Chapter 255: Wanderers? Roving bandits?
Yang Hao didn't know how the rest of the clans would deal with the onslaught of the victims, but the Qi State would definitely not let these people wander around in their territory.
Fortunately, the current land area of Qi is pitiful, and it is a bit of a place to raise it when it is called a projectile land, and the exact point should be a country as big as a feces.
However, a small country has the advantages of a small country, and after the order to transfer troops was issued, the response of the Qi army was very fast.
Except for the 500 people who stayed in Chang'an City, the remaining 1,000 standing troops went to the border area as fast as they could, without carrying three days' rations.
Although the heavy snow seriously affected the speed of the march, the army of Qi was a professional soldier, and it had become instinctive to train for a long time and obey orders and listen to commands.
The detachments marched separately and braved the bitter cold until they finally arrived at the garrison of the border guards two days later.
When Liyang arrived at the stronghold near Gucheng, he found that nearly 100 ragged refugees had been captured here.
And in the snow not far from the stronghold, there were raised twisted mounds, indicating that there may have been many more people alive here than here before they arrived.
The guard general of the border army explained what happened to Liyang.
Soon after the continuous heavy snow stopped, some tribes who took refuge in the south appeared in the north one after another, and the border army did not pay much attention to these people at first.
Seeing that there were people who came to the door, it was just to save them from plundering everywhere.
But after a few days, the border soldiers did not think so, and the number of victims increased, and the refugees were interrogated.
The border soldiers finally knew that the matter was serious.
The north has been completely chaotic, attacking and killing each other, feeding on people, like hell on earth.
A large number of refugees fled in a hurry in order to survive, and on the way to escape, some tribes continued to annex some small tribes, and looted human groups that still had some savings.
These people were like locusts and gathered more and more, and according to the refugees who captured them, the largest group of displaced people they encountered was already extremely strong, probably numbering more than 300 people.
Although these large groups of displaced people have no plans to move south for the time being, it is difficult to guarantee that these people will begin to spread to the south after the calamity of the north is over.
If these people storm the border of Qi State, this is equivalent to a war, these outcasts who are not afraid of death, and their combat effectiveness may be difficult for those clan armies.
After listening to the general's warning, Li Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, glad that the Qi court reacted quickly, as long as the Qi army was stationed in the border area, even those riots who had become a climate really attacked the Qi defense line, and he was confident to stop it.
Not only this stronghold of Gu Chengdong, after the arrival of the large army one after another, the army took this place as the center and sent reinforcements to the beacon towers scattered outside.
In a very short period of time, Daqi quickly consolidated the border defense line and waited for it to be ready for battle, far exceeding the efficiency of troop mobilization in this era.
Scout troops separated from the cavalry are probed three times a day to nip possible possible threats in the bud.
The situation on the front line will be delivered to Chang'an every two days, except for the sporadic arrest of a small number of displaced people who have entered the Qi country, there is no too serious situation.
Yang Hao was a little skeptical that he had overreacted, after all, this era was an ancient period, and even if there were displaced people, there should not be any climate.
A few days later, when Yang Hao was hesitating whether to withdraw part of the army, an urgent battle report completely dispelled his idea.
Fang Guo Kunwu of Gu Guo Dongfang was almost breached by the impact of the displaced people, although he barely survived, he was also plundered by those hungry victims.
And among these raiding teams, there are not only small tribes that can't survive, but also low-level slaves who take advantage of the chaos.
Relying on the strength of the crowd, these people burned, killed and looted unscrupulously, wantonly venting their dissatisfaction.
Yang Hao didn't know how to solve this natural and man-made disaster in that time and space without himself.
Most likely, Xia Qi played a pivotal role in it, after all, in another time and space, the newly born Xia Dynasty, the national power was at its peak, and all the princes were also subjugated to Xia Qi's rule.
With the armies in the hands of the princes from all walks of life and the appeal of Xia Qi, it is entirely possible to easily quell this rebellion.
And the crushing defeat of his own Qi State in the frontal battlefield against Xia Qi can be said to have dealt an unprecedented blow to Xia Qi's prestige, and the princes from all walks of life are also detached from Xia Qi's appearance.
This disaster, without the deterrent power of the Xia Dynasty, all clans and Fang countries are fighting their own battles, and there is no assistance at all.
Today's situation has made Yang Hao realize that the impact of his arrival on this era has deviated more and more from the normal historical trajectory.
Yang Hao knew that the situation was serious, and these victims who were not suppressed in time were likely to become a prairie fire, and the Qi State was also under the threat of this Gu refugee tide, and recalling the army at this time was tantamount to death.
Yang Hao had been preparing for a protracted war for five years, and immediately asked Shaoyan to transfer grain and grass from the treasury to the front line.
In any case, Yang Hao can't let his base be destroyed, this is related to his plan to dominate the world.
Yang Hao's fears soon became a reality, and at the end of February of the first year of Hongwu, there was less than a month left before spring.
On the horizon of dozens of miles north of Qi City, a large number of ragged refugees ate everything they could eat on the road, and after exterminating one tribe after another, they finally approached the country of Qi.
Although these refugees seem to be scattered, they are actually following the orders of a tribe called Dian.
This tribe may be a little unfamiliar to the old Qi people who followed Yang Hao, if they think of the time when they were robbed and killed when they were in the ruins a few years ago, they can definitely remember this tribe.
The leader of the Dian tribe, the strong man who had robbed and killed Yang Hao, was surrounded by his own people, like an emperor inspecting the territory.
This snow disaster may be a bad thing for the rest of the tribe, but for him, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The Dian tribe had already made a living by robbing the rest of the tribes, and after the snow disaster, he robbed some tribes that went south, and then coerced these people to loot all the hostile tribes around him, but he did not usher in the blow of Kunwu or the Zhuxia tribe, which made his ambition swell suddenly.
As the number of refugees grew, his team snowballed in order to sustain the existence of this improvised patchwork force.
The strong men can only continue to plunder like locusts, and the only fate of those small tribes who refuse to submit is to be chopped up and made into food to feed the mouths of those who follow them.