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Chapter 1733 Opening a warehouse to release grain

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    A true hero is one who can do whatever it takes to win at a critical moment.  Zhai Rang can't do it, but Li Mi can do it. This is the real difference between the two.

    On December 10, Li Mi and Zhai Rang gathered 7,000 elite troops and set out from Jindi to prepare for a surprise attack on Luokou Cang.

    Although Li Mi had been encouraging Zhai Rang to attack Luokou Cang, it was not so easy to actually implement it.

    Luokou Cang, also called Xingluocang, is located on the loess ridge east of Gong County. It is located in hills and is in a dangerous situation. The soil is hard and dry, and it has convenient water transportation.  From Luokoucang, you can go upstream to Dongdu, upstream along the Yellow River to Guanzhong, and downstream to other places in Hebei and Henan. At the same time, you can reach the Yangtze River and Huaihe River via the Grand Canal.

    Luokou Cang is a city with a surrounding area of ??more than 20 miles. There are 3,000 cellars in total. Each cellar stores 8,000 stones of grain. Thousands of officers and soldiers are stationed to defend the granary.  At the same time, to the east of Luokou Cang is Hulao Pass, and to the west is the important area of ??Heishi (4 kilometers southwest of today's Gongyi City, Henan Province). Unless there are magic soldiers descending from the sky, it will be difficult to break through this place.

    Li Mi knew very well that if the Wagang army fought all the way from Jindi to the west without the natural barrier of Hulao Pass, it would be impossible to succeed even if the entire army was annihilated.

    If you want to capture Luokou Cang, you must send out surprise troops to catch the defenders off guard.

    There is no way to walk on the main road, you can only take other trails.  Fortunately, Li Mi followed Yang Xuangan in the rebellion, traveled to various places in Henan and Hebei, and knew a road that could bypass Hulao Pass.

    So Li Mi and seven thousand soldiers and horses went south from Jindi, crossed Xingyang County, detoured to Yangcheng County in the southeast of Henan County (today's Gaocheng Town, Dengfeng City, Henan Province), and then headed north.

    Luoyang is a beautiful place, surrounded by mountains on all sides.  Historically, Luoyang's eight passes formed a complete defense system.  Li Mi did not rush to attack the various checkpoints, but went north from Yangcheng and crossed Fangshan (today's Songshan Mountains).

    Surrounded by mountains, there is a trail.  In fact, this trail is not unknown. After all, in the hinterland of Zhongzhou, under the emperor's feet, no one will let go of a direct road to Luoyang.  It's just that this trail goes through mountains and ridges, and it's difficult to walk. It's difficult to pass a large group of people, so it doesn't have much defensive significance.  Not far to the west from here is Sheyuan Pass.

    Li Mi, more than 7,000 people, were not afraid of hardships and dangers, desperately crossing mountains and ridges, and miraculously entered the Yiluo Plain.

    The crowd followed the remaining foothills of the mountains, staying day and night, and finally arrived outside Luokou Cang City.

    However, Li Mi did not attack Luokou Cang rashly at this time.  Luokoucang was the hinterland of the Sui army and was surrounded by Sui armies on all sides.  Moreover, the Sui army had a large number of troops in the east. Once it failed to capture Luokoucang quickly, the Wagang army would still be dead when the main force of the Sui army arrived for reinforcements.

    So there is only one chance.

    In fact, no matter how you plan to raid Luokou Cang this time, the chance of winning this battle is not good.

    "However, Li Mi has a bit of courage in his character and likes gambling, so he doesn't care at all about the adverse consequences of sending troops to Luokou Cang.

    Zhai Rang and others are also aware of their situation. Although they regret following Li Mi here, they are very clear that only Li Mi can handle such a situation, so they give all their rights to Li Mi.

    At this time, the book binding party who had been conducting reconnaissance in the Luokoucang area also joined Li Mi and told Li Mi all about the surrounding situation.

    Although Xingyang County to the west has been turned upside down.  However, the defenders of Luokou Cang relied on the natural danger of Hulao Pass in front of them and were not nervous. The defense of Luokou Cang was also very lax.

    Li Minai ordered people to pretend to be officers who came to Luokou warehouse to transport grain tomorrow, and also ordered people to dress up as laborers.

    It was then that Zhai Rang and others understood why Li Mi had carried Sui army armor and other items with him all the way, even though the journey was difficult, he never discarded them.

    Of course, the biggest problem is that it is difficult to find large trucks for transportation.  To transport grain, there must be hundreds of grain trucks.

    But this was not a problem for Li Mi. He ordered people to cut down trees on the spot and build wooden carts.  Although it was a temporary recharge, the area was densely forested and there was no shortage of trees. He brought a group of carpenters and was able to drive out a bunch of wooden carts.  Although it is crudely made and looks useless, it is not really about pulling food, as long as it can blind the opponent.

    Li Mi personally disguised himself as an officer of the Sui army, and asked his trusted generals Wang Bodang, Cai Jiande, Chang He, Cheng Yaojin and others to hide in the team, and then marched towards Luokoucang.  Zhai Rang led a large number of troops behind.

    The main granaries around Luoyang are Huiluocang and Luokou Granary. As for Hanjiacang in the city, there is not much food at this time.  However, there are tens of millions of stones of grain in the second warehouse outside the city, and Luoyang is not short of food.

    People from Luoyang came to transport grain from the Luokou warehouse almost every few days, so the defenders were not surprised by Li Mi and his party.  Moreover, there are many such things. At first, they would check carefully, but later, they would not even check.  As for the documents for transporting grain, they all go in.Afterwards, no one cared if I handed it over to the person in charge.

    It¡¯s because nothing has happened before, so everyone¡¯s guard is down.

    Li Mi led his men into the city gate, and immediately launched an attack while the Sui army defending the city was unprepared.  At this time, the Wagang army outside the city also swarmed up and rushed into the city.

    There are only more than a thousand defenders in Luokou Cang, and they have to take care of all aspects. There are not many defenders at the west gate.  Moreover, these people also confused the other party who suddenly became violent, and were at a loss for a moment.

    Li Mi immediately commanded the troops to attack. Chang He, Cheng Yaojin and others were all strong generals, and they were more effective in narrow spaces.  So a group of rebels rushed straight into the city

    There was a melee between the two sides, and by evening, all Wagang troops had occupied Luokou Cangcheng.

    Zhai Rang looked at the Sui army corpses all over the ground and couldn't believe that they had captured Luokou Cang so easily.  Someone opened a cellar nearby, and the cellar was filled with sacks.

    Zhai Rang stepped forward quickly and chopped up a sack with a knife, and white rice flowed out of the sack.

    Zhai Rang¡¯s eyes lit up when he saw it. Food was all food.

    The soldiers were also stunned. They rushed forward and tried to snatch the rice.  Someone actually came forward, grabbed the white rice and ate it raw.  Although I choked to death on the rice, I was jumping up and down and full of excitement.

    "We have food!"

    The whole city of Luokoucang was filled with cheers.

    At this time, Li Mi walked into the cellar and looked at the cheering soldiers with a smile.  Everyone cheered and gathered around, their eyes full of admiration and fear.

    "Don't worry about me, just eat and take. As long as you take it, it's all yours."

    Li Mi ordered the Luokou warehouse to be opened and distributed food to the people in all directions.  Disaster victims from all over the country came after hearing the news, and Li Mi let the hungry people take whatever they wanted. Even the elderly and children tried their best to carry food. There were hundreds of thousands of people one after another along the dozens of miles of road.

    After this, everyone praised Pu Shanggong's reputation, and Li Mi's reputation finally spread across the land of Henan.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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