Although Zeng Zhilin was the founding uncle, the deputy commander of the front division of the palace, the general of the Right Jin Wuwei, the commander of the Yanzhou Defense Envoy, the commander of the Western Route Army of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and the commander of the Right Route Army, and served as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Jinling siege battle, his identity was absolutely unreasonable to accept Li Yu, the lord of the country, to kneel and bow. Therefore, in the face of Li Yu who was prostrating on the ground and a group of civil and military generals in Jiangnan, Zeng Zhilin hurriedly dismounted and returned the salute sideways, and asked the other party to get up for the time being, and wait for the arrival of his fifth brother Wang Kunjun to carry out the official surrender ceremony, and personally accompany Li Yu to wait for Wang Kunjun's arrival.

In fact, when the city walls in the south, east and north of Jinling City were broken through, and the 100,000 troops of the Zhou-Wu coalition army entered the city, Wang Kunjun had already led a group of civil and military troops from the southern Zhou expeditionary army into the city under the escort of the pro-guard battalion and the "ranger battalion". It's just that, firstly, the street fighting in the city has not ended for a while, and secondly, the order in the city needs to be maintained as much as possible, so at the beginning of entering the city, Wang Kunjun, Xu Shaoan and others focused on fighting the remnants of the Jiangnan army's resistance and restoring public order in the city, and did not pay too much attention to the situation in Miyagi.

Speaking of which, although there was chaos in the city when the city was broken, the main body that created the chaos was not the largest number of Great Zhou Southern Expeditionary Army, but the Jiangnan Army that planned to take advantage of the fire to loot and fish in troubled waters, and the Wu Yue army generals who had a deep grudge with Jiangnan and wanted to retaliate. Regarding the behavior of the Jiangnan Army and the generals of the Wu Yue Army, Wang Kunjun, Xu Shaoan, and other commanders of the Southern Expeditionary Army, who hoped to conquer Jinling City with minimal losses, naturally could not accept it. After all, long before the siege of the city, Wang Kunjun had ordered all departments to rectify military discipline and not to bully the people. Wu Yuejun, as the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, was a servant of the national strength, so he naturally had to abide by this command. Now that they are burning, killing, looting, wantonly retaliating in the city, and treating military orders as nothing, how can Wang Kunjun, Xu Shaoan and others let it go. Therefore, as soon as he entered the city, Wang Kunjun ordered the officers of the Military Justice Department of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the personal guard battalion, the military police companies of the various divisions of the "Flying Dragon Army" participating in the battle, and the "Langya Battalion" to form a number of military discipline rectification action teams, which were scattered to all corners of Jinling City, and purged and punished the Jiangnan Army's routed troops, the Wu Yue generals who burned and looted, and the officers and men of the Southern Expedition who dared to violate military discipline.

However, the way of purging is completely different. According to Wang Kunjun's order, the Jiangnan army that took advantage of the fire to rob the rout, no matter how great the damage and loss was caused, would be killed on the spot; For the soldiers and generals of the Wu and Yue armies who burned, killed and looted, if no human life was involved, they were severely punished with 40 to 80 military sticks, and all the property they looted was confiscated. Anyone who involves human life or abducts a woman will be punished on the spot; Officers and men of the Southern Expedition who dared to violate military discipline were all arrested on the spot and handed over to the Military Justice Department of the Southern Expeditionary Army for severe punishment in accordance with military regulations.

As the military discipline rectification action teams from all walks of life penetrated into all corners of Jinling City, the already sparse gunshots and explosions suddenly became dense again. However, this kind of gunfire is like a reflection of the light, and it comes and goes quickly, but after half an hour, the gunfire and explosions in the city will become more and more sparse until they disappear completely, and Jinling City, which was chaotic because of the siege battle and the disturbance of the rout, angry soldiers, and evil soldiers, gradually calmed down at the beginning of the afternoon.

The city of Jinling gradually calmed down, and the order in the market was basically restored, but Wang Kunjun's slightly irritable mood because of the Zhou-Wu coalition army, especially Wu Yue's disobedience to the commander's orders, did not calm down because of this, but became more and more irritated after receiving the reports of the military discipline rectification action teams from all walks of life.

