This battle was won so easily, it surprised everyone, including Cao Yue.

Originally, Cao Yue thought that the big war between the two sides would last for a long time, and Li Yan would also use his military advantage to attack in various ways. To this end, he made a lot of arrangements, and the array was more complicated than the last time he fought Jiannu, and he also set up ambushes on the left and right sides of the main array, equipped with artillery and a large number of "mines", ready to hit them hard when the rogues tried to sneak attack the main array from both sides, including them.

Of course, Cao Yue did not want to kill and injure a large number of rogues, after all, these are Chinese, they are Han, and the civil war is a matter of pain for relatives and happiness for enemies.

But if the rogues really fight to the death, then he can only kill the killer. You can't have the kindness of a woman in a war, and if you are too soft-hearted in a war of life and death, then it is your own side that will lose.

Fortunately, Li Yan did not fight with all his strength, and after suffering losses, he immediately withdrew his troops and withdrew his troops, and Cao Yue, who did not intend to kill the killer, also gave up, and sent Li Yan a letter he had written in advance, giving Li Yan three options for Li Yan to decide for himself.

Cao Yue thought that he had done his best in doing so, and if Li Yan still didn't appreciate it, then he could only be polite. Although the peasant rebels were also Han and Chinese, if Li Yan still stayed under Datong City and wanted to attack Datong City, then he had no second choice.

Cao Yue felt that he was already very kind to him in doing this, but he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.

In this battle, Cao Yue did not let the two hundred mercenaries led by Constance fight, and he was unwilling to use foreign forces in the war between compatriots. Using the gun in the hands of foreign devils to shoot and kill Chinese, Cao Yue still has a psychological burden.

After Li Yan's men and horses retreated, Cao Yue also ordered his men and horses to retreat, but did not retreat to Datong City, but relied on Datong City to defend it, and all the men and horses camped outside the city and built fortifications.

At night, Cao Yue did not order the members of the special training team to attack the camp, but in order to prevent Li Yan's troops from attacking the camp, he still took full precautions.

Fortunately, the night was spent in peace, and nothing happened.

Near dawn, Cao Yue received a report from Tanma that Li Yanbu had set up camp and headed southwest.

After Cao Yue heard this, he did not relax his vigilance, but strictly ordered his subordinates to remain on the highest alert, and ordered all members of the special training team, as well as other detectives, to closely monitor Li Yanbu's movements.

Soon, Cao Yue determined that Li Yan's troops were evacuating Datong and retreating to Henan.

It was determined that Li Yan's troops planned to evacuate Datong, and Cao Yue did not order his subordinates to pursue, so Li Yan's nearly 80,000 horses left.

This move made the generals under him quite puzzled.

Cao Yue also explained this: "Our Datong army has just been established, and the general doesn't want most of them to be lost in the battle with the Liukou, and the general recruits them because he wants them to kill Jiannu, so after the Liukou thinks that they are invincible and retreats, the general will let them leave, and it is not difficult for them." If the two armies fight desperately to determine the winner, you say, how much will be left in the end of my Datong army? ”

After hearing this, the generals suddenly understood that Cao Yue was trying to preserve his strength, so he was unwilling to fight to the death with the rogue. After thinking about it carefully, they also understood Cao Yue's thoughts. In fact, they don't want their men and horses to suffer heavy losses, even if they can win after the loss. At present, these sergeants in the Datong Army are all people of good quality, they have just been trained into the army, and their combat strength has not been fully brought into play, and only after more rigorous training and some actual combat can the overall strength of the Datong Army be further improved.

Of course, many people think that Cao Yue's move is to be like the generals Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing, to be a warlord on one side, to establish his own sphere of influence, not to offend all forces, and to get along with each other without making enemies, so he disobeys the orders of the imperial court, and is unwilling to tear his face with the rogue and fight to the death.

Don't really say it, many people's ideas are not wrong, Cao Yue does have the idea of establishing his own sphere of influence and becoming a person that no one wants to offend, which is also an important reason why he is unwilling to fight to the death with Li Yan's army, after all, he still wants to win Li Yan over.

Killing a thousand enemies and losing 800 self-inflicted losses is something that everyone understands, and Cao Yue is naturally happy to accept it if he can end the war in a peaceful way.

After confirming that Li Yan's troops had evacuated Datong, Cao Yue ordered all the troops to return to their respective camps, and he himself led the main force to withdraw to Datong City.

Liu Zongmin's men and horses were still on the way to Datong, but Cao Yue was already sure that after receiving Li Yan's message, Liu Zongmin's men and horses would not continue to go north, even if they did not retreat to Henan, they would stop the pace of advance. As for where Liu Zongmin's department will go next, Cao Yue is not very concerned. The most important thing for him now is to use the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver extorted from Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king, as well as grain, to reward his soldiers well, and continue to recruit and expand troops in the name of suffering losses in this battle.

People's minds will change with the change of circumstances, when Cao Yue first arrived in Datong, he was full of thoughts to defeat Jiannu, eliminate the Liukou, pacify the world, and return the people of the world to peace, but now he no longer thinks so. The Ming Dynasty has rotted to the bones, and it is completely unrealistic to rely on Emperor Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty ministers in the Ming Hall to change the general trend of the world and restore the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Yue felt that maybe only when he, a traverser, dominated the world, could everything be realized. After mastering more than 50,000 men and horses, this idea became stronger and stronger, and he laughed at himself that this was evil born from the side of his guts. When he was in a mood, he was out of control, and Cao Yue was already inevitably working hard for it. Next, he must strive to strengthen his own power at the same time, unite all the forces that can be united, and strive to finally dominate the general trend of the world.

Li Chen and the Red Lady are the forces that Cao Yue wants to fight for the most.

After leading the army back to the city triumphantly, Cao Yue and his soldiers were warmly welcomed by the officials and people of Datong headed by Wei Daben and Zhang An. The menacing rogues were beaten away, the Ming official army won a great victory, and Datong City avoided the devastation of the war, who would be unhappy?

Even Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king who was slaughtered by Cao Yue, also personally went to the city gate to greet Cao Yue, and praised him with all his praise, not only forgetting the wealth that was extorted by Cao Yue, but also very "generously" took out another 3,000 taels of silver to reward the generals who had made great achievements.

Before Cao Yue led the army back to the city, he had strictly ordered his generals to make the victory of this battle very hard-won.

Anyway, the battlefield was still under the control of the army, and the common people did not have a chance to see the real situation during the war, and they did not have a chance to go there after the war. Most of the generals are doing what they bragging about their military exploits, and there is nothing out of the ordinary for him to do so.

As a result, a brilliant victory was sent to Beijing under the ensemble of Wei Daben, Zhang An, Cao Yue and Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king.