The sky is still raining, and since February, it has been raining for more than ten days in a row in the entire Sanyang Province area. The area that was affected last year was supposed to recover well this year, but the house leak happened to rain overnight, which caused more families to be destroyed and joined the army of displaced and even chaotic people.

At this time, in a dilapidated place in what appeared to be a village in the mountains of central Bigo Province, three men dressed differently from the others were sitting together, munching on black and astringent food, which was clearly roasted and burnt rats.

Around them were a dozen or so ragged men, their hair disheveled, their faces yellow, their sunken eyes glowing like ghosts in the night, their mouths swallowing rainwater, begging the men at the head to give them a little rat meat.

Outside them were hundreds of women, children, and old people, whose fate was even more tragic, and they had to wait for the chiefs to give them a little food, and they also had to help the men in the center find all kinds of small animals hiding in the grass, rats, snakes, and even insects and birds became their food.

A middle-aged man at the head whispered to a young man of twenty-seven or eight-year-olds beside the team: "Chief, the situation is very bad! If I don't find a way to live, I'm going to run out of food. ”

The young man who was called the leader had a lot of dust on his face, which obscured much of his true face, but the foot gear he wore was in stark contrast to the many outcasts on the periphery.

The young man frowned at the rat meat in his hand, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and handed the rat meat to the middle-aged man beside him. Shake your head. He couldn't eat it. He replied in a low voice, "Zuo Saku, hasn't Shichiro come back yet?" ”

The middle-aged man called Zuozuo shook his head, and then glanced at the dark sky from afar, his eyes were quite worried about Shichiro's safety, and finally said: "There is no movement yet, if it really doesn't work, I'll leave this ghost place later, didn't Shichiro say that the southern coast has been occupied by the Luo family, the overlord of Kyushu." And he is there to provide food for everyone, if it is ......" Speaking of this, the middle-aged man swallowed a mouthful of saliva, obviously thinking of the taste of food.

Another middle-aged man interjected in a low voice at this time: "Zuozuo, do you think we don't want to leave this ghost place, will that group of homeless people let us leave?" When we escaped from the city, there were only seven of them, but now there are hundreds of people, and there are more than a thousand people inside and outside the ruins, and there are a group of rogues at every crossing, and it is impossible to eat these thousands of people. But it's more than enough to eat us, and it doesn't matter if we die. But the chief's words don't work! As he spoke, he snatched the rat meat from Zuozuo's hand and devoured it fiercely.

The leader raised his eyebrows, looked at Wolf Bèi's unbearable subordinates with a calm expression, looked depressed, and sighed angrily in his heart. I didn't expect that these guys were extremely brave and boasted loudly about their bravery, but they had only been trapped here for more than ten days and became like this, and they actually made such a wolf for the sake of a rat meat. It's understandable to be hungry, but you can't look like a wild dog.

The leader turned his gaze to Zuo Saku, but the reaction on Zuo Saku's face made him even more cold, at this time, Zuo Saku did not feel abnormal for his companion's wolf bèi, but felt a little sad and indignant for the loss of rat meat.

Can hunger really change a person's mind? The leader sighed in his heart, took a deep breath, and said no more, just waiting for Shichiro's return.

There are many such small groups in the ruins of the village here, the largest of them is a hundred people, and the others are mostly small groups of dozens of people, but 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 very strong.

In this way, there was no joy or laughter when everyone gathered around, but from time to time there were a few sighs, and the food became less and less, but they were afraid to go out alone to find a way out, afraid of the attack of the bandits and bandits, and if they went out together, they could not get everyone's consent, and they fought separately internally, but they could still be united in the face of the attack of the bandits and bandits, but once the bandits and bandits were repulsed, they had their own calculations.

