Moved by Fa Zheng's words, Pang Xi decided to go his own way and follow the strategy proposed by Fa Zheng.

Fa Zheng was overjoyed and fully assisted Pang Xi in carrying out his plan.

The rest of Pang Xi's subordinates were very worried about this matter, thinking that this would make Pang Xi ruined, and they discussed a lot, feeling that this matter was really unreliable, and some people even thought about reporting to Liu Zhang and removing Pang Xi's command.

Fa Zheng is too young after all.

Under such circumstances, Pang Xi still withstood the pressure and resolutely completed the preparation of the plan.

On Zhang Wei's side, because he found that the intensity and frequency of Pang Xi's siege were decreasing for more than ten days, he felt that the situation was wrong.

After careful analysis, Zhang Wei and his generals all believed that Pang Xi was short of military food, or was constrained by Chengdu, so they encountered such a situation.

Otherwise, how could the intensity and frequency of attacks continue to drop to such a point?

"Liu Jiyu is definitely not the master of the Ming Dynasty, or he is suspicious of Pang Xi, and he cuts off his grain and grass, making Pang Xi's successor powerless, if this is the case, Hanzhong will have no worries!"

Zhang Wei was very happy and continued to observe the situation on Pang Xi's side.

Sure enough, for the next three consecutive days, the intensity and frequency of attacks continued to decrease, and on the fourth day, Pang Xi did not attack.

On the fifth day, Pang Xi did not come to attack.

Early in the morning of the sixth day, Zhang Wei sent people to secretly go out of the city to check the situation, and found that Pang Xi's army did not know when it had withdrawn.

Zhang Wei regrets that!

I didn't even notice that Pang Xi's army had retreated!

How nice would it be if you could follow and chase for a while and get some credit?

Zhang Wei was very unhappy, so he immediately sent someone to chase him out for a while to see where Pang Xi and they had withdrawn, and sent someone back to tell Zhang Lu that the battle had been won.

When the pursuing soldiers and horses came back and said that Pang Xi's army had run away without a shadow, Zhang Wei nodded with satisfaction.

So Zhang Wei rewarded the army, and the defense of Yangping Pass became lax, and for several days, the army after the victory was holding banquets, laughing and laughing until late at night.

Then suddenly, in the early morning of one day, when the defenders of Yangping Pass had not yet gotten up, suddenly an army appeared under the city of Yangping Pass like a ghost, and climbed the city wall as fast as possible.

Their swift attack took them by surprise and quickly killed all the defenders and opened the gates of Yangping Pass with lightning speed.

Then the Shu army that came out of nowhere rushed into the Yangping Pass City, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing rang out, and Zhang Wei, who had not woken up with a hangover, was carried by his own soldiers in a daze and fled.

Because there was no unified command, and because many soldiers did not wake up, resistance simply did not exist.

However, after more than an hour, Yangping Pass fell, and a small number of 20,000 Han Chinese troops were killed, most of them became prisoners, and the whole army was wiped out.

On the first day of the second month of the fifth year of Xingping, Pang Xi, the former general of the Shu Kingdom, conquered Yangping Pass, the western gate of Hanzhong, and led tens of thousands of Shu troops into the Hanzhong Basin, raging all the way.

The Shu army soon took Dingjun Mountain and Tiandang Mountain, swept away all the military strongholds set up by Zhang Wei, and solved the defense of the Hanzhong army with lightning speed.

On the seventh day of the first month of February, the vanguard soldiers of the Shu army came to the south of Zhengcheng, and Zhang Lu was frightened.

Pang Xi waved his army to keep up, and the tight encirclement of Nanzheng was impassable, and attacked with all his might, although the sparsely numbered Hanzhong army resisted desperately under the command of Zhang Wei, but it lost its heart and could not resist Pang Xi's attack at all.

Zhang Lu was desperate.

Seeing the collapse of the **** regime of the Five Doumi Sect that he single-handedly created, he was desperate.

