Pei Xingyan turned his head and suddenly saw Wang Shichong hiding in the dark. He recognized Wang Shichong and was very happy. He rushed towards Wang Shichong, "Where will you go, Wang Thief!"

Wang Shichong complained and rushed the horse to run along the city wall, but only ran for dozens of steps. A figure above his head jumped down from the city, like an eagle spreading its wings. It turned out that Chen Guang saw Pei Xingyan want to capture Wang Shichong, and he was very anxious. This was his credit, how could Pei Xingyan take it away? He saw the opportunity and jumped down from the city, just behind Wang Shichong's horse. Before Wang Shichong could react, Chen Guang had already hugged his waist. The two of them fell off the horse together. Wang Shichong struggled desperately, but was hit by Chen Guang's temple with a fierce punch and was knocked unconscious.

Chen Guang stepped on Wang Shichong's neck with his feet and shouted to Pei Xingyan who was coming: "General Pei, this thief is me luring into the urn city. If the general wants this merit, I will give it to the general!"

Having said this, Pei Xingyan had to smile bitterly, and held the horse and said, "Of course I won't take over General Chen's credit. Congratulations to General Chen for capturing the king's thief alive!"

At this time, three thousand Sui army vanguards had already entered the Wengcheng, and Wang Shichong's guards died and surrendered, and no one rode on the horse.

At this time, a team of cavalry surrounded King Zhang Xuan of Qi and entered the urn city. Zhang Xuan had just received the news that Wang Shichong was in the south city and had been captured by the Sui army. This was beyond his expectations. Before the main force entered the city, he led a team of cavalry into the city to check the situation.

Chen Guang carried Wang Shichong and threw it at Zhang Xuan's horse. Wang Shichong moaned and slowly woke up. He felt that his headache was about to explode. It took him a while to wake up. He saw that the horses were surrounded by strong limbs. He knew that he had fallen into the hands of the Sui army, but he didn't know who the general was in front of him.

"General Wang, are you safe?"

A familiar voice came from above, Wang Shichong was shocked all over and slowly raised his head. He saw Zhang Xuan looking at him with a smile, his eyes showing a cold chill.

Wang Shichong whined in his heart, lowered his head and did not dare to say anything.

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

Wang Shichong sighed and said, "I heard that Your Highness has arrived in Luoyang, and Wang Shichong comes to welcome 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 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 entire army to surrender yourself?"

"Your Highness can spare my life?"

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "If you want to commit suicide to maintain your dignity, I will be buried with the courtesy of a prince. But if you want to live in the world, I can not kill you, and I will also be appointed as Duke of Zheng and continue to enjoy wealth. After your tribe donates wealth, you can return to the land and serve as the people, but I have the conditions!"

Wang Shichong said in a trembling voice: "Please say your Highness!"

"I want you to lead all officials to bow down to Duanmen with the state ceremony and offer the country to me. Can you agree to this condition?"

Wang Shichong's face turned pale, which meant that the surrender of the whole country was even more humiliated than abdication and lost all dignity. However, in order to survive, Wang Shichong did not care about his dignity and agreed repeatedly.

Zhang Xuan ordered Wang Shichong to use military talismans to order the troops to surrender out of the city. Dozens of captured guards rushed to the battalions to pass orders. Wang Shichong's brothers and nephews had been captured. Their fighting spirit immediately collapsed and dissipated. They led their troops out of the city to surrender to the Sui army in order to survive.

After a night of busyness, all 130,000 Zheng troops in Luoyang City surrendered to the Sui army. The Sui army built a prisoner of war camp and temporarily detained more than 100,000 prisoners of war. Wei Wentong led 30,000 troops to guard, and Zhang Xuan personally led 70,000 Sui army into the city and completely took over Luoyang City.

It was not dawn at this time, and most of the residents of Luoyang did not know that Wang Shichong had perished. Martial law was still imposed on the streets and alleys. Only carriages sent Wang Shichong's civil and military officials into the imperial city.

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

At this time, the morning glow had dyed Luoyang City golden. Hundreds of thousands of Luoyang people finally found that the Sui army had entered the city. The martial law was lifted. Hundreds of thousands of people could not help but feel excited and walked out of their homes and gathered on both sides of the Tianjie Street. The crowds were filled with people, laughter was noisy, and the bustling was extremely lively.

At this time, 20,000 Sui cavalry guards Zhang Xuan, the King of Qi, slowly entered the city from Dingding Gate. The flags were waving, and his majestic military posture caused cheers from the people on both sides of the Tianjie Street. When Zhang Xuan waved to the people of Luoyang, the cheers suddenly echoed in the sky.

"Long live! Long live Your Majesty the Emperor!"

Hundreds of thousands of people were so excited that they shouted, "They were not willing to overestimate the etiquette and shouted that Zhang Xuan was the emperor. In the hearts of the world, Zhang Xuan had long been a veritable emperor.

