In the night.

Li Mi climbed on the bell tower of Liyang Cangcheng, the bell tower is located in the center of Cangcheng, eight feet high from the ground, standing on the top of the bell tower, you can have an unobstructed view of the entire Liyang Cangcheng.

Cangcheng is located in the north of Daling Mountain, the layout of Cangcheng is about square, more than two miles from east to west, more than two miles from north to south, and five miles around. It has 500 warehouses, each kiln has a diameter of three zhang three, a depth of three zhang three, and a cellar can store grain of 8,000 stones. Although it is not as good as a thousand warehouses in Xingluocang, it is also quite amazing, and it can store up to four million stones of grain.

The warehouses in Liyang Cangcheng are arranged in a neat and orderly manner, and there is an outer city outside the central Cangcheng, which is used by the town soldiers stationed in Cangcheng, the personnel who manage the granary and their families.

Cangcheng is full of grain, enough to feed millions of people for a year.

The whole Liyang Cangcheng is more fortified than the county town of Jijun, where there are not only inner and outer city walls, but also moats, sheep and horse walls, enemy towers, urn cities, etc.

If you hadn't personally stood on top of the bell tower of this warehouse city, it would have been hard to believe that so much grain could be stored here. Not only is there a lot of grain stored here, but the means of storing grain are also extremely clever.

The construction of each warehouse is particularly particular, first of all, it is particular about the terrain and location, the low terrain is easy to enter the granary, so the Liyang warehouse is selected at the foot of Daling Mountain, and secondly, the warehouse also has requirements for the soil, which must be good for excavation, and the soil quality is best to be sticky, otherwise it is easy to collapse.

It is said that the design of these warehouses is designed by the master craftsman Yu Wenkai himself, each warehouse first digs a diameter of more than three zhang, the outer diameter of more than five zhang, and the depth of about seven feet of annular foundation groove, and then rams this annular foundation groove to make it extremely strong, so as to prevent the collapse of the granary.

After ramming, start digging along the inner diameter, digging more than three zhang, this digging cellar is over.

Then there are three steps to deal with, the first step, first use fire to grill the whole cellar surface, after the barbecue, but also to coat a layer of green plaster mud on the cellar wall, the second step to lay a layer of wood on the wall, the third board, and then fix a layer of mat outside the board, so that the cellar is completed.

The warehouse built in this way is actually underground, which has an excellent storage effect, and is far better than the general ground grain silos. Generally, the ground storage of grain and rice is only three years, but in this kind of granary, it can be stored for five years, and such a storable grain as millet can even be stored for ten years without spoiling.

In order to prepare for this second crusade, the Liyang warehouse is now full of 500 cellars, and the grain transported from Jianghuai is piled up in the temporary warehouse on the ground in the outer city.

"As long as you capture the Liyang warehouse and open the warehouse to release grain, you can call 100,000 soldiers in an instant."

Yang Xuangan said with a smile, "You don't have to worry about food in Liyang Cang, but there is still a lack of ordnance and armor now." ”

"You can rest assured of this, there are a lot of ordnance and armor stored in Pingyuan County to be transferred to Zhuojun and Liaodong, and there are several armor and ordnance workshops there, and when our people take the Pingyuan County City, they will naturally be able to get a large number of ordnance and armor."

Li Mi's plan was very good, he took Du Yanbing and Wang Yan as the core, and then contacted a large number of rebels in Henan and Hebei, and then captured the county town of Xiaping Plain together and captured those ordnance. In this way, a large number of ordnance can be captured, and the officer army stationed in Pingyuan County can be wiped out.

"When Pingyuan County falls, then the Duke of Chu will order the soldiers of Ji County and Liyang Cangzhen to follow you north to Pingyuan County, and then fight two victories and successfully recover the Pingyuan County, and then I will let Du Yanbing and Wang Yan surrender to Shun, you take the opportunity to incorporate their elite, and then you can leave some of the soldiers and horses of Ji County and Cangcheng in Pingyuan County to help defend, and then bring Du Yanbing and their men and horses back."

