In the next half month, the Montenegrin army divided into three routes, adopted a steady and steady strategy, and gradually drove or captured the Benhan people in the southeast of the peninsula, and finally cleared a large area of territory that could be used to settle the people.

Advancing eastward, the Zogu Gang stopped at the edge of a large river that entered the sea from north to south. Further east, they will enter the area controlled by the Chenhan people.

After reaching the west coast, the Tao Sheng Division began to advance north along the coastline, and finally stopped at the location where the military port was planned.

The troops of Wang Dang and Yang Feng, who were advancing to the north and left and right at the same time, had successfully taken the first plain, and after Zhang Yan and Jia Mu arrived, they crossed the mountains and forests in the north of the plain and drove into the second, larger plain.

Zhang Yan left the 10,000 troops behind the palace in the first plain area, and chose a place with a mountain background and a river passing by it as a camp, and mobilized soldiers to set up camp, build barracks, build defensive trenches, and lay traps and hidden piles.

The main body of the soldiers of the Montenegrin Army was the Montenegrin bandits, they were extremely adaptable to the environment, as long as they had weapons in their hands and food in the camp, they could survive in any mountain jungle. They also have extensive experience in building fortifications with the help of terrain to prevent harassment and destruction by small groups of enemies.

In less than ten days, the first stronghold since the landing of the Montenegrin Army was completed.

I saw that this camp was built on a gentle slope by the mountains and rivers, and it just overlooked the whole plain. The camp is surrounded by walled walls, surrounded by deer, between the deer and the wall, there is a ditch that is several zhang deep, the trench is densely covered with dark piles, whether it is a person or a large beast, once it falls into it, it will definitely die.

Standing on top of the highest corner tower in the village, Zhang Yan and Jia Mu were discussing the follow-up of the Montenegrin army.

Zhang Yan said: "In the past two days, we have received secret reports from Zhenggu and Taosheng that Zhenggu is preparing to advance northward along the west bank of the great river, and finally camp in a small basin 150 miles away from our camp; ”

Jia Mu asked Zhang Yan: "Did the two of them report how many aborigines they drove away, how many aborigines they captured, and how many aborigines they cleared along the way?"

Zhang Yan replied: "Zheng Gu reported that 50 percent of the places where the Eastern Route Army went, 50 percent were driven away, 30 percent were captured, and 20 percent were cleared; Tao Sheng reported that 60 percent of the places passed by the Western Route Army were captured and 40 percent were cleared......

Jamu asked again: "What about the casualties of the two armies?"

Zhang Yan replied: "More than 200 people were injured and more than 100 were killed, and more than 300 people were injured and more than 200 were killed. ”

Jia Mu said: "Tao Sheng's casualties are significantly higher than those of Zhenggu, which is also expected. After all, the west coast was the end of the west, and when the Benhan people had no way out, they had to fight hard. ”

Zhang Yan nodded and said, "The biggest trouble they are facing now is probably not the casualties, but how to deal with the Benhan people who have been captured along the way." According to rough statistics, in the past half month, more than 20,000 old and weak women and children in Benhan have been arrested, and it is mainly young and strong men who have fled and died. ”

Jia Mu patted his forehead and said with a headache: "If these old and weak women and children are not handled properly, I am afraid that we will encounter very fierce resistance in the future." But if we all stay, we'll have to send troops to garrison and guard it, and it's really tricky!"

Zhang Yan listened to Jia Mu's words, he also looked sad, he thought for a long time, and finally said: "Why don't we build a few settlements for these old and weak women and children not far from the camp, and let Zhenggu and Tao Sheng send people to send all the captured Benhan natives over, and we will manage them centrally." ”

Jamu thought about it and felt that he could only deal with it like this now. He said: "We have now established a firm foothold, and seeing that winter is approaching, we have simply buried ourselves in the two plains we occupy and managed them first. As for what to do next, and how to deal with the local natives, just wait for the instructions of King Pingxi!"

When Zhang Yan heard this, she suddenly laughed. He pointed at Jamu and said, "You guy, you are really good at playing tricks and throwing this most tricky thing to King Pingxi!"

Jia Mu replied with a righteous face: "We have left our hometown, but we are fighting the world for the Lord. When you encounter problems and confusions, you naturally have to consult the lord before you can make a decision!"

Next, the 30,000 Montenegrin Army was still divided into four routes, each choosing a suitable place to be stationed, and then stopped advancing. The place where the Fourth Route Force chose to set up camp presented an inverted trapezoidal shape on the map.

On the two vertices on the short side of the trapezoid, Tao Sheng on the west coast and Zhang Yanzhong's army on the small plain were stationed, and on the two vertices on the long side of the trapezoid, 10,000 Wang Dang and Yang Feng were stationed on the Great Plain, and 5,000 people in the small basin.

A total of more than 30,000 local natives captured by several troops were all sent to the plain area where Zhang Yan's Chinese army was stationed. In order to prevent the elderly, weak, women and children from freezing to death and starving to death after the onset of winter, Zhang Yan had the soldiers cut down a large number of trees from the nearby mountain forest, and the thicker branches were used to build wooden houses, and the smaller ones were chopped into small pieces as firewood for daily heating.

The Montenegrin army landed on the island with enough food and military supplies, so when they captured these local natives, they did not start to take their food and property from the hands of the old and weak women and children, which is also an important reason why the resistance they suffered along the way was not violent.

With 5,000 Dongsheng soldiers acting as intermediaries between them, the old and weak women and children who had been gathered together quickly stabilized their moods, and they began to trim the ridges of the fields, dig diversion ditches and sewage canals on the plains, and build a place where children could concentrate on reading and writing.

The Montenegrin army accompanied a lot of Langzhong, and in their spare time to treat the wounded soldiers, they came to the outside of the aboriginal settlement, and asked the Dongsheng soldiers to shout to the old and weak women and children inside, saying that they could treat everyone for free.

These local natives who are still in the primitive tribal era generally take superstitious means such as praying to gods and witches to cure diseases when they encounter diseases, and have never heard of mortals who can still treat mortals. Although they didn't want to believe it, and even resisted, some natives who had been suffering from illness for a long time still had the attitude of giving it a try, walked out of the wooden house where they lived, and let the accompanying members of the Montenegrin army diagnose the disease.

The Langzhong soldiers equipped by the Montenegrin Army for this expedition were basically excellent students selected from the Crouching Tiger Medical Hospital, and they had all received personal teaching from Hua Tuo and Zhang Ji, and they already had a foundation in the treatment of common diseases. Therefore, four or five out of ten of the local aborigines who come to see a disease can have immediate effect, and two or three percent can relieve the pain, and the remaining less than two percent cannot be solved temporarily because the medicine is incomplete, or Langzhong's medical skills are not good enough.

The entourage of the Montenegrin army just wanted to improve their medical skills, because there were too few soldiers who needed treatment, so they started the idea of the local natives, but they did not expect to solve a very difficult problem for the Montenegrin army.