Neither side is a good person, rather than believing in others, Liu Sanyi obviously believes in himself more, and because of this, he finally chose to do it, and it turns out that this is indeed a good choice, using his image of leniency to make the other party have a false impression, regard Black Iron City as a wronged leader, paralyze their actions, and finally after the army arrived in Picheng, he immediately thundered and struck, so that the other party did not even have the ability to counterattack.

Immediately afterwards, in order to prevent the people in the city from dying in a desperate situation, Liu Sanyi told the foothills of what happened here in the city, so after controlling the Skywalker in the city, he immediately began to lead the army of 20,000 people to set off towards the foothills of the city, attacking the city along the way, with the ample explosives of the Black Iron City, those strongholds were conquered one by one, as for the pillboxes on the top of the mountain, it was relatively difficult, because the cannon could not be transported, so I wanted to blow up these pillboxes, can only let people take the lead in rushing up, the casualties are undoubtedly very large, fortunately, Liu Sanyi has 4,000 cannon fodder in the palm of his hand can be used at will, under the coercion of Black Iron City, the army of Picheng has no other way, after all, obey Liu Sanyi's order, they may still live, if they do not obey, there is only a dead end, the army of Black Iron City is 4,000 more than them, and Liu Sanyi is also very scheming.

Disrupt and regroup the 4,000 regular soldiers with the troops of the Black Iron City, and then give them very high treatment, the same as the Black Iron City, increase their salaries and benefits, and have a certain degree of preferential treatment for their children, and they will have a better life after joining the Black Iron City in the future.

Therefore, the four thousand regular soldiers do not hate the Black Iron City so much, after all, this is not a family hatred and national hatred, there is no conflict and hatred between the Black Iron City and the Black Iron City, even if there is, it is just a contradiction between the upper rulers and the Black Iron City, and it has nothing to do with them, the people at the bottom, plus they are originally from the same country, even if they are scattered for more than three hundred years, the language can no longer communicate, but they can still communicate with each other in writing, and there is not much difference in culture and thought, Because of this, the integration between the two sides is not such a difficult thing, they are already used to it, and betraying Black Iron City at this time is obviously not necessary.

Therefore, these 4,000 people could not even find an allied army, and could only charge the enemy under the pressure of Liu Sanyi, with their heroic tenacity, and finally blocked the high ground in front of the foothill city to eliminate, for which Liu Sanyi paid the price of more than 2,000 people, but for Liu Sanyi, it is insignificant, at this time he has finally led the army to the foot of the foothill city, this is a fairly large mountain city, the city wall is very high, but even so, you can still see that there are mountains in the city, There are also some buildings in many places above, which are completely different from the architectural style of the city, and the scale is much larger, and it looks very prosperous, even compared to the Black Iron City, it is not inferior.

Liu Sanyi did not immediately attack the foothills of the city, but plundered the surrounding enemy villages that had not had time to retreat, in order to destroy the opponent's autumn harvest, which is also a reason for Liu Sanyi to seize the time to attack, now is the autumn harvest season, if you attack a little later, the opponent's autumn harvest is completed, there will be enough food to stay in the city, and wait until the Black Iron City retreats.

And now, the autumn harvest has not yet been completed, and the news on the side of the Black Iron City is kept secret and done very well, resulting in the place until their stronghold is pulled out, they realized that someone was attacking them, and at the beginning, they didn't know that it was the Black Iron City, and they thought that the city was going crazy, so they didn't take it to heart, until there were signs of a large number of firearms using from the front line, they paid attention to it, after all, the muskets in the city were only two hundred, and in the deep mountains and old forests, Muskets break down much faster than they do outside, and when the parts get wet, they quickly rust and become unusable.

In this case, it is obvious that Picheng has found a helper, so Shanlu City also began to pay attention to it from this time, but at this time it was too late, under Liu Sanyi's attack at any cost, at the cost of 2,000 people, in just two days, all the outlying strongholds were pulled out, and when Liu Sanyi led the army to the city, Shanlu City did not even have time to do any defensive action, a large number of village populations are still scattered in thousands of square kilometers of land, and the autumn harvest has not yet begun. The entire city had just begun to issue recruitment notices for soldiers, and before the troops could be recovered, Liu Sanyi's troops had already arrived, which could be called a blitzkrieg.

Therefore, Liu Sanyi's first goal is not to attack the city directly, because the city's defense is very strong, there are seven or eight cannons on it, and the city wall is more than 30 meters high.

According to what Liu Sanyi learned from Picheng, there is no chemical fertilizer here, so the agricultural production is actually not high, plus it is a mountain city, a large amount of arable land is directly excavated into high mountains, turning them into terraces to obtain food, the grain yield of this land is often not high, relying on grain alone every year to ensure rations, often barely supporting a year, most of the time it is still necessary to rely on wild fruits, wild vegetables and wild things in the surrounding forests to supplement, so as to make people full.

And the foothill city is just around the Bishan mountain range, there are a lot of forest resources that can be used, so there is really no rush on the issue of eating, but at this time, Liu Sanyi led the army to surround the entire city, the enemy is difficult to get in and out at all, at this time it is very difficult to get food, plus this is close to the autumn harvest, the food in the city is probably less than a month, plus when Liu Sanyi led the troops to arrive, the foothills of the city are in a hurry, Gather the surrounding villagers to quickly enter the city for refuge, this time there will be an influx of more than 40,000 residents, greatly making the city's security and environment very poor, at the same time, these people when entering the city, but did not bring rations into the city, but lightly traveled, after all, if you take the grain cart, you can't run fast at all, so you can only take a little things directly to the city, a large amount of food is directly left in the countryside, the food in the city was originally for the population in the city to eat, and now add 40,000 rural people, directly made the city exceed their current burden, for a while it was really unsustainable, in less than two months, the entire foothill city will inevitably collapse.

