The fog in the morning had not yet subsided, and a small group of soldiers had already rushed into the town along the trail behind Liangshanpo, and shouted and killed everyone for a moment!

Many water bandits who were still sleeping with women hugging them and hurriedly picked up the ring-headed knife and went out. What was waiting for them were sharp arrows shot by the archers in Xuzhou.

"The Kaiyang County Magistrate led his troops to fight against the thieves!"

More and more soldiers entered Liangshanpo, under the banner of officers and soldiers.

No matter how many water bandits there are, they are just thieves. When they heard that the officers and soldiers came to fight against the bandits, they were so scared that they were scattered.

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

Zhou Yafu commanded the infantry to block the various roads in the town and tried his best to wipe out this vicious water bandit.

"The boss, the officers and soldiers are coming in!"

"I'll have to pay it back sooner or later. What are you afraid of! Catch a few live action and get out!"

The water bandit leader with a scar on his face turned evil and took another piece of gold or two in his arms, and tried to escape from the chaotic battlefield with a few close friends and prisoners.

The river water near the Yi River has frozen, and the advantages of the water bandits cannot be exerted, so they can only engage in land battles.

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

A row of light infantry held long spears to block the intersection and used various obstacles such as wooden boards to block it. Behind were Xuzhou archers holding long bows, using the gaps between the light infantry to shoot and kill the water bandits trying to break through.

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

The water bandits blocked in the center of the town became more and more panicked. They were trapped in Zhou Yafu's ambush and could not escape at all.

Zhou Yafu was the main force in attacking Liangshanbo. When Chu Tian led the reserve team to arrive, Zhou Yafu had successfully besieged most of the water bandits.

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

Outside, there were light cavalry from Xia Town ambushing and intercepting and killing the fleeing water bandits.

"The officers and soldiers blocked all the streets, and they seemed to know the layout of the entire town in advance!"

"It must be that there is an insider among us who colludes with the government!"

The water bandits became more and more nervous, escorting more than a dozen town people to try to negotiate with the officers and soldiers.

"Lord, the water bandits want to use the townsmen in their hands as hostages to negotiate with us. Should we negotiate or attack?"

Facing this difficult situation, Zhou Yafu left it to Chu Tian to make a decision.

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

Chu Tian knew that he could not be lenient, otherwise the enemy would hold the people hostage and capture the city in the future, so how could he defend the city?

"This is no longer a security incident in the town, but a war. I will not be threatened and attack immediately."

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

"Affect the order."

After all, Zhou Yafu has seen too many life and death on the battlefield. Liangshanpo has become a battlefield. In order to eliminate the roots, it is impossible to let go of the main thief leader.

Under Zhou Yafu's command, Xia Town's troops successfully suppressed the water bandits, and half of the townsmen who were held hostage by the water bandits survived.

"In the past, a general was held hostage, and the deputy general was unwilling to compromise and attacked the assassin. The assassin abandoned his weapons and surrendered. Later, the monarch heard about this and ordered that the army would not have to worry about the safety of the hostages in the future, so no similar thing happened."

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

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

The general who was held hostage was Xiahou Dun, the assassin was the general sent by Lu Bu to pretend to surrender, and the deputy general was Han Hao, and the monarch was Cao Cao.

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

"No, this is not the right way, it can only be said to be the only choice. This can be done in the army. If it is a public security incident in the town, try to persuade the surrender as much as possible."

Chu Tian clearly divided the two situations of war and public security.

Liangshanpo is a first-class town, but Chutian found that the resource buildings here are only second-class farmland, second-class mining farms, second-class logging farms, and water bandits embarked on a deformed development path, relying on looting other villages and towns to obtain resources, and then crazily built shipyards, barracks, wharves, brothels, and taverns.

He brought the lord Song of Liangshanbo to the lord's mansion in time and asked Song to hand over the ownership of this first-level town in time and made Liangshanbo a vassal town in Xia Town. Chu Tian changed it to Liangshan Town.

Song Jishi had long wanted to escape from the control of the water bandits. Now that the water bandits have been wiped out, he is relaxed and easily handed over the first-level town to Chu Tian unconditionally.

Liangshanpo has many buildings that Chu Tian coveted. Of course, it is not brothels, but a level 4 wharf and a level 3 shipyard. This is a building that Xia Town does not have.

The third-level shipyard can already produce warships in the true sense.

"The property seized by the bandits was piled up in the town's silver warehouse. They also captured a group of blacksmiths, one of which was a senior blacksmith."

As the original lord of Liangshanpo, Song Jishi knew the situation here very well.

He is no longer a lord now. Chu Tian will know these things sooner or later, and it is better to come out of the tray. Maybe Chu Tian will have a reward.

"A high-level blacksmith?"

The special talents in Xia Town are basically intermediate or low-level talents, while high-level blacksmiths are very rare.

No wonder this group of water bandits used the excellent ring-headed sword.

"Did this bandit hijack the ships coming and going on the Yi River?"

"They just rely on robbing ships to live, but recently the river channel of the Yi River has begun to freeze, and they have squandered too much, and the money and food they have robbed, so they went to rob the surrounding villages and towns."

It seems that the water bandits who have caused the Mi family a headache is this group of people.

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

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-level town, Liangshanbo is not so easy to conquer. If it weren't for Song Shishi, who knew the truth and reality of the town, Chu Tian might not have been able to conquer Liangshanbo with more than a dozen arrow towers and four-meter city walls.

There are two warships by the river. The ships with female walls are erected on the side of the ships, which have certain defensive capabilities. The crew is mainly paddlers who are paddling and can carry a small number of warships at a very fast speed.

It was precisely with two boats and dozens of wardrobes that the bandits in Liangshanpo successfully plundered the merchant ships of the Mi family. The Mi family was helpless with this bandits for a while.

"All the captured water bandits, small leaders and above will be executed. The rest will be slaves forever, and will not be allowed to marry or have a general amnesty. They will go to mining caves where the sun is not visible. Only labor can have food to eat."

Chu Tian used the most severe punishment. The water bandits who were executed might be more lucky than the living water bandits. They do not have to bear decades of hard labor.

"This place can be used as a stronghold for the navy and is connected to the previous water village and Xia Town. The only inappropriate point is the lack of labor for mining resources in this town."

Fang Xuanling observed the nearby terrain. Liangshan Town was easy to defend but difficult to attack. The water bandits made every effort to build buildings related to the navy. The fourth-level wharf made Xia Town inferior and suitable to become a town for developing water transportation.

Chu Tian annexed Liangshanpo and returned to Xia Town with gold and silver and high-level blacksmiths.

"I notify the Mi family that this group of water bandits has been wiped out by us, so they don't have to negotiate with Zang Ba."

Chu Tian is not a person who does good deeds without leaving a name. He must have favors from the Mi family.
Chapter completed!