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It turned out that although Xiao Miao's situation was dangerous, he could barely support it for a while. At this juncture, Wang Shichong was ordered by Yuming to lead Wang's younger brother and his headquarters to the south to rescue.

He planned to work with Xiao Mo to defeat Li Tang and the Jianghuai army and avenge the death of his son.

At the beginning, Wang Shichong went quite smoothly. After all, he is also a veteran of the battlefield, and the marching and formation are all steady and steady, without any flaws, so that the cunning Li Shimin has no chance to take advantage of it.

However, after a period of contact, Li Shimin was keenly aware that Wang Shichong and Xiao Miao's troops lacked understanding with each other, and they rarely acted together with each other. Although nominally they are working together, they are often working alone.

Moreover, Wang Shichong's army and Xiao Miao's army both looked down on each other a little. Wang Shichong's men believed that Xiao Miao's army was very poor in combat, so it was repeatedly defeated under the attack of the Tang army and the Jianghuai army. And judging from the current combat situation, the combat effectiveness of these two troops is not much stronger. Under these circumstances, the Liang army was defeated one after another, which shows that the quality of its generals and officers and soldiers was very poor.

However, Xiao Miao's army believed that Wang Shichong was only a member of the surrendered Yuming, and his men and horses had been defeated by Li Mi one after another, which showed that his combat effectiveness was not strong. Some people even think that Yuming sent Wang Shichong to the rescue because he looked down on himself. If he really rescued sincerely, he should send a big future like Li Jing, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chi Jingde.

It was precisely because of the mutual suspicion and hostility between Xiao Mojun and Wang Shichongjun that Li Shimin was given the opportunity to take advantage of it. He quickly came up with a poisonous plan.

Li Shimin first sent people to ambush in the mountains near Xiangyang, and then sent people to pretend to be the envoys of Xiao Mill's army, and when Wang Shichong led the main force to Jiangling to visit Xiao Milling, he went to Wang Shichong's son Wang Xuanying's camp to ask for help, saying that Xiangyang was attacked by the Tang army and could not hold it anymore, hoping that for the sake of all allies, they would come to the rescue.

If Wang Shichong was here, he might be able to see the flaws in the envoy. But Wang Xuanying has no combat experience, and he is simple and ignorant. Hearing that the messenger spoke pitifully, and that his words were subservient and subservient, he suddenly became a little fluttering. He wanted to lead the army to defeat the Tang army alone, so as to prove his ability in front of his father and Yuming.

So, despite the opposition of the deputy general Tian Zhan, he led the army to hurry to Xiangyang. As a result, when passing through a valley in Jiugong Mountain, he was ambushed by Li Xiaogong and was defeated. The troops were all trapped in the valley and could not escape.

Wang Xuanying was helpless, so he adopted Tian Zhan's suggestion, selected a group of scouts with strong martial arts and agile skills, acted as messengers, broke through at night, and went to Wang Shichong in Jiangling for help.

At this time, Li Xiaogong deliberately made a gap in the encirclement, so that these messengers could break through and leave smoothly.

Then, he sent someone to pretend to be Wang Xuanying's envoy and asked Dong Jingzhen, the Liang army guard in Xiangyang, for help.

After Dong Jingzhen sent scouts to Jiugong Mountain to investigate, he confirmed that Wang Xuanying was indeed trapped in the valley. So, he had to lead half of the people in the city to Jiugong Mountain to rescue.

However, Li Shimin took this opportunity to set up an ambush in the middle of the way, annihilated Dong Jingzhen's army, and captured Dong Jingzhen himself.

In the face of the threat of death, Dong Jingzhen succumbed, and he cooperated with Li Shimin to lead the Tang army pretending to be Xiao Milling Army, defrauded the city gate of Xiangyang, and successfully captured Xiangyang.

After pulling out the nail of Xiangyang, the situation of the Tang army was greatly improved, and they had no worries about the future, and they could go down the Han River with all their hearts and attack Jiangling, Jiangxia and other places.

At this time, after learning the news that his son was trapped, Wang Shichong eagerly led the army to Jiugong Mountain to rescue Wang Xuanying.

Xiao Miao, who had just met with Wang Shichong and discussed the plan for coordinated operations together, could not remain indifferent when he saw this scene. So, he asked Xiao Yan to lead an army of 50,000 and go to the rescue with Wang Shichong.

However, they never expected that Li Shimin trapped Wang Xuanying and never annihilated him, just to attract Wang Shichong and Xiao Miao's troops to come to the rescue, so as to besiege the city and send reinforcements and consume their troops.

Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong, Wang Shichong, Xiao Yan and others invested a total of more than 200,000 troops around Jiugong Mountain, and fought bloodily for more than ten days, but they did not distinguish between victory and defeat.

Just when the battle situation was at a stalemate, bad news came from the rear of the Liang army: Du Fuwei had increased his troops again!

After the arrival of 50,000 reinforcements from Fu Gongzuo, the Jianghuai army launched an attack on Jiangxia, because Xiao Miao's main force had been concentrated in the Xiangyang area, the rear was empty, and the defenders of Jiangxia were finally defeated after holding on for ten days, and the city fell into the hands of the Jianghuai army.

After Fu Gongzuo conquered Jiangxia, he immediately went straight up along the Han River and threatened the rear of the Xiao Milling Army of Jiugong Mountain. Du Fuwei led the main force of the Jianghuai army to march west along the Yangtze River and attacked Jiangling, the current capital of Xiao Milling.

