Chapter 466
Residents of villages surrounding the fort could quickly take refuge inside, but the problem was with farmers working in distant fields.
The farthest fields were about 2 ri away from the fort.
These were located between the approaching Jurchen and the fort, which is why Oh Bang-seop called it close.
Oh Bang-seop anxiously raised his telescope to check the situation again.
“At least they have carts, thankfully…”
The fleeing farmers had hitched oxen and horses to nearby carts and were riding them at full speed.
As northern migration progressed, the government distributed oxen and horses to farmers at low interest rates.
As these acquired oxen and horses reproduced, most farming households came to raise at least two oxen, and typically one horse as well.
Farmers who had been unfamiliar with horses before coming north began raising them because of the vast frontier territory here.