As soon as Wang Shichong got the news of Dou Jiande's defeat, he discussed with his generals to abandon the city and flee to Jingxiang. At this time, his subordinates already knew that Wang Shichong's defeat was imminent, and no one was willing to flee with him.

That night, Wang Shichong led the Aoyu Prince and Tieguandaoren and other henchmen, as well as the remaining thousands of Jianghuai soldiers, to quietly leave Luoyang by moonlight, trying to escape through Kim Yong City.

Who knew that Li Shimin had already taken precautions, and asked Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to ambush here. As soon as Wang Shichong arrived, he was discovered by the two, and arrows rained down on the mountain, killing countless Jianghuai soldiers.

Wang Shichong didn't see it well, turned around and wanted to run back, but Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Jingde had already caught up. They waited for a while to cover up and kill, and the king who killed him was defeated.

The Fish Prince's mount was shot by Drain and fell to the ground in one fell swoop; He was nimble, and quickly grunted, leaving a strong Jianghuai cavalryman next to him off his horse, snatching his mount and wanting to run. I don't know that the height and weight of the prince of the fish are three hundred pounds; And the armor is heavy, plus the long blade in his hand is also 300 pounds.

This weight of nearly 700 pounds weighs on this ordinary standing horse; The war horse kept neighing, and it was crooked and unsteady. Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong took the opportunity to kill them; The big iron gun of more than 100 catties in his hand was smashed on the head.

The prince of the fish blocked it, and it was difficult to make a second hit; It didn't take long for the sitting horse to stand it anymore, and it was smashed and plopped, lying on the ground.

Yu Chi Jingde saw that it was cheap and could be taken advantage of, and the turtle-backed hunchback dragon spear in his hand was fiercely distracted and stabbed. The prince fell to the ground, and the blade in his hand was gone; His hands are quick and his eyes are fast, "Bang!" With a bang, he grabbed the head of the gun.

"Get up for me!" With one arm, the Aoyu Prince lifted Yu Chigong up at once, and then wanted to slam it on the mountain rock next to him.

Qin Qiong was taken aback when he saw it, and threw the golden gun in his hand violently. Prince Aoyu snorted coldly and turned over to dodge, but Yu Chigong was thrown aside and almost fainted.

Ignoring the pain in his body, Yu Chi Jingde slammed a round of eighteen knotty steel whips, and smashed them on the leg of the Aoyu Prince with a whin.

"Click!" With a loud bang, the Fish Prince's leg broke in response, and he hugged his knee and howled. Qin Qiong saw that it was cheap. Quickly pulled out the tile surface gold from the deerskin case, and smashed it with a single move.

"Smack!" This hit the back of the head of the Aoyu Prince, and 10,000 peach blossoms bloomed at once. Prince Aoyu died.

Wang Shichong and the Tieguan Dao people are anxious like lost dogs, panicked like fish caught in the net; With the Jianghuai soldiers in his hands, he hurriedly returned to Luoyang. Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong's mission was only to prevent Wang Shichong from escaping; Seeing that he had returned to Luoyang, he led the army to besiege Luoyang unhurriedly behind.

A few days later, Li Shimin ordered Li Shentong to be the chief manager, and led Su Dingfang, Wang Xingmin and others to continue to pursue the remnants of Dou Jiande in Hebei. He and the others led the victorious army to the west and arrived at the old Luoyang City.

After the men and horses led by Dou Jiande fled, his wife Cao Shi and his left servant Qi Shanxing led hundreds of people to flee back to Zhaozhou.

The rest of Dou Jiande wanted to establish Dou Jiande's adopted son as the monarch, Qi Shanxing said: "King Xia pacified Hebei, the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, and he was captured all of a sudden, isn't it destined by heaven?" It is better to ask the Tang Dynasty to save everyone's lives and not cause disasters and hardships to the common people. ”

So they distributed all the goods they had in stock to the soldiers, and let them go away. Only then did Qi Shanxing and Dou Jiande's right servant Pei Ju, Xingtai Cao Dan and Dou Jiande's wife lead the officials and subordinates of the Xia State to enter the land of Hebei, hand over the eight seals of the Xia State and surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that the end of Wang Shichong was not far away, his general Wang Deren abandoned the city and fled, and the deputy general Zhao Jiqing went out of the city and surrendered. Li Shimin then joined forces with Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and the left servant of the camp. He packed Dou Jiande, eldest grandson An Shi, Guo Shiheng and others in a prisoner car and sent them to the eastern capital to show Wang Shichong.

Wang Shichong was lying on the city wall, Dou Jiande looked up, and the two looked at each other with great emotion. Just now, he was the hegemon of three points, and now one is ambushed, and the other is indeed at the end of the road.

"I came as planned, and I have fulfilled my credit to you!" Dou Jiande said in a trembling voice, "But he was defeated by King Qin after a day of fighting, this is the will of heaven!" ”

Wang Shichong began to cry. Dou Jiande also shed tears.

After the meeting, Li Shimin sent the eldest grandson An Shi to push him up. The eldest grandson An Shi is the half-brother of the eldest grandson Wuji and the eldest grandson Wuji; In order to seize his father's property, he drove his eight-year-old younger siblings out of the house, thanks to his uncle Gao Shilian who took him in and later threw himself into Li Shimin's house.

