"Kill, kill a person and reward five taels of silver!"

“Attack! Fire!”

A few miles away from Li Xian's station, countless black shadows suddenly appeared and killed the camp, during which a large amount of English was mixed in, but it was the Qing army and the British army that cooperated to attack.

When these people rushed over, they found that there were all kinds of shouts coming from Li Xian's camp, but no one came out to deal with them, and even the gate of the camp was not closed, and the antlers were all placed crookedly, and it was easy to rush in.

At this time, there was no need for anyone to command, and almost everyone rushed in from the gate, wanting to take advantage of the chaos of Li Xian's troops to capture this camp in one fell swoop.

It wasn't until the first wave of Qing soldiers rushed into the camp more than 100 meters that they encountered several trenches with wooden sticks at the bottom and had to stop.

There are a few unlucky ones who can't stop, and they fall directly into the trench, and then let out all kinds of screams, which goes without saying.

The Qing and British troops who rushed in stopped, not knowing what to do, and the counterattack on Li Xian's side began to start, with gunfire everywhere, and grenades and rocket artillery fell into the crowd, causing huge casualties.

It turned out that the outermost part of Li Xian's camp was a circle of fences, and about a hundred meters into it were several trenches to prevent people from attacking, and then inside were the real trenches, with a large number of spearmen and grenadiers in ambush, guarding the artillery position in the middle.

The outermost fence is said to be for protection, and it is more used for covering, so that people outside can see how the Li Xian camp is arranged.

The Qing army regarded Li Xian's camp as a traditional camp in the feudal era, and also took the British army into the pit, but these suffered a big loss, and were killed by Li Xian's troops across the trenches for a while, and they didn't have any backhand power at all.

The British army was also considered to have fallen into blood mold, and they only acted after believing the intelligence of the Qing army, and when they found that the camp was full of pits, it was difficult to turn around and retreat.

The most terrible thing is that tens of thousands of Qing troops and British troops rushed together at night, and the British army was in chaos, and at this moment they could not stop a decent counterattack, and they could not retreat, just to crawl on the ground to avoid bullets, and also to risk being trampled to death by countless Qing troops.

In this way, the inexplicable night battle lasted for about half an hour, and the Qing troops who followed behind all understood that they had fallen into the trap, and turned around and fled one by one, and the people who rushed into it also desperately tried to escape.

After all, it was inconvenient to use troops at night, and Li Xian never thought of taking such an opportunity to wipe out the enemy, let alone pursuing the enemy at night, but after leaving enough casualties for the enemy, he would take it when he saw it, stick to his position, and not chase after him.

When the sun rose in the morning, Li Xian commanded his soldiers to clean up the camp, only to find that the Qing army left more than 3,000 corpses in the first battle at night, even the British army was also wiped out seven or eight hundred people, considering that his troops were hiding behind a safe position, the casualties were calculated in single digits, and the result of this battle was brilliant.

"This first battle is a big victory, but the next one, I'm afraid it's a tough battle. After reading the battle report, Li Xian muttered to himself, and was not dazed by such a victory.

Li Xian was not an immortal, and he didn't expect Jiang Ye to be bold enough to lead the master into his camp, but he knew that the first day in Humen would not be easy, and with the consistent temperament of the Qing army, it was very likely that he would take this opportunity to launch the first wave of attacks, so he had always instructed his officers and warriors to wait for the enemy to come.

In the end, this arrangement was not in vain, and at the same time the Qing army and the British army were trapped.

After inspecting the clothing of the Qing army entering the camp and interrogating several unlucky or lucky prisoners, Li Xian understood that the combined forces of the Qing and British forces led by Yang Fang were attacking at night.

This Yang Fang was originally sent to Bao'an County to harass Hong Kong, but there is nothing incomprehensible about appearing here.

The previous arrangement of the six princes was to transfer the tiger away from the mountain and transfer Li Xian away from the well-fortified Niulangang position, and he had already made some secret agreements with the British army, so naturally he would not waste the precious troops led by Yang Fang in Bao'an County.

Li Xian ordered the soldiers to clean up the camp and strengthen the fortifications, but he pondered in his heart.

To tell the truth, the plan of the six princes never deceived Li Xian from the beginning, and even none of the warriors under Li Xian thought that the imperial court would really be so generous, and made wishes to Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan and other officials, and did not hold all the previous crimes accountable.

What's more, the six princes colluded with the British army and smuggled troops into the city of Guangzhou, feeling that everything was done unconsciously, but many of the allied forces in Sanyuanli were the real snakes of Guangzhou, and if there were tens of thousands of more troops in the city who couldn't detect it, it would be really destroyed and there was nothing to say.

Therefore, the six princes intentionally or unintentionally encouraged Li Xian to send troops and fight to the death with the British, and Li Xian's side also planned and put forward a set of strategies that seemed feasible, and secretly made all preparations.

As far as the Niulangang position is concerned, Li Xian announced to the outside world that there were only 9,000 soldiers and horses, and after taking away 7,000 people, there would only be 2,000 people left, which even a child can do.

But in fact, Li Xian smuggled troops to the Niulangang position, including a reinforced regiment led by Wang Xiaoming, as well as Chen Guangsheng's regular regiment and Ma Daha's artillery regiment, with a total strength of 5,000 regular army soldiers and 3,000 auxiliaries, as well as Xuan Zheng and other masters to assist in the defense, it was almost impossible to easily capture.

Li Xian's ability to control battlefield intelligence far exceeded that of the Qing army, and he used the secret realm of the Blue Bat Sect in Macao to transfer troops from Leizhou and Macao, enter the Sanyuan blessed land from the secret realm, and then come out from the Sanyuan Temple to Niulangang, everything was done very secretively, and the Qing army and the British army were all deceived.

The Sixth Prince also made a huge mistake, that is, he always thought that the Sanyuanli coalition army only had about 12,000 regular troops, but this was the number of soldiers recruited by Sanyuanli six months ago.

At the same time, Li Xian also recruited a large number of troops in his Laowo Leizhou, which was not included in the intelligence system of the Qing army, which made the six princes have a huge misjudgment of the military strength of Li Xian's side.

Li Xian calculated the time a little, and understood that with the eagerness of the six princes, the Niulangang side should have already fought, and as for the Qing army and the British army here, I am afraid that they will attack their own army desperately, lest the 7,000 people led by him return to the area of Niulangang and have an uncontrollable impact on the entire battle situation.

And this situation is actually more beneficial to Li Xian.

Allowing the enemy to attack in a strong fortification and going into the field for field battles, or even attacking the enemy's batteries, is a completely different concept, and the battle-to-loss ratio is completely different.

Since the enemy would desperately rush over and attack, Li Xian had no intention of taking the initiative to attack, taking a huge risk to attack the fort or something.

Li Xian's side packed up the camp, strengthened and repaired some of the fortifications, and had breakfast, and the Qing army and the British army arrived late, and set up a position outside the fortifications established by Li Xian relying on Heiwu Mountain.