Luo Zhaoyun led his troops to arrive outside Luoyang City, it was already dusk the next day, and the battle situation in Luoyang had reached a critical time, and it was in a precarious state. Li Jing ordered the three armies to attack with all their might, and advanced firearms were also used without reservation.

On the north bank of Luoshui, Dongcheng fell, and only the imperial city was still holding on.

There are twenty or thirty miles in the east city, and there are ordinary people in the visit, nobles, wealthy families, magnates of the previous dynasty, etc., and now there are no three out of ten households.

More than half of them died of starvation, many were taken to serve as city guards, girls and women were taken to the palace and were subjected to scourge, and so on, and only three-tenths of the population survived.

When the Dahua army invaded the city and liberated the eastern city, many people cried with joy, wanted to cheer, but had no strength, many people came out with the wall, their faces were full of tears, many people wanted to escape from the city, and did not want to stay in Luoyang City to suffer a human tragedy.

The Dahua generals who attacked the city, seeing this situation, felt quite sour in their hearts, and immediately reported the situation in the city to the marshal.

After Li Jing learned about it, he immediately sent people to transport grain and grass to the eastern city, and set up stoves and iron pots at the gate of each Li Fang, and boiled porridge directly, first relieved the people, and then distributed some grain according to the number of people.

After the people of Dongcheng learned the news, they were extremely moved, and they kept praising Dahua as a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

"Spread the news to the city, publicize that His Majesty has pacified Dou Jiande, capture and kill the thief leader, and appease the hearts of the people in the Eastern Capital, and at the same time, send a signal to the imperial city to let them know that the reinforcements have been broken and disintegrate the morale of the defenders."

"Yes!" The generals and lieutenants acted according to the order.

When the tens of thousands of Zheng soldiers who were struggling in the imperial city learned that Dou Jiande's 200,000 army had been destroyed and that King Xia was ambushed in the chaos, they were all shocked.

"How is this possible? That's 200,000 Xia Jun! ”

"Listen to His Majesty Dahua's personal expedition, set up an ambush in the Tiger Prison Pass, and led Dou Jiande to lead the army into a trap, and then killed that Xia King!"

"What, Emperor Luo Zhaoyun of Dahua has personally conquered, no wonder Dou Jiande's army was defeated so quickly, it was the victorious general of the Great Sui in the past, Guanwu Hou!"

The sergeants on private duty in the Xia army talked a lot, and they had no fighting spirit at all, because they were surrounded layer by layer, and the grain and grass held out for several months at most, and the soldiers could not be replenished, and under the artillery fire and crossbows, the casualties were very large.

In the past two days, a few princes surnamed King Guang have died, not to mention other generals and sergeants?

"I hope King Zheng can surrender as soon as possible, so that we don't have to die in vain."

"If we surrender, our big-headed soldiers will not be punished, and they can be reorganized and reused, but King Zheng and others may not be spared by Dahua, so we look forward to surrendering, but the people of the royal family are afraid to die."

"Shhhh Make a small noise, beware of being heard, Your Majesty cut off your head, and destroyed your whole door. ”

"I'm not afraid, my family is in Nancheng, I have been rescued a long time ago, I really don't want to resist anymore." A twenty-five or sixteen-year-old soldier spoke negatively, affecting the war-weariness of the surrounding soldiers.

At this time, the palace was also discussing whether there was still a stubborn hold until the last moment.

At the beginning, the seven nobles of the Yang Dong court, Duan Da and others, because of the conspiracy to throw themselves into the city, were reported and exposed, Wang Shichong preemptively controlled this group of old ministers of the Sui Dynasty, and slaughtered them on a large scale.

Wang Ren hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the situation is critical now, there are only 50,000 soldiers and horses in the imperial city, facing too many Dahua soldiers and advanced firearms, it is really worrying to resist, recently the city has been shooting in to persuade the letter of surrender, saying that Dou Jiande led the 200,000 army to be destroyed, and was personally recruited by Luo Zhaoyun, broke the Xia army outside the Tiger Prison Pass, captured and killed the Xia King Dou Jiande, and now there are no reinforcements to save Luoyang." ”

Wang Shichong also felt that the general trend was going and looked decadent, but he didn't want to give up resistance like this, because even if he surrendered, it was difficult for him to predict his fate.

Since ancient times, the surrender of the hegemon has never had a good end, and the competitors will not really be accommodated, and they will generally settle accounts after the autumn, because they are not worried that the heroes who have fought for hegemony will live in the world, and they are worried that one day, they will be full of wings and rebel again.

Even if you don't kill it, I'm afraid you won't get real power for the rest of your life, and you will be monitored in the capital all the time, and it will be difficult to leave the capital, which is equivalent to being imprisoned, which is the fate of the king of the dead country.

Shan Xiongxin was hit by an arrow in his left arm, and after bandaging, one arm was temporarily jumping, sitting there, his face was very bad, and he said: "If Xiao Liang, Li Tang, and Du Fuwei do not send troops, we will hold on for a month at most, and we will not be able to hold it, because Dahua began to use extremely lethal firearms, and the imperial city walls, stone gates, and city walls were constantly cracked and opened under the explosion, and the speed of reinforcement could not stop the speed of cracking, so it would be dangerous." ”

Everyone in the court nodded, feeling that Dahua had obviously exerted his power in the past two days.

At this moment, there was an exclamation outside the hall, and the commander of the Praetorian Guard hurriedly came to report that a gate of the imperial city was blown open, and Huang Fuxin, the general of the forbidden army who was responsible for the defense in the city, suddenly announced that he had defected to Dahua and defected, and the imperial city was lost all of a sudden.

"This traitor, damn it!" Wang Shichong roared angrily.

Shan Xiongxin immediately interrogated: "How is Miyagi?" ”

"The palace city is already defending to the death, the Dahua army occupied the imperial city in an instant, nearly 30,000 soldiers, lost, the current Praetorian Guards in the palace city, the palace guards, all combined, less than 20,000."

"The general trend has gone, the sky is going to destroy my Zheng Guo!" Wang Shichong was so sad and angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Your Majesty, do you want to stick to the end, or ...... Tou Cheng Dahua? ”

Wang Shichong said helplessly: "At this time, is there any point in resisting, surrender, how can 20,000 Praetorian Guards resist 200,000 Dahua soldiers, and besides, the military spirit is gone, and in the end, even the Praetorian Guards around them will rebel." Wang Shichong thought of the fate of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui, Jiangdu mutinied, and was killed by the commanders of the Praetorian Guards.

Hearing that Wang Shichong was about to surrender, the only dozens of ministers in the palace, nearly eighty percent of them, were relieved and felt happy.

"Surrender now, there is still a glimmer of life, if you defend to the end, and wait for the palace gate to be broken, then it will anger Your Majesty Dahua, and it is estimated that the last chance to save your life is gone." Wang Shichong sighed lightly, after he learned that Luo Zhaoyun was unaware of the ghosts, and easily broke Dou Jiande's 200,000 army, he felt the intimidation of Mount Tai's overwhelming top, and he lost the will to resist.

In the face of a victorious general like Luo Zhaoyun, Wang Shichong's heart is like ashes, even if he has the same strength, he does not dare to win, not to mention this disadvantage, when Luo Zhaoyun is angry, I am afraid that everyone in the palace will die, it is better to surrender now and strive to save his life.