Most of the warriors of the Sanyuan Temple were cultivating in the blessed land, and before they could react, the villagers in the Sanyuan Temple had already spontaneously gathered to repel the attacking British army.

In fact, at this time, the British army in Sanyuan was only a small force, and they just felt that the war had been won, so they went to the periphery in groups of three or five to grab some pigs, sheep and other livestock, so it was easy to be defeated by the villagers.

Moreover, after all, this is the place where the Sanyuan Temple is located, and many of the villagers practice martial arts, and the folk customs are very different from other places.

After repelling the British army, the villagers expected that the British army would come to retaliate, so they asked the people of Sanyuanguan to come out and preside over the food against the British army.

Therefore, under the organization of Sanyuanguan, the villagers of more than 100 townships near Sanyuanli gathered in Sanyuanguan and used the "three-star flag" of Sanyuanguan as the command flag to command the battle, and prepared to fight together.

These peasants gathered together, at least more than 30,000 people, the momentum was extremely huge, Xuan Zheng and Li Xian exchanged a bit, and felt that the people's support was available, just taking advantage of the British army's attack, and fighting the enemy head-on, so as not to let the British army think very highly of themselves and act recklessly in the area of Guangdong, bringing unnecessary losses to the martial arts people.

In fact, the British commander Yilu and others were still a little taboo about the Leizhou Army led by Li Xian, but after successive victories, they did not take the Chinese army seriously, and really had a plan to attack Donghai Island after the matter in Guangzhou was over.

The commander of this battle is naturally Xuan Zheng, the master of the Sanyuan Guanguan, but Xuan Zheng has great confidence in Li Xian's ability to use troops, so he sent someone to recruit Li Xian to discuss countermeasures together.

It turned out that Sanyuanli was the traditional sphere of influence of Sanyuanguan, and Li Xian did not think of sending an escort to assist in the defense, and originally led troops to garrison Macao to guard against a possible attack by the British army.

It's just that the British marched into Guangzhou this time, and under the compromise of Qi Shan's efforts, they were brave enough to conquer Humen in less than two days, and the troops came to Guangzhou, advancing too fast, so that Li Xian couldn't react.

When Xuan Zheng sent a message to Macau, Li Xian knew that the situation in Guangzhou had deteriorated to such an extent, so he took three hundred escorts to travel all the way from the secret realm of the Blue Bat Sect to the secret realm of the corpse soldiers, and then to the Sanyuan Temple.

Originally, there were 800 guards on the Macao side, but the guards and the Macao authorities had always been at odds and at odds, and unless Li Xian wanted to give Macao directly to the British, he still had to leave 500 people in charge.

It's just that after Li Xian arrived at the Sanyuan Temple, he was planning how to fight this battle, but he sighed a little, this battle is not easy to fight.

Most importantly, there is a huge disparity in strength.

On the British side, the total strength was as high as 12,000 men, stationed in the periphery of Hong Kong, Humen and Guangzhou, of which 1,500 were stationed in the Sifang Fort alone.

As far as Li Xian's side is concerned, after many expansions, the total strength of the escort team is 2,000 people, and not all of them are here in Sanyuanguan.

From Li Xian's point of view, after the arrival of the British army, the East China Sea Island must be heavily guarded, after all, it is its own foundation, so 1,200 troops must be stationed there, and Macao must also be defended, because this is the gateway to the secret realm of the Blue Bat Sect, and it is also an important channel to obtain gunpowder, weapons and other Western military materials, so 500 soldiers and horses must be stationed.

If the British army sent a large army to attack these two places, Li Xian would adapt to the situation during the battle, but only when it was really impossible to do so, he would abandon these two places and evacuate to a relatively safe place.

As a result, Li Xian was able to bring only three hundred guards to the Sanyuan Temple.

As for the three-element view, the situation is also very bad.

Sanyuan blessed land recently had a corpse soldier, although Sanyuanguan later won a big victory, but the enemy was injured by 1,000, self-damage of 800, the loss of Sanyuanguan is also very considerable.

Moreover, the illusion in the blessed land is extremely bad, and there are often fierce beasts attacking human beings, after the crossing of the corpse soldiers, the ecological environment in the blessed land is seriously damaged, and the number of fierce beasts attacking people has increased significantly, and a large number of masters are needed to suppress the demon beasts in the blessed land and protect the mountain gate of the Sanyuan Temple.

In addition, the chaos caused by the amber golden cicada is in the ascendant, and the northern martial arts are still fighting with the forces of the Qing court.

Therefore, there are only twenty grandmaster-level masters and forty inner disciples above the rank that can be sent out by the Sanyuan Concept, and the number of martial artists is very limited.

Fortunately, during this time, Sanyuanguan also learned from the Mixed Yuan Sect to establish a firearms team with martial artists as the core and assisted by ordinary people, with a total strength of three hundred people, led by Wang Jiuxuan and dozens of young disciples.

In addition, the Fuwei Dart Bureau and the Huashan faction also sent warriors or musket teams to assist in the defense, but the total strength was only about 200 people.

In this way, there are only about 860 professional soldiers who can be used in the three-element view, which is too thin.

The one hundred and three townships around Sanyuanli have sent a large number of villagers to gather in Sanyuanli, with a total strength of more than 30,000 troops, and theoretically they will serve Xuanzheng as the main leader, but neither Xuanzheng nor Li Xian have any illusions about the combat effectiveness of these villagers who have not received any military training.

In the Sanyuan Blessed Land, 30,000 corpse soldiers did nothing in the face of a fully armed army of 1,000, and these villagers were afraid that they were not even as good as corpse soldiers before they were trained, and they could only be used to strengthen their strength.

Therefore, in this battle, Li Xian's positioning on his side is very clear.

"The purpose of our battle is not to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the British army, nor to pursue much success, but to defend Sanyuanli, so that the British army knows our determination to defend our homeland, and dare not do whatever it wants.

Therefore, while achieving appropriate results, we must be careful not to let ordinary villagers suffer too many losses, and not let untrained peasants and professional soldiers work hard for the sake of temporary pleasure. At the military meeting, Li Xian said to the officers and warriors present.

Xuan Zheng and Wang Jiuxuan nodded thoughtfully from Qiao Daqing, Ling Huzhan, Lin Pingzhi, Zuo Shaoqing, Yang Tianming, etc., and they all recognized Li Xian's words.

Unfortunately, things always move much faster than people expect, and Li Xian will soon find himself out of control of the entire battle situation, and the scope of the war will inevitably expand.

At present, the main force of the British Army on the outskirts of Guangzhou is stationed at the Sifang Fort in the north of the city of Guangzhou, and with the help of military facilities here, it suppresses the possible backlash of the Qing army.

According to Li Xian's plan, the Sanyuanguan coalition army must at least destroy this stronghold of the British army, so as to really hurt the British army, and dare not peep into the place north of Guangzhou again.

However, with less than 900 soldiers, leading more than 30,000 peasants to attack a relatively well-equipped fort guarded by 1,500 professional soldiers, even if it can succeed, it will cause huge casualties, so this battle must use deception.