It was still raining in the sky. After February, it had rained for more than ten days in the entire Shanyang Road area. △￠The area that was hit last year originally planned to make a good reply this year, but the house was leaking and raining overnight, which led to the destruction of more families and joined the army of refugees and even rioters.

At this time, in a mountainous area in the central part of Beihou Kingdom, which seemed to be a village but was already ruined, three men dressed in a different dress than others were sitting together, eating black and astringent food, which were obviously roasted rats.

There were more than a dozen ragged men around them. Their hair was scattered, their faces were yellow and hungry. The two sunken eyes looked out of a faint light, like the ghost fire in the dark, swallowing rain in their mouths, begging the man in the lead to give them some rat meat.

On the outside of them were hundreds of women, children and elderly people. Their fate was even more tragic. They had to endure hunger and wait for the leaders to give some food, and also help the men in the center find various small animals, mice, snakes, and even insects and birds hiding in the grass.

A middle-aged man in the lead whispered a young man in the 27- and 8-year-old beside the team, saying: "Chief, the situation is very bad! If I don't find a way to survive, I'll be finished and the food is already exhausted."

The young man called the leader had a lot of dust on his face, covering up his true appearance, but the pieces he wore were in sharp contrast with the many refugees on the outside.

The young man frowned and looked at the rat meat in his hand. After swallowing a saliva, he handed the rat meat to the middle-aged man beside him. He shook his head. He couldn't eat the thing. He responded in a low voice: "Zuo Zuo, has Qilang not come back yet?"

The middle-aged man called the left work shook his head, then looked at the dark sky from afar, worried about Qilang's safety in his eyes, and finally said, "There is no movement yet. If it really doesn't work, I'll leave this ghost place. Didn't Qilang say that the southern coast has been occupied by the overlord Luo family of Kyushu. And it is also providing food for everyone there. If..." Speaking of this, the middle-aged man swallowed a mouthful of water, and obviously he thought of the taste of delicious food.

Another middle-aged man whispered: "Zuo Zuo, do you think we don't want to leave this ghost place, will those refugees let us leave? There were only seven people when we escaped from the city, but now there are hundreds of people, and there are more than a thousand people inside and outside the ruins, and there are also those spies from bandits at each important intersection. It is impossible to eat these thousands of people. But it's more than enough to eat us. It doesn't matter if we die. But the leader's words are not good!" As he said that, he snatched the rat meat from Zuo Zuo's hand and ate it hard.

The leader raised his eyebrows and looked at his embarrassed subordinates calmly. He looked depressed and sighed in his heart. Unexpectedly, these guys were extremely brave and boasted about their bravery at the beginning, but they had just been trapped here for more than ten days and became like this. They actually looked so embarrassed for a rat meat. It is understandable that they were hungry, but they could not look like a wild dog.

The leader turned his eyes to Zuo Zuo, but the reaction on Zuo Zuo's face made him feel even colder. At this time, Zuo Zuo did not feel abnormal for his companion's embarrassment, but instead felt a little sad and angry about losing rat meat.

Can hunger really change a person's mind? The leader sighed in his heart, took a deep breath, stopped talking, just waiting for Qilang's return.

There are many such small groups on the ruins of the village here. The largest of them has hundreds of people, and the others are small teams of dozens of people. However, most of them are ordinary old men, and there are not many men who can go out to fight, so overall their strength is not strong.

In this way, everyone gathered together without joy or laughter. Instead, they sighed from time to time, with less and less food, but they were afraid of going out alone to find a way out, afraid of attacks from bandits and bandits. If they were united, they would not get everyone's consent. They fought each other, but they could still be united when facing attacks from bandits and bandits, but once they were defeated, they would have their own plans.

Seeing this scene, the leader couldn't help it, so he stood up directly. Seeing this, the two people around him immediately looked at the leader in confusion.

"Can't wait any longer, just tell the people in the ruins about the news from the Luo family that had been heard from before, and then join forces to go to the territory of the Luo family in the southern coastal area." The leader looked at his two subordinates and said.

