At this moment, the six princes finally grabbed a straw, expressed high praise for Pu Dingcha, and gave a lot of gifts.

However, the next day, on the grounds that the British troops outside Niulangang had maintained an offensive posture for many days and were physically exhausted, he wanted to transfer part of the army back to the Sifang Battery, and then he had to draw the same number of soldiers from the Sifang Battery.

The Six Princes felt that something was wrong, but the British army was only an ally, and the Six Princes had no ability to interfere with the movement of the British army, so they could only let it go.

Under this pretext, Pu Dingcha transferred the strength of a regiment back to the Sifang Battery, and then sent hundreds of soldiers to the north to change the guard; then dropped the strength of another regiment and sent hundreds of men to the north.

In this way, between the Sifang Fort and the British camp outside Niulangang, there were both north and south, and the flow of people was endless for a while, which dazzled the six princes and their staff who were lucky.

It's just that, according to Pu Dingcha's dispatch, there are fewer people going north and more people going south, and in the evening, there are actually less than 500 soldiers left in the British garrison, which is bullying the six princes and will not count.

At this time, the main force of the British army had already gathered in the Sifang Fort, which was not far from the Pearl River wharf, and it was easy to load freight troops.

At this time, Pu Ding Cha had nothing to hide, and transferred a large number of merchant ships and troop carriers to load soldiers, weapons, and supplies on the ship.

The Sixth Prince is not a fool, and his staff is not stupid, and someone immediately suggested that the Sixth Prince lead his troops back to Guangzhou in order to hold the city, and the hidden meaning is to get out of the way and let Li Xian go directly to catch up with the British.

It's just that the 60,000-strong army wants to return to the division, and the movement is too big to be done for a while.

When I first came, it was because of my own absolute advantage, and I could come over by marching slowly from Guangzhou to Niulangang, but now Li Xian is eyeing the army with heavy troops, and at this time, I am afraid that an uncontrollable rout will occur when the troops return in a hurry.

The six princes were indecided, and Li Xian also knew the movements of the British army, thinking that as long as there was no artillery and musket support from the British army, the 60,000 soldiers and horses of the six princes would be sick cats with no long-range combat ability, and they would be useless at all, so they hurriedly launched an attack with the whole army.

This time the Six Princes faced Li Xian's troops, which was a battle between a standard feudal army and a modern (in this case, modern rather than modern) army.

The sixth prince received a good military education and had some military experience himself, so he commanded his 60,000 soldiers and horses and discharged several phalanxes.

The most noteworthy thing is that according to the habit of the Qing army, a circle of artillery is arranged at the front of the phalanx, and after the artillery is the firearm unit with a gun, and then there is a cold weapon team with a big sword and a spear.

If it was a few hundred years ago, this kind of formation would be no problem, when Kangxi fought against Dzungar Khan Gardan, he had discharged such a formation, and it achieved good results, but now with this formation, it is a bit dead.

Li Xian can no longer use trench warfare methods this time, fortunately, Li Xian, a typical European field method, has also dabbled in the tactics of lining up to shoot, and has made great efforts to study it, realizing that the British are not near the battlefield, and this tactic that has been sprayed on the Internet for decades should also be able to win, so according to the teaching in military textbooks, a phalanx suitable for queuing up to be shot.

Li Xian's phalanx is very different from the phalanx of the Six Princes, the phalanx of the Six Princes is almost square, and the queues in the vertical and horizontal directions are almost the same, while Li Xian's phalanx is much flattened, with only three columns vertically and about fifty people in the horizontal direction, so as to maximize the advantage of firepower.

Li Xian lined up his troops here, and Wang Xiaoming and the others stationed at the Niulan Post could not watch their bosses work hard in the safe trenches, so they also sent 5,000 people forward to discharge a phalanx group similar to Li Xian on the south side of the Niulan Gang.

The six princes have always been a little suspicious of the actual strength of the Niulangang, but they have not been able to confirm it because it was covered by the trenches, and at this time, seeing that the Niulangang side really easily dispatched an army of 5,000 people to step forward, the corners of many people's mouths couldn't help twitching, this matter is really going to be big.

In this way, the Qing army and Li Xiansuo's troops fought in the field.

According to the understanding of the six princes, the armies of the two sides marched forward in line with each other, and when they entered the range of the artillery, the first artillery fired shells, about three rounds of shells (according to the quality of the Qing artillery, after firing three rounds of shells, they must be filled with water to cool down, and can no longer be used), and then the artillery quickly dispersed to both sides, retreated behind the soldiers and horses, cooled the barrels with cold water, and then loaded gunpowder and shells, etc., to prepare for the second launch.

Then, the two sides continued to approach, then the spearmen fired lead bullets, also firing three rounds and then spreading out to both sides, and finally to the back of the line, learning the artillerymen to wait for the barrel to cool down and reload.

In this way, the cold weapons with broadswords and spears can be revealed, and they can shout at each other with various weapons, make hideous expressions, and then pounce on the enemies who are already close to each other, and start hand-to-hand combat.

Of course, this situation can only be done when the commander is good enough, and when he encounters a weaker general, he improperly commands the artillery and spear-carrying soldiers, and when he retreats, he directly rushes to the cold weapons team, and he is in a mess and loses without a fight.

This is the combat method of the Qing army, like the British army and the French army, etc., the army will be scattered in all directions, and the phalanx will be scattered in all corners of the battlefield with a very large area, so as to avoid a random artillery can control the whole field.

Then, artillery and artillery bombarded each other, and the infantry phalanx against the infantry phalanx, competing to see who had better shooting ability, stronger willpower, and could withstand greater losses without collapsing.

It's just that Li Xian couldn't help but smile when he saw that the phalanx arranged by the Qing army was very dense, and the distance between the phalanx and the phalanx was also very close, this battle was really not challenging at all.

Under the command of Li Xian, the front phalanx stopped after advancing for a while, keeping a distance of more than one kilometer from the artillery at the front of the Qing army, and then the artillery stepped forward and hurriedly found a relatively flat place behind the infantry to level the land, build a temporary battery, and prepare to shoot.

The range of the Qing army's artillery was still very short, even the maximum range was not more than 500 meters, and at this time it was still pushing the heavy artillery forward little by little.

It's just that the Qing artillery continued to advance less than 300 meters, and the artillery position on Li Xian's side was still under construction, but the rocket artillery was ready, aiming at the Qing artillery to fire the first round of rocket artillery.

Hundreds of rockets and artillery shells fell from the sky, immediately leaving a near-devastating blow to the Qing artillery that was still on the move, and then less than 10 minutes, the second round of rocket artillery was fired, and the shells fell in the artillery crowd and exploded in all directions, causing huge casualties.

The firing rate of rocket artillery is six rounds per minute, that of light artillery is two rounds per minute, and that of heavy artillery is 1.5 rounds per minute, with a maximum range of 1,900 meters and an effective range of more than 1,200 meters.

In comparison, the actual rate of fire of the Qing artillery was about 10 rounds per hour, the maximum range was less than 500 meters, and the effective range was less than 200 meters.

The artillery of the Qing army suffered unimaginable losses and fled in all directions, and a few of them were so frightened that they actually rushed to their own position, instead of the agreed queue on both sides, and were caught by the law enforcement team of the Qing army, and they were stuck on the spot.