The five-foot walls are capable of demoralizing any enemy who lacks effective siege weapons. The city lord of Zhucheng knew this very well, in the entire Yizhou, there were not many tribes who dared to risk several times the casualties to attack his city, at most, they would raid other villages or tribes outside Zhucheng, and there was nothing they could do about the tall city in front of them.

But this day was different, a large number of people and horses appeared in the north of the bamboo city, surrounded it heavily, and in the middle of the crowd, you can still see the tall catapults and ballistas, like standing out from the crowd, making the aborigines on the city wall anxious.

With the death of the city lord of Zhucheng, no one in the entire Zhucheng has the ability to serve the people, and there are endless debates about whether to fight or surrender. Some people think that the tribe has reached the moment of life and death, and only by fighting to the death can the tribe people live; There are also lords who believe that the people of Zhenhai City have no major contradictions with Zhucheng, and even have no big contradictions with the aborigines, many aboriginal tribes voluntarily joined Zhenhai City, and the death of the city lord was caused by his greed and desire to plunder other people's materials, which also attracted the revenge of the "heavenly soldiers" armed to the teeth. Of course, what the main surrender faction can't explain is why when the city lord of Bamboo City leads his army to plunder, he will be surrounded and attacked from front to back, left and right.

When he saw the army pressing the border, one of the right-hand men of the city lord of Bamboo City, who was also a well-known warrior in the tribe, stood up and called on the people of the tribe to fight to the death, so that the group of outsiders who came from the west would become the ghosts of Bamboo City and avenge the city lord.

The ignorant fearless, and at the last moment it was the main battle faction that gained the upper hand, and the warriors let the soldiers of the tribe climb the walls and fight back with spears, swords, and bows in their hands. Although this warrior wanted to rush out of the city and fight to the death with the people from Zhenhai City, he had to stand up and preside over the overall situation when he thought that there were still some weak main factions in Zhucheng. Moreover, the people of Zhucheng had fought with the people of Zhenhai City before, and the warriors knew very well how hard the armor worn on the soldiers of Zhenhai City was, and they also knew that there were many masters like him in Zhenhai City.

The people on the wall of Zhucheng looked at the Zhenhai City army in the distance very vigilantly, but the generals of Zhenhai City were not so nervous, and the soldiers who took the building car observed at a height of more than ten or twenty meters, and found that there were no large city defense equipment on the wall of Zhucheng, and there were no those city defense equipment that the besieging side hated.

In fact, this can't be blamed on the people of the Zhucheng tribe, Yizhou's education level in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was not so high, and the level of science and technology was relatively low, and such a high city may have been established by the system to take care of them. The Zhucheng tribe can be said to be the overlord of the Yibei region, even if there are conflicts with other tribes, but none of them can take Zhucheng head-on, which is why the Zhucheng city lord does not pay attention to the research and development of weapons to defend the city. Under the combination of the objective low level of science and technology and the laxity of the subjective enemy, Zhucheng only has the most primitive method of defending the city, and there is no effective way to deal with the large-scale siege weapons of Zhenhai City.

However, Wang He, Xu Sheng and others were not in a hurry to attack the city, and Lu Shuang gave them a lot of war funds, which meant that they didn't want to sacrifice too many people in Yizhou. The soldiers of Zhenhai City first greeted Zhucheng with catapults and ballistas, and the people of the Zhucheng tribe who had not seen much of the world were stunned, and the stones falling from the sky could easily open the brains, and the two-meter-long crossbow arrows that roared out, although the hit rate was very low, but they fell in the city from the top of the city wall, which still caused them a lot of psychological pressure.

The long-range attacks of catapults and ballistas continued intermittently for a day, and the people of the Zhucheng tribe, who were still high-spirited, suddenly became a little deflated, especially when they saw the corpses in the city that fell under the flying stones and crossbow arrows, many people even thought that the heavenly soldiers sent by the gods came to punish them.

The next day, the ladder truck used for the siege finally arrived, this is not an ordinary ladder, but a siege equipment composed of wheels, shields, grappling hooks and other parts, a bit similar to the real fire truck, which needs to be carried out by manpower or oxen and horses.

