The consequence of such a stupid approach was that the number of Qing troops in Guangzhou City was only seven or eight thousand, and even the Qing troops in the vicinity of Guangzhou Prefecture were very small, and Foshan was naturally very empty.

Wang Jiuxuan has been studying military affairs under Li Xian for a while, and his own martial arts ability is also outstanding, after arriving near Foshan, he led the soldiers to make an all-out assault, almost effortlessly captured all the thousands of camps in Foshan, and then occupied the entire Foshan.

When he occupied Foshan and counted the seized materials, Wang Jiuxuan opened his mouth and couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

Among these materials, the most scarce should be gunpowder and the various raw materials needed to produce gunpowder.

Wang Jiuxuan counted it, and this time he seized 50,000 or 60,000 catties of sulfur and hundreds of thousands of catties of saltpeter, which can produce at least hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder, and they are all new European gunpowder.

In addition, there are more than 300,000 catties of ready-made gunpowder, but only about 100,000 catties of them are new-style gunpowder similar to British gunpowder, and the others are inferior old-style gunpowder, which requires very cumbersome processing to make new gunpowder.

Many people think that the gunpowder of the Qing Kingdom must be inferior and not as good as the gunpowder of the British Kingdom, but they do not know that in the history of the Li Xian world, the Qing State actively learned the production methods of British gunpowder during the Opium War, and also made great progress, so that the quality of gunpowder of the Qing Kingdom has been greatly improved, which is not worse than that of British gunpowder.

In fact, the production of new gunpowder was not very difficult, although the Qing State did not fully master the new gunpowder production technology, but by screening and using more refined raw materials, and investing more manpower in processing, it was possible to produce new gunpowder.

According to historical records, Guangzhou alone produced 200,000 catties of new gunpowder, and Guangdong and coastal cities naturally had more.

However, according to the fine tradition of the Qing court, these powerful new gunpowders were not directly distributed to the front-line officers and soldiers, so as not to breed some bad ideas after those people got the excessive gunpowder, and stored them in the warehouse, hoping to use them when there was something.

In short, throughout the Opium War, the Qing army fought with shoddy old gunpowder in most cases, while there were a large number of new gunpowder in the warehouse, which is also laughable.

In addition to these gunpowders, Wang Jiuxuan also seized a large amount of pig iron and wrought iron, and hundreds of artillery pieces that had been produced, but they didn't have time to be equipped in the army, and they were just moldy in the warehouse.

In addition, Lin Zexu purchased a large number of European commercial artillery back then, as well as thousands of European flintlock muskets, which were not equipped in the army for various reasons, but were just placed in warehouses waiting for great use, and they all fell into the hands of Wang Jiuxuan at this time.

Foshan was originally an important place for the trade of vegetables and grains into Guangzhou, and it can be said that the prices of vegetables and grains in Guangzhou were determined by Foshan.

What's more, at this time, the Pearl River waterway was controlled by the British army, and the materials entering Guangzhou could only be transported through Foshan, so the materials here were much more abundant than usual, and the warehouses in the town were piled up like a hill of grain, cloth, vegetables, grain and oil.

It's a pity that according to Li Xian's decision in advance, in order to win the hearts of the people, Wang Jiuxuan can only confiscate the official materials belonging to the government this time, and the private property belonging to the businessmen cannot be touched.

However, the value of various daily necessities confiscated in this way also exceeded 500,000 taels, and most of them were materials in short supply, which was of great significance to the Sanyuanli coalition army.

In short, in this attack on Foshan, Wang Jiuxuan's troops harvested extremely rich military supplies and daily necessities, which greatly relieved the financial pressure of the coalition forces.

To tell the truth, the gunpowder used by the coalition forces was all European gunpowder purchased by Li Xian before the war and gunpowder captured from Macao, the quantity was originally extremely large, but after the consumption of the blessed land in Sanyuanli, as well as the previous battle with the British army in Sanyuanli, it was used to support three or four small-scale battles at most.

From this point of view, it can be understood that Qin Rigang promised Yue Bufan to replace Wang Jiuxuan with Qiao Daqing, but he was just talking, and he had no sincerity at all.

The goods and materials involved in this battle are so huge, and it is profoundly related to the continuous combat ability of the Sanyuanli coalition army and the victory or defeat of the entire battle situation, whether Li Xian or Xuan Zheng, they will not rest assured that outsiders will be responsible for such a huge task of oil and water, or if they really do, they will pin the life and death of their entire army on others.

"The outcome of our war with the British and the Imperial Court has actually been decided. Wang Jiuxuan rubbed the material seizure slip handed over below, and could not hide his excitement.

In addition to these materials, it is the craftsmen of Foshan who are more meaningful in the long run.

Foshan has been an important iron base since the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a very important military factory, with a large number of excellent blacksmiths and gunpowder production workers, which is of great significance to improving the munitions production capacity of the Sanyuanli coalition army.

Li Xian had recruited a large number of workers from Foshan to Donghai Island earlier, and Wang Jiuxuan had also instructed him to firmly control these skilled workers before he arrived in Foshan.

After the inventory of the materials was completed, Wang Jiuxuan commanded the team to dig trenches and build fortifications, and at the same time loaded a large number of materials onto inland river boats and transported them to the Sanyuanli area by water.

Wang Jiuxuan was in full swing in Foshan, and when he heard the news of the fall of Foshan in the city of Guangzhou, all the executives from Qishan to Yiliang were mourned.

"This Li Xian is really too deceitful, she has occupied my Foshan, I want to catch her, I have to kill him Ling Chi. Governor Yiliang said through gritted teeth.

"Hurry up and write a memo to the imperial court, and let the imperial court send troops to support us. Qi Shan said with a sad face.

"Everyone, it's all right to write a song to ask for reinforcements, but it's just not urgent. The top priority at the moment is to send troops to Foshan and retake Foshan. Hunan Governor Yang Fang proposed.

Yang Fang is very interesting, as the governor of Hunan, he was originally happy in Hunan, but after the Sino-British war began, he was sent to Guangzhou to support.

As a result, after the general arrived in Guangzhou, he thought that the warships of the British army were using demon methods, and then put the dung buckets upstream of the river to break the demon methods, but unfortunately this orthodox method of breaking the law that was praised many times in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms turned out to be invalid, which made the admiral puzzled.

However, at this time, many feudal officials were in a mess, but Admiral Yang Fang was a rare one to stay sober and was the first to propose to recapture Foshan.

"Of course, it's good to take Foshan back, but how to take it back?" the officials present looked at Yang Fang like idiots.

Everyone present understood in their hearts that the Qing army could not defeat one out of ten when it met the British army, and the British army seemed to be a fiasco when it met the Sanyuanguan coalition army, so the result was obvious, and the Qing army would inevitably be a fiasco when it met the Sanyuanguan coalition army.

After Li Xian went to the city of Guangzhou to present the military flag and beat the British army on the spot, there was a consensus in Guangzhou, that is, the Sanyuanguan coalition army was several times more ferocious than the British army.

Moreover, the previous results seem to support this statement, whether it is Li Xian leading people to fight a water battle with the British army, or fighting in Sanyuanli, it seems that the British have suffered a big loss, while the warrior coalition has hardly suffered any losses.