Chapter 182:
Street at the city gate.
Qiao Mu held a long spear, and behind him were old soldiers like Hai Siyuan, who were giving their support to Qiao Mu on behalf of Captain Hai and others.
This solitary city is not small, and it used to be a big city in Zhong Province.
Although the streets are dilapidated, they are spacious, and the old houses on both sides are tall and can vaguely be seen as the former magnificent city of Zhong Province.
Even as a magnificent city, it couldn’t withstand the forty years of wind and sand, the forty years of harsh weather.
This city has aged, become old, and even older than the city are the elderly people in it.
Qiao Mu walked on the long street and saw countless elderly women with white hair, a few young children, and disabled veterans who couldn’t go to the battlefield.
In the past forty years, the young adults in the city have been the only source of new soldiers for the remaining troops of Great Yan, and even they are nearly extinct.
Men, women, and children in the city have a pale complexion, thin and aged, not much better than the impoverished victims Qiao Mu saw in Nan Province.