Cheng Biting Jin's lieutenant Bai Turang wanted to assassinate Dou Jiande, but Dou Jiande shouted: "Don't kill me, I am the King of Xia, and I can make you rich and glorious if I offer it." ”

Cheng Yanjin dismounted and caught Dou Jiande, and carried Dou Jiande with a spare horse to see Li Yin, Li Yin looked at the former overlord of the party, and reprimanded: "We crusade against Wang Shichong, what does it have to do with you, we actually ran outside your territory to fight with us!" ”

Dou Jiande said with a gloomy expression: "Now I don't come by myself, I'm afraid I'll have to bother you to go far away to attack it in the future." ”

Li Yin didn't say anything more, and asked Cheng Yanjin to escort Dou Jiande down, and let him personally guard the whole process just in case.

After Dou Jiande was captured, his soldiers fled, and in this battle, the Tang army captured more than 50,000 people, and Li Yin dismissed those prisoners on the same day and let them return to their hometowns.

Subsequently, Li Yin wrote a few good news, and reported the victory of the Tiger Prison Pass to Chang'an, Luoyang and other places!

When the shocking news of Dou Jiande's capture spread, Wang Shichong's general Wang Deren abandoned the old city of Luoyang and fled, and the deputy general Zhao Jiqing surrendered to Tang with the city.

Li Yin asked Li Shiji to guard the tiger prison and attack the Quartet, while he led an army of 30,000 and escorted Dou Jiande to Luoyang.

At this time, the battle in the Central Plains was fought, and the reason why the generals who originally belonged to Wang Shichong were still holding on was that they were all counting on Dou Jiande's army of 300,000, but now he was captured by Li Yin, and everyone felt that the general trend had gone, so they surrendered to the Tang Dynasty one after another.

When Li Yin escorted Dou Jiande, Wang Wan, eldest grandson An Shi, Guo Shiheng and others to Luoyang City, the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang were shaken, and their morale instantly fell to the bottom.

Wang Shichong answered with Dou Jiande in tears, so Li Yin asked the eldest grandson An Shi and others to go into the city to tell the story of the failure.

Wang Shichong convened the generals to discuss a breakthrough and prepare to go south to Xiangyang, but all the generals said: "We rely on Dou Jiande, the king of Xia, and now that the king of Xia has been captured, we are breaking through and will not succeed in the end." ”

At this time, no one was willing to continue to follow him Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong sat on the dragon chair weakly, and the whole person seemed to have become much older in an instant.

Under the persuasion of the ministers, Wang Shichong finally agreed to surrender the city, but he looked at the two letters of persuasion in front of him and asked everyone: "Should we surrender to Li Shimin, the king of Qin, or Li Yin, the king of Jin?" It turned out that Li Yin and Li Shimin both submitted a letter of persuasion to Wang Shichong at the same time.

The ministers offered their words one after another, some advocated surrendering to Li Shimin, while many advocated surrendering to Li Yin, each with their own reasons, and quarreled with each other.

At this time, Duan Da replied: "We have been fighting with Li Shimin, the king of Qin, for more than a year, and we have formed a lot of bonds with each other, if we surrender to him, we are afraid that our lives will be lost, and Li Yin, the king of Jin, has nothing to do with us, I think it is more appropriate to surrender to Li Yin, the king of Jin." ”

As soon as Duan Da said this, everyone, including Wang Shichong, couldn't help but nodded, especially those generals who led the troops, and immediately spoke out in agreement.

And just when Wang Shichong was about to make the decision to surrender to Li Yin, Shan Xiongxin, who was in charge of guarding the palace city, suddenly walked in, "Your Majesty, don't surrender!" ”

Wang Shichong smiled bitterly and said: "I am willing to surrender, but I really have to surrender, King Xia was captured, Luoyang has no food, it is impossible to defend, I want to run to Xiangyang, and the hearts of the people are scattered, and now it is the general trend!" ”

Shan Xiongxin said: "It's better to select elite soldiers and attack Li Shimin's camp, if you can kill them, more than 100,000 Tang troops will collapse, and Zheng Guo will be saved!" ”

Shan Xiongxin's desperate method is the only way for Wang Shichong to turn the tables now, but Wang Shichong is unwilling to do a death struggle anymore, and waved his hand, "I have made up my mind, Xiongxin don't persuade anymore." ”

After hearing this, Shan Xiongxin had no choice but to retreat, but his eyes flickered, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

On the 23rd day of the ninth month of the third year of Wude, Wang Shichong wore white clothes and led the crown prince, hundreds of officials and more than 2,000 people of Zheng Guo out of the city gate, preparing to surrender in front of Li Yin's military camp.

Li Shimin felt a little annoyed after learning that Wang Shichong chose to surrender to Li Yin instead of himself, he waited for the day when Wang Shichong surrendered to him for more than a year, but he didn't expect this to be the result in the end.

"March to Luoyang City!" Li Shimin gave an order with an expressionless face. Although he could not personally accept Wang Shichong's surrender, it was a proud thing to be able to enter the eastern capital of Luoyang for the first time.

On the other side, Li Yin had accepted the surrender of Wang Shichong and others according to due etiquette, and Wang Shichong was sweating and leaning down.

Li looked down at the former overlord of the Central Plains condescendingly, and said with a smile: "You always call me a child when you hear this king, but now that you see this king, why are you so respectful?" ”

Wang Shichong didn't dare to say more, and immediately kowtowed to apologize.

When Li Yin dealt with Wang Shichong's surrender, he also sent a part of the people led by Su Dingfang to rush to Luoyang City first, after Su Dingfang entered the city, let the soldiers guard the market shops respectively, prohibiting harassment and looting, no one dared to violate the ban, and he himself led people straight to the palace.

What made Su Dingfang feel a little strange was that he didn't see Li Shimin's army along the way, and it stands to reason that they should have already entered the city!

Li Shimin just experienced a thrilling moment.

When he led the soldiers and horses to the gate of Luoyang City and was about to enter the city, hundreds of people and horses suddenly came out of the city.

After Shan Xiongxin led people out of the city gate, he went straight to Li Shimin to kill, Li Shimin and the generals around him never expected this change, and panicked for a while, seeing that this Shan Xiongxin was about to kill in front of Li Shimin, it was Qin Shubao who reacted first, and immediately slapped his horse and stepped forward in front of Li Shimin, and fought with Shan Xiongxin.

Li Shimin and the other generals finally reacted, commanding the soldiers to fight with Shan Xiongxin's men and horses.

As more and more generals joined the battle, Shan Xiongxin had several enemies with one enemy, even if he was brave, he was gradually losing power, in fact, when he saw Qin Shubao react and block in front of Li Shimin, he knew that his desperate fight had been declared a failure.

After a while of fighting, Shan Xiongxin had fewer and fewer men around him, but more and more enemies, and finally his mount was also cut down, and more than a dozen spears were pressed in front of him.

Shan Xiongxin was captured alive by the Tang army, Li Shimin frowned and asked the soldiers to take him down to take care of him, and continued to lead the troops into the city, but learned that Li Yin's generals had entered the palace in the eastern capital at that time......