"Ah?" The middle-aged man who was previously known as Zuo Zuo first exclaimed, and then said, "But, but, leader, this news has not been confirmed yet. Are we waiting for Qilang to sneak out and confirm it before we leave privately, regardless of the people here?"

"You can't wait any longer. Regardless of whether the news is true or not, it's better than staying here and waiting for death. And I don't want the corpse to be surrounded by the bandits who wait for me to take as food after death." The leader said, "Besides, even if Qilang confirms the news and comes back, can we really leave secretly?"

"You can leave those women, children and elderly people, and only a few of us can leave secretly. Isn't Qilang lurking out like this?"

"Bastard, even if I can leave the people, even if I can leave here, can I face the people there when I go to the southern coastal area? If my estimate is good, if the news is true, then there are also a large number of people rushing to the territory of the Luo family at this time, and there will naturally be a large number of forces mixed with them. At that time, how can we be the opponents of those forces?"

"This?" The middle-aged man really didn't think so much before, and he really didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Okay, that's it. Spread the news, and then gather the leaders of the surrounding forces to discuss and go to the territory of the Luo family." Finally, the leader decided.

Just as refugees from all over the country gradually got rumors and began to come to the Luo family territory. They were in the Zhefu Mountain City area on the southern coast of China.

The drizzle of the continuous drizzle has been falling from the day when Zhefu Mountain City was handed over to the Luo family. It did not stop and rest for a moment, and then smiled and the sky was clear. The area where Zhefu Mountain City was originally a rainy and humid area, especially the rainy weather for several consecutive days also makes people feel more gloomy and unrest. Changes in the weather will affect people's emotions. The bad weather will last for several days and remind people of something ominous to happen soon.

The sky was gloomy and the night wind was cold with rain. Tonight, Takeuchi Kusaki sat alone on the wooden wall of a checkpoint outside the Ekiyama Castle and listened to the sound of dingdong dong spring water coming from time to time under the lockdown.

At this moment, Takeuchi Hakukashi's mood was as bad as the rainy weather. The more refugees gathered outside the canyon level, there was no sign of retreating and resigning. There was a sign of a bandit at any time. In fact, the same thing was between the refugees and the bandits. You said he was a bandit, he was a bandit, or a bandit, or a refugee. From time to time, hungry refugees ran to the checkpoint to investigate the situation. This situation has become more and more frequent in the past two days. It is really a storm that is about to come and the wind is filling the building!

Although the Luo family sent people to cook some porridge and sent them out to the outside world to help these refugees, they began to transport these people to the Jiuzhou area in batches and handed them over to the internal affairs cabinet that had been prepared, and dispersed these refugees to various parts of the Luo family's territory. However, the speed of refugees gathering was much faster than that of the Luo family, which naturally put a lot of pressure on the Luo family.

Of course, even if there are more and more refugees gathering outside the pass, they can only selectively put these refugees in the pass in batches every day. Then they are immediately transported away and will never stay in the local area. This is mainly to prevent these refugees from having other purposes from making trouble in the territory.

However, if there are more and more refugees outside and the ships of our family cannot transport most of the refugees away in time, this method of blocking refugees outside will be changed to setting up several temporary resettlement sites for refugees in the Luo family territory to achieve the goal of dispersing refugees.

"I hope I won't be affected by this refugee incident to my family's storm," thought Takeuchi Kusaki. He was originally a member of the American country. Because his territory was annexed by other wealthy families in the American country, he had no choice but to flee the American country with his son and his family, and then wandered to Zhou Fangguo. Just when he was about to be desperate, the Luo family took advantage of the opportunity of the Battle of Itsujima and officially entered the Western Region of the Danei family. So he took his son and was recruited by the Luo family for temporary military power to support himself and his family. Later, he and his son gained a lot of military merits with his outstanding skills, and were even more appreciated by the Lord Zhengliang.

