The Holy Lord originally thought that smallpox had been effectively controlled with no sign of spreading, but the sweet potato cultivation promoted by King Jin had good results. The five border counties were located in the northwest, which were originally barren lands, but they could still get a bumper harvest to support the disaster in Huainan.
.Looking at this, this year can be considered a success, so I thought about making the palace banquet on New Year's Eve more luxurious, so as to give this year a gorgeous ending and welcome the 22nd year of Taihe with joy.
It's a pity that even if the Holy Lord considers himself the emperor, God will make it difficult for you, even if he claims to be the emperor, it will be in vain.
On New Year's Eve, bad news came from Taiyuan County. The granary of Taiyuan County was looted by bandits, and not a single particle of the 170,000 shi of grain was left. The bandits came and left without a trace.
The eight thousand garrisoned soldiers killed every one of them. Not only did they loot all the food, but also the garrisoned soldiers' mounts, armors, weapons and even all valuable things were not spared and moved away completely.
The logistics soldier who delivered rations and daily necessities once every half month first discovered this and was extremely shocked. After the first inspection, he calculated that the soldier stationed at the granary died about six days ago.
The Taiyuan County Sheriff immediately sent out 3,000 soldiers to investigate, but found nothing as the continuous heavy snow buried all traces.
Taiyuan County is located in a border fortress, bordering Xixia on the left and Beiliang on the right. The imperial court stationed 100,000 red feather troops there and set up granaries to prepare for future needs. It also guaranteed that old grains would be replaced with new grains every year, so that there would be no shortage of food in the granaries.
Less than 100,000 shi of food to prepare for war.
The granary is located in a remote location and is heavily guarded. How powerful a bandit must be to be able to escape the sight of the garrison, eliminate the 18,000 grain garrison, transport all the grain, etc., and disappear without a trace.
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The Holy Lord never dreamed that the main planner of this matter was his own son, Li Rong, whom he had managed to save and was nominally imprisoned in the fiefdom.
The three counties close to the border, Jiuquan County, Taiyuan County, and Lanzhou County, are vast, sparsely populated, and barren. In other places, Li Rong did not know where the granaries in Taiyuan County were and how the imperial garrison was deployed. Li Rong happened to know very well.
He clearly told his sister the location of the granary and the number of troops stationed there, and married Li Han, the Shanyu of Northern Liang.
He is alone, but his sister has the ability to mobilize an army of millions. He plans to join forces with Li Han to avenge their mother and borrow the Northern Liang Shanyu Tuoba Yu's knife to kill people. Why not?
Li Rong was only nominally imprisoned in the fiefdom. In reality, he was free. As long as he did not step out of the fiefdom, his subordinates were free. So, from the beginning of the year, he had been racking his brains on how to kill people with a borrowed knife and how to kill people.
To destroy the Dayi Dynasty, he wanted the entire Dayi Dynasty to bury his mother with him.
Li Rong was saddened by the tragic death of Concubine Xie Shun, and gradually became obsessed with him. He hated the Holy Lord, the Concubine Chen, and Prince Rui and Qing. He just wished he could send them all to hell. He felt that this year, the right time, the right place, and the right people were on his side.
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Beiliang was lucky this year. No people in the country were infected with smallpox. However, there was a severe drought throughout the country, and people were starved of food and starved to death everywhere.
The severe winter in Northern Liang is long and cold. If there is not enough food to survive the winter, more people will probably die of hunger. The country in Northern Liang is half pastoral and half agricultural, and the monarch is respectfully called the Great Chanyu by the people. Today's Great Chanyu is called Tuo
Ba Yu can be regarded as a wise king with great talents and strategies.
Tuoba Yu was cautious in character and would make decisions before taking action. Although he obtained the location of Taiyuan County's granary and the specific number of garrison troops, he still did not move his troops. He only sent thousands of scouts, mostly dressed as traveling merchants, to sneak into Taiyuan County to spy on intelligence.
This year, Taiyuan County obeyed the orders of the Holy Lord and, under the leadership of King Jin, planted tens of thousands of acres of sweet potatoes. There was a bumper harvest in September. After hearing the news, many more merchants came to buy food than usual, which did not cause any trouble in Taiyuan County.
Shou's doubts.
While Tuoba Yu was surveying the route, he was choosing a place to build a temporary granary at the border. In the past, if there was war on the border, it was usually carried out from May to September. The winter in the border was long, and heavy snow began to fall in October.
In December, thousands of miles of ice cover, and the snow on some grasslands is so thick that it can even bury an entire person. Such harsh weather conditions put great pressure on both sides of the war, so since ancient times, there have been few battles on the border during the cold winter.
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After careful consideration, Tuoba Yu sent herdsmen to use oxcarts to carve out a solid trail, and set up more than a dozen temporary points along the way. He also assigned people to clear the snow every day to ensure that the road was smooth. He chose to go in December when the snow was falling heavily.
On this occasion, he personally led 10,000 cavalry, and at the cost of 10,000 shi of grain, he passed through Xixia and lurked from the side near the granary of Taiyuan County without anyone noticing. Another group of cavalry was hidden at the border, ready at any time.
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The place where the granary of Taiyuan County is located is quite desolate, and daily drinking water, food, and daily necessities are all sent in from outside. Tuoba Yu personally lurked into the team transporting water and food, and drank Chronic Sleeping Powder in the drinking water of the garrison. This Sleeping Powder
It just makes people feel drowsy and sleepy, and there are no other symptoms on the surface.
The border has been peaceful for many years, so the garrison in the granary has been quite lax on a daily basis. Coupled with the severe cold in December, many soldiers only made a cursory inspection every day and then hid in the military camp. No one suspected anything.
Food and water are delivered to the granary once every half month. Tuoba Yu takes good care of the portions and calculates the time. He specially chooses the day when the twelfth lunar month is bright. All the soldiers wearing wolf skins and ghost masks will suddenly attack. More than 80% of the guards are sleeping.
Well, those who were half asleep or slightly awake were all frightened to death. How could they have any ability to resist? Tuoba Yu led his army to surround the entire granary, chopping vegetables and melons from the outside in, cutting most of the people who were still there.
The sleeping garrison was killed and no one was left alive.
Although Tuoba Yu only led a grassland army of 10,000 people, each soldier was equipped with three to five horses, plus the mounts of the soldiers stationed in the granary, as well as the troops waiting at the border temporary station and the herdsmen to help, seventeen
Tens of thousands of loads of grain were divided into five batches, and not a single grain was left.
The granaries in Taiyuan County were looted, and all 18,000 garrison soldiers died for the country. Such a big event naturally shocked the whole dynasty. The Dayi Dynasty was known as the most powerful country. Although it was the middle of winter in December, all traces were covered by heavy snow.
It's ridiculous to bury it, but no clues can be found.
The Holy Lord was furious and ordered the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of War to immediately send people to Taiyuan County to get to the bottom of the matter within a month. He also issued a secret edict, asking the Taiyuan County Governor to choose a secret place to rebuild the granary to store grain.
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There is nothing new in the new year, and the 22nd year of Taihe was the beginning of the "Three Years of Purgatory" recorded in later history books.