Chapter 508

Yang Qian was standing on the city wall of Luokou Cang City, overlooking the densely packed and huge roofs of Luokou Cang, which looked like houses.

Luokou Cangcheng has a circumference of twenty miles. There are 3,000 cellars in the Cangcheng, each cellar holds 8,000 dan, totaling 24 million dan of grain.

Previously, supervisors and thousands of soldiers were placed on guard, but after the Wagang bandits captured Heyangcang, they raised troops from the south.

The Eastern Capital was afraid that the largest and most important granary of the Sui Dynasty would be lost, so it ordered General Xi Ding to lead an army to come to the rescue.

Fang Qiao, who was standing next to Yang Qian, looked at the grains and said loudly.

"The grain storage in Luoyang is the highest in the world, with 3 million shi in Heyang warehouse, 4 million shi in Hanjiacang, and 3.5 million shi in Huiluo warehouse."

"Taken together, it is less than half of the amount of Luokou warehouse. Today, the grain stored in Luokou warehouse still amounts to more than 21,537,000 shi.

Fortunately, the commander repelled Li Mi in time, otherwise, if this warehouse had fallen into Li Mi's hands..."

"Half of the world's food reserves are in Luokou. This statement is indeed true." Li Jing stood beside Yang Qian and said with some emotion.

"You have food in your pockets and don't panic in your heart. Our commander is indeed very calculating.

Instead of going to Nadong and making people look down on you, it would be better to stay in Luokou Cang and watch indifferently without any shortage of food and drink..."

"Okay, don't keep talking about this. Are you all busy with your own official and military affairs?" Yang Qian's eyes moved and fell outside the city.

The abandoned military camp has now been repaired, and all the more than 10,000 prisoners of war are being held in it.

In the first day or two, there were still people making noises and making trouble, but under the supervision of the Jiangdu Army generals who were best at training thieves and bandits, they have now become much more disciplined and honest.

Don't even think about it, Jiangdu's army is originally just like the Wagangzhai bandit army, they are all ruthless characters among bandits.

After weeding out the bad and retaining the good, they were able to become the elite of the Jiangdu Army. Their personal experience was naturally perfect for using to repair this gang of thieves and bandits.

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Before anyone else could speak, Yang Qian narrowed his eyes and let out a light sigh. He looked in the direction of Yang Qian's line of sight.

Then I saw a troop of hundreds of soldiers and horses, rushing towards Luokou Cangcheng.

Soon, they were stopped by the yangqi scattered outside Luokoucang City. In a short time, the yangqi led the soldiers and horses of hundreds of riders to the city.

"Doctor Guanglu, Pei Renji, the guard of Hulao Pass...what is he doing here?" Yang Qian sent people to open the city gate, but he was muttering in his heart.

That guy was quite lucky. After Zhang Xutuo died in battle, the more than 30,000 warriors left behind all fell into Pei Renji's hands.

When they got down to the city wall, they saw Pei Renji, who had dismounted and walked towards the city after entering the city gate.

"The lower official Pei Renji has seen Yang Liushou."

Yang Qian returned the gift and said with a genuine smile.

"There is no need to be polite, General Pei. I have heard about General Pei and his son for a long time, but I have never seen them.

These days, the Pei family and his son have won consecutive battles, and they have defeated Li Mi so much that he dare not even take a step toward the East. Yang is very impressed."

After some pleasantries, Pei Renji breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Yang Qian, the young and successful young man who stayed behind in Dongdu, was not arrogant and arrogant.

Seeing that Pei Renji only talked about him and did not directly state his intention, Yang Qian was not in a hurry.

It was also from Pei Renji that he learned that Xiao Huaijing was now serving as a supervisor in his army.

Yang Qian couldn't help but frown. "General Pei, that Xiao Yushi is not easy to get along with."

Pei Renji also gave a helpless smile, but could not say bad things about Xiao Yushi.

Yang Qian also admired the father and son Pei Renji and Pei Xingyan. The father and son were considered rare general talents in the late Sui Dynasty.

If he hadn't been controlled by those jealous bastards in Dongdu, I'm afraid his future wouldn't be bad.

"General Pei came to Luokou Cangcheng today. I think he has something to do. I wonder if Yang can be of help. If so, please tell me directly."

"Since Yang Liushou is so frank, then I can stop being so verbose. I came here this time because of the lack of food in the army..."

"What, is it impossible to return to Luocang?" Yang Qian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

On the other side of the Yellow River, there is only one Heyang granary, but on this side of the Yellow River, there are three large granaries, except Luokou granary, which is the largest granary in the world.

The remaining Hanjiacang and Huiluocang are not small. Now that Hanjiacang has been captured by Li Mi, only Huiluocang is still in the hands of the court.

There is no problem at all with the more than three million shi of grain returned to Luocang to meet military needs.

But Pei Renji appeared here, asking for food from him, which naturally made Yang Qian's expression change.

Pei Renji couldn't help but look a little embarrassed. "It's just that Hanjiacang fell into the hands of Li Thief, and Luocang is still in the hands of the court."

"It's just that the official asked Dongdu for food, and Dongdu asked him to come and look for Yang to stay behind. He said that the food returned to Luocang needs to meet the needs of the people of Dongdu and must not be touched without permission."

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Seeing Yang Qian frowning and thinking deeply, Pei Renji couldn't help but feel uneasy and quickly stated his difficulties.

Now that he has 30,000 elite troops under his command, his military supplies are no longer enough for five days.

If the army is short of food, Li thieves who have occupied Heyangcang and Hanjiacang may use the food to lure away the 30,000-strong army.

Hearing this, Xu Shiji, who was behind Yang Qian, laughed.

"Since General Pei knows the consequences, why not report the matter directly to Dongdu, so he would rather seek the far away..."

"Pei also had no choice but to submit it to Dongdu, but Dongdu insisted on letting Pei go to Luokou to get food."

Changsun Wuji stood up at this time and saluted Pei Renji with a smile.

"General Pei, please listen to me. General Pei came from Hulao to rescue Dongdu. He won several battles in a row and made many achievements."

"I just don't know about the thieves of Wagang Village captured by General Pei..."

Seeing that Yang Qian was also paying attention to himself and seemed to be waiting for an answer, Pei Renji had no choice but to tell the truth.

"With the current situation, how can there be any troops to restrain prisoners of war? Besides, Your Majesty once had a sacred voice, and he could kill any traitor to eliminate future troubles."

Yang Qian raised his eyebrows, but this was the intention of Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty. Pei Renji was just a general who followed orders, so it cannot be said that Pei Renqi did something wrong.

"In that case, I wonder if General Pei is willing to make a deal with Yang.

Today, I will first give General Pei a thousand dan of food, and also ask General Pei to hand over the captured thieves to Yang in the next battle."

Pei Renji was a little confused. Looking at Yang Qian who looked serious and not joking, he couldn't help but ask.

"May I ask what Yang Liubei wants those prisoners of war to do?"

"Of course it's a strategy of enlightenment so that they can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, correct their evil ways and return to the right path." Yang Qian said seriously.

"..." Pei Renji's face immediately darkened. What the hell do you mean? Are you deliberately targeting me?

Isn't it that every time I win a battle, I kill the prisoners of war to prevent them from escaping back to the rebel army and continuing to do evil?
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