April!
It was the season of spring warmth and blooming flowers.
But for the farmers on the Allied Forces' side, it was the best time to flee.
If it were winter, they would freeze to death the moment they left their homes. Only during this period could they ensure they would not freeze to death.
Countless refugees marched toward all directions in search of a way to survive.
Why was the scale so exaggerated?
Naturally, it was because the Land of Water had begun flooding the market with cheap grain, severely affecting ordinary civilians.
In the past, they could still sell grain and purchase all kinds of production materials.
But now, grain prices had plummeted, and they could not sell their grain at all. This triggered a series of chain reactions that turned them into refugees.
In every major city, the Land of Water's chambers of commerce were openly recruiting refugees to "reclaim wasteland."
Why did the nobles and Daimyos not intervene?
Naturally, it was because they had already been well fed. They even wished the Land of Water would take more of these troublesome "lowborn" away. Why would they care?
If the people within the Allied Forces' territory were water, then the Land of Water was like a straw, constantly sucking that water away.
Because information exchange was so limited, no one knew just how enormous the Land of Water's operation was.
The fact that even five Ground Effect Vehicles had secretly joined the refugee transport operation was enough to show how outrageous its scale was.
Ground Effect Vehicles with payloads of tens of thousands of tons could transport over a hundred thousand refugees at once as a basic operation, if they were packed full of people.
After all, refugees had no luggage, and at that flying speed, they