In the imperial city of Dongxun Chengdu, in the gloomy hall, the king of Nanjiang, who was wrapped in a black robe, was looking forward to the young man who came outside the hall.

The young man walked up to the king of Nanjiang with some restraint, and when he came to the king of Nanjiang, he knelt down on one knee and said respectfully with both hands

"Back to the prince, the general, I missed, and Shen Baoxu survived."

When King Nanjiang heard this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and the irrepressible excitement swept through his body, and half of his cheeks were covered by the black robe, but some of the smiles on King Nanjiang's face could still be seen from the other half of his cheeks.

Clapped his hands and said

"Hahaha, young people are young people, thinking about things is too simple, playing between the two empires and the palms, the heavenly master back then couldn't do this, he has such huge ambitions as a weak-crowned junior, no wonder he missed."

The young man's face changed slightly, and when he heard the word Heavenly Master, the young man's body trembled involuntarily.

King Nanjiang saw the young man's tremor and said with a chuckle

"You, are you still thinking about the events of the past? It's been so long, it's time to see that the Heavenly Master is dead, and in this world, it is no longer possible to give birth to such a ghost talent who overwhelms an era. ”

The young man lowered his head and sighed slightly, a little helpless, but more of a deep fear.

"Although the matter has passed, but the methods of the Heavenly Master back then, I am."

"Witnessing it with your own eyes, needless to say, how many times have you told this king about this, but now, you just need to know that the man is dead and can't die anymore, and that memory should have been annihilated in your head a long time ago."

Seeing that the young man was silent, King Nanjiang snorted coldly, waved his sleeves, supported his head with one arm, and lay on the recliner himself, lazily commanding the young man

"Go down, this king is tired."

The young man got up and walked out of the hall.

And inside this gloomy hall, the king of Nanjiang muttered to himself leisurely

"The man known as the Heavenly Master, a monster that only comes out once in a thousand years, where would it be so easy for this king to meet again."

Xinmai County, Dongxun Empire.

Due to geographical reasons, the Dongxun Empire set up granaries in several important strategic locations throughout the country to store large quantities of grain, which could be used for emergency or wartime calls.

The county seat of Xinmai is a reserve granary that stores more than half of the grain in the western counties.

And this granary after the Dongxun decided to leave the war with the south, it also successively mobilized and transported a lot of grain from it to the front line, but although a lot of it was delivered, its remaining grain storage is conservatively estimated to still make all the soldiers and civilians in the western counties of the Dongxun Empire hold on for more than a year under special circumstances.

It is precisely for this reason that Dongxun has left a garrison of up to 5,000 people in such a small county as Xinmai County, and you must know that in the counties of other countries, even if it is an ordinary county town of the Xikun Dynasty with the largest number of troops, the garrison will not exceed more than 1,000 people, and this is not more than 1,000 people, and most of them will not be permanent troops, and often only those important counties will have more than 2,000 permanent troops.

Looking at it this way, Dongxun stationed a garrison of 5,000 people in a county seat in Xinmai County, which also represents how much importance the Dongxun Empire attaches to Xinmai County, the granary of the West.

Since the opening of the battle between Dongxun and Nan, the garrison of Xinmai County has also increased from 5,000 to nearly 10,000.

The military rations of the Dongxun frontline army, because of Shen Baoxu's caution, only stored one month's rations, after all, the opponent he faced was Zhou Dunyi, this kind of long-known opponent, so that Shen Baoxu had not officially started the war with Nanli, and he was cautious about his various decisions.

And the two countries are at war, and among the various means they play, cutting off transportation and sneaking up on granaries are one of the means that have left many records in past history.

Take the big war not far from now, what was Zhou Dunyi's means of dragging down the million-dollar coalition army in the Central Plains?

The strategy of arrogance is a point, but the opponent is an army of up to one million, if the strategy of arrogance can make Zhou Dunyi win, it is really a child's opinion.

Supplemented by the strategy of arrogance, lengthening the transportation line is the top priority.

The supply line that is thousands of miles long, and if the Central Plains wants to transport grain and grass to the south and the territory, it will be necessary to go by water no matter what.

But you don't have an opponent to match the Jingzhou Navy, no matter how terrifying the number is, but on the waters, you can't beat and run, but once you relax your vigilance, the Jingzhou Navy's sailors will cut off your supply lines and sink all the grain and grass on countless ships in the Yangtze River.

