Yang Ying continued: "However, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has internal agents in the city, so there is no need to forcefully attack the city. This team is mainly to frighten the garrison in the city. You may claim that there are 100,000 or 200,000 people, but in fact it is absolutely not There will be so many.
I guess there are only 50,000 to 60,000 people in this team! "
Shi Baoqing was dumbfounded for a while: In addition to the Black Armored Army, the army secretly dispatched by King Qin totaled 50,000 people, and he was so accurate!
"An army of fifty or sixty thousand people is quite a lot. His Highness King Qin must have spent a lot of effort in transferring them to Qianjing!
But there is one thing more troublesome than secretly mobilizing the army. "
Shi Baoqing wondered: "What does Prince Consort mean?"
"forage!"
Shi Baoqing felt a chill down his back, but the general who was good at fighting kept his face calm.
"An army of 50,000 to 60,000 secretly enters the capital. It is extremely difficult to conceal it. But if you are careful and go to a place loyal to His Highness the King of Qin, it is still possible to hide it. But how much does it take for an army of 50,000 to 60,000 to feed people and horses every day?" forage?
One pound per person per day? They are all young and strong soldiers, which should not be enough. Let me calculate that they need to consume 100,000 kilograms of military rations a day. How long does King Qin expect this battle to last?
Is one day enough? Even if it is enough, he still needs to deter the opposition, so he has to stay near Qianjing for a few days. Even if King Qin estimates that the whole time will take five days, he will need 500,000 kilograms of military rations, which is just a lot more.
So how could His Highness the King of Qin transport these five hundred thousand kilograms of military rations to Qianjing without being discovered by the emperor and the prince's spies? "
Shi Baoqing still didn't speak, but looked at Yang Ying with his eyes wide open.
Yang Ying looked back at Shi Baoqing and said two words firmly: "Caravan."
"Qianjing has a large population and is extremely prosperous. In order to ensure the daily expenses of the hundreds of thousands of people in Qianjing, many caravans will come. Suddenly there are a few more caravans, but the emperor and the prince don't care too much.
But if you want to investigate one or several caravans that transported hundreds of thousands of grain and grass, it is not difficult.
And your granary cannot be built too far away from Qianjing, as it would be too troublesome to call it, so your granary must be not far from here.
As for me, Yang Ying, when I had nothing to do before, I liked to visit several counties near the capital. It was a suitable place to store so much food nearby without being discovered by the emperor and prince, and dare to hide an army of fifty or sixty thousand troops. There is only Lancang County where Duan Xuanren, a retainer of King Qin, was once the county magistrate. So as long as I raid Lancang County and burn the food and grass, the morale of the 50,000 to 60,000 troops will naturally collapse. "
"You?" Shi Baoqing still wanted to pretend, but after listening to Yang Ying's detailed analysis, how could he remain calm: "Are you a devil?"
Yang Ying smiled proudly: "It seems that I really guessed it right!"
Shi Baoqing smiled bitterly and said: "With people like you, Li Shengli is useless, so it's no wonder that he ended up with his body and head missing. King Qin will meet his opponent again, and the world will fall into misery again."
Yang Ying immediately ordered the soldiers to go to Lancang County to find out the defense situation there and find out the exact location of the granary.
"Then, please come with me, General Shi."
"Prince-in-law, why do you bother to humiliate me?"
"General Shi, you have to suffer this because you are the beloved general of His Highness the King of Qin, so let his troops see you in our army. If I say one more thing, the King of Qin has been defeated and you have surrendered to me. , then of course King Qin’s military morale will collapse instantly.”
"you?"
Shi Baoqing had a bitter look on his face again: Once Yang Ying uses this move, the fame he has earned through many years of life and death will instantly collapse. But with such a strange move, if it were him, he would make the same choice.
"General Shi, there is no need to be angry. After all, you said that if you lose, you will surrender to me. This is just a little early."
Yang Ying then ordered the 100 Hutou Battalion soldiers who had removed their armor to put on the armor and military uniforms of the Black Armored Army soldiers, then took a large amount of black fire raw materials and saltpeter from the fireworks and firecrackers warehouse, and went straight to Lancang County .
At this time, Li Chengba, who was outside Qianjing City, also received news of Shi Baoqing's defeat.
"How is that possible!" Li Chengba said with difficulty.
Wei Liuhou asked anxiously: "Your Highness, what should we do now?"
Li Chengba closed his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "Immediately order Xu Ji to lead his army to attack the city."
"yes!"
Wei Liuhou responded, but asked again: "But what to do about the enemy army?"
"The soldiers' returns just now show that there are actually not many enemies. They won this battle with a cunning plan. This kind of battle can never be repeated. So if we mobilize a large army to encircle and suppress them, we will fall into their trap. It's a trap. When my father sees us retreating, he will only think that we have been defeated, so he will not surrender. The morale of the enemy army will become stronger, and those who were originally swaying will turn to his father. Then it will become more difficult to attack the city. .”
"Then just leave them alone?"
"This is all we can do so far. They have already fought their way out of the city, but there are not many of them. He will not dare to attack us actively. He will only run to find reinforcements. But even if reinforcements are found, it will take time to come back and forth. , as long as we capture Qianjing before then, we will still win."
Wei Liuhou and others thought: This is indeed the case. It is indeed not easy to accurately analyze the situation at such a moment.
Lancang County is about thirty miles away from Qianjing. Yang Ying led the Hutou Battalion in black armor in front, non-stop, and finally arrived outside Lancang County three hours later.
"Report to General Huaihua!"
The soldiers who had already arrived lightly equipped to spy on the military situation reported to Yang Ying: "As expected, there is a large army stationed in Lancang County, but they have just set off."
"Departing?" Yang Ying's heart tightened: "Is it heading towards Qianjing?"
"yes!"
Li Chengba will eventually attack Beijing. Although Qianjing's walls are high, there is no telling how long Qianjing can hold on with Li Chengba's internal support.
The only thing that can be done now is to destroy the enemy's food and grass as soon as possible.
Yang Ying asked: "Have you ever found out where the enemy's supplies are?"
"Found it!"
The soldier reported: "The army is moving forward, accompanied by grain and grass. We followed the traces and easily found the place where the grain and grass was stored. However, we had already gone to reconnaissance just now. The enemy's grain storage camp was built on the mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides. , there is only one side that can be entered, and there are at least thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in the enemy's granary, so it will be difficult to attack by force."
"yes!"
Shi Baoqing on the side said: "The analysis just made by the Prince Consort is so on point that I almost forgot that even if you can find the place where the grain is stored, it is very difficult for just a few hundred of you to capture the grain warehouse. difficult.
Your soldiers are indeed strong in field battles, but the soldiers guarding the granary will not come out easily. "
Yang Ying smiled slightly: "General Shi, why did you turn a blind eye on purpose? Why attack by force if you want to burn down the granary?"
