After receiving Ma Chao's report, Ma Teng and Han were overjoyed and informed all the Liangzhou troops of this news.

They called on everyone to take action immediately, and each led their troops to attack the Shu army, and captured all the military camps and villages distributed in various places, counterattacked Hanyang County, recovered the lost territories, and expelled the Shu people.

The news of the Liangzhou army's full-scale counterattack quickly reached Pang Xi and Fa Zheng's ears, and the situation in various places was almost reversed in an instant.

The morale of the Shu army was in chaos and could not persist in fighting. The Liangzhou people succeeded in counterattacking, and the territory that had been conquered was taken back one after another. The battle situation had already developed in the direction of collapse.

Fa Zheng and Pang Xi were in a panic and had lost their composure. They didn't know how to recover the crisis.

Under such circumstances, many generals lost confidence and actively advised Pang Xi, hoping that Pang Xi would withdraw his troops.

We can't fight anymore. There is still some food now. You can withdraw your troops. If we continue to fight, once there is no food and the army is hungry, how can we withdraw troops?

Retreat now and can still protect the main force. If the Liangzhou soldiers catch up, I don’t know how many casualties it will take to successfully retreat.

Now, it's time to retreat.

Pang Xi didn't want to withdraw, and Fa Zheng didn't want to withdraw, but the situation just had to withdraw.

Because the food is just not delivered, it means that the Shu army on the front line has run out of food.

Pang Xi was silent in the military camp for a day, and Fa Zheng was silent for a day.

When the two met again, they knew that it was impossible to do it.

He fought desperately to fight across thousands of mountains and rivers to fight to the north, but ended up like this.

I'm so unwilling to accept it, really unwilling to accept it!

"When we have worked hard to get here, Hanyang County has been captured by us. As long as there is enough food! As long as there is enough food, it can occupy all Longyou! It can overcome Liangzhou! Why! Why is this fate! Why!!"

Fa Zheng punched the table with one punch, his face full of despair.

Pang Xi was relatively calm, and silently looked at Fa Zheng crying in tears, and sighed deeply.

"Time? Life? Is God unwilling to let Pang make meritorious achievements?"

Pang Xi closed his eyes and made a decision.

If you continue to fight, you will be at risk of losing your main force and you will lose all your capital for another Northern Expedition. You can still leave room for retreat and there is still the possibility of continuing the Northern Expedition.

People must be kept, and people must live.

Pang Xi decided to withdraw his troops.

Like most generals of the Shu army, everyone had lost confidence and felt that the war had ended, they had failed, occupied a Hanyang County, and could no longer make any difference.

Pang Xi and Fazheng began to arrange retreat separately.

Among all military operations, the most difficult thing is retreat. Excellent generals can not only gain an advantage in the offense, but also maintain a relatively complete queue when retreating without any action, and ensure the safety of retreat to the greatest extent.

With the help of Fazheng, Pang Xi arranged the retreat in an orderly manner, such as who came to the palace, who first set out to retreat, the order of progress, etc.

At the same time, in order to vent his dissatisfaction and to cause trouble for the people of Liangzhou, Pang Xi ordered all the households that could be discovered in Hanyang County to be forcibly moved away, and take away as much as they can.

Then burn down houses, cut down trees, destroy cities, fill wells, destroy bridges and roads.

In this way, the arrival of pursuers in Liangzhou can be stopped to a considerable extent.

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

The households of Hanyang County, men, women, young and old, were broken into the house by the Shu army and forced to move away. Those who were unwilling to leave were killed on the spot. The soldiers of Shu army clamped them on their necks with steel knives, forcing them to leave their hometown.

For a time, the whole Hanyang County was in chaos, and crying could be heard everywhere, and people who were beheaded because they were unwilling to leave could be seen everywhere.

There are also many people who united to resist in order not to leave their hometown, or fled to the deep mountains and forests to avoid the pursuit of the Shu army.

Hanyang County suffered a great chaos.

However, the retreat of the Shu army was still very smooth. In early October, the main force of the Shu army had completed the retreat.

Ma Chao led the Liangzhou soldiers to rush forward, trying to intercept the Shu army's retreat. He defeated several Shu army's rear troops along the way, and used a cruel method to surrender, 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. Facing the destroyed cities, houses, roads, wells, and bridges, he had no choice but to catch up even if he wanted to, so he could only slow down.

Then Ma Chao discovered that the Shu army plundered local households and could not escape, took away a lot of people, killed many people, and almost destroyed the entire Hanyang County.

What was left to the Liangzhou coalition forces later was no longer a complete victory ending.

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

The Shu army advanced to Longyou with about 43,000 troops. About 7,000 people died in battle or due to injuries and illness, and the main force still existed.

From August to October, in two months, the Shu army gained nothing except some war horses and a group of people, and did not get it. The Liangzhou strategy failed completely.

But not everyone has gained nothing in these two months.

Guo Peng’s gains are great.

Summer and autumn grains have once again been harvested, and the treasurys in various places have been greatly enriched, giving Kansai reconstruction strategy a shot of the heart.

On the battlefield, Guo Peng's gains were also very big.

This is not only because the joint fight between Liangzhou coalition forces defeated the Shu army and cut off the possibility of the Shu army seizing Longyou to relieve the trap of dragons, but also because of the gains from Jingxiang and the southeast.

In mid-to-late August, when the Shu army and the Liangzhou coalition were fighting fiercely, Liu Biao's side, Zhang Yun led 30,000 Jingzhou troops to launch an attack on Runan County, and ordered a side division to attack Yingchuan County, fighting against Guo Lie and Li Qian respectively.

Li Qian and Guo Lie both received Le Jin's order before the war. Le Jin's order said that Guo Peng's order was to only fight defensive counterattacks, not attacks.

No matter how the Jingzhou soldiers retreat, they are not allowed to pursue. Those who violate the order will not be considered defeated, but will be considered defeated and punished.

Li Qian and Guo Lie were puzzled and didn't understand what Guo Peng meant to do this, but since Guo Peng ordered, they must also abide by it. When they fought with the Jingzhou soldiers, they felt quite frustrated.

The Jingzhou soldiers attacked forward, and they could only defend against counterattacks, not pursued, and could not take the initiative to attack. So the Jingzhou soldiers rushed over and fought for a while, rested for a while, fought for a while, rested for a while.

Li Qian and Guo Lie both felt that the battle was very strange and felt that something was wrong in this battle.

Of course, there are generals who don’t have this feeling on the Jingzhou Army, such as Liu Pan, who thinks something is wrong.

"General, why doesn't our army attack with all its might?"
Chapter completed!