There is such a lesson of the predecessors at hand, so Shen Baoxu's first order is to replenish the grain and grass of the army every half a month, reserve the grain of one month, and place all the remaining grain and grass in the rear county town such as the new wheat granary, ready to mobilize and go to the front line at any time.

But for the sake of insurance, Shen Baoxu still ordered a lot of garrisons in the major granaries in the western counties to be allocated, so that after a few moments, Shen Baoxu put down some of his thoughts a little and focused on dealing with Zhou Dunyi's next means.

However, today's Xinmai County has ushered in a group of uninvited guests.

The leader was a young man dressed in yan-blue armor, and behind this man was two men dressed as ordinary soldiers, and the three of them quickly entered Xinmai County and ran all the way to the gate of Xinmai granary.

After arriving at the gate, the person in charge of guarding the gate of the granary was the county lieutenant of Xinmai County, who took a piece of paper order handed to him by the young man, and glanced at the three people while looking at the order written on it.

"300,000 loads of grain and grass? That's a lot, no, I need to ask for advice. ”

After seeing the amount of grain and grass written on this order, the county lieutenant's eyes were obviously a little wrong, the number of 300,000 quintals, even for the Xinmai granary, is a large amount, and when he arrives at this amount of grain and grass transportation, he does not have the right to transport it directly, or he needs to ask the general who is sitting in Xinmai County.

However, after hearing what the county lieutenant said, the young man's face suddenly turned cold, and his tone was a little unhappy

"This is an urgent order, if it is delayed and delayed on the front-line military aircraft, you can't afford to take this responsibility."

After hearing this, the county lieutenant fell into a tangle, what the young man said was also reasonable, but 300,000 quintals, this amount is really too large.

After thinking about it for a while, the county lieutenant came up with a compromise solution

"It's better to do this, I first ordered the people under my command to go into the granary first and sort out 300,000 quintals, and at this time, I will report this matter to General Xiang, and if General Xiang agrees, I can directly entrust these grains and grass to you and others."

The young man's face remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly, agreeing with the county lieutenant's method.

The county lieutenant also quickly greeted the lieutenant behind him, his mouth attached to the lieutenant's ear, and after whispering something in a whisper, the county lieutenant glanced at the young man, then led a horse, turned over the horse, clamped his legs, and ran all the way to the west.

And after the county lieutenant rode away on his horse, the young man's expression became a little solemn, because he saw that the lieutenant in front of him was staring at him with a vigilant face.

It's that you're not at ease with yourself, is it?

It seems that the county lieutenant, if he explained to him, was optimistic about these three talents, right?

The young man then turned over and dismounted, and cast a color at the two soldiers behind him, and then walked up to the captain quite familiarly, and talked with the captain in a kind tone

"What is this brother doing so seriously, how can he be the same as a thief, hahaha, the three of us have traveled hundreds of miles all the way, and now we are a little tired, brother, what else can we do here to make the three of us squint for a while."

Although the captain still looked vigilant, the serious look on his face slowly relaxed, and he replied in a dry tone

"I'm sorry, we don't have a place to rest."

The young man smiled evilly, and put his arms around the lieutenant's shoulder, and before the lieutenant came to his senses, he only felt that his stomach was pierced by a short dagger, and the captain's eyes widened at this time, and he opened his mouth to say something, but he saw that the young man's hand holding the dagger turned slightly, and the dagger that had been inserted into his stomach also turned.

This kind of intense colic made the captain's face a little hideous, but it made the words he wanted to say stuck in his throat, and he couldn't make any sound.

Seeing the captain's whole body leaning on the young man's arms, the soldiers guarding the door of the granary suddenly became suspicious and wanted to ask something, but the young man looked down at the captain's cheeks distorted by colic with a smile on his face and said

"Oh, yes, brother, look at how you are still asleep, it seems that brother, you are also very tired from guarding the granary."

At the end of the sentence, the young man looked up at the soldiers who were looking at him, looked at them, and repeated what he was about to say.

"If you're so tired, let's get some rest."

While the guards at the gate were still thinking about the meaning of this sentence, they saw the two men who had been standing behind the young man walking towards them, and when they were about to walk in front of them, they realized that each of them held a dagger with a silver light in one hand.

A knife slashed through the neck, and soon, the two of them also took down these soldiers guarding the gate without much effort, and then looked back at the young man, only to see the young man smile evilly, and said to the two

"Open the door and burn the grain."

At the same time, on the other side of Xinmai County, General Xiang was fighting with several strong men with his bare hands with his bare hands, this duel, but it was really a fist to the flesh, although both sides were paying attention to proportion, but this proportion was just not fatal, and it was common to have some minor injuries and the like.

