Is “How was Yuwen Huaji executed after being captured by Dou Jiande?” true?
The 'Old Book of Tang, Biography of Dou Jiande' records that after capturing Yuwen Huaji, 'Huaji and his two sons were loaded together into a prison cart and beheaded at Daluxian,' while his fellow conspirators were 'assembled before the Sui civil and military officials, beheaded, and their heads displayed outside the camp gate.' In chapter 50 of 'Romance of Sui and Tang,' Dou Jiande, to dramatise his vengeance for Emperor Yang of Sui, orders his men to 'bind Huaji and Zhiji to posts and cut them to pieces with knives, as a sacrifice to Emperor Yang.' The novel converts a beheading at Daluxian into death by slicing plus a sacrificial rite.
In the episode where Yuwen Huaji is executed by Dou Jiande, the novel changes the beheading to a more cruel death by dismemberment as a sacrifice.
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