The six-town coalition forces in Hedong are still resisting Zhou Yafu's three-town troops. Their strategy is to hold on and consume Zhou Yafu's patience.

However, as time went by, they gradually became unable to hold themselves back.

"Someone has taken over my town!"

A mayor suddenly shouted.

He has received a system prompt that his town was captured by Liu Sandao of Xia Town and his identity as a lord has been stripped by the system.

When the territory is occupied, he can still command his troops, but the morale of the soldiers will drop rapidly, and deserters may even occur.

The other five mayors looked at each other in confusion. It seemed that Zhou Yafu's purpose in surrounding them was to divide his forces and occupy other towns.

The six-town coalition concentrated its forces in one town in order to better deal with Zhou Yafu, but after Zhou Yafu received the supply of troops, he already had the ability to divide his forces.

"The other side divided their troops and occupied each town. If we continue like this, we are too passive. There is only one isolated town left, and we cannot defend it no matter what. Let alone the grain harvest in a month, what if they cut off the wheat to supplement the army's food supply?

Can’t we just stare?”

"Without food, thousands of civilians and three thousand defenders in this town will starve to death."

"We have no choice but to attack and see if we can defeat the historical general on the other side. He divides his troops to occupy various places. This is our only chance to win. If we can defeat him, we might be able to capture a historical general!"

After discussion, the six town mayors were forced to go to war.

If we don't fight again, this town will become an isolated town and will definitely be defeated.

The gate of the town was opened, and three thousand allied troops gathered to confront Zhou Yafu's more than a thousand men.

"What formation are they in?"

Zhou Yafu couldn't help but frown when he saw the six town leaders on the opposite side forming six square formations with extremely poor coordination.

This is also a common problem with temporarily formed coalition forces.

The three thousand coalition forces couldn't wait to engage in a decisive battle with Zhou Yafu. They waved more than a dozen flags and commanded the coalition forces to launch an attack.

The archers of both sides fired at each other and the infantry advanced, fighting for the land east of Hedong in the south of Kaiyang County.

The infantry of Xiliu Camp, wearing double armor, had high morale, formed a square formation with long halberds, and launched a charge with shields, but they could still maintain the formation.

Arrows fell on shields and armor, and a company of soldiers from the Xiliu Camp were killed by several arrows. The halberd-wielding infantrymen in the back row immediately made up for their loss.

The Xiliu Camp collided with the light infantry on the opposite side, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand!

The strength of the sixth-level troops was vividly displayed at this moment. The neat lineup was marching forward and soon had the tendency to penetrate the opponent's formation!

The morale of the six-town coalition forces is declining rapidly, and Zhou Yafu's characteristic "Ruling the Army" can maintain morale for a long time. Under the circumstances, the six-town coalition forces are in danger.

Zhou Yafu stood on a temporary wooden tower and observed the situation on the entire battlefield.

He seemed to be aware of the opponent's weakness. The morale of one unit among the six-town coalition had dropped to the bottom. They were the soldiers of the mayor who had lost his territory.

"Light cavalry, circle to the right and attack the second enemy army on the right!"

"yes!"

One hundred light cavalry sent by Chu Tian played a decisive role in this decisive battle. When the two sides fought fiercely, Zhou Yafu sent light cavalry to attack the opponent's demoralized troops, and the six-town coalition collapsed completely.

"The situation is over. It's not a crime of war..."

The six mayors saw that the small Xiliu Camp defeated their army and lost the courage to continue to resist.

There was no way to fight this battle. They lacked the ability to command thousands of people to fight. The command of the cobbled-together coalition forces at this time was chaotic, and in Zhou Yafu's opinion, there were flaws everywhere.

If the opponent is also a famous general, he may be able to give Zhou Yafu a headache with his numerical advantage.

Before the decisive battle, the six town mayors had prepared white flags. When they found out that they could not defeat Zhou Yafu, they immediately raised the white flags to express surrender.

There is no deep hatred between the two sides now, it is just a normal battle between the lords, and they believe that the other side will not execute them.

Fortunately, Chu Tian got Zhou Yafu instead of Bai Qi, otherwise their fate would have been hard to say.

Zhou Yafu accepted their surrender and did not tie them up. He just placed them under house arrest and asked them to hand over their territorial ownership.

The six town mayors were dejected. Their career as lords was over. They could not even leave Kaiyang County, let alone compete in the Central Plains.

Most of the territories of the small lords were either destroyed in the previous Yellow Turban Rebellion or annexed by the large lords.

The lords who can truly dominate a county are only one in ten thousand.

"We lost to the third-ranked lord in the Eastern Han District. It wouldn't be shameful to spread the news."

The six mayors comforted themselves in this way.

Zhou Yafu asked: "Where is further east?"

After he captured the nine towns in Hedong, he still seemed not satisfied.

Chutian's order was to capture the Hedong area of ​​Yihe River, but he did not specify where the attack would stop. Hedong was still a quite large area.

"Further east is the Shu River. Without ships, it will be difficult to continue to expand eastward. After crossing the Shu River, there is a hilly area with very few people. Further east is the scope of Xihai County, which is a relatively narrow coastal zone."

A town mayor has obviously done enough homework when selecting a territorial location and knows the nearby terrain very well.

Zhou Yafu fell into a brief silence.

It is now located in the plain between the Yi River and the Shu River, with rivers and hills to the east. It is indeed difficult to continue to expand eastward.

"It seems that we can only expand up to this point, and it will take time to digest this territory."

Zhou Yafu gave up the idea of ​​continuing to expand to the east. The cost of continuing to expand was too high.

The six captured mayors looked at each other again. The general in front of them seemed to be dissatisfied with his desires. These were the nine towns in the east of Hedong. The nine towns plus the vassal villages must have nearly 100,000 people.

A population of 100,000 was quite a large population in the early stage.

"Escort them to Xia Town and wait for the lord to deal with them."

Zhou Yafu asked the soldiers of Xiliu Camp to escort the prisoners to Xia Town, while he personally took charge of the nine towns in Hedong.

Hedong Jiuzhen is a newly conquered territory, with low public support and unreliability.

Not only players may take advantage of people's hearts to cause trouble, but some townspeople may also rise up to resist Chu Tian's "brutal" rule.

The six mayors who surrendered after defeat were treated differently from those who surrendered without a fight.

The mayor of the town who surrendered without a fight could even get credit and serve in the villages and towns under the jurisdiction of Xia Town, while most of the defeated lords who surrendered were imprisoned for a period of time and then demoted to civilians. As for the lords who caused a lot of losses to Xia Town, their treatment may be better.

Oops.

"Now that the nine towns in Hedong have been obtained, there are twenty-one towns in total. Is it possible for twenty-one towns to shake up a large city?"

Zhou Yafu compared the strength of Chu Tian and Zang Ba and shook his head slightly.

According to conventional siege tactics, in "Lord", twenty-one towns are really not as useful as one large city. Unless it is twenty-one third-level towns.

Large cities also have special teleportation arrays. This building alone can make countless lords jealous.
Chapter completed!