Under Zhang Ren's tenacious defense, Liu Bei besieged Luocheng for nearly five months and still did not improve at all. Although Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei's reinforcements made great progress in the early stage, their advancement speed was too fast, the rear did not be stabilized in time. When Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei led their troops to Han'an, Zhang Lu took advantage of the opportunity to occupy Badong.

At the same time, the defenders who had rushed to help the CD also retreated to resist the troops coming from Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei were constantly obstructed and their advancement was quickly delayed. Only Zhao Yun led 3,000 troops along the Han River from Deyang and Guanghan to five cities, and then surrounded Luocheng with Liu Bei and the southeast.

Seeing that Luocheng was in danger, Pang Tong knew very well that Liu Zhang had already divided most of his troops to the reinforcements of the Han'an generation to block the direct attack of CDs in Jingzhou. There was no extra man to support Zhang Ren. Even if the famous generals in a hundred battles continued, they would not last long. Once Luocheng was captured, the northern gate of Shu County would be completely torn open by Liu Bei.

Pang Tong realized that if Liu Bei surrounded CD, he would definitely surrender with Liu Zhang's character.

As early as when Liu Bei started attacking Luocheng from the north, Pang Tong thought of a plan that could completely solve Liu Bei, but hesitated because he was worried that the plan was too risky, but now Zhao Yun has arrived and has no choice at all.

Yes, I can only place all bets on this one...

In response to the unfavorable situation of not being able to capture Luocheng for a long time, Liu Bei specially asked Pang Tong and Fa Zheng to discuss the matter. Fa Zheng proposed to send an envoy to persuade surrender to go to Luocheng to persuade Zhang Renxian to surrender and treat him well.

Pang Tong was originally worried that Fa Zheng, who had frequently used strange moves, would offer some tricks to break Luocheng. Pang Tong felt relieved when he said this, because he knew Zhang Ren very well. Even if Liu Bei gave the entire Yizhou to Zhang Ren, he would not shake his determination, let alone have high officials and generous salaries.

The result was indeed as Pang Tong foresaw, Zhang Ren killed the envoy sent by Liu Bei to the city and returned the head to Liu Bei. This made Liu Bei very angry. He angrily denounced Fa Zheng for giving such a bad idea that he had humiliated himself and demoted Fa Zheng to Zhao Yun's army to serve as the army Sima, and since then he neglected Fa Zheng.

Now Pang Tong became the only strategist under Liu Bei who could stand on the stage, and Liu Bei also relied on him even more:

"Military advisor, if Luocheng is not taken down again, I am afraid that Jingzhou will change. I wonder what good plans are there for the military advisor?"

At this time, Pang Tong was waiting for Liu Bei to ask for advice. He apparently recognized Liu Bei's concerns and proposed a strategic plan to attack the city:

"Luocheng is adjacent to Luoshui in the north, and there are flat horses in the north and east. The lord and General Zhao will inevitably fall into a long war of attrition from these two sides. I recently observed the map and found that there is a little-known mountain road in the southwest of Luocheng. From there, you can go around the rear of Luocheng and launch an attack on Luocheng from the commanding heights."

Liu Bei also discovered this extremely inconspicuous road under Pang Tong's fingers, and he was extremely surprised:<

"Now Wei Yan and Huang Zhong are attacking the north of Luocheng, Zhao Yun and Li Yan are attacking the east of Luocheng. If any of them are drawn, it will arouse Zhang Ren's alertness. It is better to do this. I personally lead a cavalry to raid from the mountain road. By then, Zhang Ren will definitely fall into chaos. We will attack Luocheng together on three sides!"

But Pang Tong thought this was inappropriate, and he said to Liu Bei:

"Zhang Ren is not a rough martial artist. Besides, he will probably be familiar with the terrain of Shu County for many years. If there are ambushers in the mountain road, I am afraid the lord will be very dangerous. It is better to lead a group of people to walk the mountain road, and the lord lead another group of people to attack Yanqiao. In this way, Zhang Ren will definitely attract his attention when he sees his lord visiting in person and buy time for me."<

After thinking about it, Liu Bei thought Pang Tong was too risky: "What if the military advisor went to the army and got into an ambush?"

