After hearing the words of his lieutenant general, the guarding general's expression suddenly became brilliant.

After hesitating for a moment, he said to his lieutenant general: "Surrender, where can we go?"

They are all natives of the capital, and they still have their wives and children at home. Could it be that they can leave their family behind and go after the Great Zhou royal family that has already abandoned them?
The general who defended the city did not want to be treated as an outcast again, nor did he want his subordinates to continue to make unnecessary sacrifices for the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He jumped onto the wall and ordered his subordinates to signal their retreat with semaphore.

When most of the imperial guards retreated quickly according to the order, the city guard general used some internal strength and began to shout at the Xie family army who was chasing and beating the imperial guards.

"The imperial guards are willing to surrender to the Xie clan, and please ask the Xie clan's chief general, Ming Jin, to withdraw!"

When he shouted, all the imperial guards and Xie Jiajun present subconsciously stopped what they were doing.

The general defending the city took the opportunity to shout again, "All the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard listen to my order, put down their weapons immediately, and squat down on the spot with their heads in their hands."

A small half of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard subconsciously listened to the orders of the generals defending the city, but the remaining half of the soldiers of the Imperial Guard still held weapons in their hands, hesitating.

The general guarding the city was heartbroken, "The queen mother and the emperor have already fled, who are you going to fight for?"

As soon as he said this, the officers and soldiers of the imperial guards who originally planned to throw away their flesh and blood for the sake of Da Zhou were dumbfounded.

They raised their heads subconsciously and looked at their general standing on the city wall, as if they wanted to see why from his face.

The general guarding the city took a deep breath, "The loyal monarch has abandoned us, now we should consider our parents, wives and children."

He showed his true feelings, everyone saw his spine bent because of being stabbed in the back by the monarch, and those who were close even saw his red eye sockets.

After a moment of silence, the remaining guards also put down their weapons one after another.

This situation made them feel that it was a joke for them to believe the Queen Mother's nonsense.

What is swearing to the death to protect the orthodoxy of the Great Zhou, what is fighting to the death to protect the people in Beijing, co-authoring is a false taste that only applies to them?

Their lives are not their lives, but the lives of nobles are their lives?
Their mood doesn't matter either, the nobles can lie to them as they want, throw them away as they want?
Anger gradually gathered in everyone's hearts, but they didn't know who they should vent it to.

A group of people threw down their weapons as the city guard general said, and crouched obediently on the side of the street with their heads in their arms, waiting for Xie Jiajun to come and arrest them.

The vanguard generals of the Xie family's army who were in charge of attacking the city were Ye Song and Hua Liang. This was arranged by Xie Yuan against all odds, in order for them to quickly accumulate credit with the help of Ye Anlan and Li Jing.

After them, the senior generals of the Xie family army, including Xie Yuan, were in charge of commanding the Chinese army.

After these people received the urgent military report sent back by Ye Song and Hua Liang, they immediately led the remaining Xie family soldiers into the former Great Zhou capital, which had already opened its gates.

The city is no longer bustling and bustling as it used to be. Those ordinary people who can only resign themselves to their fate when a war is fought, no one dares to go out to wander around at this time, and half of those who dare to go out to participate in it have already fled and half surrendered.

The pragmatic Xie Yuan was very careful not to show off too much in front of the enemy soldiers, nor did he rush into the palace immediately.

He regarded the former Xie family's mansion as his foothold. This house had been in Xie's hands for more than a hundred years. It was not until Xie Yuan's grandfather passed away and the rest of the Xie family avoided the capital that this house fell into the hands of others.

Now that dove occupying the magpie's nest and robbing Xie's mansion as a separate courtyard has already run away with the empress dowager and the emperor, and Xie's mansion naturally fell into Xie Yuan's hands.

He asked people to tidy up the house briefly, and then immediately plunged into the study and started to deal with business.

For the Imperial Guards of the Great Zhou who had surrendered, he sent his generals and counselors to check, recruit, and train. For the escaped queen mother and emperor, he also sent scouts to check their whereabouts.

It's worth mentioning that Xie Yuan didn't intend to let those family members of the Great Zhou royal family escape in groups.

In order for himself and his descendants not to have to deal with the endless "remnants of the previous dynasty", Xie Yuan decided to put all the influential members of the Great Zhou royal family in one place for unified captivity.

In addition, he also intends to set an example, so that these members of the former royal family can see the goodness of submitting to the new dynasty.

He already has a candidate for this role model, and when he formally ascends the throne and founds the country, he will set the other party up as an example.

Thinking about these things, Xie Yuan quickly started a new wave of dispatching troops.

King Pingkang and his eldest son were sent to the team hunting down the royal family members. Their task was to help Xie Jiajun persuade the fleeing royal family members to surrender to the Xie family.

The other team was in charge of hunting down the Empress Dowager and the Emperor's Xie Jiajun, and Xie Yuan was handed over to Pei Yuanjiang.

Along with him are Pei Huaiyu who acts as a counselor, the two young generals that Xie Yuan focused on training-Hua Liang and Ye Song, and the two generals Wei Zhen and Shi Rong who also came from the Ye family.

They took the elite Xie family that had been transferred over, and hurriedly chased after the queen mother and others who left Beijing in a hurry.

Coincidentally, although the empress dowager and the other members of the royal family chose different gates to leave the city, they all fled in the southwest direction.

Uh, that’s great, in fact, this can’t be considered a coincidence, after all, they have no other place to go except Southwest ╮(︶﹏︶)╭

The southwest is the territory of the Zhao family. Although the Zhao family is also one of the rebels to the Great Zhou court, no matter whether it is the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou Dynasty or the royal family members, they all agree that they will go to the Zhao family's territory. has the greatest chance of escape.

They think this way, firstly because Xie's soldiers are stronger than Zhao's, and if they run to Xie's territory, it is almost like throwing themselves into a trap, and secondly because they believe in " The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

They believed that the Zhao family would definitely not want to see the Xie family dominate, and even if they dared not face it head-on, the Zhao family would definitely find an opportunity to thwart the Xie family.

And they, a group of members of the Great Zhou royal family, dignitaries and dignitaries who were driven into panic by Xie Shi, are undoubtedly the ones who will actively add to Xie's troubles.

Although it would make them feel miserable to send themselves to others to take advantage of, but other than that, they couldn't think of any reason why Mrs. Zhao would turn a blind eye to them.

Of course, these private considerations, for the sake of their own poor dignity, they will not say it outright.

When they went here, what they said on the surface was not "I took the initiative to send you to your door as a swordsman", but "we are relatives after all".

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