Opposite the towering Iron Cabinet Mountain in the hinterland of Gulang Gorge, and located on the Gulang River, is Xianglin Temple.
This place is not a temple, but a comprehensive place centered on the Zen Yuan, including temples, temples, temples, nunneries and various folk beliefs.
The place is centered on the Gulang River, with the west of the river as a Zen temple, the east of the river as a Taoist temple, and on the mountain are temples dedicated to folk beliefs such as Guandi, Tutu, Erlang, Dragon King, Taoist God, and Sanguan.
Both the Sutra Hall Zen House and the Taoist Hall have white walls and red tiles, and are surrounded by aspens, yellow thorns, birches, cypresses and shrubs that grow here.
Usually at this time, the bells in the temple and gymnasium are ringing, but today it is replaced by the sound of murderous cannons.
As early as a few days ago, the Ming army entered Gulang Gorge in large numbers and built camps and villages. The monks, Taoist priests and temple priests near Xianglin Temple had already moved to Zhuanglangwei. Now there are only countless soldiers left here.
In front of the Laojun Temple in Tiezhen Mountain, Liu Chengzong looked down the mountain with his binoculars. In the folds of the Wushaoling Mountains, groups of Ming troops and marshal's troops were rushing back and forth. On the walls of the Zen temple, each prisoner-killing cannon was fighting for their lives.
The sound of each other.
In the pine forest in the mountains, gunfire was sprayed out from guns; farther away on the pavilion, several heavy artillery of the marshal's army were fired one after another. In the smoke, the dust accumulated over the years on the top of the pavilion was covered with rotten leaves.
Peng shook and rose.
Under the cover of the advancing army, Liu Chengzong finally pulled the cannon into the Gulang Gorge. A total of ten thousand-jin cannons and thirty lion cannons, many of them, were all pulled over by him.
As for the four-door 5,700-pound mighty General forged in Gansu, it is difficult to walk on flat ground, and it is beyond human power to pull it up the mountain. Only one door is left in the car camp at Feng Yu at the foot of the mountain, and the other three and the cannonball
They all asked Gao Yingdeng to be dragged to Ganzhou to Cao Yao.
Liu Chengzong's position gave him an overview of the entire battlefield.
The Huben Battalion captured the mountain pavilion and built an artillery position with six thousand-pound cannons. With the advantage of height, all Ming army strongholds within a three-mile radius were within the threat range of heavy artillery.
In a very short period of time, the Suzhou battalion led by Ding Guodong and Milaiyin dispersed, uprooting many strongholds in the north outside the temple, and their troops approached the mountain gate.
Bee Tail Needle on the other side also led the sergeants of the Ganzhou Battalion to come forward as the main force to conquer Xianglin Temple.
This arrangement of troops is due to the fact that Suzhou Battalion already has a good supply of troops, and after experiencing the Battle of Gaotai, the military morale is stable and morale is high, and it is now a normal army affiliated with the Marshal's Mansion.
The Ganzhou Battalion was far inferior to the Suzhou Battalion in terms of soldier quality and morale. Although the generals of the Ganzhou Battalion wanted to take on the task of attacking fortifications, Liu Chengzong simply did not dare to let them disperse the troops and fight with the Ming Dynasty in the forest.
Army combat.
He was born as a grassroots soldier in the Ming Army, and he was very familiar with the ideological trends of the grassroots soldiers. He was the hereditary officer of the Ganzhou Camp and other personal guards, such as Mr. Qian, Mr. General, and Mr. Bai.
Regardless of the fact that they are all clamoring for a fight with him now, once they are really allowed to disperse and lead their troops to fight in the forest, they will not even be able to get back half of the battle. They will definitely turn around and run to the enemy camp, or their soldiers will be killed.
Beaten to death from behind.
Of course, there is also a high possibility of being beaten to death by one's own soldiers.
