After the surrender of the Shu army, the Wei army soon entered the city and took over the defense of the White Emperor City.

The Wei army collected the weapons and armor of the last 2,000 or so Shu troops, took them into custody, and then disarmed Wu Ban and brought them to Le Jin.

Le Jin met with Wu Ban in the official office of the White Emperor City.

"Why didn't you surrender before? If you surrender with 20,000 troops and all the people and materials, not only will you have no fault, but you will have merit, and you will definitely be able to pay homage to the generals, and you will not lose preferential treatment, why should you resist? ”

"The ancestors of the family are very friendly with the ancestors, my brothers followed the ancestors into Shuzhong, and were taken care of by the ancestors, so far there are more than ten years, ten years of care, I dare not forget, so I dare not surrender before."

Wu Ban knelt on the ground and said in frustration.

"Then why don't you just fight to the death, fight to the death, in the name of total loyalty? Don't you think it's a wrong decision to surrender at this time, not only will you not be able to get the name of loyalty, but it will even be difficult to get a reward, and you will even be questioned? ”

Lejin asked again.

"The matter has come to this, whether to surrender or not, it doesn't mean anything to me, but there are still 2,000 soldiers in the city, nearly 10,000 people, I can't bear them to die with me, the defeat of our country in this battle is a foregone conclusion, the people in Shu have suffered a big loss, I just want to keep some more people in Shu."

Wu Ban took a deep breath: "If the general doesn't want to see me alive, please give me a knife and allow me to kill myself to comfort the ancestors." ”

Le Jin looked at Guo Jia, shook his head, and said: "Since you have descended, whether you die or live, it will be decided by the Son of Heaven, you can't decide it yourself, I will report your matter to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will decide."

Before that, I ask you, would you like to lead the way for our army and persuade us to march into the cities and armies along the way? In this way, you may be able to redeem your merits and get a reward, so that you will not end up miserable. ”

"The general of the defeated army, even if he has surrendered, is really a person who betrays the Lord, since he has betrayed the Lord, how can he do such a shameless thing? Please keep me in custody and don't let me get involved in this kind of thing. ”

Wu Ban knelt down and pleaded.

Le Jin sighed, waved his hand, and asked his soldiers to press Wu Ban down and imprison him, and let someone watch him carefully, and then he no longer paid attention to his affairs.

Breaking through Qutang Pass and White Emperor City, the road to Shu suddenly opened up.

Le Jin and Guo Jia commanded the army to advance both land and water, along the waters of the Yangtze River all the way to the west, and soon conquered the entire Badong County, and then advanced down the river to Ba County.

The Shu army's Badong defense line was destroyed, the main force was destroyed, and the Wei army's march route along the Yangtze River was also the Shu army's march and grain transportation route.

The post stations set up by the Shu Han government along the Yangtze River for grain transshipment could not resist the further advance of the Wei army at all, on the contrary, the grain, forage and even some war horses and ships in the post stations were confiscated by the Wei army along the way, which became the guarantee of the Wei army's advance.

However, for more than ten days, the main force of the Wei army traced the river and successively conquered Quren County, Linjiang County, Pingdu County, and Tong County.

There was no resistance in the four counties, the officials abandoned the city and fled, and only a small number of local officials had nowhere to flee, so they stayed and waited for the Wei army, and after seeing the Wei army, they surrendered decisively.

As a result, the Wei army marched smoothly without encountering any resistance, and by mid-to-late March, the Wei army had already arrived in Jiangzhou.

Ba County Taishou and Jiangzhou County Commander have already abandoned the city and fled, and the defenders in the city have long been dispersed, so the big families in the city united to take over the city, and saw that the Wei army had arrived in Jiangzhou, so they surrendered the city and dedicated all the treasury in the city to Le Jin and Guo Jia.

Le Jin and Guo Jia were very pleased, and ordered the army to attack everywhere, and they stayed in the city to hold banquets, entertain the big families in the city, promote the policies of Wei, and lay the foundation for Wei's rule in Shuzhong.

When Le Jin and Guo Jia finished reorganizing their army in Jiangzhou and continued to march up the river, it was already March 25.

