In August of the twelfth year of Guangxi, it was the crisp autumn season, twenty days had passed since the siege of Xuchang City by the Fourth Route Army, and there were still ten days before the deadline set by the King of Pingxi.

When Zhang Liao led the Southeast Route Army to the city of Xuchang, Zhao Xing published in the newspapers the deadline for the peaceful settlement of the Xuchang issue. After the last month passed, the Fourth Route Army would simultaneously use 80 Shenwu General Cannons to blow up the entire Xuchang city wall into ruins, and on the day the city was broken, all but the emperor, civilians, and poor people were executed.

From Zhao Xing's undoubted announcement, people in the world can see that King Pingxi still will not do anything to the emperor, and at the same time, they can also see King Pingxi's determination to cut off many heads. Whoever thinks that Zhao Xing's character is hesitant is very wrong. In this matter involving the future and fate of the Han Empire, Zhao Xing would not let go of anyone who stood in his way.

At noon, under the attention of tens of thousands of soldiers of the East Route Army, the north gate of Xuchang City slowly rose, and a few people walked out of the city to chat with them.

To tell the truth, Mo said that the division and several princes and generals who came out of the north gate were the same big men, and they rushed out of tens of thousands of armored and sharp troops, and the brothers of the Eastern Route Army stationed at the north gate would not blink a few more times. In the hearts of many Jin soldiers, they felt that it was as easy as slaughtering pigs and chickens to eliminate the regular troops of the imperial court, and they never really had any sense of awe.

The 100,000 soldiers of the East Road Legion, who first arrived under Xuchang City, have been here for more than three months, and everyone has had a good rest during this time. The Donglai Army, the Xiongwu Army, and the Montenegrin Army are each responsible for guarding for 10 days, and they rotate once a month.

Subsequently, the Northwest Road Army, the Southwest Road Army and the Southeast Army Corps, which arrived outside Xuchang City one after another, also followed the practice of the East Route Army, allowing the soldiers who had worked hard for more than a year to take turns to rest in place, and by the way, they also carried out various activities to show their muscles to the defenders at the head of Xuchang City.

Later, Zhao Xing proposed that the four legions outside the city could hold a joint sports meeting, and the participants were hundreds of thousands of screaming soldiers, and the venue for the competition was placed five miles outside Xuchang City. The specific content of the competition is keju, wrestling, riding and archery, and weight-bearing. When the commanders from all walks of life saw this suggestion, they also thought it was very interesting, so they really held a military sports meeting outside Xuchang City.

In the next period of time, there was a very strange scene. The Shenwu General Cannon and the small Shenwei Cannon outside the city use the black hole cannon to face the soldiers on the head of Xuchang City every day, and not far away are all kinds of competitive competitions in full swing. The head of Xuchang City has long been accustomed to seeing the imperial soldiers at the muzzle of the cannon, and with the naked eye, he can clearly see the daily games under the city. So the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom outside the city had a good time, and the defenders of the city also watched lively.

By this time, the soldiers defending the city had long lost the determination and will to resist, and they were concerned about when the officials and lords in the city would put down their subordinates and shelves, and honestly go out of the city to admit defeat to the king of Pingxi. For them, the threat of death is not so serious, anyway, it is a rotten life, as long as the officials and lords in the city are willing to die with them, then even if they turn into powder under the farewell of the Shenwu general's cannon, it will not be considered in vain.

It's a pity that the officials are destined to cherish their lives. No, twenty days after the announcement of the King of Pingxi, an agreement was finally reached in the city, and the general Cao Cao and the prime minister Liu Bei only took a few guards to chat, and they were about to go out of the city to hand over the table of surrender to the King of Pingxi.

In order to reach an agreement, there were no fewer deaths in Xuchang City during this time. Those clans who refused to surrender their land and moved away from their homeland to remote places were ruthlessly suppressed and purged by Cao Cao and Liu Bei because they resolutely opposed the court's submission to Zhao Xing in the court, fantasized about kidnapping the emperor above the interests of the family, and let everyone oppose Zhao Xing's migration and separation.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei knew very well in their hearts that Zhao Xing just wanted to see them do this. Because King Pingxi, who has the world in his heart and is generous and benevolent, does not like to kill people, he doesn't want the people of the world to say that he is a butcher, but he just issued that announcement that makes people hurt to the extreme. Although they have completely failed, Cao Cao and Liu Bei are both people who can bend and stretch, as long as Zhao Xing leaves them with even the slightest chance to live, they will not hesitate to grasp it in their hands first.

As long as Zhao Xing didn't kill Cao Cao and Liu Bei, but just exiled them to a place outside the Han Dynasty, as long as the family was still there, then they still had a reason and meaning to live.

Therefore, knowing that Zhao Xing forced them to kill people this time, Cao Cao and Liu Bei still raised the butcher knife in their hands without changing their faces, and slaughtered more than a dozen wealthy families in Xuchang City in one go, and finally made the remaining families reach a high degree of consensus.

Before going out of the city to meet Zhao Xing, Liu Bei and Cao Cao had met the emperor alone. Cao Cao said to the emperor: "I have persevered until now, there is really no way, the Cao family is in the hands of Zhao Xing, you are pitiful!" Liu Bei said to the emperor: "Liu Bei is incompetent, and in the end he lost to Zhao Guochang, if Your Majesty is unwilling to live secretly, the minister will go to Huangquan with you!"

The ants are still greedy for life, and Liu Wei, who is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, finally chose to live, even if it was to be a deposed emperor who lost his throne. Since Liu Wei himself wanted to live, he naturally would not let Liu Bei die with him, let alone ask Cao Cao to give up the Cao family.

The reason why Liu Wei didn't want to die was because he received letters from two younger brothers who had sealed the king. In their letters, King Liu of Jin and King Liu of Liang told their elder brother, whom they had never met, about the life they had lived over the years, about the joy and peace they felt when they did not wear a crown on their heads, and how they felt as ordinary people when they participated in farming, production, and various activities. They all persuaded the emperor's eldest brother to enjoy life to the fullest, so why covet that stiff and cold throne?

Liu Wei is only three years older than Zhao Xing, and now he is not even forty years old, so if he dies like this, he really feels a little regretful. He also wanted to see if the kind of world of great rule that had been advertised in the "Jin Daily" in the past few years would never starve to death again, whether there would be no resistance like the Yellow Turban Moth Thief, and whether there was a boundless world outside the Han Dynasty.

The most important thing is that Liu Wei firmly believes that Zhao Xing will not kill him, whether it is overt or secretly, and even Zhao Xing will do everything possible to protect his safety in order to fulfill his promise to the people of the world.

Since you don't want to die, you don't need to die, so let's live. Let's all live well, and wait to see where Zhao Xing will take the ship of the empire......