Pei Xingyan turned his head, and suddenly saw Wang Shichong hiding in the shadows, he recognized Wang Shichong, and immediately felt overjoyed, and turned his horse to rush towards Wang Shichong, "King thief, where to go!" ”

Wang Shichong complained bitterly, urged the horse to run along the city wall, but only ran out of dozens of steps, a figure above his head jumped down from the city, like an eagle with wings, it turned out that Shen Guang saw Pei Xingyan to catch Wang Shichong, he was anxious, this is his credit, how can he let Pei Xingyan take away, he saw the opportunity to jump down from the city, just behind Wang Shichong's horse, without waiting for Wang Shichong to react, Shen Guang had already hugged his waist, the two fell off the horse together, Wang Shichong struggled desperately, but was hit by Shen Guang in the temple with a punch, Immediately knocked unconscious. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Shen Guang stepped on the back of Wang Shichong's neck with his foot, and shouted to Pei Xingyan, who had killed him: "General Pei, this thief was lured into the urn city by me, if the general wants this work, I will give it to the general!" ”

Having said this, Pei Xingyan had to smile bitterly, reined in his war horse and said: "Of course I won't rob General Shen's credit, congratulations to General Shen for capturing the thief alive!" ”

At this time, the vanguard of the three thousand Sui army had already entered the urn city, Wang Shichong's guards were dead, and they surrendered, and there was no one on the horse.

At this time, a team of cavalry surrounded Qi Wang Zhang Xuan into the urn city, Zhang Xuan just got the news, Wang Shichong was in the south of the city, has been captured by the Sui army, this is beyond his expectations, not waiting for the main force to enter the city, he first led a team of cavalry into the city to check the situation.

Shen Guang carried Wang Shichong and threw it in front of Zhang Xuan's horse, Wang Shichong groaned, and slowly woke up, he only felt that his headache was about to explode, and it took a while to wake up, only to see that the strong limbs of the war horse were all around, and he knew that he had fallen into the hands of the Sui army, so he didn't know who the general in front of him was.

"General Wang, don't come unharmed?"

A familiar voice came from overhead, Wang Shichong was shocked, and slowly raised his head, only to see Zhang Xuan looking at him with a smile, his eyes revealing a cold chill.

Wang Shichong wailed in his heart, bowed his head and did not dare to speak.

Zhang Xuan sneered again and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Wang Shichong let out a long sigh and said, "I heard that His Royal Highness has arrived in Luoyang, and Wang Shichong came to greet him at the city gate. ”

The soldiers on both sides couldn't help laughing, and Zhang Xuan couldn't help laughing, and said with a slight smile: "It seems that you still have self-knowledge, how about it, do you want me to kill into the city, or do you order the whole army to surrender yourself?" ”

"Your Highness can spare my life?"

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "If you want to kill yourself to maintain your dignity, I will be buried with princely gifts, but if you want to live in the world, then I can not kill you, and crown you as Zheng Guogong, continue to enjoy the glory and wealth, and your people can return to the land for the people after donating their wealth, but I have conditions!" ”

Wang Shichong said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness, please speak!" ”

"I want you to lead hundreds of officials to kneel down to Duanmen with a national salute and offer the community to me, can you agree to this condition?"

Wang Shichong's face turned pale, this is the surrender of the whole country, more humiliated than Chan Rang, and his dignity has been lost, but in order to survive, Wang Shichong can't care about his dignity anymore, and he agrees repeatedly.

Zhang Xuan ordered Wang Shichong to use military talismans to order all armies to go out of the city and surrender, and dozens of captured guards rushed to the battalions to give orders, Wang Shichong's brothers and nephews had been captured, and their fighting spirit immediately collapsed and dissipated, and they led their troops out of the city to surrender to the Sui army in order to survive.

After a busy night, all the 130,000 Zheng troops in Luoyang City have surrendered to the Sui army, and the Sui army has set up a prisoner of war camp to temporarily hold more than 100,000 prisoners of war, guarded by Wei Wentong with 30,000 troops, and Zhang Xuan personally led 70,000 Sui troops into the city and completely took over Luoyang City.

At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and most of the residents of Luoyang did not know that Wang Shichong had perished, and martial law was still implemented in the streets and alleys, and only one carriage sent Wang Shichong's civil and military officials into the imperial city.

At three o'clock, the Jingyang bell on the end tower rang, and the low bell spread throughout the city, which is a big bell that will only ring when the emperor ascends the throne or dies, which means that something big has happened to the country.

At this time, the morning glow has dyed Luoyang City golden yellow, hundreds of thousands of Luoyang people finally found out that the Sui army entered the city, martial law was lifted immediately, hundreds of thousands of people could not bear the excitement in their hearts, they have come out of their homes to gather on both sides of the street, the voices of people are boiling, laughter is noisy, and the excitement is abnormal.

At this time, 20,000 cavalry of the Sui army escorted Zhang Xuan, the king of Qi, slowly entered the city from the Dingding Gate, waving the flag, and the majestic military posture caused a burst of cheers from the people on both sides of the street, and when Zhang Xuan waved to the people of Luoyang, the cheers suddenly resounded in the sky.

