In fact, a long time ago, although they were both military attachés in Gansu, Yang Siren did not recognize Ding Guodong and Milayin.
In other words, they have actually met, but for the young General Commander Yang Siren, he did not leave any special impression on the guerrilla general Ding Guodong and Suzhou Commander Mi Layin.
Yang Siren's military experience is very short. Although his surname is Yang and he is from a military general family in Liangzhou, he is not from the same family as Yang Jiamo. Their family does not have any relatives at the governor level. Almost every eldest son who inherits his father's position will be transferred. He went to Nanjing to serve as a mid-level officer.
Yang Siren was a small landowner who stayed in Liangzhou to look after the land. He studied and practiced martial arts, looked after the servants and tenants, and lived a pampered and comfortable life. This kind of life lasted until the third year of Chongzhen.
That year, Yang Jiamo, a general from the same clan, led the army of King Qin, and was subsequently transferred by the imperial court to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion. During the successive campaigns, the soldiers did not undress their armor and horses, and their saddles were not removed. The number of troops was reduced during the campaign, and close relatives were injured or killed one after another.
Under such circumstances, Yang Siren put on his armor and mounted his horse, led his clan's Rural Party members to join Yang Jiamo's army and served as General Secretary. It has only been more than three years since then.
In the past, he had no chance to interact with Ding Guodong and Mila Yin, until the news of Yang Jiamo's death reached Liangzhou and Zhuanglang.
Along with the news of Yang Jiamo's death, Liu Chengzong's generous reward for the Suzhou camp after the war came. Only then did the names of Ding Guodong and Mi Layin really come into Yang Siren's eyes.
His hero is my enemy.
From then on, the soldiers of the Gansu General Military Base Camp knew who they should seek revenge from.
But no one expected that their revenge would turn out like this.
The reinforcements were attacked from two sides and were in a dilemma. The defeated troops were even more confused. Many of them were among the Mila Indian Army and were surrounded by the marshal's army. Many of them drew their swords when the friendly troops pulled off their tassels and flags. In the blink of an eye, they were captured. engulf.
However, the quick-thinking people and the truly confused people made exactly the same choice at this time. They both took off their tassels and flags as ordered, and rushed towards the reinforcements while being bundled up.
Being in a military formation, one has very little room for personal choice.
Yang Siren had just understood the situation he was in, and before he had time to analyze the reasons for this situation in his mind, the thirty lion cannons in front of the military formation had all opened fire, blasting a kilogram of iron bullets into the formation.
Not to be outdone, the officers of the various teams of the General Military Base Battalion competed with each other to fire out dense scatterers according to Yongzhu, Milu and Tiger Crouching. Stone pellets and iron pellets spewed out from the muzzle, and for a time, the smoke of gunpowder in front of the two armies' formations Diffuse, heavy barrages penetrated the smoke, both direct and indirect, and the front of the formation was in full swing.
But the biggest crisis for the reinforcements came from the rear.
The Ming army had no artillery in the rear, not even a few shotguns. Mila Yin's more than 1,500 men gathered into fifteen columns to launch an assault. Although the assault did not look so beautiful, his soldiers rushed forward. While running away, in the end, a sharp dagger was still pierced deeply into the formation.
Multiple horizontal teams were embedded in the reinforcement formation at the same time. In an instant, not only the command of the central Qian General and the left and right generals were separated, but also the command of each hundred general horizontal teams was disrupted, and the entire army was paralyzed.
Ding Guodong, who was on the front, also seized this opportunity. The prepared horizontal column surrounded them with a wide width. The Ming army, which lost its command and fought independently, retreated.
In essence, it should have collapsed, but it did not collapse completely, because the mountain valley, including the forest area, was less than three miles wide. Nearly 7,000 people were blocked in the length of several miles, and there was nowhere to evacuate. There is nowhere to run.
There is no shortage of bloody brave people in the world. Seeing that there is no hope of retreat, many Ming soldiers chose to fight for life or death with their spears. Some even dropped their spears and drew their swords, shouting, calling on the soldiers to charge into the forest and fight their way through the forest.
However, after experiencing the initial life-and-death struggle, the scattered Ming army was attacked from both sides to the point where they didn't even recognize it. Many people were forced to calm down and fled among themselves.
The army that stabilizes the military formation is a group of wolves, tigers and leopards. When the stragglers who have lost their formation are fighting on their own, using different survival strategies, they emerge one after another, which inevitably adds humor to the bloody battlefield.
For example, when survival is paramount, some soldiers belonging to both sides of the battlefield appear... some bastards.
They hid in the dense forest, armed with bows and arrows, muskets and even waist knives. If there were many people wearing helmets and tassels around them, they would put tassels on their heads; if there were many people wearing bald helmets and guns around them, they would take off the tassels.
People fought for life and death in all farmlands, mountains, dense forests, river banks and any place outside the temple where they could fight. Every moment, soldiers were attacked by cold guns and arrows, and there were also soldiers who fled behind them or in any direction.
