"If we kill each other, we will just let the emperor see a joke."

In Luoyang City, Dou Dan said to Li Xiaogong and Luo Yi that the emperor's army besieged the city, no matter what, they will be defeated. At this time, nothing is meaningless.

Luo Yi laughed a few times, "I never thought of selling friends to seek honor."

Li Xiaogong sneered, "You have never written a letter of surrender to Li Shimin, nor have you planned to exchange our heads for your fame and fortune, right?"

"Everyone doesn't have to say those things anymore. What's the point of saying it now?"

Luo Yi was exposed and was not angry.

"What does Prince Dou mean? We will never ask us to continue to trap the lonely city here, right?"

Even if we guarded, we won’t be able to defend for long. Dou Dan knew very well that the food in Luoyang City could not last long. The most important thing is that Li Shimin would not let them go. If they did not surrender, they would attack in at that time. "Everyone, even if we open the city to surrender, Li Shimin would not let us go. Surrender or defending would be dead. We might as well escape."

"Escape? Where can we escape?" Li Xiaogong asked, "Luoyang City has been besieged by more than 200,000 troops, and it is surrounded like an iron barrel. Where can we escape? Once we leave the city, we will inevitably be defeated."

"There is still a glimmer of life for escape, which is better than staying here and dying. We gather our respective troops and horses together, first select an elite force, prepare horses and dry food. Then we send people to Li Shimin to tell the city to surrender, but the night before, other troops broke through on all sides. Then we took a small group of elite force and broke through on horseback."

"Where to break through?"

"To the northeast, we break out to Hebei and go to Liaodong."

"Liaodong?"

Dou Dan nodded, "We go to the Goguryeo, and there is only where we can stay."

The three of them quarreled for a long time, and finally Li Xiaogong and Luo Yi reluctantly agreed to Dou Dan's plan.

Luo Yi came back from Dou Dan, but immediately called his brother Luo Shou.

"We really want to go to Goguryeo?"

Luo Yi sneered.

"If we can escape to Goguryeo, it would be a way out. But from Luoyang to Goguryeo, how can we escape from thousands of miles away? We may even be surrounded as soon as we leave Luoyang City. Fortunately, Dou Dan thought about it, this is a dead end. Forget it, now, we can only take risks, kill them, and use their heads to meet Li Shimin, and maybe even get a glimmer of life, at least a hundred times better than what they are going to Goguryeo."

The dark night is coming.

There is uneasy movement under the dark night.

Shortly after dark, fires broke out everywhere in Luoyang City, and there were constant shouts of killing.

Luo Yi still took the lead. Although Dou Dan and Li Xiaogong were unwilling to get to this point, they were still wary of Luo Yi. The three soldiers were like three trapped beasts with red eyes, killing each other in the city.

The fires and shouts of killing in Luoyang City reached outside the city.

Li Shimin put on his clothes and looked at Luoyang City but just sneered.

Five years ago, he defeated Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong here and captured Luoyang City. Five years later, he was still Luoyang City, but he was besieged by the ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

Luoyang is a strong city. Wang Shichong was in a strong city and guarded it for several years.

But Li Xiaogong and Dou Dan are not Wang Shichong.

He had long expected that these people would kill each other in the future.

The battle in the city lasted all night and had not stopped until dawn.

It was not until afternoon that the Luoyang city gate finally slowly opened.

The two brothers Luo Yi and Luo Shou were covered in blood. They led their subordinates out of the city, and each brother was carrying a head.

The two Qi Xing came to Li Shimin and presented the heads of Li Xiaogong and Dou Dan.

Li Shimin looked at the Luo Yi brothers coldly, with disgust in his eyes.

The emperor waved his hand and the guards stepped forward to take down the Luo Yi brothers, and the brigade of officials surrounded the rebels who had left the city.

"cut!"

The emperor spits out a word.

Luo Yi struggled unwillingly, "Your Majesty, we will atone for our sins."

Li Shimin said disdainfully, "Your crimes are so numerous that you can never redeem them."

A moment later, the guard brought two heads, and the two brothers Luo Yi and Luo Shou died with their heads, and their heads were placed together with Li Xiaogong and Dou Dan.

"Save these heads, I will take them back to Hanjing and hang them at the city gate to show them!"

"Your Majesty, what about these rebels?"

There was an internal strife last night, and thousands of rebels died. However, there were still nearly 100,000 rebels who surrendered in the end. In fact, most of the rebels were just civilians who were forced to come.

"All officers above the team will be executed. All the former imperial guards and soldiers of the imperial court who were sent to the rebels will be sent to slaves and auctioned on the market. Those who were originally people who were forced to join the army will be sentenced to one year of labor and will be repaid after the service."

The emperor announced that the rebels were extremely strict. It was even more strict than the Zheng army after the surrender of Luoyang Wang Shichong.

"Your Majesty, are you too strict?"

"Since you have joined the rebels and committed these crimes, you have to be punished." Li Shimin was unshakable.

The handling is harsh, but no one dares to rebel anymore.

They had already left the city. Although they still had weapons in their hands, they were covered with bright swords and guns of the officials. In the end, they had to put down their weapons and accept the disposal.

When the emperor entered Luoyang City, he was full of disgrace.

There were hungry people everywhere, destroyed houses and robbed shops.

Li Shimin ordered the transportation of military rations into the city and gave porridge and food to the people.

"Your Majesty, good news from Hanjing."

A knight rode his horse into the city and ran across the street, bringing the emperor the latest good news.

"The King of Yue has recovered Han Jing."

"Where are the queen and the prince, are they safe?" the emperor asked with concern.

"The Queen and His Highness are safe."

"Where is the Supreme Emperor and the deposed prince?" the emperor asked again.

When Li Shimin heard that the Supreme Emperor and the deposed crown prince were killed by Li Shentong, the subordinates of Li Daozong who had attacked the palace, Li Shimin was silent. However, this was still good news. He didn't have to face these two people again when he went back.

You don't have to solve them yourself.

If the two of them were alive when he went back, he swore that he would kill them with his own hands.

After a while of silence, the emperor asked, "Where is Li Chao?"

"When your Majesty, after King Yue entered the capital, he immediately asked the Crown Prince Zetianmen to come to the court to restore order in the Hanjing, and handed over the military power of the king's army, and resigned the Shangshu Ling and the governor of the Six Dao of Jiangnan."

Li Shimin was very satisfied when he heard that Li Chao not only handed over the military power, but also asked the prince to place the royal army and others outside the city. Li Chao seemed to be able to grasp the scale and he never seemed to be greedy for power.

What does Li Chao like?

He seemed to like titles, money, and comfort, but he didn't like high positions in the court. This time he asked Li Chao to come to Hanjing first, and he had many arrangements.
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