Why is Wei Xiyin so sure?
As the saying goes, if you want to see a living person, you must see a dead body. When they first came here, the disaster had just happened, but they only found about 300 zombies in the village, and not a single living person.
Of course, Xie Ruian, the outsider, does not count.
Wei Xiyin immediately felt very strange. It was impossible for such a big village to have so few people.
But at that time, her mind was full of food in the granary and she had no energy to pay attention to the survivors.
Now that they needed manpower, Wei Xiyin asked Zhang Yuanyan, "Since you are familiar with this place, do you know of any hiding places nearby?"
Zhang Yuanyan lowered his head in thought, thinking carefully, and said, "I don't know about this."
The Yizhou Army was a garrison, and the villagers had a natural fear of the imperial army, so they used to stay away from them when they met them.
The two sides had little interaction on a daily basis, and the garrisons were not allowed to leave the barracks at will, so Zhang Yuanyan was only familiar with the nearby terrain, and he really didn't know where to hide.
Wei Xiyin had no choice but to give up after hearing this.
They had searched the village last time and found the cellar where Xie Ruian was hiding. They also checked behind all the houses.
It is certain that those villagers are not hiding in the village.
There are no hills nearby, so it might take some effort to find someone.
Wei Xiyin was thinking about whether to send someone out to look for them now. Those villagers were all laborers, and the fortress was in urgent need of manpower to build the city walls. If possible, she wanted to take all those people away at once.
Before she could open her mouth to give orders, two officers and soldiers rushed in, "Oh no! Sir, there are so many people in front of the granary!"
Wei Xiyin: “…”
Zhang Yuanyan: "......"
They both asked in unison: "What's going on?!"
Wei Xiyin’s first reaction was to find the villagers of Changlan Village?
The officer was stunned by their reaction for a moment, then immediately came to his senses and reported: "I didn't know, I just went out to investigate and found a large number of people gathered in front of the granary."
"Those people gathered at the door and seemed to be heading for the granary," another officer added.
So he is not a survivor from Changlan Village?
Wei Xiyin's eyes flickered. It seemed that after waiting for no rescue from the imperial court for a whole winter, someone finally couldn't help but attack the granary.
You should know that Dongwu and Yimu in the south have been broken one after another, and the situation of the shell mound is unknown. To the west of the granary is Gaoyi, and to the east and north are the county towns of Xincheng, Shati, Dongyang, and Xinxiang.
The living environment is difficult nowadays. In order to survive, people probably don’t care about being discovered and punished by the court.
Wei Xiyin asked the officers and soldiers, "Do you know roughly how many people there are?"
The two officers looked at each other, lowered their heads and replied, "My lady, about three or four hundred people."
"What do you think, Lord Zhang?" Wei Xiyin turned to look at Zhang Yuanyan.
Zhang Yuanyan was confused, "What do you mean by 'girl'?"
Wei Xiyin said seriously, "Now we all need to unite and stabilize Yizhou, so naturally we have to find a way to recruit those people."
This is just perfect, free labor is delivered to her doorstep, saving her from having to look for living people everywhere.
Without waiting for Zhang Yuanyan to reply, Wei Xiyin called Chang Ying and ordered, "Notify them and organize the troops immediately. We will rush to the granary immediately."
"yes!"
Last time they had no reason to do so and had to use the refugees from Gaoyi. This time they are doing it in an open and aboveboard manner.
At this time, Wei Xiyin thought that there was just a group of refugees outside who were looting food. She had no idea that the actual situation was so unexpected.
Yizhou granary.
Two followers stood on the city wall, silently watching the crowd below.
There were more than a dozen unmutated corpses lying on the ground, and it was obvious that a fierce conflict had broken out here before.
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the granary, holding various weapons. The crowd formed a triangle and looked at each other warily, and no one was willing to compromise first.
The two followers standing on the city wall looked at each other, tightened their grip on the crossbows, and decided to wait and see what would happen.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, I have never seen so many living people. It really feels like a lifetime ago.
The followers originally thought that they were all coming for the granary and would choose to break in and rob the granary together. However, two of the groups seemed to have an old grudge and started fighting without saying a word after meeting.
The refugees in Gaoyi County also looked at each other, looked at the group of ferocious people on the left, and then looked at the Qingyang government soldiers on the right. They swallowed unconsciously, subconsciously took two steps back, and hid behind the crowd.
Since ancient times, bandits have been afraid of officials. They used to be bold and violent, but now they dare not show up.
They arrived late and had no idea what had happened here before.
All they knew was that when they arrived, the two sides were fighting fiercely. When they saw them coming, those people stopped temporarily.
And now the leader of their group is not Tian San, but another group of bandits.
Tian Sanzheng was tied up and pressed to the ground, with a look of despair on his face.
When they first got the 1,000 stone of grain, they thought they would have no worries about food and drink. However, the temperature dropped suddenly. Their bandit nest was on the mountain. They escaped the monsters but could not escape the heavy snow that blocked the mountain.
The low temperature caused people in the village to die of illness or freeze to death.
Seeing that more and more people were dying, Tian San gritted his teeth and set fire to the grain to keep warm, planning to find a way to go to the granary after winter was over.
After finally making it to the beginning of spring, the group encountered another group of bandits when they were going down the mountain. They were outnumbered and were quickly captured by the other side.
The refugees from Gaoyi were forced to follow Tian San up the mountain to become bandits in order to survive. In order to stay alive, they quickly flattered the group and gave out information about the granary.
This is the scene where Tian San was tied up and dragged to the granary.
This scene is so familiar. Tian San tied Gong Liulang up to exchange for food, but now the person lying on the ground is himself. It really is a changing world.
No one can escape this fate.
The two groups on the left and right are still confronting each other.
There were more than a hundred ferocious men in the group, and they did not seem to be afraid of the Qingyang Yamen soldiers. The big man in the lead had a rough appearance, a square face, a beard, a scar on his face, and was one-eyed. He looked extremely fierce and intimidating.
He sneered at the head of the yamen soldiers, "What a narrow road to meet an enemy! Today is a perfect day to avenge the eye injury I suffered that year."
"The person who hurt you was not me. That person has died of the plague. Now we all have the same goal. Why don't you put aside your prejudice and break down the granary door first before discussing past grudges?" The captain felt that this group of people was completely unreasonable.
They had been observing nearby for ten days. The big man's group arrived earlier than them. At first, they were confused about the situation and no one dared to act rashly.
But as they stayed there for a longer time, the yamen soldiers soon discovered that there were only a few people patrolling back and forth on the city wall every day. Obviously, there were not many people in the granary, and judging from their attire, they did not seem to be the Yizhou army stationed there.
As long as we can break open the granary door...
"Bah!" the big man glared at them. "You killed my people, and now you want to make peace? Too late! I'll have to give up this anger even if it means I don't have this food."
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