Yuzhang had become a perilous place, and staying there meant nothing but death.
Therefore, upon hearing the news, the two of them abandoned the city and fled before the Chu soldiers arrived, vanishing without a trace.
Without the inherent barriers to stop them, the remaining Ning Army in Yuzhang, leaderless and without resolve, naturally fell into disarray.
Under the assault of the eight Chu armies, it only took about ten days. By the end of April, the region was completely pacified.
And with the Chu army's strikes throughout the month, as well as their unstoppable and fearsome military might, Yuzhang Prefecture had been utterly terrified.
In that period, at the signal from Lu Yuan, numerous local prominent families, who had assisted the Ning Army in resisting the Chu soldiers, were exterminated, along with countless clan members.
In doing so, Chu State not only identified a vast number of hidden households, enriching the local population records,
