After listening to the old man's complaints, Gongsun Qi stuffed the old man with half a cake before leaving quietly.
Bypassing the gathering place where the people gathered under cover of the sky, passing through the ruins, we arrived at the core area of Yangxin County.
Grain depot.
That's right, the core of Yangxin County now is the grain depot.
Meng Yue, the magistrate of Yangxin County, gathered a group of surviving gangsters and occupied the entire granary.
And a bamboo wall was built around the granary to prevent people from getting close.
He was fed only some gruel every day to survive.
Gongsun Qi carefully climbed over the wall and sneaked into the granary.
Yangxin's granary is very large, and there are more than a dozen intact granaries that can be seen through the moonlight.
It is not clear whether there is any food.
In the central area of the granary, there were several torches lit, and there seemed to be several adobe houses there.
Carefully touching them, Gongsun Qi discovered that the walls of these adobe houses were not completely dry.
There are some tents behind the adobe house, and the lights are on in the tents.
Outside the tent, four or five men with knives passed by, patrolling back and forth.
There were also several figures left at the entrance of the tent.
Gongsun Qi didn't dare to approach rashly, he crouched and looked around the tent from a distance.
"Shhhhhh~"
Just as I passed a granary, a whistle sounded.
Gongsun Qi immediately touched it.
"Pah!" With a soft sound, Gongsun Qi knocked down a man who was peeing.
This man was thin and short, so Gongsun Qi picked him up and quietly left the grain depot without anyone noticing.
"Get a tongue!"
Returning to Wei Nan and the others, Gongsun Qi put them down and said.
"what happened?"
Wei Nan asked softly.
Gongsun Qi told the news he had just found out from the old man, and also said that he had entered the granary, but he did not find out the specific situation.
This guy was caught by chance.
"Wake up."
After listening to Gongsun Qi's words, Wei Nan looked at the man lying on the ground and signaled to the guards beside him.
A guard came over and covered the thin man with one hand. He put his fingers together and dug a little into the acupuncture point on the thin man's neck.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The thin man woke up suddenly and screamed in pain.
However, he was covered by the guards and could only whine and make no sound.
"If you don't want to ask me anything, just say it!"
Wei Nan pulled out his dagger and put it on the boy's neck.
Instantly, the thin man understood his current situation.
…
"What happens now?"
After asking about the situation, the thin man was gagged and tied aside.
Wei Nan and Gongsun Qi discussed it.
First of all, Yang Xin really came to the right place this time.
I don’t know how much grain there is in the granary. I don’t know. He is just a ruffian.
But he knew that the food in seven warehouses had been saved.
Even if one warehouse costs five thousand dan.
Qicang is thirty-five thousand stones!
It is enough to feed 10,000 people for a year and a half, and even for 30,000 people until the autumn harvest!
Yangxin is worthy of being an important town in Ezhou.
In addition to the grain harvesting, there are about five thousand people in Yangxin.
It is also a considerable amount of human resources.
Although Meng Yue, the county magistrate of Yangxin, is here, this guy doesn't care about the life and death of the people at all.
More than a hundred local gangsters were gathered to take possession of the grain depot.
According to Fatty, Meng Yue also has twenty officers and soldiers of the Ezhou Guard.
Therefore, under their leadership, these more than 100 people can control 5,000 people.
Of course, it is also because there is some porridge here, the people are not pushed to a dead end, and generally they will not rebel.
Wei Nan looked in the direction of the grain depot and said in a deep voice:
"Now we only have two ways to go."
"Either take action immediately and catch them off guard."
"Either retreat temporarily, go back and mobilize manpower and come back again."
Gongsun Qi was slightly excited and said, "I think it's best to take action right away."
"I caught this thin guy. Someone will definitely find him missing tomorrow at the latest."
"When we go back and mobilize manpower, they will be ready."
Wei Nan looked at Gongsun Qi and the ten guardsmen behind him.
I started to think carefully in my mind.
There are more than a hundred enemies, and there are only twelve on their side.
But they all have extraordinary skills, and they all have bows and arrows in their hands.
They even carried out sneak attacks at night.
If the guards were taken out first, it would be entirely possible to catch them off guard.
"I think I can do this! What do you guys think?" Wei Nan looked at the crowd and said.
"Done!"
"No problem. Didn't this kid say that there are only about twenty Ezhou guards? If we are prepared and unprepared, we have a great chance of winning!"
Wei Nan looked around and found that the ten guards had unanimous opinions, so they were done.
Of course, they didn't regard those local ruffians as opponents at all.
In the eyes of the guards, their opponents were only the twenty Ezhou guards.
"In this case, let's set off now. Take this thin man with you and show us the way." Wei Nan said in a deep voice while grinding his fists.
"Hehe. I haven't fought in more than two years! I can finally get started again!"
Wei Junmen smiled.
They had just returned from the border army two years ago. They had not fought for two years and were still a little itchy.
It was the same guard who woke up the thin man just now, put him on his shoulder, and followed Wei Nan Gong Sun Qi to quietly go to the grain store.
Soon, the group of people entered the grain warehouse.
Although a wall has been built here, there are only about a hundred people inside, and they cannot guard such a large place.
They were just guarding the granary.
"The Ezhou guards live in the tent on the west side, and Magistrate Meng lives in the blue tent in the middle."
The thin man was pressed down by the guards, his throat was pressed, and he couldn't make a loud sound at all.
Wei Nan looked forward after hearing this.
There were torches and braziers in the tent in front, and the light was bright.
These people are not very vigilant.
Think about it, even though there is a natural disaster now.
But they would not have thought that Jiangzhou Wei had already made plans for them.
However, he didn't believe everything the thin man said, and arranged for two guards to quietly observe the tent camp for a while.
Based on the people entering and exiting the tent, I basically judged that the thin man was right.
It was already midnight, and there were still sounds of singing and shouting coming from the tent. It seemed that people inside were drinking.
Although this is not the best time to take action.
But the thin man was caught by them for a while.
If the thin man goes missing and is discovered, they will be alert and the risk of a sneak attack will increase.
"I just saw a total of ten guards. Let's divide the work."
After observing for a while, I basically figured out the guard situation.
Ten guards are worth one point, and each of them will deal with one.
After Wei Nan and Gongsun Qi eliminated the guards, they first went to eliminate the guards in the tent.
As long as the twenty or so guards are taken care of, the remaining ruffians will not pose much of a threat at all.
After deciding on a plan of action, the thin man was tied up again and thrown into a corner.
"That's it. Take action now! A quick victory!"
Wei Nan drew his crossbow, loaded the arrows, and quietly went over with his men.
Gongsun Qi had never used a crossbow before. In this kind of sneak attack, it would be better not to use a crossbow if he could not shoot accurately.
Carrying a steel knife, he followed behind the guards and moved toward the tent camp.