According to the reports of several military discipline rectification action teams, at the beginning of the city, a group of Wu Yue troops broke into the mansion of Zhong Zhen, a scholar of the Jiangnan Qinzheng Palace, and saw the other party sitting in the lobby in court clothes, and shouted at his behavior of breaking into his mansion. On the other hand, Wu Yue's army surrounded the "Shengyuan Pavilion" of Waguan Temple, which contained hundreds of wealthy businessmen who had fled the flames of war and nearly 1,000 family members and retinues, and asked the merchants in the building to pay a huge amount of money immediately before they were allowed to leave. However, these wealthy merchants all fled to this Buddhist temple in their opinion to avoid the war, how could they carry a large amount of gold and silver with them. But in the face of the fierce and vicious Wu Yuejun outside the "Shengyuan Pavilion", in order to save their lives, these businessmen had to collect all the valuable things on their bodies and hand them over to Wu Yuejun who surrounded the pavilion, only asking the other party to give a little grace to let the entourage go home and get money to redeem themselves.

The merchants, hoping to avoid disaster, sent people home to redeem themselves with money. But the problem is that these Wu Yue soldiers extorting money is a disobedience to military orders, and they may be discovered by the Zhou army at any time, so how can they spend time waiting for those businessmen and their entourage to go home and get the money. Therefore, the leader of this Wu Yue army wrapped the goods that the merchants had temporarily put together around his waist, and ordered his subordinates to set fire to the pavilion to destroy the evidence. Pity those Jiangnan businessmen who want to break their wealth and avoid disasters can't get it, and more than 1,000 people from the businessmen's families and entourage servants were all buried in the fire, and none of them were spared.

If the above-mentioned crimes can also be attributed to revenge for old feuds or the intention of making money, then a force of more than 100 Wu Yue troops, under the command of his battalion, brazenly launched an attack on a mansion that was used as a secret contact point by the Jinling branch of the "Dark Feather", and turned a blind eye to the clear "Dark Feather" sign at the door, and turned a deaf ear to the warning of the owner of the mansion to reveal his identity, then it can definitely be regarded as a move to challenge the bottom line of the Beiping Army and touch Wang Kunjun and other traversers to rebel. On the one hand, the "Dark Feather", that is, the Intelligence Department, is the top three important functional departments in the crossing team, and its authority cannot be challenged by anyone. In particular, the Tangkou (intelligence station) like the Jinling Branch, which worked in the heart of the opponent and made great contributions to the southern expedition, was even more valued by the crossing team. If this Wu and Yue army rebels dare to act so wantonly and recklessly, if they are not severely punished, how can they maintain the authority and inviolability of the intelligence department. On the other hand, among the several detectives who unfortunately died in the process of resisting the Wu Yue army in the Jinling branch of the "Dark Feather" branch, one of them joined the review team before the establishment of the "Dark Feather", graduated from Class B of the first phase of the "Dark Feather Business Training Class", lurked in Jinling City for seven years, and was the owner of this mansion as a secret contact point, and Qiu Xin, a senior veteran agent who has contributed a lot to "Dark Feather", and the deputy head of the "Dark Feather" Jinling Branch. Like this, the early professional background, the cadres trained by Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei and others were all "dark feathers" or the wealth of the Ministry of Intelligence, but now they were killed by a group of Wu Yuejun rebels who did not know the height of the sky and acted arbitrarily, and the anger of Wang Kunjun, Xu Shaoan and others can be imagined.

