Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 195 Granary Trap

The Earl's Mansion of Le'an is not just the residence of the Liu family. It is actually a semi-militarized city.

The wall of the prefecture was built along the mountain, with a circumference of more than ten miles, not much lower than the wall of Anping County. In addition to a large residential area, the prefecture also had a wine-making workshop and a large number of granaries.

Anping County is mainly mountainous and hilly. There are not many arable lands, and the grain produced is barely enough.

There were very few arable fields in Le Anbo's territory, so he could only buy large quantities of grain from outside.

I don’t know if Le Anbo Liu Shihao had suffered some kind of stimulation in his early years, but he has an irrational obsession with purchasing and storing grain.

In the early years, the Liu family bought grain every year and stored it every year. The more grain they bought, the more granaries they built. As a result, the speed of building granaries could not keep up with the speed of buying grain. Much of the purchased grain had nowhere to be stored and was piled up in the open air, exposed to the wind and sun, and deteriorated and moldy.

For this reason, Mrs. Chu, who has always been thrifty, simply opened another winery and used the old grain to brew wine, so as to make room for the new grain.

In the Earl's Palace of Le'an, the most magnificent buildings are the welcoming pavilions and other places for entertaining guests. The most shocking thing is the huge granaries in the storage area!

I'm afraid even Liu Shihao himself doesn't know how much food the Liu family has stored! However, many people in Anping County say that the Liu family's food is enough to feed 100,000 people for a year! It's more than the food in the county's government warehouse!

The heavy snow fell very hard, but it passed quickly. After a few hours, it gradually became lighter and stopped. Not long after, the weather cleared up completely, revealing the winter sun that was already slightly red in the west.

Liu Feiyun stood on the wall of the mansion, looking at the dense crowd of barbarians outside.

These barbarians did not attack the city from all sides, but all concentrated in the southwest of the Earl's Mansion. The Liu family's granary was located here, right next to the mansion wall.

The walls of the palace were already covered with corpses of barbarians, probably tens of thousands of them. On the walls of the palace, there were also bloodstains everywhere, and many people were busy carrying the wounded and corpses, and transporting various materials for defending the city.

"This is the nth attack?" Liu Feiyun asked Qin Jiu beside him.

"It's probably the eighteenth time! Maybe the nineteenth time! I can't remember exactly! The barbarians' attacks are too frequent! And they are getting more and more frequent!"

"Of course! Didn't you hear what the people who fled into the mansion said? Many of these barbarians have no food left! They are anxiously waiting for the food in the mansion to fill their stomachs! What's more, now most of the people in the county have fled into the mansion or the city. It is difficult for those barbarians to get food in the villages and towns outside! If they don't gather here and the county town, where else can they go!"

As Liu Feiyun was speaking, he heard shouting and killing outside the city again, and a new wave of barbarian offensive began.

The Earl's Mansion was different from Lengfengkou. The area available for the barbarians to attack the city was much larger. The barbarians could deploy more troops, and thousands of them could attack the city at the same time. A series of crude ladders were erected and leaned against the walls of the mansion. Several battering rams also slowly approached the side door that was originally used for the grain carts to enter and exit.

"Oh! I really don't know what my father was thinking! He actually left his hometown and went to defend some county town." Liu Feiyun complained as he walked into the mansion.

"Young Master! Now there are tens of thousands of people gathered in this mansion. Adding the original population of the mansion, we can spare nearly 10,000 strong men to defend the city. As long as we can withstand the most crazy waves of attacks from the barbarians, there will be no problem! On the contrary, the county town is more dangerous!" Qin Jiu hurriedly followed and explained.

"There are 10,000 or 20,000 people in the county town, plus the people who have fled into the city, there must be at least 70,000 or 80,000 people! There are too many people here!"

"It's different! In our mansion, both men and women, as long as they reach adulthood, have to participate in certain training. Even if their combat power is not as good as that of the county's militia, they can still serve as auxiliary soldiers. And those people who fled into the mansion are either the people of the territory or the villagers in the northern mountainous areas. Many of the young and strong among them are militiamen, and they can still be used to defend the city with the help of the mansion wall. On the contrary, the people in the county and the south of the city have received few trainings and can only serve as civilian laborers. The defense of the city still depends on the militia and the guards kept by the wealthy families, as well as the young."

"Alas! It is said that the people in border areas are tough! But except for the people in our Liu family and the mountain people in the north of the city, other people are just like that." Liu Feiyun shook his head as he walked.

Soon, he arrived at the welcoming pavilion. At this time, in the welcoming pavilion, Mrs. Chu, Chu Bihe, was chatting with Gu Qingya and He Qingqing, and she didn't seem to be worried at all that the barbarians outside would attack the mansion.

"Oh! Yun'er! Why are you back? Could it be that the barbarians outside the city have retreated?" Chu Bihe asked curiously.

"How can that be possible! How can they bear to leave when you have so many granaries waiting for them to eat? If they can't eat your food anymore, they will really starve to death!" Liu Feiyun said with a wry smile. "You too, why do you need to store so much food? Can't you build a few fake granaries to fool my father? Now it's all right! The hungry barbarians are here!"

"What a fake granary! The real granary is almost empty now! You didn't believe the rumors outside, did you? I spread them deliberately to fool your father! Ahem... Princess, Miss He, please don't spread it! Otherwise, if that old man finds out, he will blame me non-stop!"

After hearing this, the two girls could only smile awkwardly and say no.

"Empty! That is to say! There is not much grain in those dozens of granaries!" Liu Feiyun's heart moved, and he asked his mother for confirmation again.

"There are still some, but only enough to feed ten thousand people for three months! Why are you asking these questions?"

"Hehe! Mother! I want to help you! To settle the account for you! To prevent father from blaming you when he finds out the truth about the real granary! You will just deny it then! Hehehe!" Liu Feiyun laughed strangely a few times, and then under the puzzled gazes of the girls, he said solemnly: "I want to burn down the granary!"

At midnight that night, after dozens of frenzied attacks by the barbarians, the southwest gate of Earl Le'an's Mansion was breached, and tens of thousands of barbarians poured into the granary compound, which occupied nearly 10% of the total area of ​​the Earl's Mansion.

The barbarians smashed open the doors of the granaries frantically, grabbing handfuls of raw grain and stuffing them into their mouths without caring whether they could be eaten raw or not.

The tens of thousands of barbarians, who already had no discipline, became even more chaotic. No one cared about the Southern Chen garrison anymore, and no one cared about the status of the people! All they cared about was the food that could keep them alive.

Countless torches surrounded the huge granaries, and the view from the higher Yingbin Pavilion was spectacular!

Suddenly, a corner of a granary caught fire, and the fire quickly spread, soon setting most of the granary on fire!

Immediately afterwards, the second, third, fourth... granaries were lit up one after another, and soon most of the granaries were set on fire, turning into huge torches!

Many barbarians among the granaries were stunned! Stunned! Stupid!

At the same time, the side door that was originally wide open was quietly sealed by a team of powerful guards! And the barbarians in the compound didn't even notice it!