Li Yan led his troops to the direction of Nancheng, and then formed a phalanx and slowly approached Li Mu and them. If you love to play and watch, you can come to the net.

Zuo Liangyu could only watch, and there was no chance of a surprise attack at all. He was still waiting in place, waiting for Li Yan to reveal his flaws. He had no image of Li Yan before, and even if his son was injured, it was just an accidental attack. But now, he is impressed by Li Yan.

After Li Yan approached Li Mou's military formation, he sent someone to inform Li Mou, let Li Mou's military formation merge with Huang Desheng's military formation, cover Huang Desheng's things, and prepare to retreat together.

Zuo Liangyu watched as Li Yan's small military formation merged with the soldiers in the camp, making the phalanx even bigger. Then he began to divide a little manpower and clean up the camp with the baggage soldiers.

"Father, they're going to retreat." Zuo Mengeng appeared beside Zuo Liangyu again and reminded in a low voice.

Zuo Liangyu didn't speak.

Zuo Mengeng continued: "When they leave, let's follow, we can always find an opportunity." ”

"He came and went freely in the hundreds of thousands of troops of Li Chuang and Cao Cao, and our three thousand cavalry could take advantage?" Zuo Liangyu asked lightly.

Zuo Mengeng said angrily: "That can't let him go like this!" Otherwise, how can the prestige of the father remain?! ”

Of course, Zuo Liangyu knew this truth, but if his son hadn't caused this incident, his prestige would naturally not have to worry about any damage. But for his only son, he was reluctant to blame too much. So he kept silent and didn't say anything.

"Marshal, someone from the palace wants us to stop the war." One of Zuo Liangyu's personal soldiers came to report.

Zuo Liangyu waved his hand and ordered, "Don't pay attention to it." ”

Huang Desheng cleaned up quickly and cleanly. Not only did they put away all the things in the camp, but they also removed the two watchtowers in the camp.

Li Yan and the others soon began to retreat southward, and the two army formations were one after the other, slowly moving towards Chen Liu.

Zuo Liangyu followed behind with cavalry, and the infantry remained in the camp outside Kaifeng. However, Zuo Mengeng followed, he wanted to see Li Yan's demise with his own eyes.

Zuo Liangyu was also very depressed along the way, as long as he was ready to attack Li Yan's military formation, Li Yan's military formation would stop and give his cavalry a cannon fire head-on. He didn't want his cavalry to be consumed too much, and although he had an army of 300,000, cavalry was still scarce. So every time they are retreated as soon as they are hit, and there will be a dozen or dozens of casualties.

Several times, hundreds of cavalry were killed and wounded. He was finally giving up and didn't want to chase any more.

At this time, he was about to arrive at Chenliu County, but Li Yan didn't want to let Zuo Liangyu go like this. He asked Li Mou and Huang Desheng to lead their troops out to the left and right respectively, and the three of them surrounded Zuo Liangyu's cavalry in the middle. Wait for the evening to surround Zuo Liangyu's cavalry. Without a mobile cavalry, the lethality becomes insignificant.

Zuo Liangyu is an old soldier in the end, and he can see Li Yan's purpose at once. If it was before today, he would have been consumed with Li Yan, but now he didn't dare. If he was really surrounded by Li Yan, he wasn't sure if he could rush out.

"Let's go, go back!" Zuo Liangyu ordered.

"Father, wait a little longer, it's time for Chen Liu, they should let their guard down." Zuo Mengeng persuaded.

Zuo Liangyu scolded: "Shut up! Withdraw immediately, without delay! ”

Zuo Mengeng saw that his father was angry, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to follow the troops and quickly retreat to Kaifeng.

Li Mu saw that Zuo Liangyu had withdrawn with the cavalry, and said disdainfully: "Hmph! Back then, it was majestic, but now I know that I am afraid! Hahaha! ”

After Li Yan sent cavalry to monitor the sentinels, he asked the troops to return to the county seat of Chenliu and the camp in front. Some of the people from Chenliu County who ran away before also returned, and some displaced people from other counties came to Chenliu Town, totaling tens of thousands. If it weren't for Li Zicheng's frequent opening of warehouses to release grain and coerce the homeless, there would have been more homeless people.

After more than two years of operation, the village chiefs of Qixian County, and even the people in the villages, understood the rules of village operation, so as long as they helped a small number of soldiers, they could lead the displaced people to establish villages and distribute fields. The recruits were sent to the nearest recruit training camp in Qixian County to begin a three-month training.

After Zuo Liangyu returned to Kaifeng overnight, he also led his troops south the next day, preparing to return to Xinyang. He didn't dare to take Chen Liutongxu's way, because this place was too close to Li Yan, and he was afraid of any accidents. So he took the troops to Zhengzhou first, and then went south.

Yang Wenyue also crossed the Yellow River with his troops to quell the rebellion of the rebel generals in Hebei. In the blink of an eye, the defenders of Kaifeng City were left with only Chen Yongfu.

However, Chen Yongfu was not idle, and he also began to train. However, the focus of his training was on artillery, because the cost of training artillery was smaller, firstly, there was less artillery, and secondly, artillery ammunition was readily available. If you want to train the infantry, you can't do it without an additional increase in food and pay for the soldiers. Therefore, the originally ambitious training plan can only give way to cost, and only focus on training artillery, while the infantry is a little more intensified training.

Chen Yongfu had some gunpowder and iron filings wrapped in linen cloth rushed out, all of which were packed in accordance with the prescribed portions of the standard. They also thought of the method of piercing the gunpowder bag with an iron needle and then putting in the fuse, and the cannon was indeed fired much faster and safer than before.

With a "boom", his three-inch Franc cannon fired a bag of iron filings. When the white smoke cleared, they all looked at a row of planks a hundred and fifty paces away, but they didn't see any traces of iron filings.

Chen Yongfu frowned and said, "What's the matter?!" Li Yan's cannon can hit 200 steps, but our cannon can't even hit 150 steps?! ”

The gunners were silent, they just ignited and fired, and they didn't care about anything else.

"Try again!" Chen Yongfu yelled dissatisfiedly: "Let's see if you can hit it in a hundred steps?!" ”

The gunners continued to prepare, and the soldiers moved the planks closer, to a distance of a hundred paces from the guns.

Soon, the artillery was fired again, but the result was the same, there was not a trace on the planks at all.

Chen Yongfu ordered to the artillery captain: "You, give me a way!" Let the iron filings hit me a hundred steps! Give you a month, and if you can't reach a hundred steps after a month, you'll all go to repair the walls for me!" ”

The artillerymen watched Chen Yongfu leave with a snort, and they all had sad faces. They just know how to fire artillery, and where do they know how to make it go farther? But the general soldier gave the order, and they could only get together and figure out a way.

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