 However, before Wang Zonghan arrived at Longyao Pond, Wang Yuanying was killed by his own guard.Wang Jian initially mourned Wang Yuanying bitterly, but later decided that without declaring Wang Yuanying a renegade, he could not comfort the people, and therefore demoted Wang Yuanying to commoner rank, although, apparently at Wang Jian's direction, Wang Zonghan had Wang Yuanying's killer executed.Many of Wang Yuanying's associates were killed or exiled.