Spring is the most famine season.

In the first year, Yandi, Guzhu and the whole north were hit by drought, and the following spring, there was a famine.

For a time, millions of people were threatened by hunger and fled in all directions, trying to pick up a life to stay in the world.

However, no one expected that the area of the famine was so large, with a radius of thousands of miles, that there was no way to survive at all. Except for the big nobles who have a little savings, and some high-ranking figures, almost everyone is starving.

Hunger is an invisible whip that drives large streams of displaced people around.

Displaced people are like locusts, wherever they flow, the green color disappears in an instant. Elms, willows, poplars, and the bark of the trees have been largely stripped away, revealing the trunks of the white forests, like bones poking into the earth.

Wild vegetables, and even some poisonous weeds, were all made into food by them and swallowed in their stomachs. Later, when there was really nothing to eat, people began to look for the soil that looked like flour, stirred it with water until it was a thin paste, and drank it directly. Many people have been poisoned, and many people's stomachs are swollen like big toads, and when you touch them, you will find that the soil inside has solidified into hard lumps.

On the earth, the only species that thrives is the wolf.

They wander between heaven and earth, looking in droves for places where the displaced have walked, or where they are about to appear.

In the mountains, in the fields, in the woods, on the grasslands, on the river beaches, there are wolves everywhere.

The wolf's eyes were no longer green, and even in the moonlight, the green glow was gone, replaced by an eerie dark red. The beasts became more and more terrifying, and began to attack human villages and towns in an organized manner, brazenly facing the sky in broad daylight, and letting out a terrible wail.

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When Guo Yang heard that there was a famine outside, he was a little worried and went out to see it himself.

Three days later, Guo Yang returned to the Grand Canyon, gathered hundreds of descendants of merchants, and quickly issued more than a dozen orders.

In special times, there is no room for hypocrisy. Guo Yang's first order was to use local materials and immediately start building the wall of the cottage.

Everyone was moving, cutting down trees, carrying stones, designing and building weapons, and hundreds of people began to think of ways to save themselves day and night.

Guo Yang has seen the horror of wolves, and even more so the horror of homelessness.

Wolves are cruel by nature and feed on meat, and it seems understandable that they have prospered quickly in a land where corpses are discarded everywhere in such a great famine. But the outcasts, the locust-like outcasts, are so terrible that they not only devour everything that can be seen green, but have even begun to eat people.

Hunger is like an invisible whip that is whipped hard on the earth, and every person, every life, is shit in front of it!

Guo Yang was shocked. He had not participated in the recalcitrant rebellion of the merchants, and he had no idea what starvation would become. Back then, he heard that those recalcitrant merchants were besieged in the new royal city of the Zhou people, and there was a large-scale appalling cannibalism incident, and he thought that people were deliberately exaggerating to scandalize the merchants and beautify the Zhou people.

This time, he finally saw it.

People, will eat people!

Those displaced people who were driven by hunger, once they rushed into the Grand Canyon, everything was over.

Guo Yang is not a saint, he just wants to keep his people alive, and he doesn't want the hundreds of people he has worked so hard to rescue starve to death, or be torn to pieces by those sharp nails and teeth, and swallowed into his stomach.

Castles, or cottages, are being built quickly.

Fear made the descendants of these merchants show unprecedented efficiency, and in less than seven or eight days, a tall stone wall three or four miles long blocked the entrance to the Grand Canyon.

Guo Yang designed a thing that resembled a city gate, and tied it firmly to the stone pillars inside the stone wall with thick ropes and iron chains. He followed Anu's advice, and dug a deep trench twenty or thirty paces outside the stone wall, and drew the water of the stream to fill it with blue water.

Anu had never built a city, but he had attacked it, so his way of thinking was very instructive. He made several sketches of Guo Yang, and transformed the stone walls, the cottage gates, and the entire defense system of the Grand Canyon.

Guo Yang carefully read Anu's sketches, listened to his suggestions, and immediately gathered people to start implementing them.

On the stone wall, there were some battlements that could easily poke spears and javelins out, but the people outside could only be beaten passively. Along the cliffs around the Grand Canyon, a large circle of traps was designed, and sharp logs were arranged inside, and once someone followed the cliffs into the Grand Canyon, the first line of defense would make them suffer.

A large number of stones and logs were carried onto the stone wall, piled up, and if someone attacked head-on and tried to climb the stone wall, the stones and wood would fall head-to-head. These were all things that Anu had seen with his own eyes when they attacked the Zhou tribe, and he knew the power of these condescending stones.

In the Grand Canyon, the construction progress of the cottage exceeded expectations, but Guo Yang was still full of anxiety, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he would clearly remember the homeless people outside who were tortured by hunger and lost their human form, as well as their white teeth and strange dark red eyes.

He hardly slept much, and commanded everyone day and night to build the cottage and strengthen the defenses of every place. Hundreds of people were divided into three groups, each for four hours, which not only ensured the progress of the project, but also kept everyone in the best physical strength and condition.

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Just when Guo Yang was commanding everyone to build the cottage, a group of people came from a far away place. They were originally bandits on a mountain near Jicheng, the capital of Yandu, robbing houses, selling illicit salt, and selling livestock, and the Zhou army had killed them several times, but they all slipped away cunningly.

At this time, it appeared in the area of Wuling Mountain.

They were not chased by the Zhou army, but by the outcasts and wolves.

As Guo Yang expected, the homeless people were in front and the wolves were behind, and they were coming towards the area of Wuling Mountain. In the plains and hilly areas, there is no way to live, and the only one who can have a glimmer of life may be to run into the deep mountains and old forests, where those who have the strength can hunt for a living, and the old and disabled women and children can dig wild vegetables and peel the bark to survive.

As for the wolves, the purpose is much simpler, they follow the homeless people from a distance, there is no need to fight at all, the corpses that are discarded at random along the way, and the old people and children who are so hungry that they can't move are enough for them to enjoy.

The former bandits were driven by the homeless people they never paid attention to, fled all the way, and discovered the Grand Canyon of Guoyang by mistake.

Discovering a newly built cottage, the Yan bandits were so excited that they were about to cry. It is clear that life here is relatively rich and there is enough food. And, most importantly, these tall stone walls and well-designed defenses are enough to withstand the tide of displaced people.

They were already frightened by the hungry crowd, so when they suddenly found this village hidden deep in the mountains, they wept with joy, and several old men who had been majestic hugged their heads and cried.

Guo Yang stood on the tall stone wall, coldly looking at these outsiders, the former hundreds of heroes, holding a bottle of wine, and drinking it slowly.