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

"I can't wait any longer, just tell these people in the ruins of the Luo family that came before, and then join them and go to the Luo family's territory in the southern coastal area." The leader looked at the two men and said.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man who was previously known as Zuo Zuo first exclaimed, and then said, "But, Chief, this news has not yet been confirmed, aren't I waiting for Shichiro to sneak out to confirm it, and then we will leave privately, regardless of those people here?" ”

"I can't wait any longer, whether that news is true or not, it's better than staying here and waiting to die, and I don't want to be besieged and waited for by the corpses of those rogues I am waiting for after death." The leader said, "Besides, even if Shichiro confirms the news and comes back, will we really be able to leave secretly?" ”

"You can leave those women, children and old people, just a few of us, I should be able to leave secretly, isn't Shichiro so lurking?"

"Bastard, get out of those people, even if I can get out of here, but in the southern coastal area, can I and a few others face the people there? If my estimate is correct, if the news is true, then at this time, there are also a large number of people rushing to the territory of the Luo family, naturally mixed with a large number of forces, at that time, how can we be the opponents of those forces? ”

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

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

Just when the displaced people from all over the country gradually got the rumors, and then began to come to the territory of the Luo family. In the Origueki Yamajo area on the southern coast of China.

The drizzle has been pouring since the day Orishiki Mountain Castle was handed over to the Luo family. It went on ticking without stopping. He didn't stop to rest for a moment, and then the sky cleared with a smile, the area where Orishiki Yamajo is located was originally a rainy and humid area, especially the rainy weather for several days in a row also made people's mood more and more gloomy. Changes in the weather are inherently emotional, and bad weather lasting for several days can be reminiscent of something ominous about to happen.

The sky was overcast and the night breeze was cold with rain, and tonight, Hisakatsu Takeuchi sat alone on the wooden wall of a checkpoint on the outskirts of Orishiki Yama Castle and listened to the sound of tinkling spring water from time to time under the gate.

Now. Takeuchi's mood was as bad as the rainy weather, and the more and more homeless people gathered outside the canyon checkpoint did not mean to abate and disperse, and they could turn into bandits at any time. In fact, there is also the same meaning between a homeless person and a bandit, if you say that he is a bandit, he is a bandit, and if you say that he is a bandit, he is a bandit. From time to time, hungry homeless people run to the checkpoint to investigate the situation, such a situation has become more and more frequent in the past two days, it is really a mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings!

Although the Luo family sent people to cook some gruel and send them out of the customs to relieve these displaced people, they began to transport these people to the Kyushu region in batches and handed them over to the prepared Internal Affairs Cabinet, and scattered these displaced people to various places in the Luo family's territory. However, the speed at which the displaced people gathered was much faster than the transportation speed of the Luo family, which naturally caused a lot of pressure on the Luo family.

Of course. Even if more and more displaced people gather outside the customs, they can only be selectively released into the customs in batches every day. It is then immediately transported away and never left locally. This is mainly to prevent these displaced people from having other motives to take the opportunity to make trouble in the territory.

However, if there are more and more displaced people outside, and the family's boats are unable to transport most of the displaced people in time, this method of blocking the displaced people outside will have to be changed to setting up several temporary resettlement sites for the displaced people in the Luo family's territory to achieve the purpose of dispersing the displaced people.

"I hope that this homeless incident will not affect the great cause of Shangluo of my family." Hisakatsu Takeuchi thought. He was originally a person from the country of Misaku, because the territory was annexed by other wealthy families of the country of Misaku, he had to flee from the country of Misaku with his son and family, and then wandered to the country of Zhou Fang, just when he was about to be cornered, just in time for the Luo family to take advantage of the opportunity of the First Battle of Itsukushima to officially enter the western region of the Ouchi family, so he took his son and was recruited by the Luo family as a temporary army, in order to support himself and his family. Subsequently, he and his son won a lot of military merits with their outstanding skills, and they were even more appreciated by the lord and the government.

So the two fathers and sons gradually became important generals in the Luo family's military division pavilion in these seven or eight years, this time, after learning that the Luo family was going to Luo, with the idea of subduing his hometown, he took the initiative to apply to come to the front line. Now when the Luo family swept away the enemies along the way of Shangluo with a thunderous momentum, he suddenly encountered such a large-scale displacement incident, which really cast a shadow on the Luo family's Shangluo great cause, and even affected his goal of returning to his hometown, which naturally made him feel depressed.

