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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 869

    ? Pingyang Province, the outskirts of the city.

    The towering conical granaries stand on the flattened wilderness. Looking around, they are densely packed like a standing city.

    After Long Tian proclaimed himself emperor in Pingyang Province, he successively received the support of the Northern Army, Zhendong Army, governors of eleven provinces and aristocratic families.

    Long Tian's power has developed extremely rapidly, and the number of troops under his command is as high as one million.

    It can be said that it is an astronomical figure for so many soldiers to eat horse chews, so food fodder has become the top priority.

    In order to further achieve the goal of controlling all kinds of soldiers and horses, Long Tian, ??the emperor of the rebel army, implemented the general treasury system based on the suggestion of his staff.

    Because only by mastering food and grass, through this roundabout way, can we control the various armies and prevent them from defecting to the enemy.

    Now the rebels have set up three general treasuries in their control area, and all the collected food, fodder and money must be put into the treasury.

    If each army needs food and fodder, it needs to get it from these three general warehouses, and the food and fodder they receive is only for one month.

    That means that the food and fodder that the frontline armies can store by themselves can only be eaten for one month, and the next one has to be collected.

    This led to the fact that the frontline armies had to send a steady stream of troops to shuttle between the barracks and the general warehouse to transport food and fodder.

    Long Tian and the others also used this method of general treasury to adjust the food, fodder and military pay of each army, so as to prevent some troops from having enough to eat and drinking, while others had no food to eat.

    And the seizures of the frontline armies will also be put into the warehouse, but it will be put into the frontline sub-warehouse, which is also in charge of Longtian's people.

    Once the sub-depots on the front line are full of grain and fodder, the front-line troops don't have to go back and forth to the general depot to get food and fodder, but only need to get it from the sub-depots.

    It's just that the battle on the front line has been going on, and the grain and rice that can be collected is really limited, so the armies still have to rely on the general warehouse for food.

    ?The general warehouse standing on the outskirts of the rebel base camp in Pingyang Province is the largest one. The food, fodder and military salaries donated by the aristocratic families and the money raised from various places are all stored here.

    Because there is too much food, fodder and military pay stored here, it has also become a heavily guarded place.

    Now there is a rebel barracks stationed next to the general warehouse on the outskirts of the city. There are 30,000 troops stationed there. They take turns to send people to guard the general warehouse to be responsible for the security here.

    When Du Jian and his group arrived at the general storehouse with the carriage and mule cart, they were also shocked when they saw the densely packed towering granaries.

    Du Jian used to be the person in charge of Chen Ziang's personal guards, and followed Chen Ziang to inspect the Jiangnan province and went to Xitiancang.

    There is a large amount of grain stored in Xitian warehouse, and the whole hill has been built into a huge granary.

    In addition to preventing floods and humidity, the Xitian warehouse built on the mountain is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are streams on the mountain, which is conducive to setting fire.

    Du Jian was shocked when he saw Xitian Cang at that time. Now that he arrived at the general warehouse of the rebel army, he found that it was far inferior to Xitian Cang.

    You must know that the grain and fodder collected by the eleven provinces of the rebel army are continuously poured into the three general warehouses.

    The three general warehouses support millions of troops, so the food, fodder and military pay stored in these general warehouses is also an astronomical figure.

    Du Jian and the others took the official documents of the Eighth Regiment of the Hezhong Rebel Army and successfully entered the general warehouse. They saw that the security here was heavily guarded, and groups of civilian men were carrying grain and fodder under the supervision of military officers.

    Du Jian and the others were led to a huge granary, from which they were going to receive food, fodder and military pay.

    Du Jian and the others had a lot of grain and fodder to be escorted this time. Although the general warehouse dispatched a group of civilians to carry the grain and fodder for loading, they were busy from noon to evening and did not finish loading.

    After night fell, lanterns were lit everywhere in the general warehouse, reflecting the huge granary like giants. Teams of patrolling soldiers walked by from time to time, and the armor and weapons made clanging sounds.

    Du Jian signaled to the brothers under his command that the brothers from the Operations Executive Department quickly disappeared into the huge general warehouse under the cover of night. They didn't come back until Du Jian and the others escorted the convoy away.

    Although the general warehouse is extremely strict on the people who enter here, it only checks the total amount of food and fodder when they go out, and does not have such strict checks on the number of accompanying guards.

    Du Jian and his group escorted the grain and fodder back to the military depot, preparing to return to Hezhong Province early the next morning.

    And the brothers of the Operations Executive Division under the Intelligence Investigation Institute have been lurking in the rebels.? In the general library, it is hidden.

    In the middle of the night, when people were sleepy, they quickly started to split up.

    "Puff!"

    A rebel soldier guarding a granary saw a black shadow flashing in front of him. Immediately, his neck was cut open by a sharp knife, and blood gushed out like a spring.

    "who?!"

    Several rebel soldiers inside the grain depot were also alarmed when they heard the movement outside.

    However, the brothers of the Operations Executive Department of the Intelligence Investigation Institute are all good at close combat.

    They were as fast as lightning. These rebels only saw the sharp light of the knife, and they were decapitated immediately.

    "Set fire!"

    The brothers of the Operations Executive Division saw the piles of grain and grass, and started setting fire without hesitation.

    While their group of brothers was on the move, at the same time several teams of brothers were also acting in other places to set fires.

    When they set fire to the next arson site, they smashed the large water tank next to the granary, which was used for emergency water to fight the fire.

    The brothers from the Operations Executive Division set fire to the granaries one by one, and soon the rebel patrols discovered the anomaly.

    "Quick, granary No. 36 is on fire!"

    Some patrols saw the fire in the distance, and hurriedly led people to fight the fire.

    But before they arrived, they saw several grain and grass burning in the distance.

    Harsh sirens rang through the main warehouse, and the rebel soldiers and patrols guarding here rushed to several fire points, trying to extinguish the flames.

    But when they arrived, they found that the water tanks stored here for fighting the fire had been smashed, and they had no water available.

    However, the granary was already on fire, the flames swept across, and the temperature in the air rose rapidly, making it difficult for them to even get close, let alone put out the fire.

    "Quick, find water!"

    One of the generals in charge saw the raging flames, and his hot cheeks were full of anger.

    Like ants on a hot pot, the rebel soldiers in the general warehouse quickly searched for tools and water to extinguish the fire, and there was a sudden chaos here.

    The troops stationed in the nearby barracks saw that this side was on fire, and they all gathered urgently to send reinforcements to fight the fire.

    Fortunately, there is a river next to the general warehouse, and they carried buckets to carry water to fight the fire.

    However, fueled by the night wind, only a few granaries burned at the beginning, and later it spread to dozens of granaries.

    Especially those places where the forage is stored are even more fierce. The water they carry in buckets is simply a drop in the bucket.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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