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

Wang Shichong had taken off his crown, took off his dragon robe, wore plain clothes, jade seals, and seals hanging on his neck. He held a pot of soil in his hands. Finally, he knelt on the bridge. Hundreds of civil and military officials behind him were also wearing plain clothes and knelt down with Wang Shichong. This was the ceremony of the surrender of the country by the king of the country and the ministers of the country by the country by the deceased.

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

The Sui cavalry slowly stopped fifty steps before Tianjin Bridge. Zhang Xuan urged him to step forward and looked at Wang Shichong coldly. Wang Shichong crawled and took two steps, raised the earth basin in his hand high, and said tremblingly: "The criminal Wang Shichong offended the power of heaven. He specially apologized to His Highness King Qi and was willing to surrender the pseudo-nation country!"

Wang Shichong said the word "pseudo-nation" in a particularly difficult way, because Northern Sui Dynasty did not recognize Zheng, so he could only call himself a pseudo-nation. The strong sense of shame made Wang Shichong pierce his heart like an arrow. He lowered his head and tears came out. At this moment, he even felt a sense of regret that he would rather die than surrender, but at this time, it was impossible for him to die.

Two Sui soldiers stepped forward and took over the earth basin and seal in his hand. Zhang Xuan then said: "You have violated the will of heaven and established a pseudo-nation country and ascended the throne of the pseudo-nin. Your crime should be punished. Nian You will be lost and will be reborn and surrendered. I will pardon you for your death sentence and be granted the marquis of Xingyang County. You will be in the capital for a long time. Please keep your mistakes in your door and think about your mistakes!"

"I thank Your Highness for your kindness!"

Two more soldiers came up and helped Wang Shichong away. When Wang Shichong had just left, a large group of soldiers rushed into the officials and led more than 20 civil and military officials who were extremely guilty, including Duan Da, Yang Gongqing, Zhang Tong'er, Wang Long, Wang Shiyun, Wang Shiwei, Wang Xingben, Wang Deren, Yang Wang, etc., and then some officials stepped forward to count their crimes one by one.

More than twenty people were so scared that they shouted, "Give me your life!"

Zhang Xuan said solemnly: "Although Wang Shichong is the chief evil, he is the monarch. The monarch has the choice not to kill. You help the evil and harm the people. You have a lot of blood and debts on your hands. If you don't kill the law of heaven, you will not tolerate it. You pushed it to the city and asked for a beheading and showed it to the people of Luoyang with your head."

The soldiers dragged more than 20 people away like wolves and tigers, and let them wail like pigs to spare their lives. It was still useless and the voice gradually faded away.

At this time, more than a hundred other officials were even more scared and trembled all over. Zhang Xuan urged them to come forward and said to them: "Some of you have surrendered to the Northern Sui Dynasty. The Northern Sui Association has entrusted it to pay more. Perhaps some people want to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty. I do not object or stop you. You can even go back to your hometown to support your old age. But there is a prerequisite that any ill-gotten wealth received in the pseudo-Zheng period must be paid in full, and then you can leave freely. Do you understand?"

Everyone kowtowed and thanked him, and the soldiers took them down and calculated their own ill-gotten wealth. Two soldiers brought Cui Wenxiang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, to come up with a shame. Cui Wenxiang looked down and said nothing. Zhang Xuan looked at him for a while and said, "Your father was ashamed of his ancestors and had committed suicide by hanging a beam in the Cui Clan Ancestral Hall. Do you know?"

Cui Wenxiang sighed softly, "I know I offended Your Highness very much. If Your Highness wants to kill me, I have no complaints!"

"offend?"

Zhang Xuan sneered and said, "I'm afraid you are not qualified to offend me yet. I won't kill you. Your fate is determined by the family. You go!"

Cui Wenxiang said nothing, bowed to Zhang Xuan, turned around and left.

Pei Xingyan, who was standing in the distance, whispered to Sima Jia Runfu, "It doesn't matter whether a minion like Cui Wenxiang kills or not, but why did your highness let Wang Shichong go? Bei Zhi really doesn't understand. This person is extremely ambitious. He confessed his guilt today and he will rebel tomorrow. Why did your highness forgive him and even grant him the title of Marquis of the County?"

Jia Runfu smiled and said, "Although Cui Wenxiang sells his brother for honor and has a despicable character, he has never done anything to harm the people, and he is also a cousin of the princess. Your Highness must give the Lu family and the Cui family a face. As for Wang Shichong, does the general know how to deal with the surrendered king since ancient times?"

"I don't know much about my job, please let Sima tell me!"

"This surrendered king killed him on the spot, which would have adverse effects. The practices of all dynasties were similar. They would definitely be granted official titles, but in the end they would not live for a year and die for various reasons. Even if Emperor Wen was tolerant of Chen Shubao back then, Emperor Wen would poison Chen Shubao before his death. His highness was as clear as a mirror. He knew that Wang Shichong had too many enemies. Even if we didn't kill him, his enemies would never let him go, so General Pei didn't have to worry at all. Wang Shichong would definitely not live for a year."

Pei Xingyan nodded silently, "I understand the humble vocation."
Chapter completed!