Just when Liu Chengzong was elected as the striker, if Wu Zimian, the veteran soldier of Yulin Town, dared to organize Liu Chengzong, Liu Chengzu, and Cao Yao into a team of fifty people and go into the woods, every one of them would have to give him a shot.
Arrow.
Ganzhou Camp is now in a period of ideological confusion. These hereditary guards who asked him to fight have no idea that it was the military organization that saved them.
At least one battle must be fought normally, so that the soldiers can see the reward and be reassured before they can command normally.
Just when Liu Chengzong was thinking about the rewards for the soldiers who participated in the war after the war, he looked at the battlefield down the mountain and saw the Tangqi soldiers on the mountain road to the north retreating alternately, and then the messenger soldiers with yellow flags on their backs at the bottom of the mountain ran up the mountain.
The messenger quickly arrived at the top of the mountain, bowed down and reported: "Commander, Mopan Ridge on the east road has been captured by 300 enemy troops. Enemy troops are also on the west road, such as Luozi Valley and Big Ice Valley. The Tang soldiers cannot resist."
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly and returned to Laojun Temple.
In front of the altar table in front of the statue of Laozi in the main hall of Laojun Temple, several officers from Huben Camp
While he was deducing the advance of his troops based on the map, Liu Chengzong stepped forward and said: "The enemy will seize the Mopan Ridge on the east, the Cuizigou on the west, and the Big and Small Binggou."
Soon, the officers marked the location of the three mountain roads. Liu Chengzong looked at it, turned to the messenger and said: "Tell General Ma Qian to gather the troops in Tang, and be sure to delay the enemy troops in Big Binggou and Mopan Ridge, and let go of the rollers."
The enemy troops in Cuozigou; inform General Feng of the information, prepare to engage the enemy, and annihilate the enemy troops in Cuozigou as soon as possible."
The first ridge and three ditches where they encountered the enemy were all near the main road of Gulang Gorge. The march route of the two camps of Marshal Zhang Tianlin and Wei Qian'er was much farther. If four enemy forces broke through at the same time, it would bring great consequences to Feng Yu.
A lot of pressure.
Because the west road will break through the Liutiao River, the east road will break through directly from the mountains to Gulangbao.
This was indeed a situation that Liu Shizi did not expect. He had thought in advance that the Ming army would break through from the side mountain road, but according to his idea, the Ming army should gather its forces to break through from all the way.
This is the usual tactics used by the Ming army. The troops are divided into five sentries to encircle and surround them.
But the four-pronged outflanking and encirclement was a bit beyond Liu Chengzong's imagination.
Actually it’s five ways.
Liu Chengzong walked out of Laojun Temple and saw that the attack on Xianglin Temple at the foot of the mountain was nearing completion. All the strongholds near Xianglin Temple had been removed. The troops of the Gansu Second Battalion had advanced to the front of Xianglin Temple, and the artillery on the pavilion was also coming down the mountain.
It is only a matter of time before Xianglin Temple is captured.
At this moment, the marshal's bugle cannon sounded on Iron Cabinet Mountain, and several of them caught fire and screamed into the sky.
Liu Chengzong followed the sound and saw that on the farmland connected to the southern hillside and the river valley, amidst the sound of horns, a Ming army formed a loose front and moved quickly northward from the edge of the pine forest.
A Thousand Headquarters, the listed formation is a standard formation within a formation, the entire Thousand Headquarters is a dispersed whole, divided into two general divisions on the left and right, and the five hundred general brigades under the two general divisions are two in the front and three in the back.
Arranged in formation, the entire military formation forms a concave surface.
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Like a crab, it runs towards Xianglin Temple waving its two big pincers.
The Ming army's reinforcements arrived 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 of fierceness and relief.
During the war, military mobilization is the most direct way for commanders to express their will for war.
When this supporting army arrived on this battlefield at this time, the enemy general clearly expressed his will: The Ming Dynasty still has troops in Gansu that dare to fight. You will be invincible until you reach Xianglin Temple.
