Chapter 422: The Battle of the Three Elements (Fifth Update)

However, as long as Li Xianbu remained in Fujian and did not leave, this cavalry would not dare to enter Guangdong rashly, otherwise once the Huaxia army took advantage of the situation and conquered the blessed land of Jiulian Mountain, it would be more than worth the loss.

If the Qing court failed to see through the actions of the Huaxia army and failed to deploy heavy troops in Jiulian Mountain, then the Huaxia army could occupy Jiulian Mountain and cultivate a large number of warriors with the resources of the blessed land, occupying a more advantageous position strategically.

In short, the Huaxia Army's move to attack Putian seems to be simple, but there are more than a dozen tricks and countermeasures hidden behind it, but if one side makes a mistake in judgment, it will suffer huge losses.

However, until now, the two sides have been evenly divided, and no one has taken advantage of anything.

It is worth noting that this strategy itself also shows that the rift between the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Three Yuan Sect is becoming more and more obvious and difficult to bridge.

In the past, Li Xian sent troops, basically two-thirds of the troops of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and the remaining one-third of the troops of the Three Yuan Sect; this time when he went to Putian, Li Xian led all the descendants of the Mixed Yuan Sect.

What's more, throwing Guangzhou City, which is the most cherished of the Sanyuan View, as a bait, regardless of victory or defeat, the Sanyuan View will bear the loss, which seems fair, but it also shows that the differences between the two sides are very huge.

"Sanyuanguan has been a little unenterprising in recent years, and has been taking Guangzhou as a treasure, and the momentum to use troops abroad is insufficient, just to see how far Sanyuanguan's war strength has reached.

In addition, we want to hold back the main cavalry force of the Qing court, and it is not the only way to stay in Putian, if we want to play, we can play a bigger one, so let's send troops to occupy Fuzhou and see how the Qing court responds. Li Xian thought about it and said irresponsibly.

"It's a good idea. The officers attending the meeting said in unison.

A few days later, the Huaxia Army occupying Putian suddenly withdrew with all its troops, leaving not a single soldier in Putian.

Many people thought that Li Xian was going to return to Guangdong to support friendly troops, but the facts proved that they were wrong, it turned out that Li Xian's troops did not go south, but went north, marched into the Fuzhou area, and after a fierce battle, occupied Fuzhou.

As the provincial capital of Fujian, Fuzhou has always been prosperous, and the value of materials, gold and silver and other property seized by the Huaxia army after occupying Fuzhou reached more than 10 million taels.

This result was actually still in the expectation of the Bull Demon God of Jiulian Mountain, but he didn't have any particularly good way to deal with it.

Sending cavalry to Guangdong to assist Yang Fang's troops in the battle will inevitably lead to the emptiness of Jiulian Mountain, and it will be bad if Li Xian easily takes Jiulian Mountain; as for staying in Jiulian Mountain like now, doing nothing, it doesn't seem to be a problem.

Just when the Bull Demon God was in a dilemma, the Sanyuanguan in Guangzhou was also holding a military meeting, analyzing the current situation.

"Li Shuai always thought that he would fight alone in the whole world, and he always asked us Sanyuanguan to obey his command, and this time it was time for us Sanyuanguan to show his face.

Isn't it just a few green battalion soldiers with big swords and spears, give me 20,000 soldiers and horses, and wipe out all the so-called three-way army. One of the elders of the Sanyuan Temple made a bold statement at the meeting, but the officers and elders attending the meeting applauded.

In recent years, the progress of the Huaxia army in the military industry is obvious to all, and the improvement of combat effectiveness is also obvious, which makes the warriors and officers from the Sanyuanguan full of confidence one by one, and feel that it is easy to defeat the Qing court by relying on the Sanyuanguan alone, and they have quite a view on the situation of Li Xian nominally in charge of the armies of the two factions.

This time the so-called Northern Expedition, the Mixed Yuan Sect only sent troops north at the beginning, and the subsequent hard battles were to be undertaken by the Sanyuanguan who stayed in Guangzhou, and this kind of battle plan that seemed to be unfavorable to the Sanyuanguan was sought after by the people in power of the Sanyuanguan, which was a direct manifestation of not wanting to live in the shadow of Li Xian all the time.

"Okay, don't be verbose if it doesn't matter, you still have to focus on the current military affairs. "Xuan Zheng is in a high position, so he has to remind everyone.

"Yes!" replied all the officers and warriors below in unison.

Sanyuanguan has also been familiar with strict militarized management over the years, which is very different from the lazy appearance of ordinary martial arts schools before, and it is okay to occasionally say a digression, but once he talks about business, he immediately becomes serious.

"Although the enemy has more than 200,000 people, most of them are only cold-weapon troops under the combat effectiveness, and the three-way attack actually made the mistake of dividing the troops, but gave us various opportunities to break through.

Our soldiers are small and elite, we have the advantage of fighting on the inside line, and we have prepared a big gift package for the Qing court, which will definitely surprise the Qing court. Xuan Zheng said calmly.

In this battle, there was not much room for the Mixed Yuan Sect to intervene, and the places occupied by the Mixed Yuan Sect were mainly the coastal areas west of Guangzhou to the east of Qinzhou, and the Qing army could not defeat these places until they defeated the Sanyuan Temple.

This also reflects the characteristics of Li Xian's previous layout, which seems to give up the prosperous place to the Sanyuan Temple, and divide many good places to friendly forces, which is the so-called feudal princes, but in this way, the east and west sides are friendly troops, and even the south side is also guarded by the Heaven and Earth Society of Hainan Island, which is actually extremely safe.

However, this battle chaos Yuanzong was not at all unhelpful, and before the large army left Guangdong, he secretly strengthened the defense forces in the Bao'an area, promising to block Yang Fang's troops from the east.

In this way, what the Sanyuan Temple really has to deal with is only the two armies in the north and west.

Moreover, the Tiandihui in Qiongzhou and Danzhou and the Huashan faction in Yazhou have also made great progress in recent years, each with thousands of pure firearms troops in their hands, and this time they can also put together more than 10,000 troops to help Sanyuanguan defend.

Coupled with the fact that the Sanyuanguan is deeply rooted in the Guangzhou area, and it has more than 30,000 troops and a huge hidden force available, the pressure on the Sanyuanguan is actually not great.

After the battle known as the Battle of Guangdong began, Wang Jiuxuan led 20,000 troops to the north to meet the Jiangxi Green Battalion army that went south from Shaoguan, and then relied on absolute firepower superiority to win quickly, and even captured more than 30,000 prisoners back.

During this period, Yang Fang's troops quickly marched westward to harass, but unfortunately they encountered 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Chen Guangsheng and the mixed Yuanzong in Bao'an County, and the three-state coalition army on Hainan Island cheered together.

Although Yang Fangbu has mixed well in recent years, smashed an unknown amount of silver, cultivated a foreign spear team of 5,000 people, and purchased a large number of artillery, his combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the ordinary Qing army, but when he encounters Chen Guangsheng's defenders, it is not enough to see at all.

Fortunately, Yang Fang, as a veteran, knows how to read the style best, and after fighting in Bao'an County for a while, he felt that something was wrong, and fled with people overnight, although he lost nearly thirty percent of the troops, he still led most of the troops to withdraw to Chaoshan Erzhou.