stubborn thief

Chapter 510
Early morning on June 23.

Opposite the majestic Tiegui Mountain in the hinterland of Gulang Gorge, on the Gulang River is Xianglin Temple.

This place is not a temple, but a gathering place centered on the Zen courtyard, including temples, temples, temples, nunnery and various folk beliefs.

Here is centered on the roaring Gulang River, the west of the river is the Buddhist temple, the east of the river is the Taoist temple, and on the mountain are temples dedicated to folk beliefs such as Guandi, Didi, Erlang, Dragon King, Taoist God, and Sanguan.

Both the Sutra Hall and the Taoist Hall are all white walls and red tiles, surrounded by aspens, birches, pines, and shrubs that grow here.

Usually at this time, the bells of the monastery and gymnasium echoed, but today it was replaced by the sound of murderous cannons.

As early as a few days ago, the Ming army entered Gulang Gorge in a large scale, built camps and camps, and the monks, Taoist priests, and Miaozhu near Xianglin Temple had already moved to Zhuanglangwei, and now there are only countless soldiers left here.

In front of the gate of the Laojun Temple on Tieguishan, Liu Chengzong looked down the mountain with a telescope. In the folds of the Wushaoling mountain, groups of Ming troops and the Marshal’s army rushed to kill each other. Phase sound.

In the pine forest in the mountains, guns were raised and fired; on the pavilion farther away, several heavy cannons of the Marshal Army were fired one by one, and the dust and rotten leaves accumulated over the years on the top of the pavilion were filled with smoke. The pendulum rose violently.

Under the cover of the advance of the army, Liu Chengzong finally pulled the cannons into the Gulang Gorge. There were ten thousand catty cannons and thirty lion cannons, one of which was quite a few, and he pulled them all over.

The defeated soldiers standing behind were also dumbfounded by this situation. They had fled all the way here, not to mention the general level, and even the hundred general level could not maintain the organizational system. Captain and Captain.

Yang Siren, Chief Qian of the Standard Battalion of the Gansu General Army, heard the commotion behind the formation, stood on his horse and looked south. He found that the rout was not a little too many, but nearly twice as strong as his own.

Ding Guodong narrowed his eyes: "The ghost of Zongbing Yang has come to find you and I will kill you."

Mi Layin nodded heavily: "I saw Yang Siren."

The military flag fluttered in the wind, and the military music played one after another. Small-caliber field guns such as Yongzhu, Tiger Crouching, and Mielu were placed in front of the formation one by one, and they were ready to attack.

After they were reorganized, not only did they not know the management team that led them, but they even didn't know each other's colleagues after the reorganization, and they didn't even know a few soldiers around them... They were completely dispersed.

With the flag on the top of the mountain fluttering, one order after another was conveyed to the vicinity of Xianglin Temple. General Ding Guodong of Suzhou, who was approaching the enemy, received the news and turned his head to lieutenant general Mi La and said: "Reinforcements are here."

Don't talk about him at this time, even the soldiers he leads have already sensed that something is wrong, and the deputy officers at all levels at the rear of the army have all ordered the soldiers to hold their weapons and face their backs.

However, due to the terrain, Beetail Needle's flankers could only advance in small groups in the pine forest, and only the Chinese army pushed thirty lion cannons lined up to meet them southward on the farmland and roads.

Don't look at him screaming for battle now, once they really let them disperse and lead their troops to fight in the forest, they won't even be able to return half of a battle. Killed in the back.

The sounds of horns, waist drums, suonas, and gongs came and went one after another, and military flags fluttered everywhere between the mountain and forest roads. One ran, one chased, and one greeted.

Liu Chengzong on the top of the mountain had a panoramic view of everything. He watched another scattered Ming army appear in the dense forest, and then Ding Guodong's troops withdrew from the encirclement, and the defeated troops of Xianglin Temple withdrew from the gap.

Ding Guodong pointed towards Xianglin Temple with his chin: "There are 1000 Ming troops there, and more than [-] reinforcements. Our two battalions have [-] troops. It's not difficult to stop them. It's better to eat them."

But at this time, there was chaos behind the reinforcements of the Ming army.

In a very short period of time, the Suzhou battalion led by Ding Guodong and Mi Layin spread out, pulled out many strongholds on the north side of the temple, and the troops headed straight for the mountain gate.

But this is not the case now.

Liu Chengzong walked out of the Laojun Temple and saw that the attack on the Xianglin Temple at the foot of the mountain was coming to an end, all the strongholds near the Xianglin Temple had been removed, the troops of the Second Gansu Battalion had advanced to the front of the Xianglin Temple, and the artillery on the gazebo was also coming down the mountain.

During this process, the marshal's army guarding the south of Xianglin Temple quietly withdrew from the siege, and the stubborn Ming army in the temple quickly retreated into the forest through the gap in the south.

At least one normal battle has to be fought, and the soldiers can be assured of the rewards before they can say that they are commanding normally.

