"Why can't even use cavalry if you do anything? There is only one possibility to transport food and grass for Liu Bei's army."

"Before we cut off the grain routes in Ziwu Valley, there were only two possible opportunities for Liu Bei's troops to fight to the death to regain the grain routes. Either we attack Nanzheng and grab food and grass from Nanzheng's city, but we ignored Ma Chao's Xiliang horses."

"There are thousands of Xiliang war horses, going back and forth to Xigu, and transporting food and grass from Chang'an to Chenggu, which is not difficult. If the speed is fast enough, it should only take more than ten days to run a round trip. This is why, it should have been a long time ago that Liu Zhang and Liu Bei joined forces. They could have taken action many days ago, but they delayed for so long."

"I think it should be that in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Liu Bei took action after Ma Chao transported the first batch of food and grass from Chang'an to stabilize the army."

"This is obvious when no one has transported the second batch of grain and grass in Ziwu Valley for more than ten days. Because the people who walked through Ziwu Valley had already learned the news in advance, it is estimated that this news was passed from the direction of Xigu."

Guo Jia breathed out all the guesses in his heart.

And the guesswork is basically in line with Liu Bei's situation.

After being heard by Liu Zheng and others, they immediately understood the process of the entire incident.

Liu Zheng was obviously a little unwilling to accept it.

"Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, okay, very good. This time I underestimated the enemy."

Liu Zheng gritted his teeth and was somewhat angry at these two guys with the same surname as him.

Even though he was angry, Liu Zheng was still very rational. In this case, Liu Zheng could not continue to stay here.

He stayed here and waited for Liu Zhang and Liu Bei's more fierce attacks. Especially if Liu Bei and Liu Zhang learned about it and Liu Zheng was also in Hanzhong, Liu Zheng would definitely not be able to protect his life.

Liu Bei and Liu Zhang would not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and they would definitely attack here at all costs.

Therefore, Liu Zheng also wanted to evacuate here before his whereabouts were exposed.

When the sun rose from the east, the battlefield was noisy all night and finally the building was empty.

There was originally a camp that stretched for several miles, and at this time there were only some burned firewood, discarded armor and flags, and unclaimed corpses.

There was blood everywhere, emitting a strong and pungent smell of blood.

In the sky, several circling black birds appeared from time to time, sometimes falling down, sometimes flying up and making a low and cooing cry.

The newborn sun shines on the earth from the east, repelling the thick morning fog, showing the terrifying and lonely scenes on the battlefield.

From the scene after these people left, it can be seen that the fierce battle that happened here last night.

However, such a broken scene cannot bring much warning to people, nor can it change this panic world.

A few days later, a few months later, this place will be forgotten.

The corpses all over the ground will only turn into nutrients for weeds, nourishing a blooming flower.

West City.

After Liu Zheng's troops returned here, they began to treat the wounded soldiers on the one hand, and on the other hand, they immediately dispatched a large number of spies to closely monitor the dynamics of Liu Bei.

Once Liu Bei had the plan to attack Xicheng, Liu Zheng would retreat dozens of miles to retreat to Shangyong City.

Fortunately, perhaps the battle last night caused a lot of losses to Liu Bei's troops, and the remaining troops were very tired. In a short period of time, Liu Bei did not rush to find trouble for Liu Zheng.

However, Liu Bei did not miss this opportunity, and only rested for three days. After three days, he instigated Liu Zhang to dispatch another 20,000 troops from Liu Zhang's Nanzheng City, plus Liu Bei's own 20,000 troops.

Leading an army of 40,000 to head straight to the west city.

Liu Zheng had just returned to Xicheng and had some chance to breathe. He wanted to take advantage of the city's benefits to compete with Liu Bei's troops again.

However, Guo Jia told Liu Zheng that fighting Liu Bei in Xicheng was not a good place.

Xicheng is a small city, with a wall not strong, and tens of thousands of troops attacked and were fully capable of defeating it.

Moreover, they did not need to attack the city and regain the food road. They would slowly consume it with Liu here, which would be enough to trap the troops in Xicheng City to death.

In addition, Liu Zheng's reinforcements and more than 10,000 troops led by Sun Jian were still rushing over to fight in Xicheng, which was not a wise move.

In the end, Liu Zheng chose to give in first and avoid the edge.

Retreat the army to Shangyong.

For the time being, he will not confront Liu Bei's troops head-on.

After taking back Xicheng, Liu Bei and Liu Zhang were both a little excited.

I wanted to make a concerted effort and continue to pursue and drive Liu Zheng's troops out of the Hanzhong area, but when I was attacking Shangyong, I saw the reinforcements from Liu Zheng's side and came to reinforce from Jingzhou.

Liu Zheng's troops suddenly had more than 10,000 more troops, and he was guarding Shangyong.

Shangyong is not a small town like Xicheng, but a major town. If you want to conquer it, it will not be that easy.

Liu Bei's men had no plans to attack, so Liu Zhang's men naturally would not be the one who stood out. Both sides were waiting for reinforcements. As soon as the reinforcements arrived, they began to attack Shangyong and recover lost territory.

However, the war had not yet begun, and at this time, a bad news came from Xichuan.

Liu Yan, the governor of Yizhou, passed away.

Liu Zhang wanted to return to Yizhou to inherit the position of governor of the prefecture, and there was no possibility of staying here to deal with Liu Bei to fight Liu Zheng.

He wants to leave with his troops.

Liu Bei originally wanted to continue to mobilize troops to reinforce Hanzhong, and began to fight back when Liu Zheng was weak, but Liu Zhang left at this time, which made Liu Bei's confidence that he had just had wasted again.

When his father died, he couldn't let someone not go back to worship, and he had a position to inherit. There was no way, so he could only delay the attack on Liu Zheng first.

When the news came back to Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng laughed out loud and laughed three times.

This is really, God is helping him.

If Liu Bei and Liu Zhang's troops were to attack Shangyong, there would be no other reinforcements in the battle between Shangyong, and it would be really not easy to block the two Liu's joint efforts.

But now, this crisis has been solved directly.

Liu Zheng thought about it carefully and it seemed that Liu Yan in history did die at this time.

Without external forces, Liu Yan died and withdrew from the stage of history.

A generation of heroes can also be regarded as having a good end.

The end of the Battle of Hanzhong is not a good result for the three forces.
Chapter completed!