The voice trailed off.
All Zhou family guards immediately took action.
At this moment, the county magistrate and general probably never imagined that Zhou Cheng would take advantage of their mobilization of 8,000 elite troops to ambush them in the valley and rob the city's granary.
In the generals' understanding, grain requires a lot of manpower and resources to transport. Zhou Cheng and others were in a hurry to go to the border, so they certainly couldn't take the grain with them. Why would they inexplicably target their granaries?
They can't figure it out!
"Boom!"
Until a deafening, earth-shattering roar echoed throughout Lituo City.
The moment the flames shot into the sky, the generals lying in ambush on both sides of the valley were unable to react immediately.
He frowned, pointed at the towering flames, and asked in confusion, "What was that loud bang just now? Was it thunder?"
"Why is there such a huge fire? What exactly happened there?"
The generals all shook their heads, looking completely bewildered.
But not long after.
A guard stationed at the granary stumbled over, shouting in terror from several hundred meters away, "Your Excellency! Your Excellency! Something terrible has happened!"
"Zhou Cheng and his men stormed into the granary and blew it up!"
The magistrate jumped to his feet: "W-what?"
He could understand burning and looting, but what does it mean to blow it up?
Zheng Jiang's expression suddenly changed drastically, as if he had guessed Zhou Cheng's intentions. He immediately gripped his spear and ordered the elite soldiers behind him: "Not good! Zhou Cheng has seen through our plan and knows that we are lying in ambush here in the valley."
"This is revenge!!"
"Everyone, follow me into the city immediately and capture Zhou Cheng alive!"
Eight thousand elite troops set off immediately, returning to the city at top speed.
pity.......
They were unaware that what awaited them was the disastrous consequence of being trapped like turtles in a jar.
Zhou Cheng, with his guards, overwhelmed the hundred guards at the granary with overwhelming strength, and occupied the large granary full of food in Lituo County in just about ten minutes.
"Black Rat, act immediately, start pouring oil and burying landmines with sensors."
"Second sister, mother, please stand guard at the warehouse door for me."
After giving the instructions, Zhou Cheng immediately went into the warehouse.
Looking around, tons and tons of grain were laid out before Zhou Cheng.
As expected of a central city in the Yan Kingdom, it has a considerable amount of military grain reserves, approximately 400,000 shi (a unit of dry measure). In this fictional era, one shi of grain is equivalent to about 100 jin (a unit of weight) in modern times.
Four hundred thousand is forty million catties.
Enough to feed an army of 80,000 for a year.
"It's so much more comfortable to raid the granary. With just a wave of my hand, I saved hundreds of thousands of points."
"Whoosh!"
Zhou Cheng waved his hand and silently recited in his mind that he would store it in his spatial storage.
In the blink of an eye, 400,000 shi of grain were stored in his personal space.
After doing all this, Zhou Cheng took out a grenade from his spatial storage and threw it into the granary the moment he closed the door and left, creating the illusion that it had been burned down.
"Boom—"
Thunder roared, and flames shot into the sky, turning half the sky red.
Meanwhile, his guards had already dealt with the landmines and doused all flammable areas with fuel, awaiting Zhou Cheng's instructions.
Zhou Cheng immediately led everyone to hide behind a high wall several kilometers away.
From this vantage point, you can clearly see the layout of the area around the grain depot.
"They're here!"
"Young master, they've arrived!"
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