Chapter 298: Entering the Game
After entering the position originally guarded by the Chinese army, the British army seized a lot of guns, grenades, flags, documents and other trophies, and more importantly, dozens of wooden boxes.
It seems that part of the silver that this Chinese army snatched from the Sifang Fort is here.
The British army was greatly demoralized, crossed the trench position, and continued to pursue the Chinese army, shouting and shouting all the way, very majestic, until they encountered the third trench position that the Chinese army had already constructed.
"That's what the hell meows. "There were countless soldiers who went crazy on the spot, I have never seen such shameless, they lost all the losses, they just didn't surrender, they had to rely on those trenches to support themselves.
From the Sifang Fort all the way to here, digging trenches for more than ten days, is it easy for everyone?
The two gentlemen of Yilu hurried over, their faces so gloomy that they could drip water.
"If I want to catch the commander of this Chinese army, I have to tie it up and entertain it, is it addicted to punching holes. Commander Yilu said angrily.
It's just that, at this point, the anger of the British army has also come up, shouting to continue to defeat the Chinese army and punish these damn guys, it seems that six million taels of silver is not so important.
Commander-in-Chief Yilu sent people to inquire about the terrain here, and found that as long as he crossed the position in front of him, he was not far away from the so-called general base of the Chinese army, a monastery called Sanyuanguan, and according to the information secretly inquired by the officials in Guangzhou, there was no fourth position here.
Moreover, the Chinese army in front of them is not a government army, but rather an anti-government army, and there is nowhere else to go except in the Sanyuanli area.
After weighing the situation, the British decided to continue to break through this third trench position and punish these Chinese well.
However, many people's brains were so hot that they didn't even notice that their soldiers were already very tired, and after these days of pursuit, the British army had lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and they had to be stationed in the four forts and the second trench position, and only 3,500 people could be used to attack the third trench position, and the superiority in strength was not particularly obvious.
However, the vast majority of people did not realize that the resistance of the Chinese army was gradually weakening, and even if they thought of it, they did not think it was a big deal, which also laid a great curse for the British army.
The first line of Chinese positions was broken through in seven days, the second line was broken through in five days, and the third line failed to hold out even for three days.
Under the heroic attack of the British army, the Chinese army began to crumble, and the original large number of peasant troops also fled in all directions, and the British soldiers also seized a large amount of food and supplies in the position, and of course, dozens of boxes of silver, worth more than 100,000 taels.
Leaving only a small number of troops to hold the third line, Commander Yilu pursued the Chinese army with less than 3,000 British soldiers.
The Sanyuan Temple is really not far from this third position, only a dozen miles, and there are no decent defense facilities in the middle, and it seems that the Chinese have retreated all the way and have no time to build it.
Li Xian led the masters to personally break the queen, and threw down a large number of wooden boxes, guns, artillery and flags containing silver along the way, creating a situation of defeat like a mountain.
When you retreat to the Sanyuan Temple, there are thousands of wooden boxes scattered on the ground behind the mountain gate in the open space in front of the Taoist Temple, and some of the lids are opened, revealing a large number of silver ingots inside, some of which are scattered out, and the silver ingots are rolling down everywhere.
Li Xian retreated to the gate of Sanyuanguan, and Yilu had already brought people to chase after him, and the chase was still very tight.
Li Xian relied on these wooden boxes containing silver to deal with Yilu's pursuers, but when there were more and more troops on Yilu's side, he couldn't resist after all, so he could only lead his troops to flee back to the mountain gate.
Before entering the Taoist temple, many of Li Xian's soldiers stopped, grabbed two silver ingots from the ground, and put them in their arms before escaping into the Taoist temple.
Seeing this scene, the British soldiers who chased after them cursed loudly, feeling that the other party was moving their own cheese.
Sometimes it is terrible for people's minds to heat up, and the originally calm commander of Yilu also has red eyes at this time, shouting loudly, let the heroic British soldiers chase after him and kill all the Chinese.
In fact, when the battle was fought to this extent, there was no need for the commander to agitate, and the soldiers fanatically shouted and chased into the Taoist temple.
When I arrived at the Taoist temple, I found that in the courtyard, corridor, and room of the Taoist temple, there were boxes of silver scattered everywhere, which were extremely bright in the sun.
Most of the soldiers still remembered the battle mission and followed the commander to chase them down, but many of them who were not in good discipline stopped and loaded these silver ingots with any strips of cloth and curtains they could find, and carried them on their backs or carrying, not even bothering to participate in the battle.
Xuan Zheng and Wang Jiuxuan and other masters looked at the battle situation condescendingly on the high ground in the distance of the Taoist temple, and they all nodded secretly, obviously there were millions of taels of silver scattered on the ground, but most of them followed the British commander to pursue the past, and less than 20% of the people who stopped to hide the silver privately, the military discipline of the British army was really strict.
If you replace the Qing army with corrupt discipline, in this case, you can be considered elite if you can follow the officers to chase after you.
Commander Yilu chased in, and his adjutant arrived with hundreds of people, but he frowned a little after knowing that His Excellency the commander had personally entered the Taoist temple, and felt that it was undignified.
However, the adjutant did not feel that the Chinese army had any possibility of turning the tables, but only gathered troops near the mountain gate, guarded the silver, and had room to punish those soldiers who hid the silver.
Looking at these, Xuan Zheng and the others nodded again, and their evaluation of the British army was much higher, there are still real people.
"What should we do, do it now?" Wang Jiuxuan was next to Xuan Zheng at this time and couldn't help but ask.
"Let's wait a minute, according to the prior agreement, there will be a signal from Li Xian's side, and it will not be too late to do it then. Xuan Zheng thought for a moment and said.
Wang Jiuxuan was also a very calm person, but he was just too excited just now, so he nodded and stopped urging.
In the Taoist temple, Li Xian led the people to fight and retreat, crossed a large number of Taoist temple buildings, came to a relatively open and huge open space, and then crossed this open space and entered the trench array dug in advance.
It turned out that the fourth trench array of the Sanyuan Guan Guardian Township Army actually still existed, but it was not between the Taoist Temple and the third position, but on the mountain in the backyard of the Taoist Temple, so that the people in the official government could not find out clearly.
As soon as Li Xian stood up in the trench out of breath, Qiao Daqing, Lin Pingzhi, Yang Tianming and the other three came over with an excited face.
"I didn't expect this Englishman to really enter the game, shall we do it?" Yang Tianming asked excitedly.
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