At this moment, Liu Zhang already knew the news in Chengdu.

Prior to this, in mid-March, Liu Zhang had just learned that the battle situation at the Sword Pavilion Pass was unclear.

The general Gao Pei and the Zhonglang general Lei Tong were killed because of the surprise attack of the Wei army, and the defenders of the Sword Pavilion Pass lost their soldiers and were in urgent need of medicinal materials, and the number of wounded soldiers who died was far from being comparable to the number of people killed in battle.

At present, there are only more than 15,000 people who can continue to fight, which means that in just over a month, Jiange Pass has lost nearly 5,000 soldiers, and the terrible casualty rate makes Liu Zhang tremble and Chengdu tremble.

Then Liu Zhang learned that the siege weapons of the Wei army were updated very quickly, using catapults to siege the city, throwing boulders, fierce fire oil cans and earth-shaking thunder.

Wu Yi described on the recital that a boulder can smash a deep pit when it falls from the sky to the ground, a fierce fire oil tank can burst into a huge flame, which can burn without combustibles, burning a large number of soldiers, and the earth-shattering thunder can make a thunder-like sound, which is extremely terrifying.

At present, the situation at Jiange Pass is very bad, the siege distance of the Wei army's weapons is very far, the bow and arrow of the Shu army cannot reach, and they cannot fight back, so they can only be beaten passively, and it is not feasible to go out of the city to fight.

Wu Yi urgently asked for reinforcements and a large number of medicinal materials and doctors, especially those who could treat burns.

Liu Zhang's hair turned gray for this, and he mobilized his subordinates to continue recruiting troops around Chengdu, and urgently requisitioned civilian doctors who were good at treating burns and sword wounds and sent them to Jiange Pass.

Then Liu Zhang learned that there was no movement near Micang Mountain, and there seemed to be no Wei army attacking, so he ordered Zhang Ren, who was stationed in Micang Road, to divide 5,000 troops to aid Sword Pavilion.

At the same time, Liu Zhang also seriously thought about Huang Quan's previous super mobilization proposal, thinking about the action of sending all men to the battlefield and letting women carry grain.

There are really not many men of school-age around Chengdu who have been transferred, and there are not many men who have spread to the entire Shu County, and the men of Guanghan County have gone to transport food to the defenders of Jiange, and they can no longer be recruited, and the men in the land of Sanba will also go to transport food to the defenders of Badong County.

The barbarians in each county were all bought off by Liu Zhang to join the resistance, and with the exception of the border counties in the south of Yizhou, the war potential of the Chengdu Plain had dried up.

Of course, this is all the number registered in the number of households, and if Liu Zhang can make up his mind to suppress the powerful and rob the labor force, he will definitely be able to get the mobilization power equivalent to all the mobilization power he currently has, and continue to support the war.

It's a pity that he can't do it, he has reached this point is already angry and resentful, and he is about to revolt.

In the process of recruiting civilians and soldiers, many Li Shu chose to flee to Haoqiang Manor for refuge because they could not bear the heavy work.

Liu Zhang had no choice, so he had to transfer the 10,000 troops of the four counties in Nanzhong back and try his best to resist.

But such an idea, along with the idea of Super Mobilization, disappeared after Liu Zhang learned that the defense line of Padang County was destroyed and Yan Yan was killed in battle and Wu Ban surrendered.

The last time Liu Zhang got Yan Yan's recital was when Yan Yan captured Wu County.

Yan Yan wrote a letter to Liu Zhang in a very proud tone, saying that he had defeated the Wei army and captured Wuxian, and that he was going to march to Zigui next, seize Zigui, and force the Wei army to abandon their strategic intentions.

When Liu Zhang learned of the great joy, he immediately sent someone to reward Yan Yan and the front-line army, and sent them rare cattle and wine.

However, when Liu Zhang sent the rewards out, Yan Yan had been surrounded by the Wei army and died in battle, and these rewards did not continue to advance after arriving in Jiangzhou.

The official in charge of going to reward the army learned that Yan Yan had died in battle and that the Wei army was marching towards Jiangzhou, so he was so frightened that he threw the reward in Jiangzhou, and he fled to Chengdu with the Jiangzhou officials.