Chu Bai put all his thoughts on the city defense, and he was particularly at ease about this.

In his opinion, even if Ning Ze attacked the city, it would be difficult for him to break in.

In addition, in the cold winter, the weather is cold and the land is freezing. Ning Ze army is just harassing at night, but in fact they are hiding in the igloo and unwilling to come out. In this extreme weather, how could the other party risk the soldiers being frozen to death and attack the city at night at all costs?

There were Dewey, Ding Mu, and the Ghost Face General who were on the road to reinforcements, so the other party didn't have to take risks.

So I didn't think Ning Zejun would fight.

Even if there is a sneak attack at night, the city defenders can rush over to defend as quickly as possible and defeat the opponent.

But he ignored one thing, and the defenders in the city also had the same idea as him. After several days of harassment from Ning Ze's army, they all felt that this was the opponent's plan to make his soldiers unable to sleep well and have no energy to fight. Since this is the case, they cannot let the opponent do what they want. Anyway, the opponent is just knocking and beating in the camp and does not send troops.

It was this kind of thought that made the defenders relax and their reaction speed could not keep up.

How could a few patrol soldiers guarding the city walls just block the attack of Ningze's army?

When the defenders found out that something was wrong, it was too late!

Between the real and the real, inertial thinking makes people suffer a great loss.

Chu Bai was sleeping well, and suddenly someone came in in a panic and reported: "Empress, something is not good!"

Wake up in his sleep, Chu Bai was in a bad mood, sat up and asked unhappily, "Why are you panic?"

"Report to the envoy! Ning Ze's army attacked at night and attacked the city gate!"

"How is that possible?" Chu Bai said, "It must be Ning Ze's harassment plan."

"Ningze's troops are at the city and are fighting with our army!"

"What?!" Chu Bai suddenly woke up when he heard this, "The defenders in the city can resist, don't panic!"

"The defenders everywhere thought that Ning Ze was harassed and missed the opportunity. Now the enemy has already entered the city!"

Chu Bai's face changed drastically: "Hurry! Put on my official armor and summon the generals to defend the city!"

After all, there is no way to retreat, and Ning Ze must not be allowed to attack the city.

After wearing it in a panic, he summoned all the generals to rush to help.

When they rushed over, they saw that the outer city was lost, and Ningze's army had already entered and was forcing the inner city gate.

Our own army defended the inner city and fought to the death with the other side.

The situation was extremely bad, so Chu Bai led his army to reinforce and went into battle himself.

The city was full of war and fighting everywhere.

The battle lasted all night, and even reached noon on the next day.

Finally, the inner city was captured, and Ning Ze's army poured in from all directions. Chu Bai led the soldiers to retreat to the prefect's mansion. After fierce resistance, he was surrounded.

The Ningze army quickly controlled the city and eliminated the resistance armed forces everywhere.

In the prefect's mansion, Chu Bai was quite regretful.

A momentary negligence turned out to be a big mistake.

We should have paid attention to it and not to make mistakes, but we did not expect that the other party's harassment tactics would numb themselves. A mistake would lead to eternal regret. Anyone who pays attention to it and does not be confused by the other party, so that it will not be like this! As long as the defenders defended their defense, they could block Ning Ze and prevent them from entering the city smoothly.

Urban defense construction has become perfect, who would have expected today's failure?

If there was no such mistake, even if Ning Ze’s army attacked vigorously, he would not have thought of breaking through the city gate!

But it’s too late to say anything now, and there is no medicine for regret in the world.

If we can pay attention and mobilize the defenders in time, Ning Ze's army will not be able to take advantage of the situation.

This made Chu Bai feel a little regretful, why didn’t he dig the secret passage in Longshou County in advance?

Surrounded by civil and military officials around him, everyone was panicked and at a loss.

Ning Ze's army was outside the mansion, surrounded by water and flies, and flies could not fly out.

Just because there are only troops in the mansion, it can't last long.

Chu Bai and his subordinates were trapped here. Ning Ze came outside the courtyard and shouted and persuaded him to surrender: "Chu Envoy, the overall situation has been decided! It is better to put down your weapons and surrender."

Hearing Ning Ze's voice, Chu Bai's face looked even more ugly.

He really couldn't accept it. He thought that he could hold on with the city wall and delay it. In fact, there was hope for not making mistakes. Who would have thought that the other party would use harassment tactics to disrupt judgments in a false and real way, resulting in the loss of the city.

His self-esteem did not allow him to surrender to Ning Ze, after all, surrender to him was used to bow down to Princess Yuanxi.

Chu Bai couldn't bear to say to a woman.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the civil and military officials around him lost the will to resist.

