Laykash did not need to twist the arm of the old man after saying his piece
Helping the enemy forces was a capital offense and so after screaming the villagers knew nothing, the village chief quickly convinced his people to migrate to Zanzan.
This would have been pretty easy to do even without the threats as no one wanted to live in a place where tens of thousands of soldiers were going to be landfall.
Because soldiers were basically bandits with legal immunity, laying their claws on the general population's food, homes, and women.
So the villagers quickly packed up whatever clothes and small pots and pans they could fit in their carts, their surprisingly well-stocked food rations which they had managed to swindle off their lord, and with a melancholic face set off on foot for Zanzan.
