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With the firing of muskets, the rogue cavalry led by Li Qing, who was the first to rush over, fell.

The originally orderly rush camp immediately became chaotic, the knight who was shot fell from his horse, and the horse ran and jumped uncontrollably after being frightened and frightened, and the untouched cavalry behind also rushed to kill.

At this time, the sound of a second round of musket fire rang out, and a large number of knights on horseback were shot down.

In the third, fourth, and fifth rounds, in a short period of time, the officers and men of the first battalion continued to shoot five rounds of musket bullets, and more than half of the 2,500 cavalry led by Li Qing were shot off their horses, and they were either killed or wounded.

The formation of 1,000 musketeers was large enough, larger than the fan-shaped surface of the 2,500 cavalry charged, and the cavalry led by Li Qing fell completely within the range of the muskets of the soldiers of the first battalion when they had just begun to increase their speed and before they could rush into the range of the muskets of the soldiers of the first battalion.

Li Qing was also wounded, his shoulder was hit by gunpowder fired from a musket, and a heel fight was planted, and he was almost trampled on by the war horses of the guards around him.

Fortunately, he moved quickly, and after several consecutive turns, he finally stood up with the pain, and under the protection of the guards, he got back on the horse.

At this time, the other teams of charging cavalry were also already accelerating, but their fate Cao Yue was similar to that of Li Qing's department, and they were soon beaten by the muskets fired by the officers and soldiers, and they could not rush into the range of bows and arrows at all.

And the muskets of the officers and soldiers continued to shoot as if they would never stop.

Of course, this scene made Li Yan extremely shocked, and he also instantly understood the reason why Cao Yue was so arranged, and he also knew how Cao Yue defeated the elite Jiannu cavalry, and he didn't hesitate at the moment, and immediately ordered to stop the attack and retreat to the formation on all fronts.

As the order to retreat was given, the cavalry, which had already been in disarray, retreated even more chaotically. Li Yan also immediately ordered the infantry to go up to cover the retreat of the cavalry, preparing to fight to the death when the officers and soldiers pursued and killed. Li Yan believes that Cao Yue will definitely not give up this opportunity, and will take advantage of the opportunity to chase and kill when his men and horses are in chaos. Today, the rebels were able to hold their positions and reduce some casualties.

But to Li Yan's surprise, the officers and troops who had an absolute advantage did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, but slowly retreated like other troops.

The officers and troops retreated to the defensive line they had originally built in a very orderly manner, without any confusion.

Li Yan also observed this situation, which made him more and more surprised.

He fully understood that the army led by Cao Yue had very strict military discipline, and it was completely orderly in advance and retreat, and orders and prohibitions were carried out. At this point, the men and horses under his command are also incomparable, Cao Yue trained 50,000 new troops to be like this in just half a year, which has to be admired.

What surprised Li Yan the most was of course the power of the musket, he had not been exposed to the musket, he had also encountered it in the musket battalion of the official army, like most people, he also scoffed at this kind of "burning stick" that basically did not pose a threat, but he did not expect that today he suffered heavy losses under the shooting of this weapon that he had never paid attention to, at least more than 2,000 horsemen and horses, while the officers and soldiers had zero casualties.

The two sides just took a look at each other, and the battle situation was so disproportionate, Li Yan was very surprised in addition to heartache. He knew that if he couldn't figure out how to crack Cao Yue's tactics, no matter how many men and horses he had, he would be defeated, or even annihilated.

There is one thing Li Yanting is puzzled about, why didn't Cao Yue send people to take the opportunity to chase and kill? If the cavalry of the official army commanded by Cao Yue took advantage of the situation to chase and kill when his former soldiers and horses were in chaos just now, maybe his formation would fall into chaos, and even if he could finally organize a counterattack and repel the officers and troops, the losses would be extremely heavy. Cao Yue doesn't want his people to suffer big losses, and wants to preserve his strength? Or let him go?

Just when Li Yan was puzzled, he rushed out from in front of the official army, shouted at the formation of the rebels for a while, ran to a place where there was still some distance from the range of the bow and arrow, shot an arrow tied to something, and then ran back into the formation.

Seeing this, Li Yan immediately ordered the sergeant to step forward and pick up the arrow.

At this time, the originally chaotic formation of the front army had basically returned to order, and several capable generals under Li Yan had already led the army to prepare for defense. However, the officers and soldiers only retreated to the front of the formation, looking like they were strictly defending, and did not intend to attack again.

"Is Cao Yue just trying to give me a dismount?" Li Yanting was puzzled.

Soon, the arrow tied with the letter was delivered to Li Yan's hand.

Li Yan immediately opened the letter and read it.

He read the letter very seriously, but in the end he didn't say anything, just crumpled the letter, and finally tore it up and threw it on the ground.

Cao Yue said in the letter that he still respected Li Yan's personality and did not want to fight in the same room, so he gave Jiannu an opportunity to take advantage of. He hoped that all Han Chinese would unite to defend against foreign enemies. If Li Yan wants to, he will still cooperate with him.

Cao Yue also threatened Li Yan in the letter, he told Li Yan that the combat effectiveness of the official army was seen by everyone today, and it was really easy to defeat Li Yan's 80,000 horses, but he didn't like to do this kind of thing that hurts relatives and enemies are happy, and the Han people and Han people should not fight to the death for the interests of the unseemly, and finally gave Jiannu a chance. Jiannu is the biggest enemy of the Han people in the whole world, they will bring destruction to the Han people and the Ming Dynasty, he hopes that Li Yan can judge the situation and know how to return.

Cao Yue gave Li Yan three choices in the letter, one was to lead his troops to surrender to the imperial court, and he was willing to recommend Li Yan, at least to make Li Yan a chief military officer; Second, Li Yan withdrew his troops and returned to Henan, he would not lead the army to pursue, and there would be no more fighting between the two sides; The third is that the two armies continue to fight until he destroys Li Yan.

Of course, the full self-confidence in Cao Yue's letter made Li Yan very uncomfortable and felt very cowardly, but he also knew that Cao Yue's intimidation was not empty words, but a real threat. Judging from today's battle situation, the official army is fully capable of destroying the rebel army in a short period of time, as long as the rebel army does not change its tactics, it will not be able to think of a way to crack Cao Yue's formation.

After Li Yan calmed down, he also understood why Cao Yue did not take the opportunity to attack after gaining a huge advantage today, but chose to retreat. The goal is to cooperate with him, at least the two sides will not have a large-scale conflict.

To be honest, Li Yan is now a little afraid of clashing with Cao Yuebu, and the battle situation in the past few days, especially today, has shocked him too much. He let him surrender to the imperial court he couldn't do it anyway, with the current situation and Cao Yue's men and horses head-on, the final annihilation must be his righteous army, if both sides can take a step back, go their own way, and preserve their strength, of course it is the best.

Li Yan also knew that Cao Yue valued these horses in his charge very much, and he was reluctant to lose them, otherwise he would not have done so.

But after suffering a defeat, he retreated, not only did he lose face, but he also had no way to explain to the leaders of the righteous army.

How to respond to Cao Yue's "kindness," Li Yan had a little headache!