The six towns in Hedong still resisted Zhou Yafu''s three Town soldiers. Their strategy was to stick to it and consume Zhou Yafu''s patience.
As time went on, however, they gradually lost control.
"Someone has taken my town!"
A mayor suddenly cried out.
He has received a prompt from the system that his town has been captured by Liu San Dao, the leader of Xia Town, and his Lord''s identity has been deprived by the system.
When the territory is occupied, he can also command his troops, but the morale of the soldiers will drop rapidly, and even desertion will occur.
The other five mayors looked at each other. It seemed that Zhou Yafu''s purpose of encircling them was to divide troops to occupy other towns.
The six town coalition forces concentrated their forces in one town in order to better deal with Zhou Yafu. However, after Zhou Yafu was supplied with troops, he had the ability to divide troops.
"We are too passive to continue to occupy the towns by the other side. There was only a lonely town left, which could not be kept in any case. Let alone the grain harvest in a month. If they cut away the wheat to supplement the army''s grain, wouldn''t we just stare at it? "
"Without food, thousands of civilians and 3000 defenders in this town will starve to death."
"I can''t help it. I can only attack to see if I can defeat the historical general on the opposite side. He divided his forces and occupied all parts of the country, which was our only chance to win. If we can defeat him, maybe we can capture a military general with historical facts! "
After deliberation, the six mayors were forced to fight.
If we don''t fight again, this town will become an isolated town and will surely lose.
When the town gate opened, 3000 allied forces gathered to fight Zhou Yafu''s more than 1000 people.
"What formation are they in?"
Zhou Yafu frowned when he saw that the six town leaders in the opposite side were arranged in six square arrays with extremely poor cooperation.
This is also a common fault of the temporary coalition forces.
The 3000 allied forces could not wait for a decisive battle with Zhou Yafu, and more than a dozen flags were displayed to command the Allied forces to launch an attack.
Archers from both sides fired at each other, and infantry pushed forward, fighting for the land of Hedong in the south of Kaiyang County.
The morale of the soldiers in the Xiliu battalion wearing two kinds of armor was high. The long halberd formed a square array and carried the shield to launch the charge, which could still maintain the formation.
The arrow fell on the shield and armor, and several arrows were killed in the company of Xiliu camp, and the soldiers in the back row immediately made up for them.
Xiliu camp collides with the light infantry on the opposite side. Both sides fight hand to hand!
The strength of the six level arms is displayed incisively and vividly at this moment, and the neat lineup is advancing rapidly, and there will soon be a trend of penetrating the formation of the other side!
However, Zhou Yafu''s characteristic of "governing the army" can maintain the morale for a long time. Under this ebb and flow, the six town coalition forces are in danger.
A temporary observation tower built by Zhou Yafu on the battlefield.
He seemed to be aware of the other side''s weakness - the morale of one of the six town allied forces had fallen to the bottom of the valley. It was the army of the mayor who had lost territory.
"Light cavalry, detour to the right and attack the second enemy on the right!"
"Yes
The 100 light cavalry sent by Chu Tian played a decisive role in the decisive battle. When the two sides fought fiercely, Zhou Yafu sent light cavalry to attack the low morale troops of the other side, and the six town coalition forces collapsed completely.
"The situation is over. It''s not a crime of war..."
The six town heads saw the small number of people in Xiliu camp, but defeated their army and lost the courage to continue to resist.
There was no way to fight this battle. They lacked the ability to command thousands of people. At this time, the command of the United forces was chaotic. In Zhou Yafu''s opinion, there were flaws everywhere.
If the opposite is also a famous general, maybe you can rely on the number of people to let Zhou Yafu headache.
Before the decisive battle, the six mayors had prepared the white flag. He found that he had failed to defeat Zhou Yafu, so he immediately raised a white flag to show his surrender.
Now there is no deep hatred between the two sides. It is just a normal war between the Lords. They believe that the other side will not kill them.
Fortunately, Chu Tian got Zhou Yafu instead of Bai Qi, otherwise their fate would be hard to say.
Zhou Yafu accepted their surrender and did not tie them up. He just put them under house arrest and asked them to hand over the ownership of the territory.
The six mayors were dejected, and their Lord career ended. Even Kaiyang County couldn''t go out, let alone fight for the Central Plains.
Most of the small Lord''s territory was either destroyed in the previous yellow turban rebellion or annexed by the great Lord.
The Lord who can really dominate a county is one in a million.
"Losing to the third Lord in the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not a shame."
The six mayors comforted themselves.
Zhou Yafu asked, "what''s the place further east?"
After he captured nine towns in Hedong, he still seemed dissatisfied.
Chu Tian''s order was to capture the Hedong area of the Yi River, but did not say where to stop. Hedong is still quite a large area.
"Further east is the Shuhe river. Without boats, it is difficult to continue to expand eastward. Crossing the Shuhe River, there is a hilly area with few people. Further to the East is the scope of Xihai County, which is a relatively narrow and long coastal zone. "A town mayor obviously did a lot of homework in the territory site selection, and knew the terrain very well.
Zhou Yafu fell into a brief silence.
He is now located in the plain between the Yi River and the Shu River. To the East are rivers and hills. It is really difficult to continue to expand eastward.
"It seems that it can only be expanded here, and it will take time to digest this territory."
Zhou Yafu gave up the idea of further expansion to the East. The cost of continued expansion was too high.
The six captured mayors looked at each other again, and the general seemed to be dissatisfied. This is the nine towns in Hedong. With nine towns and vassal villages, there are nearly 100000 people.
The population of 100000 was quite large in the early days.
"Take them to Xiazhen and wait for the Lord to come down."
Zhou Yafu asked the soldiers of the Xiliu camp to escort the prisoners to Xiazhen, and he personally took charge of nine towns in Hedong.
Hedong nine towns are just conquered territory, the people are very low, not reliable.
It is not only the players who may make trouble by taking advantage of the people''s will, but also some townspeople may rise up against Chu Tian''s "brutal" rule.
There is still a difference between the treatment of the six mayors who surrender after defeat and those who surrender without fighting.
The mayor who surrendered without fighting even got credit and served in the villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Xiazhen, while most of the lords who surrendered after the defeat were imprisoned for a period of time and then demoted to civilians. As for the lords who caused a lot of losses to Xiazhen, the treatment may be even worse.
"Now the nine towns in Hedong have already arrived, and together there are 21 towns. Is it possible for 21 towns to shake up large cities? "
Zhou Yafu compared Chu Tian''s strength with Zang BA''s, and shook his head slightly.
According to the conventional siege tactics, in Lord, 21 towns are not as useful as a large city. Unless it''s twenty-one third class towns.
Large cities also have special transmission array. This building alone can make countless lords envious.
Zhou Yafu said to himself, "my Lord, how can you win a large city?"
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