In fact, a long time ago, Yang Siren did not recognize Ding Guodong and Mila Yin even though they were both military attachés in Gansu.
In other words, they have actually met, but for Yang Siren, the young commander-in-chief of the General Military Battalion, he did not leave any special impression on the guerrilla general Ding Guodong and the commander-in-chief Mi Layin of Suzhou.
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.
Go 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 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 to Shaanxi by the imperial court to suppress the rebellion. During the successive campaigns, the soldiers were unable to undress their armor and horses, and their saddles were not used. The number of soldiers was greatly 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 the Renxiang Party to join Yang Jiamo's army and served as the Chief Hundred Officer. It has only been more than three years since then.
In the past, he had no chance to interact with Ding Guodong and Mi Layin, until the news of Yang Jiamo's death reached Liangzhou and Zhuanglang.
Along with the news of Yang Jiamo's death, there was also Liu Chengzong's generous reward for the Suzhou camp after the war. 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 Battalion already 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.
Swallowed.
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 each battalion of the General Military Base Battalion rushed to press the gushing beads to destroy the captives. The tiger crouched and fired dense scattering. Stone pellets and iron pellets spewed out from the muzzle. For a time, the two armies were in smoke.
Diffuse, heavy barrages penetrated the smoke, both direct and indirect, making the battle in front of the formation full of excitement.
But the biggest crisis for reinforcements comes 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 central Qian General was separated, but also the command of the generals on the left and right. Even 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, and the prepared horizontal column surrounded him 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, and 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 cut a bloody path. 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, they use different survival strategies to emerge one after another, which inevitably adds humor to the bloody battlefield.
For example, when survival becomes more important, some soldiers belonging to both sides of the battlefield appear... some bastards.
They hid in dense forests, armed with bows and arrows, muskets and even sabers. If there were many people with helmets and tassels around them, they would put tassels on their heads; if there were many people with bald helmets and spears around them, they would take off the tassels.<
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People are fighting for life and death in all farmlands, mountains, dense forests, riverbanks and any place outside the temple where they can fight. Every moment, soldiers are attacked by cold guns and arrows, and there are also soldiers who flee behind them or in any direction. p>
The melee lasted for more than half 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 wide.
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 in the south of Huangyangchuan called Yingpantan.
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.<
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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 hold on 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 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,
I knew there would 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 who occupies a favorable position can't.
But the army can be put aside.
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 his troops down the mountain to scold the formation. The filthy words from the old soldier Youzi from Liangzhou scolded Liu Shizi, who was a poor man in northern Shaanxi, to nothing. The scolding formation is particularly effective, not because Liu Chengzong does not care if he is being scolded, but because none of the generals under Liu Chengzong can stand their coach being scolded like this.
The mountain was 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 are really different. There are cannons these days. Even sharpshooters like them can only shoot at seventy paces at most.
Be sure to be accurate.
If the enemy only needs to ambush two small cannons at this distance, the masters of arrow shooting in the past may lose 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.
"World friend, think about it."
Liu Chengzong laughed loudly, 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?"<
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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 for sure. 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 support. 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 here soon.
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.
If you mobilize troops at this time, the earlier defeat will be meaningless, and it will 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 the three sides and five towns are to be gathered, what the court should consider now is to eliminate 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 get enough food either.
Hong Chengchou is not stupid. The soldiers in Ningxia and Yulin have neither new nor old grudges with him. If they come to Gansu and cannot eat food, it is equivalent to 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.
However, the Gansu Second Battalion soldiers were eager to try, but there was not much anger, only excitement... They had no relationship with Liu Shizi at all, they only knew that Liu Chengzong was a generous boss.
The more severely the boss is scolded and the angrier they are, the more rewards they will give to the boss to help him kill these people.
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 children scolding? If you get scolded, do you scold him 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.
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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 time, obscene words such as 'I'm so proud of you' and 'You're a bitch' 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 fool, and the purpose of sending people to scold him was to make him 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 determined to win this war.
But he never expected that not only would Liu Chengzong be able to keep his composure, he would actually send a group of people to scold him like he was playing house.
Now the pressure is 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 occurrence, 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 he 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 besides him?
Reconnecting with the fact that the soldiers swearing on the mountain all have Liangzhou accents, not Shanxi or even Liaodong accents, Liu Chengzong's answer is already clear - Cao Wenzhao is not here.