Li Zicheng only hesitated for a while, but still gave the order to retreat, and when the bell on behalf of Mingjin rang on the battlefield, the rogues who were still resisting suddenly scattered like deflated balls.

"The thieves are defeated......"

"Brothers, kill!"

Seeing the defeat of the thieves, Cao Yingmao led the cavalry to unceremoniously cover up the past, and there were constantly thieves who couldn't run away on the battlefield kneeling and begging for mercy, and Gou Xingma and Yan Di also led the sergeants to disarm those who surrendered, and sent people to watch them together.

"The thieves are defeated?"

On the tower of the city gate, looking at the rogues running around like headless flies below and the cavalry chasing after him like hunting, Pan Ruzhen's mouth opened wide, and he couldn't believe that the thieves who had forced him to sleep at night these days were actually defeated like this.

"We've won...... The thieves have been defeated! ”

Pan Ruzhen was a little confused, but the others didn't care so much, those officers and soldiers who survived these days of fighting, young and strong, and the guards and private soldiers of the major merchants [Yanyu Hongchen] who were forcibly recruited by Pan Ruzhen all shouted, and for a while the city wall was full of cheers.

"That's not right."

However, not everyone was carried away by this victory, Ma Sidi, who was the garrison of Hangzhou, looked at the scene outside the city, and there was a thoughtful look in his eyes.

On the city wall, at some point, Li Yan came to Yang Feng's side, and said with some emotion: "I didn't expect that the sixty or seventy thousand army would be defeated and retreated like this." ”

Yang Feng looked like he took it for granted, turned his head to Li Yan and said, "There is nothing unexpected about this, thieves are thieves, and it is almost impossible to expect them to have the determination to fight to the end." I'm convinced of that, and you know why? ”

Li Yan was slightly stunned, bowed down and said, "I don't understand the humble position, please ask Grandpa Guo for advice." ”

Yang Feng paused and organized his language before saying, "You must know that Li Zicheng and them are all from thieves, and what is the biggest characteristic of thieves?" ”

Without waiting for Li Yan to answer, Yang Feng continued: "It's Liuchuan!" The Liukou led by Li Zicheng usually believed in the rule of fighting if they could beat and running if they couldn't fight, which was also the magic weapon they relied on to survive. ”

"What's wrong with that?" Li Yan asked puzzledly: "The rogues are too weak, and they can only run away when they encounter a large number of officers and soldiers encircled and suppressed, otherwise they will not be sent to death in vain?" ”

"That's true." Yang Feng patiently explained: "But you have to know that you can do this when you are weak in the early stage, but it is not appropriate to do this when the team has developed to a certain level.

Let's ask, how can an army that always wants to fight and flee if it can't be expected to become an iron-blooded army? This prince asks you, any army that can leave a name in history, such as the Qin army, the Han army, the Beifu army, the Baipao army, the Tang army, the Yuejia army, and so on, which army fled when it encountered a strong enemy? What army does not have the prestige of fighting with the enemy without retreating from the heart of death?

If they were all like thieves who bullied the weak and feared the hard, and ran away immediately when they encountered an enemy who could not be defeated, would they still have the prestige they have now? ”

"This ......"

Li Yan was stunned for a while, and his mind flashed like lightning when he was under Li Zicheng a few days ago. Since then, he has also been deeply convinced of Li Zicheng and others' concept of governing the army.

It's normal to fight, if you can fight, if you can't fight, you can't run, you can't know that you can't fight but still stupidly send to death, isn't this a lack of brains?

Now that he thinks about it, he realizes that the person who is missing the strings in his brain is not someone else, but him.

After a long time, he bowed deeply to Yang Feng, "Thank you Grandpa Guo for your advice, I have been taught." ”

Yang Feng smiled slightly and did not speak.

In modern time and space, he has looked through a lot of stories about the fortunes of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others, as well as various war examples, and found that the biggest characteristic of these rogues is that they are mobile and flexible, and they have won the essence of guerrilla warfare of great men in later generations.

In another historical time and space, Li Zicheng relied on this set of tactics, plus various dazzling operations such as deception and bribery of spies even if he couldn't escape, and finally gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to capture the city of Beijing, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to run under the crooked neck tree and hang himself.

But as the so-called success is also Xiao He defeats Xiao He, this set of tactics is naturally no problem to deal with the Ming Dynasty, which has long been rotten, but once it is against the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui coalition forces who were in full swing at that time, their true form will be revealed.

In the battle of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng brought almost all his belongings, more than 200,000 elites and Wu Sangui and Qing soldiers, a total of 80,000 coalition troops, launched a decisive battle, the two sides just fought for four days Li Zicheng could not hold on.

Seeing that his casualties were too large, Li Zicheng did not hesitate to use the stunt of oiling the soles of his feet that he had been famous for many years, and gave the order to retreat.

Good fellow, he doesn't care about this order. Originally, although the Dashun army fell into the downwind, but at least it could hold on, as soon as the Dashun army heard the order to retreat, they immediately let go of the sheep, one ran faster than the other, and when they returned to Beijing, there were less than 30,000 people left in the army of more than 200,000 people, and many years of hard work were over.

Because of this, in Yang Feng's view, although some people in later generations desperately praised Li Zicheng and put gold on his face, saying that he was a representative of the peasant rebel army oppressed by the corrupt Ming Dynasty rulers, although he was defeated in the end, he was worthy of being a brilliant leader of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, and so on.

But no matter how these people tout, Yang Feng always thought that Li Zicheng was a thief with a strong sense of small peasant consciousness and a short-sighted thief, who was even worse than Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

It was precisely because he did not have any good impression of Li Zicheng that Yang Feng could accept Li Yan's surrender, but he never had any idea of subduing Li Zicheng.

With a long sigh, Yang Feng turned his head to Li Yan and said, "Okay, Li Zicheng has run away, and the following matters will be handed over to Cao Yingmao, we still have something to do." Let's go, let's meet the governor! ”

At this time, the format on the battlefield also changed. After Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of troops broke and fled, the infantry led by Gou Xingma and Yan Di were still cleaning the battlefield and catching prisoners, only Cao Yingmao's cavalry followed behind the Liukou to chase after them, but the battlefield was too chaotic for a while, and no one noticed this for a while.

The commotion at the city gate finally calmed down, and just as Pan Ruzhen and a group of officials were discussing how to deal with the next matter, he saw a Bai general manager running over in a hurry and said urgently: "Lord Governor, it's not good." Jiang Ningjun is going to enter the city! ”