Chapter 647 Farewell My Concubine (Part 1)


    Chapter 645: Farewell My Concubine (Part 1)


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


    Everyone knows that continuing to fight to the death will only increase casualties, and retaining their strength will have a chance to make a comeback.


    As soon as he thought of this, a trace of hope flashed in the eyes of the generals. Although the road to the future has become more difficult, he will never give up on the struggle as long as he still has a breath.


    Seeing hope ignited in everyone''s eyes, Zhang Sheng was also filled with relief. As long as these people were in the Ming Dynasty, they would not die.


    The three mountain bases refer to: Taihang Mountains located between Hebei and Bingzhou, Mount Tai located between Qingyan and Xuzhou, and Dabie Mountains at the junction of Xuyu and Yanzhou and Jianghuai.


    These three mountains are all stretching for thousands of miles, with spacious internal space and abundant supplies. Even millions of people can be self-sufficient. The terrain is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. They are all good places for Tibetans to hide their soldiers.


    Zhang Yan in the original history only occupied Heishan Mountains at the southern end of the Taihang Mountains, but resisted the Han Dynasty for more than ten years.


    According to the "Biography of Huangfu Song of the Later Han Dynasty", "From the Yellow Turban Thief, there were Heishan, Huanglong, Baibo, Zuoxiao, Guo Daxian, Yu Digen, Qingniujiao, Zhang Baiqi, Liu Shi, Zuo Yuwang, Zhang Zhang, Yang Feng, Yu Du, Wulu, Li Damu, Bailu, Yu Gu, Kushen, and Luoshi, and they all rose among the valleys. There were countless people. The largest ones were 20,000 to 30,000, and the smaller ones were 6,700. The thief led Changshan people Zhang Yan, and then they communicated with the bandits in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, and Hanoi. They all arrived at Bowan and called the Heishan bandits."


    From this we can see that the area of ??the Black Mountain Army''s activity is among the valleys of the Taihang Mountains in Zhongshan, Changshan, Zhaojun, Shangdang, Hanoi and other places.


    The Taihang Mountains have peaks one after another, with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The Hebei Plain is the southeast of the mountain range and the Shanxi Plateau is the northwest. The Xingdao leading to the Shanxi Plateau of the Hebei Plain is mostly distributed between the Taihang Mountains.


    The terrain characteristics of the Taihang Mountains provide relatively convenient conditions for the mutual communication and strategic cooperation between the Heishan Army and the divisions distributed in the valleys of the Taihang Mountains.


    Zhang Yan was just a leader of the Yellow Turbans. Relying on the geographical advantage of Heishan in the southern tip of Taihang, he repelled countless encirclements and suppressions by officers and soldiers, and was active until the Battle of Guandu, before surrendering to Cao Cao.


    Zhang Sheng was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and had resources that were far more than Zhang Yan, so of course he would not only occupy one Taihang.


    This battle has not been completely lost, so the Ming Dynasty still has a lot of resources. Therefore, while opening up Taihang, it also opened up Mount Tai and Dabie Mountains as bases for Tibetan soldiers.


    As early as a year ago, Zhang Liang had already started preparing secretly. Now, the Sanshan base has not only been opened, but also most of the defense system has been completed, and even the military subordinates have been moved. Therefore, Li Shimin did not capture a single military subordinate after attacking Chenliu.


    Now, there are hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers'' families in the three major mountains, which is no longer so desolate.


    As long as the population is moved inward to hundreds of thousands, the Ming Dynasty can completely close the mountain gate and hide in the mountains to become a country among the country.


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


    Zhang Sheng glanced at the generals, and after a breath of turbid air, he said in a deep voice:


    "Transfer my will to move all the people who are willing to follow and enter the "Three Mountains" base. The defenders from all over the country tried their best to defend, and then gave up their territory. The entire army retreated into the "Three Mountains" base to defend the "Three Mountains" base."


    "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.


    Dou Jiande, the governor of Jizhou, died of relapse of old injuries shortly after Zhang Sheng arrived. Zhang Sheng took over the entire Ming army in Jizhou, so the Taihang Mountains between Hebei were naturally under the control of Zhang Shenglai himself.


    The Dabie Mountains are located between Xuzhou and Jianghuai. Now the Ming army has only one force between Jianghuai. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang has always been loyal to Zhang Sheng and the Ming Dynasty, so he is naturally the only candidate for the commander. What really made Zhang Sheng’s headache was the candidates for the commander of Taishan District. Xiang Yu and Li Zicheng, who were stuck in Yanzhou, were both qualified.


    Zhang Sheng was inclined to Li Zicheng in his heart. The hatred between Xiang Yu and Qin Hao was too great and he would never surrender to Qin Hao with him. If he really let him command the Taishan District, there might be quite some 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 sinister flashed in Zhang Sheng''s eyes and he said softly: "Xiang Yu, don''t blame me, but this dirty world has no place for you. Don''t you want to atone for your sins? You will redeem all the sins after death."


    Neither Diao Chan nor Nuwa were vicious women, and Zhang Sheng, who was a combination of two people, was naturally the same, but now she had to be vicious.


    Life is so helpless.


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    After Chen Liu of Mingdu was captured, the expected counterattack did not appear.


    Not only did the Ming Dynasty not choose to mobilize troops to retake Chenliu, but instead ordered the troops from all over the country to guard the death penalty and then moved the people from all over the country into the deep mountains.


    This move by the Ming Dynasty was indeed beyond the expectations of all the princes, and of course they were happy to see this.


    The fifth year of Zhongping, August.


    Zhang Sheng moved 500,000 people whom he voluntarily followed into Taihang, and then took the initiative to give up the Jizhou area in his hand and shrinked his troops to defend Taihang.


    As for Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in the Jianghuai River, he resisted the Yangzhou coalition forces and moved the people while moving the rear of more than 300,000 people in the Jianghuai River.


    In September, Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to abandon Shouchun and Jianghuai cities and led his troops to retreat into the Dabie Mountains to defend the country.


    The situation in the Central Plains is the most complicated. The two Ming and Han armies confront each other here. After paying a considerable price, Xiang Yu finally covered Li Zicheng and moved nearly 300,000 to 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, you will definitely fight against Li Yuanba, but Xiang Yu was seriously injured in the battle with nine generals alone before. Now that his injuries have not healed, he is definitely not an opponent, so the road to Mount Tai cannot be done.


    Just when Xiang Yu wanted to go north to enter Taihang Mountain, Yang Jian led his troops to cut off the road north.


    There are nine powerful generals in Yang Jian''s army, including Yuwen Cheng, and the capital. If they were trapped this time, Xiang Yu would not be sure to save his life.


    The Taihang Mountains and Mount Tai cannot be reached, and the Han army''s current military strength in the Central Plains is the weakest in the south, so Xiang Yu can only break through the south.


    As Xiang Yu went south, the battle situation in Qingzhou also changed.


    After Gongsun Xuanyuan led the army south, the Qingyou coalition, which had new forces joined, began to encircle and suppress Huang Chao after a little rectification.


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