Liu Chengzong instinctively looked towards the end of the valley in the south. The Ming army's general stationed at Gurang River should be there, and he believed that the courage shown by this enemy general should be Cao Wenzhao, an old acquaintance.
However, the appearance of this army is not like Cao Wenzhao's style. Although it is a reinforcement, it is not impatient and presses very steadily step by step.
Liu Shishi thought, maybe Cao Wenzhao changed his gender after being beaten by him?
No matter what, there can only be one winner on the battlefield, and will is never expressed unilaterally, but instilled and mutually instilled. In the end, just like the battlefield, there can only be one winner.
As the command flags on the top of the mountain were fluttered, orders were conveyed to the vicinity of Xianglin Temple. Suzhou General Ding Guodong, who was engaging the enemy, received the news and turned to Vice General Mi Laoyin: "Reinforcements are coming."
Mi Layin immediately climbed up, took out his telescope and looked south. After a moment, he walked towards Ding Guodong with a gloomy expression. Just as he caught up with the ten thousand-jin cannons that had moved to the foot of the mountain, they had already set up their positions and bombarded the mountain gate and courtyard wall of Xianglin Temple in turn. Amidst the heavy gunfire, Mi Layin frowned and said to Ding Guodong: "Enemies meet on a narrow road, who do you think it is?"
When Ding Guodong heard the words "Enemies are on a narrow road", he already understood the origin of the support army and blurted out: "General Soldier Base Camp?"
Mi Layin nodded heavily: "I saw Yang Siren."
Yang Siren is the general of Yang Jiamo's Biao Battalion. To others, it is nothing for the general Biao Battalion of Gansu Province to come to Xianglin Temple; but to Ding Guodong and Mi Laoyin, no matter what they are here for, it does not matter to them
They all have only one purpose.
Ding Guodong narrowed his eyes: "General Yang's ghost has come to ask for my life."
"It depends on who has a strong character!"
After Mi Laoyin finished speaking, he gave orders to the soldiers behind him. He turned to Ding Guodong and clasped his fists and said, "I'll stop them. The general will attack Xianglin Temple and then join me again. Thousands of people will dare to come to us to claim their lives. It's not self-defeating."
Use your strength!"
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, leading his troops to fight against the General Soldier Battalion, Ding Guodong shook his head, raised his hand and knocked on his helmet: "Do you still have it?"
Milayin was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly.
He knew that Ding Guodong was referring to the helmet tassels and helmet flags belonging to the Ming army.
Ding Guodong raised his chin towards Xianglin Temple: "There are six hundred Ming troops there, and more than a thousand reinforcements. Our two battalions have five thousand troops. It's not difficult to stop them. It's better to eat them."
The two have been cooperating for several months, and they have both experienced difficulties. Many things do not need to be explained clearly, but they are already tacitly understood.
[In view of the general environment,
After a while, a team of 1,000 men, carrying the Ming army's helmets, spears, helmets and flags, retreated southward with the help of birch forest cover. Then the remaining Suzhou Battalion that surrounded Xianglin Temple cooperated with the Ganzhou Battalion to launch a general attack.
Ten thousand-jin cannons blasted towards the courtyard wall. The seven-jin solid iron bullets smashed holes in the white wall of the temple. In a blink of an eye, the courtyard wall collapsed and created gaps. Bee-tailed needles led the army to attack through the gaps.<
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During this process, the marshal's army guarding the south of Xianglin Temple quietly withdrew, and the Ming army who resisted stubbornly in the temple quickly retreated into the forest through the southern gap.
Liu Chengzong on the top of the mountain had a panoramic view of everything. He watched helplessly as another scattered Ming army appeared in the dense forest. Then Ding Guodong's troops withdrew from the siege, and the defeated troops of Xianglin Temple withdrew from the gap.
At the same time, as the sound of artillery became more intense, the Ming army reinforcements in the south also accelerated their pace of reinforcements, advancing step by step faster.
The Ganzhou Battalion on the other side also withdrew from the captured Xianglin Temple and assembled the same front line thick on both sides and thin in the middle south of the temple.
