzhou, which would affect the economic development after the occupation.

Under such strategic planning, the previous battles of the Mixed Yuan Sect were in the nature of cutting off their wings, that is, to eliminate the Qing forces that might support Hangzhou to the greatest extent.

Before, the capture of Putian was originally with the purpose of testing the movement of the Qing army, but unexpectedly, it encountered the main force of the Inhuman Palace, and a tragic war occurred, fortunately, although it did not take advantage of this battle, it also eliminated a large number of corpse soldiers, and also spied out the true strength of the Inhuman Palace, which is also in line with the purpose of eliminating the reinforcements that may support Hangzhou.

If such a large wave of corpse soldiers appeared not in a deserted place like Jiulian Mountain, but around Hangzhou, causing a scene like thousands of miles of red land, which greatly affected the post-war income of the Mixed Yuan Sect, it would be a tricky thing.

Then, the Mixed Yuan Sect continued to attack Fuzhou, obtaining a large amount of supplies and money, and at the same time, he also fought with the cavalry of the Inhuman Palace, further weakening its cavalry strength.

Then, several times to lure the Fujian naval division to dispatch, and finally they were completely annihilated, and it was almost impossible for the Qing army to attack and support the area around Hangzhou from the sea.

Moreover, the Qing court Liangjiang army, which might have supported Hangzhou, had entered Guangdong from Jiangxi before, wanting to explore Guangzhou, but was annihilated by Wang Jiuxuan and led by Sanyuanguan.

Although Sanyuanguan established a great reputation through this battle, and also had the confidence that he could win if he fought independently, he did not know that the biggest beneficiary behind this battle was Li Xian, and he wiped out a large number of Liangjiang troops who might support Hangzhou at almost no cost.

In short, up to now, Hangzhou has almost no reinforcements on land, and there is no force to resist at sea, the total strength of the Qing army from Ningbo to Hangzhou is less than 10,000, even if the strong men are temporarily recruited, they have no time to train, in short, it is like a peeled egg (what a good metaphor), the red fruit is exposed in front of the mixed Yuanzong army, just waiting for them to pick.

According to the plan of Li Xian and others, take Wang Jiuxuan and others to conquer Ningbo, and then let the allies help take care of Ningbo and Dinghai, etc., which can be regarded as helping to see the back road, and then the main force of the Mixed Yuan Sect will occupy Hangzhou, and then Jiaxing and Huzhou should be able to pass the word.

Then, the Mixed Yuan Sect used the money obtained by these three states to actively produce and expand its army, and within two or three years, its industrial production capacity and military strength could rise to a great level.

Not to mention anything else, if the number of regular troops is expanded from the current 30,000 to 100,000, whether it is the Sanyuan Temple or the Demon Sect in Guangxi, their respective forces will only be about 50,000 at most, a difference of about 50,000, and they can only recognize the leadership of the Mixed Yuan Sect.

As for the Qing court, when the Mixed Yuan Sect has more than 100,000 regular troops in its hands, and even has the ability to overthrow the Qing court independently, plus a large number of martial arts sects as allies, no matter how many magical abilities the hall masters of the Inhuman Hall have, they will only be submerged by the sea of firearms.

From this plan, it can be seen that the General Staff of the Mixed Yuan Sect is not limited to the gains and losses of one city and one place, but the main purpose is to obtain sufficient resources and train more than 100,000 regular troops, and then they can bulldoze the world with their absolute superiority.

Three days later, the Huaxia Army had finished resting and the attack on Ningbo officially began.

Mixed Yuanzong had sent a small force to the vicinity of Ningbo to occupy Dinghai and Zhenhai, so that the defenders of Ningbo did not dare to move, so they used warships to transport a large number of supplies and soldiers to Zhenhai, preparing to storm Ningbo.

In this battle, the Huaxia Army had a total of 20,000 navy and army led by Li Xian, 10,000 Sanyuanguan troops led by Wang Jiuxuan, and 2,000 people each sent over from the three prefectures of Hainan and Qinzhou, with a total strength of about 38,000 troops, and the number of naval warships reached more than 80, which can be said to be the largest number of troops sent by the Huaxia Army in the past.

Even before Sanyuanguan annihilated hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Guangdong, it had never mobilized such a huge number of troops.

In comparison, there are only more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers stationed in Ningbo, plus 2,000 military households and 30,000 strong men temporarily recruited, the number seems not small, but the level of weapons and equipment and training are not at the same level.

To make matters worse, Ningbo was conquered by the British during the Opium War a few years ago, and many people still remember the power of British firearms.

At this time, the Chinese army, which had defeated the British many times and was still above the British army at that time, had not yet started the war, and many people began to fight on their legs.

To attack Ningbo, Li Xian originally had a lot of novel methods available, such as sending people to sneak in in advance and causing riots, blowing up the city wall with explosives, and even attacking at night, which were all good ways to break the city.

However, considering that Hangzhou would be attacked next, and then there were still many big cities to be conquered, Li Xian decided to adopt the most formal siege method and attack head-on, which should be regarded as allowing the Huaxia army to accumulate experience in attacking ancient cities.

At the beginning of the battle, the Huaxia Army dug trenches outside the range of Ningbo City's artillery, built forts, and then based on those trenches, dug longitudinal trenches in the direction of Ningbo, and gradually advanced.

The Qing troops defending the city repeatedly attacked the sappers who were advancing with civil engineering works with artillery, and were cleared by the artillery of the Huaxia army, which was waiting for them, with rocket artillery or solid shells.

There was originally a moat outside the city of Ningbo, but it was not repaired for many years, and some of it dried up, and the sappers dug ditches to drain it without much effort.

After three days, the moat was drained, and the sappers continued to advance, and then shot the defenders on the city wall with rifled guns in the trenches, or directly supported by artillery, in short, to prevent the Qing troops on the city wall from attacking the sappers doing civil works.

The Huaxia Army's set of kung fu was as natural as clouds and water, and as neat as a textbook, which made a civil and military official in Ningbo feel like he had a lot of knowledge.