When the eldest grandson An Shi saw Li Shimin, he said with a hippie smile: "Brother-in-law, our dear family, congratulations on your efforts to level Dou Jiande in one fell swoop and establish this world-famous achievement." ”

Li Shimin glanced at him a little tired, and said, "Eldest grandson Anshi, you go to the city to see Wang Shichong to persuade him to go out of the city and surrender." Wang Shichong surrendered, I will spare you from death, and you will be considered a great merit. If you can't convince Wang Shichong to surrender, you will be guilty of the same crime as him. ”

The eldest grandson, An Shi, pouted, but he didn't dare to disobey; He asked people to prepare vehicles, and then entered the city, and gave Wang Shichong a detailed description of Dou Jiande's failure. The eldest grandson, An Shi, told Wang Shichong that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, promised to spare his death as long as Wang Shichong surrendered immediately.

Wang Shichong finally accepted his fate. When he returned to the inner palace, he burned all the fortune tellers, turtle slices, and all the confidential documents.

Early in the morning of May 9, Wang Shichong, dressed in white, led more than 2,000 people from the crown prince and ministers to the Tang Army Gate to surrender.

Li Shimin treated him with courtesy. Before the guard Lu Chong opened his mouth to scold, Wang Shichong crawled on the ground and kowtowed to Li Shimin, sweating nervously like rain.

Li Shimin stopped the guards who were about to drink and said, "You get up first!" Since I promised to kill you, I will definitely not hurt your life, just rest assured! ”

Wang Shichong hurriedly thanked him again; Li Shimin smiled: "Don't you often call me 'hairy boy'?" Now that I see the 'hairy child', why are you so respectful? ”

Wang Shichong kowtowed again and quickly admitted the offense.

After the victory, Li Shimin was beaming. Wang Shichong personally led the troops of the Tang Dynasty into Luoyang City.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Shimin commanded the Tang army to take over the defense of Luoyang, and he ordered the troops to guard the market and strictly prohibit looting. The Tang army was highly disciplined, and no one dared to violate military orders.

On May 10, Li Shimin rode into the palace city of Luoyang on a white hoof. He ordered Fang Xuanling to go to the original Zheng Guozhong Book and Menxia Province first to collect the Sui Dynasty's picture book edict, but these have been burned by Wang Shichong, and Fang Xuanling has found nothing.

He also ordered Xiao Yu and Dou Liang to seal the treasury, take out all the gold, silver, treasures and silk, and reward them to the soldiers of the Tang Army, who were beaming with joy and dancing and singing excitedly. He also ordered Du Ruhui and others to urgently distribute military rations to the people who were short of food, and sent people to transport the corn back to Luocang by ship, so that Luoyang would no longer be short of grain, and the people were all happy.

The next day, Li Shimin ordered the arrest of Duan Da, Wang Long, Cui Hongdan, Xue Deyin, Yang Wang, Meng Xiaoyi, Shan Xiongxin, Yang Gongqing, Guo Shizhu, Guo Shiheng, Dong Rui, Wang Deren, Zhu Cang, Guo Shancai, and more than a dozen other people who were particularly guilty of crimes among Wang Shichong's party members, and prepared to behead them for public display.

Xu Shiji hurriedly found Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and pleaded for Shan Xiongxin, saying that Shan Xiongxin was extremely brave, and he was willing to hand over all his official positions and lords to redeem Shan Xiongxin's life. Cheng Zhijie and others also hurriedly interceded for Shan Xiongxin.

Li Shimin's mind kept coming up with the shadow of Shan Xiongxin's red robe and the blue bright long lance tip, and he felt very disgusted in his heart. He didn't want to agree, but for the sake of Cheng Zhijie's face, he still agreed to let Xu Shiji persuade Shan Xiongxin to surrender.

Shan Xiongxin was kept alone in a cell with no torture instruments on him; Seeing Cheng Zhijie and them coming, he faced the wall without saying a word.

Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin have the best relationship, he sighed and said: "Sixth brother, Wang Shichong has perished; You'd better surrender quickly! I have made a promise to the King of Qin, as long as you surrender; All kinds of past ones are written off. ”

"Humph! I still don't agree to what he wants to buy and sell? They want me to surrender unless Li Yuan and my brother fight for their lives. ”

Cheng Zhijie said angrily: "Sixth, it was a misunderstanding at the beginning, why do you keep worrying about it!" ”

"A misunderstanding, my brother died in vain? I have already sworn in front of my brother's spirit that I will not stop if I don't kill Li Yuan. I'm defeated, but God won't help me. There are more people dead in the world, so why are you afraid of one more Shan Xiongxin. ”

Xu Shiji cried: "I waited for the righteousness in Jia Liulou, and swore that I could not be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I begged to die on the same day and month of the same year." I was supposed to die with my sixth brother. However, now that Shiji's body has been dedicated to the country, it is difficult to achieve both loyalty and righteousness. ”

"The country? Xu Shiji, what you said is so good! Shan Xiongxin said disdainfully, turning his head to look at the opposite wall.

"Yes, the current Xu Shiji is no longer the Xu Shiji of the past. When we were twelve or thirteen years old, we began to wander the rivers and lakes, and we were rogues and thieves.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he was the leader of the world's green forests, and it was difficult to be a thief.

When we were seventeen or eighteen years old, we killed officials and rebelled in Wagangzhai, and began to learn to be good people, and only killed people when we went into battle. ”

Xu Shiji's expression was leisurely, recounting the boundless past, "Since Wei Gong came to Wagang, we have successively laid three granaries, opened warehouses to release grain, and more than a million people have survived on our grain, and they are grateful to Dade, which in turn touches me."

I have often pondered the question of why we are fighting and what we need to do to make a difference. It's a pity that Wei Gong ...... Cough! ”