In mid-May of the sixth year of Xingping, Guo Peng officially set off, returned to Chang'an from Hanzhong, and then returned to Yecheng from Chang'an to end this more than one year-long Western Expedition.

Pang Xi was taken away by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng lightly removed Pang Xi's military power and the position of general under Liu Zhang's command, appointed Pang Xi as the prefect of Hanoi, and replaced Han Hao's position.

Pang Xi had no objection and accepted Guo Peng's appointment.

He was quite practical and knew that Guo Peng would no longer use himself as an official in Hanzhong because Guo Peng had no preparations to attack Yizhou for the time being.

Unless Guo Peng plans to attack Yizhou, he will have his own place to use his skills. Otherwise, with his embarrassing identity, it is better to be cautious in his words and actions. Guo Peng and Liu Zhang are completely different. It is better not to do what they can do under Liu Zhang's command.

Pang Xi’s decision this time was right.

Fa Zheng and Deng Zhi were valued by Guo Peng.

So Guo Peng used his power to complete the process of educating filial piety and integrity to recruiting the Wei Gong Mansion, which gave the two a layer of title of "Old Official of the Guo Family" in their identities.

Guo Peng has always done this. When he meets a newcomer he values, as long as he is not from a background or the leader is still alive, he will give the other party a wave of filial piety and integrity and the recruitment of the Wei Duke's Mansion, so that the other party can have the title of an old official of the Guo family, which is considered to be a distinction between a monarch and a minister.

It can also be regarded as constantly exploiting loopholes and taking advantage of big loopholes in a social system.

Deng Zhi was just starting out and didn't understand the tricks, but Fa Zheng understood. He immediately knew that he was attracted to him and was about to make a fortune. He was so happy that he didn't know what to say.

Both of them are excellent officials and are very young. Fa Zheng is twenty-three years old and Deng Zhi is only twenty-one. Guo Peng plans to train them so that they can be left to Guo Jin for use in the future.

In this way, Guo Peng set out on his way back, returned to Chang'an in early June, set off in mid-June, leading the army to patrol and walk along the way, and embarked on the road back to Yecheng.

Duke Guo Peng of Wei avenged the emperor and attacked the traitors. After a year, he conquered the three servants of Guanxi, and then went to Hanzhong, expanding the territory of thousands of miles, almost sweeping the north, and shaking the world.

In this way, in addition to Liangzhou, there is also Liaodong, which has extremely difficult roads. The entire north has been wiped out by Guo Peng, and the Guo and Wei regime have been greatly improved and have dominated the world.

So when Liu Zhang learned that Guo Peng came to Hanzhong in person and defeated Wu Yi and seized Hanzhong, his despair was beyond words.

There is a map in his palace, which is a complete map of the Han Empire. Liu Zhang marked the territory occupied by Guo Peng and watched the strength comparison between the two sides, and he was immediately full of despair.

"Guanxi, Central Plains, Hebei... Guo Zifeng occupied almost all the essence of the world, and even Hanzhong was gone! What should I do? What should I do? Ziyuan, Yuan Xiong, tell Gu, what should I do? What should I do?"

Liu Zhang looked at Wu Yi and Wu Ban who were defeated by the defeated general with a desperate expression and tone.

They lost almost everything that Liu Zhang accumulated. Liu Zhang is really white and clean now.

There were only 10,000 garrisons left in Chengdu. The remaining strong men from several counties in the surrounding areas were drawn to the Northern Expedition, but they have not been able to come back now. The population has suffered heavy losses. Not only is there no army, but every household is still crying, crying for their relatives sadly.

I didn't get much of Hanzhong's things, so I took away all of them by Guo Peng. Now even my old capital is about to be defeated.

I don't know when I will recover my vitality.

If Guo Peng had not been prepared to advance to Yizhou, he left, Yizhou was gone, and Liu Zhang was a loser, and would have even been caught by Guo Peng in Chang'an.

