The location of the Jin army's secret warehouse was extremely secretive, but the Qiao family, who could not resist collecting grain and grass, had already had evil intentions.
Of course, the Qiao family doesn't know the locations of all the secret warehouses in Hetao, but they still know the locations of most of the Yinshan County.
On the drawings brought back by Murong Longcheng, the locations of the six secret warehouses were marked in detail.
There are seven hidden warehouses and three open warehouses in each of the ten counties of Yinshan, for a total of ten grain warehouses, while the other two counties have a total of ten grain warehouses, and the entire Hetao has a total of twenty grain warehouses.
The largest Mingku in Yinshan County is naturally located in Yinshan City, while the other two Mingku have been burned down by Yang Liulang in time during the retreat.
In other words, there were seven secret vaults that fell into Temujin's hands, and Temujin already knew the locations of six of them.
Temujin handed the drawings to Tuo Lei and ordered Tuo Lei to find all the hidden warehouses. Tuo Lei also acted vigorously and found all six hidden warehouses in less than a day.
As for the last remaining secret warehouse, Tuo Lei also found some useful patterns from the distribution of the six secret warehouses, and searched it like digging three feet into the ground, and finally found the location outside a county.
Since then, all seven secret warehouses in the ten counties of Yinshan have fallen into the hands of Yuan Meng.
The grain storage in Yinshan County accounts for half of the entire Hetao grain storage, and the grain storage in the seven hidden warehouses in Yinshan accounts for half of the Yinshan grain storage. In other words, Yuanmeng has obtained a quarter of the entire Hetao grain storage.
grain.
Although the Jin army has not developed the Hetao for a long time, due to the promotion of high-yielding grain varieties at the beginning of the development, the amount of grain stored in the Hetao is now extremely large, even enough for an army of 400,000 to fight for a year.
Qin Hao expected to use this batch of grain to unify Hebei, but he didn't expect that as soon as he returned to Hetao after unifying the division and merging the two states, a quarter of the grain reserves would fall into Temujin's hands.
Only a quarter of the grain reserves are enough for an army of 400,000 to fight for three months, and this is a timely help for Yuan Meng, which greatly reduces the pressure on Yuan Meng's grain and grass, so that Yuan Meng will not be exhausted because of grain and grass.
Bring down the entire country.
Although he only received three months of food and grass, in Temujin's view he had already won, because three months was enough for him to storm Yinshan City, and there were still three months of food and grass in Yinshan City!
Three months later, and another three months, and then another three months...
In using the food and grass of the Han people to fight against the Han people, Yuan and Meng did not consume it. It can be said that they took it from the enemy and used it against the enemy.
"Your Majesty, in three days, the first batch of slave troops, totaling 50,000 people, will arrive at Zhenbeiguan, and then the second batch and the third batch will arrive one after another." Tuo Leihui reported.
A glint flashed in Temujin's eyes, and he immediately asked: "How many slave armies have been organized in total?"
"Your Majesty, there are a total of 150,000, but the weapons have not been distributed yet."
Temujin raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why not issue weapons?"
"Your Majesty, the weapons stored in the domestic arsenal have been given priority to the 200,000 new troops recruited, and the remaining weapons are not enough to arm this slave army. We must use the weapons captured in Hetao to defeat the slave army.
Arm them into an army."
"Are there enough weapons seized from the Jin army?" Temujin asked with some lack of confidence.
"That's enough. The Jin army has a lot of money. Our army killed 120,000 militiamen before, and almost every one of them had a steel knife. In addition, there is a lot of CNOOC surplus in the treasury, which is enough to arm an army of 150,000 slaves."
Temujin immediately breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
Although the national power of Yuan and Meng was strong, it was still limited in the end, and was far inferior to the wealth and wealth of Qin and Jin. This can be seen from the weapons, equipment and food and grass. At least the Qin and Jin armies did not have to worry about food, grass and equipment.
The gap in heritage between the grasslands and the Central Plains also intensified Temujin's determination to take over the Central Plains.