A few of them turned around and persuaded Chu Bai that they had no choice but to surrender and save their lives.

Chu Bai sighed and said to everyone: "I want to think quietly, please wait!"

After saying that, he entered the inner courtyard of the prefect's mansion alone, sent the retreating people and left them alone in the room.

Chu Bai went in for a while and there was no movement. Ning Ze was going to lead his troops in outside. The civil and military officials immediately entered inside and wanted to ask for instructions in person.

As a result, Chu Bai committed suicide by hanging a beam in the house, and his breath was gone.

He was unwilling to surrender to Ning Ze, and he didn't want to be captured.

When he found that Chu Bai had committed suicide, his subordinates cried bitterly, so he carried his body out.

Ning Zejun broke into the door and happened to see this scene.

Chu Bai's subordinates gave up resistance and were willing to surrender, provided that Ning Ze must buried him with great pleasure.

Ning Zeyue was surprised by Chu Bai's suicide by hanging his beam, and felt helpless at the same time.

After all, it was Liu Yuanxiang's sorrow as a woman. If she were a prince, Chu Bai would not choose to commit suicide, but surrendered decisively.

In this era, many literati or generals were unable to accept women as respect, and even more so, they could not accept surrendering to women.

Death is the greatest, Ning Ze ordered a grand burial of Chu Bai.

So Chu Bai's subordinates surrendered.

Longshou County was included in the territory, and the Chubai power was destroyed.

Ningze ordered to appease the local people and strengthen the hearts of the people.

Chu Bai was destroyed and Cheng Wan was under greater pressure.

In order to delay Ningze's move south, it is ready to lose money and avoid disasters.

He had negotiated with Qian Chun and Qian Shi brothers for a long time and finally reached an agreement to be willing to compensate 180,000 gold and 240,000 shi of military rations. The envoy went back to report to Ningze that the delivery of money and grain between the two sides could delay at least for a period of time.

Later, in the name of investigating the murderer Lou Qu, it can delay some time. If handled properly, there will be no problem until the spring of the next year.

Qian Chun and Qian Shi brothers brought the negotiation results to Ning Ze. Of course, Ning Ze knew that Cheng Wan was delaying the time, only 180,000 gold and 240,000 stone of military rations were not a small amount, so he would not dare not take them.

Therefore, Ding Mu was ordered to cooperate with the Qian brothers to collect money and grain in Jiangzhou.

If Cheng Wan finds various excuses and is unwilling to give them, it will be just right to send troops to attack, which is legitimate.

He and generals such as Dewey, Wang Wei, Mi Yan tried their best to surrender the captured troops under Chu Bai to further expand their strength.

Ding Mu accompanied the Qian brothers to Jiangzhou, but Cheng Wan dared not refuse to give him a gift.

Although this batch of money and food made him feel so painful, it was better than angering Ning Ze and causing him to rush his troops south.

When delivering money and grain, you want to delay as much as possible in the name of liquidation. As slow as you can.

However, Ding Mu did not take this set and took the money and grain first and then counted it.

Cheng Wan had no choice but to have a good plan destroyed by the other party.

He didn't dare to lose weight, and he handed over 180,000 gold and 240,000 military rations to Ding Mu in full.

After confirming that the money and food are enough, Ding Mu reported to Ning Ze and requested the next instructions.

Ning Ze ordered pressure to ask Cheng Wan to investigate the murderer and hand him over for three days.

Cheng Wan learned about it and hurriedly sent someone to Ding Mu for negotiations.

It is very clear who the murderer is, but it is impossible for him to solve the case in three days.

I didn't plan to find out the truth of the case, just to delay.

He asked an eloquent strategist to convince Ding Mu. However, Ding Mu believed the truth and only knew that Ning Ze issued the order and did not have room to discuss with Cheng Wan.

So Cheng Wan asked the strategist to find Qian Chun and the brothers Qian Shi, hoping to convince the two of them, and then they would do the work of Ding Mu or Ning Ze, and try to gain enough time.

Ning Ze calculated that it would take about half a month to deal with the mess left by Chu Bai. There was still some time in winter, so the intelligence officers could first collect information from Jiangzhou, and at the same time dispatch troops to prepare to take down Cheng Wan.

Let Cheng Wan respond to it, and give him at most half a month. He must hand over the murderer, otherwise he will bear the consequences.

Half a month did not meet Cheng Wan's expectations. He had calculated accurately, and at least he delayed the delivery of military rations and investigation of the case for at least winter.

As a result, there was a problem with the delivery of military rations, and Ding Mu directly messed up his plan.

The only way at the moment is to procrastinate by investigating the case.

So he sent someone to persuade the Qian brothers again, hoping to extend this time limit to more than one month.
To be continued...