Of course, it is not to be an emperor, but to be a prisoner.

Liu Zhang himself knew it well. At present, he could not even support the complete line of defense. If Guo Peng had not gone south, he would not have dared to stay even Cheng.

This is a basin, a flat mountain. As long as the Wei army crosses the difficult roads in Hanzhong and enters the Sichuan Basin, they can walk smoothly.

Yangping Pass cannot stop the Wei army, Baishui Pass is hard to say, and Jiange is hard to say.

What should I do now?

Liu Zhang had no choice but to look at the two brothers Wu Yi and the other two. As for the few generals around him who could rely on, Liu Zhang looked for a solution to the problem.

But how could they not know that this was impossible?

News of Sun Ce's defeat or even death have reached Yizhou. The person who occupied Jiangdong who had the most hope of fighting against Guo Peng was dead. The Jiangdong army was destroyed. At present, civil strife in Jiangdong was full of chaos and could not take care of themselves. Where can I have time to help them complete the so-called Trinity?

Jiangdong is over, and now the only one with the least loss seems to be Jingzhou Liu Biao.

Liu Biao is the only person who still has the strength to compete with Guo Peng. His territory has not been lost, and the main force of the army has not been lost. His overall strength is already the strongest.

It's ridiculous, really ridiculous. But in a year, the three major princes of Jiangnan who had taken the initiative had already reached such a situation.

If this continues, it is probably not very difficult for Guo Peng to advance to Jiangnan.

Liu Zhang knew very well that Guo Peng was temporarily in charge because he was not ready yet. He gave him the time to prepare. Once he was ready, everyone would be finished. He could even start a war in three aspects and swallow Jiangnan.

He does not have that savings yet, he is accumulating. For the three major princes in Jiangnan, if he does not take the initiative to destroy Guo Peng's reserves and hinder his reserve process, everyone will be finished.

But, do they still have the power to harass Guo Peng?

Liu Zhang was gone anyway. After occupying Hanzhong, he became a warlord with 100,000 armor. He then sent 50,000 troops to Liangzhou, lost thousands of troops, ended the Northern Expedition, and his strength was still there. There were still tens of thousands of troops in Hanzhong, but Pang Xi rebelled.

Pang Xi rebelled and tossed the Hanzhong army to a great extent, and he took less than 10,000 people away.

Nearly half of the mobile forces were lost.

In order to regain Hanzhong and to kill Pang Xi, Liu Zhang was so angry that he gathered another 30,000 troops for Wu Yi to take him to destroy Pang Xi and regain Hanzhong. Who would have thought that Pang Xi would be able to call Guo Peng from abroad?

The Qinling defense line was purely a false one and had no effect at all. Pang Xi and Guo Peng defeated the last mobile force in Liu Zhang's hands. This mobile force of more than 30,000 people only returned a little more than one-third, and the losses were heavy.

It can be said that although Liu Zhang still has tens of thousands of troops, most of them are garrisons that cannot be mobilized, and the mobile forces that can be mobilized have been exhausted. If Guo Peng comes again, he can only mobilize all the men in Shu to fight Guo Peng to the death.

He had no other way.

Fortunately, Liu Yan left him a relatively generous Yizhou treasury, and the food and taxes brought to him by the Kingdom of Heavenly Prefecture were also quite generous. He just had no army, not money and food.

He gritted his teeth and learned from Liu Bei to a super mobilization, pulling all the men up, and perhaps he still has the power to fight.

There is only the power of one battle. The power of one battle to protect one's own regime can no longer make progress.

If you want to make progress, you will not only use money to bribe foreigners, use Qiang people or the Southern Barbarian tribes.

Wu Yi thought of it in the end, just like Liu Zhang came up with such an idea.

He said that the Han people in Shu had lost too much. If this continues, no one will even plant the fields, which is impossible.

However, today's plan cannot develop northward, but can only open up a place of survival to the south, and ask for supplies, people and money from the barbarian tribes in the south.

This is the only way.

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