Li Xian took a long detour, avoiding the quadrangular forts, before returning to his position.

The terrain of the Niulangang area is relatively complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is very rare in the relatively flat suburbs of Guangzhou.

At the beginning, Li Xian and Xuan Zheng led the troops to fight against the British army in Sanyuanli, and they chose Niulangang as the main battlefield, and later lured the British army to go deeper, and deliberately established a second trench position here.

After eliminating the invading British army at Sanyuanguan, Li Xian led his troops to regain this position and used this place as an outpost to meet the British army.

Behind the criss-crossing trench positions, several tent groups were set up to be used as warehouses and barracks, and one of the particularly large tents was used as a central military tent, where the usual officers' meetings were held to decide on the specific implementation of the formulation of strategic directions.

When Li Xian entered the Chinese military tent, he found that the atmosphere here was not right, and many people were arguing fiercely inside, blushing and thick-necked, and refusing to give in to each other.

There are both gang leaders and officers of the original escort team in the Township Protector Army, as well as the elders of various villages in Sanyuanli, etc., the members are complex, and sometimes disputes are inevitable, but it is very rare to be so fierce.

When several people on the periphery saw Li Xian coming over and wanted to salute, they all asked Li Xian to stop him with gestures, and then quietly hid in the crowd to listen to what the people inside were arguing about.

After listening to it for a while, Li Xian realized that the people inside were fighting for the next step of the Sanyuanli Township Protection Army's troop strategy.

One of the factions, headed by Yang Tianming, the holy son of the Demon Sect, advocated taking advantage of the great victory the day before yesterday to take Guangzhou City directly, and then raise the banner to rebel with Guangzhou as the center and sweep the world.

The other faction, led by Qin Rigang of the Heaven and Earth Society, was more old-fashioned, believing that the current enemy was still the British, and that the British should be eliminated first before plotting against Guangzhou.

If you occupy Guangzhou first, you can obtain Guangzhou's huge manpower and material resources, and then you can crush the British army, but the worry is that the officials in Guangzhou will completely fall to the British, and even let the British enter the city of Guangzhou to assist in the defense, then this matter will be much more troublesome.

Moreover, the main body of the Sanyuanli army is still the villagers of Sanyuanli, who were ordinary farmers more than a month ago, and it is no problem for them to face foreign enemies like the British.

It's just that attacking the positions of the British first is not the best policy.

Let's not talk about whether the Qing army will take advantage of the battle between the two sides to attack the Sanyuanli army from behind, even if there is no such threat, it will be difficult for the Sanyuanli army to take down the British alone.

Many of the officers present also understood to some extent the use of firearms in hot weapon warfare, and they all understood how difficult it was for the British army, which had a well-established trench position, and how many casualties it would inflict on their own side.

In the past, Li Xian's side was the defenders, relying on the trench position, and with the cooperation of some veterans and recruits, he almost blocked the edge of the British army, and even played a battle loss ratio of 2 to 1 or 3 to 1.

At this time, the two sides were transposed offensively and defensively, and the Sanyuanli side attacked the trench position guarded by the British army, and it was also a position equipped with a large number of military artillery, which was difficult to imagine.

Even if the British army was repelled regardless of casualties and occupied the current Sifang Fort, Li Xian's side would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and when the Qing army attacked from behind, there might be an uncontrollable situation.

It is precisely because these two choices are very problematic that neither Yang Tianming nor Qin Rigang can convince anyone, and most of the others are watching from the wall, and they can't reach a conclusion.

"In the current situation, as long as we occupy the city of Guangzhou, we can get a huge amount of supplies, and there are millions of people available, and only eight or nine thousand British troops are not captured, or they are enough to fight for the world. Yang Tianming said excitedly.

"Then you are a little taken for granted, the number of Qing troops in Guangzhou is not much, but the government has been operating in Guangzhou for hundreds of years, how can it be so easy to capture.

Not to mention anything else, as long as the officials give an order and let the big families in Guangzhou draw out strong men to help defend Guangzhou City, at least 70,000 or 80,000 strong men can go to the city to assist in the defense.

Don't learn from the king of Pingxi back then, our side worked hard to get the city of Guangzhou, and then the vitality was greatly damaged, and finally let the British pick up the leak, wasn't the Ming Dynasty so lost in Beijing City.

According to me, it is not too late for us to defeat the British first, and then slowly plot against the city of Canton. Qin Rigang said disappreciatively.

Yang Tianming, as the Holy Son of the Demon Sect, has a very special status, while Qin Rigang, as an important leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in Guangdong, is a fourth-order master himself, and each has great prestige and appeal.

Li Xian nodded secretly in his heart, in terms of the current situation, whether it is to attack the Qing army first or the British army first, there are advantages and disadvantages, or they are not the most suitable strategy, it is no wonder that Wang Jiuxuan, Qiao Daqing, Yue Bufan and others did not say a word, and the two of them quarreled.

However, in addition to purely strategic discussions, the current quarrel also has a faint hint of regional strife and competing interests.

Like Yang Tianming, the base camp of Mingjiao to which he belongs is in Guangxi, and he is considered an outsider in Guangzhou, and there is no industry in Guangzhou, so he naturally has a lot of worries, and just wants to occupy Guangzhou directly.

The Tiandihui and the local martial arts forces led by Qin Rigang, although they shouted every day to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, they each had their own industries near Guangzhou, and they were not particularly willing to fall into the flames of war in Guangzhou.

If you think about it deeper, Li Xian and the Mixed Yuan Sect have a foundation in Leizhou, and they are also outsiders, and they don't have deep contacts with these forces in Guangzhou, and these local forces can ask Li Xian for help when they encounter difficulties, but I'm afraid it's not particularly willing to let Li Xian take charge of the entire Guangzhou.

So, it's just very tricky and complicated.

Li Xian was still thinking about the gains and losses, but Yang Tianming finally saw Li Xian coming over, and immediately pulled Li Xian into the battle group.

"If you want me to say, scruples about this and that, where is the head?

It's better to tear up the flag and rebel now, occupy the city of Guangzhou, and then elect Li Xian as the emperor and compete with the Qing court for this world.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the princes rose together, and the heroes competed for each other, isn't this how it happened, and finally expelled Meng Yuan to the outside of the gate.

If you want me to say that with the military strength we have now, it is much stronger than the Red Turban Army back then, that is, in terms of the ability to use troops, Li Xian is also countless times stronger than Han Shantong and Liu Futong and others, it is better to directly occupy Guangzhou, and then call on the heroes of the world to crusade against the Qing court. Yang Tianming said this, but it was no less than dropping a bomb in the crowd.

The heroes who listened to the arguments between the two sides with some scrutiny couldn't help but be stunned, and then they made a loud noise, some said that they were happy to do so, some said that they were too radical, and some said that they wanted to be emperors, and they should be natives of Guangzhou, not Leizhou, in short, they said everything.

Qin Rigang's face changed, and when he found that Li Xian was present, his face became ugly, and he wanted to say something, but he swallowed it anyway, flicked his sleeves and retreated into the crowd.

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