The British army was very cunning in its use of this rifled gunner, which was to let these soldiers with high-precision rifled guns mix in the ranks of ordinary smoothbore gunners, and about ten musketeers mixed in a rifled gunner, and then specifically shoot at important targets in the enemy army during the battle, which was considered Chiguoguo's assassination.

It's just that the situation of Li Xian's troops is a little different.

First of all, as a traverser, Li Xian attaches great importance to the role of rifled guns, and the problem of the escort team for a long time is that there is enough money, but the number of combat personnel is somewhat insufficient.

Therefore, Li Xian has been trying his best to buy more expensive and powerful rifled guns to equip his subordinates, so that the escort team has 800 rifled guns before the battle in Sanyuanli.

Moreover, unlike the British army, Li Xian prefers to use rifled guns in a centralized manner, and the five hundred people he brought this time are all equipped with rifled guns, just to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the British army and give him a dismount.

The effective firing range of rifled guns should theoretically be about 400 meters, but with the technology of this era, the effective firing range in actual combat is also about 200 meters.

However, even the effective range of about 200 meters was enough for the British troops who were caught off guard to drink a pot, and in the two rounds of firing in front and back, seventy or eighty British soldiers lost their combat capability.

"Hell, how can the Chinese be so rich!" The British commander felt a burst of despair, but at this time the British army had little choice but to advance against the fire of Li Xian's troops, hoping to launch the first round of attacks after reaching within a hundred meters, and then find a way to stalemate.

It would be much better to find a way to retreat after a stalemate or to have the quad batteries send reinforcements to assist than to turn around and retreat now.

Moreover, the distance of fifty meters can be crossed in more than ten seconds, and at this time, the British commander will not have time to change his tactics even if he wants to.

It's just that the British commander only thought of conventional combat methods, and he didn't expect that there were still many unconventional arms in the Chinese army opposite, and there were quite a few of them.

When the British army advanced to within 120 meters and was about to stop for the first shot in a few seconds, more than 20 soldiers from the opposing Chinese army went to the front of the line, picked up the round object and threw it over.

"Grenadier, the Chinese army used to have grenadiers, but what is the role of grenadiers from such a distance?" the British commander looked at the black iron lumps and wondered.

The British army was no stranger to grenades, and it can even be said that it was the first army to use grenadiers in formation.

The early hand grenades were invented in the mid-eighteenth century, and they weighed up to three pounds, or nearly three pounds, and were so heavy that even the strongest soldiers could only throw them twenty or thirty meters away.

As a result, the grenadiers usually chose the bravest and tallest soldiers, who ran up to the enemy and threw lead ball-like grenades, mainly against cavalry and buildings.

In the 19th century, the performance of gunpowder continued to improve, so that the weight of the grenade could be reduced to half of its original size, that is, about 1.5 pounds, and the distance of throwing was naturally much farther.

However, the British army of this era had more artillery at its disposal, and muskets were much more widespread than before, making the grenadiers much less strategic.

The problem with grenades is that the throw distance is too short.

In terms of the time and space where Li Xian was originally located, ordinary soldiers throwing grenades can be called excellent if they can reach about 60 meters, and if they reach more than 85 meters, they can be called the top, and they can win awards when they participate in some international competitions.

However, this limitation is much weaker on this plane.

Among the grenadiers under Li Xian, there were many third-order grandmasters and second-order martial artists with particularly strong arm strength, whose strength and accuracy were several times higher than that of ordinary people, and they could throw grenades between one hundred and twenty meters and one hundred and sixty meters, and they could also maintain a high frequency and accuracy.

Li Xian's arrival this time was to give the British army a dismount, and there were more than 30 unconventional grenadiers of this kind.

At this time, more than 30 grenades were seen streaked across the sky, and most of them fell into the ranks of the British army, causing great casualties to the British army at once.

This was not enough, the third round of firing of the convoy was also launched at the right time, and when the distance between the two sides was only about a hundred meters, the advantage of rifled guns was well played, inflicting great casualties on the British troops.

Originally, the British troops wanted to advance to 100 meters and start firing and confronting each other, but these three rounds of firing and one round of grenade throwing caused more than 160 casualties to the British troops, and the battle losses suddenly reached about 30%.

Under the command of the officers, the British troops also tried to hold down the position, and even hastily stopped to fire the first round of fire from the side of Li Xian's army, but their accuracy can be imagined.

Moreover, the rate of fire of rifled guns is three to five times a minute, that is, once in ten seconds, but throwing grenades is not, with the livestock level of these elite grenadiers, it is not a problem to throw more than ten rounds of grenades in a minute.

When the grenadiers of the Chinese army began to throw powerful grenades again, and the rifled gunners also took the opportunity to fire another round of fire, the British army was not even able to carry out a second round of fire, and directly collapsed.

The British army that had originally attacked had about 500 men, but after the confrontation, they lost more than 200 soldiers, and Li Xian's side had at most five or six soldiers who were shot and wounded.

Such a huge battle loss ratio is enough to destroy the will to fight of any army.

The British army suddenly shouted, turned around and ran towards the fort in the four directions, and did not even have time to help their own wounded.

When Li Xian saw the British army retreating, he sneered, reined in the army, and let Hai Dagui's men also rejoin the ranks, and then Shi Shiran retreated to his own position.

If it was in any other situation, Li Xian would rush over with his men and wipe out the remaining hundreds of British soldiers with a standard white-bladed impact.

Unfortunately, the battlefields of both sides were too close to the British trench positions, and once they chased them, they would come within the range of the British artillery, which would only bring unnecessary casualties.

However, in this encounter, Li Xian successfully eliminated more than 200 British soldiers, and his own losses were only in single digits, whether it was against the British army or the Qing army in Guangzhou, it could have a good deterrent effect.

On the walls of Canton City, ordinary soldiers who did not know the truth could not help but cheer when they saw their friendly troops facing the same number of British troops, and then they could not help but cheer and their morale was high.

This situation was also much beyond Song Mingda and Shen Baozhen's expectations, the two of them looked at each other and opened their mouths wide, but they didn't know what to say.

"It is said that the British army is as brave as a tiger, but now it seems that it is not worthy of the name. Song Mingda said suspiciously.

Song Mingda was scolding his mother in his heart, his previous plans were all based on the super strength of the British army, but now it seems that it is a big mistake, and the army in Sanyuanli was beaten to the point that he was powerless.

At this moment, Song Dagongzi couldn't help but scold in his heart, feeling that he was cheated by the officials in Guangzhou, he knew that he would not have put forward such a plan in the first place.

"Li Xian's soldiers are so strong, they shouldn't be. Shen Baozhen was equally confused.

Shen Baozhen had been under house arrest by Li Xian for several months, so he had a close look at the escort team and felt that the original escort team was also highly disciplined, but it was by no means as powerful as it is now.

In fact, at that time, the escort team was not long formed, and the training was not perfect, but now most of the more than 500 teams led by Li Xian are veterans with rich combat experience and more than a year of training, in addition to a large number of elite warriors, from combat effectiveness to discipline, it is not the same as the original recruits.

Song Mingda and Shen Baozhen glanced at each other, and then looked away in unison, and there were countless thoughts in their hearts for a while.

Li Xian didn't care about the situation in Guangzhou, and took his men back to the base camp of his army, that is, the second trench position established near Niulangang, and then found that there was a big dispute waiting for him in the base camp.