And just as Takeuchi Hisakatsu was still pondering, an ashigaru came to his side and whispered, "My lord, it's deep, it's time to rest, you need to take care of your body." ”

Takeuchi Hisakatsu didn't look back at him, took a deep breath, nodded and got up and said, "I know, let the brothers take care of it, there are more and more spies in the past two days, so be careful." ”

Just as he was about to get up and leave, Hisakatsu Takeuchi suddenly saw a long line appear in the rainy depths outside the checkpoint. Looking at it from a distance, this team also has at least hundreds of torches, which looks very impressive.

Seeing this situation, Takeuchi Hisakatsu immediately shouted in a trembling voice: "Quick, let everyone get up, the situation doesn't seem right, how could such a huge team come from outside the checkpoint, is it ......?"

Hearing that Ashigaru had always been bold, Takeuchi Hisakatsu rarely trembled, and an ominous premonition appeared in his heart, and he also saw the fire dragon lined up with torches, which seemed more abrupt and unreassuring in the dark and dreary rainy night, and countless chaotic footsteps became one in a few breaths.

Under the swaying of torches in the canyon, there were many shadows, and the sound of small fragments continued to come from the fire dragon. Takeuchi Hisakatsu looked directly at each other and shouted loudly: "Alert, alert, first know who the person is coming." ”

Aiming at the torches that were getting closer and closer, nearly half of the people in the level got up one by one, took their spears and went to the pass, looking carefully at the fire dragon.

The fire dragon stopped moving more than 100 meters behind the checkpoint, and a small team came out from the middle and came towards the checkpoint.

Takeuchi Hisakatsu's eyes tightened, and suddenly he came to a flag, which was an unexpected and expected flag, so a more solemn expression appeared on his face, so he shouted again: "Alert, alert, let them come first and find out who they are?" ”

The person who came was Naoshige Nabeshima and his entourage, who came in a hurry when the sky was dark, and they recognized Naoshige Nabeshima in a warning without gunsmoke, and after confirming it several times, Takeuchi Hisakatsu put Nabeshima and others in the pass.

"Master Yan, why are you here?" When he met Naoshige Nabeshima, Hisakatsu Takeuchi immediately asked. He is very familiar with Nabeshima, and he even taught Nabeshima a few tricks that his family passed down to fight with a knife.

"This is the letter of the Lord." In the face of Takeuchi Hisakatsu's inquiry, Nabeshima Naoshige didn't say much, and directly handed over a letter to Takeuchi Hisakatsu's hands. The latter immediately opened the letter in the light of the fire and read it.

After reading the letter, Takeuchi Hisakatsu had a solemn face, and after sighing heavily, he said: "Although this can relieve the pressure at this time, there are also risks!" ”

Takeuchi Hisakatsu's problem is exactly what Nabeshima is worried about, and his face is not very good, according to the lord's intention, he wants to release the displaced people into the territory from tomorrow, and then adopt the method of work for relief, and resettle these displaced people in batches to various parts of the territory of Bigo Province and Bichugo, and use them to speed up the construction of the newly occupied territory.

This method can indeed alleviate the pressure of more and more displaced people on the border of the territory at this time, but it is also as worried by the retainers before, once these people are instigated by people with intentions in the territory, then the Luo family will face the risk of internal and external difficulties in the territory of Bigo and Bei China.

However, if this method is not implemented, taking the current Takeuchi Hisakatsu in this checkpoint as an example, there are only a few dozen ashigaru in this checkpoint now, and if you just hold on, it is more than enough, but it is really difficult to withstand such a lot of pressure to guard against the rebellion of the homeless people and the attack of bandits. When the standing reserve of the family is still on standby, it can only be disposed of according to the lord's method.

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

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