Therefore, as soon as he received the report, Wang Kunjun ordered that the Wu Yue soldiers who participated in the first two evil acts should be brought to justice on the spot, regardless of whether they were the main culprits or accomplices. As for the Wu Yue army rebels who attacked the secret contact point of the Jinling branch of the "Dark Feather", in addition to all the soldiers who participated in the attack on the mansion and did not die, and the battalion commander who led the attack were all punished on the spot, even the military commander who took them with them was also arrested and beheaded to set an example. At the same time, Wang Kunjun also ordered Shen Chengli, who replaced Qian Yu, who had returned to Hangzhou, as the chief general of the Wu Yue army, and ordered him to immediately withdraw all Wu Yue troops from Jinling City and return to the army's original camp outside Jinling City. Moreover, in order to "ensure" that Wu Yuejun's troops could withdraw from the city in an orderly manner, to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to stir up trouble, and at the same time to supervise that Wu Yuejun's troops would not secretly take away the captive women, Wang Kunjun also ordered the First Regiment of the First Synthetic Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Wolf Tooth Battalion," which had been reassembled after completing the rectification task, to be responsible for "escorting" these friendly troops out of the city.

Although he was a little dissatisfied with Wang Kunjun's order, he thought that Wu Yue and Jiangnan were old enemies, and it was not a big deal for his troops to kill some people, rob some money, and rob some women in Jinling City. But in the face of the first regiment of the first synthetic infantry division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Wolf Tooth Battalion" that were pressing on him with great momentum and eyeing him, Shen Chengli did not dare to have the slightest intention of delaying or resisting, and hurriedly restrained his troops, not only put back all the women who were captured by the soldiers under his command, but also left all the money and property looted by the soldiers and generals that Wang Kunjun did not mention, and handed them over to the Southern Expeditionary Army responsible for "escorting" them out of the city for safekeeping. Then he led Wu Yuejun to return to the headquarters outside the city as quickly as possible, and did not dare to go out of the camp for half a step, so as not to cause misunderstanding among the Zhou army, thus bringing disaster to himself.

After clearing the Jiangnan rout, expelling the Wu Yue rebels, seeing that the sun was already turning west, Wang Kunjun, who was in a slightly relaxed mood, dusted off the dust on his body and went to the palace with Xu Shao'an to formally accept the surrender of the Jiangnan monarchs. At this time, Li Yu and his group of civil and military generals had already stood outside the palace with their heads bowed for an hour and a half. Not only is Li Yu, who has been pampered since he was a child and has never suffered before, his legs are numb and his body is sore, but even those generals who practice martial arts every day and practice every day are a little unbearable. As the saying goes, "soldiers can be killed but not humiliated", in the face of a one-sided situation, it is not a big deal to surrender as a last resort, but under the sun, groveling and sweating for an hour and a half, the commander of the surrendered Zhou army has not yet shown up, so humiliating that the military generals of Jiangnan are somewhat unbearable, if it were not for the general of the Zhou army, Zeng Zhilin, and 1,500 soldiers of the "Ranger Battalion" standing on the side and eyeing them, I am afraid that the temperamental Jiangnan generals would have jumped up and protested.

However, unlike the generals under his command who began to lose their breath and couldn't stand the humiliation, and were quite dissatisfied with the Zhou army, especially the prince of the Song Kingdom, who was responsible for the surrender, as the waiting time became longer and longer, Li Yu's heart sank more and more, and the cold sweat on his body became more and more. In his opinion, the later the Duke of Song came to Kunjun, the more angry and hateful the Great Zhou court and officials were towards him, and the more severe the punishment he might receive. Although he may not kill himself just like this, I am afraid that the way to Kaifeng, as well as the palace and even the days to come, will be inseparable from humiliation, attack, and revenge. Thinking that he will live in dire straits from now on, how can our great lord Li not be cold, fearful, or cold, so that when the sun is scorching, he does not feel a little warmth, but is like falling into an ice cave.

Just when Li Yu was panicked and uneasy, a sound of horses' hooves galloped towards the palace gate from far and near, Zeng Zhilin, who was standing beside him, turned his head to look at it, and whispered in his ear: "Song Guogong has arrived." Hearing this, Li Yu hurriedly took off his clothes and knelt on the ground, and lowered his head deeply, not even daring to breathe - the Jiangnan Wenchen military generals behind him also knelt down.

Not long after, with the neighing of war horses, a team of men and horses stopped not far from Jiangnan Junchen. Then, with the sound of footsteps, someone walked up to Li Yu, who made a five-body bow and couldn't see the appearance of the person at all, and asked in a very majestic and solemn tone: "Li Yu, are you guilty?" ”