The melee lasted for most of an hour, until the early autumn sunshine was a little dazzling. Soldiers wearing helmets and tassels were no longer seen on the farmland. The intermittent gunshots in the dense forest gradually stopped. Liu Chengzong on the top of the mountain did not give an order to withdraw his troops. He just Let Ding Guodong regroup and continue to advance south.
As the Ming army rushing to aid Xianglin Temple was defeated by Mi Layin in strange ways, Liu Chengzong's army quickly crossed Xianglin Temple and advanced along Gulang Gorge towards Huangyangchuan and Heisongyi.
In the afternoon of that day, Bai Guangen led his army to Huangyangchuan.
Ten miles to the north of Black Pine Forest Inn is the fork where the Gurang River and Huangyang River meet. The Gurang River flows from the northwest and the Huangyang River flows to the east. The width of the river valley where they meet is less than two miles.
During the battle at Xianglin Temple, Ding Shaoyin and Bai Guangen decided to defend this fork after on-site inspection.
The sound of artillery was roaring on the other side of the mountain. For the two of them, such a fork at the corner of the mountain could limit the Marshal's army's Hongyi artillery to the greatest extent.
They built two camps on the mountain. Ding Shaoyin camped on the top of Yingpan in Hexi, and Bai Guangen camped on the other side of the mountain in Hedong. There was a place called Yingpantan in the south of Huangyang River.
With the help of the river valley terrain, the two camps are at each other's horns, which is the easiest way to set up camp to maintain a stalemate in the battle.
Ding Shaoyin now changed his mind due to the situation. He believed that the scheming Liu Chengzong had deceived him on the battlefield. The army deployed on the official road was the main force, and the marshal's army appearing in the surrounding mountains and valleys were the suspects.
Therefore, he only had one idea in his mind: to block Liu Chengzong in Gulang for as long as possible. It would be best if he could persist until Cao Wenzhao disrupted Gansu's grain roads. If not, there was nothing he could do, at least it would have to drag on for a few days.
Xianglin Temple is not far from Heisongyi. Liu Chengzong's outpost Tangqi quickly moved along the official road to the fork of the Lianghe River, where he fought with the Tang soldiers of the Ming army until the main force of the marshal's army arrived, and the Tang soldiers of the two armies Then they all retreated.
When he arrived at the fork, Ding Guodong just took a cursory glance at the terrain here and sent someone to report the news to Liu Chengzong.
The price to pay for fighting in a place like this is too high.
Liu Chengzong was also observing the terrain of the fork. The difficulty of attacking was not that it was easy to defend but difficult to attack by setting up camp on the mountain, but that the Gurang River diverted to the Huangyang River. Although it was quiet on the other side of the Huangyang River, even if he thought about it with his toes, it would still be difficult. Knows there will be an ambush.
The problem is that if you attack Yingpanling, you will be flanked by the ambush troops of Huangyangchuan; if you attack Huangyangchuan, you will also be flanked by the troops of Yingpanling; if you divide your troops and attack both sides at the same time... The river valley cannot keep away his troops, but the enemy in a favorable position can But the army was able to get away.
Ding Shaoyin on the mountain did not sit still and wait for death. As soon as he saw the marshal's army deployed by the Gulang River, he sent soldiers down the mountain to scold the formation. The filthy words from Liangzhou veteran Youzi scolded Liu Shizi, who was a poor man in northern Shaanxi, to nothing.
The scolding formation was particularly effective, not because Liu Chengzong didn't care if he was being scolded, but because none of the generals under Liu Chengzong could stand their coach being scolded like this.
The people on the mountain were scolding vigorously, but Han Shiyou beside Liu Chengzong couldn't stand it anymore. He cupped his fists and asked for a fight: "Commander, let me take the archers to shoot them all to death."
"What are you afraid of? They are just talking."
To be honest, if I could have shot him, I would have shot all these bastards who scolded him to death. Times have changed. With cannons these days, even sharpshooters like them can only shoot at seventy paces at most. Have a certain degree of accuracy.
If the enemy only needs to ambush two small cannons at this distance, the masters of arrow shooting in the past may have to risk their lives in front of the formation.
On the other hand, if they fire, it's okay to hit, but if they miss, it will hurt morale and make people laugh.
"Shiyou, think about it."
Liu Chengzong laughed, raised his whip on the hillside and pointed in the direction of Yingpan Ridge, saying: "We are also stationed here. What we are waiting for is Zhang Tianlin's side attack and Wei Qian'er's encirclement. They are blocking us here. What are they waiting for?"
Han Shiyou thought for a moment and asked uncertainly: "The commander-in-chief means that they are also waiting for friendly forces to encircle them?"
Liu Chengzong changed his serious expression at this time and shook his head slowly: "I can't say clearly. We have found one or two thousand enemy troops on the four roads around us, but I always feel in my heart that this may not be the enemy's reliance. The officers and soldiers should have their backs." Hands, otherwise you wouldn’t dare to scold me here.”
