Li Zicheng hesitated for a while and issued an order to retreat. When the bell representing the sound of gold sounded on the battlefield, the bandits who were still resisting suddenly dispersed like a deflated ball.

"The bandits were defeated..."

"Brothers, kill me!"

Seeing the defeat of the bandits, Cao Yingqiao led the cavalry to cover up and kill them without hesitation. On the battlefield, there were bandits who could not escape and knelt down on the ground to beg for mercy. Gou Xingma and Yan Di also led the soldiers to disarm the surrendered bandits and sent people to take them into custody.

"The bandits are defeated now?"

On the city gate tower, looking at the bandits running around like headless flies below and the cavalry chasing behind them like hunting, Pan Ruzhen opened his mouth wide and couldn't believe that the bandits that forced him to sleep late these days were defeated.

"We won... the bandits were defeated!"

Pan Ruzhen was a little confused, but others didn't care so much. The officers and soldiers who survived these days of battle, the young and strong, and the guards of major merchants who were forcibly recruited by Pan Ruzhen, all shouted, and for a moment, cheering sounds were everywhere on the city walls.

"No."

However, not everyone was blinded by this victory. As the garrison in Hangzhou, Ma Sidi looked at the scene outside the city, and his eyes showed a thoughtful look.

On the city wall, at some point, Li Yan came to Yang Feng and sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that the army of 60,000 or 70,000 troops would retreat like this."

Yang Feng looked as if he was taken for granted and turned to Li Yan and said, "There is nothing unexpected. The bandits are bandits. It is almost impossible to expect them to have the determination to fight to the end. I firmly believe in this. Do you know why?"

Li Yan was slightly stunned and bowed and said, "I don't understand the humble position, please give me advice."

Yang Feng paused for a moment, organized the language before saying, "You have to know that Li Zicheng and others are all born into thieves, and what are the biggest characteristics of thieves?"

Without waiting for Li Yan to answer, Yang Feng continued: "It's a wandering roaming! The bandits led by Li Zi believe in the law of fighting if they can beat them and running if they can't beat them. They are also the magic weapon they rely on for survival."

"Is there anything wrong with this?" Li Yan asked puzzledly: "The bandits are too weak. When they encounter large-scale officers and soldiers, they can only run away. Otherwise, wouldn't they die in vain?"

"It's true that this is the truth." Yang Feng explained patiently: "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 develops to a certain level.

How can an army that can fight and escape if they cannot fight at any time? I ask you, which army can leave its name in history, such as the Qin army, the Han army, the Northern Mansion army, the White Robe army, the Tang army, the Yue family army, etc., escape when encountering a strong enemy? Which army does not have the reputation of dying and relying on bloody fighting with the enemy to kill and fight without retreating?

If they bully the weak and fear the strong like thieves, and run away immediately when they encounter enemies they cannot defeat, will they still have their current reputation?"

"this……"

Li Yan was stunned for a long time, and his mind flashed like lightning in his mind. He had been under Li Zicheng's command a few days ago. Since then, he has also deeply agreed with the military management philosophy of Li Zicheng and others.

As for war, if you can fight, you can fight, if you can’t fight, you can run away. It’s very normal. You can’t even know that you can’t fight, but you still stupidly die. Isn’t this a lack of brain string?

Looking back now, he realized that the person who had no brains was not someone else, but him.

It took me a long time to bow deeply to Yang Feng, "Thank you for your advice from Duke Guo, I have received my humble responsibilities."

Yang Feng smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

In modern time and space, he had read many examples of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others and various war examples, and found that the biggest feature of these bandits is their maneuverability and flexibility, which deeply grasped the essence of guerrilla warfare by great men in later generations.

In another historical time and space, Li Zicheng relied on this tactic, and even if he couldn't escape, he would surrender, and all kinds of dazzling operations such as bribing spies to kill the Ming Dynasty. Finally, he gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to capture Beijing, forcing Emperor Chongzhen to run under the crooked tree and hang up.

But as the saying goes, Xiao He defeated Xiao He. This tactic is naturally fine to deal with the long-decaying Ming Dynasty. But once it faced the Qing soldiers and Wu Sangui coalition forces, the true colors were revealed.

During the battle of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng brought almost all his belongings. More than 200,000 elite troops launched a decisive battle with Wu Sangui and the Qing army, a total of 80,000 coalition forces. The two sides had just fought for four days and Li Zicheng could no longer hold on.

Seeing that his side suffered too much casualties, Li Zicheng used his unique skill of using oil to apply oil to his feet that had been famous for many years and issued an order to retreat.

Good guy, this order doesn't matter. Although the Dashun Army was at a disadvantage, it could at least hold on. When the Dashun Army heard the order to retreat, they immediately released the sheep, one of them ran faster than the other. After returning to Beijing, there were only less than 30,000 troops left in more than 200,000 troops, and years of hard work were over.

Because of this, in Yang Feng's view, although some people in later generations tried hard to praise Li Zicheng, gilded on his face, saying that he was a representative of the peasant uprising army that could not bear the decadent Ming Dynasty rulers. Although he failed in the end, he was worthy of being a talented and strategic leader of the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, etc.

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

Because he had no favoritism for Li Zicheng, Yang Feng could accept Li Yan's surrender, but he had never had any idea to subdue Li Zicheng.

After whistling, Yang Feng turned his head to Li Yan and said, "Okay, Li Zicheng ran away. Let's leave the following matter to Cao Yingmao. We still have something to do. Let's go and meet that governor!"

At this time, the form on the battlefield also changed. After Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of troops fled, the infantry led by Gou Xingma and Yan Di were still cleaning the battlefield and catching prisoners. Only Cao Yingchi's cavalry followed the bandits and chased them. However, the battlefield was too chaotic and no one noticed this for a while.
Chapter completed!