I, the prince in distress, send money

Chapter 112 Refugees
After a great victory, there should be a celebration, and the players led by the Mountain Tiger Regiment captured Bolas Fortress, so it is natural that a victory celebration should be held.

That night, Chris led his team to snipe the advance of the Restoration Army with a small number of enemies, which was a successful and boastful victory.

But until now, Chris has not held any victory celebration, and there are many reasons that force him to do so.

On the second day after the victory, the Restoration Army was still on the opposite side. No matter how brave Chris was, he couldn't hold any celebration under the enemy's nose.

By the time the Restoration Army left, the battlefield was littered with corpses, and there was no way to celebrate the victory... There were corpses everywhere, and now it is spring, the weather is getting warmer, and everything is full of vitality.

Why don't you clean up the battlefield quickly and pick up those rotting corpses? Do you want to experience the "plague"?

Not to mention the current world where material resources are underdeveloped and medical standards are still in the primitive age, even in the 21st century, the outbreak of a plague is no small matter. Unless some fools die and are sacrificed to the plague god, the matter will not be resolved.

Then get busy.

Waiting until the funeral is over and the civil service exam is taking place, the day after the results are announced, would obviously be a suitable time.

The celebration of victory in war and the joy of passing the exam are obviously very appropriate to celebrate together.

Chris thought so too, so he wholesaled tons of frozen meat, rice and flour, as well as blended wine and corn syrup on an online agricultural trade platform, preparing to hold a victory party.

Just as Chris mobilized the militia, set up a big pot, and prepared for the evening banquet in full swing, at three o'clock in the afternoon, a message came, which urgently interrupted the victory banquet.

A large wave of refugees is coming.

Chris apparently forgot that before the capture of Bolas Fortress, the tasks he issued to the players, in addition to combat, included the task of guiding refugees here.

The most important reason for issuing this kind of task, apart from the insignificant feeling of pity, is that Chris is short of people... He lacks people to farm, and even more so, he lacks people to serve in the army.

Then, because the battle situation was urgent, Chris focused all his attention on the battlefield and gradually forgot about such things.

Of course, this kind of thing is also related to the fact that the players who accepted this kind of task have not sent back any news for a long time.

If something is not used for a long time, people will naturally forget about it, not to mention things.

Then today, the players who were out gave Chris a huge surprise.

One hundred kilometers north of Bolas Fortress, next to the important ancient passage connecting the El Province of the Bohemian Empire and the Kingdom of Bagnia, there is a city called Helgeland.

This city is very important to the people of Bagnia. It is one of the only three large cities in Bagnia with a permanent population of 100,000.

The other two major cities, one is the capital of Bagnia - Votradnoi, which is now in the hands of the Republic, and the third major city, Oncandra, near the border of the Retalia Empire, 150 kilometers south of the Bolas Fortress, is also now in the hands of the Republic.

This shows the importance of Helgeland. It was an important trade hub and industrial base of the former Kingdom of Bagnia... There are dozens of large and small handicraft workshops in the city.

Because of the city's importance, when the war broke out, the Republic sent a large number of light cavalry and mercenaries into the Restoration Army's territory, setting fires and attacking defenseless peasants, artificially creating famine. The resulting war refugees could only spontaneously move towards the nearest large city.

Once war breaks out, famine will follow, and wherever it passes, there will be hungry refugees.

The refugees will not voluntarily stay where they are and starve to death. Some of them will hide in the mountains and forests and compete with wild animals for food, but most of the refugees will spontaneously consider moving to big cities.

There is no way. It is easier said than done to go into the mountains to find food, but in fact, as long as you have lived in a rural area surrounded by mountains for a period of time, you will know that there is not as much food in the mountains as you think.

hunt?

To hunt, you need hunting knowledge, tools, and space, because the prey that can be provided in a mountain forest is limited, and the number of hunters that can be supported is even more limited.

A large number of refugees rushed into the woods and first ate up all the easy-to-hunt pheasants, rabbits, and mice. Then they caught all the fish in the river and ate until there were not even any small fish left.

Then they ate tree bark, grass roots, and human flesh...

In the end, the refugees who hid in the mountains and forests either starved to death or migrated collectively to the nearest neighbor with food. In the end, they inevitably gathered in the city with the most food.

Therefore, when players came to Helgeland, they were surprised to find that outside this town with a permanent population of only 100,000, there were more than 10,000 war refugees gathered.

The refugees were starving, their eyes glowing green as they caught the fish from the river and ate all the wild animals in the forest. They even forced the gates of Helgeland to close tightly, and the residents inside did not dare to go out rashly.

The mayor of Hegland and the Church of the Goddess of Agricultural Harvest in the city both sent people to set up relief points outside the city and provide free porridge to the refugees, leaving them in a state of long-term hunger and slowly starving to death.

The masters in the city did not dare to do nothing and let the refugees outside the city starve to death, nor were they willing to give more food to ensure that the refugees were well fed.

Both the threat of starvation and the strength to eat well can easily lead refugees to band together to attack cities.

And at this time, the players appeared. They just started to contact the refugees and tried to persuade them to go south to Bolas Fortress.

The refugees are not stupid either. Coming from all directions, they are better informed than the players. The refugees know that Bolas Fortress not only belongs to the Republic, but a noble lord is also attacking it.

The area near the fortress is a war zone. No matter how hungry the refugees are, they will not rashly approach an army that is besieging the city... the latter will definitely capture people nearby to fill the gaps in the siege.

The players who had no other choice turned around and entered Helgeland to cooperate with the powerful people there.

Apart from the players, Chris didn't know what they did or said. Anyway, these dozens of players soon obtained a small amount of food and a flag... the Restoration Army's food transport team.

Then, these players, under the guise of recruiting laborers for the grain transport team, half-tricked and half-forced more than a thousand hungry refugees to come, and brought them to Bolas Fortress. They arrived nearby just in time after the food was finished, interrupting Chris's victory celebration party.

　PS: The previous chapter was reported and some content was forcibly deleted. I am too lazy to revise it, so let it be.

　　
　
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