After all, the grassland is still too poor, and all kinds of materials are extremely scarce. The colorful world of the Central Plains is the best place for Yuanmeng to belong. Temujin thought to himself.
"After the slave army arrived in Hetao, they immediately distributed weapons and organized into an army, and then attacked Yinshan City with all their strength." Temujin ordered.
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Yinshan City, inside the Prefect's Mansion.
"hateful……"
Yang Liulang smashed the tea cup into pieces with one palm, and the fragments pricked his palm, causing blood to flow out. However, he did not feel any pain at all. Instead, he said bitterly: "How did Temujin know the location of the secret warehouse? Oh, regret it or not."
Brother Yao said that it should have been burned directly from the beginning, at least it would not have made Temujin cheaper."
Looking at the remorseful Yang Liulang, Li Jing sighed in his heart but had no choice. He had persuaded Yang Liulang to burn the food and grass in the secret warehouse, but Yang Liulang rejected Li Jing's request for two reasons.
First, the amount of grain and grass in the secret storehouse was so large that it could only be burned with the order of Duke Jin, otherwise he would not dare to issue this order.
Second, the location of the secret warehouse is secret. Not many people in the Jin army know about it, so Temujin will definitely not be able to find it.
It was precisely because of Yang Liulang's hesitation that all seven secret warehouses fell into Yuan Meng's hands. Yang Liulang felt extremely regretful about this. If he had known this, he would rather be punished than burn the food.
After all, Yang Liulang is still too immature and not decisive enough. Compared with Li Jing, the gap is too big.
"General Yang, it's too late to say this now. We can only do our best to make up for it." Li Jing said solemnly.
Li Jing was transferred by Wang Meng to help Yang Liulang. After all, Yang Liulang was facing Temujin. Wang Meng also lacked confidence in Yang Liulang. However, it was with the help of Li Jing that Yang Liulang defended Yinshan City.
Steady into Mount Tai.
When Yang Liulang heard this, he immediately became energetic and asked hurriedly: "Can I still make up for it?"
"Of course, the amount of grain and grass in the seven secret warehouses is huge, and Yuan Meng cannot move them all in a short time."
"General Li Jing, do you mean to attack and burn the secret warehouse?" Yang Wulang said in shock.
Li Jing nodded and said, "That's right."
Yang Liulang's eyes suddenly lit up, but then he hesitated: "But Yuanmeng will definitely deploy heavy troops to guard such an important place as the grain depot, and there are only 10,000 main troops in Yinshan City, which may not be enough to attack and burn the grain depot.
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"Since Yuanmeng captured Zhenbeiguan, our army has been on the defensive. In addition, the number of main forces in Yinshan City is limited. Temujin certainly did not expect that our army would dare to take the initiative to attack. At this time, a battle outside the city will definitely lead to a complete victory.
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Li Jing had already reached this point, but Yang Liulang was still hesitating, so he urged him with a stubborn tone: "Has the general forgotten the consequences of hesitating in the first place?
Yuan Meng's slave army is about to arrive in Hetao, and when the Xiongnu slave army forms, it will definitely come to attack Yinshan City. By then, we will not be able to fight even if we want to go out.
Liulang, as a general, you must continue to fight, and you will suffer harm!"
Yang Liulang couldn't help but trembled when he heard this. Since his father Yang Ye died in the battle, the fall of Zhenbeiguan and the nine counties of Yinshan put Liulang under too much pressure, and his whole person became a little timid, but this
The blood and water chestnuts that represent him have been smoothed away.
"This general has decided to send troops to fight." Yang Liulang said solemnly.
After hearing this, Li Jing was relieved. Although Yang Liulang was not decisive enough when encountering trouble, he would not give up the fighter plane he had obtained.
Finally, after Yang Liulang and Li Jing discussed it, Li Jing and Yang Wulang led five thousand elite cavalry to leave the city at night to attack the secret warehouse that fell into Yuan Meng's hands, while Yang Liulang left the remaining troops and militia to guard Yinshan City.