Chapter 34: Plunder and Pillage
Editor: Henyee Translations
Desolate City quickly sprung to life.
Liang Ying's forces were just the beginning, and subsequently, more than ten groups arrived.
The smaller contingents had three to five hundred people, the larger ones had a thousand or two. They found quarters in the city and then ordered the county magistrate to muster food and fodder.
"Desolate City doesn't even have ghosts, how are we to muster food and fodder?"
Zhao Tai faced scholars that could rely on their scholar-mentor connections, but against these starving defeated soldiers, he couldn't clearly or dare to articulate his reasoning, so he had no choice but to transport the food from the mines to be distributed.
With several thousand people combined in the city, that food would last at most three to five days.
The generals and commanders of the various units were also aware that Desolate City had no food, and they communicated in private.