Ning Ze thought carefully and felt that the only function of poisoning Lou Qu is to destroy his negotiations with Cheng Wan and worsen the relationship between the two parties.

The reason why Lu Gong did this was probably because Cheng Wan held him back and found something to do.

After thinking about it, Sima Fa must have been worried that he would intervene in Yanzhou after he solved Chu Bai.

Obviously, the other party was thinking too much, and Ning Ze did not intend to interfere in Yanzhou at this time. Once he directly confronted Lu Cong, things would become uncontrollable.

Furthermore, to deal with Chu Bai, we must appease Xi and Yuanzhou as soon as possible to deal with Lu Cong, who will definitely come next year, and prepare for a stronger enemy.

Lu Cong is not a small prince like Chu Bai and Cheng Wan, let alone after obtaining Sima Fa, he fought in the east and west.

Sima Fa hoped that he would be furious and rushed his army to fight against Chu Bai. But some of them overestimated Lou Qu's position in his heart. In fact, Ning Ze attached great importance to Lou Qu on the surface and gave Lou Qu a lot of power, but in fact he was not prepared to leave this shameless person. When attacking Bashan County, Lou Qu failed to die on the battlefield, which made him very disappointed. There was no benefit in keeping Lou Qu!

It’s not that Lou Qu is guilty, but simply Ning Ze doesn’t like such people. Leaving a man who is a teenager who calls his parents for utilitarianism, and does not have any shame and does not have a loyalty and righteous heart will only have a negative impact.

Anyone who needs some face and just surrenders to Ning Ze can tolerate it. It is amazing that he can arrange positions that are not very important and can make the best use of it. The blame is that he is too ambitious.

Ning Ze was not ready to attack Cheng Wan immediately. After dealing with Chu Bai, he had time to solve the Jiangzhou problem. But he could not do nothing. Even if he did not admit it, some people outside thought that they had agreed to Lou Qu as his "adopted son", otherwise why did they take special attention and repeatedly arrange important positions? If the "adopted son" was killed, he would be a laughing stock if he was spread.

In this era, although there is a difference between adopted son and biological son, it is basically the same.

Ning Ze Feige sent a letter to Qian Chun and Qian Shi, asking the two to show a tough and angry attitude as envoys. On the one hand, they forced Cheng Wan to immediately investigate the real murderer and change the other to justice. On the other hand, they asked Cheng Wan for huge compensation for this matter. Both things are indispensable, otherwise they would have been delayed and they would bear the consequences at their own risk.

In name, he was attacking and showed his importance to the matter. But in fact, he was determined by procrastinating.

Cheng Wan had to seek protection from Lu Gong, but now Lu Gong has no time to interfere in Jiangzhou. Spending some money to delay time in order to protect himself is the best way to do it. He can completely extort a sum of money and grain from Cheng Wan to fill his own military warehouse.

After receiving Ning Ze's instructions, Qian Chun and Qian Shi brothers felt aware of it. They immediately followed Ning Ze's request and attacked Cheng Wan with an extremely tough attitude, demanding a thorough investigation of the real murderer and handing him over to Ning Ze's side. At the same time, they demanded 300,000 gold and 600,000 stone of military rations.

Cheng Wan has a headache. He has confirmed that the murderer is in the Lu mission group, so how dare he investigate?

Even if the murderer is found to be handed over to Ning Ze, it is impossible to dispel Ning Ze's idea of ​​annexing Jiangzhou, and it will offend Lu Cong. Once Ning Ze sends troops to attack Jiangzhou, without strong support, he will undoubtedly die.

But he could not refuse Ning Ze decisively, so he assured Ning Ze's envoy to investigate the matter thoroughly, but secretly he was passive and slackened, and was purely pretending.

Cheng Wan couldn't agree to the Ningze envoy's request for 300,000 gold and 600,000 stone of military rations. This was a lion's big talk. Now that the Jiangzhou government has added up all the money and grain, it's just a matter of making this number. If it really gives Ningze, it will become an embarrassing situation where there is no money to use and no food to eat. Could it be that it is a matter of sending troops to rob the people of food? Isn't that the act of self-cultivation?

But we cannot refuse. After all, we are in the wrong, and a living person is poisoned to be killed under his nose. If we think from the perspective of others, the other party will be angry.

Furthermore, the refusal angered Ning Ze, and the other party immediately sent troops to attack, and Lu Gong was unable to rush to help.

No matter what, it will be delayed until the beginning of spring of two years. When Lu Check takes action, this level will be passed!

For this reason, I personally negotiated with Qian Chun and Qian Shi brothers, and compensation was OK, but based on the current financial situation in Jiangzhou, it would be fined up to 50,000 gold and 100,000 shi of military rations.

He also knew that the other party could not accept such low compensation, just deliberately draw a benchmark and then there was room for negotiation. As long as he showed a negotiation attitude, the other party would not turn against each other immediately. Using negotiation to delay time is the only way at the moment.

Cheng Wan's mind happened to be similar to Ning Ze. It is not the time for a conflict. Sima Fa cannot be led by the nose. Both sides have to make excuses to delay.

Of course, Cheng Wan wanted to delay the beginning of the next year, but Ning Ze tried to take Chu Bai and free up his hands to deal with Cheng Wan.

He could not have delayed Cheng Wan until next year, and waited until Lu Gong had time to rescue him.

Only if Chu Bai and Cheng Wan were taken down can he concentrate on preparing for the battle with Lu Cong.

As for Sima Fa, he didn't care whether Ning Ze annexed Cheng Wan. For him, as long as Cheng Wan and Chu Bai played a role, he could prevent Ning Ze from interfering in Yanzhou and influence his strategy, it didn't matter whether he died or lived.

