Chu Tian never dreamed that one day he would personally capture hundreds of players. These players put down their weapons and crouched on the ground with their heads in their hands. Among the players is the mayor of Lingyan Town.

Freelancers don't perform as well as recruited soldiers at first, and they don't become skilled veterans until they've gone through a few brutal battles.

"Lord, what to do with this group of prisoners?"

Mulan pointed to the stranger who was terrified of her.

The people of Lingyan Town were in a panic, fearing that Chu Tian would execute them.

The lords of various civilized districts have formed enmity with each other, and some ruthless lords have directly destroyed each other's villages and directly killed the resisters.

"The resisters were imprisoned, and the rest were released."

In order to dismantle the Lingyan Pavilion, Chu Tian won over the surrender faction in it and attacked the main battle faction. The main battle faction will definitely have contradictions with the surrender faction, and the Lingyan Pavilion will be finished sooner or later.

The players of the surrender faction were able to leave Shangbi Village safely, and they couldn't help but rejoice in their choice. They had now withdrawn from the dangerous Lingyan Pavilion and did not want to be involved with the Lingyan Pavilion.

As for the main battle faction players who followed Tang Li Er, they became prisoners of the Xia Zhen coalition army.

Chu Tian didn't release them immediately, he still wanted to use the mayor of Lingyan Town to turn Lingyan Town into his vassal.

Capturing the other town's mayor means that Lingyan Town can be captured without blood.

"We lost 29 light infantry and 97 village ......warriors killed in Shangbi Village."

Wu Shang, the garrison of Shangbi Village, was injured and reported the loss to Chutian.

Shangbi Village, which has only 700 people, has directly lost hundreds of young laborers, which is a disaster for Shangbi Village. Fortunately, Shangbi Village is a vassal of Xia Town, and Xia Zhen can dispatch labor to make up for the losses of Shangbi Village.

"You continue to stay in Shangbi Village, and you can't come out."

Chutian arranged for Wu Shang to stick to Shangbi Village, while he led thousands of soldiers and Xiangyong to attack Lingyan Town directly.

Lingyan Town is located between Xia Town and Langya City, and can be used as a trade transit point.

There are also nearly 100 professional soldiers and hundreds of villagers in Lingyan Town.

When Chu Tian came to Lingyan Town with the captured mayor of Lingyan Town, the defenders of Lingyan Town quickly chose to surrender. The only mayor of the town was captured, and Li Er of the Tang Dynasty did not name an heir, so any resistance seemed meaningless.

Hua Mulan volunteered and took the lead in leading the cavalry into Lingyan Town to investigate and prevent an ambush inside. The impact of the lord's capture was too great, and Li Er of the Tang Dynasty became a prisoner, and Ling Yanzhen surrendered directly, which can be seen. As a result, Xia Zhen was able to avoid the arduous battle.

Lingyan Town is a town after all, and if you really attack a town with a 4.5-meter earthen wall, the besieging side will lose even more troops than the defending side.

Hua Mulan entered Lingyan Town, and after discovering that there was no ambush, Chu Tian led a large army to enter Lingyan Town and came directly to the lord's mansion in Lingyan Town. The stele has detailed information about Lingyan Town.

[Territory]: Lingyan Town (first-class town)

[Lord]: Tang Li Er (third-class hairpin)

[Affiliation]: Langya State, Xuzhou, Eastern Han District

[Specialty]: Ordinary celadon (D-grade specialty), ordinary war horse (D-grade specialty), exquisite farm tools (C-grade specialty)

[Population]: 2315/5000

[People's Heart]: 55 (Mayor of the town is captured)

[Public security]: 50

[Overall Prosperity]: 1576/3000

[Administrative efficiency]: 17/100

[Agricultural Efficiency]: 25/100

[Economic efficiency]: 16/100

[Cultural efficiency]: 20/100

[Military Rating]: 915

[City fortifications]: low-level rammed earth city walls

[Existing buildings]: second-class pasture, second-class cavalry battalion, ancestral hall, second-level stable, third-level blacksmith shop, second-level celadon factory, second-level siege equipment battalion, third-level private school......

[Vassal Village]: 3/4

When Chu Tian saw that there was a second-level pasture, he couldn't help but move. There are also a lot of horse-producing fields in the Guannai, although the level is not higher than that of the pastures outside the Guan, and the quality of the warhorses produced is not as good as that outside the Guan.

There is also a second-level siege equipment battalion, which is also a building that Xia Town lacks.

Chu Tian tried to turn Lingyan Town into the fourth vassal territory of Xia Town.

"Ding! Player: Your home city is not level enough. ”

Sure enough, Xia Town is a first-class town, and Lingyan Town is also a first-class town, and Xia Town cannot annex Lingyan Town.

"It seems that the only way to turn a first-level town into a vassal can we only upgrade to a second-level town as soon as possible."

Chu Tian had long thought that there might be such a result, so he was not surprised.

In order to annex Lingyan Town, he can only quickly attack the second-level town.

It takes 4,000 people to upgrade a first-class town to a second-level town, and the population of Xia Town is far from enough.

If the population wants to come quickly, in addition to recruiting nearby displaced people, there is also a simple and crude way - plundering the population.

Cao Cao was unable to defeat Liu Bei in Hanzhong, so he simply moved the population of Hanzhong, leaving Liu Bei with the problem of population shortage.

There are also a number of player-lord-controlled villages in the vicinity of Summertown, which cannot be captured, but can be destroyed and the population of the village moved to Summertown.

So who to send to carry out this task with indifference?

This task is estimated to be given to Mulan, attacking the surrounding villages and then plundering the population.

"Let me go!"

Datang Li Er is protesting.

Chu Tian directly ignored his protest. After he captured Li Er of the Tang Dynasty, he learned that the other party was the president of a guild called "Lingyan Pavilion" in Langya Kingdom.

Before merging Ling Yan Town, he would not give Ling Yan Pavilion a chance to regain its strength, the other party's guild had at least dozens of small lords, and it was a big force to unite.

However, as long as Chu Tian captures Tang Li Er, Ling Yan Pavilion will soon be disbanded because the dragons have no leader, or other members will take the throne.

Chu Tian first asked Xiang Yong to return to Xia Town, prepare for farming, and personally led the army to control Lingyan Town.

Ling Yan Town continued to operate under Chu Tian's instructions. The soldiers of Lingyan Town were disarmed and fully controlled by the soldiers of Xia Town.

This is probably to blackmail the lord to order the town.

"Come with me."

Chu Tian called Mulan into the house.

"You led the cavalry to plunder the nearby villages and drive the entire population to Xia Town. I instructed this, so you don't have to have any psychological burden, just carry out the order. These small villages are near our town, and in the future, our town will become a city, and sooner or later they will be swallowed up by us. Do you understand? ”

Chu Tian didn't have much psychological burden on himself, but he still had to care about the loyalty of the generals. Some generals are fine if you ask them to slaughter the city, but some honest generals are not necessarily willing to do these things.

Mulan just nodded: "Hmm." ”

While Chutian was in control of Lingyan Town, Mulan led a small group of cavalry to leave Lingyan Town and follow Chutian's instructions to plunder nearby villages.

During Chu Tian's attack on the second-level town in Xia Town, he went to the second-level pasture in Lingyan Town to check.

Secondary pastures are second only in importance to tertiary gold mines.

The number of ordinary war horses captured from the cavalry and pastures of Lingyan Town alone was as high as 60.

"In the early stage, it is easy to achieve capital accumulation by fighting wars. But the residents of Lingyan don't seem to have a good impression of me. ”