With the end of the "Temper No. 2 Operation", the second phase of the expansion of the "Flying Dragon Army" began to be implemented in June of the lunar calendar of the seventh year of the corresponding calendar. The current expansion of the army is basically the same as the method adopted during the first expansion, which is to expand the scale of the "Flying Dragon Army" in a "rolling style" of bringing the old with the new and expanding layer by layer.

Originally, because this time period was not the autumn and winter agricultural leisure time, not to mention the qualified tenants -- although the new round of recruitment also included miners, in order to ensure the supply of coal, iron ore and other raw materials, the number of miners recruited was very limited -- they were recruited to the "Feilong Village" for military training, and even the "selection officers" sent by the military department to various resettlement sites for the first step of selection wanted to gather all the young and strong people in a resettlement village for preliminary examination, and it was not always possible to do so -- because of the large scale of this army expansion, It is not realistic for a few traversers from the Military Department to personally experience it, so the position of "military selection officer" is held by grassroots officers and veterans of the "Flying Dragon Army", which is specially responsible for the initial screening of young and strong.

However, the situation soon changed, and the root cause of this change was the "Operation Temper 2" carried out by the "Wyverns" in April, which they themselves considered to be unsuccessful.

Due to the strong performance of the "Flying Dragon Army" in Dabao, as a result, when they returned to the division and approached the bottle-shaped bar, the bottle-shaped barricade defenders and the nearby people scattered in a hurry.

Among them, the bottle-shaped guards first fled to the nearby mountains, and later saw that the "Flying Dragon Army" only rested in the bottle-shaped stone for one night, and continued on the road the next day to the Han-Liao border. After all, they still had the responsibility of defending the land and protecting the territory, so these defenders waited on the mountain for several days, and after confirming that the "Flying Dragon Army" had indeed crossed the border and suddenly disappeared, they came down from the mountain tremblingly and re-stationed in the bottle-shaped fence to guard it.

If the garrison is still a disciplined army, in many cases, as long as the commander speaks, the soldiers below will listen, and they know that they cannot leave their posts for a long time, and can take the initiative to return to the bottle after confirming that the danger has passed, then those people who live near the bottle shape are under the domination of a herd mentality, blindly fleeing and fleeing.

Blind herd mentality does not necessarily have any bad consequences in itself, but when it is intertwined with other factors, it can have some serious consequences, and the people in the vicinity of the bottle are in such a situation.

On the one hand, because the people's information channels were far more closed than those of the official army, it was not until many days after the "Flying Dragon Army" left that they knew that the bottle was safe. On the other hand, because of the haste in which they fled, many of the people had almost nothing but clothes and negligible money. So after a few days in the mountains, many of the people ran out of food. Except for a few people who were able to hunt for hunters and were able to rely on the mountains to hunt some game to satisfy their hunger, most people could only survive on wild fruits and wild vegetables -- fortunately, it was already the beginning of summer at this time, and if it was a harsh winter or early spring, I was afraid that people would starve to death.

However, the most terrible thing for these fleeing people was not that they were sleeping in the mountains and forests, nor that they were hungry with wild vegetables, but because they had generally hid in the mountains for more than a month, when they finally came down from the mountains, they found that they were in a very bad situation - the food at home was gone. The main reason for this situation is still from the local defenders.

More than a month ago, when the local defenders were escaping from the bottle-shaped bar, in order to allow the "Flying Dragon Army" to leave as soon as possible, they burned the grain and grass in the barn. As a result, the "Wyvern Army" only stayed in the bottle shape for one night before withdrawing, and when the local defenders returned, all they had left was the grain and grass they had brought with them when they fled. This grain and grass is naturally not enough to eat, and the time it takes for the Xiangshang first-level yamen to apply for the transfer of grain and grass is not short. In this case, before the arrival of the newly redeployed grain, the bottle-shaped defenders set their sights on the stockpiles of the fleeing people's homes. Moreover, at this time, the people who fled were still in the mountains, and they were basically empty except for some elderly people who did not want to flee. In this way, the local defenders, who may have had some scruples about robbing the people of their money and food in the past, will naturally not hesitate any longer, and will immediately collect all the food in the people's homes. Therefore, when the people who had fled the war returned home, they found that their homes were empty, and there was not a grain of grain left. ,

At this time, the new season of grain has not yet matured, and the family's grain stock has been looted, except for a few wealthy families who are relatively wealthy, and when they flee, they can still live by buying grain and waiting for the autumn harvest, most of the people have only one way to escape.

