Chapter 296: west neighbor misfortune
Chapter 296 West Neighbor Misfortune
Ye Anlan's time here is quiet and good, but her freshly baked neighbors to the west have lost their vitality due to the large-scale drought in the two states and eleven counties in the territory.
Her new neighbor's surname is Han, who is from a second-rate family. He staged a coup about half a year ago and commanded the private soldiers of the Han family to kill his father-in-law, Ye Anlan's former neighbor to the west.
Afterwards, this man won over most of his father-in-law's old troops with benefits, and successfully turned the original Wang's army into the Han's army.
However, just after his wife "died of illness" and he married his wife again, a drought suddenly broke out in his territory.
There has been no rain for four months, the water levels in rivers and wells are getting lower day by day, and the fields are so bare that no crops can be grown. Ordinary people, who have not had a good life before, are now completely unable to live. up.
More and more ordinary people joined the refugee team, trying to cross the Han family army's cordon and enter Ye Anlan's territory together with the refugees.
After Ye Anlan learned that the neighbor's land was suffering from a drought, she was ready to receive a large number of victims.
After all, given the vastness of the land and the sparse population, even her territory with a relatively large population can actually accommodate double the population.
The number of victims who are about to flood in now is actually less than one percent of the population in her territory.
She was ready to continue to receive population resources, but the Han family army did not intend to drive refugees into Ye Anlan's territory as before.
The former General Wang and the current General Han are very similar in that the son-in-law Weng hates refugees.
Ye Anlan's two neighbors in the northwest and southwest directions, in order to prevent Ye Anlan from continuing to absorb vitality and strengthen his own strength, both chose to either absorb refugees or drive them in the opposite direction.
Only this pair of sons-in-law who hate refugees and treat them as harmful substances will drive those refugees who pass by their territory directly to Ye Anlan's territory with vague malice towards Ye.
With the previous example, those victims who were forced to become refugees thought that they would also be able to enter the Ye family smoothly, and live a good life with food and water from then on.
However, what they didn't expect was that the Han family's army went uncharacteristically and directly sent heavy troops to block the only roads leading to Ye's.
The victims were starving, and finally walked near the border, but unexpectedly, what awaited them was not life, but death.
There is no relief food, no life-saving water, and no official roads or paths leading to Ye's family. There are only swords, guns, swords and halberds facing them with a cold light.
Actually, if possible, they don’t want to leave their homes and become rootless duckweeds, but the problem is that they have to find a way to survive.
Even if the Han family army only gave them some gruel to keep them alive, they could still have a glimmer of hope, but the Han family army would only ask them not to leave the country.
Do not give them anything to eat, do not give them water to drink, and then do not let them find a way to survive. Is this what people do?
The victims begged to no avail. Under the stalemate between the two sides, all the victims were about to starve to death in front of the Han family army. Finally, some victims couldn't help but jumped out and began to incite everyone to fight for their lives with the Han family army.
They don't have any armor, and they don't have any decent weapons. The only thing they can do is to take hoes, hatchets and the like to fight recklessly with Han's army.
These people don't know that they will never return, but they also know that if they continue to stand in a stalemate with these inhuman Han family troops, all of them will die of thirst and starvation in the end.
It's dead anyway, so why don't they drag the **** thing that killed them to die together?
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Yuncheng. On a barren hill outside the west city gate, several young and middle-aged men who took the lead in organizing everyone and the Han family army to fight desperately were gathering together to discuss the battle plan, but a clear and pleasant female voice suddenly came from beside them, "You can't do this."
Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a man like them, dressed in patched coarse cloth clothes, uh, this is clearly a girl in men's clothes!
The young man headed by looked vigilant, "When did you come? Did you hear what we said?"
After he said this, several of his companions immediately pulled out the knives at their waists.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, I'm here to help you." The girl in men's clothes on the tree shook her feet slightly, and her body fell straight down from the tree.
Just when everyone suspected that she would throw herself out of the way, the girl unexpectedly landed on the small **** in front of them lightly but steadily, facing everyone's vigilant eyes.
"Your plan is too rough. Set fire to transfer some of the Han family's army, and then rush over to force the way. Those who die will blame his own bad luck, and those who are alive will run to Ye's side as hard as they can."
Ye Anlan briefly summed up what everyone discussed just now, and then asked them a torture from the soul, "Do you think you can outrun Han Jiajun's horse?"
The man at the head clenched the knife tightly, "We can hide in the mountains."
"You have no chance." Ye Anlan waved his hand slightly at the man, "To get out of Yuncheng, you first have to break through the west gate of Yuncheng, and then you have to cross Yuncheng and open Yuncheng under the pursuit of the Han family army. The east gate of the city. With your little combat power, are you sure you can walk safely through the Longtan and Tiger's Den?"
The person in the lead replied to Ye Anlan, "We didn't intend to get out unscathed."
Ye Anlan spread her hands, "Then you didn't intend to wipe out the entire army, did you?"
The person in charge stopped talking immediately.
Ye Anlan looked around at everyone present, "I can help you sneak into the city, but I can't help you sneak out of the city from the east. If you want to go out, the only way is to bring down most of the defenders in Yuncheng."
Everyone stared at Ye Anlan in unison—if they could bring down most of the defenders in Yuncheng, how could they force their way through this tragic discussion?
Ye Anlan glared at them casually, "Can't you do it? If you can't do it, don't stick to it here. This is not the only road leading to Ye's on the left and right. If you trust me, I can take you to other places. way."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and no one made a sound for a while.
Ye Anlan said again: "I can give you food and water, of course, it's just the minimum that can guarantee your immortality."
In the middle of her speech, the eyes of the people on the opposite side instantly turned on several pairs of high-wattage searchlights at the same time.
They are all people who are about to die of starvation and thirst. At this time, food and water are fatally attractive to them. When they hear that there is something to eat and water to drink, these people can't care less about doubting and questioning Ye Anlan.
Not to mention that Ye Anlan gave them food and water only to let them follow her, she just asked them to go to the west gate of Yuncheng immediately, and they didn't hesitate at all.
The young man headed by swallowed hard, "You, do you really have food and water?"
Yuncheng (Yùnchéng)
(end of this chapter)