Chu Bai was under great pressure and Qingshan County was defeated. Although he successfully fled here, he suffered heavy losses.

Ning Ze led the army to press forward step by step, Dewey, Ding Mu, and Ghost Monk marched here, and the counties, towns and villages along the way were descending with almost no resistance.

Now there is only one lonely city left. We must try our best to survive this winter and must not be attacked by Ning Ze's army.

There was a situation where Qingshan County was in harmony with each other again. Chu Bai replaced all important positions in the city with confidants, especially the city gate guards, and never used outsiders.

As long as the important positions in the city are controlled by the confidant, they can be kept free from water. Then all forces are used to consolidate the city defense and will surely block Ningze's army outside the city.

This time, Chu Bai is a battle of survival and death, and there is no need to be negligent.

When Ning Ze's army arrived at the city, they found that Longshou County was indeed strong in the city defense and had no loopholes.

The generals defending the city are extremely loyal and there is no one who can take advantage of loopholes.

Chu Bai learned to be smart after the battle of Qingshan.

Even so, Ning Ze will take him down as soon as possible.

Therefore, before the other three armies came, they first launched an offensive. First, they used hot air balloons to fight propaganda wars, threw announcements of persuasion into the city, and encouraged the people, officials, and generals to surrender, and cooperated inside and outside; second, they threw phosphorus powder jars at the defenders, causing psychological oppression. Then they surrounded the gates of the four sides, making them airtight.

The city was indeed under great pressure, but Chu Bai was decisive because all important positions were controlled by the confidant and were very convenient to command. So the whole city was on guard and confiscated and destroyed all announcements thrown by Ning Ze Army. If anyone did not cooperate, he would be treated as a rebel.

Secondly, we call all resources to build fire sheds above the heads of defenders everywhere, in order to deal with the throwing of phosphorus fire at high altitudes of hot air balloons and reduce casualties of defenders.

At the same time, a group of people were mobilized to form an emergency firefighting team. No matter how hot air balloons throw flames in any part of the city, they would rush over and put them out as soon as possible.

I have to say that Chu Bai is very good at faced with Ning Ze's offensive, and he was quickly suppressed and the signs disappeared.

Seeing that the hot air balloon tactics were not useful, Ning Ze's explosive crossbow had been used up and there was no inventory, so it was impossible to force the city to break.

So he ordered the entire army to use the same trick again and threw snowballs near the city gate.

This time, Chu Bai learned his lesson and did not order fire, but strengthened the city wall garrison.

Seeing that the other party was steadily fighting, Ning Ze developed another plan.

Because Chu Bai chose to stick to it, he would definitely not dare to go out of the city to fight, so the army was very arrogant and stationed next to the city of Longshou County to build an ice and snow castle.

Chu Bai had no choice but to build a city in person even if the other party was very provocative, he could only retreat into the city.

So the Ningze army successfully built the ice and snow castle and stood towards the Chu Bai army.

When it was extremely cold at night, Ning Zejun beat drums and drums in the Ice and Snow Castle, whistling corner cards to create an atmosphere of enemies on all sides.

The defenders of Longshou City were frightened and immediately sent a signal. All the soldiers in the city gathered in panic and guarded the city walls in extreme cold conditions.

As a result, after a long period of freezing, Ning Zejun did not appear. Finally, he found that the other party was in the Ice and Snow Castle, hiding in the warm igloo.

So the guards were left behind, and the rest dispersed one after another, living to a warm room to sleep and rest.

Not long after I fell asleep, there were gongs and drums outside the city, and the horns were ringing together.

The defenders were in a panic and went out, but they were frozen again.

For several consecutive days, Ning Zejun harassed at night.

The defenders attached great importance to it a few days ago and did not dare to relax at all. However, after more times, they knew that Ning Ze's army was deliberately harassing. The other party was just beating drums and drums and horns in the ice and snow castle, and had no intention of sending troops. However, they were scared to the whole army to guard the guards again and again, and they were frozen several times a night, which was really uncomfortable. Later, when they heard Ning Ze's army beat drums and drums and horns, the patrol soldiers on duty were tired and roasted the fire regardless of the care of the fire. The other defenders continued to sleep in the barracks.

Ning Ze could see clearly through the virtual map, so he summoned his subordinates and said with a smile: "Can you all rest during the day?"

All the generals said that they had rested too much during the day and were too awake at night, and they were like this every day.

Ning Ze smiled and said, "Since that's the case, I wish I could warm up when it's cold and cold? The Chu Bai army has been paralyzed for days of harassment tactics, and even if the gongs and drums are sounding, they are still motionless. The defenders on the city have also lost their vigilance. At this moment, they are quietly attacking at night and will surely succeed!"

So he sent an order to prepare ladders outside the city gates in the southeast, west and north, and attacked the city at night.

For a moment, gongs and drums sounded together, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The soldiers on duty hurriedly sent a message to inform the enemy to attack the city.

However, after being harassed for several days, the defenders in the city thought it was the same and did not pay attention to it.

There are not many soldiers on duty, so how can they withstand the fierce attack of Ning Ze's army?

When the continuous signal was issued, the defenders in the city found something wrong and came out of the camp in panic to help, the Ning Ze army, who were swarming up, either climbed up the city wall with a ladder, killed the retreating defenders, or knocked open the city gate, and successfully entered the city.

The defenders were frightened and rushed to the four city gates, trying to repel the Ningze army that broke through the city, and the two sides fought fiercely.
Chapter completed!