"I was just afraid that General Qu Tu and the others would cause trouble, so I told Li Canjun, who was in charge of Cangcheng, in advance... to tell him that if General Qu Tu made any difficult arrangements before he left, ask him to agree to it and wait until I arrive to deal with it."

Qin Bao had something to say. "After you settle down here, I will go to Cangcheng to have a look. I will never miss anything."

Everyone was relieved.

Facts have proved that Qin Bao's precautionary measures worked - Qu Tuda's arrangement before leaving was for Li Canjun, who was stationed in Cangcheng, to withdraw as soon as possible.

To be fair, this is not good advice.

First of all, this will put the troops who are unable to escape into trouble, and may even be suspected of betraying the follow-up troops; secondly, regardless of the fact that the follow-up troops are destined to be surrounded, we have to admit that burning warehouses is a kind of behavior no matter which dynasty or generation

It is very unacceptable behavior; finally, it is quite difficult to burn Liyangcang.

This is no joke. You must know that, on the one hand, in order to prevent fires, there are not many fire starters and fuels around Liyangcang. Trees and the like are routinely cleared, otherwise the mountains next to them would not be called Tongshan. Moreover, this place

The location is relatively sheltered from the wind; on the other hand, there are too many warehouses, and they are divided into warehouses. The warehouses are often isolated by rammed earth, so you can't burn much even if you want to.

Of course, even if it doesn't burn much, it would definitely be a pity and not a good thing if it was burned. Therefore, Qin Bao's advance arrangements still played an obvious role.

On the morning of the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, Shan Tonghai arrived in Liyang, and Liyang City immediately surrendered. Shan Dalang ignored the stability of the city and immediately went to Liyangcang behind Liyang City. He then accepted the surrender of the defenders here and took control of Cangcheng.

, took over the surrounding warehouse area.

At this time, the army's combat objectives have actually been achieved.

But it was too fast. No one expected that under Xu Dalang’s attack and a series of offensive strategies, Jijun’s army would fall apart so easily. Until today, because of the smoothness of the battle and the speed of the troops, the rear troops

They just entered the territory of Jijun.

It was not that there was no war. On the 27th, Yecheng's reinforcements, who knew nothing about the situation, tried to go south, but were easily defeated by the cavalry of the three battalions of Zhou Xingfan, Fan Wang, and Liu Heifu led by Xiong Bonan outside the city. Thousands of troops were lost.

No reaction.

At this time, it is necessary to praise the own preparedness that the Gang has set up in advance: the field soldiers have already been mobilized on the day of dispatch, which is the 24th, and have followed the Chinese army to Jijun, preparing to participate in transshipment and warehousing

, and after receiving the news that Liyangcang had to be completely acquired, the local officials in various counties also started mobilizing or notifying the people to go to Liyangcang to collect food according to the plan.

On the 28th, Zhang Xing, the chief of the gang, who learned about the war on the front line, led ten battalion soldiers including Xie Minghe, Ma Wei, Cao Xi, Sui Jia Yue, Zhai Qian, Dou Lide, Li Zida, Wang Xiongdan, etc. to arrive ahead of the tens of thousands of troops stationed in the field.

To Liyang.

"How is the situation?" Outside Liyang City, Xie Minghe saw Xu Shiying, Xu Shiren and others coming to pick him up, and asked from a distance.

"Excellent." Xu Shiying blurted out. "The storage is properly sealed and no damage has been done. It is waiting for the chief's inspection."

Zhang Xingxing was stunned, and many of the leaders accompanying him, including Xie Minghe, were also stunned.

Because this statement is too self-contradictory.

You must know that according to the plan, Xu Shiying and the others should open the warehouse at this time and let the people around them come to help themselves and collect food. In fact, when they came here, they saw with their own eyes that countless people from the surrounding area had come to collect food.

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Next to them, there is an endless stream of food. Although these local people are not short of food because they rely on the garrison to support the economy, they still remain silent with a hint of disbelief and are unable to transport food... After all, no one knows.

When did these military bosses stop being kind?

Of course, this is going too far. Turning back to the present, the surroundings are already like this. Why is it still called "the storage is sealed and is waiting for the chief inspection"?

"Chief, when you get to Cangcheng, you'll know at a glance." Xu Shiying seemed to have anticipated the visitor's reaction and responded calmly.

Zhang Xing and others became more and more curious, so they parked the army around Liyang City, and together with more than a dozen big leaders, the leader and a team were almost all ready to move the gang elites and guards on horseback to the inner area and be surrounded by two mountains and two rivers.

The city (Dagon Mountain, Tongshan, Dahe, Qingzhangshui Extension Canal, Liyangcang) sandwiched Liyangcang and left.

Following a wide and clean rammed earth road, you will arrive at Cangcheng within a few miles.

Cangcheng is not in this avenue, but on one side of the foothills of Dagong Mountain, which has been specially leveled.

After arriving in Cangcheng and having a high-level view, everyone immediately realized the problem... It turned out that the huge storage area at the end of the official road between two mountains and two rivers had not been opened, and the endless flow of food was simply

It was transported from Cangcheng.

As a result, everyone immediately shifted their doubts.

"How much food can there be in Cangcheng?" Xie Minghe still couldn't bear it and asked out of curiosity as he walked into the city.

"I don't know the exact amount. Anyway, the warehouse officials from Dongdu ran away early. But if we guessed correctly, the food in the warehouse city alone is enough to feed 80,000 people for a year." Another person who led the way.

The big leader Xu Shiren spoke with some caution.

"How much?" Doulide questioned for everyone.

Surprisingly, Xu Shiren and Xu Shiying didn't say a word. Instead, they took three steps and entered Cangcheng, which was not large in area. The gang elites behind them also filed in.

