Chapter 40: A Trip to Jizhou (8)
After Yang Tao and Di Qiu returned to the inn, they were thinking about food. The news about the granary from Yu Qi caught Yang Tao off guard. It is unlikely that Yang Tao would want to capture the Sun family granary where hundreds of people were stationed.
After discussing with Di Qiu, he still did not discuss any results. He could only go to the Sun family's granary to take a look first, and maybe he could find a solution.
Peifengzhuang is located between the Jiangshui River in Zhangshui, with a developed fishing industry. Most villagers in the village make a living by fishing. However, due to the severe drought, the river water level dropped sharply and it was no longer possible to sail. A large number of fishing boats were stranded in the river channel near the village.
On this day, Yang Tao brought everyone to Peifeng Village with disguised as a group of passing merchants. Since Peifeng Village is at the junction of the two rivers, merchants often pass by, but it did not attract the attention of the people in the village.
After walking around the village, Yang Tao found that the people in the village were also a little thin, but they were better than other places in Nanpei.
Yang Tao stayed in an inn in Zhuangbei. The inn in Zhuangzhong is just an intermediate inn, with simple food, clothing, housing and transportation. However, this is a relatively high-end building in Zhuangzhong. It has two floors, surrounded by some wooden houses and a small number of stone houses, and the view is still very wide.
Standing next to the window of the room on the second floor of the inn, Yang Tao could see from a distance that there was a land surrounded by wooden piles and fences in the northeast of the village. From a high place, you could vaguely see warehouses inside the fence, where the Sun family’s granary was.
This granary has tens of thousands of square meters, and has two exits on both sides of the east and west. From time to time, people come in and out. There should be many guards in the granary.
"Lord, look at the defense of the Sun family's granary, we probably won't have a chance to capture it!" Di Qiu saw Yang Tao looking in front of the window as soon as he entered the room, and said.
Yang Tao turned around and saw that it was Di Qiu, but did not answer Di Qiu, but just asked, "It's the old man, I wonder how the old man inquired in the village?"
"Returning to the lord, Lao I inquired about it. There was indeed a lot of food in the Sun family's granary, but there were a large number of Sun family guards, with hundreds of people. Moreover, according to Lao I inquired, there was one of the guards in the Sun family's granary named Wei Chunjun. He was a ranger before. After being recruited by the Sun family, he was arranged by the Sun family as the leader of the guards in this granary. This person has at least the strength of a junior general."
"Oh, this Sun family is really not an ordinary force to guard a granary. It seems that it is impossible to take this granary." Yang Tao's face became even more sad when he heard Di Qiu's words.
"Lord, since it is difficult to obtain food from the Sun family, we can only choose other targets." Di Qiu couldn't help but suggest that Yang Tao was worried about food.
After Di Qiu said that, Yang Tao thought about it before saying, "What the old man said is reasonable, but the food to save tens of thousands of victims is not a decimal. It is unlikely that it will be difficult to find a suitable partner in a short period of time, and the victims of Nanpei cannot afford to wait."
"This is because I have no consideration." Di Qiu said guiltily.
"The old man is right. If you are really unsure of capturing the Sun family's granary, you can only follow the old man's method."
"Does the lord want to break into the Sun family's granary? This is absolutely impossible!" Di Qiu immediately became shocked when he heard Yang Tao's words.
"Haha." Yang Tao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm just going to give it a try. If it really doesn't work, I won't force it."
"Since the lord must go, please take me with me. Although I am old, I cannot charge for the lord, and I can also explore the reality of the Sun family's granary for me." Seeing that Yang Meng insisted on attacking the Sun family's granary, Di Qiu could only give me some advice.
"Okay, since the old man wants to go, just go, but don't get too close to the granary." Yang Tao thought that Di Qiu had a exploratory skill, so he agreed to go with him.
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As night fell, Yang Tao and everyone took advantage of the night to sneak up on the Sun family's granary. Several guards at the east gate of the granary were standing there listlessly, without any notice of Yang Tao and others' arrival.
Within twenty meters from the east gate of the granary, Di Qiu activated his gazing skill to secretly peek into the situation in the granary.
"How strange." Di Qiu said in a low voice after thinking about it, then said to Yang Tao: "The lord's granary is very big. I can't detect my skills so far. I will wait for the lord to go around the granary before repaying my lord."
"Okay, then there's a blessing for the old man, but the old man still brings some people over. It's too dark tonight, so you can lead the way for the old man." Yang Tao thought about it and agreed to Di Qiu's request.
"promise!"
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More than two hours later, Di Qiu returned to Yang Tao, but there was a look of confusion on his face. Yang Tao asked, "Did the old man find something?"
"Go back to the lord, I searched around the grain warehouse and found something strange. The grain warehouse was actually an empty camp." Di Qiu said with some uncertainty.
"What, empty camp!" Yang Tao said.