Suddenly, a gust of wind and sand swept not far from the training ground, and the sound of horses' hooves galloped wildly, which temporarily suspended the fight.

General Xiang stopped his hand and moved his body, I have to say that this general's upper body is full of the beauty of muscle lines, and the crackling sound produced by the collision between bones is extremely wonderful to General Xiang's ears at this moment.

After the wind and sand dissipated, the county lieutenant of Xinmai County dismounted and ran all the way to General Xiang, and after General Xiang saw that it was the county lieutenant, he frowned and asked with some displeasure

"County lieutenant? What are you doing here? Aren't you in charge of sitting in the granary today? ”

As he spoke, General Xiang took the sweat towel handed to him by others and wiped the sweat on his body.

Because he was in too much of a hurry, the county lieutenant was still panting vigorously after getting off the horse, and after his breath slowly stabilized, the county lieutenant hurriedly opened his mouth and said respectfully to General Xiang

"General, there were just three people with a warrant to come to transfer food."

"It's just a matter of adjusting food, since there is a warrant, it's good to give it to them, what's the matter, is there anything wrong with the warrant?"

"No, no, no, general, the warrant, there is nothing wrong with the warrant, it is exactly the same as the seal of the warrant on the front line a few days ago."

Hearing this, General Xiang became a little impatient and yelled at the county lieutenant

"Since the warrant is fine, why don't you just give them food, do you still need to ask General Ben's opinion for such a trivial matter?"

The county lieutenant saw that General Xiang's expression was getting worse and worse, and hurriedly waved his hand and said

"No, no, no, general, listen to me, there is no problem with the warrant, but, but the three of them are going to transfer 300,000 quintals of military rations this time, and the total number of previous military ration transfers has not reached 200,000 quintals, and it is precisely because of the huge number of transfers this time that my subordinates came to ask the general for your opinion."

"300,000 quintals?"

General Xiang's somewhat impatient expression slowly calmed down, and after pondering for a while, he turned his head sideways to look at the county lieutenant and asked

"Are you sure it's 300,000 quintals? And not 30,000 quintals? ”

The county lieutenant smiled bitterly, how could he make a low-level mistake in such a major matter.

"General, it is indeed 300,000 quintals, and the subordinates listen to it clearly, and the young officer's original words are 300,000 quintals."

"Young officer?"

General Xiang fell into thought, he searched in his mind, if the Shen army lord wants to send someone to transfer food, is it not usual?

"Didn't the Eagle Guard always send the warrant in the past? County lieutenant, can you see clearly, what are the three of them dressed in? ”

"The young officer is a Yan blue armor, and the other two are ordinary non-commissioned soldiers, Eagle Guard, and his subordinates don't see that there is an Eagle Guard by his side."

No Eagle Guard?

No, Shen Baoxu is very cautious because his opponent this time is Zhou Dunyi, the famous marshal of Nanli, and he can't wait to convene the group of generals to discuss every step of the order, and the matter of grain and grass has always been the top priority in his strategic policy, using Eagle Guard to be responsible for transportation, this is an order that has been there from the beginning, and this time, it is absolutely impossible to have a fake.

Since there is no Eagle Guard, then these three people are a little suspicious.

General Xiang casually picked up a shirt and put it on his upper body, then ran all the way to the side of the county lieutenant's horse, turned over on the horse, turned his head to look at the county lieutenant, and commanded

"Gather the county soldiers and assemble the granary."

After saying this to the county lieutenant, General Xiang looked at the two strong men who had just fought with him and shouted

"Follow General Ben and go to the granary immediately."

With that, General Xiang drove his horse, spread his strength, and rushed towards the granary.

Outside Xinmai County, a group of black-clothed people were hiding in the shade of a tree to enjoy the shade, and a black-clothed man leaning on a big tree looked at the smoke slowly rising in the county, shook his head with a smile, and said softly

"It seems that the group of people who left Nanli have succeeded."

On the other side, a black-clothed man who was playing with the short sword in his hand and was as strong as an ox sneered very disdainfully after hearing this, and said

"As far as Dongxun's loose defense, Lao Tzu can overthrow those guards alone, and the people who leave the south are too useless, and it took three people so much half a day to get their hands on it, what kind of bullshit brocade guards, even a finger of Lao Tzu can't compare."

