Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 446

in the dark.

Li Mi climbed on the bell tower of Liyang Cangcheng. The bell tower is located in the center of Cangcheng, eight feet high from the ground. Standing on the top of the bell tower, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Liyang Cangcheng.

Cangcheng is located in the north of Dagu Mountain. The layout of Cangcheng is roughly square, about two miles from east to west, about two miles from north to south, and five miles around.There are 400 warehouses and cellars, each with a diameter of three feet and three feet and a depth of three feet and three feet. One cellar can store eight thousand stones of grain.Although it is not as good as the [-] cellars in Xingluo Cang, it is quite astonishing, and it can store up to [-] million shi of grain.

The warehouses in Liyang Cangcheng are arranged neatly and orderly, and there is an outer city outside the central Cangcheng, where the town soldiers stationed in the Cangcheng, the personnel who manage the granaries and their families live.

Cangcheng is full of grain, which can feed millions of people for a year.

The entire Liyang Cangcheng is even more fortified than Jijun County. There are not only inner and outer walls, but also moats, sheep and horse walls, enemy towers, and urn walls.

If it wasn't for standing on the bell tower of this warehouse city, it would be hard to believe that so much food could be stored here.Not only is there a lot of grain stored here, but the means of storing grain are also extremely clever.

The construction of each warehouse cellar is particularly particular. First of all, it is particular about the location of the terrain. The low-lying granary is easy to enter the water, so the Liyang warehouse is selected at the foot of Dagu Mountain. Secondly, the warehouse also has requirements for the soil. It is also better to be sticky, otherwise it will be easy to collapse.

It is said that the design of these warehouses was designed by the master craftsman Yu Wenkai himself. For each warehouse, a circular foundation trench with a diameter of more than three feet, an outer diameter of more than five feet, and a depth of about seven feet was dug, and then the circular foundation groove was carried out. Ramping makes it extremely strong, so as to prevent the cave mouth of the granary from collapsing.

After tamping, start digging down along the inner diameter, digging more than three feet, and the digging of the cellar is considered to be over.

Then there are three steps to deal with. The first step is to use fire to grill the surface of the entire warehouse cellar. The wooden board, the third board, and a layer of mats are fixed outside the wooden boards, so that the warehouse is completed.

The storage cellar built in this way is actually underground, which has an excellent storage effect and is far better than ordinary ground granaries.Generally, grains stored on the ground are only three years old, but they can be stored for five years in this kind of granary, and grains that are durable to storage, such as millet, can be stored for ten years without spoiling.

In order to prepare for the second Eastern Expedition, the [-] cellars of Liyang Warehouse are now full again, and the grain transported from the Jianghuai River is piled up in the temporary warehouse on the ground in the outer city.

"As long as we capture the Liyang barn and open the barn to release grain, we can instantly summon [-] soldiers."

Yang Xuangan smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about food in Liyangcang, but there is still a lack of armor and armor."

"Don't worry about this, there are a lot of ordnance and armor stored in Pingyuan County, which will be transferred to Zhuojun and Liaodong. There are also several armor and ordnance workshops there. When our people capture Pingyuan County, we will naturally get a large number of ordnance and armor. .”

Li Mi's plan was very good. He took Du Yanbing and Wang Run as the core, and then contacted a large number of rebels in Henan and Hebei. When the time comes, they will attack Pingyuan County together and seize those weapons.In this way, a large number of ordnance can be captured, and the official army stationed in Pingyuan County can also be wiped out.

"When Pingyuan County falls, Duke Chu, you will order the soldiers of Jijun and Liyangcang Town to follow you northward to Pingyuan County, win two battles, and take back Pingyuan County, and then I will let Du Yanbing and Wang Run surrender. , you take this opportunity to recruit their elite team, then you can leave some troops from Ji County and Cangcheng in Pingyuan County to help defend, and then bring Du Yanbing and his troops back."

This is a strategy of changing troops with one move.

In the name of suppressing thieves, bring the soldiers and horses of Jijun to the plains, and then pretend to recruit the rebels and bring the rebels back to Jijun, but leave most of the soldiers and horses of Jijun in the plains.

In this way, you can quietly have a reliable elite to help the riots.

"Du Yanbing and Wang Run now have 8000 light cavalry and [-] infantry under their command. They are all selected and trained by the method of army formation, not those mob bandits. With these [-] people, Duke Chu will be able to respond to everyone in Liyang warehouse."

"Hahaha, Master Dharma, you have a great plan."

Taking advantage of the rebellion in Pingyuan, they brought back an elite army that had been prepared long ago to Liyang, and then waited until May to seize the Liyang warehouse in one fell swoop.

"Duke Chu, after the uprising, I think we should go back to Guanzhong for Daxing first. Now that Yang Guangdong is conquering Goguryeo, Guanzhong is empty. If after the Liyang uprising, he quickly advances westward, without attacking cities and lands along the way, but only marching westward, then We can rush back to the pass as soon as possible. At that time, with the prestige of Duke Chu in the pass, there will be a lot of responders. At that time, Tongguan will be blocked and guarded according to Baier Qinchuan. After the pass is stabilized, we can go out to fight for the world. This is also the way Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty and Yu Wentai of the Northern Zhou Dynasty conquered the world."

In Li Mi's view, this is the best strategy after the uprising. First, raid Guanzhong thousands of miles away, capture Xijing Daxing, and occupy Guanzhong.

If it doesn't work, you can also use Turks as backup.

But Yang Xuangan felt that this was not the best policy.

"Fazhu, I have considered your previous suggestion for a long time. We are now in Hebei and started an incident in Liyang. If we return to Guan Zhong Daxing, it will be too far away. Not to mention that Luoyang City is in the front, even Tongguan may not be easy. And once we If there is no base, we will inevitably become rogues, and when the time comes, all the officials and troops will encircle and suppress us, and we will be in danger."

Yang Xuangan had his thoughts.

"If you want to raise troops, I think it's best to attack Luoyang first. Luoyang is the closest to Liyang, and after years of construction, Luoyang is the center of the world. If you can capture Luoyang, you can control the remaining imperial court and win more noble officials. Second, it can control the family members of Yang Guangdong’s officers and soldiers. Another, there are many granaries near Luoyang, so you don’t have to worry about food and grass when you seize Luoyang.”

Daxing, Luoyang.

Xijing, Dongdu.

Li Mi believed that we should seize Daxing in Guanzhong first. He believed that Xijing was in Guanzhong, and Guanzhong was in danger of four fortresses. As long as Guanzhong was captured first, then Wuguan and Tongguan would be blocked, and there would be a chance to develop calmly.

But Yang Xuangan felt that Xijing was too far away. From Liyang to Daxing, the road was hundreds of miles away, and there were dangerous barriers such as Hulao, Luoyang, and Tongguan, which might not be able to pass.It would be dangerous if we were stuck halfway and had no basis.

In contrast, he felt that it would be better to fight Luoyang nearby.

"Duke Chu, taking Luoyang is the next strategy. If Duke Chu doesn't want to advance to Guanzhong, then there is another middle strategy. After Liyang raises troops, quickly send troops to the north, first attack Zhuojun, and then defeat Linyu Pass. Block Yang Guan outside the pass, prevent him from returning, and cut off his food and grass at that time, even if Yang Guang has hundreds of thousands of troops outside the pass, he can only starve to death."

"Let me think about it again." Yang Xuangan was still not convinced by Li Mi.

(End of this chapter)