amaotonovel Chapter 244 Falling into a trap!
Chapter 244 Falling into a trap!
It took half a month before the mobilization and assembly of the 400,000-strong army was completed.
Only then did the Cheng family understand what four hundred thousand meant.
When the number of soldiers reaches ten thousand, there is no limit to their strength.
An army of 400,000 was dispatched, and when the vanguard arrived in Dingzhou, the last infantry had just left the imperial city.
One day's food consumption shocked the Cheng family who were traveling with the army.
The man swallowed hard. Knowing it in your heart and seeing it with your own eyes are two completely different feelings.
He did a rough calculation these days and found that the 500 carts of food and fodder sent by the Cheng family had long been consumed.
If this continues, the Cheng family will be chewed to pieces.
The most important thing is the source of food. Although Chengjia is a businessman, he is not a grain merchant.
If you want to deliver food and fodder to the army on time, you have to purchase food from various places in advance.
The grain transport convoy may seem well-organized, but in fact countless people have put in the hard work behind the scenes.
The man is the young master of the Cheng family, and is Cheng Zhi’s younger brother.
Following the army was to ensure that Cheng Zhi could be rescued in time.
Secondly, he needed to know the origin and destination of every cart of grain. The Cheng family wanted to cling to Luo Han and did not want to be a sucker.
This is undoubtedly a desperate gamble, and they really can't afford to lose.
The steward in charge of transporting grain and fodder hurried to see him.
"Master, the people we sent out to buy grain have sent us news that we can no longer buy grain. What should we do?"
Young Master Cheng said, "How come you can't buy it? Wasn't it fine before?"
The manager was sweating profusely, "Now, there are wars everywhere in Dongyong State, and the price of grain has been raised high. Those grain merchants are holding a large amount of grain, and they are all planning to make a fortune from the national crisis."
Grain merchants have grain in their hands, which is their confidence in troubled times.
If you follow the trend and buy at the price they offer at this time, you will undoubtedly be slaughtered.
Young Master Cheng lowered his head and thought, "Then we can buy it from the common people. If we pay 30% higher than the market price, they will be happy to sell it to us."
The manager thought it was a good idea.
But after being away for a day, he came back to report.
The people did have to sell their grain, but the asking price was five times the market price.
Cheng Dashao pounded the table and said, "How ridiculous! Xie these unruly people are asking for an exorbitant price. Do they know who will use this food?"
The manager said: "Although the price offered by the common people is a bit high, it is still kind compared to those black-hearted rich and powerful people."
Those grain merchants deliberately raised the prices. Now the price of grain has more than increased tenfold and is still trending up.
Young Master Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Buy them. Buy them all for me."
These unruly people only care about money and not the situation. Watch them sell off all the food in their hands. What will they eat in the future?
When the time comes, will you feel sick and vomit blood when you use the dirty money you earned to buy even dirtier food?
They persisted like this for more than ten days, and Yu Luohan also got into a fight with the three kings.
The Three Feudatories King has Cheng Zhi in his hand, and wants to play a game of cat and mouse with Yu Luohan.
She never really fights him, but what she does every day is enough to make Yu Luohan angry.
Every day he tests Luo Han's bottom line madly.
After struggling for many days, not only was Cheng Zhi not rescued, but Yu Luohan went deeper and deeper into the hinterland.
He had a strong army and was very confident. He felt that with his powerful strength, he could crush all conspiracies and plots.
At this time, Young Master Cheng was not dissatisfied with his ability to act.
At this rate, when will his sister be rescued? The other children were born but are still in the other party's hands.
He wanted to find Yu Luohan to argue with him.
Before they could leave their tent, they were stopped by the steward who came over because they could no longer buy food.
Young Master Cheng was suspicious: "How can we not buy it? Aren't those people very willing to sell us food?"
The steward had a bitter look on his face: "Those common people heard that the price of the noble families' grain had increased by more than ten times, and they felt that they were losing money, so they were unwilling to sell it to us. Moreover, they may not have much grain left, so they said they wanted to keep it for themselves."
Young Master Cheng did not believe the lies of the people, so he was able to win their hearts. As long as the price was right, those peasants would sell all their grain even if they had nothing to eat or drink.
So, under his instruction, the manager took people back to buy up the grain whose price had increased more than ten times.
The Cheng family's money was spent like water. If they didn't have some financial resources, they would have collapsed long ago.
In fact, this could not last long because all of the Cheng family’s other businesses ran into problems.
At this time, the Cheng family was in urgent need of capital turnover. If they didn't take out money to revitalize those shops, the Cheng family would be finished.
The Cheng family asked the Yu family for help, wanting them to lend a helping hand, but the head of the Yu family, Yu Luohan's uncle, refused without hesitation.
It is human instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. As the head of the Yu family, he cannot sacrifice the entire Yu family to help others.
Yu Luohan's face darkened when he received the news.
The emergency plan was activated.
On the one hand, he ordered the troops on the front line to attack the Three Feudatories with all their might, in order to seize spoils of war or grab the enemy's food and fodder.
At the same time, he sent out messengers to mobilize his granary. As a man with an army of 500,000, he still had this backup plan.
The soldiers were inspired and encouraged by this siege and rushed forward.
It was truly a great victory and we returned with a great harvest.
Looking at the cartloads of food and fodder being transported into their military camps, both the generals and soldiers felt a little proud.
The shortage of food and grass on the front line was relieved for a while.
A lot of food was used up when the stove was set up for cooking at night.
The men in the military camp were all shouting and yelling, as if what they were eating was not food but their glory.
After dinner, the barracks were quiet.
It was not until midnight, when flames shot up into the sky, that people realized something was wrong.
In the entire vanguard camp, 70% of the soldiers did not run out, and the patrolling sentries sensed danger.
I ran into a tent in the distance to check and saw that the soldiers inside were still sleeping soundly.
"It's really fucking hot, and you're still fucking sleeping, you're all pigs, wake up quickly."
He kicked the sleeping person, but he felt a pain on the back of his head and passed out.
When they woke up slowly after daybreak, they found that the military camp they were in was no longer the same one they had been in before.
They were tied up and thrown on the ground. Some were still sleeping, while others slowly opened their eyes.
"This is where?"
"Why am I sleeping on the ground? Who tied me up?"…
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When Yu Luohan led the army to rescue, the original vanguard camp was empty. Not only were there no people, but even the tents, pots and pans were gone.
If there hadn't been someone smart enough to come back and report to him, he would have thought that his vanguard battalion had broken camp and set up camp instead of being wiped out all at once!