"Hey! People inside, listen! Your reinforcements, Xia Guo, have surrendered! King Dou Jiande has become a prisoner! Resistance is useless now, surrender is your only way out! Our boss said, whoever surrenders first will win everything Let the past be forgotten! All official positions and property will be retained!"
At the foot of Luoyang City, hundreds of loudspeakers were pumping their energy, roaring toward the city wall. The sound was so loud that half of the city could hear it!
In the city, Wang Shichong was frightened today and had no intention of sleeping peacefully. When he heard the report from his men, he immediately put on his clothes and rushed to the city wall.
"His Majesty!"
"His Majesty……"
The slippery city wall was already filled with ministers of all sizes from the State of Zheng. When they saw Wang Shichong arriving, they all immediately bowed with complicated expressions.
However, how could Wang Shichong have the intention to care about these people at this time? Pushing away the crowd, he hurriedly leaned over the ruined city and looked outside despite the heavy rain.
At this time, it was already the fourth watch time.
It was still pitch black outside the city, and with the heavy rain pouring down, Wang Shichong couldn't see anything at all.
"Impossible, Xia King Dou Jiande swept across both places, and now with the power of victory, the number of people far exceeds that of Li Shimin. How could he fail?" Wang Shichong seemed to be crazy as he clutched the wet city bricks with both hands! He never believed that Dou Jiande would be defeated, and the defeat was so complete that Li Shimin even arrested him!
"Yes, but they even captured Wang Wan..."
Behind Wang Shichong, someone didn't know who whispered.
"Wang Wan?!" Wang Shichong, who was holding on to the city wall, was startled and turned around suddenly: "Where is he!"
Wang Renze frowned and pointed at the city without saying anything.
Seeing this, Wang Shichong was about to ask again when he heard the annoying loudspeakers below shouting again: "People inside! If you don't believe it, come down and have a look. Your Majesty's nephew Wang Wan is in our hands now!" "
"What nonsense! How could King Xia be defeated!"
When Wang Shichong heard this, he could no longer hold back the anger in his heart, and shouted towards the city with his whole body trembling!
Under the city wall, Xiao Han and the others, who had been soaked in the rain for a long time, heard this familiar voice and immediately knew that Wang Shichong had finally arrived!
Xiao Han quickly waved his hand to stop those loud voices, then poked Liu Hongji and motioned for him to come forward and speak.
Liu Hongji nodded, picked up a brass trumpet, took two steps forward arrogantly, and shouted towards the top of the city with enough breath: "Hahaha...Wang Shichong, you are finally here! What? I don't believe your nephew is here Ours? That’s easy to handle, just put down a rope and I’ll send him to meet you!”
When Wang Shichong on the city wall heard this, his face was uncertain. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said: "Put down a bamboo basket! I want to see what tricks they are playing!"
"Here!" The guard next to him responded with his hands raised, and then quickly found a long rope, tied a bamboo basket, and sent it down from the top of the city.
"Wait! People are coming soon!"
Vaguely seeing the bamboo basket falling to the ground, Yu Chigong laughed twice and grabbed Wang Wan and came to the moat. At this time, someone on Xiao Han's side had already prepared a long ladder and stretched it across the moat to serve as a single-plank bridge.
Wang Wan was trembling, and finally crossed the river. When he walked to the frame, he looked back at the armored men with portable steel crossbows, shuddered, and got into the basket obediently.
He has seen the kind of crossbow arrows that can be fired in rainy days today, and he knows that at this distance, running away is death!
The rope slowly tightened, and then quickly pulled Wang Wan up to the top of the city.
When Xiao Han and the others saw this, they stopped shouting and huddled under the existing awning to hide from the rain. These days, a cold can kill someone!
The rope was pulled up bit by bit, and Wang Shichong's heart sank bit by bit.
By the time Wang Wan's head emerged from the top of the city, his heart had sunk to the bottom.
"Xiao Wan! King Xia, is he really?" Before the people around him could lift the bamboo basket, Wang Shichong pulled Wang Wan out first and looked at him anxiously and asked!
Wang Wan, who was drenched by the heavy rain, saw his uncle, his eyes immediately turned red, and he trembled: "Uncle! King Xia is really defeated! All the 200,000 troops are gone, and even he himself was killed by Li Shimin Captured…”
"Gone? All gone?"
Wang Shichong could no longer hear clearly what Wang Wan said next!
At this moment, he just felt like the world was spinning, and the whole world seemed to be leaving him!
Dou Jiande failed, which meant that his last trace of support was gone!
Then, next, he will be left alone to face the hungry wolf-like Li family in this land.
Wang Shichong was on the verge of collapse, but Wang Renze rushed forward, gritted his teeth and looked at his cousin Wang Wan and said: "Dou Jiande has been defeated, so what are you doing here?!"
Wang Wan glanced at Wang Renze, wiped his face and said in a low voice: "They want me to persuade you to surrender! They said that Luoyang City cannot be defended! If you surrender now, go over there Everything is forgotten, even their official positions will be retained..."
"nonsense!"
Before Wang Wan finished speaking, suddenly! Accompanied by a loud shout, a big foot kicked him hard!
The unsuspecting Wang Wan almost flew up from the kick and hit the wall behind heavily, vomiting blood!
"Shan Xiongxin! What are you going to do!" Wang Renze didn't expect that Shan Xiongxin would suddenly strike hard. When he reacted and saw Wang Wan's serious injury, he immediately roared at Shan Xiongxin.
Shan Xiongxin had no expression on his face and looked at Wang Renze and the ministers coldly: "Don't listen to this monstrous talk to confuse the public! I dare say that once we surrender to the Tang people, it's hard to say whether we can survive tomorrow!"
"You won't survive tomorrow? General Shan's words are a bit alarmist! We know that General Shan, you and Li's father and son have a grudge against killing their father and brother, but if you want revenge, don't drag us along, okay?!" There were people around. He shouted to Shan Xiongxin angrily.
"That's right! Look at Cheng Yaojin, Qin Shubao and the others who surrendered to Li Shimin. Aren't they the same high-ranking officials who have to do the same things and ride fine horses? Why should we die if we surrender?"
"Now that even Dou Jiande has lost, how long can we defend Luoyang? In my opinion, it is better to just follow the Tang people, so that the soldiers and people of Luoyang will suffer less!"
Soon, there were countless noises around Wang Shichong!
In fact, after Xiao Han and the others shouted the words "let's forget about it", the hearts of those on the fence began to get excited!
After all, who can’t work for someone to make ends meet?
If you can live with the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it will indeed be more practical than living with Wang Shichong, who is about to collapse!
