In fact, when the Zhenwei Army sent troops, the third and tenth divisions of the Zhenwei Army directly attacked the Yongtai area of Fengwu Town from the Jingyang area of Zhenwei Town, but the two infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army suffered losses in Yongtai City.

Yongtai City and Xiushui City are all in the hands of Shen Mao.

In order to compete for Xiushui City before, Shen Mao's troops and Shen Zhi's troops fought quite fiercely.

Originally, Zhou Rui thought that the Zhou family could pick up a bargain this time, but he didn't expect that the third and tenth divisions of the Zhenwei Army, facing the 1st Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army that held Yongtai City, attacked fiercely for two days in a row.

In order to guard against the Zhenwei Army, Shen Mao never transferred the First Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army to participate in the battle outside Xiushui City, so that the strength of the First Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army remained at 12,000.

After the two infantry divisions of the Zhenwei Army attacked the Yongtai area, Shen Xu, the commander of the 1st Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army, immediately retracted all the troops back to Yongtai City, and personally shot a regiment commander and four battalion commanders who were bought by the "ghost".

The 3rd and 10th Divisions of the Zhenwei Army could only launch a strong attack on Yongtai City.

The First Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army can be regarded as the old foundation of the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion, although the weapons and equipment are not as good as the Zhenwei Army, but the combat effectiveness is not weak, and the will to fight is also quite strong.

The 3rd and 10th Divisions of the Zhenwei Army paid nearly 5,000 casualties, but they did not gnaw the hard bone of the First Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army.

Because of the large-scale attack of the Zhenwei army, Shen Mao and Shen Zhi's troops also ceased fighting outside Xiushui City.

At this time, they continued to fight, and there was no point in doing so.

So soon, the remaining more than 7,000 people of the Second Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army and the remaining more than 6,000 people of the 26th Independent Brigade were transferred to Yongtai City by Shen Mao.

Knowing that the 2nd Independent Brigade and the 26th Independent Brigade of the Fengwu Army had also entered Yongtai City, Zhou Xiaorong, who was in charge of commanding the entire Fengwu Town Campaign, immediately ordered the 3rd and 10th Divisions of the Zhenwei Army to suspend the attack and deploy their defenses on the spot.

Next, Zhou Xiaorong did not let the 3rd and 10th Divisions launch an attack on Yongtai City, and the previous combat mission that Zhou Xiaorong gave to the 3rd and 10th Divisions was to capture Yongtai City and Xiushui City controlled by Shen Mao, as well as Tianning City, where Shen Zhi lived.

However, with the other cities of Fengwu Town being captured by the Zhou army, Yongtai City, Xiushui City and Tianning City were already surrounded by the Zhou army.

On the night of October 10, 1538, in the military camp outside Tianning City, Shen Zhi met Sun Quan, the lord of Ganyang City.

Shen Zhi said coldly: "Could it be that City Lord Sun is here to persuade me to surrender?" ”

Sun Quan, who was full of tiredness, said with a wry smile: "Third Young Master, I don't want to come either."

But Zhou Dashuai asked me to persuade you, and I had to come over.

Zhou Dashuai asked me to bring a letter to the third son. ”

Then Sun Quan handed the letter to Shen Zhi, "Third Young Master, as the saying goes, those who know the times are Junjie.

Now the Zhou family has gathered more than 100,000 elite troops and thousands of artillery pieces around Tianning City, including heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm.

Once the Zhou family's troops attacked with all their might, Tianning City would not be able to hold it for long at all.

What's more, in addition to Tianning City, Xiushui City and Yongtai City, the remaining more than 20 cities in Fengwu Town have all been owned by the Zhou family, and the annexation of Fengwu Town by the Zhou family is a foregone conclusion. ”

Shen Zhi, who had a gloomy face, opened the envelope, took out the letter inside and read it, Shen Zhi's face couldn't help but feel a little more lonely.

Zhou Rui promised in the letter that as long as Shen Zhi was willing to lead his troops to surrender, the Zhou family could guarantee the safety of all the Shen family members in Shen Xiao's vein, and would return some of the previous industries of the Shen family to Shen Zhi, of course, these industries are currently in Xiushui City.

Now the army under Shen Zhi's command adds up to about 20,000 people, and the army of the Qiu family in Tianning City has more than 10,000 people.

Shen Zhi actually knew very well in his heart that with these more than 30,000 people, it was impossible to resist the wolf-like Zhou family's army, and the fall of Tianning City was only a matter of time.

"City Lord Sun, the Qiu family is kind to me, if I want to surrender, I must be with the Qiu family."

"Third Young Master, Zhou Dashuai also gave the Qiu family very generous conditions, as long as the people of the Qiu family are not brainless, they will definitely be willing to surrender with the Third Young Master."

On October 12, 1538, the troops of Shen Zhi and Tian Ning Qiu raised the white flag, and then the Zhou army entered Tianning City.

Originally, Zhou Rui also hoped to peacefully resolve Xiushui City and Yongtai City, but a message obtained by the "ghost shadow" made Zhou Rui immediately order Zhou Jiajun to launch a general attack on Xiushui City and Yongtai City at the same time.

It turned out that Shen Mao, the self-appointed envoy of the Fengwu Festival, secretly contacted the envoy of the Boting Festival, the envoy of the Huanan Festival, the envoy of the North Jiedu and the envoy of the Deyang Festival, trying to get the four envoys of the Festival to send troops into Fengwu Town.

And the four jiedu envoys may have felt the threat brought to them by the Zhou family, and they also intended to form a coalition army of the four towns in the southwest to enter Fengwu Town to intervene and prevent the Zhou family from entering Fengwu Town.

