Zhou Yafu's situation in the east of Hedong was unparalleled, and he captured a village every now and then. News of his successes came back to Xia Town.

Chutian is inspecting the farmland to inspect this year's harvest.

According to Li Kui's report, there is a good chance that Xia Town will have a bumper harvest this year.

A bumper harvest means a surge in food production.

Most of this is due to Li Kui's careful management of the farmland.

Li Kui has been managing agriculture and public security in a low-key manner, and Chu Tian can arrange these things in an orderly manner without Chu Tian having to worry too much.

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

Down to the details of restoring soil fertility, screening seeds, and digging drainage channels, these are not things that Chutian wants to do personally.

Chu Tian said to Li Kui, who was hardworking and hard-working, "I have troubled you about the farm work. After the harvest this year, I will ask someone to increase your salary."

Chutian was unable to formally confer an official position, and still focused on salary increases.

Li Kui did not refuse, and just said: "It is a great kindness of my lord to be able to farm and raise a people in troubled times."

"The work of harvesting in June will be left to you to arrange. With enough food, we can attack Langya City."

"My Lord, is he really going to besiege Langya City with thousands of soldiers and horses?"

"You have to fight, it just depends on how you fight."

Chutian considered that there was a high probability of a bumper harvest in Xia Town this year, and coupled with Li Kui's ss characteristic "Best Location", Xia Town's farmland output increased by 30%. The grain harvested this year was enough for Xia Town to support next year's harvest.

Food is the most important thing for the people, and only when they have enough food to fill their stomachs can they go to war.

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

A cavalryman came back 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 would definitely feel that he died unjustly.

He took 500 Xiliu camps with him, but he was able to attack villages and towns one after another without being too slow.

Fang Xuanling, who was following Chu Tian, ​​said, "Maybe Zhou Yafu encountered some difficulty."

The cavalryman quickly replied: "General Zhou Yafu expanded his territory east of Hedong, and the surrounding lords were afraid of him, so they joined forces to form a coalition to resist General Zhou Yafu's front, so it was difficult to win quickly."

It seems that the other lords are also smart people. They know that they cannot compete with Zhou Yafu with their own strength, so they choose to form an alliance.

The existence of alliances gives small and medium-sized lords the ability to fight against large lords. For example, the Anti-Dong Zhuo Alliance in the Eastern Han District, the Nobunaga Encirclement Network in the Japanese District, 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 is a coalition of six towns in the east of the river, with more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, including 300 cavalry. They are on the defensive. General Zhou Yafu has assembled 1,200 soldiers and horses from the three towns, and they have joined forces with Xiliu Camp and are 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. He attacked more with less, but he was on the offensive. With the opponent's tight defense, he captured two more villages. Zhou Yafu was worthy of the title of a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty.

"Order Liu Sandao to lead 500 Xuzhou archers and 100 light cavalry to help out and seize the land east of Hedong as soon as possible."

To the east of the Yihe River, there are nine towns in an area opposite Xia Town, which Chutian calls "Nine Towns in the East of the River", corresponding to the "Seven Towns in the North".

As for Chutian, Xia Town, Lingyan Town, Yunlai Town, Shangbi Town, and Liangshan Town are called "Five Towns in Hexi" by Chutian himself. As for why there are fewer towns in Hexi than in Hedong... This has nothing to do with Xia Town.

It doesn't matter if one family is the only one.

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

Cities are far more difficult to attack than villages and towns, and you should think twice before attacking even small cities.

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

If the nine towns in Hedong are not captured as soon as possible, once a town is upgraded to a city, it will become more difficult to defeat in the future.

Chu Tian's order soon reached the hands of Liu Sandao, the general of the bow department. Liu Sandao led 500 archers and 100 light cavalry, and took fishing boats and sentry boats in batches to the east of the river to reinforce Zhou Yafu.

As for the task of training new recruits, it is left to the deputy archer general.

Hua Mulan found that Xia Liang, who had been reporting to Chu Tian from time to time, seemed to have disappeared from the world recently, so she asked: "Where is Miss Xia?"

Chu Tian replied casually: "She went to Langya City for business."

"Langya City?"

Hua Mulan and Chu Tian looked at each other, somewhat confused.

I don’t understand Chu Tian’s plan when he sent Xia Liang to Langya City.

"You have no right to know this."

"yes……"

Hua Mulan quickly lowered her head. Her subordinate seemed unable to look directly at her superior like this.

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

Six of the nine towns in Hedong are still stubbornly resisting Zhou Yafu's troops.

Zhou Yafu surrounded a village and wanted to ambush the opponent's reinforcements, but the six towns did not fall into the trap, or they really did not want to go out of the city to fight Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yafu's Xiliu Camp caused a lot of casualties to them in a small-scale battle not long ago. At that time, the Xiliu Camp's 500 people plus less than a thousand servants were surrounded by 3,000 people from the Six Towns. As a result, the Six Towns were defeated.

The coalition forces retreated in defeat, leaving behind more than a hundred corpses.

The timid coalition forces of the six towns only dared to huddle inside the town, relying on the rammed earth city walls to delay Zhou Yafu's progress, hoping that Zhou Yafu would choose to leave after being unable to conquer the town.

The existence of the city wall made countless famous generals bow to it, but Zhou Yafu did not easily attack their town.

"He claims to be a subordinate of the lord with the third most prosperous territory in the Eastern Han Dynasty, 'I just want to farm well.' Do you think he is lying?"

"It's probably true. If he wasn't a historical military commander, how could we have been beaten so badly before?"

"If we surrender, we will lose our current status and be defeated again and again. It is really depressing."

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

It's embarrassing to have 3,000 people surrounded by less than 2,000 people from the other side...

Just when the six town coalition forces were reluctant to give up their territory and tried to gain a chance, Liu Sandao, sent by Chutian to support Zhou Yafu, arrived with his troops and successfully joined Zhou Yafu.

"It's not wise to attack by force. You lead your troops to attack other towns with empty troops, making this town an isolated town."

Zhou Yafu handed over 500 servants 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 in Zhou Yafu's tent: "You only have a thousand people, can you continue to surround them? What if they come out of the city to attack?"
Chapter completed!