Listening to the sound of the horn in the distance, and then looking at the thieves who retreated like a tide, Cao Yingmao couldn't believe his eyes.

Are these thieves crazy? Don't they know that retreating at this time is tantamount to exposing their backs to the enemy, which is simply the way to die, but anyone with a little military common sense would not dare to do so.

A Qian general manager also muttered on the side: "Is this crazy? At this time, he dared to withdraw from the army? ”

It was Cao Yingmao who sobered up the fastest, slapped the Qian general manager on the back, and scolded: "Your fucking housekeeper is not crazy, don't hurry up and catch up, if you let go of the thief, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up!" ”

"Whoa!"

Mr. Qian also came back to his senses, pulled out the long knife on his waist and shouted: "Brothers, don't let go of the thieves, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

In the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, countless cavalry of the Jiangning Army brandished their long knives and killed the retreating cavalry of the old battalion......

In Li Zicheng's view, his idea is naturally not wrong, the old battalion is the foundation of his foothold, especially this cavalry is his lifeline, as long as the cavalry is in hand, even if the army is exhausted, he still has the capital to make a comeback, so this retreat order is necessary and correct.

But he forgot one thing, the art of war is cloudy, the defeat is like a mountain, and it is too difficult for an army to retreat without being defeated when it is pursued by the enemy when it retreats, and it can be said that in the thousands of years of history of China, the army that can do this can be counted in a slap.

But all the troops with this ability all have a firm belief and the quality of being ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of faith, but it is a pity that it is no less difficult for Li Zicheng and his army to have this quality than to let the sun rise in the west.

This old battalion cavalry, which Li Zicheng had high hopes for, was certainly able to attack desperately without fear of death when attacking, but when retreating, it exposed their weakness, survival is human instinct, and no one wants to die, so once they heard the order to retreat, the whole team was completely chaotic, and everyone was rushing to be the first to run desperately.

There is a saying in later generations that I don't need to run faster than the enemy when I escape, as long as I am faster than my teammates, when thousands of cavalry rush to escape along an official road that is not too wide, that scene is simply like herding sheep, everything is chaotic.

Seeing such a scene, Cao Yingspear would not let go of this opportunity, and immediately commanded the army to cover the past, when the two sides opened up the distance, the advantage of Jiangning's firearms was brought into play again, and the cavalry had time to reload the Brown Beth firearms, and then raised their guns to aim, calmly and calmly knocked down those thieves one by one like a wild duck.

Gunshots, gunfires, and explosions rang out everywhere on the not too spacious official road, and thieves who were constantly galloping on their horses were hit by lead bullets and fell off their horses, and then trampled into meat sauce by the horses galloping behind.

"My old battalion is the elite!"

Mixed in the cavalry and also fleeing for his life Li Zicheng saw this scene like a knife, the cavalry that he regarded as his life was so easily eliminated by the Jiang Ning army like a duck, which made him extremely angry in addition to grief, this is the foundation and reliance on his survival, he was actually eliminated in this aggrieved way, which made him really unacceptable, but let him order to turn his head and fight with Jiang Ningjun He didn't have the courage to do it, even if he was a god descending to earth at this time, he couldn't save the defeat.

Li Zicheng, who couldn't stand it, spit out a mouthful of blood in a fit of anger, and the guards next to him were startled when they saw this.

"King Chuang...... King Chuang......"

"Quick...... Protect the King. ”

After a brief period of confusion, two guards leaned over, one grabbed Li Zicheng's reins, and the other stretched out his hand to support him.

This battle has been fought so far, the rogues have been completely disrupted, and the official road more than 20 miles long is full of rogues running for their lives, and the thousands of cavalry led by Cao Yingmao are galloping like entering a no-man's land.

Everywhere, there are rogues who kneel on the official road and raise their hands to surrender, and some rogues who run fast or are unwilling to surrender have fled into the wilderness next to the official road to escape. However, most of these rogues who fled into the wilderness eventually became food for the mouths of wild beasts, starved to death or died of disease, and only a few escaped alive.

You know, this era is not like the later generations, there are people everywhere. In this era, it is really a wilderness, the environment is unimaginable to modern people, in the wilderness there are wild beasts, poisonous snakes and poisons everywhere, coupled with backward medical conditions, a cold and fever can take people's lives.

This massacre-like pursuit lasted until the evening, and when the panting Li Yan and his foot soldiers arrived, he saw a prisoner squatting on the ground with his head in his hands, and a cavalryman cleaning up the battlefield.

Seeing Li Yan's arrival, Cao Yingmao hurriedly greeted him, and happily reported to Li Yan: "My lord, tens of thousands of thieves have been defeated by us, except for a few thieves who escaped, the rest of the thieves were either killed or surrendered, and our army won a great victory in this battle." ”

"What about Li Zicheng?" Li Yan didn't show the expected joy, but asked directly.

"Li Zicheng fled." Cao Yingmao said with some annoyance, "This kid has no other skills, his ability to escape is indeed first-class, after the thieves were defeated, he fled under the escort of hundreds of thieves." ”

"I fled, and I took a thousand thieves with me." Li Yan's face became very ugly, and he ordered without thinking.

"General Cao, now that the battlefield is cleaned up by us, you immediately lead all the cavalry to the baggage camp behind to replenish food and medicine, and then break it into pieces, scatter along the official road and even the wilderness to search, you must find Li Zicheng, you must see people in life and corpses in death, you must not let him escape!"

"This ......"

Cao Yingmao couldn't help but hesitate a little,

His cavalry battalion had just experienced a big battle, and both the horses and the men were already very tired, and if he forcibly pursued the enemy at this time, he was worried that there would be non-combat attrition.

Li Yan naturally saw the hesitation in Cao Yingmao's eyes, and his face became more and more serious, "General Cao, it's not that the official is unkind, the official also knows that the brothers are very tired after the war, but before leaving, the grandfather of the country told the official that our main target in this battle is Li Zicheng."

If Li Zicheng doesn't die, even if we eliminate more rogues, it will be useless. Li Zicheng still knows a lot about this person, this person's tenacity is rare in the world, if he is allowed to escape, it won't be long before this person will make a comeback and cause trouble to the world, so no matter what the price is, this person must be eliminated, do you understand? ”

"Xia Guan understands!"