In short, the six princes had 15,000 original defenders of Guangzhou under their command this time, and more than 40,000 troops from other provinces, a total of 55,000 troops, plus 5,000 British troops who came to help, with a total strength of more than 60,000.

When the Six Princes led their troops to the outside of Li Xian's trench position at Niulangang, the defenders in the position showed a burst of panic.

Fortunately, Li Xian practiced his troops skillfully, and even in this case, the defenders of the bullpen did not collapse, and he also commanded the artillery to fire a round of threatening fire to prevent the army of the Six Princes from getting too close, and at the same time commanded the soldiers to prepare for a counterattack.

The Sixth Prince had suffered a great loss under Li Xian, and this time there were officers of the British army as advisers in the army, so they stopped their troops three kilometers away from the position and began to prepare for the attack, and did not make the foolish mistake of being too far forward in the command and becoming the target of the enemy's artillery.

After a while, an officer from the side of the cattle pen guard came out of the column with a white flag, and shouted between the two armies: "What part of the army on the other side is it, why is it attacking us, come out and reply." ”

This officer's shouting was full of anger, and his voice spread far away, and it seemed that he was a practitioner, or even a master of the Grandmaster Realm.

China has always paid attention to salute first and then soldiers, and even the British army also respected the respect for the white flag negotiations, so each sent people to shout in front of the battle with the same white flag.

"Li Xian, Wang Jiuxuan and others in Sanyuanli deliberately raised troops to rebel, and the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court came to quell the rebellion.

lest the jade be burned for a while, lose your own life, and even affect your own family to exterminate. "This is the warrior shouted sent by the Six Princes.

"We, the British Imperial Army, are invited by the Chinese government to help quell the rebellion, and you surrender quickly, otherwise you will be killed for a while. On the other side, the masters of the British army also shouted loudly in Chinese, which was not very proficient.

Both armies sent three well-cultivated masters to shout in front of the battle, so that the armies on both sides could almost hear it, that is, to explain the reason for the battle clearly before the battle, to show their legitimacy, and to disintegrate the morale of the locality.

"Nonsense. Since its establishment, our Sanyuanli coalition army has been resisting the British invasion and protecting the villagers of Guangzhou, what kind of rebellion?" shouted the officer on the Sanyuanli side angrily.

"Your leaders Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan have a heart of disobedience, and the whole world knows this.

The emperor specially ordered the six princes to quell the rebellion, only to investigate Li Xian and other masterminds, and forgive Er and others who were coerced and deceived, why don't you hurry up and be arrested, kneel down and thank you?" the envoys under the six princes shouted loudly.

"Back then, Yue Wumu was bent on resisting Jin, but he was executed on trumped-up charges, you just wanted to kill me and other men who were bent on resisting the British on trumped-up charges, and you did not hesitate to collude with the British.

Even so, there is no point in this court to help us, and since you are bent on killing us, we will also rebel.

From today on, we Sanyuanli Township Protectors will no longer be Qing people, fight to protect the people, establish a new country, and kill all of you bastards who only know how to oppress the people and blindly flatter foreign enemies. The officer on the Sanyuanli side was unmoved, loudly pronounced a declaration of war, and then turned and left, but he was very resolute.

"This bastard, you're going to have to take me alive in a moment. I'm going to put him to death, and see if he dares to be hard-mouthed. The sixth prince's face turned cold, and he said to the left and right.

"The last general will listen to orders. Several generals beside him were very powerful, and immediately bowed and said.

Soon after, the assault on the Bullpen position began.

After all, the British army was a guest army, at most it was only a sideline formation, and the real attack was carried out by the Qing army under the command of the sixth prince.

The six princes are known as the most talented of the princes, they have been familiar with military books since childhood, and their ability to use soldiers is also outstanding.

The first wave of attack was about 3,000 men, which should be quite sufficient considering that the defenders of the Niulangang army should have only 2,000 men.

It's just that no matter how smart the six princes are, they have never experienced a real hot weapon gunpowder war, and since he was a child, it was a war in the cold weapon era, and at this time, these three thousand people were divided into three squares, lined up in a dense formation, and advanced towards the trench position little by little.

At the head of the three formations was a row of wooden carts, with planks nearly two meters high, behind which were hidden three soldiers, armed with spears, broadswords, or bows, and five soldiers pushing such carts.

This kind of wooden cart propulsion is a tactic that has been used since the time of Nurhachi, and it has a good protection effect on bows and arrows and even early firearms.

During the transition period of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the most commonly used tactics of the Qing army were to use this kind of wooden cart to advance, get close to or break through the Ming army array, and then carry out killing, creating many successful examples.

Behind this row of wooden carts were three rows of spearmen, who used super-large muskets that could only be carried by two people, which were not small but were too long to reload, so they would immediately disperse to both sides after firing the first round of fire close to the enemy line, run behind their own troops, and start reloading.

Behind this spearmen, there are naturally regular cold-weapon weapons such as spearmen and knife soldiers.

According to the idea of the sixth prince, there should be a column of artillery in front of the 3,000-strong square, which fired two or three rounds of artillery close to the trench position, giving the enemy a great deterrent and then retreating, giving the battle to the army behind.

However, the advisers sent by the British army were adamantly opposed to this kind of artillery being put at the forefront, and the Sixth Prince himself decided not to invest in this attack, considering that this was only a tentative attack, and that it would not be cost-effective to consume too much of his own small artillery.

It should also be mentioned here that the 3,000 soldiers invested in the first attack are rare elites in the Qing army, similar to the generals of the Ming Dynasty, after all, the generals of the Qing army know that the first attack is of great significance, if this time can gain the upper hand and deter the enemy, the subsequent battle will be more smooth.

It's just that when such a team approached their own position, Wang Xiaoming, the commander of the Second Regiment and the temporary commander-in-chief of the Niulangang position, who was responsible for guarding the Niulangang position, kept shaking his head.

"What's going on with the commander on the other side, is his head, he put on such a position, he doesn't take the soldier's life seriously.

Order the artillerymen, give me a hard beating, don't give me face. Wang Xiaoming issued an order to the signal corps.

The artillery commander is Ma Daha, who has always been the supreme commander of the artillery under Li Xian, and when he received the order at this time, he did not have the usual hippie smile, but simply replied: "Tell the temporary commander-in-chief that the artillery department will resolutely complete the task." ”

Not far from Ma Daha, Chen Guangsheng, who was observing the enemy's situation, shook his head secretly when he heard this, and he must add the word temporary in front of the commander-in-chief.