A large number of displaced people in the Central Plains stopped in the Jianghuai Valley, temporarily cultivating small plots of land to satisfy their stomachs, their well-life is very unstable, they have to abandon the harvest of the whole year when there is a wind and grass, and they have no ability to resist natural and man-made disasters at all, here, the dead and even cannibalism are like commonplace, and the living people do not know tomorrow today, but they just grit their teeth and endure hard.

They were plundered by Tartars, bandits, local snakes, and even sometimes the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty and did not want to leave, the only reason was that here, there would be occasional opportunities for some people to "smuggle" to Jiangnan, and since then they have lived without worrying about food and clothing, and they no longer have to be displaced.

Let's not talk about Jiangnan, whether they can really live a worry-free life of food and clothing, just in terms of the current situation, going to Jiangnan is indeed the last hope for these Central Plains refugees who have nothing.

You always have to have a little hope, don't you?

Moreover, after crossing the Yangtze River, today's Great Zhou Dynasty is still a beautiful scene of singing and dancing, at least on the surface.

In this era, all the largest cities in the world were in Jiangnan, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and the world's largest and busiest ports like Quanzhou.

The economy was developed, the population was large, the society was peaceful (there were occasional small-scale peasant uprisings that were wiped out), and the culture was prosperous.

Outside the mountain, the building outside the green mountain.

The literati and writers indulged in poetry, wine, and beauties, and one after another popular poems circulated in the world, and probably circulated in this plane for thousands of years.

Under such a time scale, the hell on earth in Jiangbei does seem "small", after all, it is just the throes of decades of national integration, what is it in front of the poems that have been circulated for thousands of years?

Little things little things.

It's better to have fun than to have fun.

There are only a few main battle factions left at home, "I looked at Wu Hook and slapped the railings all over." ”

What, you ask about the lives of the people at the bottom of the Yangtze River?

Hehe......, is the rise and fall of the people bitter, it's just a routine operation.

Let us move our attention from the extravagant Jiangnan, and then to the south, the situation of Dali, the country of colorful clouds, is actually not much different from the Great Zhou, Dali, which occupies the land communication lines of Tubo, Burma, Siam and other countries and the Great Zhou, is economically developed, and the style of learning the luxury culture of the Han people is getting worse day by day, although they are facing the plundering of Burma, Tubo and some barbarian tribes externally, internal partisan disputes, and continuous fighting, but they can always barely maintain the life of poetry and wine learned from the Great Zhou.

Nanyang is now in the midst of a war that is not much better than Jiangbei, and the Da Yue Kingdom, which the Great Zhou called Jiaozhi, is at war with the southern Champa Kingdom, and they themselves are facing a civil war between the Zheng and Nguyen Lords.

In addition, there are the wars between Champa and Chenla, the wars between Chenla and Siam, the wars between Siam and Burma, and the ubiquitous pirate .......

Occasionally, some merchant fleets from Tianzhu, Pars, and even more Western countries would make a cameo appearance as pirates when passing by, and "communicate" with their counterparts here.

The whole East, except for Da Zhou and Dali, who were still immersed in false carnivals, all other places were beaten into a pot of porridge.

In the raging waves of war, in the southern part of Qi Province in Jiangbei, about two counties, a coalition army of more than 1,000 people against bandits seemed to be unable to set off any special waves.

On the 10th day of the fifth month of the 11th year of the Great Zhou Jianxing, six coalition troops from Juzhou and Rizhao counties assembled near Rizhao Private Port, with a total of 1,500 troops participating in the battle, which was much more than the number of troops promised by each family at the previous alliance meeting.

The main reason was that the Xu family received hundreds of Japanese prisoners as labor, which was able to release more manpower to participate in the war during the busy agricultural period.

The Xu family sent the most troops, and Xu Shiyang, who sent the most troops in the Xujiawu Fort, became the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, which was not only elected by the heads of each family, but also the strength of his 200-person new army - in Jiangbei, a single Wubao owner took out more than 200 people to go out to fight in the farming, which in itself is enough to explain a lot of problems.

Many other dock owners mistakenly thought that Xu Shiyang didn't seem to like to stay at home to farm, and only the dock fort owners who were indifferent to their own farm work could send hundreds of Dingkou out to fight at such a time.

A guy who likes to fight but doesn't like farming, to others, seems less like a local tyrant, but more like a ......, well, more like a bandit or a tartar.

Maybe only such a guy like a bandit or a Tartar can defeat a bandit and a Tartar again and again?

Xu Shiyang didn't bother to explain to these guys the difference between the regular army and the bandit gang like the Tatar bandits, and even if they did, they might not be able to understand it.

If there is a misunderstanding, go wrong, at least at this stage, Xu Shiyang's belligerent reputation still has some benefits for him.

For example, the Wubao lord of Rizhao believed that the coalition forces should attack the bandits of Wulian Mountain first, but Xu Shiyang thought that this goal was not advisable, because Wulian Mountain was much larger than Fulai Mountain, and the terrain was much more precipitous.

Moreover, the people gathered in Wulian Mountain are not bandits like the Luodao people in Fulai Mountain, but most of them are desperate homeless people who go up the mountain to gather people to survive.

It is undeniable that the displaced people of Wulian Mountain will also go down the mountain to loot, and several dock forts in Rizhao County have suffered a lot because of this, which is why they want to attack Wulian Mountain first.

But in fact, for the homeless people of Wulian Mountain, the owner of the dock fort under the mountain is also a bandit, if there is a chance, no matter Zhang Wang Ding Bao, which one will go up the mountain to take a bite, and grab some women Ding Zhuang to go back to supplement the manpower gap.

Xu Shiyang is not in the mood to bully these poor people, not to mention that the strength of thousands of people can't completely clean up the Wulian Mountain Area, even if he can, what will happen to the captured population?

There are tens of thousands of people hidden in Wulian Mountain, and it is not impossible for tens of thousands of people, with such a large population, Xu Shiyang can still treat them as Tartars and kill them first? If he didn't kill him, where would he get the food to feed so many people?

Since it can't be defeated, and it is a burden to fight down, it is better not to fight, and it is better to find those real bandits who have some accumulation first.

In the southwest of Qi Province in this era, the mountains are all over the place, and there are many bandits, to put it mildly, as long as it is a mountain bag, there must be bandits' stockades on it, but there are strong and weak, and the coalition forces are not worried about finding the target at all.

Xu Shiyang's plan was to start from Rizhao, sweep all the bandit cottages all the way to the north, reach Juzhou, and then go east, take Wulian Mountain as the center and make a circle to reach the vicinity of Zhucheng, and then go south, attack Ma'er Mountain, which belongs to the same Taiyi Mountains as Wulian Mountain, cut out the barrier of Wulian Mountain slightly, and then return to Rizhao.

The whole route of action is like a huge triangle, but it just covers the range from Juzhou and Rizhao to the east to Zhucheng, except for Wulian Mountain, where bandits gather.

Thus, in mid-May, the joint anti-bandit operation between the two counties, which is expected to last from two to three months, officially began.