Founded in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Black Dragon Temple is located in the Wohu Mountain of the town of Wohu at the southern end of the Zhushui River in Linxian County, with a high terrain, facing the Yellow River and the land of Shaanxi across the river.

The temple is mainly composed of a mountain gate, a main hall and a music building. The temple is close to the mountains and rivers, the overall building is rigorous and reasonable, the left and right are symmetrical, majestic and magnificent. Looking up at the temple stacked on the steep stone cliff, carved beams and painted buildings, simple and elegant; Leaning on the temple corridor and looking down, the confluence of the Qiushui River and the Yellow River is in full view. The sound effect of the music building in the temple is extremely peculiar, without amplification equipment, 10,000 people watch the play, the sound is crisp, and even resounding for several miles. Therefore, every time the ancient Huilong Festival, the masses of the four townships in the two provinces of Qin and Jin are in an endless stream of sightseeing.

Facing the Black Dragon Temple, it is the first moraine of this moraine ferry - Datong Moraine. The water is here to enter the Yellow River, is the largest moraine between the Qin-Jin Gorge. The Yellow River enters the Datong moraine, the river surface shrinks sharply to about 100 meters, the river water swells to the inclined river channel with a drop of about three zhang and a thousand zhang long, and suddenly the water flow is turbulent, the turbidity waves are emptied, the roar is like thunder, and the sonic boom is ten miles, and the viewers are all amazed.

This is a ferry port leading from Shanxi to the northernmost section of northern Shaanxi.

Hong Chengchou, who was sitting in the main hall of the Black Dragon Temple, did not have the heart to express the feelings of the literati, but was a little interested in the roaring Yellow River. Throughout the day, sheepskin rafts full of officers and soldiers covered this section of the Yellow River, so much so that when you sit here, you can't even see the flow of the Yellow River and its unique color.

Another sheepskin raft did not know what the reason was, and in the exclamation of everyone on this shore, it went down the river uncontrollably, and in the blink of an eye it merged into the turbulent torrent not far away, and in the blink of an eye there were no bones. And a hundred zhang downstream, where the Yellow River has become gentle again, there is no water of the Yellow River, nor can you see the characteristic color of the Yellow River, because it has been completely covered with corpses.

"Master Overseer, it seems that we can't force it to succeed today." A member of the army leaned down quietly and reported today's battle situation to Hong Chengchou, who was sitting upright like a clay sculpture.

Hong Chengchou did not move at all, and when he looked into the distance, he could see that there was a group of men in khaki clothes on the opposite bank, fighting desperately to protect the rare, palm-sized beachhead, which was Zhang Yuan's Xiangyong, which is now called the position of Zhang's army.

After a long time, Hong Chengchou gently slammed his fist on the back of the chair, "Order." ”

The soldier immediately walked to the place where it was originally a table, picked up a pen and paper on it, and waited for Hong Chengchou's order.

"Give an order, kill cattle and sheep, reward the three armies, and then force the crossing overnight."

The soldier did not raise his head to record the military order.

"Tell Zhou Ji, continue to build a sheepskin raft, and continue to attack."

After joining the army, he finished writing another order and handed it to the soldier standing aside, who immediately rushed out to convey the order.

"He Renlong was ordered that he could no longer land on the other side before sunrise tomorrow, and to give support to the officers and soldiers on the other side, he would come to see him."

The hand that joined the army shook, but he still wrote the general's order without hesitation.

This military order should not be passed on by the soldiers, because He Renlong was standing in front of the wide platform in front of the main hall of the Black Dragon Temple, and was observing the situation of the moraine ferry.

When the ink-drenched military order was handed to him, the ink had not yet dried.

He Renlong stuffed the military order directly into his arms, because of this special effect, he had already heard Hong Chengchou's military order.

"Let's go." Glancing at Zhang Yuan's Xiangyong who was struggling to support him on the other side in the afterglow of the sunset, He Renlong rushed directly down the temple platform with his own soldiers and horses and rushed to the riverbank ferry.

The chaos of the ferry is simply outrageous, Guo Chang can't find a direct general, he can't find a direct commander, and he can't find a direct general, and even the dignified general He Renlong walked to the river beach, and no one even made way for him, so they were so crowded into a group.

He Renlong frowned tightly, there is no way to do this situation, because Governor Hong Chengchou can't help it, and he really can't bear the impeachment from the emperor of the imperial court, to put it bluntly, from those Donglin Qingliu who can only talk loudly.

The last time the trapped dragon valley failed, so that Lu Shi, who was at his fingertips, still escaped alive under the desperate rescue of their brothers.

The tragedy of that battle still makes He Renlong, a fierce general, frightened.

At that time, Li Zi became cannon fodder, and the army composed of 100,000 rogues attacked Lu Shi layer by layer, and everyone saw Lu Shi's little thief, personally picked up the sword and went into battle to kill, everyone thought that this battle would be won, as long as Lu Shi was killed, then the entire Shaanxi thief army would be leaderless, and the official army would not be encircled and suppressed, as long as the mind was moved slightly, the factions within the thieves would be torn apart, and at that time, they would just sit and watch them be disabled.

