Zhou Yafu was like a bamboo in the east of the river, and he captured a village and town every three or five days, and the good news was transmitted back to Xia Town.

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

According to Li Kui's report, it is very likely that there will be a bumper harvest in the summer town this year.

A bumper harvest means a huge increase in food production.

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

Li Kui has always managed agriculture and public security in a low-key manner, and he doesn't have to worry about Chu Tian too much, he can arrange these things in an orderly manner.

Chutian's decisions on agriculture were mainly land ownership, division of use rights, tax rates, agricultural budgets, and the promulgation of some policies that benefited farmers.

When it comes to soil fertility restoration, seed screening, and digging drainage canals, this is not something that Chutian has to do himself.

Chu Tian said to the hard-working Li Kui: "Mr. Diannong's affairs are annoying, after this year's harvest, I will let people improve Mr.'s salary." ”

Chu Tian could not officially canonize his official position, and he still focused on salary increases.

Li Kui didn't shirk either, but said: "Being able to farm and raise a party of people in troubled times is already the great benevolence of the lord." ”

"The June harvest will be left to you. With enough food, you can attack Langya City. ”

"Does the lord really want to besiege Langya City with thousands of soldiers and horses?"

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

Considering that there is a high probability of a bumper harvest in Xia Town this year, coupled with Li Kui's SS characteristics of "making the most of the location", the yield of Xia Town's farmland has increased by 30%, and the grain harvested this year is enough for Xia Town to support next year's harvest.

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

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

A cavalryman returned to Xia Town to report.

Chu Tian said to himself: "Why has his speed of attacking the city slowed down? ”

If Zhou Yafu heard Chu Tian's complaints, he must have felt that he had died unjustly.

He took with him the camp of five hundred fine willows, but he could attack the villages and towns one after another, where was it slow.

Fang Xuanling, who was following Chu Tian, said: "It may be that Zhou Yafu has encountered some kind of predicament. ”

The cavalry hurriedly replied: "General Zhou Yafu opened up his territory in the east of the river, and the surrounding lords were afraid of him, so they joined forces to form a coalition to resist General Zhou Yafu's troops, so it was difficult to win quickly. ”

It seems that the other lords are also smart people, and they know that they can't compete with Zhou Yafu with their own strength, so they choose 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 Dynasty, the Nobunaga siege network in the Dongying region, and the anti-French alliance in Europe.

"How many towns does the other side have, and how many soldiers and horses does it have?"

"There are six towns in the east of the river, with more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, including 300 cavalry, in a defensive position. General Zhou Yafu gathered 1,200 soldiers and horses from the three towns, joined forces with the Xiliu Battalion, and was on the offensive. ”

No wonder Zhou Yafu's offensive was blocked, it turned out that there were many soldiers and horses on the opposite side. With fewer strikes and more attacks, but he was on the offensive, and under the strict defense of the opponent, he took two more villages, and Zhou Yafu no longer deserved the title of a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty.

"Order Liu Sandao to lead five hundred Xuzhou archers and one hundred light cavalry to help and seize the land east of the river as soon as possible."

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

And the place of Chutian, Xia Town, Lingyan Town, Yunlai Town, Shangbi Town, and Liangshan Town are called "Hexi Five Towns" by Chutian himself. As for why there are fewer towns in Hexi than in Hedong...... This has something to do with the dominance of the Xia Zhen family.

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

Cities are far more difficult to attack than villages and towns, and even small cities should be attacked before thinking twice.

This is also why Chutian hurriedly sent Zhou Yafu to attack the nine towns in Hedong.

If you don't capture the nine towns in Hedong as soon as possible, once a town is upgraded to a city, the difficulty of fighting in the future will increase.

Chu Tian's order soon reached the bow general Liu Sandao, who led 500 archers and 100 light cavalry to Hedong in batches to reinforce Zhou Yafu by fishing boats and sentinel boats.

As for the task of training recruits, the task was entrusted to the lieutenant general of the archers.

Hua Mulan found that Xia Liang, who had been 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?"

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

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

"You have no right to know."

"Yes......"

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

Chu Tian saw Hua Mulan and subconsciously checked Mulan's attributes, Hua Mulan's current level is level 50, and her strength is 91 points, which is approaching her peak, and she is one of the best generals in Xuzhou at present.

Nine towns in Hedong, six of which are still stubbornly resisting Zhou Yafu's troops.

Zhou Yafu surrounded a village, trying to ambush the opposing 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 Willow Battalion inflicted a lot of casualties on them in the skirmish not long ago. At that time, the 500 people of the Xiliu Battalion plus less than 1,000 servant troops were surrounded by 3,000 people in the six towns, but the result was that the coalition army of the six towns was defeated and left, leaving more than 100 corpses.

The timid Six Towns coalition army only dared to retreat in the town next, delaying Zhou Yafu's progress with the rammed earth city wall, hoping that Zhou Yafu would choose to leave after failing to conquer the town.

The existence of the city wall made countless famous generals bend their waists, and Zhou Yafu did not easily storm their town.

"He claims to be the third most prosperous lord in the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the general of 'I just want to farm well', do you think he is honest?"

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

"If we surrender, we will lose our current position, and we can't fight again, which is really depressing."

The mayors of the six towns gathered in the town surrounded by Zhou Yafu, with a sad face.

With 3,000 people, surrounded by less than 2,000 people on the other side, it's a shame......

Just when the Six Towns Coalition Army was reluctant to give up its territory and tried to gain a chance, Liu Sandao, who was sent by Chutian to support Zhou Yafu, arrived with his troops and successfully joined Zhou Yafu.

"It's not wise to storm strongly, you lead your troops and horses to attack other towns with empty troops, and make this town an isolated town."

Zhou Yafu handed over 500 servant troops 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 account: "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 very calmly: "A thousand people are enough to block them inside." ”