In mid-May of the sixth year of Xingping, Guo Peng officially set off, returning to Chang'an from Hanzhong, and then returning to Yecheng from Chang'an, ending the battle of the Western Expedition that lasted for more than a year.

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, and appointed Pang Xi as the Taishou of Hanoi, replacing the position left by Han Hao.

Pang Xi did not have any opinion and accepted Guo Peng's appointment.

He is still more practical, knowing that Guo Peng will no longer use himself as a local official in Hanzhong, because Guo Peng is not prepared to crusade against Yizhou for the time being.

Unless Guo Peng plans to crusade against Yizhou, he will have his own place to use, otherwise with his embarrassing identity, it is better to be cautious in words and deeds, Guo Peng and Liu Zhang are completely different, and it is better not to do what can be done under Liu Zhang.

Pang Xi's decision this time was right.

And Fa Zheng and Deng Zhi were valued by Guo Peng.

So Guo Peng used his power to go through the process of raising filial piety to the Wei Mansion for the two of them, so that the two of them had an extra layer of the title of "Guo's Former Official" in their identities.

Guo Peng has always done this, when he meets a newcomer he values, as long as he is not already born, or the master is still alive, he will give the other party a wave of actions to raise filial piety and the Wei Gongfu, so that the other party has the title of Guo's former official, which can be regarded as a division of monarchs and ministers.

It can be regarded as constantly exploiting loopholes, exploiting a big loophole in a social system.

Deng Zhi didn't understand the trick when he was a fledgling, but Fa Zheng understood, and immediately knew that he was favored and was about to soar, and he was suddenly happy and didn't know what to say.

These two are very good officials, and they are both very young, Fa Zheng is twenty-three years old, Deng Zhi is only twenty-one years old, Guo Peng plans to train them, and they can be left for Guo Jin in the future.

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

Guo Peng, the Duke of Wei, avenged the Son of Heaven, crusaded against the rebellious ministers and thieves, lasted a year, conquered the land of Guanxi Sanfu, and went down to Hanzhong, expanded the land for thousands of miles, almost swept the north, and shocked the world.

In this way, in addition to Liangzhou, there is also Liaodong, where the roads are extremely difficult, and the entire north has been swept away by Guo Peng, and the Guo Wei regime has become a fledgling and powerful world.

So when Liu Zhang learned that Guo Peng personally came to Hanzhong to defeat Wu Yi and seize Hanzhong, the feeling of despair was already overflowing.

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

"Kansai, Central Plains, Hebei...... Guo Zifeng occupies almost all the essence of the world, even Hanzhong is gone! What to do? What else can I do? Ziyuan, Yuanxiong, you tell Lone, what should Lone do? What should I do? ”

Liu Zhang looked at Wu Yi and Wu Ban, who had returned from the rout with a desperate expression and tone.

They almost defeated everything that Liu Zhang had accumulated, and Liu Zhang was really white and clean now.

There are 10,000 soldiers left in the Chengdu garrison, and the remaining strong men from the surrounding counties have been pumped to the Northern Expedition, and now they have not been able to come back, and the people have suffered heavy losses, not only there is no army, but every family is crying, and they are crying for their relatives in sadness.

I didn't get much of the things in Hanzhong, and they were all taken away by Guo Peng, and now even the old book on his side is about to be lost.

I don't know when I'll recover.

If it weren't for Guo Peng's unreadiness to enter Yizhou, so he left, Yizhou would be gone, Liu Zhang would be a lost dog, and he would even be caught by Guo Peng in Chang'an.

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

Liu Zhang himself is already clear, and now he can't even support a complete line of defense, if Guo Peng didn't go south, he wouldn't even dare to stay in Chengdu.

This is a basin, it is a flat river, as long as the Wei army crosses the difficult road in the Hanzhong area and enters the Sichuan Basin, it can walk smoothly.

Yangping Pass can't stop the Wei army, Baishui Pass is also difficult to say, and Sword Pavilion is also difficult to say.

What now?

Liu Zhang had no choice, he looked at the two Wu Yi brothers stupidly, and for the few generals around him who could be relied on, Liu Zhang asked them for a solution to the problem.

But how do they not know that this is impossible?

The news of Sun Ce's fiasco and even his death has reached Yizhou, the person who occupies Jiangdong's most promising counterweight to Guo Peng has died, the Jiangdong army has been wiped out, and now Jiangdong's civil strife is repeated, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, where is there still the effort to help them complete the so-called trinity?

Jiangdong is finished, and now it seems that the only one with the least loss is Liu Biao in Jingzhou.

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

It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous, but after a year, the three major princes of Jiangnan, who were originally menacing and took the initiative, have actually fallen into such a situation.

If this continues, Guo Peng wants to enter Jiangnan, and it is estimated that it will not be a very difficult thing.

Liu Zhang knows very well that Guo Peng's temporary class is because he is not ready, give him time to prepare, once he is ready, everyone will be finished, and he can even start a war on three sides and swallow Jiangnan.

Now he doesn't have that savings, he is accumulating, and for the three major princes in Jiangnan, if they don't take the initiative to destroy Guo Peng's reserves and hinder his reserve process, everyone will be finished.

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

Liu Zhang is gone anyway, after occupying Hanzhong, he also became a big warlord with 100,000 armor, and then sent 50,000 troops to the Northern Expedition to Liangzhou, lost thousands of troops, ended the Northern Expedition, the strength is still there, there are still tens of thousands of garrisons in Hanzhong, and as a result, Pang Xi rebelled.

Pang Xi rebelled in a wave, tossing the army of Hanzhong to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and he took away less than 10,000 people.

Nearly half of the mobile force was lost.

In order to recapture Hanzhong, in order to kill Pang Xi, Liu Zhang's brain was hot and he gathered 30,000 troops to Wu Yi and asked him to take him to exterminate Pang Xi and recapture Hanzhong.

The Qinling defense line was purely fictitious, and it did not play any role at all, Pang Xi and Guo Peng broke the last mobile force in Liu Zhang's hands, and this mobile force of more than 30,000 people only came back a little more than a third, and suffered heavy losses.

It can be said that although Liu Zhang still has tens of thousands of troops, most of them are local garrisons that cannot be mobilized, and the mobile troops that can be mobilized have been exhausted.

There was no other way for him.

Fortunately, Liu Yan left him a fairly rich Yizhou treasury, and the grain, grass and taxes brought to him by the country of abundance were also rich, but he just didn't have an army, not money and food.

Bite the bullet and learn from Liu Bei to come to a wave of super mobilization, pull all the men up, and maybe have the strength to fight.

There is only the power of a war, the power of a war to protect one's regime, and beyond that, it can no longer be aggressive.

If you want to be aggressive, you must use money to buy off foreigners, and use the Qiang or Nanban tribesmen.

Wu Yi thought of the end, just like Liu Zhang put forward such an idea.

He said that the strong men of the Han people in Shuzhong had suffered too many losses, and if this continued, there would be no one to plant the fields, which would not work.

However, the current plan is not to develop to the north, but to open up a place to live in the south, and to ask the barbarian tribes in the south for materials, people, and money.

This is the only way.

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