Entering Cangcheng, turning up the city wall, ignoring the motionless Dantonghai sitting on the wall, what you see is an ordinary small city with a radius of several hundred steps, which is the same as most Cangcheng, Yingcheng and Kucheng.

There is not much difference... a simple rammed earth city wall, a simple two rows of barracks, the only thing that attracts everyone is that there are no redundant buildings in the city, only densely packed rammed earth "tables" about a hundred and a half people high.

These rammed earth "tables" are so dense, neat, and uniform in size, and there is a small brick building on them, that people first think that they are permanent barracks.

Of course, they are definitely not, because everyone has seen with their own eyes that these "small rammed earth platforms" are the source of the transshipment of grain. Some civilians, shirtless in the winter, are constantly pushing carts and loads of food from small buildings.

of grain, and then dumped it directly on the ground, and the ground was full of golden grain. The people who came to pick up the grain came in cautiously, but after seeing the grain, they all went crazy to load it. Only after loading the grain

, but when he carried it out, he became cautious again.

There is no doubt that these things are granaries.

"That's a big urn made of rammed earth." Shan Tonghai, who had been sitting on the city wall without moving and didn't get up when he saw Zhang Xing coming up, suddenly looked away from the food and introduced seriously. "Who are we?"

I've seen it first. It's a large circular cellar made of rammed earth. It's narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. It's like a large urn made of rammed earth set in the ground. Mats are spread inside, filled with grain, and the top is supported with wood and sealed with earth.

Just leave a hole to live in, build a house, and leave a door...I asked, such a rammed earth jar is made according to the military rations for a thousand people for a year."

Zhang Xing remained silent. The leaders who came around him, whether they were from Hebei or Henan, whether they were leading troops or those directly in charge, all felt a little shaky for a moment, and several of them even raised their hands.

, somewhat clumsily, but impatiently, count the number of large rammed earth urns in this small little warehouse.

"No need to count, eighty-seven, seven of which are already empty. The remaining eighty are almost enough for us to save all fifty battalion heads for a year." Shan Tonghai interrupted these people's actions again.

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But soon, those who stopped counting, led by Dou Lide, clumsily climbed down from the city wall, and went to verify it with their own eyes, while the rest of the people simply stood there motionless.

Zhang Xing seemed to be the only one who didn't react too much. He turned his head and looked at the huge storage area at the end of the official road in front of Cangcheng.

"Chief, this is what I mean by 'sealed complete'." Xu Shiying also turned around and tried to tell her seriously. "The grain here in Cangcheng was originally just to store new grain for the army to use. It was transferred here in Hebei.

Every quarter's new grain is sent here after it is wasted... And over there, there are two large grain storage areas, one for storing money, one for storing linen, one for storing silk, and one for storing groceries... Others

It’s hard to say, but if the new grains every season include these, then the grain alone here should be enough to feed our entire army for thirty years. I suspect that the grain alone is worth millions of dan, but it’s just destined to be unclear.”

"No," Ma Wei suddenly reminded. "It won't be enough for us to survive for thirty years... Has Chief Xu forgotten the three expeditions to Dongyi and Hebei? And the past few years, he has only been able to go out and not come in...

…Besides, even if it is corn, it can last for more than ten years. If it lasts for more than twenty years, it will basically be broken and broken, and it can only be fed to pigs."

Xu Shiying opened his mouth, did not say anything, and just nodded slightly.

Ma Wei also suddenly shut up and said no more.

Let's say that the leaders in Liyangcang City at this time seemed to be quite calm, but they seemed to have different reactions.

But in fact, a pragmatic and smart person like Xu Shiying came up to make a fuss; Shan Tonghai sat there, seemingly nonchalant and in control, but his hands kept shaking when he spoke; a talkative person like Xie Minghe,

He even stopped talking midway; Ma Wei, who had always been open-minded, suddenly raised his voice... In contrast, Dou Lide and Zhai Qian did not care and went directly to do the test. Xu Shiren's cautiousness was more obvious.

To put it bluntly, everyone was shocked, and they were shocked beyond measure, so they were all losing their composure and trying to cover up their own loss. This made it appear that everyone was too calm.

As for Zhang Xing, Zhang Xing was of course shocked and lost his composure, otherwise he wouldn't have said a word from the time he met people like Xu Shiying until now.

However, what others don't know is that Zhang Xing's intense shock was accompanied by equally intense anger.

It is a kind of primitive anger that awakens the time traveler from the mixed quagmire of difficult gang politics, confused personal goals, and the complex strategic situation of the entire world. It is the original anger that makes him unable to help but want to kill, set fire, and rebel at the beginning.

Such anger!

Inexplicably, when faced with the huge warehouses accumulated in Hebei for 20 to 30 years, after the gang had just completed a classic and excellent small-scale attack, they were about to face a complex situation that was turbulent and uncertain in the world.

At that time, Zhang Xing thought of a person, an inexplicable person - Yuan Da, the rogue who insisted on snatching even shoes.

All he wanted now was to remain silent, gather the last bit of energy in his body, and stamp down hard.

Of course, Zhang Xing still maintained a trace of reason - he remembered the dream he had, and then suddenly realized that no matter what the conditions were, he would come to take Liyangcang.

Because this is what he wanted.

"The people of Hebei Province for thirty years have gathered here." Zhang Xing suddenly spoke in a calm tone. "It's time to return it!"

Xu Shiying nodded and asked for words.

But the next moment, Chief Zhang continued: "However, the Yecheng warehouse is still there. If we can't take it, we won't be able to do our best in Hebei. And the blood of the people in Hebei will be returned, so what about Henan? The Luokou warehouse in Xingyang will also be taken down!

We want everyone in the world to take back their anointed blood."
Chapter completed!