Chapter 60: The Tide of Refugees
Fado quietly looked at Chu Mengji's figure, and he couldn't see through this "Seventeen" in his heart, obviously he didn't have any spiritual power, but his intuition felt that if he really fought to the death like he did in the Divine Envoy Academy before, he might not be his opponent.
Chu Mengchen didn't know Fado's thoughts, he only knew that Fado would be worthy of handing over his back to his brother, so he relieved himself to put his thoughts to the limit and rushed all the way to the vast prairie in front of the forest. When his thoughts crossed a dwarf castle thousands of miles away, he felt that he could not sustain himself, and it seemed that the distance was his current limit.
Just when Chu Mengchen wanted to take back his thoughts, a stream of energy from the remnant soul suddenly poured in, and the voice of the remnant soul sounded ethereally: "Not bad~~, I didn't expect your initial realm to be so powerful, let me help you again!"
As the voice faded away, Chu Mengchen felt that his sense of thought could suddenly increase, and he couldn't help but extend the distance in front of him by nearly double, even everything around him was "eye"!
He was surprised to find that what he had thought was that it seemed to be one with the forest at that moment was just an illusion, and there was actually an invisible magic barrier not far from Hantan, which was a huge dense forest the size of ten Blue Fox Gang Headquarters!
In particular, the two mermaids who didn't notice just now were wiping each other's bodies in the shallow water of the lake, and under the warm sunlight, their fair skin was condensed with some colorful droplets.
Nancy has a proud curve, Lian Yinrou is a perfect body shape, Nancy's face is delicate and sweet, Lian Yinrou has also recovered her real beauty at this time, the beauty is like two blooming lotus, the clear lake water makes the two delicate babies hairless, "see" Chu Mengji is hot and dry, and Mr. Xiao Chu seems to have signs of raising his head.
Chu Mengchen hurriedly shifted his attention to the grassland directly in front of him, and suddenly, a dark shadow slowly appeared on the horizon in the distance, it was a group of ragged fleeing army, they were coming in the direction of the dwarf castle and their forest!
"Fado, did you see the fleeing crowd when you came?" Chu Mengji retracted his thoughts and asked Fado behind him, "Are you talking about the 'refugee army'? how~~ You have also met?" Fado had just learned about Chu Mengji's experience, and he asked puzzledly.
"No~~, I didn't even know that there was such an army, but just now when I was meditating ~~oh~~, I suddenly remembered this with some understanding!" Chu Mengchen hurriedly explained.
"I really can't see through you!but~~, the reason why Nancy and I were chased and killed by the Xuan Martyrs was because I stole the huge amount of disaster relief money and ~~, and the talisman of the King of Jin that they had withheld privately from corrupt officials and corrupt officials!
"King Jin~~ that Xuanyu County Lord's father?" Chu Mengji asked thoughtfully.
"Yes! Originally, King Ning was unwilling to send troops to deal with these refugees, but King Jin was very brutal, he insisted on slaughtering and clearing the refugees, and went to Prince Xuanying to ask for military talismans, wanting to coerce King Ning to join! So~~ My sister and I made a move, but in the end, because my sister caused the vigilance of the servants in the palace of King Jin when she left, the two of us had to start fleeing!"
"Then how can the King of Jin be able to mobilize the guards?"
"Those guards were not transferred by King Jin, they were members of Princess Xiangjilia's personal corps, this time I heard that Princess Xiangjilia personally went to Yanjing to observe the people's situation and understand the affairs of the refugee army, so Xuanlie transferred two legions from the Guards as his escort!"
"The army of refugees is nothing but a rabble of beggars, how can it make Xuanlie's upper echelons move the crowd so much?!" Chu Meng asked puzzled.
"That's a bit ......long to say," Fado walked up to Chu Mengji, picked up a branch and began to gesture on the beach, roughly describing the causes of the internal and external troubles of the Xuanlie Empire.
It turned out that the militant Sarfando of the Hans Alliance not only launched a war of aggression against the Fenglan Empire in Qianyunling, but also recently assigned his general Xiu Maniac to pretend to be a soldier of the Fenglan Empire and raided the Xuanlie granary Yuesong Plain, plundered a large amount of grain and grass and burned the grain storage facilities in the capital of Yuesong, causing the Xuanlie Empire to also start using troops against Fenglan locally. This is also the main reason why Feng Ruolan has no choice but to accept a political marriage.
If it weren't for the fact that Feng Ruolan, the marriage envoy, had not yet arrived in Yanjing, and the two sides still had some "excuses" for peace, the Fenglan Empire would have already faced the front and back attacks of the two empires!
Qina* cultivator was originally an officer of the Fenglan Empire, but because of his fierce and tyrannical surname, he was not welcomed in the Fenglan military circle and was not reused.
