Chapter 645: Farewell My Concubine (I)

Zhang Sheng's generous words swept away the gloom in the hearts of most people.

Everyone knew in their hearts that continuing to fight to the death would only increase casualties, and retaining strength would have a chance to make a comeback.

At this thought, a glimmer of hope flashed in the eyes of all the generals, although the road ahead has become more difficult, as long as there is still a breath, they will never give up the struggle.

Seeing that there was hope in everyone's eyes, Zhang Sheng's heart was also full of relief, as long as there were these people in Daming, they would not die.

The three mountain base areas refer to the Taihang Mountain, which is located between Hebei and the two states, Mount Tai, which is located in the middle of the three states of Qingyan, Xu, and Dabie Mountain, which is located at the junction of Xuzhou and Jianghuai.

These three mountain ranges are all mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, their internal space is wide and rich in materials, even millions of people can be self-sufficient, and the terrain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, all of which are good places for Tibetan people and Tibetan soldiers.

In the original history, Zhang Yan only occupied Montenegro, which is located at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains, but resisted the Han Dynasty for more than ten years.

According to the "Biography of Emperor Fu Song of the Later Han Dynasty": "Since the Yellow Turban Thief, there have been Black Mountain, Huanglong, Bai Bo, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian, Yu Yigen, Qingniujiao, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, Zuo Zhangba, Yang Feng, Yu Poison, Wulu, Li Damu, Bai Huan, Zhenggu, Ku Xu, Luo Shi disciples, and the valley is innumerable. The big ones are twenty or thirty thousand, and the small ones are six or seven thousand. Zhang Yan, a thief from Changshan, is in contact with thieves in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, and Hanoi valleys. ”

It can be seen from this that the activity area of the Montenegrin Army is in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places.

The peaks of the Taihang Mountains are repeated, the altitude is more than 2,000 meters, the southeast of the mountain range is the Hebei Plain, the northwest is the Shanxi Plateau, and the Hebei Plain leads to the Shanxi Plateau is mostly distributed between the Taihang Mountains.

The topography of the Taihang Mountains provides relatively convenient conditions for the mutual communication and strategic cooperation of the various units of the Montenegrin Army distributed in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains.

Zhang Yan was just one of the leaders of the Yellow Turbans, relying on the geographical advantages of Montenegro at the southern end of Taihang, he repelled countless encirclements and suppressions of officers and soldiers, and was active until the Battle of Guandu, when he surrendered to Cao Cao.

And Zhang Sheng is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, with resources far more than Zhang Yan's hundredfold, so of course he will not just occupy one Taihang.

This battle has not been completely lost, so the resources in the hands of the Ming Dynasty are still very large, so while opening up Taihang, Mount Tai and Dabie Mountain have also been opened up as the base of Tibetan soldiers.

As early as a year ago, Zhang Liang had already begun preparations in secret, and now the Sanshan base area has not only been opened up, but also most of the defense system has been completed, and even the military family members have all been relocated, so Li Shimin did not catch a single military family member after attacking Chen Liu.

Now among the three major mountain ranges, there are hundreds of thousands of Ming army family members filled, and it is no longer so desolate.

As long as hundreds of thousands of people are relocated inward, the Ming Dynasty can completely close the mountain gate and hide in the mountains as a country within a country.

After determining the strategy of retreating to the mountains, all that remains is to delay time and move the people who voluntarily continue to follow the Ming Dynasty to the past, so as to prepare in advance for the endless encirclement and suppression of the Han Dynasty in the future.

Zhang Sheng glanced at the generals, and after taking a long breath of turbidity, he said in a deep voice:

"Spread my will, relocate all the people who are willing to follow, enter the 'Three Mountains' base area, and the defenders from all over the country try their best to hold on, and then give up all the territories, and the whole army retreats into the 'Three Mountains' base area to defend it."

"No." The generals shouted in unison.

As for the candidates for the leaders of the three major base areas, Zhang Sheng had already made a decision in his heart.

Dou Jiande, the governor of Jizhou, died of a recurrence of old injuries shortly after Zhang Sheng's arrival, and Zhang Sheng took over the entire Ming army in Jizhou, so the Taihang Mountain between Hebei and Hebei was naturally in charge of Zhang Shenglai himself.

Dabie Mountain is located between Xuzhou and Jianghuai, and now there is only one Zhu Yuanzhang left in the Ming army between Jianghuai, and Zhu Yuanzhang has always been loyal to Zhang Sheng and Daming, so he is naturally the best choice for leadership.

What really gave Zhang Sheng a headache was the candidate for the commander of Taishan District, Xiang Yu and Li Zicheng, who stuck in Yanzhou, were qualified.

Zhang Sheng is inclined to Li Zicheng in his heart, the hatred between Xiang Yu and Qin Hao is too great, and he will never submit to Qin Hao with him, if he really lets him dominate the Taishan District, there may be a lot of trouble in the future.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Sheng had already made a decision in his heart.

Looking at the direction of Yanzhou, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in Zhang Sheng's eyes, and he whispered to himself: "Xiang Yu, don't blame me, but in this dirty world, there is no place for you anymore." Don't you want atonement? and every sin was atoned for. ”

Whether it is Diao Chan or Nuwa, they are not vicious women, and Zhang Sheng, who is a combination of two people, is naturally the same, but now she has to be vicious.

Life, it's so helpless.

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After Mingdu Chenliu was breached, the expected counterattack did not appear.

Not only did the Ming Dynasty not choose to mobilize troops and horses to recapture Chenliu, but instead ordered the soldiers and horses to be strictly guarded, and then moved the people from all over the country into the mountains.

This move of the Ming Dynasty really surprised all the princes, and of course they were all happy to see it.

In the fifth year of Zhongping, August.

Zhang Sheng moved 500,000 people who voluntarily followed him into Taihang, and then took the initiative to give up the land of Jizhou in his hands and shrink his forces to defend Taihang.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in Jianghuai, he resisted the Yangzhou coalition army on the one hand, and moved the people on the other hand, until he moved more than 300,000 Jianghuai people to the rear.

In September, Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to abandon Shouchun and the cities of Jianghuai, and led the army to retreat into the Dabie Mountains.

The situation in the Central Plains was the most complicated, the two Ming armies and the Han armies were confronted here, and after paying a lot of price, Xiang Yu finally covered Li Zicheng's migration of nearly 300,000 Central Plains into Mount Tai.

In October, Li Zicheng entered Mount Tai, but Xiang Yu was intercepted by Li Shimin and Cao Cao on the way to Mount Tai.

Forcibly breaking through will definitely fight Li Yuanba, but Xiang Yu was seriously injured in the previous solo battle with nine generals, and now he is definitely not an opponent under the injury that has not healed, so Taishan's road is impassable.

Just when Xiang Yu wanted to go north into Taihang Mountain, Yang Jian led the army to cut off the road to the north.

Yang Jian's army has nine fierce generals such as Yu Wencheng - Du, if he is trapped this time, Xiang Yu will not be sure of saving his life.

Taihang Mountain and Mount Tai can't get through, and the strength of the Han army in the Central Plains is only the weakest in the south, so Xiang Yu can only break through to the south.

When Xiang Yu went south, the battle situation in Qingzhou also had new changes.

After Gongsun Xuanyuan led the army south, the Qingyou coalition army joined by new forces, and after a little rectification, they began to continue to encircle and suppress Huangchao.

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