Chapter 646 A spark can start a prairie
Chapter 644: A spark can start a prairie
Yanzhou, Chenliu.
Li Xiuning''s eyes were full of excitement, and she excitedly faced Li Shimin sitting on the dragon throne, reporting: "Second brother, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the city have been wiped out, and now Chen Liu has been completely taken down by our army."
Li Shimin was also very excited. After all, this was the first achievement in the fight against Ming Dynasty, but he also knew that the war would never end because of this. The subsequent counterattack was the real test.
"How are the casualties?" Li Shimin asked with a chuckling.
"This battle was mainly internal struggle between the Ming army, so our army suffered few casualties. With the force of surrender, our army currently has nearly 7,000 people, which is enough to defend Chenliu."
Li Shimin has long been familiar with these data, but he still wants to confirm them again from his sister.
"The five-way army nearly 500,000 troops attacked the Ming Dynasty, but this achievement was taken away by the four thousand strange soldiers of my Li Shimin. The other princes must have looked very good when they learned about it."
Li Shimin laughed and mocked, then seemed to remember something again and asked, "By the way, what families of the rebellious generals have been captured?"
"Second brother, I just want to tell you."
Li Xiuning''s expression changed immediately and said seriously: "Now, in Chenliu City, not to mention the family members of the generals of the Ming Dynasty, even the relatives of soldiers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty are no longer in the city. Zhang Sheng had already prepared and had secretly transferred Chenliu."
"What?"
Li Shimin frowned and said in a deep voice: "So, what we get is just an empty city?"
"This is not true. Most of the equipment warehouses, grain warehouses... are still there. The Ming Dynasty may not have time to transfer, or the goal is too big and difficult to transfer, so it only transferred the old and weak."
"Is this really the case?"
Li Shimin held his head with his left hand and kept tapping on the dragon chaise with his right hand, and his eyes gradually became blurred.
After seeing this scene, Li Xiuning knew that his second brother was thinking about the problem, so Tingting stood aside without making any noise.
After a while, Li Shimin thought of something similar, and his eyes instantly recovered, and he chuckled: "That woman Zhang Sheng is really amazing. She still wants to struggle dyingly after all, but this is just not working hard."
"Second brother, what do you mean is that the war will be more intense later?"
“No, it will be easy later.”
Li Shimin''s mouth curled slightly and said meaningfully: "Far more relaxed than you imagined."
Li Xiuning frowned as soon as she heard this, and her beautiful eyes were full of doubt, but Li Shimin smiled and shook his head without explaining it.
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Jizhou, Julu County, Guangzong City.
"Chen Liu has been defeated by Li Shimin in this way?"
Looking at Zhang Sheng, who was still in disbelief, Zhang Liang''s face became even bitter and said with difficulty: "Yes, Your Majesty, Chen Liu has been broken."
At this time, Zhang Liang understood the true meaning of the word "involuntary".
During the decisive battle in Sizhou, Zhang Liang was captured by Qin Hao, so he did not participate, and the Yellow Turban Army was eventually wiped out.
Zhang Liang was thinking that if he had participated, would the Yellow Turbans still end?
This time, when the Han army attacked the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Liang racked his brains to think of all possible things and made all the preparations he could, but Chen Liu was eventually captured by the Han army.
Chenliu was not only the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but also the core point of the war. All five fronts were carried out around protecting Chenliu.
Once Chen Liu is captured, the Ming army will be completely divided, while the Han army will join forces while driving straight in. It is only a matter of time before the five major fronts will be defeated one by one. Therefore, from the moment Chen Liu was captured, the end of the Ming Dynasty''s defeat was already doomed.
"I lost, I lost again."
At this time, Zhang Liang was able to do nothing. It was so difficult to go against the will of one man. Even if he was present, he would still be difficult to reverse the defeat, because the ending was already doomed.
After working hard for so long, but in the end it was still empty. Is this really a disobedience?
Although Zhang Liang was unwilling to admit it, what could he do if he was the case?
"Your Majesty, our army... was defeated in this battle."
As soon as he said this, Zhang Liang seemed to have been taken away, and in an instant he seemed to have become ten years older.
A trace of sadness flashed across Zhang Sheng''s beautiful face, his eyes full of unwillingness, but in the end he sighed helplessly.
"Yes, I lost, completely defeated."
When the ministers in the hall heard this, they all clenched their fists unwillingly, and even sobbed in a low voice.
This country, which was established by them, is about to perish in their hands, so how can everyone not be sad?
Guo Jia stood up at this time and said, "Your Majesty, although the defeat in this battle has been decided, the Ming Dynasty must not perish. I requested to activate the last retreat and retain the spark of revival for our Ming Dynasty."
Zhang Liang sighed in his heart when he saw this, Jia Guo, no, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, are you so impatient to return to Qin Hao''s arms?
Of course, Zhang Liang knew that Guo Jia was Qin Hao''s man, and he didn''t point it out because there was no need to do so. After all, even the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was in Qin Hao''s heart, so is there still a need to point out Guo Jia''s identity?
The "last retreat" mentioned by Guo Jia was actually proposed by Zhang Liang.
This time the Han Dynasty attacked the entire line, and the Ming Dynasty responded to the enemy with its dispersed troops, so it was too difficult to win.
So when the decisive battle just started, Zhang Liang had already reserved a last retreat for the Ming Dynasty. In the case of inevitable defeat, he retained the fire of revival, retreated into the mountains and defended his life, and waited for the Han Dynasty to change.
Now that Chen Liu has been defeated, the Ming Dynasty has been completely divided, and the defeat is doomed, so it is time to start this last retreat.
"Qin Hao, have you guessed this day long ago?"
When Zhang Liang thought of this man he wanted to hate but couldn''t hate, his heart was extremely complicated. When he recalled the confidence he was when the other party released him, he obviously believed that he could not succeed.
Qin Hao gave Zhang Liang a chance, but he couldn''t grasp it. Now it was finally time for Zhang Liang to fulfill his promise.
There are always some people who cannot accept the facts. After all, once this final retreat is activated, it is equivalent to admitting that the Ming Dynasty has failed in disguise.
So as soon as Guo Jia''s proposal of "the last way out" was released, it was like detonating a bomb in the court, and there were all those who agreed and opposed it. The Ming Dynasty was in an instant.
Seeing this, Zhang Liang stood up and said with a sad look: "Your Majesty, if you continue to resist, it will only increase casualties. I believe that retreating into the ''Three Mountains'', retaining your strength, and waiting for it to be done is the best strategy."
Zhang Liang''s sad words made everyone silent.
At this moment, Zhang Sheng spoke, and it was a passage that Qin Hao said to her.
"If you lose land and lose people, people and land will be lost; if you lose land, people and land will be lost in the village. A spark can start a prairie...
Temporary failure does not mean everything. As long as the Ming Dynasty is still there, you are still there, one day, our Ming Dynasty will surely... be burned again. ”
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