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In the short term, you'll probably have to stay close to the city. It should take enemy armies at least a day to attack a city after laying siege to it, and you should get a large message prompt that a city directly under your control is being sieged. It's harder to see if a vassal's city is being sieged though. You'll just see the little note in the logs.
1. Use diplomacy to request ceasefire with hostile factions. It will take several days. You can declare war on them again later through diplomacy. Remember that it will also affect your standing with their allies. Ceasefire will improve your reputation, declaration of war will decrease it greatly.
2. Capture enemy heroes and expel them if your faction is strong enough. You can strip their equipment before expelling. It will remove them from your current playthrough, so expel only heroes that you certainly don't want to recruit.
3. Capture enemy heroes and offer them to join your faction without releasing them. After some time most of them will agree. If you don't want to have them in your current party, just send them to towns.
4. Capture enemy heroes and carry them with your party as prisoners if you don't want them to join you at that moment, but also don't want expel them. Remember that releasing enemy heroes is a great way to farm talent points and wisdom crystals, so it's better to have some enemies running around until you complete your build.
The reason to use captives is simple. Factions need heroes to lead their armies to attack you. Fewer active heroes means fewer armies. Defeating any hero leading an army sends him to the corresponding town and starts 3-day cooldown before he will be able to leave the town again. The only hero that can't be captured is faction leader. If you capture all other heroes, that faction will be limited to a single active army that you will be able to defeat easily because after every defeat they will lose all units captured by you (and units that suffered 100% serious injury if you're playing not on easy difficulty), so after several defeats such army will be reduced to a bunch of white and green quality new recruits.