And now what Liu Sanyi has to do is to make this collapse in advance, so as to minimize the losses of his side, after all, he came here, not to ask for land, but to ask for population, if he can make as few sacrifices as possible, so as to achieve a greater victory, naturally why not do it, anyway, these people, whether it is Picheng or Foothill City, will be the people of Black Iron City in the future, and now they can form fewer grudges, and they will be able to get along better in the future.

Therefore, Liu Sanyi began to use psychological warfare, using this period of time to control all the surrounding villages, but did not carry out large-scale slaughter, but directly reduced taxes for the local people, ensuring that their production within two years did not need to be handed over to the local government, so that for the peasants, it was naturally a great preferential treatment. Jiuzhou Chinese

After all, a city of more than 300,000 people has to support an urban population of more than 60,000 people, and this is still a mountain city, and a large amount of land is very difficult to cultivate.

In the event of a disaster year, it is necessary to pay 70%, or even 80%, and in the end they can only rely on wild vegetables and wild fruits to ensure the supply of food, but even so, every year, a large number of children and the elderly are abandoned because they do not have enough food, and eventually die in the wilderness, and it is precisely because of this that when Blackbody City promised that they could be tax-free for two years, these people almost went crazy.

But Liu Sanyi only put forward one request to them, that is, to send people into the vicinity of the city to shout, let those who were soldiers surrender, let those peasants who were driven into the city be shaken in their hearts, Liu Sanyi did not expect to rely on a group of ordinary people to directly take such a city without blood, he just needed to let the rulers of the foothills of the city distrust their soldiers and peasants, as long as this way, the other party must divide a part of the spirit to ensure that these people will not overthrow themselves, so that The situation inside the entire Foothill City will be even more complicated.

Liu Sanyi and more than 100 representatives and elders of various villages signed to guarantee their rights and interests, and at the same time purchased grain from them at the price of grain in Black Iron City, which was about 20% more expensive than the purchase of local urban institutions, which undoubtedly made the farmers see the sincerity of Liu Sanyi and others.

On the other hand, Liu Sanyi specially arranged water conservancy experts to deal with water conservancy problems in the local area, built a series of water conservancy facilities, and even asked some soldiers to dig canals with the local people in his free time, so as to increase the local water supply system.

At the same time, for those peasants who are in the countryside but have no land, arrange for them to go to other places to open up wasteland, drive away local wild beasts, so as to ensure that they have their own land in their names, and if they are peasants from the landlord's family, they will be directly liberated and let them become free farmers.

After this set of policies is combined, there are almost no people who can still insist on loyalty to the foothills of the city, and among them, Shu Han obviously contributed a lot, he knew what these farmers cared about most through his understanding of various history books in his previous life, and after Liu Sanyi's army arrived, he did not commit any crimes, and for the entire countryside, there were almost no crimes, even if there were, they would be dealt with seriously immediately.

Once Liu Sanyi's troops helped the local four villages to build a water conservancy project together to facilitate the use of local water, originally these four villages belonged to different Skywalkers and different landlords, so they have been unable to coordinate, resulting in these villages fighting each other every year, so as to compete for the right to use water, and now Liu Sanyi is to help them directly coordinate the completion, the project started, everyone was very happy, so they invited Liu Sanyi's army to the village to eat and drink.

It is true that the soldiers have not eaten anything good for a long time, so they readily agreed, which was originally a good manifestation of the situation between the army and the people, but in the end I don't know if it was because of too much wine, or how, one of the soldiers, in the case of drinking too much, had sex with a woman in the village that night, and when he woke up, he had been caught and raped in bed.

This matter made Liu Sanyi very difficult to deal with at that time, he knew very well that the people in those villages, although they did not react immediately, but it was certain that the other party must be very angry, if one did not handle it well, all these actions would undoubtedly become failures, but to do it according to military law, there was only a dead end, and Liu Sanyi did not want to kill the other party like this, because that young man was a member of his Liu family, although he was not the main branch, but he had only been separated for a few years, if he killed, This is not a glorious thing for the Liu family's family status.

In the end, Liu Sanyi thought about it for an hour, and decided to take this junior of his own to that village, and directly handed him over to the local villagers for disposal, and at the same time erected a place for execution in the village, and in front of the villagers, let the executive whine whip the young man for two days and two nights, a total of fifty whips.

This is not an ordinary whip, but a whip for the army, the power is so great that ordinary people can't bear it at all, as long as five whips go down, it is enough to break the entire skin, these fifty whips go down, this person is basically dying, and finally the village promised, as long as the young soldier promised to marry this woman, he could let them go, and finally the two parties got married, and married into the boy's house in the way that the media was marrying, which was considered to have solved the problem.

It is precisely because of this incident that the local villagers began to accept the troops of the Black Iron City, these few steps down, the villagers around the entire foothill city almost have no bad feelings towards the Black Iron City, and many parents who have unmarried girls at home have also begun to introduce marriage partners to their children, after all, they can also see that the army in front of them is much more powerful than the foothills of the city, and it is also very fashionable to dress, all of which are clothes that only the big men in the city can afford to wear, if they can marry them, It will undoubtedly give her daughter a good life.