"What's this, if I were a Chinese commander, I would definitely dig an extra trench in the back. Yilu, who is the commander-in-chief, said angrily.

"So what now?" asked the cousin.

"What else can I do, let's continue to attack, fortunately, we are familiar with the offensive routine. He replied to his cousin, and then hesitantly added: "We have been chasing this Chinese army only because we heard that this army has taken the six million taels of ransom money that should have belonged to us."

You say, is it easy for us to ask for the six million taels of silver from the Chinese army here, or with those gentlemen in Canton?"

Mr. Consul thought for a while and sighed: "I'm afraid it's difficult. ”

The commander-in-chief also sighed and said, "Yes, I'm afraid it's difficult. ”

In fact, given the current situation, it might be better to send a force from somewhere else to bypass the positions of the Chinese army and directly attack the Taoist temple, which is said to hide six million taels of silver.

However, from the engagement in the past few days, the British commanders found that the number of Chinese troops in front of them did not seem to be large, but they were quite elite and no worse than the British army.

At this time, it is very risky to divide troops in a strange country and carry out large-scale maneuvers, and it is not because of his contempt for the Chinese army that Wugu was in a hurry with more than 700 soldiers to attack in a hurry, and he was ambushed by the Chinese and died.

In Guangzhou Prefecture, when it was discovered that the British had successfully occupied the Sifang Fort, the feudal officials on the city tower cheered, feeling that the long-term wait had finally paid off.

The British army advanced a little slower, but it also lived up to the name of being good at fighting, and finally defeated the great danger of the three-element view.

If the British army could not win for a long time, the Chincha and the governors would have doubted their lives.

"I've finally got through this. Many people wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads, including that Song Mingda Song Gongzi.

However, the next news is not so funny.

The officials of the Canton Prefecture had some contact with the British army, and when they heard that the main force of the Sanyuanguan had not lost much, and that there was a trench position twenty miles north of the Sifang Artillery, which stopped the British troops, everyone opened their mouths wide, and they did not know what to say.

"This Xuan Zheng is too cunning to come up with such a solution. Qin Cha Qishan roared angrily, almost breaking the jade Ruyi in his hand.

Qi Shan was not very familiar with Guangzhou after all, and only had the Sanyuan View in his eyes, thinking that the leader of the Sanyuan View team must be Xuan Zheng, an old immortal Taoist.

Shen Baozhen pursed his lips secretly, thinking to himself that if the head of the Sanyuanguan was not kicked by the donkey, he must have taken advantage of the gap in this period of time to build a second position between the Sifang Fort and the Sanyuanguan, what is strange about this, and the commander of the Sanyuanguan army is not necessarily Xuanzheng, from the style point of view, it should still be Li Xian, a damn pirate.

"This matter is not necessarily without a turnaround, since the British can break through the first position, they will definitely be able to break through the second position, and after this, it will not be far from the three-element view.

The British lost a lot during this time, and they will inevitably jump like thunder, and when they enter the area of Sanyuanli, they will be killed in Sanyuanli at the slightest provocation, and the scourge of Sanyuanguan has finally been solved. Governor Yiliang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and puffed out his breath.

However, what followed was not so rosy.

The British then sent people over to inquire whether the Guangzhou government could pay the ransom fee again, and there were many offenses in their words, which made the officials of the feudal territory tremble with anger.

It's not that this money can't be taken out, but in that case, the British army will inevitably retreat, and the previous plans of the Guangzhou government have all become jokes, and the reputation of Sanyuanguan has long been in vain, and the executives are not willing to do this kind of thing.

After the British envoys intimidated them, they saw that these officials refused to agree, thinking that Guangzhou really could not come up with such a huge amount of money at present, so they had to retreat in a huff, but before leaving, they still extorted a large amount of grain from the Guangzhou government and wanted to send it to the British barracks as a reward.

The feudal officials pinched their noses and agreed, but later the matter was not done secretly, so that some scholars and low-level officials knew about it, causing an uproar in Guangzhou City.

These low-level officials and scholars, limited by their status and knowledge, did not understand the good intentions of the executives at all, and even always regarded the Sanyuanli team as the savior of Guangzhou, and looked down on the behavior of the governor and other capital enemies, and used poetry and writing to satirize, and even gathered people to march on the streets to demand that the yamen punish the people of the capital enemy.

After all, the people in the court are not rice buckets, and they persuade each other with good words, and they appeased these ignorant scholars, and naturally complained in their hearts that the British were not doing things well, and they couldn't even deal with the little three-dimensional view.

The matter then turned to the British commander, who felt that the matter was becoming more and more difficult.

Originally, the Chinese army retreated to the second line of defense, so it was enough to chase after it here, but it was also a question of how many people to send to chase after it.

From the landing site on the outskirts of Guangzhou to the Sifang Fort, it is a very important strategic point, and if there are not enough defenders left here, so that the officials of Guangzhou cannot think about it for a while, they send troops to occupy the past and copy their own rear road, and the troops attacking in front will be in danger of being completely annihilated.

Moreover, the officials in Guangzhou were very deferential on the surface, and they were very anxious about the elimination of the Sanyuanguan, but who knows what these people thought in their hearts, and no one could guarantee that the Guangzhou officials would not attack the British army, let alone that there was actually a warlike Chinese army hidden in the city of Guangzhou.

Not much, as long as there are 2,000 Chinese soldiers who are about the same as the defenders of the Sifang Battery, it is enough for the British army to drink a pot.

Commander-in-Chief Yilu thought about it again and again, and felt that no matter what, at least more than 4,000 defenders should be left on the side of the Sifang Fort, so as not to have any sudden changes on the Guangzhou side.

As a result, the British army attacking the second line of positions was sharply reduced, to just over 4,000 men.

Fortunately, in the battle some time ago, the Chinese army also seemed to have a problem, the artillery destroyed in the war has not been replenished, and even the frequency of rocket artillery is much less than before, it seems that the replenishment of military supplies has given the problem.

As long as the pressure continues to be maintained, the Chinese army's counterattack capability will only become weaker and weaker.

Thinking so, Yilu divided more than 4,000 British troops and continued to attack the second line of positions established by Li Xian.

This time, it was another good killing.

The British army still broke through in the previous way, continued to dig trenches, and advanced little by little, but fortunately, the artillery firepower of the Chinese army was obviously much worse than before, and it was at an absolute disadvantage in artillery fire, which was much easier than the previous attack.

After five days of continuous attacks, the Chinese army could not support it and hastily withdrew from its position.

On top of that, the morale of the Chinese army also seems to have dropped considerably after the previous defeat, this time it was far less hasty than in the first retreat, and finally barely evaded the pursuit of the British army.

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