As soon as the siege of Xicheng was lifted, Shen Zhong quickly sent someone to send the news to Shangyong, Ma Chao and Wang Ping returned to Xicheng for a short rest, and sent Meng Da and Xiahou Shang to Hanzhong for detention, and then waved the army east to Shangyong to join Liu Chan.

And Xu Huang, on the east bank of the Dushui River, also began to withdraw his troops.

The upstream of the blocked water is blocked by mountains, and now it is in the hands of Liu Chan, Xu Huang can't take the route of Xiahou Shang and Huan Jie, and now he can only go east.

Staring at the map in front of him, he looked a little sad and bored, when he took the mountain road to the west, there was no Shu army to block it along the way, and it was still rugged and difficult to travel.

Now, these small forces hiding in the mountains and being overwhelmed by the disturbances have always hung themselves, and they are afraid that they will face attacks and harassment all the way, but at this time they are obviously unable to move westward, and if they do not withdraw, they will only lose more.

The reason why he had been delayed for so many days was that he wanted to wait for the scout to return.

Xu Huang had sent three groups of scouts to investigate the situation on the withdrawal route and the situation in the rear of Fangling, but all of them were like stones sinking into the sea and have not returned so far.

"The scouts sent are only afraid that they have been intercepted and killed by the Shu army...... The morale of the army is getting lower every day, and we can't wait any longer."

As for Meng Da, who went to Xicheng, no matter what happened or failed, it was now meaningless.

Even if Xicheng is taken, the Shu army only needs to send reinforcements from Hanzhong, and it will be easily recaptured.

Meng Da can only ask for more blessings for himself.

Walking out of the camp tent, Xu Huang said to his own soldiers: "Pass my general's order, start the pot and make rice, and the whole army will withdraw half an hour after the meal." ”

"Yes."

Xu Huang looked at the lifeless military camp and exhaled a turbid breath.

I thought it was to help Xiahou Shang come to win the battle lightly, but I didn't expect the wind and waves to come, but now he is losing troops in this small three counties surrounded by mountains.

And he has a bigger worry, Liu Chan has achieved such a big result and has not taken advantage of the situation to move east.

There is only one possibility, he has insufficient troops in his hands and more than enough to defend the city, but he is not sure to storm and eat his own men and horses.

If it's going west to flank Mengda, it's fine, if it's ...... Thinking of the opponent who also used the same trick to deceive and lure the enemy, what if Liu Chanbei went out of the water and also sent a large number of people to the Fang Ling in his rear?

Thinking of Fang Ling, who had never been able to find out the news, Xu Huang frowned.

I'm afraid that it will not be easy for me to get out of this place.

……

The Shu army in the mountains was also very bitter.

Li Er, Chai Rong, Ding Feng and others took 500 Red Star troops and 1,000 tribal troops to smuggle the water to the east bank.

The time of smuggling was the time when Liu Chan launched a battle to lure the enemy.

Cao's army only defended the bank of the blocked river east of Shangyong, because only here was there a flat land to land on, and there was a road to the east.

The rest of the north and south are mountains, and there is no way to go.

But the road in Xu Huang's eyes is a good road for grain carts and horses.

However, in the eyes of Li Er and others, who were born in a group of mountain thieves and mountain tribes, as long as it is not a steep cliff, it is a road......

The two directions of east and south surrounded the blocked water of Shangyong, and Li Er and others crossed the river to the south at the same time as Liu Chan launched the action, chose a gentle slope into the mountain, and made a detour to the east.

When they entered the mountains, they were not said to be the same as going home, but they were similar, and with the tribal army who was familiar with the local environment as their guides, they were even more like fish in water.

These tribal troops, don't look at the time when they used to learn to advance and retreat with Ma Chao and fight in battle, but they will understand Li Er's fighting style as soon as they listen to it and teach it.

Isn't this just a safari in the mountains? We're familiar with this job!

The tribal army, which no longer marched in large groups, was more comfortable, and took the Cao army who dared to leave the camp every day to hunt wild deer, tigers and leopards.

These tribal mountain people are still very good at dealing with animals such as tigers and leopards with an unusually sensitive sense of smell, and are good at covering up their whereabouts and smells, not to mention Cao Bing, who is not familiar with mountain warfare.

At first, the scouts and spies sent were attacked, and then the squad Cao Bing who went out of the camp to inspect.

In the end, Cao Jun raised his vigilance, but you always have to get water and go to the toilet, right?

The tribal army still talks a little about martial virtues, mainly because they also have poor eyesight at night.

And the Red Star Army, whose nutrition far exceeded the average of the same period, and even their prince was so mad that he would pay attention to the balance of vitamins, focused on the last dim hour before nightfall and early morning.