Amidst the sound of heavy artillery, Mi Layin frowned, and said to Ding Guodong: "The enemy's road is narrow, who do you think is here?"

Because the west road breaks through the Liutiao River, and the east road breaks directly from the mountains to Gulang Fort.

When the supporting army arrived at this battlefield at this time, the enemy general clearly expressed a will: Daming still has an army that dares to fight in Gansu, and you are invincible until you reach Xianglin Temple.

Of course, there is also a high possibility of being beaten to death by one's own soldiers.

After Mi Layin finished speaking, he gave orders to the soldiers behind him, turned his head and clasped his fists at Ding Guodong, and said, "I'll stop them, the general will join me after breaking through the Xianglin Temple, if thousands of people dare to come to us to claim their lives, we can't help it." Do what you can!"

He was born as a low-level soldier in the Ming Army, and he understands the ideological dynamics of the low-level soldiers very well, such as Qian Zong, Ba Zong, and Bai Zong, who were born as hereditary officers in the guards of the Ganzhou Camp.

The Ganzhou camp is now in a state of confusion, and the hereditary guards who challenged him have no idea that it was the army organization that saved them.

After reorganizing the formation, everyone will undoubtedly automatically look for the commander. If their own commander cannot be found, they will look for the commander's commander at a higher level... They are just a general manager in organization. Different levels have different outfits, so you can recognize them at a glance .

The bee tail needle on the other side also led the soldiers of the Ganzhou battalion forward, as the main force to conquer Xianglin Temple.

As for the four mighty generals of [-] catties cast in Gansu, those things are difficult to walk on flat ground, and it is beyond human power to pull them up the mountain. Only one is left at the foot of the mountain at Feng Ru's car camp, and the other three are made of cannonballs. Gao Yingdeng was dragged to Ganzhou to Cao Yao.

The Marshal's Mansion Ganzhou Camp and the rest of the Suzhou Camp in front of them arrived late. The Ming army did not rush to help with heavy artillery, and the Marshal's army also had no time to push the heavy artillery in pursuit, and the maximum range of the Lion Cannon was less than one mile. The range of normal use is only [-] paces, obviously a hand-to-hand combat is about to be staged.

At the same time, due to the intensified sound of artillery, the reinforcements of the Ming army in the south also accelerated their pace of rescue, advancing step by step.

When Liu Chengzong was elected as the forward, if Wu Zimian, the veteran soldier of Yulin Town, dared to pull Liu Chengzong, Liu Chengzu, and Cao Yao into a team of 50 people and drill into the forest, they would give him an arrow .

At this time, behind the reinforcements of the General Soldier Standard Battalion, the highest-ranking person is undoubtedly the former Ming Army Suzhou Battalion Chief Qian, Mi Layin.

A moment later, a team of thousands of people took the Ming army's helmets, guns, helmets and flags, retreated southward under the cover of the birch forest, and then the rest of the Suzhou battalion that surrounded Xianglin Temple cooperated with the Ganzhou battalion to launch a general attack.

Reinforcement generals are very well-versed. When they saw the defeated soldiers coming from a distance, in order to prevent them from disrupting the formation, they specially dispatched soldiers to shout hundreds of steps in front of the formation. Regroup.

The two have been cooperating for a few months, and they have both experienced high-level challenges. Many things are already tacit without having to say too clearly.

The defeated soldiers were indeed very obedient. At the junction of fields and forests, they filed to both sides like the wind passing through the mountains, and then the reinforcements stabilized the front line.

Mi Layin was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slowly.

Liu Chengzong followed his prestige, and on the farmland connected by the southern hillside and the river valley, amidst the sound of horns one after another, a large column of the Ming army formed a loose front and quickly marched northward from the edge of the pine forest.

Liu Chengzong instinctively looked towards the end of the southern river valley. The main general of the Ming army stationed at Gulang River should be there, and he believed that the courage displayed by this enemy general should be his old acquaintance Cao Wenzhao.

Just as Liu Chengzong was thinking about the issue of rewards for the soldiers who participated in the war after the war, he looked at the battlefield at the foot of the mountain, and saw the Tangqi on the mountain road in the north retreating alternately, and then the messengers with yellow flags on their backs ran up the mountain.

There is only one thousand headquarters for the reinforcements, and the farmland near the official road on the west side of the Gulang River has been filled to the brim. The Ming army stationed at Xianglin Temple also has only one commander-in-chief. Logically speaking, their current position should be exactly for the Ming army. The reinforcements brought a reserve.

This was indeed something Liu Shizi hadn't expected. He had thought in advance that the Ming army would break through from the side road, but according to his thinking, the Ming army should gather troops to break through along the way.

Although the defeated soldiers withdrawn from Xianglin Temple were in a daze, they all accepted this setting. They assumed the identity of Mi Layin as the Reinforcement Chief Qian, and specially reorganized their formation after the formation, until they found out that There are a lot of people.

Liu Shizi wondered, maybe Cao Wenzhao was beaten up by himself and changed his nature?

