Chu Tian never dreamed that one day he would personally capture hundreds of players. These players put down their weapons and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands. Among the players was the mayor of Lingyan Town.

The performance of free players at the beginning is not as good as that of recruited soldiers. Only after experiencing several fierce battles, players will become skilled veterans.

"Lord, what should we do with these prisoners?"

Hua Mulan pointed at the stranger who was frightened by her.

Everyone in Lingyan Town fell into panic, worried that Chu Tian would execute them.

The lords of various civilized areas have become enemies with each other, and some ruthless lords have directly destroyed each other's villages and directly killed those who resisted.

"The resisters will be imprisoned and the rest will be released."

In order to disintegrate Lingyan Pavilion, Chutian recruited the surrender faction and attacked the main war faction. The main war faction will definitely have conflicts with the capitulation faction, and Ling Yan Pavilion will be finished sooner or later.

The players of the surrender faction were able to leave Shangbi Village safely and couldn't help but feel grateful for their choice. They have now withdrawn from the dangerous Lingyan Pavilion and do not want to have anything to do with Lingyan Pavilion.

As for the players of the main war faction who followed Li Er of the Tang Dynasty, they became prisoners of the Xia Town coalition forces.

Chu Tian did not release them immediately. He also wanted to use the mayor of Lingyan Town to turn Lingyan Town into his vassal.

Capturing the opponent's mayor means that Lingyan Town can be captured without any bloodshed.

"We in Shangbi Village lost 29 light infantrymen and 97 village warriors..."

Wu Shang, the garrison of Shangbi Village, was injured and reported the losses to Chutian.

Shangbi Village, which has only 700 people, has directly lost hundreds of young laborers, which is a disaster for Shangbi Village. Fortunately, Shangbi Village is a vassal of Xia Town, and Xia Town can dispatch labor to supplement Shangbi Village's losses.

"You continue to stay in Shangbi Village and cannot leave."

Chu Tian arranged for Wu Shang to defend Shangbi Village, while he led thousands of soldiers and Xiang Yong to directly attack Lingyan Town.

Lingyan Town is located between Xia Town and Langya City, and can be used as a trade transfer station.

There are nearly a hundred professional soldiers and hundreds of local warriors in Lingyan Town.

When Chu Tian came to Lingyan Town with the captured mayor of Lingyan Town, the defenders of Lingyan Town quickly chose to surrender. The only mayor was captured, and Li Er of the Tang Dynasty did not name any successor.

Resistance seems pointless.

Hua Mulan volunteered and took the lead in leading the cavalry into Lingyan Town to investigate to prevent an ambush inside. The impact of the lord's arrest was really too great. Li Er of the Tang Dynasty became a prisoner, and Lingyan Town surrendered directly, which is evident. Xia Town also suffered from this.

to avoid the arduous battle.

Lingyan Town is a town after all. If you really want to attack a town with a 4.5-meter earth wall, the attackers will lose even more troops than the defenders.

Hua Mulan entered Lingyan Town. After finding out that there was no ambush, Chu Tian led a large army to Lingyan Town and went directly to the Lord's Mansion in Lingyan Town. The detailed information of Lingyan Town was written on the stone tablet.

[Territory]: Lingyan Town (first-level town)

[Lord]: Li Er of the Tang Dynasty (third-class hairpin)

[Affiliation]: Langya Kingdom, Xuzhou, Eastern Han District

[Specialty]: Ordinary celadon (D-level specialty), ordinary war horses (D-level specialty), exquisite farm tools (C-level specialty)

【Population】:2315/5000

【Public Popularity】:55(The mayor was captured)

【Public Security】:50

[Overall prosperity]:1576/3000

【Administrative efficiency】:17/100

【Agricultural efficiency】:25/100

【Economic efficiency】:16/100

【Cultural efficiency】:20/100

[Military Rating]:915

[City defense works]: Low-level rammed earth city wall

[Existing buildings]: Level 2 ranch, Level 2 cavalry camp, ancestral hall, Level 2 stables, Level 3 blacksmith shop, Level 2 celadon factory, Level 2 siege equipment camp, Level 3 private school...

【vassal village】:3/4

Chutian couldn't help but be moved when he saw the second-level pastures. There are also many horse-producing areas within the pass. Although they are not of a higher grade than the pastures outside the pass, the quality of the war horses they produce is not as good as those outside the pass.

There is also a second-level siege equipment camp, which is also a building that Xia Town lacks.

Chutian tried to turn Lingyan Town into the fourth vassal territory of Xia Town.

"Ding! Player, your main city level is insufficient."

Sure enough, Xia Town is a first-class town and Lingyan Town is also a first-class town. Xia Town cannot annex Lingyan Town.

"It seems that the only way to turn a first-level town into a vassal is to upgrade it to a second-level town as soon as possible."

Chu Tian had long thought that such a result might be possible, so he was not surprised.

In order to annex Lingyan Town, we can only attack the second-level town quickly.

Upgrading a first-level town to a second-level town requires a population of 4,000, and the population of Xia Town is far from enough.

If you want to increase the population quickly, besides recruiting nearby refugees, there is also a simple and crude way to plunder the population.

Cao Cao was unable to defeat Liu Bei in Hanzhong, so he simply moved the population of Hanzhong away, leaving Liu Bei with a population shortage problem.

There are many villages controlled by player lords near Summer Town. Although these villages cannot be captured, they can be destroyed and the population of the villages moved to Summer Town.

So who should be sent to carry out this mission indifferently?

This task will probably be left to Hua Mulan to conquer the surrounding villages and then plunder the population.

"Let me go!"

Li Er of Tang Dynasty was protesting.

Chu Tian directly ignored his protest. After he captured Tang Dynasty Li Er, he found out that the other party was the president of a guild called "Lingyan Pavilion" in Langya Kingdom.

Before merging Lingyan Town, he would not give Lingyan Pavilion a chance to revive. The other guild had at least dozens of small lords, and together they were a considerable force.

However, as long as Chu Tian captures Li Er of the Tang Dynasty, Lingyan Pavilion will soon be disbanded because there is no leader, or other members will take over.

Chu Tian first asked Xiang Yong to return to Xia Town to prepare for farming, and then personally led the army to control Lingyan Town.

Lingyan Town continued to operate under Chu Tian's instructions. The soldiers in Lingyan Town were disarmed and were fully controlled by the Xia Town soldiers.

This is probably a way of holding the lord hostage to control the town.

"Come with me for a moment."

Chu Tian called Hua Mulan into the house.

"You lead the cavalry to raid the nearby villages and drive all the people to Xia Town. This is my instruction, so you don't have to have any psychological burden, just carry out the order. These small villages are near our town.

, anyway, our towns will become cities in the future, and they will be annexed by us sooner or later. Do you understand?"

Chu Tian himself didn't have much psychological burden, but he still had to care about the loyalty of the generals. Some generals would be fine if you asked them to massacre the city, but some upright generals might not be willing to do these things.

Hua Mulan just nodded: "Yeah."

When Chu Tian controlled Lingyan Town, Hua Mulan led a small group of cavalry to leave Lingyan Town and followed Chu Tian's instructions to plunder nearby villages.

During Chutian's attack on the secondary town in Xia Town, he went to check out the secondary ranch in Lingyan Town.

The importance of secondary pasture is second only to that of third-level gold mines.

As many as 60 ordinary war horses were seized from the Lingyan Town cavalry and ranch.
Chapter completed!