The Liang army on the front line of Jiugong Mountain, after learning that Jiangxia was lost and the Jianghuai army drove straight into the hinterland of Jingxiang, had no heart to fight the Tang army. When they thought that their hometown had fallen into the hands of the Jianghuai army, which was known for burning, killing and looting, they were worried about it.

So, they petitioned Xiao Yan one after another, asking to leave Jiugong Mountain and go back to rescue Jiangling.

Xiao Yan was also worried about the safety of his father in Jiangling, so he led his army out of the battlefield of Jiugongshan and rushed to Jiangling to help.

Wang Shichong's army saw that the Liang army did not say goodbye, and heard that Du Fuwei's army had penetrated deep into the hinterland of Jingxiang, and Xiao Mill lost many cities, and the soldiers suddenly panicked. secretly wondered if the Liang army collapsed, how could he resist the flanking attack of the Tang army and the Jianghuai army alone?

This change in the mentality of Wang Shichong's army has long been expected by Li Shimin. When he saw Xiao Yan's army retreating, he immediately launched a general attack.

At this time, the Tang army also showed its real strength, and it only took one day to completely annihilate Wang Xuanying's troops who were trapped in Jiugong Mountain and were already dying of hunger. Wang Xuanying was also beheaded by Li Xiaogong.

After the victory of the Tang army in the first battle, the morale was great. At the same time, because Wang Xuanying's troops in the encirclement were resolved, they no longer had any worries. Like a tiger descending from the mountain, the army that killed Wang Shichong cried for his father and mother.

Although Wang Shichong resisted desperately, in the case of a huge disparity in strength and low morale of his own army, even if he had Sun Wu's talent, he would not have the power to return to heaven.

The Tang army won seven battles and seven victories in Jiugong Mountain, Wang Shichong's army suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining more than 20,000 horses were finally surrounded by 150,000 Tang troops in the core.

Li Shimin was not in a hurry to attack, he knew the truth that the trapped beast was still fighting. He planned to starve Wang Shichong's troops, who were running out of food.

About half a month later, Wang Shichong's army ran out of food, and the soldiers could only use bark and grass roots to satisfy their hunger. Every day, soldiers who could not stand the hunger committed suicide or fled to the Don barracks to surrender.

Wang Shichong had no choice but to make a desperate bet and launched a breakthrough.

And Li Shimin had already been fully prepared, and the soldiers of Wang Shichong's army who rushed out were shot to death in thousands on the empty plain.

Wang Shichong was desperate, but he didn't want to surrender, and finally was mutiny by the general Yuandu and cut off his head with a knife.

Yuan Du carried Wang Shichong's rank and surrendered to Li Shimin, and the remnants of Wang Shichong's army all surrendered or died in battle.

Li Shimin, who completely annihilated Wang Shichong's army, ordered Li Xiaogong to hurry south and launch a general attack on Jiangling together with the Jianghuai army.

At this time, Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan's father had returned to Jiangling, with less than 60,000 troops in their hands, but they were facing a joint attack by 120,000 Tang troops and 100,000 Jianghuai troops.

Although Gangneung City, as the capital city that Xiao Mo painstakingly managed, has high walls and plenty of food in the city, according to the general situation, it is not a problem to keep it for half a year. But now Xiao Mo doesn't even have the confidence to stay for a month.

This is because with the exception of Jiangling, almost all of the important cities of the Liang army in other places fell into the hands of the Tang army and the Jianghuai army, and Jiangling became an isolated city. The reinforcements Wang Shichong has also been wiped out, and it is impossible for them to have any more reinforcements coming.

In this case, the generals of the Liang army, who knew that it was impossible to defeat the enemy, naturally many planned to surrender to the Tang army and find another way.

Although Xiao Mo soon discovered this sign and executed several generals who had quietly contacted the Tang Army, he still could not stop the people's hearts from fluctuating.

On the contrary, the execution of several of his old subordinates who wanted to find another job aroused the anger of many junior officers and soldiers. After all, their loyalty to Xiao Mo is very low, and they don't want to sacrifice their lives for the "Great Liang Country". In order to have a job, they quietly contacted each other privately and prepared to launch a mutiny.

During a routine inspection, Xiao Yan found that the officers led by Zhang Xiuwei were quietly meeting in a separate courtyard to discuss how to surrender the city. He was furious and rushed into the room with his troops, intending to arrest the renegades.

But he forgot one thing, dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, let alone people? Zhang Xiu saw that the matter had been exposed, so he launched a mutiny in advance. Xiao Yan's martial arts are not high, and the soldiers he brings are not as many as these renegades. After a fight, not only his troops were wiped out, but he himself became a traitor.

At this time, Zhang Xiu led the mutineers to kill the city gate, and more and more soldiers followed them. Still loyal to Xiao Milling, the Liang soldiers who held the city gate finally couldn't resist, and after desperately resisting for two hours, the city gate was lost, Zhang Xiu led the army to open the city gate, and then led the Tang army and the Jianghuai army into the city.

When the officers and men of Liang saw that the general trend had gone, they immediately lost the courage to resist and surrendered one after another.

Xiao Miao, who learned that the city had been lost, ordered the captain of the guard to escort Xiao Yuexian out of the city from the tunnel, but he set a fire in the palace and died.

Xiao Yuexian finished talking about the largest war in the south in one breath, and she also felt a little exhausted. She suddenly became an orphan girl with both parents from the princess of Liang Guo, and the blow in her heart can be imagined.

After listening to Xiao Yuexian's story, Yu Ming couldn't help but show a sentimental look on his face. When Xiao Mo was in Luoyang, he was really good to him, not to mention that he was his cousin, both public and private, he should avenge him and Xiao Yan.

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