Jiang Sheng withdrew to Ji County, and Lu Bu learned that the blockade was successful, so he withdrew to Chang'an City.

Ma Tie fled west with more than 1,000 cavalry, and the enemy army in the middle was solved.

Ma Chao on the southern front made rapid progress and soon met Zhang Ning's Fifth Army, Zhang Ning's troops had participated in the battle to eliminate Gongsun Du, and they were also veterans against cavalry.

Ma Chao's forward troops bore the brunt of the trap, rushing to the trap pit dug by Zhang Ning Military first, and inside the trap pit was a buried oil jar, and the war horse was trampled on it, and then even the people and horses were planted in.

Due to the speed of the cavalry impact, it soon fell into two thousand horsemen, and the soldiers who had been observing the tunnel not far away hurriedly ignited the rocket.

The arrows burst through the air with flames, and fell into the pit, and as soon as the oil met the fire, it burst into flames, and the poor cavalry piled up in the pit, and there was no way to avoid it, and they were soon consumed by the fire, and the smell of burnt spread through.

Ma Chao's forward army bypassed the trap pit, and when they were advancing forward, they found that the soldiers of Zhang Ning's army who were originally in front had disappeared without a trace.

In the midst of his doubts, countless spearheads appeared from the ground, stabbing the horse's belly, and it was a one-sided killing.

Zhang Ning is the only descendant of Zhang Jiao's "Taiping Technique", and he is very interested in the secret passages of organs, and all kinds of strange tactics are terrifying.

The remnants of Ma Chao's vanguard army did not dare to advance anymore, so they slowly retreated, but Zhang Ning still did not let them go, and the big bed crossbow that was ambushed a mile away rose from the ground, and countless crossbow arrows were aimed at the retreating enemy army.

The sound of breaking the sky came, and the Ma Chao vanguard realized that something was wrong, but the crossbow arrows had already poured over, and only a few dozen horsemen escaped by chance, and fled back to the Ma Chao battalion to report everything they had experienced.

Ma Chao was suspicious, and took his entourage to the scene at night to check, there was no trace at the scene, and after returning to the camp, he wanted to behead the soldiers who fled back, and the soldiers changed the stinking armor and showed it to Ma Chao, Ma Chao believed it, so he decided to temporarily stop the attack and see the situation.

Ma Chao was waiting, but Zhang He was not waiting, building a crossbow fortification in the rear of Ma Chao's army, and after it was built, he left the infantry to defend it with all his might, and brought his own cavalry into Longxi.

Ma Chao's grain and grass materials were transported from Longxi to the front line, Zhang He came in this way, directly cut off Ma Chao's supply, and the captured materials were distributed to the surrounding people except for some to supplement the troops.

The people were grateful for Zhang He's virtue and provided information one after another, completely providing Zhang He's military deployment of Ma Teng in the northwest.

Zhang He's "point-point" offensive destroyed the northwest defense that Ma Teng had painstakingly managed for several months.

Because of the people's support for Zhang He, Ma Teng did not send scouts, and he had no knowledge of Zhang He's actions.

Wen Chou's army attacked the city in Wuwei, and the fight was very lively, and Ma Teng personally led an army of 100,000 from Zhangye to crusade against Wen Chou.

At the same time, the troops sent by the Northern Xiongnu to help Ma Teng have also entered Wuwei, Chu Yanjiu was in the prairie, and he had a very thorough understanding of the movement of the Xiongnu soldiers and horses, and found the traces of the Northern Xiongnu troops in time.

The two armies engaged in an encounter with a large cavalry corps in the northern border area of Wuwei.

The troops brought by Chu Yan this time were all light cavalry, using the latest armor, using new materials, small weight, good protective performance, and significantly better mobility than the Huns.

The Northern Xiongnu troops were relatively cold, wearing leather armor, and they could run rampant in the northern grasslands, but because they did not encounter Jiang Sheng's men and horses.

