stubborn thief

Chapter 511
In fact, a long time ago, Yang Siren didn't recognize Ding Guodong and Mi Layin even though he was a military officer in Gansu.

In other words, they have actually met, but for Yang Siren, the young commander-in-chief of the standard battalion, he didn't have any special impression of the guerrilla general Ding Guodong and Suzhou Qianzongmi.

Yang Siren's military experience is very short. Although his surname is Yang and he is also from the Liangzhou general family, he is not in the same branch as Yang Jiamo. They have no clan relatives at the level of governor, and almost every generation of the eldest son who inherits the father's position will be transferred. To Nanjing as a mid-level officer.

Yang Siren was a small landlord who stayed in Liangzhou to watch the land. He studied and practiced martial arts, took care of the servants and tenants, and lived a comfortable life. This kind of life lasted until the third year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Yang Jiamo, the general of the same clan, led the army of King Qin, and was later transferred to Shaanxi by the imperial court to suppress the rebellion. During the successive battles, people were puzzled by the armor and horses, and the number of soldiers was reduced during the battles.

Under such circumstances, Yang Siren put on his armor and mounted his horse, leading his clan's township party to join Yang Jiamo's army as the chief of staff. It has only been more than three years now.

In the past, he had no chance to interact with Ding Guodong and Mi Layin, until the news of Yang Jiamo's death spread to Liangzhou and Zhuanglang.

Along with the news of Yang Jiamo's death, Liu Chengzong's generous reward for the Suzhou camp after the war, the names of Ding Guodong and Mi Layin really caught Yang Siren's eyes.

His hero, my enemy.

Since then, the soldiers of the Standard Battalion of the Gansu General Army have known who they should seek revenge on.

It's just that no one expected that their revenge would turn out like this.

The reinforcements were flanked by two sides, and they were in a dilemma, while the defeated soldiers were even more confused. Many people were in the Mirain army, and they were surrounded by the marshal's army. engulf.

However, the quick-witted people and the really confused ones made exactly the same choices at this time. They both pulled out the helmet and tassel helmet flags according to the order, and rushed to the reinforcements while being wrapped.

Being in the military formation, there is very little room for personal choice.

Yang Siren had just understood the situation he was in, before he had time to analyze the reasons for this situation, the thirty lion cannons in front of the army formation had already fired in unison, blasting a catty of iron bullets into the formation.

Not to be outdone, the officers of the battalion of the General Army Standard Battalion were not to be outdone. The artillerymen of each team rushed to shoot dense shots according to the Yongzhu, Mielu, and Huzuo. Diffuse, heavy barrages pierced through the gunpowder smoke, both direct and curved, making the front of the battle in full swing.

But the greatest danger for the reinforcements came from the rear.

The Ming army had no artillery in the rear, not even a few shotguns. More than [-] people from Mi Layin assembled into [-] columns to launch an assault. Although this assault did not look so beautiful, his soldiers rushed While fleeing, in the end, a sharp dagger pierced deeply into the formation.

Multiple horizontal teams were inserted into the reinforcement formation at the same time, not only splitting the command of the middle thousand generals and the left and right generals in an instant, even the command of each hundred general horizontal teams was disrupted, and the entire army was paralyzed.

Ding Guodong, who was in the front, also seized this opportunity, and the prepared horizontal team surrounded them with a wide width, and the Ming troops who lost their command and fought on their own retreated.

In essence, it should have collapsed, but it didn't completely collapse, because the valley between mountains and forests is less than three miles wide, and nearly 7000 people were blocked in the length of several miles. nowhere to run.

There is no shortage of bloody warriors in the world. Seeing that there is no hope of retreat, many Ming soldiers choose to fight with their spears to fight to the death.

But after going through the initial life-to-death fight, the disorganized Ming army was pinched back and forth and hammered so that mom didn't recognize it. Many people were forced to calm down and fled from each other.

The army with a stable formation is a group of wolves, tigers and leopards. When the stragglers who have lost their formation fight on their own, they adopt different survival strategies to emerge one after another, which inevitably adds humor to the bloody battlefield.

For example, when survival was overwhelming, soldiers belonging to both sides of the battlefield showed some... some bastards.

They hid in dense forests, armed with bows, arrows, muskets, and even waist knives. When there were many people with helmets and fringes around them, they put the fringes on their heads;

People fought to the death in all farmlands, mountains, dense forests, river banks and any places where they could fight outside the temple. At every moment, some soldiers were attacked by cold guns and arrows, and some soldiers fled behind or in any direction.

