Behind Menghu Pass, there are noble families of eight prefectures and twenty counties. They have long offered terms to the King of Mingzhou and have already prepared provisions and weapons.
It's just a matter of whether the King of Mingzhou is a sensible person, to decide whether to support him or to collude with the relatives inside Menghu Pass.
In the depths of the rolling night, on one side are the private soldiers recruited by the eight prefectures and twenty counties, in the vast region in between, they all wander about like those hungry and godless, muddleheaded, landless people.
They are considered redundant in their eyes.
The eight prefectures and twenty counties can clearly clean out the redundant themselves, but they won't, because it's not dignified, it would dirty their hands, so they wait for the Food Protection Army to come, to clear out these redundant for them, and then pay them a visit.
