Empire

"We have been ordered to investigate the bandit spies, please cooperate!"

The mighty grain transport team was intercepted by the fully armed security troops.

"I am the commander of the thousand-man garrison of Gyeonggi Province. We are transporting food to the front line. There will definitely be no spies from the enemy army. Please let us pass."

The garrison officer sitting on horseback felt that the inspection would waste time and wanted to pass directly.

"I'm sorry, but all people and convoys passing through here must be checked."

Although a centurion from the provincial guard appeared very polite, his tone was unquestionable.

"Sir, let them check, we can also take the opportunity to rest."

A garrison officer saw that the atmosphere was a little tense and couldn't help but speak.

Seeing the murderous look of the other party, the garrison officer was unhappy, but he didn't want to cause trouble.

"Then check it out——"

The garrison officer snorted coldly and rode his horse towards the tea shed, wanting to drink some tea to cool off.

The provincial garrison commander waved his hand, and the garrison soldiers headed towards the convoy and began to check the laborers and carriages.

The laborers were also tired from the journey, and they took the opportunity to rest. They also looked for a cool place to rest.

The garrison soldiers who were sweating profusely also relaxed their vigilance and allowed the garrison soldiers to check them.

"Brother, how is the war in Qingyang Prefecture going?"

A garrison soldier who was escorting grain and grass saw the guard soldier stabbing the grain and grass inside the carriage with a bayonet, and couldn't help but come up to ask

"We don't know."

The guard hesitated for a few seconds and replied

"Didn't you come from Qingyang Prefecture? How could you not know?"The guards were full of doubts.

"You talk too much."

When the garrison soldier was about to continue asking questions, he suddenly felt a flash of cold light in front of his eyes and his neck was a little cold.

A thin red line appeared on the garrison soldier's neck, which soon spread into a scarlet bloody wound, and blood gushed out uncontrollably.

"you......"

The garrison soldier covered his bleeding neck and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Puff!"

"Ah!"

At the same time as the garrison soldier fell to the ground, the dull sound of a blade piercing flesh and screams rang out around him.

These Qinghe soldiers disguised as guards approached the defenseless garrison soldiers under the pretext of interrogation and attacked them directly at close range, catching them off guard. The thousand-man garrison general who was drinking tea in the teahouse was also confused when he saw his men being hacked to death by the guards.

"What's going on? We are one family!"

The thousand-man garrison thought there was some misunderstanding, so they stood up and shouted loudly.

"You are the ones I want to kill!"

At this moment, the guards who were drinking tea at the table next to them also rushed to kill people, and chopped them with sharp knives at the thousand guards.

""Ah!"

Amid the splattering blood and screaming, several subordinates of the garrison commander were immediately chopped to the ground.

The garrison commander ran away in fear, but was soon nailed to the ground by a sharp arrow. The escort soldiers of this grain transport team only had more than 200 people. Facing the sudden attack at this moment, they were so panicked that they could not form an effective resistance at all.

Seeing the fighting on the official road, one garrison soldier after another fell in a pool of blood, and the civilians were also scared and pale.

""Run!"

Someone shouted, and the frightened civilians immediately ran away to the surrounding fields.

The Qinghe Army brothers who were disguised as the guards had no time to care about the civilians who were fleeing, but just kept besieging the Dynasty garrison soldiers who were escorting the grain.

In just a few moments, more than 200 soldiers who were escorting the grain were killed, and the official road was full of blood and corpses.

"Burn all the grain and grass for me!"

The commander in charge of the attack on the Dynasty Army's grain transport team was Zhou Ba, a general of the Qinghe Army Camp. He gave the order loudly.

Zhou Ba was born a mountain bandit and was familiar with these roadblocks, so Chen Ziang sent him out.

When Chen Ziang led his troops to Qingyang Prefecture, Zhou Ba led a small elite force to break away.

Their mission was simple, which was to cut off the grain route of the Dynasty Army in Qingyang Prefecture.

"Sir, it's such a pity to burn so much food."

Seeing the mountains of food and grass on the long convoy, many soldiers couldn't bear it.

They were all people who had lived a hard life and had a subconscious cherishment for food.

"We don't have enough manpower, so much food and grass can't be transported away, we can only burn it, we can't let the Dynasty Army get away with it!"

Zhou Ba naturally understood the soldiers' thoughts, but he was ordered to cut off the food supply. Since he couldn't take it away, he could only burn it on the spot.

Although the soldiers felt it was a pity, they still resolutely carried out Zhou Ba's order.

Soon, carts of food and grass burned in the blazing fire, and black smoke columns rushed straight into the sky.

""Retreat!"

When he was sure that the grain and grass had been burned, Zhou Ba waved his hand, led the soldiers off the official road, and left into the woods.

In the evening, a cavalry patrol of the Dynasty Army found the grain transport convoy that had been attacked.

Seeing the corpses all over the ground and the convoy that had been burned to ashes, the patrol officer's face suddenly darkened.

Soon, the news that the grain transport convoy had been attacked quickly spread to the Dynasty Army camp in Qingyang Prefecture.

"What?!"

When the fourth prince learned that the grain transport team had been attacked and wiped out, he was also shocked.

After all, grain and grass are of great importance. If the front-line army lacks food, there is no need to fight at all.

"Who did this?!"

"Your Highness, according to the patrol team's investigation,���The attack on the grain transport team should be a group of mountain bandits."

When the fourth prince heard that it was mountain bandits, he breathed a sigh of relief. What he feared most was a premeditated attack by the Qinghe Army.

"Order the Black Cavalry to send a cavalry unit to wipe out this group of bandits and ensure the safety of the food supply route."

"promise!"

"How many days can the army last?"

After the fourth prince finished speaking, he looked at the quartermaster.

The quartermaster hurriedly stepped forward and replied:"Your Highness, the army's food and grass are only enough for three days."

Because the journey was long, and there was food constantly being transported to the front line from far away, the army did not have much food in stock.

"Send someone to urge the next batch of food and fodder as soon as possible to ensure the food and fodder supply for the army."

""Yes!"

As the commander of the army, the fourth prince naturally understood the importance of food and grass, so he did not dare to be careless.

However, the fourth prince did not know that the attackers of food and grass were not ordinary bandits, but the elite troops under Chen Ziang.

Zhou Ba, who was in charge of leading the attack on the grain transport team of the Dynasty Army, was born a bandit. He was very familiar with how to attack and how to avoid being caught.

It was precisely because Zhou Ba had experience and professional ability in intercepting roads that Chen Ziang entrusted him with this difficult task.

After all, talents must be placed in the right position to play a greater role, otherwise it would be a pearl covered in dust.