After getting Ma Chao's report, Ma Teng Han was overjoyed and informed all the Liangzhou troops of the news.

They called on everyone to start immediately, each led an army to attack the Shu army, broke through all the military camps and Dazhai distributed by the Shu army, counterattacked Hanyang County, recovered the lost territory, and expelled the Shu people.

The news of the Liangzhou Army's all-out counteroffensive quickly reached the ears of Pang Xi and Fa Zheng, and the tide of the war was reversed almost instantly.

The Shu army was in turmoil, unable to persist in fighting, and was successfully counterattacked by the Liangzhou people, and the territories that had been conquered were taken back one after another, and the war situation had developed in the direction of collapse.

Fa Zheng and Pang Xi were anxious, they had lost their proportions, and they didn't know how to save the situation.

Under such circumstances, many generals lost confidence and actively made suggestions to Pang Xi, hoping that Pang Xi would withdraw from the army.

We can't fight anymore, there is still some food, we can withdraw our troops, if we continue to fight, once there is no food, the army is hungry, how can we withdraw our troops?

If you retreat now, you can still save the main force, and if you are caught up by the Liangzhou soldiers, you don't know how many casualties you will have to pay to successfully retreat.

Now, it's time to retreat.

Pang Xi didn't want to withdraw, and Fazheng didn't want to withdraw, but the situation was that he had to withdraw.

Because the food just can't be delivered, it means that the front-line Shu army has run out of food.

Pang Xi was silent in the barracks for a day, and Fa Zheng was also silent for a day.

When the two met again, they both understood that they couldn't do anything.

desperately crossed thousands of mountains and rivers to come to the Northern Expedition, but ended up with such an ending.

I'm so unwilling, I'm really unwilling!

"Exhausted my efforts to come here, Hanyang County has been captured by us, as long as there is enough food! As long as there is enough food! You can get it all right! You can overcome Liangzhou! Why! Why is this the end! Why!! ”

Fa Zheng slammed his fist on the case, his face full of despair.

Pang Xi was relatively calm, silently watching Fa Zheng weeping and crying, and sighed deeply.

"Shiya? Fate? Isn't God willing to let Pang establish meritorious deeds? ”

Pang Xi closed his eyes and made a decision.

If we continue to fight, there will be a danger of losing the main force, and we will lose all the capital of the Northern Expedition again, and there will be room for retreat now, and there is still the possibility of continuing the Northern Expedition.

People, people must be saved, people must live.

Pang Xi decided to withdraw from the army.

Like most of the Shu generals, everyone had lost confidence, feeling that the war was over, that they had lost, that they had occupied a Hanyang county, and that they could no longer do anything.

Pang Xi and Fa Zheng then began to arrange the retreat separately.

Among all military operations, the most difficult is to retreat, excellent generals can not only have an advantage in the offensive, but also maintain a relatively complete queue when the operation fails to retreat, and ensure the safety of the retreat to the greatest extent.

With the help of Fazheng, Pang Xi also arranged the retreat in an orderly manner, such as who came to the palace, who would open the retreat first, the order of march, and so on.

At the same time, in order to vent his dissatisfaction and add to the blockage of the people of Liangzhou, Pang Xi ordered all the households that could be found in Hanyang County to be forcibly relocated, and they could take as much as they could.

Then they burned houses, cut down trees, destroyed cities, filled wells, and destroyed bridges and roads.

In this way, it can also stop the arrival of the Liangzhou pursuers to a considerable extent.

After arranging all this, in late September, the Shu army began to retreat.

The households of Hanyang County, men, women and children, were broken into their houses by the Shu army, forcibly forced to move away, and those who did not want to go were killed on the spot, and the soldiers of the Shu army clamped steel knives around their necks to force them to leave their hometowns.

For a while, chickens and dogs jumped in the entire Hanyang County, and cries could be heard everywhere, and people who were killed because they were unwilling to leave could be seen everywhere.

There are also many people who unite to resist in order not to leave their homeland, or flee to the deep mountains and old forests to avoid the pursuit of the Shu army.

Hanyang County was in turmoil.

However, the retreat of the Shu army was still carried out very smoothly, and in early October, the main force of the Shu army had completed the retreat.

Ma Chao led the Liangzhou soldiers to rush to the front, wanting to intercept the retreat of the Shu army, and defeated several Shu army's palace troops along the way, killing and surrendering in a very cruel way, and regaining his reputation, but in the face of the Shu army's full retreat preparations, he still did not catch up with the Shu army.

Ma Chao was overwhelmed by the various problems left by the Shu army, and in the face of the destroyed cities, houses, roads, wells, and bridges, he had no choice, and he couldn't catch up if he wanted to, so he could only slow down.

Then Ma Chao found that the Shu army looted local households, took away a lot of people, killed many people, and almost destroyed the entire Hanyang County.

After that, what was left for the Liangzhou coalition army was not a complete victory.

Of course, for the Shu army, it is not a victory, but a defeat, and it is not a fiasco.

The Shu army of 50,000 advanced to Longyou, retreated with about 43,000 troops, and about 7,000 people died in battle or died of wounds, and the main force still exists.

From August to October, for two months, the Shu army gained nothing except for some war horses and a group of people, Longyou did not get it, and the Liangzhou strategy was a complete failure.

But in the past two months, not everyone has gained nothing.

Guo Peng's harvest is very great.

There was another bumper harvest of summer and autumn grains, and the government coffers in various localities were greatly filled, which gave a shot in the arm to the reconstruction strategy of Kansai.

On the battlefield, Guo Peng's gains are also great.

This is not only from the joint resistance of the Liangzhou coalition army to defeat the Shu army, cutting off the possibility of the Shu army seizing Longyou to relieve the trapped dragon, but also from the harvest of Jingxiang and the southeast.

In mid-to-late August, when the Shu army and the Liangzhou coalition army were fighting, Liu Biao's side, Zhang Yun led 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers to attack Runan County, and ordered a partial division to attack Yingchuan County, fighting Guo Lie and Li Gan respectively.

Li Gan and Guo Lie both received orders from Le Jin before the war, and Le Jin ordered that Guo Peng's order was only allowed to fight defensive counterattacks, not to attack.

No matter how the Jingzhou soldiers retreated, they were not allowed to pursue, and those who violated the order were not considered victorious, but would be counted as defeated in battle and punished.

Li Qian and Guo Lie were puzzled and didn't understand what Guo Peng meant by doing this, but since Guo Peng gave the order, they must also abide by it, and when they fought with Jingzhou soldiers, they all felt quite aggrieved.

The Jingzhou soldiers attacked forward, they could only defend and counterattack, they could not pursue, and they could not take the initiative to attack, so the Jingzhou soldiers rushed over to fight for a while, rest for a while, fight for a while, and rest for a while.

Li Gan and Guo Lie both felt that this battle was very strange, and they felt that this battle was completely wrong.

Of course, there are not generals on Jingzhou's side who don't feel like this, such as Liu Pan, who feels that something is wrong.

"General, why don't our troops attack with all their might?"

Liu Pan saw that Zhang Yun's attack was weak and weak, and it felt like greeting and communicating with the other party, fighting a war was to shed blood and sacrifice to move forward bravely, how could he feel that this was completely wrong?