Han Shiyou said: "Hong Chengchou?"
Liu Chengzong also agreed with this idea. If calculated based on foot distance, Hong Chengchou would mobilize the army when he arrived in Ningxia, and the Ningxia army should have been almost here by now.
But he felt in his heart that Hong Chengchou would not be stupid enough to mobilize troops at this time. If he really wanted to assemble the armies from all three sides to fight him in Gansu, he should have already assembled the troops when he broke Jiayuguan.
To mobilize troops at this time, the earlier defeat was meaningless, and it would also make Liangzhou City's strong walls and clear fields meaningless.
The purpose of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields is to make this winter difficult for him. Even if they have to gather five towns on three sides, the court should consider clearing out the peasant army and wait until spring to let go and fight with him.
After all, Gansu didn't have enough food for him to survive the winter, and when troops from Ningxia and even Yulin came over, they couldn't eat either.
Hong Chengchou was not stupid. The soldiers from Ningxia and Yulin had no new or old grudges against him. If they came to Gansu and had no food to eat, they were just recruiting soldiers for him.
Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong looked around his own military formation. The Gansu Second Battalion on the front line was scolded and was eager to fight, while the remaining two thousand general officers of the Huben Battalion looked furious.
These officers and soldiers had different emotions when they were scolded, which brought some inspiration to Liu Chengzong.
The officers of Huben Camp were angry because Liu Chengzong was the same person as themselves. They had been getting along day and night for several years and had deep feelings. To scold Liu Chengzong was equivalent to scolding themselves.
As for the Gansu Second Battalion soldiers' eagerness to try, there was not much anger, only excitement... They had no feelings for Liu Shizi at all, they only knew that Liu Chengzong was a generous boss.
The more severely and angrily the boss is scolded, the more rewards they will give to the boss for helping him kill the gang.
Then the reverse is also true for the Ming army.
Liu Chengzong said to Han Shiyou: "Pick some people to come down the mountain and scold me back."
Han Shiyou was confused after hearing this order. What about the child scolding? Are you scolded and scolded back?
Liu Chengzong saw his expression and knew that Han Shiyou could not understand this order, so he explained in detail: "The soldiers from Xianglin Temple said that the enemy generals stationed here are Lu Yunchang, Ding Shaoyin, Bai Guangen, Chai Shihua and Cao Wenzhao."
"I don't know who the enemy generals are on this camp ridge now. Go and scold these five people one by one." Liu Chengzong raised his whip and pointed at the mountain ridge again: "The soldier who reacts the most when being scolded is his soldier. .”
Han Shiyou understood now and nodded in agreement. He recruited various assassins from the army and quickly formed a scolding brigade of less than 200 people, rushing towards the foot of the mountain in a mighty manner.
For a while, obscene words such as 'I'm so proud of you' and 'You're so young' echoed in the river valley. The Gulang River felt ashamed and wanted to flow back, and the birds covered their ears and flew away.
Ding Shaoyin was also confused on the mountain.
He knew that his opponent was a scheming Hanhan, and the purpose of sending people to scold him was to make him get angry and attack the mountain madly, so as not to get stuck at the bottom of the mountain and get bored, so that he could use his intelligence to do other things.
Although there have indeed been cases in history of relying on prostitutes to curse the enemy generals to retreat, Ding Shaoyin was not so naive. He knew very well that Liu Chengzong was bound to win this war.
But he never expected that Liu Chengzong would not only keep his composure, but also send a group of people to scold him like a family.
Now the pressure was on his side... He would never dare to go down the mountain to confront the Marshal. Meeting such a scholar would be like shooting himself in the foot.
What embarrassed Ding Shaoyin the most was that the soldiers at the foot of the mountain scolded Cao Wenzhao, Chai Shihua, Lu Yunchang, and Bai Guangen in turn, and finally focused their fire on Ding Shaoyin's name. Originally, scolding was a common thing, and it didn't matter. Knowing what was going on, the scolding soldiers at the foot of the mountain began to only scold him.
Little did he know that Liu Chengzong took the fact that the soldiers at the foot of the mountain only scolded him very seriously.
Liu Shizi always thought that the enemy general guarding Yingpan Ridge was Cao Wenzhao... Yingpan Ridge bore the brunt of the terrain, and among the generals, Cao Wenzhao had the most experience and the most powerful combat power, and was the only one on Zhuanglang's defense line. A general who fought head-on with Liu Chengzong in his early years.
Due to emotions and reasons, as long as Cao Wenzhao is here, who else can be the general guarding Yingpanling except him?
Furthermore, the soldiers who cursed on the mountain all had Liangzhou accents, not Shanxi or even Liaodong accents. The answer in Liu Chengzong's mind was already clear - Cao Wenzhao was not here.
But if he's not here, where can he go?
Good evening!
(End of chapter)