Liu Chengzong nodded slowly, turned back and entered Laojun Temple.

Like a crab, waving two big pincers and rushing towards Xianglin Temple.

Ten thousand-jin cannons blasted at the courtyard wall, and the seven-jin solid iron bullets destructively smashed holes in the white wall of the Buddhist temple. In a blink of an eye, the courtyard wall collapsed and gaps were formed.

He knew that Ding Guodong was referring to the helmet tassels and helmet flags belonging to the Ming army.

The Ganzhou camp is far inferior to the Suzhou camp in terms of the quality of the soldiers and the morale of the soldiers. Although the generals of the Ganzhou camp really want to take on the task of attacking the tough ones, Liu Chengzong dare not let them disperse the army. Army combat.

No matter what, there can only be one winner on the battlefield, and the will is never expressed unilaterally, but instilled and instilled in each other. In the end, just like the battlefield, there will only be one winner.

The Ganzhou Battalion on the other side also withdrew from the captured Xianglin Temple, and assembled a front line that was also thick on both sides and thin in the middle on the south side of the temple.

Mi Layin did the job of gathering the defeated soldiers with ease, as if he was not in the enemy's formation, but gathered the defeated soldiers in his own army.

At this moment, the marshal's bugle guns rang out on Iron Cabinet Mountain, and several guns burst into flames and screamed into the sky.

Soon, the officers marked the location of the three mountain roads. Liu Chengzong looked at it, turned his head and said to the messenger: "Tell Mr. Ma Qian, gather the soldiers in the pond, and be sure to delay the enemy troops in Binggou, Mopanling, big and small, and let go of the rollers." Report the information to General Feng, prepare to meet the enemy, and annihilate the enemy army in Dunzigou as soon as possible."

The reinforcements from the Ming army came faster than Liu Chengzong imagined, but he was not panicked. On the contrary, the first time he saw the reinforcements, he showed a complex smile that was fierce and gratified.

"That depends on whose horoscope is hard!"

Liu Chengzong's position can give an overview of the entire battlefield.

The one ridge and three ditches where the enemy encountered the enemy are all near the main road of Gulang Gorge. The marching route of the two camps of Zhang Tianlin and Wei Qian'er of the Marshal Army is much farther away. The simultaneous breakthrough of the four enemy troops will bring Feng Ru A lot of pressure.

It is only a matter of time before Xianglin Temple is captured.

The messenger quickly arrived at the top of the mountain, bowed down and reported: "Commander, Mopanling on the east road has been captured by [-] enemy troops, and there are also traces of enemy troops in Gunzigou and Binggou on the west road. The soldiers in the pond can't resist."

When Ding Guodong heard the words Yuanjialuzhai, he had a clear understanding of the origin of the support army, and blurted out: "The standard battalion of the general army?"

The Huben Battalion seized the pavilion in the mountain and built an artillery position with six heavy cannons. With the advantage of height, the Ming army strongholds within a three-mile radius were all within the threat range of the heavy artillery.

But the encirclement and encirclement by dividing the soldiers into four groups broke Liu Chengzong's imagination a bit.

During war, troop mobilization is the most direct way for commanders to express their will to war.

Yang Siren is Yang Jiamo’s chief of the Qianbai, and to others, it’s nothing if the Gansu’s general’s standard battalion comes to Xianglin Temple; There is only one purpose.

Actually five ways.

This is the usual tactics of the Ming army. The soldiers are divided into five posts and encircled.

This kind of troop arrangement is because the Suzhou Battalion has a good source of troops, and has experienced the Battle of Gaotai. The morale of the army is stable and the morale is high. It is already a normal army under the Marshal's Mansion.

A thousand headquarters, the listed formation is a standard formation within a formation, the entire thousand headquarters is a scattered whole, divided into two general divisions on the left and right, and five hundred general divisions under the two general divisions. Arranged in formation, the entire army formation forms a concave surface.

Then in Liu Chengzong's vision, a very interesting scene happened.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, and lead his troops to fight with the general battalion, Ding Guodong shook his head, raised his hand and knocked on his helmet: "Should you keep it?"

Mi Layin climbed up immediately, took out his binoculars to look south, and walked towards Ding Guodong with a gloomy face after a while, just in time for the ten thousand-jin cannons that had moved to the foot of the mountain to take their positions, and bombarded the gate and courtyard wall of Xianglin Temple one by one.

However, the appearance of this army is not like Cao Wenzhao's style. Although it is a reinforcement army, it is not impatient and oppressive at every step.

In front of the altar in front of the statue of Lao Tzu in the main hall of Laojun Temple, several officers from the Huben camp were deducing the situation of their own troops’ advance according to the map. The army took it."

Both the reinforcements and the defeated soldiers were stupid.

At this moment, the Lion Cannon of the Beetail Needle roared, and thirty one-jin shells screamed and smashed into the reinforcement position, and the attack horn was also sounded on the reorganized defeated army position behind the reinforcement.

The first order issued by Mi Layin: "All troops, draw your helmets and guns!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)