Chapter 205: Golden Mountain, Silver Mountain. Brilliant gold
Although it was dark at night, under the light of countless torches, both sides could see each other.
"Beware of deception." Gan Ning was not deceived by the sudden good news, and whispered to Liu Fengdao.
"Hmm." Liu Feng nodded, this era is very famous, and those who are not careful will not survive tomorrow.
"It turned out to be Captain Shi." Liu Feng glanced at Shi Chang and Chen Cang, who was kneeling on the ground beside him, and quietly hugged his fists.
Seeing that although Liu Feng was familiar with each other, he had no intention of stepping forward. Shi Chang didn't feel annoyed, but secretly admired Liu Feng's caution.
Shi Chang knew that it was time to express his openness, turned over and dismounted, pulled out his long sword and put it on Chen Cang's neck, and personally escorted Chen Cang to Liu Feng.
"General, this is Jiangling Taishou Chen Cang, although this person is mediocre and incompetent, but he is also the boss of one side when he falls to the ground. If I capture him today, it will definitely cause chaos among the defenders of Gangneung. The general can take advantage of the chaos to take Gangneung. Shi Chang stopped and said at a distance close to Liu Feng, but not enough to form a threat to Liu Feng.
Shi Chang is very smart and knows that at this time, a misperformance will cause misunderstanding.
"Shi Chang, you dangerous villain, you dare to betray the lord. You dangerous villain, I should have abolished you a long time ago. When Chen Cang saw that Shi Chang was going to hand himself over to Liu Feng, he couldn't help but be afraid in his heart, and couldn't help but scold.
"Heh, the villain? If you hadn't listened to me, how could you have this disaster? As for Liu Jingzhou, his old man uses a mediocre person like you as a guard, and he is not far from death. Why should I be faithful to him? Shi Chang sneered.
Chen Cang was speechless for a while when he heard this, indeed, if he listened to Shi Chang's words and stepped up his vigilance, how could Jiangling City be so easily breached.
There seems to be some doorway. Liu Feng heard some clues from the conversation between the two. However, he didn't dig deeper, and there was little point at this time.
"Since Captain Shi intends to surrender to me, then please order the lieutenant to go and control the north of the city." Liu Feng smiled, but did not believe Shi Chang's words.
If Shi Chang ordered the deputy general to go to the north of the city and control the city gate. That is, Shi Chang has no ghosts in his heart, if Shi Chang is stagnant, then it is a deception.
"Zhao Zhong, you immediately lead the whole army to the north of the city. When you encounter the people in the city, drive them away. Shi Changyan ordered without hesitation.
"No." Someone in Shi Chang's army answered, and immediately, the rear of his army changed to the front team, marched towards the north of the city, and soon disappeared.
"There are four thousand in the city, in addition to my thousand. It's not worth fighting them. Not weak to drive them away. It's relatively safe. After all the soldiers left, Shi Chang explained to Liu Feng.
"Hmm." Liu Feng nodded, already trusting Shi Chang in his heart. Turning his head to Gan Ning, he said, "Xingba, you lead a thousand troops to the east of the city." ”
"Fang Dao, you lead a thousand troops and go to the west of the city."
"Take control of the city and drive out the defenders."
"No." Gan Ning and Fang Dao responded to the order and led their men and horses away.
Soon, Liu Feng's side was only Kou Shui and a 500-strong water army.
"Xingba? Seems somewhat familiar. Shi Chang frowned, and had some bad premonitions in his heart.
"Gan Ning? Are you Liu Feng? Chen Cang, who was held by the sword on his neck, flashed with a flash of aura, looked at Liu Feng in disbelief, and shouted in disbelief.
"That's right, I'm Jiangxia Taishou Liu Feng." Liu Feng smiled slightly and admitted. Immediately, he turned his head to Shi Chang, who was a little sluggish, and said, "The captain thinks that Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai are here, so they will act." But unfortunately, I am not Jiang Qin Zhouya, and I am not here to occupy this city. I have come for the weight and food in this city. ”
After explaining, Liu Feng said in a deep voice: "However, the matter has come to this. Captain Shi has no way out, so hurry up and inform his family, be mentally prepared, and go back to Jiangxia with me. ”
Liu Feng felt that Shi Chang was quite open-minded, very rational and courageous. He is a usable man, and a lieutenant with military power.
Accept him, and there will be no harm in it.
Shi Chang was stunned for a moment before slowly coming back to his senses. But he smiled bitterly in his heart, and even the person who took the city didn't know who it was, so he actually turned against him. It's really dizzy.
However, Shi Chang is interested in Jiangdong or Jiangxia. There is no special entanglement, he just needs to leave the mediocre Liu Biao.
Moreover, if you really want to talk about it, Liu Feng, who defeated Zhou Yu, has no worse reputation than the Sun family at this time.
"The last general will take the lord to the treasury to check." Slowly, Shi Chang also accepted this fact, and said to Liu Feng in a deep voice.
"Hmm." Liu Feng nodded, and then glanced at Kou Shui beside him. Kou Shui understood, the murderous intent in his eyes flashed, his hand rose and fell, and before Chen Cang could react, he cut off his head.
Anyway, this person is useless, and he knows Liu Feng's identity again, so it is better to get rid of him to avoid leaking the news.
After getting rid of Chen Cang, Liu Feng said, "Let's go." ”
"No." Shi Chang glanced at Chen Cang, who had already had two corpses, and his eyes flashed with joy. He promised and led the way ahead.