"Hooray! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Hundreds of thousands of people were so excited that they raised their arms and shouted, they no longer cared about trespassing etiquette, and shouted Zhang Xuan as His Majesty the Emperor, in the hearts of the people of the world, Zhang Xuan has long been a veritable emperor of the Son of Heaven.

At this time, the end gate opened, and hundreds of civil and military officials of Zheng Guo slowly walked across the Tianjin Bridge under the leadership of Wang Shichong and walked towards Tianjie.

Wang Shichong has taken off the crown, taken off the dragon robe, is wearing plain clothes, with a jade seal around his neck, holding a pot of soil in both hands, and finally knelt at the bridge, and hundreds of civil and military officials behind him are also wearing plain clothes, following Wang Shichong to kneel, this is the ceremony of the surrender of the whole country by the king of the dead country and the ministers of the dead country.

This kind of surrender ceremony is not only a great shame for Wang Shichong and everyone, but in order to live and atone for their sins, they can only endure the shame.

The cavalry of the Sui army slowly stopped fifty steps before the Tianjin Bridge, Zhang Xuan urged the horse to step forward, and looked at Wang Shichong coldly, Wang Shichong took two steps prostrately, raised the earthen basin in his hand, and said in a trembling voice: "The criminal minister Wang Shichong offended Tianwei, and I would like to ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi for guilt, and I would like to raise my ..... Surrender of the puppet state! ”

The word 'puppet country' Wang Shichong said extremely difficult, because the Northern Sui did not recognize Zheng Guo, he could only call himself a puppet country, and the strong sense of shame made Wang Shichong like a thousand arrows piercing his heart, he lowered his head and tears welled up, at this moment he even had a kind of regret that he would rather die than surrender, but at this time even if he chose to die, it was impossible.

Two Sui soldiers stepped forward and took the earthen basin and seal ribbon in his hand, Zhang Xuan said: "You disobeyed the will of heaven, established a puppet country, ascended the throne and the puppet emperor, and your crime should be punished. ”

"Weichen Xie Your Highness Heavenly Grace!"

When Wang Shichong just left, a large group of soldiers rushed into the hundreds of officials, Duan Da, Yang Gongqing, Zhang Tong'er, Wang Long, Wang Shiyun, Wang Shiwei, Wang Xingben, Wang Deren, Yang Wang, and other more than 20 civil and military officials who committed heinous crimes were found out, and then some officials stepped forward to list their crimes one by one.

More than two dozen people shouted in fright, 'Spare your life! ’

Zhang Xuan said solemnly: "Although Wang Shichong is the first evil, he is the monarch, and the monarch has the choice not to kill. ”

The soldiers dragged away more than 20 people like wolves, and let them cry and spare their lives like pigs, but to no avail, and the sound gradually faded away.

At this time, more than 100 other officials were even more frightened and trembling, and Zhang Xuan urged them to step forward and said: "Some of you have already surrendered to the Northern Sui, and the Northern Sui will be entrusted with reuse, and maybe there are also people who want to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, I don't object, and I don't stop you, you can even go back to your hometown to retire and enjoy your old age, but there is a premise, all the ill-gotten gains other than Yulu during the pseudo-Zheng period must be handed over in full, and then you can leave freely, do you understand?" ”

Everyone kowtowed to thank them, and the soldiers took them down, each to calculate their ill-gotten gains, and the two soldiers brought Cui Wenxiang, the head of the household, up, Cui Wenxiang was full of shame, lowered his head and said nothing, Zhang Xuan looked at him for a long time and said: "Your father is ashamed of his ancestors, and he has committed suicide by hanging a beam in the Cui ancestral hall, do you know?" ”

Cui Wenxiang sighed lowly, "I know that I have offended His Highness very deeply, and if His Highness wants to kill me, I have no complaints!" ”

"Offended?"

Zhang Xuan sneered and said: "I'm afraid you are not qualified to offend me, I will not kill you, your fate is decided by the family, you go!" ”

Cui Wenxiang didn't say a word, bowed to Zhang Xuan, turned around and left.

Pei Xingyan, who was standing in the distance, asked Sima Jia Runfu in a low voice: "Jia Sima, it really doesn't matter if a little minion like Cui Wenxiang kills or not, but why did His Royal Highness let Wang Shichong go, I really don't understand, this person is extremely ambitious, he confesses his guilt today, and tomorrow he will rebel again when he seizes the opportunity, why does His Highness spare him and make him a county marquis?" ”

Jia Runfu smiled slightly: "Although Cui Wenxiang betrayed his brother for glory and had a despicable character, he has never done anything to harm the people after all, and he is the cousin of the princess, His Royal Highness must give the Lu family and the Cui family a face, as for Wang Shichong, does the general know how to deal with surrendered kings since ancient times?" ”

"I don't know much about the lowly position, please make it clear!"

"This kind of surrender to the king to kill him on the spot, will cause adverse effects, the practice of all dynasties is similar, will definitely be knighted, but in the end they will not live for a year, will die for various reasons, even if Emperor Wen tolerated Chen Shubao back then, but Emperor Wen will poison Chen Shubao before he dies, His Royal Highness is like a mirror, he knows that Wang Shichong has too many enemies, even if we don't kill him, his enemies will never let him go, so General Pei doesn't have to worry at all, Wang Shichong will definitely not live for a year."

Pei Xingyan nodded silently, "I understand." (To be continued.) )