"But, didn't you just explain to the villagers that you were going to attack the Sifang Fort?" asked a warrior with a not very bright head.

"Those villagers are ordinary people who have not received military training, and it is okay to really fight, waving flags and shouting, but it is not helpful at all to actually fight, and it is up to us more than 600 people to really fight.

I mean, taking advantage of the fact that the British did not increase their troops, and did not expect us to attack, they went to the side of the fort tonight, and then took advantage of the darkness of the night to touch the British defenders and occupy the fort.

The British thought that we would definitely relax our vigilance when we returned to the Taoist temple to rest after the great victory, and it was a good opportunity for us to make a surprise attack. Li Xian said.

Everyone couldn't help but ponder, what Li Xian said was indeed reasonable, now going to attack at night is just a surprise to be able to take it by surprise, and when it comes to a frontal attack during the day, it will cause a lot of incidents.

"It's just that there was a big battle today, and the soldiers are very tired, can they attack the enemy after traveling dozens of miles at night?" Qiao Daqing has always cherished the soldiers, and couldn't help but ask worriedly.

"Fatigue is certain, but let the soldiers find a way to overcome it.

We have always said that we want to build the escort into a strong army, and if we have fought once during the day and cannot move at night, this is not a strong army, but a veteran soldier.

Our escort team has been fighting step by step from scratch, from small to large, and we believe that our soldiers can overcome fatigue with their will at critical moments. Li Xian said in a deep voice.

At this time, everyone had nothing to say, and after discussing for a while, they went back to mobilize the soldiers and prepared for a night attack on the Quartet Fort.

The guards and warriors were very tired, but after returning to Sanyuanguan, they all ate and rested a little, and they all struggled to get up after hearing that there was a big battle at night, and said that they would never hold people back.

The combined number of escorts and warriors on the coalition side was less than 700 people, and they were nothing at all conspicuous among the more than 30,000 villagers, so they packed up at night and then quietly came out and left the station, and the villagers did not notice this anomaly.

Li Xian led everyone to the vicinity of the Sifang Fort, and suddenly felt unreliable in his heart.

This is about 800 British troops, all experienced regular troops, with artillery and muskets, and still relying on relatively well-established defenses.

There are only more than 600 people on their side, and they are all tired soldiers, and the imperial army in the nearby city of Guangzhou is definitely not friendly, so it is good that this battle can be won smoothly, if there is a bad pool, these more than 600 people may be wiped out here.

After pondering, Li Xian asked the team to hide in a nearby crop field, take the opportunity to rest and regain their strength, and then sent scouts composed of third-order and second-order masters out to investigate the surrounding situation.

Li Xian was most worried that the number of British troops in the Sifang Fort exceeded his expectations, and he was also worried that there was a court nearby that he didn't know, so he jumped out at a critical moment to give his side a blow.

Li Xian sent scouts to carefully search the vicinity three times, and he was not at ease, so he also went out to investigate in person, and was relieved when he found that everything was not abnormal.

It's just that Li Xian suddenly had an unclear feeling in his heart, and he always felt that things were a little awkward, but he couldn't see anything change.

It was busy like this for most of the night, and it was not until dawn that Li Xian woke up all the people in the team and took advantage of the night to touch the vicinity of the Sifang Fort.

The official name of the Sifang Fort is Yongkang Fort, and later because the fort is square, it is commonly known as the "Sifang Fort".

The turret is about 48 meters long and wide, and about 7 meters high, and is divided into an outer platform and a sub-platform.

Originally, the Qing army had 22 large and small cannons here, including 13 cannons on the outer platform and 9 cannons on the sub-platform in Taizhong, which was an important stronghold of Guangzhou's city defense.

Like most of the Qing army batteries at this time, the Sifang Fort was also an open-air battery, which means that there were only low walls on all sides, no roof, and the anti-artillery ability was very lacking.

Like the Humen Fort, according to Lin Zexu's plan, there is a deep trench dug behind the artillery, and the artillery can temporarily jump in to avoid the enemy's artillery fire, but no one in the Dafang Fort has ever thought of using it, so there is not even this trench.

After the British occupied this fort, it is said that more than 1,000 catties of gunpowder were looted, but they felt that it was too rough and poured directly into the river.

At present, the British army set up tents on and around the forts, set up simple security facilities, and other defenses were not built in time or with the will.

Li Xian looked at the Sifang Fort from a distance and thought, the heavy rain during the day fell very suddenly, and the gunpowder of the British army must have suffered some losses, but I don't know how big the loss was.

Anyway, Li Xian's team lost most of the gunpowder during the day and was temporarily unusable, but fortunately, there was a lot of stock in the Sanyuan Temple, so this time they took out a batch of weapons again, as if they had not suffered losses.

After making sure that there were no other armies around, Li Xian arranged to let the artillery be in place, the rifled gunners stepped forward to suppress it, and the grenadiers and warriors prepared to take the opportunity to assault.

The escort team and the warriors have participated in many battles to eliminate vampires, and have obtained a large number of night vision types, and their combat ability at night is still very good.

By the time the artillery was in position, rifled gunners and grenadiers, among others, crawled forward, as close as possible to the positions of the British.

The British army was strictly disciplined, and the protection at night was also very tight, and the most advanced coalition soldiers were still 150 meters away from the British, when they were discovered by the British soldiers standing guard, raised their guns and fired, and sounded the alarm.

At this time, there was no need to cover up, the rifled gunners and grenadiers attacked as soon as possible, and Li Xian led a group of commandos, shielding themselves with shields, as close as possible to the quadrangular battery.

The artillerymen had already aimed at their respective targets, and at this time they fired first.

Li Xian brought only six artillery pieces this time, but there were a lot of rocket artillery, reaching twenty, and there were plenty of shells.

It turned out that after Li Xian used rocket artillery, he found that he had drilled the tip of the bull's horn before, and he had been thinking about imitating the British's artillery, but he didn't know that there was such a good thing as rocket artillery.

Rocket artillery has many advantages over traditional artillery, such as the launcher is just something that is easy to make and move like a ladder, and it is much more mobile than artillery.

In addition, the maximum range and some ranges are similar to those of ordinary guns, and the shells fired are still flowering shells, which are much more powerful than ordinary solid shells.

In terms of rate of fire, the rate of fire of rocket artillery is six rounds per minute, which is better than the light gun with two rounds per minute.

Of course, the disadvantages of rocket artillery are also obvious, the shells are somewhat floating, they are unstable when the wind is strong, and the invading force on buildings such as walls and houses is insufficient, so they can only be used in the field against people who have no cover.