Because of Shi Chang, the head snake, leading the way, Liu Feng and others quickly found the treasury. The treasury is an important place in Gangneung, and naturally there are a few soldiers guarding it.
However, this point is really not enough for people to see.
After a brief engagement, the treasury was immediately breached by an army of 500 sailors.
Looking at the gate of the treasury that was forcibly broken open by the sailors, Liu Feng's eyes were a little excited. Here are most of the baggage and utensils under Liu Biao's rule.
How many there are will only be known after watching them. However, Liu Feng knew that this attack on Jiangling would definitely not suffer. At this time, screams rang out again from all sides of the city, and Gan Ning and the other troops engaged in a battle with the guards in the city.
The entire Gangneung City is full of flames.
After stopping outside the treasury gate for a while, Liu Feng ordered the five hundred sailors to divide into two teams, one pair to guard the door, and one team to enter the treasury with them.
Standing guard, standing sentry.
He himself took Kou Shui and dozens of personal soldiers, and under the leadership of Shi Chang, came to the treasury.
"This treasury is huge, covering an area of hundreds of acres. There were countless baggage, utensils, gold, and copper coins inside. The last general has been guarding Jiangxia for several years, and he doesn't know how many things are inside. I only know that Liu Biao will send a team of men and horses every year to transport countless baggage from all over the place to the treasury. Chen Cang spends a lot of manpower every year to wipe the armor and blades here to avoid rust and insect damage. "In the treasury, there are warehouses everywhere, and they are the same. But without exception, the doors were locked. Shi Chang took Liu Feng to the outside of a warehouse, and with a wave of the long sword in his hand, he split the copper lock and opened the door.
The moment the door opened, Liu Feng only felt that the golden light flashed in front of him, and then what he saw was a pile of gold mountains.
"Because the gold in the shape of a large cake is not conducive to storage, Liu Biao melted all the gold into gold bars and stored it here." Shi Chang explained to the rows of glittering gold bars on wooden shelves.
According to the custom of this era, gold bars are indeed rare.
Liu Feng couldn't hear Shi Chang's words anymore, he just squinted his eyes and looked at the warehouse. It is very large, and the gold that can be stored is certainly no less than 100,000.
Or even two hundred thousand. The so-called Jingzhou is rich, and you can peek into it from it. However, in the end, gold is something outside the body, and what Liu Feng cares about is those utensils, baggage.
Therefore, he quickly reined in his mind and said to Shi Chang: "Let's go, go and see another warehouse." ”
"No." Shi Chang nodded, and took Liu Feng to continue to check the treasury.
Next, Liu Feng only felt that his eyes were shaking. Silver, which was much less valuable than gold, was placed in wooden boxes and piled up haphazardly in warehouses. Mountain.
Hundreds of millions of copper coins were strung with hemp rope and thrown in bamboo baskets indiscriminately.
The rest, bows, swords, spears, knives, arrows, leather armor, iron armor. Tent. What Liu Feng saw was enough money to recruit 100,000 troops, and equipment that could equip 100,000 troops.
In front of this treasury, the treasury in Chaisang City, let alone mention, it can't be upgraded at all.
After all, the numbers in his mind are just numbers, and Liu Feng knows that in Jiangling City, there is enough baggage to equip an army of 100,000. But there was no specific concept, and it wasn't until he saw these things that Liu Feng realized that if he had enough population, he could instantly equip an army of 100,000.
After training for two or three years, you can go north to compete with Cao Ying.
Liu Feng, who was calmed by this concept, was finally taken to the clerical room by Shi Chang. The so-called clerical room is a place to store documents, and there are many bookshelves in the room, and there are piles of bamboo slips on the shelves.
Liu Feng picked up the document and looked at it. The above is all written, the situation of the way out.
In May of the tenth year of Jian'an, a thousand swords were transported from Xiangyang. In October, Jian'an transported 3,000 spears from Xiangyang. Liu Feng just browsed these casually.
Finally, picking up a roll of bamboo slips with a white cloth with the words "Baggage Total Volume" written on the outside, Liu Feng pulled the rope and slowly opened the bamboo slips.
"As of March of the 11th year of Jian'an, there were 80,000 spears, 10,000 long swords, 10,000 ring swords, and 15,000 bows in the treasury. One million arrows. 100,000 sets of leather armor and 10,000 sets of iron armor. 10,000 tents. Gold 180,000. Silver half a million. Copper money billion. ”
Bloody numbers.
Although the result was already known, Liu Feng was still a little dizzy by the number recorded on the bamboo slip.
In his heart, he couldn't help but feel a feeling of contempt for Liu Biao. It can be seen from Liu Biao's storage of all the equipment in the warehouse and preparing to defend the city.
This man is a housekeeper. With so much baggage, if you find one or two generals who can fight well, Liu Biao's power will already be overwhelming.
And, gold, silver. There are so many, look at Chai Sang, Chai Sang under Zhou Yu has almost no of these things, because these things are all exchanged for equipment by Zhou Yu.
put it in Jiangling, and in the end it was Cao Ying, so it might as well be given to me.
Liu Feng is now thinking about how to transport these baggage back. With so much baggage, plus enough food for an army of 100,000 to eat for three years, six or seven hundred ships of all sizes were obviously not enough.
(To be continued)