According to common sense, the Fenglan Empire should try its best to snipe this traitor in the military world and the army to which he belongs, but some of Fenglan's high-ranking people think that the departure of the cultivator is just to take away those tumors in the army. This not only reduces the adverse effects of those guys on the department, but also avoids the internal injuries caused by the same roommates!
So those high-ranking people cleverly let Xiu Mad and the others leave, not only no longer intercepting them, but also sending secret envoys to recruit security and send envoys to the Hans Alliance in the name of Fenglan envoys, although they simply did not note the other party in advance.
The military and mercenary circles of the Hans Alliance are mostly known for being ruthless, and this country is also a place where whoever is ruthless enough can survive. When the cultivator led the three thousand and one hill raccoon dog into Hans, his exploits of burning, killing and looting were quickly recognized by the top of the alliance, and Salfando was extremely appreciative, he and the cultivator can be said to be late to each other, and the smell is the same, the two have been like flies meeting stinky dog shit since they met, and they hit it off like glue, and soon the cultivator became a loyal dog of Salfando.
Therefore, this envoy did not return to China, and Sarfando did not publicize it with great fanfare, so this matter unexpectedly became a tacit secret of both sides under the deliberate suppression of the high-level leaders of the two [***] circles.
As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world! The defection of the cultivator was still known by Chandler Gay, known as the thief saint, in a chance move, this Guy is Fado's father, he told Fado about it, and at the same time knew that he might be wiped out, and moved to the Xuanlie Empire with Fado and his sister.
As the saying goes: "It's a danger for a fool to pretend to be smart, and it's a danger to be smart!" Now, those fools in the Fenglan Empire have finally paid the price for their own cleverness, and Salfando's insidiousness has also achieved its due effect.
The war quietly spread between the three empires, although it was a small fight, but it caused the people to leave their homes, many small principalities were completely annexed, and the number of refugees also increased exponentially.
These refugees come from all races and many small countries, especially this year, when the weather is not beautiful, the autumn drought is fierce, and the crops in many places are lost, and those slash-and-burn tribal humans, beast humans and dwarf tribes are helpless to carry out large-scale migrations in search of more suitable places to live; therefore, the huge refugee group continues to expand, eventually forming a scale of nearly 10 million.
This wave of refugees initially began rolling in the border area between Hans and Fenglan, and has now spread to Xuanlie's territory. Some of the more well-informed figures of the refugees slowly became the core leadership, and they knew that there was a large amount of food in the Yuesong Plain in Xuanyeol, so they led the refugee tide straight to Yuesong.
And Emperor Xuanlie also knew that instead of sending troops to block them, it was better to simply use Yuesongping to resettle these refugees, so he allocated a large amount of relief money from the central treasury to help them. Who would have thought that the relief money was embezzled by corrupt officials layer by layer, and the cultivators burned down the granary of Yuesong, so in order to survive the most basic, the refugee wave had to continue to surge forward, and their target was Xuanyeol's first richest place - Otto Province.
Although the refugee leadership made it clear that they only hoped that the Xuanlie Empire would assign a small part of the province of Odo that was suitable for agricultural development to them to settle down and survive, and to be administratively subject to Xuanlie's management, under the instigation and provocation of people with ulterior motives, this kind of request was actually misunderstood as a forced demand to draw the land as the king and rob Odo. Therefore, the brutal King of Jin had a reason to send troops and slaughter.
There is no suspense at all about the ratio of combat power between the regular Xuanlie army and the scattered refugees, and in less than a month, the refugees were frantically killed by the army of King Jin of more than 2 million!
After sacrificing millions of families, the young, middle-aged and even old people who survived and lost their loved ones spontaneously organized into a real war army, and they only fought to survive and protect their families among the refugees, so they fought tenaciously and fearlessly sacrificed.
King Jin's army finally suffered a strong resistance, the loss was great, this guy wanted to pull King Ning into the water, but King Ning did not give face, in desperation had to ask Prince Xuanying for a talisman, forcibly dragged King Ning, did not want to be stolen by Fado General Talisman.
In the palace, Xiangji Lia heard that the people were in turmoil, and also heard that there were corrupt officials who bent the law for personal gain and embezzled relief funds, resulting in the people not being able to get relief and the refugee flow further expanded, so she personally led the guards to investigate. When the eldest princess had just arrived at the Jin Palace, it coincided with the beginning of the third confrontation between the King of Jin and the Refugee Army.
Now it seems that the commander of the refugee army is definitely not the opponent of the eldest princess, Chu Mengchen can see from the way the refugees flee in a hurry that the refugees have been flying blindly like headless flies, retreating in their direction without any backbone......