The common people of the Northern Han Dynasty fled either to other states and counties in the Northern Han Dynasty, or to Nanjing Province of the Liao State, especially the Youzhou area, to seek a living. Since Fanzhi County, Yanmen County, and other counties under the jurisdiction of Daizhou, which are closest to the bottle-shaped bar, are still on alert, it is more difficult to go to or through that side to the county of Beihanzhou, which is further south, so most of the people who fled the desert flocked to the Liao State on the other side of the national border.

At this time, the crossing team, which was struggling with the contradiction between the recruitment of new recruits and the needs of farm work, saw this phenomenon in their favor and began to send people to carry out a series of operations on this matter. With the intervention of the crossing team, the situation of the people fleeing the famine on the northern border of the Northern Han Dynasty has undergone major changes.

In the beginning, these people who fled the famine still went to Liao on a spontaneous and small scale, but now they are becoming more and more organized. Some of the Northern Han refugees who had run over in advance came back dressed decently and with red faces, and they came back with the so-called domestic servants and stewards from large families in Youzhou, Liao State. These people took themselves as an example, and together with those domestic servants and stewards, they persuaded their own clans and villagers to go to Youzhou to earn a living together under all kinds of attractive conditions, such as being in charge of food on the road, sheltering in the fields, being the distribution of farm tools and rations to the tenants, and the wages for their work were good.

On the one hand, it is difficult for these simple and loyal people to refuse the encouragement of the other party, even if this life comes at the cost of being a tenant or hired laborer for the main family for a few years. In the end, thousands of people followed each other and left their hometowns, following their own clansmen, fellow villagers, and those domestic servants, stewards and others from Youzhou, Liao, and traveled all the way to Liangxiang, Fanyang, Yuhe, Luxian and other prefectures and counties in Nanjing, Liao, hundreds of miles away.

When they arrived at the destination that the stewards of the group called the "resettlement sites for the displaced people", these Northern Han displaced people found that the situation seemed to be different from what their fellow villagers and the so-called stewards said. Although it is true that there are some uncultivated wastelands in the places they visit, most of them have been cultivated, tended, and raised so well that even the crops in the fields have grown tall and will be harvested in two months. Around these farmlands are neat villages, and the accents can be heard that the people living in these villages are also from the Han Kingdom, and some new refugees even find their former neighbors in the Northern Han Dynasty.

This situation made these new arrivals of the Northern Han refugees confused, and they did not understand that since the farmland here was not a wasteland, and it was already cultivated, Weishenme had to summon his own people here. Fortunately, after arriving here, the main family is still in charge of food and housing, so although they are puzzled, these new Northern Han refugees are not dissatisfied, but are puzzled but quietly waiting for the main family to explain to themselves. As a result, instead of the Lord's explanation, they waited for something that was even more bewildering to them.

Within a few days of arriving at their destination, the displaced people had basically recovered from the fatigue of the long journey, and they were arranged as families, and they were told that if they were willing to be tenants, they would soon be allocated land, houses, farm tools, food rations, etc.; Those who are willing to work will soon be arranged to become apprentices or craftsmen according to their actual skills. When they first got the news, these newcomers from the Northern Han Dynasty were really happy for a while. Because once they have these things, they have this job, it means that they won't go hungry anymore.

The experience of the new refugees who choose to work is relatively simple, and they only need to follow the stewards to work in various workshops, shops, and mines. The experience of the new tenants, on the other hand, is more complicated and peculiar, because when it comes time to distribute tools, rations, and dwellings, the new tenants find that the things they are given are old, used by others, and more precisely, used by the old tenants who have lived and worked on the land, including the houses. And after the old tenants completed the handover procedure with them, they were taken away by the steward here.

It is said that after working hard for more than half a year, seeing that the crops in the field are about to reach the harvest season, at this time, not only the land and all the products on the land have been taken back by the owner's family, but even their own farm tools, household belongings and even the houses they live in have been given to others. But not only did the old tenants who were taken away by the stewards not have any dissatisfaction or resentment on their faces, but many of them were happy, and such abnormal behavior made the new tenants puzzled.

However, these new tenants were newcomers after all, and although they had doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to ask. They could only hear from the townsmen, the stewards, and some old tenants who had not been selected for the handover, such as "Wyvern Army", "military dependents", and "good luck".

A similar phenomenon occurred in almost every so-called "resettlement site" where this group of New Northern Han refugees went, and the number of old tenants involved was probably in the thousands, and perhaps even tens of thousands—the new Northern Han refugees were scattered and resettled, so none of them could accurately say the exact number, and could only speculate through the few words revealed in the steward's usual small talk.

However, the curiosity of the new tenants is limited. After a brief period of anxiety and doubt, the tenants, who now had food and shelter and a piece of land to cultivate for themselves, stopped paying attention to these things, but focused all their minds on the ripening crop, waiting for the harvest that was already theirs.

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