"Yes, yes, they can't even compare to a finger of your mourning ghost, but mourning ghost, do you know that there is still a Dongxun general in this Xinmai County, as far as your temperament is concerned, the front foot has just killed those soldiers guarding the granary, and the Dongxun general on the back foot has brought people to support him, tsk, at that time, how can there be any mourning ghosts, it is estimated that you will become a real lost ghost."

A thin man in black sneered at the strong man, but when the mourning ghost heard this, he got up and grabbed the short sword in his hand with his backhand, and was about to throw it at the man in black.

"Okay, stop it, you two don't forget, what we're here for today."

The man at the head narrowed his eyes slightly, and although the tone of his voice was not high, the other black-clothed people were very serious when they listened to it, as if they were afraid of missing a word.

"Captain, you said that those guys from Nanli Jinyiwei have done what we should have done, what else can we do, just Captain, you give your brothers a vacation, brothers can go and be happy."

The thin man in black looked a little frivolous when he said this, but as soon as he said this, it attracted the approval of many people.

Naturally, there are also mourning ghosts who agree.

But the man in black who was the leader glanced at these guys with cold eyes, and after his eyes swept to one person, the man was born peacefully, no longer whining, and only after everyone was quiet did this person say slowly

"What's the hurry, it's true that the task has been completed, but we can't go back to see the general empty-handed, we have to bring back a gift for the general."

"Captain, just say it directly, how can we understand these twists and turns."

The man in black who was the leader glared at the man in black who said this, then pursed his lips and said

"Naturally, it is the head of the Dongxun general who sits in Xinmai County, and if he brings it to the general as a gift, the general will definitely be satisfied."

After hearing that he was going to kill someone, the mourning ghost suddenly changed from a listless state to a vigorous one, and said with a smile

"Boss, let me do this matter, I'm the best at killing people, and you know it."

The black-clothed man at the head glanced at the mourning ghost with a smile, and said a little in agreement

"Indeed, in the matter of murder, in the number A, you do have a number one mourning ghost, but ah mourning ghost, this time General Dongxun is sitting in Xinmai County, but he is a surname."

"What's wrong with the surname, his surname is Li, and his surname is Taihao, and Lao Tzu is not afraid."

The mourning ghost rolled his eyes, he just had to kill people, what did he care about this kind of thing.

However, after the mourning ghost said this, he found that these brothers around him were all looking at him with a look of contempt, and the mourning ghost was a little confused when he saw this situation.

It was still thanks to the skinny man in black who reminded the mourning ghost

"You are stupid, whether it is the Nanli Xiang family or the Dongxun Xiang family, it is not a Jiangmen to provoke."

The mourning ghost still didn't understand, and the black-clothed man led by him could only shake his head slightly when he saw such a mourning ghost.

There's no way, this guy has good combat power, but his brain is always missing a tendon, which is probably a pity.

"Okay, now rest for a while, sneak into Xinmai County from time to time, and wait for an opportunity to assassinate this General Xiang."

The men in black nodded in response.

And the granary door of Xinmai County at this time.

General Xiang turned over and dismounted, looking at the inside of the flickering grain and grass in front of him in disbelief.

"I've been tricked."

Looking at the late county lieutenant and the county soldiers he brought, General Xiang roared at them

"Why don't you go in and put out the fire! Just go! ”

The county lieutenant saw the current scene of the granary for the first time, he was a little dazed, obviously he was fine when he just left, and it was only two quarters of an hour at most, why, how was it only two quarters of an hour, and the granary was on fire.

After seeing this scene, General Xiang's huge body suddenly lost the strength of his legs, and he almost knelt directly on the ground.

Seeing the county soldiers pouring into the gate and starting to put out the fire, General Xiang's expression was slightly distracted.

If you put out the fire, it's just a rescue now.

The new wheat granary, even if it experienced such a fire, would not burn much grain and grass, and the fire was far from reaching that point.

But even if it was just a load of grain burned by those people, it would be a dereliction of duty.

Moreover, this can be regarded as a provocation by that gang to himself.

After a while, the county lieutenant trotted all the way to General Xiang, and when he was about to run to General Xiang, the county lieutenant fell down, gasped, and said to General Xiang

"General, fire, fire stopped."

"How many loads of food are lost."

When General Xiang asked this, his eyes were already a little empty.

"The amount is a bit large, and I can't budget it yet, but according to the estimates of my subordinates, it is at least 100,000 quintals."

General Xiang's eyes were dizzy and he fell directly to the ground.

"General, general, come on, the general has fainted!"