The Huaxia Army sent a special combat team to secretly go ashore, knocked out several batteries of the Qing army on the coast, and then advanced with a large army, landed for operations, and finally launched an attack on Putian City, occupying Putian Fucheng in less than three days and quelling all the resistance of the Qing army.

After that, Li Xian turned his eyes to the direction of Jiulian Mountain, which was the site of the famous Southern Shaolin in the martial arts back then, and there was a new blessed land waiting for him to occupy.

Mu Zhang'a guessed correctly, the Huaxia army occupied Putian in order to obtain the Jiulian blessed land that originally belonged to Southern Shaolin, to be precise, because Li Xian was eager to obtain and occupy a blessed land.

The strategic significance of the blessed land to the army is indescribable, and one of the important factors in the first time when Sanyuanguan gained more political power in Guangzhou was that Sanyuanguan ceded the general management rights of Sanyuan Fudi to the Mixed Yuan Sect.

Each sect regards its blessed land as private property, even if it is not capable of developing it, it is desperately organizing other sects to enter, or even develop, if it were not for the Sanyuan Concept to give such a great benefit, the Mixed Yuan Sect would not have watched the Sanyuan Temple gain so much power in Guangzhou.

Today, the strategic significance of the blessed land is gradually revealed.

After the Chinese army occupied Guangzhou, the Qing court forbade the import of grain from other provinces to Guangdong, resulting in Guangzhou and many areas in Guangdong suffering from grain shortages.

However, the Huaxia army was blessed with the land in hand, using advanced firearms to hunt animals in the blessed land on a large scale, and also manufacturing fishing boats to fish, etc., to achieve self-sufficiency in food in just two years, so that the siege of the Qing court came to naught.

To this day, the Huaxia Army still selects a variety of plants suitable for making grain in the blessed land and cultivates them artificially, believing that grain will no longer become a bottleneck restricting the development of the rebel army in the near future.

In addition, the Sanyuan blessed land was rich in timber, which met the demand for firewood and timber needed in the area ruled by the Huaxia Army, and the Huaxia Army also used advanced industrial capacity to produce a large number of low-cost charcoal, which was used in the smelting industry such as iron and steel, and was also used to run steam engines in the early days, and even used charcoal instead of coal, greatly shortening the time required to enter the steam engine era.

The disadvantage of Sanyuan blessed land is that there are fewer minerals, especially few metal ores, but it also has its advantages, that is, because the biological resources in it are very rich, forming a large number of struvite mines, and this struvite is a very important fertilizer resource.

More importantly, struvite mines generally form mineral resources with very high nitrogen content, that is, saltpeter mines, which make the Huaxia Army discover several large saltpeter mines in the blessed land, which are shallow buried, of good quality, easy to mine, and have reserves of hundreds of millions of tons.

It is very easy for the Huaxia Army to obtain hundreds of thousands of tons of saltpeter a year, which makes it easy for the Huaxia Army to obtain two or three thousand tons of saltpeter per year for the development of the military industry, and also lays a solid material foundation for the next step of the development of chemical industries such as three acids and two alkalis.

In addition, the blessed land can also provide a large number of cultivation resources, such as Dao seeds, elixirs and spirit stones, spiritual materials, etc., and the ability of monks to manipulate elements in the blessed land is tens of thousands of times higher than in the main world, which is of great significance to the industrial research and industrial development of the Huaxia Army.

This is evidenced by the establishment of the Steelmaking Research Institute in the blessed land by the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple, which obtained the crucible steelmaking technology in a very short period of time, and greatly improved the steelmaking and ironmaking capacity of the rebel forces.

To this day, the Huaxia Army still builds a large number of steel-making furnaces and iron-making furnaces in the blessed land, transports iron ore and other raw materials from the main world by train, and then produces better steel and other metal materials with the help of the ability of monks with Taoist seeds in the blessed land, so that the military industry, heavy industry and light industry of the Huaxia Army have developed tremendously.

All in all, the strategic significance of the blessed land to the Huaxia Army is very significant.

It's just that, after all, the Sanyuan blessed land belongs to the Sanyuan concept, and the Mixed Yuan Sect always has the feeling of being under the fence there, so Li Xian and his subordinates have always wanted to obtain a blessed land to occupy and use it for themselves.

From this point of view, the Jiulian Mountain blessed land located in Putian, Fujian Province, which originally belonged to Southern Shaolin, is undoubtedly the most suitable.

The blessed land of Jiulian Mountain covers an extremely wide area, and there are countless cultivation resources in it, which is no worse than the three-yuan blessed land, and its reputation in history is even far above the three-yuan blessed land.

Moreover, the blessed land of Southern Shaolin was broken by the Qing court more than a hundred years ago, almost all the monks in the temple were killed, and only five disciples were left to escape.

The five ancestors of Shaolin are famous in history, but most of them have withered in recent days, and the five female nuns left by the five nuns are still a little powerful, but the disciples in the view are mostly women, and the number of masters is not much, and the exterminating master with the highest martial arts is only a fourth-order great master, and it was only a second-rate force in Guangzhou, which was stronger than the Fuwei dart game, but it was just one more fourth-order master.

If it is only compared to the number of disciples from the grandmaster to the ordinary advanced level and the actual combat strength, if there is no extermination master Tai in the Five Pieces Temple, I am afraid it is not as good as the Fuwei Dart Bureau that makes a living by fighting with bodyguards.

The descendants of the other four of the five ancestors of Shaolin are not as good as the five pieces, two of which have left a legacy, and they are only two or three masters, and the other two are even nowhere to be found.

With this strength, even if the descendants of Southern Shaolin occupy the blessed land of Jiulian Mountain by surprise, they will not be able to resist the counterattack of the Qing court, and the Qing court only needs to send two or three congenital masters to recapture the blessed land of Jiulian Mountain.

In fact, the disciples of the Exterminating Master Tai and the other two branches of Southern Shaolin are well aware of this, this time the Mixed Yuan Sect sent troops to attack Jiulian Mountain, not only did they not put forward any undesirable requirements, but also proposed to do their best to help the Mixed Yuan Sect attack the blessed land, providing all kinds of intelligence support, and the request was just that after occupying the blessed land of Jiulian Mountain, the descendants of Southern Shaolin could re-establish the sect in the blessed land and cultivate freely.

With the vastness of the blessed land, it is extremely easy to accommodate millions or even tens of millions of people, and the Mixed Yuan Sect naturally agreed, and also promised to help Southern Shaolin rebuild after occupying the blessed land, and provide each other with Austrian aid and the like.

As far as the descendants of Southern Shaolin led by the extermination master Tai are concerned, recovering the blessed land of Jiulian Mountain and re-worshiping the heroic spirits of the ancestors of the previous generation is enough to comfort the ancestors.

This time, the mixed yuan sect wanted to march from Putian City to Jiulian Mountain, Li Xian felt that the terrain of Jiulian Mountain was dangerous, and the Qing court had been operating and developing there for more than 100 years, the situation was unclear, and it was useless to bring more people, so he only brought 5,000 regular troops and 500 special combat teams, as well as hundreds of masters of various martial arts factions who came to help.

There is a small river more than 100 meters wide at the foot of Jiulian Mountain, which goes around the mountain, and there is a wooden boat on the river to ferry, which is the place where the soldiers must pass through Jiulian Mountain.

The locals in this place are called Xianrendu, and when Li Xian took people to the ferry, he encountered the first blockade since the army.