The scene when the rogue was defeated and retreated is a good illustration of what it is like to be defeated.

Thousands of people ran desperately towards the rear, they crowded and pushed, they cursed each other, and some even picked up weapons and slashed desperately at their companions, in order to grab a way out.

Faced with such a scene, even the most brilliant commander could only say that he was powerless.

Gao Yingxiang was defeated, Luo Rucai was defeated, and Ma Huihui was naturally no exception.

However, compared to Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, Ma Huihui's performance was much better, Ma Huihui divided his soldiers and horses into five parts, he took his henchmen to personally supervise the battle, so that these soldiers and horses took turns to resist, and finally his men and horses miraculously did not collapse, and most of them returned to Mengjin City safely, which can not but be said to be a miracle.

However, Ma Huihui's luck also ended here, when he arrived at the city of Mengjin, he encountered Yan Di's foot soldiers, and in the face of the continuous attacks of the trebuchet, Ma Huihui finally followed in the footsteps of Luo Rucai and Gao Yingxiang.

Under the city of Mengjin, Cao Yingmao commanded the cavalry to attack back and forth in turn, constantly dividing the soldiers and horses of the Liukou into disconnected pieces, and the foot soldiers commanded by Yan Di devoured these pieces like a black hole.

The battlefield was full of the wails and begs for mercy, many of the rogues who had no time to escape knelt on the ground, raised their hands high and begged for mercy, and some of the rogues lay on the ground and pretended to be dead, trying to get by.

In the face of the chaotic battlefield, Yan Di could only order the troops to slow down the attack, while accepting the prisoners, slowly advancing, and by the time he commanded the troops to advance to the Dream City, more than an hour had passed, and at this time Gao Yunxiang and the others had also withdrawn to Mengjin City, closing the city gate and acting as a turtle with a shrunken head.

Gao Yingxiang stood on the city wall, watching the Ming cavalry galloping outside the city, killing the righteous army to the ground, he closed his eyes in pain, Li Zhicheng's face behind him was also very ugly, Li Guo's eyes contained tears and asked, "Uncle, are we here watching the brothers being slaughtered by the Ming army?" ”

"And what can you do?" Li Zicheng lowered his voice, "It's not that you haven't seen the battle of Shicai, our people are not the opponents of the Jiangning Army at all, what about the nearly 100,000 army, under the impact, the whole army collapsed, and only thirty or forty thousand people came back, doesn't this explain the problem?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Zicheng looked around, saw that no one around noticed his uncle and nephew, and said, "Fortunately, we retreated early and didn't suffer any losses, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune, what else do you want?" ”

Li Guo thought about it for a while, and found that what his uncle said was indeed reasonable, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Li Zicheng pulled Li Guo to a quiet corner on the side and said in a low voice, "This defeat may not be all bad, maybe the day when our uncle and nephew will come to the top." ”

Li Guoyan's eyes lit up when he heard this, right, why didn't he think of it?

Among the Liukou, strength has always been respected, why Luo Rucai, Ma Huihui, He Jin and others were able to be arrogant in front of them before, wasn't it because of their strong strength?

A few days ago, although he and his uncle pulled up a team of people, they were nominally a leader, but they were still too far behind in strength compared to Luo Rucai and Ma Huihui, and when they held a meeting in the Juyi Hall, they didn't even look at themselves and their uncles, and when they made decisions, they didn't ask their uncles and nephews' opinions.

Why? Isn't it because his uncle and nephew have too few soldiers and horses? Although his own numbers have also pulled up a number of more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, in the eyes of He Jin, Luo Rucai, and Ma Huihui, his strength is not a matter at all, and he can be destroyed at will.

But now it's different, after this defeat, everyone's strength has dropped very seriously, just like He Jin, he will have more than 7,000 soldiers and horses, but now it would be good to have more than 2,000 people, Luo Rucai is about the same, the original more than 10,000 people and horses only ran back more than 5,000 people.

Gao Yingxiang and Ma Huihui are better, although there are also losses, but Gao Yingxiang's strength was originally the strongest, and now there are more than 10,000 horses left under his command, and Ma Huihui withdrew most of the soldiers and horses with his strength.

It's really ironic to say, Li Zicheng and Li Guo's uncle and nephew never dreamed that one day they would actually hope that their team would lose the battle, but this also proves that the phrase 'people don't kill for themselves' really points to the nature of people.

Although Gao Yingxiang and the others had fled into the city, the battle outside the city continued until the evening.

Yan Di commanded 5,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 cavalry, a total of 10,000 horses, and carefully swept away the rogues outside the city, and then set up camp two miles away from the city and began to count the results.

In this battle, Yan Di annihilated more than 8,600 rogues and captured more than 48,000 people, which can be described as a great victory, but Yan Di, as the main general, not only did not get excited, but had a sad face, for no other reason, their food and grass were not enough.

"Quartermaster, how long can our grain and grass last?"

"General, since we are marching in a hurry, we only carry five days' rations, and we have eaten part of them in the past few days, and the rest of the rations are enough for us to eat for two days. Originally, there was no problem with these rations to support the arrival of Grandpa Guo, but now that we have captured so many rogues, there is not enough food and grass. ”

Yan Di's brows furrowed, on the surface, they had captured nearly 50,000 rogues in this battle and achieved a brilliant victory. But most of the 50,000 rogues are old and weak, women and children, and young and middle-aged people account for less than half of them at best.

And the most terrible thing is that most of these captives are old people, women and children, but their food is no less than that of young and middle-aged people, and there is absolutely no problem in eating a pound of food per person after a meal.

With so many mouths, Yan Di and the others distributed all the rations to them, which was not enough for the captives to eat, so things would be troublesome.

If these captives were Tartars or red-haired devils outside the gate, Yan Di would not be so embarrassed, he would not starve to death if he ate a few meals, and if he took 10,000 steps back, it would not be a big deal even if he starved to death, anyway, he would not feel the slightest distress.

But now it's different, now they are fighting in the country, these captives are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and most of them are old and weak, women and children, if they are allowed to starve to death, don't say that his conscience can't pass, if the news reaches the imperial court, the saliva of those imperial historians can drown him.

The quartermaster's face was about to wrinkle, "General, Grandpa Guo will not arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, but the grain and grass we carry are too small, even if we save food, I'm afraid it will only be enough to eat one meal, what do you say?" ”