However, even if they did not understand the cannon, Bai Feng did not need to worry.
After all, the strongest killing weapon, the grenade, was already created.
As long as they had the grenade, no matter which Lord they faced, it would be a piece of cake.
This kind of attack was not inferior to the lightning of the Heavenly Dao when he used the Taiping Vital Art.
The strength of the grenade might be even stronger than lightning.
When he used lightning, he could easily wipe out a city, much less such a grenade.
After Bai Feng solved the problem of the miners, news came from Sichuan.
Liu Zhang had surrendered.
Liu Zhang was forced into a corner as he had no choice.
Originally, with the 350 thousand Sichuan troops outside, Liu Zhang could resist for a while.
However, he did not expect that.
Three days after the Sichuan troops defended the city, Ma Chao led troops from Xiliang and charged over.
Under the threat of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Zhang Lu's troops had no chance to fight back.
Just like that, in less than a day, Zhang Lu was trampled by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
Zhang Lu was not willing to surrender, so he hung himself from the roof.
The moment Hanzhong was lost, the 350 thousand Sichuan troops lost their source of rations.
Without rations, it was the scariest thing for an army to fight a war.
They could hold on for a day or two, but if it dragged on, the soldiers would not be able to take it.
If they could not even eat, how could they fight a war?
As such, after Hanzhong was sneak attacked, Zhang Ren and Wu Yi decided to fight to the death.
Their rations could last for two more days.
As long as they took down Sichuan within two days, they would have a chance to fight the Cao Army head on.
Furthermore, although Liu Bei retreated, it was only because he did not have enough troops.
During this period of time, Liu Bei spent a lot of time organizing the troops. Along with the reinforcements from Jiangdong, they had a total of 100 thousand men.
However, Liu Zhang knew that Liu Bei's troops were from Liu Bei and Jiangdong.
If he wanted them to save Sichuan, he would have to pay a price.
Therefore, although Liu Bei did not mention it directly, Liu Bei still informed Fa Zheng and Liu Zhang.
As long as Bashu could be defended, they were willing to give Guanghan Prefecture, one of the four prefectures of Bashu, Guanghan Prefecture, Shu Prefecture, and Yizhou Prefecture to Liu Bei.
Despite Liu Bei's many excuses, he still sent out his troops in the end.
With the help of Liu Bei's 100,000 elite soldiers, Zhang Ren and Wu Yi's soldiers dared to attack the city.
However, Deng Ai was already prepared.
On the front, Deng Ai sent out all his troops to defend the city, blocking the 350 thousand Bashu soldiers.
On the side, Deng Ai ordered Cao Chun to lead the Tiger Leopard Cavalry to stop Liu Bei Army.
How could Liu Bei Army defeat the Tiger Leopard Cavalry?
Furthermore, the guerrilla warfare ability of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry was not something that Liu Bei's infantry could defend against.
Furthermore, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry did not plan to wipe out all of Liu Bei's soldiers.
What they needed to do was to stall for time.
This was what the Tiger Leopard Cavalry was best at.
The Liu Bei Army was stopped, and they were unable to come to their aid.
On the other hand, Deng Ai ordered the 200 thousand troops to go around from the side of Sichuan to the back of the Sichuan soldiers.
Pincering them from two sides, the Sichuan soldiers were beaten up badly.
At this very moment, Liu Zhang's thousands of weak city defense soldiers could not defend against the fierce attacks of the Cao Army.
In the end, Liu Zhang was captured, and Sichuan fell.
Cao Cao did not kill all of the Sichuan soldiers. Instead, he passed the letter of surrender written by Liu Zhang to Zhang Ren and Wu Yi.
He also told them that as long as they surrendered, they would not be killed.
Furthermore, he would keep Liu Zhang's position as governor.
To Liu Zhang, this was already a huge gift.
The Cao Army only sent troops over and did not kill all of them. Moreover, he could keep his position as governor?
Although Liu Zhang knew that if he accepted these conditions, he would only be a puppet and would not have any real power.
After all, although Cao Cao was already a king, he was still the Wei Emperor of Great Han. He was also the prime minister.
If he agreed, Cao Cao would be an entire level higher than him, and he would have to listen to Cao Cao.
However, did Liu Zhang have a choice?
Today, all of Sichuan's prefectures had been broken through by the Cao Army, and the soldiers outside were suffering. They were unable to defeat the Cao Army.
This was not a condition that he had to accept.
Hence, Liu Zhang chose to surrender.
Zhang Ren and Wu Yi had been hungry for many days, and they did not have the strength to fight.
After seeing Liu Zhang's letter of surrender, the two of them could only helplessly give up.
Even if they wanted to fight, they had to consider the feelings of their soldiers.
If they continued to fight, not only would they not achieve anything, they would also die for nothing.
When Liu Bei heard that Sichuan had surrendered, he could only grit his teeth and retreat to Jingzhou.
Sichuan was finished.
Hanzhong was finished.
The entire north and southwest had been taken over by the Wei Empire.
This was a fact that could not be changed.
Although Liu Bei was very angry, there was nothing he could do.
What he had to consider now was not the safety of Bashu.
Since he had taken care of the southwest, his target would be Jingzhou and Jiangdong's Jiao Province.
Cao Cao had already taken over two-thirds of the world.
Shi Xie in Jiao Province did not have any troops.
Although he was a duke, he was no different from the governor of the imperial court.
In fact, he was not even as good as Zhang Lu.
Hence, the only people who could share the world with Cao Cao were Liu Bei and Sun Quan.
Originally, Cao Cao had planned to attack Jingzhou after conquering Sichuan.
However, he was not in a hurry now.
Bai Feng had also planted a lot of immortal grain.
If the yield was so high, why not wait?
It would not be too late to take Jingzhou after the food supplies caught up.
Hence, after resting, Cao Cao led his troops back to Xuchang.
The entire world was shocked by this battle.
They had never thought that Cao Cao would be able to fight against both Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu at the same time.
Although the soldiers under Zhang Lu's command could not be compared to Cao Cao's, but with the two vassals, even if Cao Cao had a large number of soldiers under his command, Zhang Lu would still be able to defeat him.
It should have taken a long time.
However, the two of them had lost.
They had lost miserably.
It was also because of this that Cao Cao had become the world's most powerful duke.
Sichuan had a frightening amount of resources.
With Sichuan's supplies, Cao Cao's army would only grow stronger.
Although Jingzhou was only slightly weaker than Sichuan, it was still just Jingzhou.
How could Jingzhou compare to Cao Cao's many prefectures?
Even though some of Cao Cao's prefectures had started to suffer disasters, it was said that Bai Feng had already taken care of it.
The disaster victims had all been settled?!
Even if no one believed it, they could only choose to believe it.
This time, it was Liu Bei and Sun Quan's turn to be nervous.
They knew that only by guarding Jingzhou would they not lose Jingzhou and Jiangdong.
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