After that, Wang Xuan changed his approach outright.
He only equipped Dian Wei with a fifty-man team. Aside from Dian Wei, who was at the Externalized Qi realm, there were eight high-ranking officers at the Qi Refining into Gang level, while the remaining forty-two were stuck at the threshold of Qi Refining into Gang.
This fifty-man team was enough to capture a small pass that relied entirely on its terrain advantage.
Compared to it, passes defended by tens of thousands or even several thousand soldiers were truly difficult to conquer. They could only be taken through a head-on battle of attrition.
Sure enough, times had changed, and many things had undergone earth-shaking reversals.
Hanzhong's natural advantage of being easy to defend and difficult to attack was about to disappear.
Of course, this only applied to Liu Bei's army.
They had too many experts—so many that all the other warlords in the world combined could not match even half of Liu Bei's army. If the standard were lowered somewhat, comparing only those at the Qi Refining into Gang level and the peak of the Body Realm, Liu Bei's army had an even greater advantage. It could easily assemble a team for storming fortifications. If it were another force, such as Liu Zhang's, then all anyone could do was laugh. At most, he had a single expert at the Externalized Qi level. He truly did not dare take such a risk. If that person were tricked, he could immediately sing a requiem for himself.
Externalized Qi did not mean invincibility. At the very least, Wang Xuan had plenty of ways to use traps to kill an expert at the Externalized Qi level.
Wang Xuan threw all the corpses of Zhang Lu's soldiers inside the pass off the cliff, letting them return to