The commander of the Qing army was naturally the veteran Yang Fang, who was originally sent to Bao'an County, and at this time led the Qing army to set up a position at the foot of the mountain, and was assisted by a large number of British troops, which could be regarded as a fierce flame.

Li Xian looked at it, when Yang Fang arrived in Bao'an, he originally brought 10,000 soldiers and horses, plus Jiang Ye's 5,000 people, it was 15,000 people, and he had lost a lot of money in the night before, and it should be less than 12,000 people, but at this time, looking at the past flag exhibition, there were more than 10,000 people, and there were at least 30,000 troops, it seems that the Qing court was really fighting for fate during this time.

These 30,000 soldiers and horses are not yet in Li Xian's heart, but there are about 5,000 British troops who arrived with the Qing army, which has to be paid attention to.

However, Li Xian also knew in his heart that the British army was too big in Guangzhou, maintaining more than 10,000 troops on the side of Niulangang and Sifang Fort, and also garrisoning Hong Kong and Humen Fort, and the only soldiers in front of him who could be sent to block the Sanyuanli coalition army would be weak.

When Yang Fang arrived, he first sent a bold officer to reprimand Li Xian's side for almost rebellion, and demanded that the army be disbanded immediately to beg for forgiveness from the imperial court, otherwise the imperial army would inevitably exterminate Yunyun, and also said that this battle would only destroy the first evil, forgive the coercion, and ask Li Xian's soldiers and officers to defect to help quell the rebellion, and there will be rewards afterwards.

Li Xian's side naturally also came out of the ranks, and after Chen Leizhou's escort and Sanyuanli army helped the Qing court to fight against the British, he read aloud all the battles, the results obtained, and the losses suffered, and denounced Yang Fang and the six princes for their misdeeds, colluding with the British to attack the patriotic army, and deliberately seeking self-reliance, which is actually the biggest rebel in the Qing Dynasty today.

The high-level members of the Sanyuanli coalition army were all warriors and escort officers, but ordinary soldiers, especially new soldiers, were still more recognized by the imperial court, so Li Xian downplayed the role of the imperial court, and only emphasized that the six princes and Yang Fang intended to collude with the British to establish themselves as kings, and wanted to overthrow Daoguang as the emperor.

After a quarrel between the two sides, no one can say anyone, and then it will be time to see the real chapter.

Yang Fang was much more cautious and stingy than the Six Princes, and the Six Princes dared to send three thousand soldiers and horses for the first tentative attack, but Yang Fang only sent a thousand men to attack, and divided into six teams to attack from different directions.

For this kind of stingy fighting, Li Xian did not use artillery, so that the 1,000 people approached the trench, and then greeted them with muskets and grenades, causing more than 300 casualties to the 1,000 people, and the remaining 600 people naturally collapsed and retreated.

The situation of this Heiwu Mountain is different from the Niulangang position, the Niulangang side is defended by Wang Xiaoming and Chen Guangsheng, the total number of soldiers is not small, but the proportion of recruits is very high, whether it is the Qing army or the British army, they can still get support from the rear at any time, so Wang Xiaoming and others dare not let people approach, and they must use artillery to deter from the beginning, at least to give their recruits the feeling that this position is easy to hold.

As for the side of Heiwu Mountain, most of the soldiers brought by Li Xian were veterans who had been training for a long time and had many combat experiences, so they were much calmer when they started fighting, and they were not in a hurry to defeat the enemy quickly.

Yang Fang sent a team of about 1,000 people to investigate many times, his brows became more and more furrowed, Li Xian's side almost always used light weapons to defend against the enemy, and only occasionally used artillery, but the firepower shown in this way was still enough to make any general in the Cold Weapon Era dumbfounded.

After Yang Fang lost more than 2,000 soldiers, he already understood that if he continued to fight like this, no matter how many soldiers he sent forward, he would be sent to death, and he would hardly be able to cause any casualties to the enemy.