The timing of his sneak attack was so strange and the angle was so outrageous that it later became the riskiest activity for the entire army to fetch water for Cao's army.

Even when you go to the toilet, you have to borrow armor first, and then bring a shield to go......

But while the Shu army entering the mountain was happily attacking, the biggest problem they faced was food.

Due to the landing route and this pattern of raiding operations, they were unable to carry large quantities of grain and grass.

Each person carried only dry food for a minimum of seven days.

Therefore, in addition to taking turns to sneak attack Cao Jun, the others have to spend a lot of time solving the food problem.

Fortunately, as the war progressed, the weather gradually warmed up, and these Shu troops, who were accustomed to living in the mountains, had their own game, mountain delicacies, and even snakes and rats that could be used as food supplements, which greatly extended their time to fight.

Although it is still impossible to entangle with Cao Jun for a long time, it seems that Cao Jun is about to move first.

The Han army in the mountains, which detected the movement of Cao's army, reconnected and converged through means commonly used by the tribesmen, such as whistles on leaves and imitation of birdsong.

The three of them, who were confident, got together again, and discussed their plans to send a little shock to the Cao army, who was about to evacuate, and the little mountain people from the Bashu region......

It's just that they didn't expect that the shock might be a little bigger than they expected.

After Guan Xing stabilized the situation in Fangling with the assistance of Yingwei, he left 500 Han troops under Liu Feng and 1,000 Qingzhuang to defend the city, and personally led the remaining 1,500 people and 2,000 Qingzhuang, a total of 3,500 men and horses, to march westward.

After receiving the news of Xicheng, Liu Chan joined Wang Pingjun and Ma Chaobu, who rushed down the waterway and rushed to support, and personally led the army to cross the river and launch a pursuit.

A large net is being tightened in the mountains between Shangyong and Fangling.

Xu Huang, who had led the army with great difficulty, did not know what a desperate situation he was going to face......

……

Chengdu.

Lao Liu is concentrating on construction, and at the same time paying attention to the situation in the south and the middle, just waiting for those who are not subordinate to rise up, he can logically send troops to pacify the south and prepare for the next northern expedition.

At present, the economic situation of Jingyi and Yizhou has recovered well after the war, and several families in Yizhou, led by the Zhang family of Qianwei County, fully cooperated, released the materials in their hands to stabilize prices, and at the same time exchanged a large amount of Zhibai money.

They also used the direct 100 money in hand to pay the wine OEM fee of the Zhao Chamber of Commerce, and participated in the wine export business together to share a piece of the pie, although the best aged wine was in the hands of the Zhao Chamber of Commerce, but the wine that went to the upper class and the price was inflated still brought them considerable benefits.

Other local families in Yizhou have also actively or passively participated in the process of making the wine business bigger and stronger, and now there are many large and small winemaking workshops in northern Yizhou, and the output is also increasing day by day.

Of course, if you talk about the top brand goods for export, it is still Shu brocade, Shu brocade + wine, which has almost become synonymous with Bashu specialties and occupies an irreplaceable role in the income composition of Lao Liu Group.

Zhuge Liang's Quyuan plough development work was very smooth, the key information was obtained from Liu Chan, and some of the remaining technical problems in front of Wolong were just a "simple" process of practice, thinking, and improvement.

After several improvements to produce the first batch of finished products, it was first promoted and tried around Chengdu, and the promotion work was carried out very smoothly under the condition of official attention and cooperation of the big family.

After the war, the tax was reduced and the people's livelihood was revived, and with the efforts of senior officials such as Fa Zheng and Liu Ba, as well as the military advisor Zhuge Liang, Yizhou was a thriving scene, and there were fewer and fewer people who were thin and had vegetables in the training time.

But Lao Liu never expected that at this moment when everything was going well, there would still be things that made him so troubled......

He received two letters in succession.

One was sent by his son, saying that Shen Tan had colluded with Cao Cao and intended to surrender Cao Cao, and that he was about to go to the three counties to assist his brother in quelling the rebellion.

Not long after that, he received a letter from Shen Tan, in which he said that Liu Feng was dissatisfied with the reward after the war, forcibly occupied the upper and lower self-esteem, persecuted the local family, and was like a rebellion, and he and Meng Da were about to raise troops to quell the rebellion.

Lao Liu suddenly felt that his head was big.

Needless to say, the truth of the faith was true, and he naturally believed in his own son.

And what kind of character the Shen family brother is, he naturally knows it in his heart.

He thinks that the reason for the big head is that how can his son make trouble wherever he goes? Before leaving, he swore that he would just go to train the troops and would never provoke trouble, but when he arrived in the three counties of Hanzhong, it was chaotic.

Although it didn't seem to be his problem, Lao Liu couldn't calm down when he thought that he might be "forced to sleep and eat" for a while......

(End of chapter)