Although Li Yan's thousands of cavalry were slower than Zhu Cihong's reaction, they rushed over after Zhu Cihong returned to the safe area protected by the East Palace guards, but in a short time, they had already rushed to a place less than one hundred and fifty meters away from the East Palace guards.

"Everyone obeys the orders of General Ben, and all the arquebuses are lit."

"First column ready!"

The guards of the East Palace did not go through strict training, and they seemed a little hurried, Zhu Cihong looked extremely nervous in his heart, at this moment, it can be said that the moment of his life and death has come, if the guards of the East Palace are not skilled, they cannot give full play to the power of the musket three-stage shot, and let Li Yan's cavalry rush to the front, then it will be dangerous.

With Zhang Kuishan's order, smoke rose from here, and the fire rope was ignited.

"Fire!"

The burning rope was pressed down by the hook, igniting the gunpowder in the barrel, and suddenly a deafening roar rang out, and the pungent smell of gunpowder made people want to suffocate, and the white smoke obscured half of the sky.

Five hundred muskets fired at the same time, and the power was also huge, hundreds of lead bullets shot out, and Li Yan's cavalry, who rushed to a distance of fifty meters, was knocked on his back, and the left leg of the general was also hit by a lead bullet, but he was not thrown off his horse by the huge impact.

"Rush!" Although he lost a hundred cavalry, the general knew the muskets and knew that it was impossible to fire a second shot, and that if he rushed in front of him, it would be a one-sided slaughter.

But something happened that made the general's eyes widen. I saw that after the first row of Ming troops on the Ming army finished firing, they retreated to the back without panic, and the second column of Ming troops came to the position of the original first column, and Yaoyao pointed at them with muskets in his hand.

"The first column retreats, the second column prepares ,----- to fire!"

"Bang Bang Bang !!"

"The second column retreats, and the third column is ready to ,----- fire!"

"Bang Bang Bang !!"

On both occasions, the general was not so lucky, because he was too close, he was hit in the chest by several buckshots, and he was dented by the great force, and he could not die again.

Nearly half of Li Yan's cavalry were killed or wounded, but they were too close, and the nearest one was only about thirty paces.

On Zhu Cihong's side, the three columns of muskets were all firing, and the muskets were loaded slowly, and the first column was only half filled. But Zhu Cihong prepared two muskets for each of them and placed them behind them.

After the third column finished firing, the original first column put the half-filled musket on the ground, picked up the second one that had been prepared, and rushed forward. The second column, the third column, repeat the action of the first column.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

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Eight times of fire, the effective lethality of the musket is more than 100 meters, and Li Yan's cavalry rushed so close, the nearest is only about 20 meters away, whether it is to turn around and run away or continue to rush over, under the continuous fire of the musket, it is a road to death.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, we won, and all the thieves will be ambushed!" Zhao Dequan shouted in surprise.

Li Yan's 1,000 cavalry were all wiped out, and in addition to the wailing of the undead cavalry, only a hundred intact war horses were neighing.

Zhang Kuishan couldn't believe all this, in his memory, the infantry often needed more than twice the strength to defeat the cavalry, and only defeated, not annihilated, and more than half of its own casualties. But this time it completely subverted his cognition, their 1,500 infantry guards actually annihilated Li Yan's 1,000 cavalry without injuring a single person, which was completely an asymmetrical massacre.

Zhang Kuishan and the guards looked at Zhu Cihong's eyes full of admiration. Originally, they were still worried about whether they could escort His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to Nanjing, but after this battle, they had completely strengthened their confidence, and Zhu Cihong, the prince, also rose to the height of 'God' in their eyes at the same time, and they firmly believed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the hope of the Ming Dynasty, and they would be able to be prosperous and prosperous in the future with His Royal Highness the Prince.

"General Zhang, don't be stunned, Li Zicheng's thieves are about to catch up, take the intact war horse and get out of here quickly." Zhu Cihong reminded.

Don't look at the brilliant results of this battle, but Zhu Cihong knew that the luck element was very high, if he hadn't made Li Yan down in advance, the general would not have desperately ordered the cavalry to rush over, and he didn't even have time to use bows and arrows, otherwise it would be impossible for the guards of the East Palace to be without casualties.

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince."

Zhang Kuishan was ordered to take a hundred East Palace guards to quickly count the battlefield and lead the intact war horses.

An East Palace guard passed by Li Yan and tried Li Yan's snort.

"General, the leader of the thieves is not alive yet." This East Palace guard reported to Zhang Kuishan.

"Oh?" Zhang Kuishan didn't dare to call the shots, so he went to report to Zhu Cihong.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, that thief leader Li Yan seems to be still alive, what should I do? Is it enough to kill? Zhang Kuishan asked.

Zhu Cihong frowned, thinking of Li Yan, it seems that he is the second adviser under Li Zicheng in history, and the famous female red lady is his wife.

"This Li Yan is a talent, take him with you, it will be useful in the future." Zhu Cihong thought about it and decided.

The reason why he brought Li Yan is because Li Yan is a real talent, in addition to not wanting to kill him, he also wants him to use it for himself one day, I remember the memory of his previous life, Li Zicheng was arrogant and arrogant after breaking through the city of Beijing, repeatedly disobeyed Li Yan's advice, and plundered the army, and later killed Li Yan at the instigation of traitorous ministers, which made Li Zicheng lose the hearts of the people and finally be defeated.

After getting a hundred war horses to ride, Zhu Cihong ordered the guards of the East Palace to take turns to ride, and the marching speed suddenly increased a lot.

Not long after Zhu Cihong and his entourage left, another general Liu Zongmin under Li Zicheng chased him to the place where the guards of the East Palace and Li Yan's cavalry were fighting.

"General, the 1,000 cavalry led by General Li Yan was completely annihilated, and General Li Yan and the 'big man' who was escorted by the Ming army were nowhere to be found." After his sergeants counted the battlefield, they reported to Liu Zongmin.

"It doesn't seem that there are any corpses of the Ming army, but none of the Ming soldiers were killed in battle, this --- seems to be irregular." Liu Zongmin was shocked, and he couldn't understand the reason.

Although there is a strong smell of gunpowder at the scene, it must be the musket of the Ming army, but the musket can only be fired at most in the face of the cavalry, no matter what, Liu Zongmin does not believe that the Ming army can really annihilate Li Yan's thousands of cavalry without killing a single person, which is not possible at all.

Liu Zongmin frowned, although he also had hundreds of cavalry to catch up quickly, but Li Yan had learned from the past, Li Yan's 1,000 cavalry were all wiped out, if he took hundreds of cavalry to catch up alone, he might end up with Li Yan if he didn't get it right.

For a moment, Liu Zongmin's eyes narrowed slightly, and his bloodthirsty accident was revealed, no matter what, he couldn't let go of the 'big man' on the carriage, what if it was really Emperor Chongzhen, let go of Emperor Chongzhen, then their goal of working hard to conquer Beijing to destroy the Ming Dynasty would fail.

"Hmph, no matter what the reason, there is no second way to meet me Liu Zongmin!" Immediately, Liu Zongmin led an army of 10,000 to chase forward non-stop.