In a sense, the six princes and Yang Fang's style of play have a lot in common, and after discovering that there are difficult bones in front of him, Yang Fang immediately asked for help from the British army, who had been watching the battle for a long time, and let the British army launch an attack.

These 5,000 British troops were a team that had gone north, fighting in the hinterland of the Qing Kingdom, without suffering any setbacks, and their self-confidence was bursting, and they felt that the Qing troops were all weak brigades, so they naturally agreed and agreed to attack.

The commander of this British army, considering that the Chinese army on the opposite side had only 7,000 troops, felt that it would be enough for him to send a regiment of 1,500 men to win, but for the sake of safety, he sent a full 2,000 troops to attack, and there was artillery behind the attacking team to cover it.

The British army sent 24 guns forward, firing more than 20 rounds of artillery one after another, making the smell of gunpowder between the two armies, thinking that the intensity of such artillery bombardment was enough to make the defenders on the opposite side lose the courage to fight, so that the 2,000 British soldiers marched in a neat queue.

Out of respect for the military textbooks, considering that the Chinese troops on the opposite side were small and had some artillery, the British commander ordered the two thousand soldiers to line up in a loose line, but he did not expect this to become the only bright spot of the British army in this operation.

When the British approached the position of Heiwu Mountain, the soldiers fired at the Chinese troops in the trenches, and a few of the brave ones leaned forward, even pulling out the wooden sticks on the ground, etc., trying to enter the trenches and engage the Chinese troops in hand-to-hand combat.

Li Xian had been concealing the level of firepower of his own side, not even exposing the artillery, and only then did he order a large-scale counterattack.

The artillery under Li Xian had already aimed at the artillery in the rear of the British army, and twenty-one artillery pieces and thirty-three rocket artillery pieces were fired at the same time, and countless shells fell on the British artillery positions, which suddenly blinded the British artillery that had carelessly advanced into the range of Li Xian's army's artillery.

In the first round of shooting, the British lost more than ten guns, and in the next few rounds of artillery fire, more than 20 guns that were pushed forward were wiped out, and in the end, only three guns were pushed out by the unlucky artillery and ran out of the range of Li Xian's army's artillery.

At the same time, the infantry, which had been hiding its strength, also began to exert its might, with thousands of rifled guns, repeating guns, smoothbore guns and grenades all in unison, taking the British army by surprise who thought they had suppressed the Chinese army.

At first, the British soldiers tried to shoot at the Chinese army, but at this time they found that the Chinese army's weapons and equipment were much better than their own, at least more than a third of the soldiers were equipped with rifled guns, as well as many air rifles and grenadiers.

A few British soldiers who were particularly bold and rushed into the trenches also let the Chinese army knock over the ground with sapper shovels and bayonets, and they couldn't make any waves.

However, the British army was still very brave and good at fighting, and after more than fifteen minutes of stalemate with the Chinese army, they began to break down, abandon the queue and run back.

It's just that it's easy to come and difficult to go, and the artillery under Li Xian has almost packed up the British artillery at this time, turned the muzzle of the gun to deal with the defeated British army, and harvested their lives one by one.

When the British army was out of the range of the artillery and counted the numbers, they found that the battle had suffered heavy losses, losing more than ninety percent of the artillery, and the losses of the British soldiers who came forward to attack were as high as more than 1,500 people, which was much greater than the losses suffered by Yang Fang in the previous rounds of attacks.

Li Xian deliberately reduced the blow to the Qing army and focused the attack on the British army, and finally took advantage of the carelessness and arrogance of the British army, leaving heavy losses on people.

After this battle, the British army woke up from a dream and realized that the Chinese army on the opposite side was extremely strong, much stronger than the Qing army they had seen before.

According to Li Xian's strategy, with 7,000 soldiers facing the combined forces of 30,000 Qing soldiers and 5,000 British troops, there is a great chance of victory even in a head-on battle, but then the casualties will inevitably be not small, so it is intended to show weakness and let the enemy take the initiative to attack, but it has achieved initial results.