The navy is divided into two parts, one is the traditional navy that controls the naval ships, about 5,000 people, responsible for escort and transportation, etc., led by Hu Chong, the chief treasurer of the original thirteen lines;

The other part is about 5,000 marines, led by Qiao Daqing, the former head disciple of the Huashan faction, responsible for landing and occupying forts, etc., to provide opportunities for the army to land and operate.

Li Xian originally thought that the Qing court was defenseless and just wanted to quickly raid Jiulian Mountain, until today after discovering that the Yiren Hall had taken precautions against the attack of the Huaxia army, Li Xian felt that it was a little difficult to capture Jiulian Mountain with just one brigade of 5,000 people.

Therefore, it was decided to transfer part of Qiao Daqing's Marine Corps and Wang Xiaoming's Second Brigade to assist, as for guarding Putian City and ports, the Navy and part of Wang Xiaoming's troops were enough.

Originally, for the sake of safety, it would have been appropriate to wait until all the troops were in place before attacking, but Li Xian had the ferocious firepower of his first brigade and the assistance of the special combat team, so he decided to lead his troops to occupy all the places on both sides of the Xianren Crossing and build a suitable forward base before transferring the rest of the troops.

Unexpectedly, Li Xian's arrangement made a taboo in the soldiers, overestimating his own strength, and despising the strength of the Inhuman Palace, which made the battle of Xianrendu the next day tragic and abnormal, and became the most brutal battle since Li Xian raised his army.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Li Xian stood at the command platform that had been built overnight.

This command platform is a wooden platform of about 15 meters, and the terrain on both sides of the Xianren Ferry is relatively flat, and you can preview the scene on both sides of the strait on the command platform.

"Whether to start the implementation of the battle plan, please ask the chief for instructions!" A young and capable combat staff officer saluted Li Xian and asked him to give the battle order.

This combat staff officer is called Ma Zhendong, who was originally the son of a fisherman in Leizhou, and later the fisherman joined the combat series of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and he took the opportunity to join the military academy run by the Mixed Yuan Sect.

Later, he performed well in the military academy, whether it was cultural courses, military theory or martial arts cultivation, he had a very outstanding performance, and he was the first in the comprehensive score of the first batch of military cadets who graduated only three years ago, and was directly recruited by Li Xian to serve as an operational staff officer in his staff department.

Compared with Wang Xiaoming, Chen Guangsheng and others, these military cadets only lack actual combat experience, but they have more comprehensive theoretical knowledge, broad vision, and are easy to accept new weapons and new things, and in terms of loyalty, they are probably stronger than Chen Guangsheng and others.

Li Xian always wanted to refer to some fine traditions of the German army in later generations, that is, officers were selected from among the cadets, and after serving for a certain period of time, the officers had to return to the military academy to study for a period of time, so that they could go back and forth and train qualified officers who were excellent in theory and practice.

If this can really be achieved, the combat capability of the Huaxia Army will be raised to a great height, and more importantly, it will be able to maintain its advanced combat effectiveness for a long time.

At this time, Ma Zhendong asked Li Xian to give a battle order, and Li Xian looked thoughtfully at the sky in the distance.

"The weather was nice today and hopefully it will be maintained throughout the day.

Convey the command to the Air Force to lift the balloon into the air. ”

"Yes!" Ma Zhendong immediately saluted and turned to convey the order.

In a short time, ten hot air balloons rose into the sky from the camp of the Huaxia Army.

Yes, you read that right, the Huaxia Army at this time did have an air force, that is, the so-called hot air balloon troops.

Many people think that hot air balloons are high-tech items that should not be popularized in the military until at least the middle of the 19th century, but this is a big misconception.

In fact, ordinary hot air balloons appeared very early, and European armies were equipped with a large number of hot air balloons in the early 19th century to help artillery correct the trajectory of artillery shells, and even drop explosives and incendiary objects from hot air balloons to assist the army in combat.

During the Napoleonic period, when France was at war with Austria, the French army was furious by Austria's hot air balloon troops.

However, the hot air balloon at that time did not have a large load-bearing capacity and the explosives thrown were not powerful enough, so it did not cause substantial trouble to the French army, and later the angry emperor specially ordered not to form such a damn class of troops that violated the way of chivalry.

The Huaxia Army's industrial processing capacity has been continuously improved in recent years, and hot air balloons, a weapon whose bottleneck is mainly on airtight fabrics, naturally have the ability to develop and develop their own air force, that is, hot air balloon troops.

Of course, although this force was called the air force by the ambitious Li Xian, it was currently only a vassal of the army and navy.

At this time, ten hot air balloons rose into the sky, causing a lot of agitation among Pang Ban and several other masters who were closely watching the movement on the other side of the immortal crossing.

"What is this, Li Xian actually has a demon spell that can make people fly into the sky?" Pang Ban said in surprise.

As an innate master, Pang Ban's eyesight is amazing, and he has long seen that there are people in the big basket under these huge spherical things, and he is looking over here with a telescope or something.

"There is really something wrong with the origin of this person, Li Xian, who knows such a strange spell. Next to him, the red-clothed Dharma King, who hadn't shown his face for a long time, also said in surprise.

The red-clothed Dharma King was wearing a scarlet Dharma robe at this time, and his treasure was solemn and solemn, looking like a high-ranking monk, but the faint burns on his ears and neck were very damaging to his image.

It turned out that the red-clothed Dharma King and the Silver Elephant Dharma King were ambushed by Li Xian's rocket artillery in the Sanyuan Blessed Land, and the Silver Elephant Dharma King died on the spot, but the red-clothed Dharma King was lucky enough to avoid the first wave of attacks, but he was only slightly injured.

A master of the innate level like them, with great supernatural powers, immediately took the opportunity to retreat with the beaten Six Princes, used corpse soldiers as a cover to withdraw from the coverage of rocket artillery, and then used their supernatural powers to leave the Sanyuan Blessed Land, which was also the main reason why the Six Princes could survive.

After that, the red-clothed Dharma King recuperated for a long time and consumed a large amount of precious elixir to recover, but he naturally hated the Mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple, and spontaneously went to Jiulian Mountain to help at this time.

It's just that seeing that Li Xian has a giant magic weapon that can fly into the sky, not one, but as many as ten, the red-clothed Dharma King also secretly shuddered in his heart, wondering if he was a little reckless this time.

"It's just a little carving insect skill, it's not enough to worry about it, if you really want to come here, I naturally have a way to clean it up. ”

Among the crowd, a tall figure in black heavy armor commented disapprovingly.

The people here are all first-class masters of the Qing court, including the emperor's martial arts teacher, Pang Ban, who is known as the magician, and the red-clothed king, who has a huge power in his hometown and is actually a first-class well-known master of the earth emperor, as well as several innate masters who have been hidden in the Inhuman Hall for many years, which can be described as a full of masters.

The Inhuman Hall attaches great importance to the threat of the Huaxia Army, and deliberately transferred a large number of masters to Jiulian Mountain, so that there are currently six innate masters and more than fifty fourth-order great grandmaster-level masters here, and the rest of the first-class grandmaster-level masters and white-armored corpse soldiers with the strength of the grandmaster are innumerable.