The mysterious army that appeared behind was full of 8,000 people, the level of equipment was very good, no worse than the British army, and it was also equipped with a large number of rocket artillery and rifled guns, which had a strong lethality to personnel.

At this critical moment, a large number of troops emerged from the direction of Heiwu Mountain, and the black pressure pressed over, and the artillery and muskets were all on the line, but it was Li Xian who saw the opportunity and killed the soldiers and horses with his headquarters.

Yang Fang previously thought that Li Xian's method was magical, and he went around to his rear to launch an attack, but at this time, he saw that there were more than 6,000 people coming down from the direction of Heiwu Mountain, and suddenly felt that there was darkness in front of him, it turned out that it was not Li Xian's magic with troops, but that the troops were strong, enough to attack from the front and rear directions at the same time.

From this point of view, Li Xian's previous loud noise and his strategy to exhaust the enemy was actually to create a good opportunity for the army that appeared behind to attack.

As soon as Yang Fang thought of this, the people under him were not stupid, and they all suddenly understood that their prediction of Li Xian's strength was wrong, but this time they were surrounded by people from the front and back, and they were in danger of destruction in an instant, and they couldn't help but panic.

When Li Xian's troops walked out of the position of Heiwu Mountain, arrived at the attack position, set up artillery and rocket artillery, fired a large number of shells and rocket artillery at the Qing soldiers and the British camp, and sent the infantry to advance little by little, with bayonets on the rifle racks, putting on a posture of white-knuckle combat, the Qing soldiers finally could not support it and collapsed first.

"Run, the enemy is strong, brothers, retreat quickly. I didn't know who it was, so I shouted and ran away.

The act of running away is also contagious, one and two, first dozens of people, then hundreds, countless Qing soldiers scattered in all directions, running everywhere.

It's just that the front and back sides are caught by the enemy, so run to both sides, a large number of Qing troops are instinctively driven to run towards the relatively intact British position, hoping to get shelter, but this time they rushed directly into the British camp, disrupting the British formation that was still trying to resist.

At this time, the war situation was chaotic, the Qing army had no heart to resist, nor did it have the ability, and in the end, even the British camp was stuffed with tens of millions of Qing soldiers, so that the British army itself could not fight, so they could only flee with the Qing soldiers.

"These bastards!" the British commander was so angry that he bit his lip and bled out.

Originally, although it was attacked from both sides, as long as the queue formation was maintained, the British army might not be able to retreat while fighting, and there was no need to think about turning defeat into victory, but it was good to be able to evacuate more than half of them to the direction of Humen Fort, but the Qing soldiers rushed like this, and the last chance of escape for the British army was wiped out.

"Let's go, it's too late. Several British officers looked badly and immediately fled with their commanders, and could not care less about continuing to command the army.

"Surrender the gun and don't kill!" Li Xian's soldiers lined up in a neat queue, advancing in an orderly manner, shouting slogans in Chinese and English, telling the enemy to surrender quickly.

The Qing army, which was running around like headless flies, finally came to its senses, and immediately thousands of people threw down their weapons, squatted on the ground, and let Li Xian's side contain them.

The British army actually couldn't understand the persuasion slogans shouted by Li Xian's subordinates in a very peculiar accent, but there were some things that could be learned without being taught, and they immediately learned the same, threw down their weapons and squatted down with their heads in their hands, and pulled out the white underwear they were wearing with a clever wit, and waved them at the coalition soldiers who strode forward.

Li Xian brought down more than 6,000 soldiers from the direction of Heiwu Mountain, and the army that originally appeared behind Yang Fang's camp also had 8,000 people, commanded by Wang Jiuxuan, a high-ranking disciple of Sanyuanguan, and the two sides quickly converged, controlled the situation, eliminated the enemy who tried to resist stubbornly, took prisoners into custody, and sent a small force to chase and kill the fleeing Qing soldiers and British troops.

Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan finally met, saluted each other, stared at each other for a long time, and suddenly laughed and hugged each other.

The two of them broke up three or four days ago and began to plan and fight, and the separation time was not long, but it felt like three or four years had passed.

"This time, the war situation in the entire Guangdong will soon be calmed down. Wang Jiuxuan said with a smile.

Li Xian nodded and agreed: "After this battle, the British army will not have enough troops, and it will inevitably be evacuated from Guangdong."

As for the Qing army, although there are still a lot of them, their strength is too poor to pose no threat to us at all. ”

Looking at the Qing army and the British army who were fleeing on both sides, Li Xian was a little unwilling: "Actually, if we ambush a battalion of troops over there, the number of Qing soldiers and British soldiers who can escape will inevitably be reduced a lot.

It's a pity that all we thought about before was how to defeat the enemy, but we ignored this official. ”

Wang Jiuxuan looked in the direction pointed by Li Xian and found that there was a small mountain over there, and a large number of Qing and British troops were fleeing around there, followed by a large number of warrior coalition forces chasing and killing.

If there were a little ambush troops near Nashanbao in advance, then these deserters would probably have to make dumplings, but before the war, Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan were thinking about how to eliminate Yang Fang's troops and the British army, but they ignored this official.

"Let's take a breath, don't be too demanding. Wang Jiuxuan said with a smile.

"Next, we have to attack the Humen Fort to put some pressure on the British. Li Xian nodded and said.

In these two days of fighting, Yang Fang's troops and 5,000 British troops suffered almost devastating blows, Yang Fang's 30,000 soldiers and horses suffered 8,000 casualties and more than 15,000 prisoners, and the British suffered more than 4,000 casualties and prisoners, and less than 800 took advantage of the chaos to escape, which can be described as heavy losses.

After this battle, the British army had only about 12,000 men in the whole of Guangdong, and it was divided into three places: Hong Kong, Humen, and Sifang Fort, and the Qing army also had 60,000 soldiers and horses led by the six princes, and also sat on the city of Guangzhou.

Purely in terms of military strength, the Sanyuanli coalition led by Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan has a total of 24,000 regular troops, as well as more than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers.

After suffering such heavy losses, there was no need for the British army to continue to stay in Guangdong, and it was impossible to let the precious British soldiers suffer casualties for the Qing government's counterinsurgency.

At that time, as long as the British army retreated, leaving only the Qing army with broadswords and spears, no matter how many people there were, it would not be in the eyes of Li Xian and others, the defeat of the six princes would be certain, and Guangzhou would also fall into the hands of the Sanyuanli coalition army.

In fact, the outcome of this battle was predestined long before the battle, or it was decided six months ago.

Six months ago, the Sanyuanli coalition army had only 12,000 soldiers, and the proportion of recruits was also very high, but it had already expanded to more than 24,000 in the past six months.

Originally, six months ago, the Sanyuanli coalition army had a relatively complete structure, and the mechanism for recruiting and training soldiers was quite perfect, the only problem was that there was not enough money to cover the cost of expanding the army.

Later, the coalition forces opened a free trading zone in the suburbs of Guangzhou, from which they obtained a large amount of money by buying and selling, and through the Thirteen Lines and other merchants, they sold a large number of smoothbore guns and pistols to earn money, and finally had the ability to expand the army.