"Wait a minute, wait until all the pursuers are there. Li Xian said.

After a while, fifteen or six hundred British soldiers chased after them, and when they arrived here, they found that there was another trench in front of them.

Some of the British soldiers sensed that something was wrong and hesitated, but most of them had already been burned red by victory, and they screamed and ran directly into the position.

At this time, Li Xian heard the report of the warriors in charge of the reconnaissance, and knew that from the vicinity of the Sanyuanguan Mountain Gate to the Sanyuanguan, nearly 3,000 British troops had entered, almost all of the British pursuers, so he understood that the time was ripe.

"Hit me!" Li Xian picked up a rifled gun, aimed at the British soldiers who were chasing him, and opened fire, and the signal soldier next to him immediately lit a special two-kicker firecracker and released it into the sky.

This two kicks go up to the sky, followed by more than a dozen two kicks from the mountains and forests and open spaces near the Taoist temple, sparks are everywhere, the sound is deafening, and it is spectacular for a while.

On the position on Li Xian's side, there are more than 500 elite veterans who followed Li Xian's break, and more than 800 mercenary regiments, which are not much less than the more than 1,500 chasing soldiers who chased them, and the weapons and equipment are much better than those of the chasing soldiers.

What's more, they are not fighting alone, there is also artillery support.

This open space is a trap that Li Xian's side has chosen for a long time to make, the view is wide, and some of the weeds have been cut away manually, and the British army has little to cover here.

Li Xian shot back from this side, and the British army immediately fell hundreds of people, and those who reacted quickly immediately squatted down, thinking about resisting the counterattack of the Chinese army, and those who reacted slowly still wanted to squeeze forward.

At this moment, hundreds of black things fell from the sky and landed beside these British soldiers, and then they exploded violently, but it was the rocket artillery unit on Li Xian's side.

Originally, in previous operations, the British army was careful to detect the position of the Chinese army's artillery positions, and would not easily enter the range of artillery, but this time after the pursuit, they simply forgot about this, and it was impossible to predict that the Chinese army would arrange hundreds of rocket launchers, aiming at this open space, just waiting for someone to stupidly crash in.

"This one, it's finally the right bet. The soldiers and warriors around Li Xian were cheering, but he himself finally exhaled and felt that a big stone had finally fallen.

Ever since he decided to fight the British on the outskirts of Guangzhou, Li Xian had felt nervous because it was an almost impossible task.

If it was on Donghai Island, relying on the defense facilities built in advance, Li Xian was confident that with 2,000 escorts, he could fight a draw with about 10,000 British troops, even if he couldn't hold on in the end, it would not be difficult to use the secret passages and trenches built in advance to withdraw from the position, and run to the land of Leizhou.

But in Guangzhou, it's not easy here.

In such a short period of time, even with the help of tens of thousands of peasants, this defense facility is far less useful than that of Donghai Island, not to mention that there is no room for retreat here, and it would not be good if the British army ran to Sanyuanli to kill.

According to Li Xian's understanding, the army of this era had no resistance to slaughtering the city or anything.

If they held on to the fort in the four directions, they might be able to confront the British army, but the attitude of the officers and men in Guangzhou was extremely ambiguous, and it was possible to cooperate with the British army to attack it at any time, and then the actual combat pressure would increase secondarily, and the biggest problem would be that it would greatly suppress the morale of the own side.

After all, with the exception of a few guards and warriors who were diehards who wanted to rebel, most of them were people who were accustomed to being obedient to the people and feared the government like tigers.

Moreover, in the confrontation of the Sifang Fort, the loss of shells and gunpowder is bound to be huge, although the mixed Yuan Sect and the Sanyuan Temple have made foreign money, but after all, they are not as good as the British army has a country to support, and the previous consumption of a lot of gunpowder and cannonballs in the Sanyuan blessed land is not particularly rich.

Therefore, to deal with the British, you can't confront each other for a long time, you must win quickly, and you must win a big victory, if there are too many casualties, so that the officers and soldiers of the court take the opportunity to pick up the leaks, then there is really no place to cry.

Therefore, at this point, all Li Xian could think of was to use deception.

In the past, the British army was confronted at the four-sided battery, and only one regiment was used to fight the enemy, of which only five or six hundred were veterans, and the rest were all new recruits, so they could not put enough pressure on the British army.

By the time the British army advanced with standard siege methods, Li Xian retreated to the second front after resisting for seven days and training more or less recruits.

Li Xian had 10,000 recruits and 20,000 villagers on hand, which was somewhat insufficient to fight the enemy, but it was more than enough for civil engineering.

When he arrived at the second position, Li Xian did not replenish the artillery and rocket artillery damaged by the British army, gritted his teeth to resist the British attack, and held out for five days before retreating, throwing down a large number of silver ingots, guns, supplies, etc. along the way.

In order to fool the British army, Li Xian still used real silver ingots, and none of those fakes made of lead were used.

In this way, when they reached the third position, they whetted the appetite of the British army, and after holding on for three days, they pretended to be invincible and fled, throwing a large number of silver ingots and supplies along the way, so that the British army could not be suspicious.

During this period, Li Xian's large army had already laid an ambush around Sanyuanguan, and the artillery was also gone, and there were nearly 200 rocket launchers, which were hidden on the hillside near Sanyuanguan after camouflage, pointing to the open space around the mountain gate where British soldiers were most likely to gather and in front of the so-called fourth position.

By the time Li Xian took five or six hundred elite veterans into the position dug in the backyard of Sanyuanguan in advance, the fate of the British army that was chasing after him had actually been decided, and there was no other possibility than annihilation.

The theoretical rate of fire of the rocket artillery was six rounds per minute, and at this time, Li Xian's royal troops and mercenary regiments stopped the British troops in the safety of the trenches, and the Congreve rocket launchers fell into the uncovered clearing, dealing a heavy blow to the unsuspecting British troops.

With the density of rocket artillery shells at this time, whether it was turning around and running away or crawling close to the ground, it did not have much effect, and the debris from the explosion flew all over the ground, quickly harvesting the lives of the British soldiers.

After Li Xian's side started to move, Xuanzheng in front of the mountain gate also began to attack, and hundreds of rocket launchers were launched together, falling into the hundreds of British soldiers in front of the mountain gate, and they were wiped out on the spot.

Congreve rocket artillery is a weapon that is simple to manufacture and easy to use, and it is easier to train rocket artillery than ordinary artillery, and in a sense, it is easier to learn than a smoothbore gun with complex loading steps.

As long as the soldiers have a certain degree of organization and discipline and can abide by the safety norms, they can really have as many guns as they want, which is not far behind the mortars of later generations.

The biggest disadvantage is that he is afraid of the windy and rainy weather, but Li Xian has a lot of strange abilities under his command, and there are even fourth-order and fifth-order masters, and he is not able to control the weather, but it is not difficult to predict and find a good day when there is no strong wind and no rain.

In short, nearly 200 rocket launchers fired together, and nearly half of the more than 3,000 British troops who chased after them were reimbursed.

The rest of the people also hid near the buildings or walls of the Sanyuanguan to hide from the artillery fire.

"Extend the fire and continue to shell the enemy who has taken refuge in the Sanyuan Temple. Li Xian felt that the remaining nearly 2,000 British troops were a bit much, so he asked the signal corps to contact Ma Daha in the artillery battalion and continue to shoot at the enemy in the Taoist temple.

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