"That's right, when I discovered this situation, I thought my skill had made a mistake, so I searched it several times and the result was the same, without any abnormality. Except for 10 guards in the east and west gates, there was no one in the granary, but there should be a lot of food in the granary." Di Qiu said to Yang Tao truthfully.
Yang Tao heard it a little mysterious. There weren’t hundreds of people in this granary? Why were there only a few people left? Then he asked Di Qiu again: “There is the commander of Wei among these guards.”
"No." Di Qiu replied, but seeing Yang Tao's relief look, he couldn't help but feel moved and said hurriedly: "My lord, can you attack this granary now? This matter must not be done. There must be something strange about this granary that has inexplicably become an empty camp. Why don't you go back and find out the situation before making plans."
"Old man, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. No matter what the reason is that the guards of the granary are so weak, I will try it." Yang Tao said with a firm expression.
Seeing that he could not dissuade Yang Tao, Di Qiu could only sigh: "Oh, the lord insisted on doing this, and I will no longer persuade him, but if the lord finds that something is wrong, he must leave in time."
"Well, the old man is unable to move, so stay here. Wait for my good news." Yang Tao said to Di Qiu. After leaving a few soldiers to protect Di Qiu, he led his men to the east gate of the granary.
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At this time, there was an intermediate village several miles north of the Sun family's granary - Xibu Village. There were thousands of people in the village, but because of the famine, only hundreds of people were left.
But if someone passes through this village and looks carefully, he will find that the population in this village seems to be as large as a thousand people.
A young man sat in a stone room in the village, and beside the young man were several powerful men of Kong Wu. Under the swaying candlelight on the table, the young man said to a strong man in front of him: "Commander Wei, have those thieves come to attack the granary yet?"
The strong man was Wei Chunjun, the leader of the Sun family's granary, who had previously guarded the Sun family's granary, and this young man was the young master and grandson of the Sun family.
Hearing Sun Kang's inquiry, Wei Chunjun admitted: "Reply to the young master, there is no movement in the granary at the moment. I wonder what the young master is going to do today."
"There hasn't been any movement yet, it's been a few days since then. Could it be that the thieves have left Nan Pei?" Chief Wei's answer made Sun Kang a little confused, but he didn't care. He just pointed at the strong men around him and said, "I am here to add some people to you."
"Add to add manpower, do you think that I, Wei, can't deal with a few thieves?" Wei Chunjun said angrily.
"The Wei commander is so serious. With the strength of the intermediate general of Wei, he is more than enough to deal with a few thieves. However, my father and uncles attached great importance to this group of thieves, so he sent several masters to help. The four of my son's side are all the strength of the generals." After explaining to Wei Chunjun, the young man pointed to one of the strong men with scars on his face and said, "Come on, Commander Wei is Deng Yi from the Zhao family in Xiangguo City. He is like Commander Wei, who is an intermediate general. With their help, Commander Wei will definitely catch the thief."
"Since it was sent by the head of the family, Wei was not talking about anything." Although Wei Chunjun was very unhappy, he didn't say anything.
"That's good."
"Report to Commander Wei, the thieves attacked the granary of Peifengzhuang not long ago." At this time, a guard suddenly reported outside the house.
When the young man heard the guard's words, he immediately stood up and said with his eyes shining: "It seems that this young master is coming at the right time. Commander Wei, follow me to the granary immediately."
"promise!"
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The guards in the granary were just some ordinary soldiers at the junior level. Yang Tao and others quickly solved these people. After attacking the granary, all the guards were solved, Yang Tao began to collect the grain and put them into Hunyuan bag.
Half an hour later, he searched all the granary and only harvested two million units of grain from it. Seeing that he obtained these grains, Yang Tao felt a little wrong. The Sun family's granary was very big and could hold tens of millions of units of grain. Why was there only such a small amount?
At this time, Changshan, who was still searching in the east of the granary, rushed to Yang Tao and said, "Lord, a horse team appeared in the north of the granary, with hundreds of people coming towards us."
"No, I've been trapped." When Yang Tao heard Changshan's words, he realized that he might have been ambushed before. He hurriedly said to Changshan: "Changshan, you and I have brought the people to burn this granary and immediately retreated to the east gate of the granary to meet. I hope to slow down the speed of the opponent's horse team."
"No!" Changshan agreed, and hurriedly took people to various parts of the granary to set fires. Yang Tao also ignited several nearby warehouses.
Before the enemy's cavalry arrived, Yang Tao and Changshan met with Queen Di Qiu outside the granary and fled eastward at a very fast speed.
Shortly after Yang Tao and others left, Sun Kang led the horse team to the granary. When the granary caught fire, he couldn't help but curse: "These thieves actually dare to destroy my Sun family's granary. It's damn. Wei Chunjun, you and Deng Yi will take people to pursue those thieves, and swear to catch those thieves for me, and the others will follow me to put out the fire."
"No!" Everyone responded and began to act separately.
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Chapter completed!