Pang Tong smiled and said, "Lord, don't worry too much, this trip can be guaranteed to be foolproof."<

In the end, Liu Bei reluctantly agreed to Pang Tong's opinion. That night, Pang Tong secretly released the carrier pigeon and told Zhang Ren about Liu Bei's plan to lead his men to attack Yanqiao, and reminded Zhang Ren not to worry about the suspicious soldiers in the mountain road, and directly put all the main forces in the battle on the attack of Liu Bei.

After seeing it, Zhang Ren was surprised and immediately put all his attention on the direction of Yanqiao. In order to capture Liu Bei alive, Zhang Ren decided to lead his army to go there in person, but Zhang Ren thought carefully and thought whether the news was true or not was confirmed, so he decided to wait and see for the time being.

The next day, Liu Bei led his troops to Yanqiao. Before leaving, Pang Tong's mount suddenly died suddenly. In order to show his respect and gratitude to Pang Tong, Liu Bei gave the Luma who had followed him for many years to Pang Tong.

After bidding farewell, the two led their troops to their respective destinations. When Liu Bei came to the vicinity of Yanqiao, Zhang Ren, who was standing on the city tower, saw Liu Bei riding a tall black horse walking towards him. At this moment, the deputy general beside Zhang Ren said to him:

"I heard that Liu Xuande had a white mane under his crotch. Why did he change to riding on a dark horse today?"

Because the distance is too far, Zhang Ren could not see Liu Bei's appearance clearly, and soon the ambush he had ambushed in the mountain road in advance came from a secret report: a small group of people were walking along the narrow mountain road, and their intentions were unknown.

In order to dispel Zhang Ren's concerns, Pang Tong had already stated in his letters that the appearance of this group of people had long been revealed.

But the report from the ambush then completely changed Pang Tong's protection:<

The leader rode a high-headed white horse, very much like Liu Bei's mount.<

Zhang Ren immediately realized that he had "been trapped". He thought that Liu Bei, who really wanted to attack Luocheng, was in the mountain road, so he urgently drove the men equipped with strong attack crossbows to the mountain road, intending to shoot Liu Bei to death with random arrows.

Pang Tong rode the Luma donated to him by Liu Bei. He soon noticed a very obvious abnormal movement on the surrounding hills. Pang Tong felt that something seemed to be wrong, but at this time he found that it was too late for him...

At the command of Liu Xun, who was stationed in the mountain road, all the crossbowmen shot out a rain of arrows composed of thousands of feather arrows, and the targets of these were Pang Tong, who rode Liu Bei's mount...

After confirming that the visitor was not Liu Bei, Zhang Ren did not rashly dispatch all the ambush in the city, but led more than a thousand soldiers to repel them. However, when Zhang Ren had just arrived at Yanqiao, there were suddenly a shocking shout of killing from all directions. Only then did Zhang Ren realize that it was Liu Bei who was attacking.

Not only that, Liu Bei and Fa Zheng had already transferred Zhao Yun, who had attacked the East Gate, to Yanqiao, to ambush, as long as Zhang Ren was prepared, and he had already been surrounded by Liu Bei and Zhao Yun, because of the error of intelligence, but now, Zhang Ren was trapped in the front and back attacks between Liu Bei and Zhao Yun.

When the troops were not superior, Zhang Ren still confronted Zhao Yun for dozens of rounds without a winner. However, the soldiers around him did not have the strong perseverance and martial arts skills, and either died in battle or surrendered.

Gradually, the noise of killing became less and less. The city defense army, which lacked strong attacks and crossbows, could not give Zhang Renjun any strong support. One hour later, only Zhang Ren was resisting, and Liu Bei's soldiers surrounded Zhang Ren.

Just as Zhang Ren was distracted, Zhao Yun seized the opportunity and shot him and dropped him off. The soldiers stepped forward and held Zhang Ren with their spears and escorted him to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei knew that Zhang Ren's martial arts and military management could be comparable to Zhao Yun, and he had the intention of recruiting. However, Zhang Ren refused Liu Bei and Zhao Yun's successive persuasion to surrender, and was determined to die. In order to avoid letting the tiger go back to the mountain and taking down Luo City as soon as possible, Liu Bei ordered Zhang Ren to be executed.

