The British army set out from the position of the Sifang Fort, and originally had no intention of attacking the small army led by Li Xian, but only wanted to follow from a distance to determine what the plan of this small force of more than 500 people was.

However, when Hai Dagui presented the captured military flag to the defenders of Guangzhou there, he finally succeeded in angering the British army, and decided to teach the Chinese army in front of him a lesson regardless of the cost.

Think about it, whether in the feudal era or in modern times, the military flag has a very special meaning to the soldiers, and no army with achievements will sit and watch others hold their own military flags to show off their military exploits.

The terrain outside Guangzhou was relatively flat, and the British army adopted the traditional tactic of fighting in formation, that is, the most traditional tactic of lining up to shoot, divided into three rectangular phalanxes, each with three columns, and each column of soldiers reached 50 to 60 soldiers.

Li Xian saw clearly here, and also commanded his soldiers to line up in three similar phalanxes to meet the British army.

Because of the geographical location, neither Li Xian's troops nor the British brought artillery, only muskets and grenades, and at this time, it was inevitable that trench warfare and other methods could not be used, and they could only fight in the open area with the most standard array warfare method.

Most of Li Xian's art of war was learned by reading military books from the British, and although this kind of queuing and shooting tactics was rarely used in actual combat in peacetime, the escort team had also worked hard in this area and was not very unfamiliar.

What's more, the five hundred people brought by Li Xian can be regarded as his descendants, who joined the escort team earlier, and their training results are relatively good, whether it is discipline or organization, they are no worse than the British army.

Song Mingda and Shen Baozhen looked at the city wall of Guangzhou, and found that the number of the two teams was about the same, about five hundred, and even the arrays and marching methods were almost identical.

The common European tactic of lining up to shoot is that two armies march in line to each other, wait until they are about 100 meters away, stop and shoot at each other, and then see which side has more soldiers who have fallen after being shot, and then they can't hold on, and then retreat.

Obviously, this tactic relies heavily on probability, requiring a higher rate of fire than accuracy.

For example, when the two armies are 100 meters apart, the first round of bullets will be fired by the enemy within 60 meters of the reload, and the hit rate will be more than doubled.

Therefore, during the Napoleonic period, the most common tactic used by the British army was not to fire the first shot, and to create psychological pressure on the French army through a silent advance, so that the French army could not resist firing at a distance of 100 meters, and then advanced to within 50 meters and then fired at close range.

In this way, the first round of fire of the French army caused five or six casualties to the British, while the first round of fire of the British army could cause thirty or forty casualties, which is a very cost-effective ratio.

However, there are exceptions to this type of warfare.

After the French army suffered this kind of loss many times, they also understood the disadvantage of shooting first, and then when there was a regimental battle, the French army did not shoot alive, so they held back to give the British a big one.

As a result, the two teams approached each other to about 100 meters without either firing a shot, then advanced to within 60 meters, the two sides remained silent, and finally came to a reluctant halt when they were about 30 meters apart.

"We Englishmen are gentlemen, so let's ask our French brothers to shoot the first round first. "The British were also a little scrambling in the face of this new situation, and forced themselves to show their composure.

"What's so embarrassing, let's ask the British to shoot first, and we'll do it next. The French consciously found a good way to deal with the British, and shouted in an aristocratic manner.

After a long tussle between the two sides, the commander of the British army felt that the battle was simply impossible to fight in such an endless manner, so he reluctantly accepted the kindness of the French and decided to fire the first shot.

As a result, what neither side expected was that the armies of the two countries were too close to each other, and the British army inflicted five or six hundred casualties on the French in the first round of shooting, almost causing the French army to collapse, thus laying the foundation for victory.

At this time, the commander of the British army couldn't help but sneer in his heart when he saw the Chinese troops marching in a very British pace, dressed in strange green clothing.

"Hateful Chinese, even if you have learned the tactics of the British Empire, you will not be able to become a real strong army.

I bet you're going to be a hundred meters away and you're going to be able to shoot and start reloading, and when we continue to push within sixty meters and shoot, you're going to break down. ”

However, things were even better than the British commanders had thought.

Under the command of Li Xian, when the distance between the two armies was about two hundred meters, the escort stopped its advance and then raised its guns to shoot.

"Shoot from two hundred meters away, you are much worse than the French army. The British commander couldn't help but think happily.

However, the development of events was somewhat beyond the expectations of the British commander, and it is said that at such a long distance, three or four soldiers can fall even if it is the limit, and if you are lucky, it is possible that there will be no casualties at all.

However, the results of this round of shooting by the Chinese army were somewhat beyond expectations, and more than 20 soldiers were shot and fell.

The British commander felt a little surprised, and it was a little difficult to believe the good luck of the Chinese army, but at this moment it was impossible to stop, and it was even more impossible to change the original strategy, so he could only continue to advance according to the established line, praying that the second round of shooting of the Chinese army would not be so lucky.

However, by the time the British troops had advanced to about 150 meters, the Chinese troops had already finished reloading and fired a second round of ammunition, and then inflicted fifty or sixty casualties on the British troops at once.

"Damn, the Chinese army is all rifled guns, these liars!" the British commander suddenly understood and roared.

The price of an ordinary flintlock smoothbore gun is around fifteen dollars, while a rifled gun usually costs three times as much as a smoothbore gun, which is between forty-five and fifty-five dollars.

Because of this huge price gap, the vast majority of the British army was armed with smoothbore guns, and less than a tenth of the best shooters were armed with rifled guns.

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