After more than ten days and nights of guerrilla warfare, Chu Yan's army basically defeated the troops of the Northern Xiongnu who went south, and the remnants of the defeated generals were all absorbed by Hu Chuquan, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu who accompanied Chu Yan on his expedition to the west.

Ma Chao, who had not been supplied for a long time, judged that there was something wrong with Wudu and Longxi, and was worried that the back road would be cut off, so he would not attack, so he reorganized his troops and horses and retreated west at night.

Zhang Ning knew Ma Chao's movements, and did not pursue, but divided his troops to recover Hanyang County, according to Jiang Sheng's strategy, after Zhang Ning recovered, the officials from the Chang'an Captain's Department immediately entered the counties to carry out their work.

The work of rebuilding and developing the economy after the war was able to be carried out quickly, winning the support of the people and providing a steady stream of soldiers and supplies to the front.

Wherever Ma Chao retreated westward, the people took refuge, and the granaries of every household were empty, and some people even moved the entire village to the interior, and the water source in the village was filled in.

By the time the retreat of Ma Chao's army reached the northwest of Longxi, the troops had already dispersed by 30%, and during this period, some of them died of illness, thirst, and starvation, and the non-combat attrition was serious.

However, Ma Teng's reinforcements in the west have not arrived for a long time, and Ma Chao's army is facing collapse.

Zhang He has been monitoring the situation of Ma Chaojun, deliberately not going to war, and when the morale of Ma Chaojun's generals collapsed and his combat strength plummeted, he launched an attack!

The elite division will face this kind of exhausted soldiers and horses that almost collapse, and there is no suspense about victory.

Many Xiliang soldiers actually took the initiative to surrender to Zhang He, and Zhang He had no chance to fight if he wanted to.

More and more troops were surrendered, and the consumption of grain and grass was becoming more and more serious, so Zhang He had no choice but to inform Lu Bu.

Lü Bu sent troops to meet him, and then sent the troops to the east of Chang'an and the Nanyang area, and then transferred officials and troops from the interior to Wudu.

Zhang He searched all the way, Ma Chao's troops became fewer and fewer, and in the end, Ma Chao fled back to Wuwei alone.

On the Anding side, Ma Tie and Pang De converged and encountered the most difficult bones to gnaw when attacking Anding City.

Gao Shun defended Anding City like an iron bucket, and the Xiliang army, which was several times his size, fought for more than two months and was not defeated.

Seeing that the grain and grass were exhausted, Pang De sent troops to forcibly requisition grain and grass from the people of Anding County, which made the people's resentment boil, and many people spontaneously organized themselves to attack Pang De's small troops.

After much deliberation, Pound decided to withdraw his troops, but had already missed the opportunity to retreat safely.

Chu Yan's cavalry in the north went south, Xu Huang's soldiers and horses in the east had also come to Anding, Zhang Ning's soldiers and horses in the south, and the Xuanjia cavalry led by Jiang Sheng.

Pang De's soldiers and horses were not worth mentioning in front of Jiang Sheng, and the battles started in all directions, and the entire northwest became a big melee.

The Qiang troops, who wanted to get a piece of the pie, were also in danger of being wiped out by the Han army because of Ma Teng's comprehensive contraction.

The Wenchou army that went deep into the desert was not adapted to the water and soil, and after a few battles with Ma Teng, the situation became grim, and problems such as sandstorms, dust storms, and lack of water plagued Wenchou, and for a month, Jiang Sheng did not get any news about the Wenchou army.

In order to prevent accidents, Jiang Sheng sent a search and rescue force of 2,000 cavalry to find the whereabouts of Wen Chou's army, and at the same time dispatched all the soldiers and horses in the northwest to carry out a strategic counteroffensive.

On the way to retreat, Pang De's army was surrounded and divided by many soldiers and horses under Jiang Sheng's command, and then it was eaten away little by little, and the remaining more than 5,000 soldiers and horses were blocked by Xu Huang's army in the poplar forest on the edge of the desert.