Moreover, in order not to affect their throwing ability, these grenadiers wore cotton and leather armor instead of iron armor, carried a sturdy canvas bag with a large number of grenades, and were armed with air pistols and air pistols, more like mobile artillery, and were different from the halberd and sword and shield soldiers who focused on all-merit.

In fact, up to now, the Huaxia Army has almost touched the layout of the Qing army on the bank of the river.

Along both sides of the road to the ferry, there are several mine pits and pits, and there are a large number of white-armored soldiers hiding in the back of the pit, as long as you pay more attention to the terrain and landform here, combined with the location of the traps that have been exposed, you can guess where the white-armored soldiers are hiding.

The halberders and sword and shield men in front set up a strong defensive line, and the grenadiers stepped forward through the gaps in their ranks, then took out their grenades and threw grenades at various places where the white-armored soldiers were suspected to be hidden.

The grenades of the Huaxia Army were originally to be ignited with fire, that is, the grenades had a long lead like firecrackers, and they were to be ignited with fire and thrown out when thrown.

However, today, the industrial level of the Huaxia Army has been greatly improved, and the detonation method of the grenade has been improved to the method of direct ring detonation, that is to say, as soon as the cotton thread on the grenade is pulled, the wire inside the grenade will be violently rubbed against glass fragments and sulfur, etc., thus igniting the fuse and exploding.

At this time, hundreds of grenades were thrown, most of them hit the open space, but more than a dozen just landed on top of the large pit where the white-armored soldiers were hidden, and then exploded, injuring some of the white-armored soldiers, and most of the white-armored soldiers jumped out in fright.

These grenadiers didn't care, they just took the grenade and threw it in the direction of these white-armored soldiers, causing huge casualties to the white-armored soldiers in an instant.

There was a terrible howling sound on the other side of the river, but Pomban could see that if he didn't do anything, those white-armored soldiers would be killed by these grenadiers throwing grenades from a distance, and it would be useless at all.

Pang Ban's howling sound was obviously some kind of signal, and dozens of places on this side of the river suddenly collapsed, and a large number of white-armored soldiers jumped out, screaming and attacking the Huaxia army.

There are thirty or forty such pits, and forty or fifty white-armored soldiers have jumped out of each pit, which is nearly two thousand corpse soldiers, and it is a force that must not be underestimated.

With such a strong strength, it is no longer something that can be eaten by the special combat team alone.

Fortunately, there were more than 5,000 people present in the Huaxia Army, with well-armed weapons and well-trained, and they were not afraid of just 2,000 corpse soldiers.

If these white-armored soldiers had been hiding in the pit, the army would have no way to hold them for a while, but since they had all jumped out, it would be much easier to deal with.

The Huaxia army had occupied most of the commanding heights before, and the artillery and rocket artillery were also in place, and at this time, rocket shells and chain bombs were poured on the heads of these white-armored soldiers, destroying more than half of the corpse soldiers in an instant.

The remaining half of the corpse soldiers finally came to the front, but they were all blocked by the halberd soldiers, and then the sword and shield soldiers attacked, firmly resisting all the white-armored soldiers outside the military formation.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the grenadiers of the special combat team and the army threw grenades one after another, and the army provided fire support from the side, and in less than half an hour, all the white-armored soldiers who jumped out were wiped out.

Afterwards, after counting the casualties, it was found that the Huaxia Army had suffered more than 20 soldiers and soldiers of the special combat team in this battle, and Li Xian frowned unconsciously.

Judging purely from the casualty ratio, the cost of more than 20 casualties was paid for the elimination of more than 2,000 corpse soldiers, and the battle damage ratio was close to 100 to 1, which is worth celebrating from any angle.

However, the Qing army only lost corpse soldiers made of corpses, but the Huaxia army lost all living soldiers, and this kind of exchange is difficult to be satisfying.

"This kind of corpse warfare of the Qing army is really disgusting. Li Xian sighed and said.

On this day, it was difficult for a strong man to continue the battle across the river, so Li Xian ordered his troops to search and remove all the arrangements set up by the Qing army, and then stationed them in the place to dig trenches and wait for the next day to continue the attack.

In the evening, during the military discussions, there was a certain disagreement among the high-ranking officers on the future strategy.

The officers of the Leizhou system, headed by Wang Xiaoming and Hai Dagui, advocated a forcible attack on Jiulian Mountain and a military attack on the ruins of Southern Shaolin; the officers of the Wulin system headed by Qiao Daqing and Lin Pingzhi advocated being cautious and not rushing to attack, and first seizing other towns in Fujian before slowly trying to attack them.

Considering that before today's battle, it happened to be the people of the Leizhou Department who advocated that Jiulian Mountain did not have enough strategic value and needed to slow down the attack, while the officers of the Wulin Department precisely advocated that it was necessary to take South Shaolin and obtain the blessed land, this 180-degree change between the two sides was actually very interesting.

Li Xian knew in his heart that this was because of the differences between the two sides on the importance of the blessed land, and the officers from the martial arts had a very clear understanding of how difficult it was to attack a blessed land by force.

The Qing court occupied the whole of China, but it was helpless to hold the blessed land occupied by the martial arts factions, and only a dozen of the one hundred and eight caves and blessed lands in the whole world were taken, and in the process there were countless losses and losses, and even several ironclad aliens of the Inhuman Hall fell, and the difficulty of occupying the blessed land can be seen from this alone.

At the beginning, the Qing army took advantage of the opportunity of the Opium War to attack the Sanyuan Blessed Land, and the strength of the Sanyuan Temple at that time was far inferior to now, but it still relied on more than 500 advanced masters and hundreds of thousands of corpse soldiers to deal with, and even did not fall behind, and the difficulty of seizing the blessed land can be seen.

In comparison, Wang Xiaoming and the others have been growing up in the main world, and they have nothing to do with the martial arts sect, so they underestimate the difficulty of the battle of the blessed land.

It's just that it is not appropriate to withdraw the troops now and stop attacking Jiulian Mountain.

The officers of the two factions argued for a long time, but neither of them could convince anyone, and finally they all stopped and looked at Li Xian, hoping that Li Xian would make a final decision.

"It's nerve-wracking, it's a chore to be the commander of an army, and the most you usually do is make decisions between the worst and worse choices. ”

Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

If we continue to storm Jiulian Mountain, we will have to suffer huge casualties, and if we come back at another day, we will disrupt our strategic deployment, and in short, it is not a good option.

"Judging from the situation of today's battle, there seems to be a huge difference between the Qing court's Yiren Hall and the Qing army. ”

Li Xian intended to ease the dispute among his subordinates, and said slowly.

"Our attack on Putian was actually almost hindered, and it was almost a battle, which shows that the Qing court lacked foresight that we would attack Putian, or that we chose Putian as the point of the first wave of attacks.

However, today's battle shows that the Yiren Palace, which controls the armed forces of all the monks in the Qing court, has some predictions about the movement of our army, and has made relatively perfect arrangements in advance, just waiting for us to come.

This shows that there were differences between the regular and non-conventional forces of the Qing court, and that the intelligence communication between them was not sufficient, which is a noteworthy phenomenon, and there may be some opportunities that we can grasp. ”