However, when the artillerymen were harnessing the horses of the gun carriage, several of the horses of the gun crew were hit, and the remaining horse-drawn cannons were struggling. The gunners, seeing that the troops had withdrawn and no longer cared about their artillery, rode on their horses and pursued their brigade.

The remaining Han cavalry would not wait to be beaten in place, and the cavalry controlled the horses, sometimes to the left and sometimes to the right, so that Li Yan's artillery could not be aimed at them.

After Li Yan saw the withdrawal of the Qing army, he immediately sent his cavalry. The cavalry rounded from the west and approached the cavalry of the Qing army.

Although the cavalry of the Han army had more men and horses than Li Yan's cavalry, they did not plan to have a hedge with Li Yan's cavalry. They had already received some news from the Manchurian Eight Banners, since the invincible Manchurian cavalry in the world was unwilling to easily hedge with Li Yan's cavalry, how could they, as the defeated generals, dare to take risks? So they also slowly retreated to the east, just to delay Li Yan's pursuit.

Bai Shixiong saw that these Qing cavalry began to retreat, so he immediately led his subordinates to force up. When they approached more than 30 paces, they found that these Qing troops did not send out a few feathered arrows, but accelerated to escape.

Now they have the bottom of their psychology and know that these Qing troops may be Han troops. So Bai Shixiong took the lead and led his subordinates to chase after the enemy at great speed. They soon began firing muskets to knock the Han cavalry that had fallen behind.

And the Han cavalry in front finally knew how powerful Li Yan's cavalry was, and it turned out that they were shooting with firearms. However, they soon discovered that the firearms of Li Yan's cavalry were not three-eyed guns, which were not only easy to fire, but also very accurate, and many of their companions had already been knocked off their horses.

Now they panicked. Originally, it was a slow retreat, but now in order to widen the distance between it and Li Yan's cavalry, it had to speed up and became a quick escape. They quickly caught up with a part of the artillerymen who had fled on their horses, and then the only three artillery crews. However, they did not stop and continued to flee quickly, and after a while they caught up with the retreating infantry.

They couldn't stop now, so they had to bypass the infantry and continue to speed away. And these infantry were also in a panic and ran in a panic.

Bai Shixiong and the others naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and led the cavalry to rush directly towards those infantry. Steel whips and long knives were wielded, killing and wounding some of the Qing infantry. After they rushed out, they did not stop and continued to catch up with the cavalry of the Qing army. These scattered enemy infantry were left to the infantry brothers behind to deal with.

Kong Youde and the others saw that the cavalry that had been broken was catching up, and knew that his artillery and infantry were going to run out. Those gunners and musketeers are all trump cards in his hands, if he doesn't have this force, can he still be trusted and reused by the imperial court?

So he immediately ordered: "Stop retreating!" Lined up. ”

"Bow to the king." Su Bai immediately said: "The cavalry has been defeated, it is difficult to stop it, let's go first, so as not to bring us into chaos." ”

Kong Youde scolded with a straight face: "This is the king who is in charge!" You just have to do what you are told! ”

Su Bai was very angry, but he didn't disobey immediately, but first took a look at the strength of the chasing Li Yan cavalry. After all, Kong Youde is the king of the county, and if he disobeys, he will at least be demoted and fined silver when he goes back, so he still looks at the specific situation before making a decision.

Standing on horseback, he crossed the fleeing Han cavalry, and saw that the chasing Li Yan cavalry was only about 2,000 people. They also have 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners here, and if you add those Han cavalry who fled back, they still have an advantage.

When he sat down in the saddle again, he arched his hand and said, "The last general will take the order." However, please inform the Han cavalry and ask them to line up in the rear. ”

Kong Youde immediately asked dozens of his own soldiers to run towards his cavalry, and they stopped thirty paces in front of them and shouted loudly: "The prince has an order, go to the rear of the cavalry array and line up!" If you don't obey, sin and your family! ”

The cavalry of the Han army rumbled past the shouting soldiers, and they didn't know if they heard it. After that, they rumbled around the array set up by the Eight Banners cavalry again, and finally slowly stopped.

Bai Shixiong and the others saw that a Qing cavalry had already set up an array in front of them, so they did not dare to rush up directly, but drew a semicircle with the team, stopped at a distance of two hundred steps from the Qing cavalry, and confronted the Qing cavalry.

They stopped and let their horses rest. At the same time, they also cover each other and take turns to load the handcuffs and prepare for the next battle.

And the cavalry of the Qing army was also in place, and did not dare to attack easily. They knew that Li Yan's cavalry was powerful, and with the same number, they did not have any advantage.

But Kong Youde was a little anxious, his infantry and artillery were behind, and it was easy to be caught up by Li Yan's infantry. If Li Yan's infantry chased after them, they would still have to run, but his musketeers and most of the artillery were gone.

"Prepare to attack!" Kong Youde pulled out his waist knife and shouted loudly.

Su Bai didn't move, and the Eight Banners cavalry also sat firmly on their horses, without any response.

Kong Youde roared angrily: "Prepare to attack!" Didn't you hear the king's order?! ”

Su Bai replied lightly: "Lord Wang, the enemy's cavalry is strong, and we are probably not opponents." Now that the enemy has stopped, I think we should hurry up and leave. ”

"This king commands, while the enemy cavalry is not ready, attack immediately and crush it! Bring the infantry back! Kong Youde roared: "If you don't defeat the enemy's cavalry, they will catch up again soon!" ”

Su Bai was unmoved, and replied calmly: "The enemy army is ready now. There was a large army of Prince Yu in front, and if the enemy cavalry dared to pursue, it would be easy to destroy them. This is not far from the enemy's infantry, and it is the best way to fight here. ”

They are pulling on their side, Bai Shixiong and the others have already loaded the guns with ammunition. They waited silently. They didn't care much about the enemy infantry behind them, and they knew that soon their infantry would catch up and give them peace of mind.

Sure enough, a moment later, they heard the sound of artillery fire coming from behind.

Li Yan led the infantry to pursue quickly, he had already received a scout report, and the main force of the Qing army had retreated to the north, so he could no longer strictly let the infantry line up and advance.

The troops were in a hundred-man unit and pursued quickly. In the event of a sudden situation, it will not take much time to form a phalanx. And he also believed that his cavalry would not let the Qing army easily attack.

When he caught up with the Qing infantry, he found that the musketeers were gathered together to stop his advance.

For such a behavior of using the mantis arm as a car, Li Yan naturally would not let his musketeers compete with the Qing army in a queue to be shot. He directly asked the troops to stop a little, wait for the artillery to come, and directly fire the cannon at two hundred paces and fire shotguns.

Without the cover of artillery and cavalry, Kong Youde's musketeers would not have been able to exert their might at all. When the hordes of projectiles hit them, the firecrackers who had no casualties immediately dispersed. Where can they withstand the blow of the iron projectile?

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