However, due to terrain reasons, Bee Tail Needle's flankers will only be able to advance in small groups in the pine forest. Only the Chinese army will push thirty lion cannons lined up in a row and head south on farmland and roads.
Bugles, waist drums, suonas and gongs sounded one after another, and military flags were flying everywhere on the mountain and forest roads. One ran, one chased, and one greeted, and the defeated troops and reinforcements joined together in the blink of an eye.
Then a very interesting scene happened in Liu Chengzong's field of vision.
The reinforcement general was a very clever man. When he saw the defeated soldiers running from a distance, in order to prevent them from disrupting the formation, he specially sent soldiers to shout hundreds of steps in front of the military formation, and asked the defeated soldiers to retreat from both sides of the military formation and to the rear of the formation.
Reorganize the formation.
The defeated soldiers were indeed very obedient. The connection between the fields and the mountains and forests was like the wind passing through the mountain tops, filing away to both sides, and then reinforcements stabilized the front.
The military flag fluttered in the wind, and military music played one after another. Each small team placed small-caliber field artillery such as Yongzhu, Tiger Crouching, and Destroyer in front of the formation, ready to attack.
The remnants of the Ganzhou Battalion and the Suzhou Battalion of the Marshal's Mansion in front of them arrived late. The Ming army did not rush to the rescue with heavy artillery. The Marshal's Army also had no time to push the thousand-jin cannon in pursuit, and the maximum range of the Lion Cannon was less than one mile.
The ground, the normal range is only 200 steps, obviously a close combat is about to take place.
It happened that at this time, the Ming army's reinforcements were in chaos behind the formation.
The reinforcements only have one thousand headquarters, which has filled the farmland near the official road on the west side of the Gurang River. The Ming army stationed at Xianglin Temple also only has one general headquarters. Logically speaking, the position they are currently standing at should be just right for the Ming army.
Reinforcements bring a reserve force.
But this is not the case now.
When Yang Siren, the commander of Gansu General Military Biao Battalion Qian, heard the commotion behind the formation, he stood on horseback and looked south. He found that the defeated troops were not too many, but nearly twice his number.
Don't talk about him at this time, even the soldiers he led have realized that something is wrong. The deputy officers at all levels in the back of the military formation have all ordered the soldiers to raise their weapons and face their backs.
The defeated soldiers standing behind were also dumbfounded by this situation. They had fled all the way. Not to mention the general level, even the hundred general level could not maintain their strength.
Although the establishment system is maintained, the only ones who barely have a staff now are chiefs and squad leaders.
After reorganizing the formation, everyone will undoubtedly automatically look for their commanders. If they cannot find their own commanders, they will jump to the next level to look for their commanders’ commanders... They are just one commander-in-chief in terms of organization. Different levels have different attires, so they can be recognized at a glance.
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At this time, behind the reinforcements of the General Biao Battalion, there is no doubt that the highest-ranking person is Mi Laoyin, the former Qian Commander of the Suzhou Battalion of the Ming Army.
Mila Yin, who was behind, did the job of gathering the defeated troops with ease, as if he was not in the enemy's position, but gathering the defeated troops in his own army's formation.
Although the defeated soldiers who withdrew from Xianglin Temple were confused by the lake, they all accepted this setting. They imagined that Milayin's identity was the reinforcements Qian Zong, who was specially responsible for reorganizing them behind the formation, until they discovered
, there are a lot of people.
After they were reorganized, not only did they not know the management team that led them, they even didn't know their senior colleagues after the reorganization, and they didn't even know a few of the soldiers around them... They were completely broken up.
Both the reinforcements and the defeated troops were stunned.
At this moment, Bee Tail Needle's lion cannon roared, and thirty one-pound shells screamed into the reinforcements' position. On the defeated troops' position reorganized behind the reinforcements, the horn of attack was also sounded.<
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The first order issued by Milayin: "All troops, draw your helmets and guns!"