The scuffle lasted for more than half an hour, until the early autumn sun was dazzling, no soldiers wearing helmets were seen on the farmland, and the intermittent gunfire in the dense forest gradually subsided. Let Ding Guodong regroup and continue to advance south.

As the Ming army rushing to aid Xianglin Temple was defeated by Mi Layin in a strange way, Liu Chengzong's army quickly crossed Xianglin Temple and advanced along Gulang Gorge to Huangyangchuan and Heisongyi.

In the afternoon of the same day, Bai Guangen led his troops into Huangyangchuan.

Ten miles north of Heisonglin Post Fort is the fork where the Gulang River and Huangyangchuan meet. The Gulang River flows from the northwest, and the Huangyangchuan flows east.

During the battle at Xianglin Temple, Ding Shaoyin and Bai Guangen decided to defend at this fork after field investigation.

The cannons on the other side of the mountain were booming. For the two of them, such a fork at the corner of the mountain could limit the Marshal's Red Barbarian Cannon to the greatest extent.

They built two camps on the mountain. Ding Shaoyin camped on the top of the camp in Hexi, and Bai Guangen camped on the other side of the mountain in the east of the river. There is a place called Yingpantan in the south of Huangyangchuan.

Taking advantage of the terrain of the river valley, the two battalions are the horns of each other, which is the easiest way to set up camp to stalemate the battle.

Now Ding Shaoyin changed his mind because of 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 army who appeared between the surrounding mountains and valleys was the suspect.

Therefore, he only had one idea in his mind, to block Liu Chengzong in Gulang for as long as he could, and it would be best if he could persist until Cao Wenzhao disrupted Gansu's grain road.

The distance between Xianglin Temple and Heisong Station is not far. Liu Chengzong's outpost Tangqi soon moved along the official road all the way to the fork of Lianghe, where he fought against the Tang soldiers of the Ming army until the main force of the marshal arrived. Only then retreated separately.

At the fork, Ding Guodong just glanced at the terrain here, and sent someone to report to Liu Chengzong.

To fight in such a place, the price to pay is too great.

Liu Chengzong is also observing the terrain of the fork. The difficulty of attacking is not that camping on the mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but that the Gulang River diverges to Huangyangchuan. Although Huangyangchuan is quiet, even if he thinks with his toes, he can Know there will be ambushes.

The problem is that if you attack Yingpanling, you will be flanked by Huangyangchuan's ambush soldiers; if you attack Huangyangchuan, you will also be flanked by Yingpanling's army; But the army can swing.

On the mountain, Ding Shaoyin didn't sit still. The first time he saw the Marshal's army spread out by the Gulang River, he sent troops down the mountain to scold them. The obscenities from Liangzhou veteran Youzi scolded Liu Shizi, a poor settler in northern Shaanxi, to nothing.

Scolding is especially effective, not because Liu Chengzong, who is being scolded, doesn't care, but because the generals under Liu Chengzong can't stand the coach being scolded like this.

The scolding on the mountain was full of energy, and Han Shiyou beside Liu Chengzong couldn't take it anymore, he clasped his fists and asked for a fight: "Commander, let me take the shooter to shoot them all to death."

"What are you afraid of? They are just using their tongues in vain."

To be honest, if he could shoot him, he would have gone on a horse and shot all the bastards who scolded him to death. The times are really different. With guns these days, even a sharpshooter like them can shoot at seventy paces Hold a certain level of accuracy.

As long as the enemy ambushes two small cannons from this distance, the good arrow shooters in the past may have to risk their lives in front of the battle.

On the other hand, if they fire, it's okay to hit, but if they miss, it will hurt morale and make people laugh at them.

"Shiyou, think about it."

Liu Chengzong laughed, raised his whip on the hillside and pointed in the direction of Yingpanling, saying: "We are also stationed here. What we are waiting for is Zhang Tianlin's side attack and Wei Qianer's encirclement. They are here to trap us. What are they waiting for?"

Han Shiyou thought for a while, and asked uncertainly: "The commander-in-chief means that they are also waiting for friendly troops to encircle them?"

At this time, Liu Chengzong changed his face and slowly shook his head: "I can't tell. We have already found that there are one or two thousand enemy troops on the four surrounding roads, but I always feel that this may not be the enemy's reliance. The officers and soldiers should have backup hand, otherwise they wouldn’t dare to scold me here.”

