The fog in the early morning had not yet receded, and a small group of soldiers had already entered the town along the trail behind Liangshanbo, and for a while there were shouts of killing!

Many water bandits who were still sleeping with the woman in their arms hurriedly picked up the ring head knife and went out, waiting for them was the sharp arrow shot by the Xuzhou archers.

"Captain Kaiyang County led his troops to beg for thieves!"

More and more soldiers entered Liangshanbo, waving the banner of officers and soldiers.

No matter how many bandits there are, they are just thieves, and when they heard that the officers and soldiers came to beg for the thieves, they were so frightened that they scattered.

Because it was a sneak attack, the walls and wooden arrow towers of the first-level town were useless.

Zhou Yafu commanded the infantry to block all roads in the town and try to wipe out this vicious group of water bandits.

"Big boss, the officers and soldiers have come in!"

"Come out and mix, sooner or later you have to pay it back, what are you afraid of! Grab a few live mouths to block the arrows and kill them! ”

The big bandit boss with a scar on his face was born to the side of the guts, carried another piece of gold in his arms, and took a few cronies and prisoners with him, trying to escape from the chaotic battlefield.

The water on the banks of the Yi River has frozen, and the advantages of the water bandits cannot be brought into play, so they can only engage in land warfare.

As long as Zhou Yafu has enough troops, it is still very easy to bully the water bandits.

A platoon of light infantry with spears blocked the intersection and blocked it with various obstacles such as planks. Behind them were Xuzhou archers with longbows, taking advantage of the gaps between the light infantry to shoot the bandits who tried to break through.

The light infantry raised their spears and advanced step by step, compressing the living space of the water bandits.

The water bandits blocked in the center of the town became more and more panicked, and they fell into Zhou Yafu's ambush on all sides, unable to escape at all.

Zhou Yafu was the main force attacking Liangshanbo, and when Chutian led the reserve army to arrive, Zhou Yafu had successfully besieged most of the water bandits.

As for the water bandits patrolling the city walls, seeing that the situation was not good, they abandoned the city and fled.

Outside, there were light cavalry from Xia Zhen in ambush to intercept and kill the fleeing water bandits.

"The officers and soldiers blocked all the streets, and it was as if they knew the layout of the whole town in advance!"

"It must be that there are internal ghosts among us, colluding with the government!"

The bandits became more and more nervous, escorting more than a dozen townspeople, trying to negotiate with the officers and soldiers.

"Lord, the water bandits want to negotiate with us with the townsfolk in their hands as hostages, will we negotiate or attack?"

Zhou Yafu faced this tricky situation and handed it over to Chu Tian to make a decision.

It seems to be more than a dozen lives, but it is actually an important choice, because it determines the plan that Chu Tian and his subordinates will consider first when facing a similar situation in the future.

Chu Tian knew that he couldn't be soft, otherwise in the future, the enemy army would hold the people hostage and capture the city, how would he defend the city?

"This is no longer a law and order incident in the town, but a war, and I am not threatened by any kind and immediately attack."

Chu Tian's decision made any military operations in Xia Zhen in the future not be threatened by the enemy's use of civilians.

"Yes."

After all, Zhou Yafu has seen too many life and death on the battlefield, Liangshanbo has become a battlefield, and in order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, it is impossible to let go of the main thief.

Under the command of Zhou Yafu, the soldiers and horses of Xia Zhen successfully suppressed the water bandits, and half of the townspeople who were held hostage by the water bandits survived.

"Once upon a time, there was a general who was held hostage, and the lieutenant general was unwilling to compromise and attacked the Assassins, who abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Later, when the monarch heard about this, he ordered that the army should not have to worry about the safety of the hostages in the future, so nothing like that happened. ”

In order to appease Mulan and the others, Chu Tian said an allusion.

This allusion is really not made up by him, but a real historical allusion, and it happened in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The general who was held hostage was Xiahoudun, the assassin was a general sent by Lü Bu to surrender, and the deputy general was Han Hao, and the monarch was Cao Cao.