It's just that the Zhou Jiajun is moving too fast in Fengwu Town, and the so-called Southwest Four Towns Alliance is still being planned, and most of the cities in Fengwu Town have already been included in the Zhou Family's army.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, at 9 a.m. on October 14, the Zhou army gathered a total of 230,000 army troops and launched a fierce attack on Xiushui City and Yongtai City at the same time.

27 hours later, Xiushui City fell into the hands of the Zhou family, and the self-proclaimed Fengwu Festival made Shen Mao also strong, and finally committed suicide by drinking bullets.

Not long after the fall of Xiushui City, the remnants of the Fengwu army in Yongtai City finally laid down their weapons after learning the news of Xiushui City.

At this point, the entire Fengwu Town also fell into the hands of Zhou Rui.

The envoys of the Boting Jiedu, the Huannan Jiedu, the Rongbei Jiedu and the Deyang Jiedu envoys, seeing that Shen Mao was also destroyed by the Zhou family, canceled the formation plan of the coalition army of the four towns in the southwest.

However, these four jiedu envoys secretly reached a secret agreement against the Zhou family, once the Zhou family invaded a feudal town, the other three feudal towns must send troops to rescue.

It is no wonder that these four Jiedu envoys are worried that the Zhou family will invade their own feudal towns, you must know that these four feudal towns are the same as the previous Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town, Jiedu Mansion can only control a small number of descendant troops, and more military power is scattered in the hands of many big families.

However, the Zhou family has completely controlled Fengwu Town, Zhenwei Town, and even the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire, which is equivalent to holding three feudal towns.

With such a super-powerful neighbor, who can not worry?

After taking the entire Fengwu Town, Zhou Rui immediately went to the court of the Han and Tang Empires and asked himself to be appointed as the envoy of Fengwu Jiedu.

Emperor Ouyang Hui was unwilling to offend Zhou Rui, a fierce man who actually controlled the three feudal towns, so he happily issued a holy decree and crowned Zhou Rui as the envoy of the three towns of Fengwu, Zhenwei, and Jinnan.

The royal family of the Bajin Empire has been living in exile in Tiansheng City, and Emperor Ouyang Hui hinted slightly, and the royal family of the Bajin Empire immediately came to the table and was willing to include the southern provinces of the Bajin Empire into the territory of the Han and Tang Empires.

In this way, the southern province of the Bajin Empire became a veritable Jinnan Town, and the number of feudal towns in the Han and Tang Empires increased from twenty-four to twenty-five, but three of them were all owned by one.

After Zhou Rui became the envoy of the Three Towns, he immediately ordered the reorganization of the Fengwu Army in accordance with the establishment of the Zhenwei Army and the Jinnan Army, and all the policies and regulations previously implemented in Zhenwei Town and Jinnan Town were transferred to all the cities and villages in Fengwu Town.

And not long after Zhou Rui became the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, the navy of the Silver Wolf Empire and the navy of the Flying Leopard Empire broke out in the Second Battle of Barra Island.

The size of the fleets gathered by the two navies this time even exceeded the first Battle of Bala.

In the end, the Second Battle of Barra Island lasted two days and one night, and both naval fleets suffered very heavy losses.

The navy of the Flying Leopard Empire lost 11 all-main-gun battleships, 10 all-steel battleships, 11 large armored cruisers, 27 light cruisers and 31 destroyers.

The navy of the Silver Wolf Empire lost 13 all-main-gun battleships, 14 all-steel battleships, 13 large armored cruisers, 20 light cruisers, 25 destroyers and 71 torpedo boats.

However, what made the two navies most depressed was that with such a huge loss, the navies of both sides could only be regarded as losing both, and both sides still had the strength to gather a huge fleet again for the third naval battle of Bala Island.

It may be that the huge losses of the two naval battles of Barra Island, plus the land battle, the armies of the two sides have been stuck in a tug-of-war, and no one can take advantage, so that the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire have the meaning of peace talks.

After all, the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire, in addition to their mutual grudges, have hostile other beast countries.

Under the mediation of the Golden Lion Empire, the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire signed an armistice agreement on November 20, 1538.

In this war, the two orc countries paid the price of millions of casualties, but neither took any advantage, and it also greatly weakened the strength of the two navies.

As soon as the armistice agreement was signed, the Flying Leopard Empire and the Silver Wolf Empire announced that they would increase their naval military spending in the next few years.

The Silver Wolf Empire even bought the 7 unfinished Punisher-class all-main gun battleships of the Barbarian Bull Empire in this world, and prepared to bring them back to their own shipyards to complete the construction of these 7 Punisher-class all-main gun battleships.

Originally, the Barbarian Bull Empire was on the side of the Spirit Clan, and there were still 8 unfinished Punisher-class battleships with full main guns.

However, due to the fact that the large docks of several shipyards of the Barbarian Bull Empire could not be sold on the side of the Spirit World, under the pleading of these shipyards, the Minister of the Navy of the Barbarian Bull Empire, Larion, agreed to continue to allocate funds to build these 8 Punisher-class battleships with full main guns first.

At the beginning, it was precisely because of the Flying Leopard Empire that the Silver Wolf Empire chose to temporarily shake hands with the Zhou family and make peace.

Therefore, Zhou Rui learned that the Silver Wolf Empire had signed an armistice agreement with the Flying Leopard Empire, and immediately ordered the Southwest Coastal Defense Fleet to enter the first level of combat readiness.