However, unexpectedly, everyone thought that it would take at least five days before the thieves could appear on the battlefield to reinforce the army, but it took only three days to reach the battlefield.

But at that time, everyone stood on the high hill, looking at the reinforcements of those thieves, all of them were tired and stuck out their tongues, and the knives and guns were still there, but their characteristic rattan armor, even such light things, were discarded, and Hong Chengchou Supervisor and himself both hit their foreheads to celebrate - the thieves are over, with such reinforcements to rescue the thieves, with such a tired army to rescue the thieves, what is the difference between that and giving everyone military merits? This kind of reinforcements is still too little, the more the better, it is best for the Shaanxi thief army to go out, at that time, everyone does not have to fight, they are tired to death, at that time, it is time to report to the imperial court the great achievement of Shaanxi pacification.

However, no one thought of it, and it was impossible to think of the scene, that the army of thieves who should have rested first according to the rules did not rest at all, and they staggered, shouting hoarsely and meaninglessly, and launched a charge against the officers and soldiers occupying the steep ridge.

Yes, a decisive charge was launched against the nearly 100,000 officers and troops occupying the steep ridge.

At that time, He Renlong was standing on the top of the ridge, directing the officers and soldiers to counterattack, and he saw that those thieves were different from other poles, and when they charged, they were either stimulated by wine and meat, or driven away by whipping, or threatened by their parents, wives and children, and there was nothing behind them, so willingly, dragging their tired bodies, holding knives and guns that they couldn't grasp, they stumbled and charged towards the ridge guarded by 100,000 officers and soldiers.

This time, the officers and soldiers were not like the original, as soon as they saw the hard battle and the vicious battle, they began to retreat and flee, because, with the support of Zhang Yuan, they ate and drank well, and occupied the ridge of the important place, and more importantly, they had more people than the thieves, in this case, they were also all high morale, and they all fought to the death, in exchange for the promise of the overseer who sat behind the town, the five heads would be promoted to one level of officials, and the unofficial could also have one or two silver for one head.

All the rolling logs, all the bows and arrows, all the things they could throw out, the endless stones on the mountain, struck down like a storm against the army of thieves who had struggled to climb.

But to the surprise of He Renlong, to everyone's surprise, those thieves were like crazy, ignoring the rolling wood and stones that fell like a torrential rain, and they just died layer by layer, gritting their teeth, roaring, and climbing up a little bit tenaciously, climbing up, inch by inch approaching the ridge.

He Renlong saw the first thief who climbed the ridge with his own eyes, and there was no anger in his eyes, and his gun could only stab an officer like a stick, but it was blocked by the rotten armor so lightly, everyone laughed, laughing that they had lost a little strength.

At that moment, the thief soldier staggered to his feet, then grabbed one of the soldiers and rolled down the steep cliff together.

Then, two, three, and so on.

And when he looked down the mountain, something happened that made He Renlong and everyone desperate.

Hundreds of people flocked to the city, and the first to climb up was the young man, who might have knives and guns in their hands, but then there were the old men, who didn't even have a stone in their hands, and then the women and children, who didn't even have the strength to pick up the stone.

No one drove or persecuted, so they willingly threw themselves into the cliffs of the rolling wood and stones, and without hesitation, they continued to rush to the ridge guarded by 100,000 officers and soldiers.

Defeated, the reason for the defeat of the officers and troops at that time was not that the elite of the thieves broke through the defense line, but that they were defeated by the corpses of the dead layer upon layer, all rushing towards the top of the mountain, and defeated by the momentum of their own officers and soldiers who had no way to imagine how to die.

I don't know who it was, the first to drop the stone in his hand, facing a group of women who were still far away from him, exhausted and climbing up inch by inch, screamed: "God, is this still a human?" We're defeated, we're defeated—" Then, the 100,000 officers and troops collapsed in an instant.

At that time, He Renlong still remembered that when he copied the knife and grabbed a rout, the eyes of the rout army were like dead fish, and he was not angry at all.

Throw him away, he is a dignified general, there is no need to deal with a person who is already dead, and when he catches an officer and soldier who has escaped, and roars for him to block the thief, He Renlong sees a person with tears in his face, a person who no longer knows why he is crying.

In the end, He Renlong also discarded the blood-stained war knife that he was supervising the battle, and just looked at the tidal thieves and their people, flooding the ridge, rushing to the battlefield where the thieves of Lu Shi fought to the death, and then completely submerged Li Zicheng's men and horses.

At that time, He Renlong was crying like a child, he didn't know why he was crying so badly, so painful, until Governor Hong Chengchou grabbed him and sighed at him: "Let's go, we are defeated." ”

Then that nightmare could no longer be swept away in He Renlong's mind.