So the father and son gradually became important generals in the Luo Family Military Advisory Pavilion in these seven or eight years. This time, after learning that the Luo Family was going to join Luo, he took the initiative to apply to the front line with the idea of ​​conquering his hometown. Now, seeing that the Luo Family swept across the enemy along Shang Luo with a thunderous momentum, he suddenly encountered such a large-scale refugee incident, which really cast a shadow on the Luo Family's great cause of Shang Luo, and even more affected his goal of returning to his hometown, which naturally made him feel depressed.

Just as Takeuchi Kusaki was still pondering, a foot lit up to him and whispered: "Sir, it's deep, it's time to rest, you need to take care of yourself."

Takeuchi Kusaki didn't look back, he took a deep breath, nodded and stood up, "I understand, let the brothers follow you well. More and more spies in the past two days should be careful."

Just as he was about to get up and leave, Takeuchi Kusaki suddenly saw a team of long strips outside the level, outside the rainy and continuous depths. Looking from a distance, this team also had at least hundreds of torches, which looked very impressive.

Seeing this, Takeuchi Kusaki immediately shouted with a trembling voice: "Hurry up, let everyone get up, the situation seems wrong. How could such a huge team come from outside the level? Could it be..."

The foot lightly heard that, Takeuchi Kusaki, who had always been brave, rarely trembled. An ominous premonition appeared in his heart. He also saw the fire dragons made of torches, which seemed even more abrupt and uneasy in the dark rainy night. Countless chaotic footsteps were cultivated into a piece in a few breaths.

The torches swayed in the canyon, and the shadows were shaking, and the slightest sounds kept coming from the fire dragon. Takeuchi Kusaki looked at the other party directly and shouted loudly: "Beware, beware, first know who the person is."

Looking at the torch that was getting closer and closer, all of them were getting up in the level with half of their feet resting, and they took the spear to the moment, and looked at the fire dragon carefully.

The Fire Dragon stopped moving forward more than a hundred meters away from the level, and divided a small team from the middle and came out toward the level.

Takeuchi Kusaki's eyes tightened, and suddenly he arrived at a flag, which was an unexpected and expected flag. Therefore, a more solemn expression appeared on his face, so he shouted again: "Beware, beware, let them come first and find out who they are?"

The people came quickly and rushed to Naoshima and his party who arrived at dawn. They recognized Naoshima and their party in a warning without gunpowder. After confirming several times, Takeuchi Kusaki put Naoshima and others in the gate.

"Master Hikaru, why are you here?" After meeting Naoshima Koryoshima, Takeuchi Kukashima asked immediately. He was very familiar with Naoshima Koryoshima. He even taught him several tricks of using a knife to Naoshima Koryoshima.

"This is the letter of the lord." Facing Takeuchi Kusato's questioning, Naoshima Kaorshima didn't say much, and handed a letter to Takeuchi Kusato's hands. The latter immediately opened the letter in the light of fire and read it.

After reading the letter, Takeuchi Kusaki looked solemn and sighed heavily, then he said: "Although this can relieve the pressure at this time, there are risks!"

Takeuchi Kusato's problem was exactly what Naoshima Kaori was worried about. His face was not very good. According to the lord's intention, he would put refugees into the territory from tomorrow, and then use the method of labor-for-relief to place these refugees in batches in various areas of the territory of the Beyond Kingdom and the Beyond China, and use them to speed up the construction of the newly occupied territory.

This method can indeed alleviate the pressure on the territory's borders at this time, but as the previous retainers were worried, once these people were incited by those with ulterior motives in the territory, the Luo family will face the risk of internal and external difficulties in the territory of the country and China.

However, if this method is not implemented, taking the level where Takeuchi Kusaki is currently located as an example, there are only dozens of people in this level now. If you just stick to it, it is more than enough. However, you have to be careful of refugees and attacks on thieves. It is really difficult to withstand such great pressure. While the family's regular status is still on standby, you can only deal with it according to the lord's method.

Depending on the situation, the lord intends to turn these newly occupied territories into a land of war, and it will not affect his previous plan.

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