He has the faith of all believers, but he still can't resist the powerful soldiers and power.

On February 13 of the fifth year of Xingping, Nanzheng was breached, Zhang Lu set himself on fire, Zhang Weili died in battle, and generals Yang Ren and Yang Angli died in battle.

Since the time of Liu Yan, the regime of Zhang Lu****, who had ruled Hanzhong for several years, officially collapsed, and Hanzhong County was occupied by the Shu Kingdom of Yizhou.

Pang Xi was ecstatic and immediately sent a table to Liu Zhang, asking Liu Zhang to come to Hanzhong, set up an altar in Hanzhong to worship heaven and earth, and ascend to the throne of Hanzhong, so as to swear to the world that Liu Zhang would inherit the mantle of Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang.

Pang Xi felt that Liu Zhang at this moment was just a distance from being called emperor, that is, a distance from Chang'an!

Pang Xi has even begun to plan to go out of the Qinling Mountains to attack Chang'an.

Should you take the Qishan Road or the Bao Slope Road or the Meridian Road?

Pang Xi was thinking deeply.

At this time, Guo Peng's army had just taken Luoyang and was rushing towards Hongnong.

Ma Teng Han Sui's soldiers and horses had just retreated to the vicinity of Chang'an and began to set up defenses.

Sun Ce and Liu Biao have signed the alliance agreement and are working hard to deal with the threat from the north.

Liu Biao's messenger was on his way to Chengdu and was almost there.

Hanzhong was captured by Pang Xi, which means that the territory of the entire Yizhou has been complete, and Liu Zhang's Shu Kingdom occupies Hanzhong, and can use Hanzhong as a base to the north to win the land of Guanzhong.

Pang Xi really planned like this, and he trusted Fa Zheng, who had just made great contributions to him, and promoted Fa Zheng to his military advisor to plan the next strategy for himself.

Fa Zheng was also very excited, very excited, and immediately used his experience to plan for Pang Xi how to use several famous ancient roads to get out of Shu and enter the Guanzhong Plain.

Fa Zheng used his own experience as a native of Guanzhong and once went south to Shuzhong, and suggested that Pang Xi take the Qishan Road, out of Qishan, to Hanyang County.

The reason is also very simple, compared with the rest of the roads out of Shu, the Qishan Ancient Road is the most capable of carrying a large number of troops.

This road is in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to deal with the rebellion of Di and Qiang, it was rebuilt by Wudu Taishou Yu Xu, and there are convenient conditions for the water of the Western Han Dynasty, the route of the march generally coincides with the waterway, compared with the extremely difficult road in Shuzhong, the importance of the waterway is self-evident.

The amount of grain that a large ship can carry is equivalent to dozens of large trucks, and Guo Peng also tried every means to use the waterway to reduce the transportation pressure of the logistics troops on the way to Guanxi.

This is still the case in the land of Kansai, let alone Shuzhong.

In order to reach Guanzhong in the north of the Qinling Mountains, the price that the Shu people need to pay is too great, so some people say that Shuzhong is a situation of trapped dragons, and the fertile soil and rich products in Shu are talented, but they also give Shu the most difficult geographical conditions to communicate to the outside world.

It is difficult for outsiders to enter Shu, and it is even more difficult for Shu people to go out, and it is even more difficult for foreign troops to conquer Shuzhong in the south, and it is even more difficult for them to go north, and the northern expedition of the Shu army is a pure nightmare.

Fa Zheng has walked through the difficult Shu Road, and has had many contacts with foreign business travelers, and knows that the Shu Road is difficult, so he thinks that the Qishan Road, which is relatively flat and easy to walk, and can use the waterway to transport grain and grass relatively more, is the most suitable.

Pang Xi thought so and felt that what Fa Zheng said was very right, so he sent people to explore the route and trend of the Qishan Ancient Road, and then continued to discuss with Fa Zheng the strategic plan after the Qinling Mountains.