This is a strategy for changing troops.

In the name of the thief, he brought the soldiers and horses of Ji County to the plains, and then pretended to collect the rebels and brought the rebels back to Ji County, but left most of the soldiers and horses of Ji County in the plains.

In this way, you can quietly have a reliable elite to help trouble.

"Du Yanbing and Wang Yan now have 3,000 light cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers under their command, all of them are selected and trained by the method of military formation, not those rabble bandits, with these 8,000 people, Chu Gong will be able to respond to every call when he arrives in Liyang Cang."

"Hahaha, it's still the Dharma Master, you have planned."

Taking advantage of the plain rebellion, he brought back to Liyang an elite army that had been prepared for a long time, and then waited until May to raise an incident in one fell swoop and seize Liyang Cang.

"Duke Chu, after the incident, I think we should go back to Guanzhong Daxing first, and now Yang Guangdong is conquering Goguryeo, and Guanzhong is empty. If, after the Liyang uprising, we quickly advance westward, and do not attack cities and land along the way, but only advance westward, then we can rush back to Guannai as soon as possible. At that time, with the prestige of the Duke of Chu in the pass, it will definitely be gathered, at that time the blockade of Tongguan, according to the hundred and two Qinchuan and guard, to stabilize the pass first, and then you can go out of the pass to fight for the world, this is also the Han Liu Bang, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yu Wentai so the road to seize the world. ”

In Li Mi's view, this is the best strategy after the incident, first raid Guanzhong, capture Xijing Daxing, occupy Guanzhong, and then say, the terrain in Guanzhong is the danger of four stops, and it can be attacked and defended.

It's really not good, and it can also lead the Turks as backup.

It's just that Yang Xuangan feels that this is not the best policy.

"Master, I've thought about your suggestion for a long time. We are now in Hebei, and there is an incident in Liyang, if we go back to Guanzhong Daxing, it is too far away. Not to mention that Luoyang Jiancheng is in the front, even Tongguan may not be better. And once we have no base, we will inevitably become rogues, and then we will be encircled and suppressed by officials and troops from all walks of life. ”

Yang Xuangan had his considerations.

"If you raise troops, I think it is best to fight Luoyang first, Luoyang is the closest to Liyang, and Luoyang is the center of the world after years of construction. If Luoyang can be captured, firstly, it can control the remaining imperial court and win the support of more aristocratic officials, and secondly, it can control the families of Yang Guangdong's hundreds of officials and soldiers. Again, there are many granaries near Luoyang, so you don't have to worry about grain and grass in Luoyang. ”

Daxing, Luoyang.

Xijing, Dongdu.

Li Mi believes that we should first go to seize Guanzhong Daxing, and believes that Xijing is in Guanzhong, and there is a danger of four stops in Guanzhong, as long as Guanzhong is taken first, then once Wuguan and Tongguan are blocked, there will be a chance for calm development, and they can attack and retreat and defend.

But Yang Xuangan thinks that Xijing is too far away, and he runs from Liyang to Daxing, hundreds of miles away on the way, and there are dangerous passes such as Tiger Prison, Luoyang, and Tongguan, which may not be able to pass. If you get stuck in the middle of the road and have no place to base it, it will be dangerous.

In contrast, he felt that it was better to fight Luoyang nearby.

"Duke Chu, taking Luoyang is the next strategy, if Duke Chu doesn't want to go to Guanzhong first, then there is a middle strategy, but after Liyang raised troops, quickly wave his troops north, first capture Zhuo County, and then lay down Linyu Pass, block Yang Pass outside the pass, so that he can't go back to the pass, and then cut off his grain and grass, then Yang Guang can only starve to death even if he has hundreds of thousands of troops outside the pass."

"Let me think about it again." Yang Xuangan still didn't convince Li Mi.