Luocheng without Zhang Ren could no longer hold on. Zhao Yun launched a fierce attack on Luocheng along Yanqiao. Li Yan, Wei Yan, Huang Zhong and others took advantage of the main forces in the city's ambush on the mountain road and surrounded Luocheng on three sides. Luocheng was captured and Liu Zhang's son Liu Xun was captured.

After entering Luocheng, Liu Bei received an urgent report from the soldiers who survived the mountain road:<

Pang Tong died in vain...<

In fact, shortly after Pang Tong entered Liu Bei's camp, Zhuge Liang faintly realized that he was not sincerely loyal to Liu Bei, but he just kept this suspicion in his heart. It was not until after Fa Zheng arrived that Pang Tong strongly suggested that Liu Bei raid Yizhou that Zhuge Liang truly determined Pang Tong's intention. So he secretly conspired with Liu Bei and Fa Zheng to conspire to demote Fa Zheng after Liu Bei led his army into Sichuan, first pretended to demote Fa Zheng and value Pang Tong, and then used Pang Tong's suspicious military strategy to place Pang Tong in the mountain road.

Fa Zheng, who was exiled on the surface, secretly bribed Zhang Ren's deputy generals, and told Zhang Ren about Lu Zhi's incident when Liu Bei marched, which made Zhang Ren suspicious and ambush the main forces of the defenders in the city on the mountain road.

Although Pang Tong was determined to kill Liu Bei, he was the military advisor General Liu Bei, after all, and his status was equivalent to Zhuge Liang. Therefore, Liu Bei did not make Pang Tong's true intention and identity public, but changed the place where Pang Tong died to Luofengpo, and buried him in Luofengpo, erecting a monument to worship.

The loss of Luocheng made the north gate of the CD open, and Liu Zhang had no choice but to transfer the troops defending Zhuge Liang and Zhang Fei back to CD again. After that, Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun who turned around and moved east to attack Jiangyang, Jianwei, and Zhang Fei also conquered the strategic location of Brazil, Langzhong, and rushed to Deyang. At this point, Liu Zhang completely lost all the counties and counties around Shu County, and Liu Bei was already in the CD.

What made Liu Zhang feel desperate was that Ma Chao, who had previously surrendered to Zhang Lu, thought about counterattacking Longshang day and night, so he persuaded Zhang Lu to attack Qishan with his troops, but was defeated by Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He. Later, he was highly oppressed by Yang Ang and others, and he had long seen that Zhang Lu was not a person who could save and accomplish great things, so under the persuasion of Li Hui, he led his troops out of Hanzhong and surrendered to Liu Bei.

After getting Ma Chao, Liu Bei's reputation became even greater, but the atmosphere in the CD was at its peak. The military and civilians who had been surrounded for a long time began to panic. At this time, Fa Zheng wrote a letter to persuade Liu Zhang to surrender. At first, Liu Zhang did not give a clear reply. Fa Zheng and Zhuge Liang said that no reply to Liu Bei means that Liu Zhang was shaken in his heart and would surrender within half a month.

Half a month later, Zhuge Liang sent Jian Yong into the CD to persuade him to surrender again, and returned Liu Xun, the son of Liu Zhang, who was previously captured, which completely defeated Liu Zhang's last line of defense. He decided to accept Liu Bei's persuasion to surrender.

At this time, Huang Quan and others believed that although most of the territory in Yizhou had fallen into the hands of Liu Bei, he had just occupied such a large chassis and would be difficult to digest for a while. The food and supplies of CDs and the strong city defense were enough to support one year, and the situation would definitely change at that time, so there was no need for Liu Zhang to surrender to Liu Bei.

But Liu Zhang thought that because of his stupidity and incompetence, he had no ability to command Yizhou at all. Since Liu Bei had this ambition and ability, as long as he treated the people well and was descendants of the Liu family, everyone would be the same.

In the end, Liu Zhang opened the city and surrendered. Liu Bei specifically instructed Jian Yong not to bind Liu Zhang or not to be rude to him. So Liu Zhang and Jian Yong drove out of the North Gate of CD. After Liu Bei accepted the CD and the entire Shu County, he put Liu Zhang under house arrest in the police in Jingzhou.
Chapter completed!