Hua Mulan nodded: "The lord's approach must be correct." ”

"No, it's not the right thing to do, it's the only option. In the army, you can do this, if it is a law and order incident in the town, try to persuade you to surrender. ”

Chu Tian clearly divided the two situations of war and law and order.

Liangshanbo is a first-class town, but Chutian found that the resource buildings here are only second-level farmland, second-level mining farms, and second-level lumber fields, and the water bandits have embarked on a deformed development path, relying on looting other villages and towns to obtain resources, and then frantically building shipyards, barracks, docks, as well as green buildings and taverns.

He brought Song Shanbo, the lord of Liangshanbo, to the lord's mansion in time, and asked Song to hand over the ownership of this first-class town in time, making Liangshanbo a vassal town of Xia Town. Chutian renamed it Liangshan Town.

Song Shi had long wanted to get out of the control of the water bandits, but now that the water bandits had been exterminated, he was relaxed and easily handed over the first-level town to Chu Tian unconditionally.

There are many buildings in Liangshanbo that Chutian covets, of course, it is not the Qinglou, but the fourth-level dock and the third-level shipyard. This is a building that does not exist in Summer Town.

The third-tier shipyard can already produce warships in the true sense of the word - walkers.

"The loot was piled up in the town's silver vault, and they captured a group of blacksmiths, one of whom was a high-ranking blacksmith."

As the original lord of Liangshanbo, Song Shi knew the situation here well.

Now he is no longer a lord, these things Chu Tian will know sooner or later, it is better to come out of the tray, maybe Chu Tian will have a reward.

"Senior blacksmith?"

Xia Zhen's special talents are basically intermediate or low-level talents, while high-level blacksmiths are very rare.

No wonder this group of bandits used sophisticated ring-headed knives.

"Did this group of bandits hijack the boats coming and going on the Yi River?"

"They just make a living by plundering boats, but recently some rivers in the Yi River have begun to freeze, and they have squandered money, and the money and food they have looted are not enough, so they went to rob the surrounding villages and towns."

It seems that the water bandits who gave the Mi family a headache are this group of people.

This group of water bandits is really bold, and even the wealthy merchant ships of Xuzhou dare to plunder.

This time, he helped the Mi family eradicate a threat, and the Mi family will definitely sell him a favor in the future.

As a first-class town, Liangshanbo is not so easy to conquer, if it weren't for Song Shi, who knew the truth of the town, Chutian might not have been able to capture Liangshanbo, which had more than a dozen arrow towers and a four-meter city wall.

There are two warships by the river. There is a female wall on the side of the ship, which has a certain defensive ability. The crew is mainly oarsmen, and can carry a small number of pawns, and the speed is very fast.

It was with two boats and dozens of sentinel ships that the sailors in Liangshanbo successfully plundered the merchant ships of the Mi family. The Mi family will still have nothing to do with this water bandit for a while.

"All captured bandits, petty bosses and above, shall be put to death. The rest of the people shall be slaves forever, and shall not take wives, nor be pardoned, and shall not go to the mines where the light of day shall be spent to make atonement for their sins. Only labor can have food. ”

Chu Tian used the harshest punishment, and the executed water bandits were perhaps more fortunate than the living water bandits, who did not have to endure decades of hard labor.

"This place can be used as a stronghold for the water master, and it is connected to the previous water village and Xia Zhen in a straight line. The only thing that is wrong is that the town does not have enough labor to extract resources. ”

Fang Xuanling observed the nearby terrain, Liangshan Town was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the water bandits made every effort to build buildings related to the water division, and the fourth-level wharf made Xia Town inferior, suitable for becoming a town for the development of water transportation.

Chutian annexed Liangshanbo and returned to Xia Town with gold, silver, and high-ranking blacksmiths.

"Inform the Mi family that this group of water bandits has been exterminated by us, and they don't need to negotiate with Zang Ba."

Chu Tian is not a person who has done good deeds without leaving a name, and the Mi family's favor must be wanted.