Chapter 110 Hedong 9 Towns

Zhou Yafu's situation in the east of the river was like a broken bamboo, and he captured a village and town every three or five years, and the good news came back to Xia Town.

Chutian is inspecting the farmland for this year's harvest.

According to Li Kui's report, this summer town is likely to have a bumper harvest.

A bumper harvest means a surge in food production.

Most of this is due to Li Kui's meticulous care of the farmland.

Li Kui has been managing agriculture and public security in a low-key manner, and he can arrange these things in an orderly manner without having to worry about Chu Tian.

Chutian's agricultural decisions are mainly about land ownership, division of use rights, tax rates, agricultural budgets, and promulgation of some policies that benefit agriculture.

From the restoration of soil fertility, seed screening, and excavation of drainage channels, this is not something Chutian has to do by himself.

Chu Tian said to Li Kui, who worked hard and never complained: "Mr. Dian Nong's affairs are annoying. After this year's harvest, I will ask people to raise Mr.'s salary."

Chutian was unable to formally confer official positions, and still focused on salary increases.

Li Kui did not refuse, but said: "It is already a great benevolence and righteousness for the lord to be able to farm and raise the people in troubled times."

"The work of harvesting in June will be handed over to you to arrange. With enough food, you can attack Langya City."

"Master really wants to besiege Langya City with thousands of troops?"

"It's definitely going to be a fight, it just depends on how you want to fight."

Taking into account the high probability of a bumper harvest in Xiazhen this year, and Li Kui's SS characteristic of "making the best use of the land", Chutian's farmland output increased by 30%, and the grain harvested this year is enough for Xiazhen to support the harvest next year.

People take food as their heaven, and only when they have enough food to fill their stomachs can they go to war.

"General Zhou Yafu has captured two villages in the past seven days."

A cavalry came back to Xia Town to report.

Chu Tian said to himself, "Why did he slow down in attacking the city?"

If Zhou Yafu heard Chu Tian's complaint, he would definitely feel that he was wrongly killed.

He took the five hundred willow camp with him, but he was able to attack villages and towns one after another, which was slow.

Fang Xuanling, who was next to Chu Tian, ​​said, "Maybe Zhou Yafu has encountered some kind of predicament."

The cavalry quickly replied: "General Zhou Yafu is expanding his territory in the east of the river, and the surrounding lords are afraid of it, so they joined forces to form a coalition to resist General Zhou Yafu's front, so it is difficult to win quickly."

It seems that other lords are also smart people, knowing that they cannot compete with Zhou Yafu with their own strength, so they chose to form an alliance.

The existence of the alliance gives the small and medium lords the ability to fight against the big lords. For example, the Anti-Dong Zhuo Alliance in the Eastern Han District, the Nobunaga Encirclement Network in the Eastern Ying District, and the Anti-French Alliance in Europe.

"How many towns and how many troops does the other party have?"

"There is a coalition army in six towns in Hedong, with more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, including 300 cavalry soldiers, on the defensive. General Zhou Yafu assembled 1,200 soldiers and horses from three towns and joined forces with Xiliu Ying to be on the offensive."

No wonder Zhou Yafu's offensive was blocked, and there were many troops on the opposite side. Attacking more with less, but on the offensive, with the opponent's strict defense, Zhou Yafu was no longer worthy of the title of a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty.

"Let Liu Sandao lead 500 Xuzhou archers and 100 light cavalry to help out and seize the land of Hedong as soon as possible."

In the east of the Yihe River, there are nine towns opposite Xia Town, which are called "Nine Towns in Hedong" by Chutian, corresponding to the "Seven Towns in the North".

In Chutian, Xia Town, Lingyan Town, Yunlai Town, Shangbi Town and Liangshan Town are called "Five Hexi Towns" by Chutian. As for why there are fewer towns in Hexi than in Hedong... This is not unrelated to the dominance of Xiazhen's family.

These three places, together with the territory controlled by the Wolf Travel Guild, firmly surrounded Langya City, realizing the strategy of encircling the city by villages and towns.

Cities are far more difficult to attack than villages and towns, so even if you are attacking small cities, you should think twice.

This is why Chutian anxiously dispatched Zhou Yafu to attack Hedong Jiuzhen.

If the nine towns in Hedong are not captured as soon as possible, once a town is upgraded to a city, it will become more difficult to fight in the future.

Chutian's order soon arrived in the hands of Liu Sandao, a general of the bow department. Liu Sandao led 500 archers and 100 light cavalry to take fishing boats and sentry boats in batches to the east of the river to reinforce Zhou Yafu.

As for the task of training new recruits to the lieutenant general of the archers.

Hua Mulan found that Xia Xia Liang, who was reporting to Chu Tian from time to time, seemed to have evaporated from the world recently, so she asked, "Where is Miss Xia?"

Chu Tian replied casually, "She went to Langya City to do business."

"Langya City?"

Mulan and Chu Tian looked at each other, a little puzzled.

I don't understand what kind of deployment Chutian sent Xia Xia Liang to Langya City.

"You have no right to know about this."

"Yes……"

Hua Mulan hurriedly lowered her head, the subordinate didn't seem to be able to look directly at the boss like this.

Seeing Hua Mulan, Chutian subconsciously checked her attributes. Hua Mulan's current level is 50, her force is 91, and she is approaching its peak. She is one of the best generals in Xuzhou.

Among the nine towns in the east of the river, six of them are still stubbornly resisting Zhou Yafu's army.

Zhou Yafu surrounded a village and wanted to ambush the opponent's reinforcements, but the six towns didn't have a plan, or they really didn't want to go out of the city to fight Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yafu's Xiliu Battalion caused them a lot of casualties in the recent skirmish. At that time, there were 500 people in Xiliu Camp and less than 1,000 servants, and they were surrounded by 3,000 people in six towns. As a result, the six towns allied forces retreated and left more than a hundred bodies.

The cowardly six-town coalition army only dared to hide in the town, delaying Zhou Yafu's progress by relying on the rammed earth wall, hoping that Zhou Yafu could not conquer the town and chose to leave.

The existence of the city wall made countless famous people bow to it, and Zhou Yafu did not easily storm their town.

"He claims to be the commander of the lord's 'I just want to farm well', the third most prosperous territorial in the Eastern Han region. Do you think he is open to words?"

"Mostly true. If he wasn't a historical military general, how could we have been beaten so badly before?"

"If we surrender, we will lose our current position, and we can't beat it. It's really depressing."

The mayors of the six towns gathered in the town surrounded by Zhou Yafu, frowning.

It's a shame to be surrounded by less than 2,000 people with 3,000 people...

Just when the six-town coalition army was reluctant to give up its territory and tried to grab a chance, Liu Sandao, who was sent by Chutian to support Zhou Yafu, arrived with his troops and smoothly joined Zhou Yafu.

"It's not wise to attack by force. You lead your troops to attack other towns with empty troops and make this town an orphan."

Zhou Yafu handed over 500 servants to Liu Sandao and asked him to lead 500 infantry and 500 archers to attack other towns.

Liu Sandao saw that there were only a few people left under Zhou Yafu's tent: "You only have a thousand people, can you continue to surround them? What if they go out of the city to attack?"

Zhou Yafu waved his hand calmly: "A thousand people are enough to block them inside."