With the addition of this siege artifact, Zhucheng was captured by Wang He and Xu Sheng in less than half a day, and the stubborn main battle faction finally had nowhere to escape, and Zhucheng was surrounded on all sides, so it could only retreat to the city lord's mansion, and finally could not escape the end of all the deaths. As for the main surrender faction, when the soldiers of Zhenhai City took control of the city walls and started street battles, they surrendered with some of them.

After capturing Zhucheng, the road for Zhenhai City's southward expansion was opened, although it is not clear whether there are the same aboriginal tribes in the south of Yizhou, but the first opening is opened, will you be afraid of encountering the second?

However, Lu Shuang was very sober, and when the news came back to Feitian City, he immediately gave instructions to Wang He and Xu Sheng, who were far away in Yizhou. If he wanted to conquer the aborigines of Yizhou by force alone, Lu Shuang thought that this would plunge Zhenhai City into a quagmire of endless war.

At least half of Yizhou is mountainous, and many indigenous tribes make a living in the mountains and forests, and are very familiar with the terrain everywhere and adapted to it. If the anger of this part of the aborigines is aroused, then Lu Shuang is not sure that the soldiers of Zhenhai City can go into the mountains and forests to capture them, or can only dispatch tens of thousands of people at once to catch a few aborigines hiding in the mountains, this kind of income and pay are too disproportionate.

Therefore, Lu Shuang's instructions to Wang He and Xu Sheng were to focus on the non-violent Huairou policy, and to win over a group of aborigines through soft means such as trading and doing business, and controlling economic resources. When the aborigines can obtain furs through hunting, or dig for ores, pick medicinal herbs, etc., and go to the towns and villages of Zhenhai City in Yizhou to trade with merchants, and then use the money to buy the food, clothing and tools they need, and no longer have to live a precarious life and lack of food, I believe they will still make the right choice.

If they want to live a better life, the aboriginal tribe can also choose to join the territory of Zhenhai City, and then there will be people from the government who will arrange suitable jobs for them. Whether it is farming and mining, learning the trade to become an apprentice of a blacksmith or carpenter, or going to Zhenhai City to join the army, you can get a satisfactory reward, which is much better than fighting high-level elite monsters in the mountains and forests to make a living. And since this is a game, when they choose to join Zhenhai City, as long as the territory is good to them, their loyalty will be increased in the form of data.

Of course, Lu Shuang also knows that most of the aborigines in Yizhou are afraid of power and not virtuous. If you blindly treat them well and give them all kinds of benefits, then what you get is not necessarily gratitude, but also all kinds of contempt. Therefore, in addition to the Huairou policy, it must be supplemented by sufficient deterrence, so that they dare not oppose and dare not despise Zhenhai City.

The countermeasures against Yizhou can be summarized in two points: one is non-violence, tying some aborigines to the carriages of Zhenhai City through business and trade, causing as little hostility as possible and gradually assimilating them. The second is deterrence, from time to time to show off their muscles in various parts of Yizhou, or let some tribal leaders watch the military parade in Zhenhai City, and punish those disobedient thorns, so that when they have the idea of rebellion, the first thing they think of is whether their heads can be saved.

According to this instruction, Wang He and Xu Sheng were to stay in Yizhou for a while to continue to expand Zhenhai City's territory in Yizhou, while Zhou Bai was transferred back to his First Fleet by Lu Shuang to clear the border between the Zhoushan Islands and Jiaozhou. In order to better assist Wang He and Xu Sheng, Lu Shuang appointed Liu De as the city lord of Zhenhai City, responsible for the government affairs in Yizhou, with one article and two martial arts. Liu De used to be the village chief of Mouton Village, and after joining Feitian City, he became a civil official with SS qualifications, and now he is a peak king-level civil official, and it is no problem for him to be in charge of the government affairs of Yizhou.

For Yizhou, Lu Shuang is bound to win, not only because of his identity as a pastor in Yizhou, but also for the establishment of absolute superiority in Feitian City. There is a county-sized place as a back garden, and resources such as population, land, forests, and minerals should be available, and it can be said that no player force can have this treatment at present.

Lu Shuang's latest assignment to Wang He, Xu Sheng, and Liu De is to expand the territory of Zhenhai City as much as possible in the coming year, and at the same time actively promote the construction of Yizhou's territory to ensure that quality and quantity go hand in hand.