A large number of Central Plains refugees stopped in the Jianghuai River Basin, temporarily ploughing small pieces of land to fill their stomachs. Their lives are very unstable. When there is any disturbance, they have to abandon the harvest of the whole year and have no ability to resist natural disasters and man-made disasters. Here, dead people and even people eat each other as usual. The living people don’t know what to do tomorrow today, but they just grit their teeth and endure it.

They were plundered by Tartars, bandits, local snakes and even sometimes the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty took turns to take turns to rob them and were reluctant to leave. The only reason was that here, there were occasional opportunities to "smuggle" into Jiangnan, and from then on, they would live a life of having no worries about food and clothing, and no longer had to be displaced.

Not to mention whether we can really live a life of food and clothing without worries. Just in the current situation, going to Jiangnan is indeed the last hope of these refugees in the Central Plains who have nothing.

People always have to have some hope, right?

Moreover, crossing the Yangtze River, the current Zhou court is at least on the surface a beautiful scene of singing and dancing to peace.

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

The economy is developed, the population is large, the society is peaceful and stable (some small-scale peasant uprisings that are destroyed occasionally), and the culture is prosperous.

Green mountains outside the mountain and building outside the mountain.

Literary and poets indulge in poetry, wine and beauties. Popular poems are circulated in the world, and they will probably be circulated in this plane for thousands of years.

Under such a time scale, the hell on earth in Jiangbei really seems "small". After all, it is just a pain of decades of national integration. What is it in front of the poems that have been circulated for thousands of years?

Small things.

It is better to enjoy than to enjoy.

Only a few war factions who were idle at home were left, "Look at Wu Gou and patted all the railings."

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

Haha... Is the rise and fall of the people suffering? It's just a routine operation.

Let us look away from the luxurious Jiangnan and then to the south. The situation of Dali, the country of colorful clouds, is actually not much different from that of Dazhou. Dali, which occupies the mainland transportation lines of Tubo, Myanmar, Siam and other countries, has a developed economy and learns the style of luxury culture of the Han people. Although they face external robbery from Myanmar, Tubo and some barbarian tribes, and internal party disputes and constant struggles, they can still barely maintain the poetry and wine life they learned from Dazhou.

Nanyang is now in a war that is not much better than Jiangbei. The Great Yue Kingdom, known as Jiaozhi by the Great Zhou Dynasty, is starting a war with Champa in the south. They themselves are also facing a civil war between Zheng and Ruan.

In addition, there are the wars between Chameng and Zhen La, the wars between Zhen La and Siam, the wars between Siam and Myanmar, and the ubiquitous pirates...

Occasionally, there are some merchant fleets of India, Pars and even more Western countries. They will also play pirates when passing by and "communicate" with their peers here.

The entire East, except for Dazhou and Dali, was immersed in false carnival, all the other places were made into a pot of porridge.

In the wild waves of war, in the southern part of Jiangbei Qi Province, a bandit suppression coalition force with more than a thousand people was pieced together by the local tyrants in about two counties, which seemed to be unable to cause any special waves.

On the tenth day of the 10th day of the 10th day of the 10th month of the 11th year of Jianxing in the Great Zhou Dynasty, six coalition forces in Juzhou and Rizhao counties gathered near Rizhao Private Port. There were a total of 1,500 troops participating, which was much higher than the number of people promised to send troops at the previous alliance meeting.

The main reason is that the Xu family obtained hundreds of Japanese pirates as laborers and was able to release more manpower to participate in the war during the busy farming period.

Xu Shiyang, who sent the most troops, and Xu Shiyang, who sent the most troops in the Xujiawu Fort, became the commander-in-chief of the coalition. This position was not only elected by the heads of each family, but also the strength of his 200 new army. In Jiangbei, a single fortress owner drew more than 200 people out to fight during the busy farming period, which itself is enough to illustrate many problems.

Many other fortress owners mistakenly believe that Xu Shiyang doesn't seem to like to stay at home to farm. Only fortress owners who are indifferent to their own farm work can draw hundreds of people out to fight at this time.

A guy who is happy to fight but doesn't like farming seems to be less like a local tyrant, but more like... well, more like a bandit or a Tartar.

Perhaps only like a bandit or a Tartar can you defeat the bandits and Tartars again and again?

Xu Shiyang was too lazy to explain to these guys the difference between the full-time regular army and the robber gang like the Tartar bandits. Even if they explained it, they might not be able to understand it.

If you have any misunderstandings, go for a misunderstanding. At least at this stage, Xu Shiyang's reputation for fighting is still beneficial to him.

For example, the fortress owners in Rizhao believed that the coalition forces should first attack the bandits of Wulian Mountain, but Xu Shiyang believed that this goal was not desirable. Wulian Mountain was much larger than Fulai Mountain and had a much steep terrain.

Moreover, the people gathered in Wulian Mountain are not bandits like Luo Daoren on Fulai Mountain, but mostly desperate refugees who go up the mountain to gather crowds to survive.

It is undeniable that refugees from Wulian Mountain will also go down the mountain to rob, and several forts in Rizhao County have suffered a lot, which is why they want to fight Wulian Mountain first.

But in fact, for the refugees in Wulian Mountain, the fortress at the foot of the mountain is also a bandit. If you have the chance, no matter whether Zhang Wang or Ding Bao, any family will go up the mountain to take a bite and grab some women Ding Zhuang back to replenish the manpower gap.

Xu Shiyang was not in the mood to bully these poor people. Not to mention that the troops of thousands of people could not completely clean up the Wulian Mountains. Even if they could, what should I do if I captured the population?

There are at least tens of thousands of people hidden in Wulian Mountains, and it is not impossible to have tens of thousands of people. With so many people, Xu Shiyang can still treat them as Tartar Japanese pirates and kill them 20% first? If he is not killed, where will he get the food to support so many people?

Since you can't fight, it's just a burden to fight. It's better not to fight. It's better to find those real bandits who have accumulated some of them first.

In this era, the southwest of Qi Province was filled with mountains and there were many bandits. To be honest, as long as it was a mountain bag, there must be bandits on it, but there were strong and weak, and the coalition forces did not worry about not finding the target of attack.

Xu Shiyang's plan was to start from Rizhao, sweep all the bandits' villages north, reach Juzhou, then go east, circle around Wulian Mountain as the center, reach near Zhucheng, and then go south, attack Maer Mountain, which belongs to the Taiyi Mountain Range as Wulian Mountain, slightly cut out the barrier of Wulian Mountain, and then return to Rizhao.

The entire route of action is like a huge triangle, but it just covers Juzhou, and the Rizhao line goes east to Zhucheng, where all the places where bandits gather except Wulian Mountain.

Therefore, in mid-May, the joint bandit suppression operation of the two counties, which was expected to last from two to three months, officially began.
Chapter completed!