The intelligence sent by Xiaoyu showed that each granary was guarded by private soldiers of grain merchants.
These private soldiers are supported by grain merchants. Although they are not organized, the grain merchants are willing to spend money. Their weapons and equipment are much better than those of the old soldiers under many dandy generals, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of most of the imperial soldiers who defend the city.
The special operations team follows an elite route and has a small number of people. It is almost a fantasy to annihilate all the private soldiers and seize and occupy a huge grain depot in a very short time!
Moreover, the special operations team's main method of combat is to throw grenades and kerosene jars from airships and hot air balloons. This method can kill the enemy, but it cannot be used to seize grain silos.
Grain is also considered flammable. If someone accidentally throws a grenade or a jar of kerosene into the granary, it can easily cause a fire.
The Ninth Princess immediately realized that in order to seize the granary, relying on the special operations team would not work, and a large force would need to be dispatched, so she sent a message to Zhang Liang Qinghuai and others to come back.
With the granary's defensive strength, it is impossible for bandits to dare to attack the granary.
So Qing Mulan felt that Zhang Liang's plan to suppress the bandits would not work.
But Jin Feng and Qinghuai's eyes lit up and they understood what Zhang Liang meant.
The Ninth Princess was a little slow to react to the battle, but she noticed that the expressions of Jin Feng and Qing Huai were abnormal, frowned and thought for a moment, and figured it out.
"No, why are you laughing?" Qing Mulan asked confused.
The Ninth Princess had the best relationship with Qing Mulan. Seeing that she still didn't understand, she reminded her: "There are no bandits. We can arrange bandits, right?"
"Brother Liang, do you mean to send people to pretend to be bandits to seize the granary first, and then we go to suppress the bandits?" Qing Mulan asked with a glare.
"That's right!" Zhang Liang nodded and said: "The grain merchants have been bandits. Let's go help them suppress the bandits. The grain merchants can't say anything more, right? If they dare to say that we robbed their grain, I will go and skin them."
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"What about the grain you took back from the bandits? Do you want to return it to the grain merchant?"
"What kind of food?" Zhang Liang asked: "After we suppressed the bandits, we only caught the bandits and did not see the food."
"Then you have to transport the grain back, right? Such a large-scale grain transportation cannot be hidden from the eyes of grain merchants!"
"The grain we brought back was picked up by us on the way to suppress the bandits. We should be grateful for the gift from nature. What does it have to do with the grain merchants?" Jin Feng continued.
"A gift from nature..."
Qing Mulan rolled her eyes, and then gave a thumbs up to Jin Feng and Zhang Liang: "You are awesome, you deserve to be the one who started out by suppressing bandits!"
Zhang Liang's plan is very crude. The grain merchants have accumulated so much grain that it cannot be transported by one or two ships. Such a big movement cannot be concealed. When the time comes, the grain merchants and the aristocratic families behind them will think with their toes.
They guessed that Jin Feng did this, but they couldn't say anything, otherwise Jin Feng could slap them down and accuse them of slander.
To put it bluntly, Jin Feng still wanted to rob the grain merchants of grain in the end, but he just put in an extra layer of effort and put on a coat.
But with this layer of clothing, even if the grain merchants see through it, they can only act like a mute and swallow this Coptis chinensis.
In fact, the Ninth Princess was more inclined to Qinghuai's suggestion and used more secretive means to slowly take the grain away from the grain merchants.
But after listening to Jin Feng's speculation about natural disasters, the Ninth Princess did not dare to hesitate any longer.
The only way to feel at ease is to have food in your own hands.
As for the rest, it doesn’t matter!
"Since everyone has no objections, let's discuss the specific steps of action!"
Jin Feng looked at Xiaoyu: "Bring over the map!"
Xiaoyu quickly took a map and spread it on the table.
The location of each granary is marked on the map, as well as the number of private soldiers defending it and the approximate weapons and equipment.
Although the plan is simple, it is very difficult to implement.
Because each granary is very large, if you don't take action, once you do it, you must use a thunderous attitude to quickly break down the resistance of the private soldiers, not giving them a chance to fight back, let alone setting fire to the granary and dying together.
This requires that the information must be more accurate.
That night, Monkey returned to Jinchuan Pier, led the reconnaissance camp, quietly left the camp from the back mountain, boarded a cargo ship on the Jialing River, and sneaked into the south of the Yangtze River.
In the following days, detailed information about the granary continued to come back from Jiangnan.
Zhang Liang and Qinghuai also took action.
In order not to alert others, this operation was carried out secretly.
The bodyguards who had just returned from Brass Valley and Qinghuai's Tielin Army, like the scouts, did not go through the main entrance. Instead, they sneaked out from the back mountain at night, and then took cargo ships in batches to Jiangnan.
During the journey, the escort hid in the cargo hold and did not move on the deck.
After arriving in Jiangnan, they also took off their escort uniforms and put on various old clothes. Then they went ashore in the dark and hid in a place that the scouts had found in advance.
In order to confuse the enemy, Jinchuan Pier still delivers the same amount of supplies to the warehouse where the bodyguard is located every day as before.
In fact, Jin Feng didn't need to be so careful at all. Those grain merchants in Jiangnan never thought that Jin Feng would deal with them after he defeated Dangxiang and the King of Qin, and also wiped out all the vassal kings in Jiangnan.
So thousands of escorts quietly sneaked into various places in the south of the Yangtze River.
After everything was ready, they agreed on a time and acted in unison.
Qinghe County, south bank of the Yangtze River.
A grain depot loomed in the night.
The private soldiers on night shift either gathered in small groups in front of the fire and chatted, or wrapped themselves in clothes and dozed off. They did not notice at all that in the dark night, a team was quietly approaching the grain depot.
This is not to blame for the carelessness of the private soldiers. The aristocratic families behind the grain merchants were all local emperors. In the past, when the vassal king was still there, even the vassal king would greet the heads of some aristocratic families with a smile when he saw them.
Under such circumstances, who would dare to take the idea of a grain depot until they are tired of living a crooked life?
Dawn is the darkest time of the day and the most tiring time for night watchmen.
The bodyguards lurked until they were dozens of meters away from the grain depot, aiming their crossbows at their respective targets. The private soldiers who were keeping watch at night were still unaware.
call out!
As a loud arrow shot into the sky, the escorts pulled the triggers at the same time!
No one likes the pitch-black environment, and almost all the private soldiers keeping watch at night are concentrated near the fires.
In the dark night, they are living targets.
With just one volley, all the private soldiers on the perimeter were killed.
The escorts rushed into the granary unimpeded.
A private soldier on the day shift drank too much last night and got up to urinate. He happened to see the escorts entering the grain depot and also saw the private soldier lying on the ground outside.
The private soldier was still a little confused at the time, but when he saw this scene, he was immediately frightened and fell asleep.
Finding that the escorts were all wearing tattered clothes, he subconsciously shouted: "Brothers, get up, the bandits are coming!"