Han Shiyou said: "Hong Chengchou?"

Liu Chengzong also agreed with this idea. If it is based on the footsteps, Hong Chengchou will mobilize the army when he arrives in Ningxia. By now, the Ningxia army should have arrived soon.

But he felt in his heart that Hong Chengchou would not be so stupid as to send troops here at this time. If he really wanted to gather troops from three sides, he would have a big fight with him in Gansu. When he broke through Jiayuguan, he should have already gathered troops.

To deploy troops at this time, the earlier defeat is meaningless, and it will also make the solid walls and clear fields of Liangzhou City meaningless.

The purpose of strengthening the walls and clearing the wilderness is to make this winter difficult for him. Even if they want to gather three sides and five towns, what the court should consider at this time is to eliminate the peasant army, and wait until the spring to let go and fight him.

After all, Gansu did not have food for him to spend the winter, and the troops from Ningxia and even Yulin also had no food when they came.

Hong Chengchou was not stupid. The soldiers from Ningxia and Yulin had neither new nor old grudges with him. If they came to Gansu and couldn't eat food, it was tantamount to recruiting soldiers for him.

Thinking of this, Liu Chengzong looked around his army formation. The Gansu Second Battalion on the front line was scolded eagerly, while the remaining [-] general officers of the Huben Battalion seemed furious.

These officers and soldiers had different emotions when faced with being scolded, which brought a little enlightenment to Liu Chengzong.

The officers of the Huben Camp were angry because Liu Chengzong was the same person as themselves. They had been together day and night for several years and had a deep relationship. To scold Liu Chengzong was to scold themselves.

While the soldiers of the Second Battalion in Gansu were eager to try, they didn't have much anger, they were just excited... They had no relationship with Liu Shizi, they only knew that Liu Chengzong was a generous boss.

The more scolded and angry the boss is, the more rewards they will give for helping the boss kill these people.

Then the reverse is the same for the Ming army.

Liu Chengzong said to Han Shiyou: "Choose someone, go down the mountain and scold me back."

Han Shiyou was stunned by the order, where is the child cursing?Get scolded and scold back?

Seeing his expression, Liu Chengzong knew that Han Shiyou could not understand this order, so he explained in detail: "The surrendered 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 general on this camp is now, go and scold these five people one by one." Liu Chengzong raised his whip again and pointed at the mountain: "Whose soldiers react the most when they are scolded, that is whose soldier!" .”

Han Shiyou understood now, and quickly nodded in agreement. Da Ma collected all kinds of spies from the army, and soon formed a cursing brigade of less than 200 people, and rushed to the foot of the mountain.

For a while, filthy words such as "I love you big" and "Da Da Niang Shao" reverberated in the valley, so that the Gulang River wanted to flow back in shame, and the birds flew away covering their ears.

Ding Shaoyin was also stunned on the mountain.

He knew that his opponent was a scheming Hanhan, and the purpose of sending someone to scold the street was to make him angry and attack the mountain crazily, so as not to be stuck at the bottom of the mountain and be too boring, so he could use his ingenuity to do other things.

Although it is true that relying on prostitutes to swear at the streets in history has led to the retreat of enemy generals, Ding Shaoyin is not so naive. He is very clear that Liu Chengzong is bound to win this war.

But he never expected that Liu Chengzong not only held his breath, but also sent a group of people to scold him like a play.

Now the pressure is on his side... He would never dare to go down the mountain to confront the marshal's army, and he would shoot himself in the foot when he met such a learned man.

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 concentrated their firepower on the name Ding Shaoyin. Knowing what was going on, the scolding soldiers at the foot of the mountain began to only scold him.

But he didn't know that Liu Chengzong attached great importance to the fact that the soldiers at the foot of the mountain only scolded him.

Liu Shizi always thought that the enemy general who stood firm at Yingpanling was Cao Wenzhao... Yingpanling was the first to bear 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 The general who fought head-on with Liu Chengzong in his early years.

In terms of emotion and reason, as long as Cao Wenzhao is here, who else can be the generals guarding Yingpanling besides him?
Then, the soldiers who cursed on the mountain all had Liangzhou accents, not Shanxi or even Liaodong accents. The answer in Liu Chengzong's heart was ready to come out-Cao Wenzhao was not here.

But where would he go if he wasn't here?

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)