Li Jing patiently explained to everyone with great confidence: Xiao Mill's territory is very large, reaching Poyang Lake in the east and Wuling in the south. If Gangneung could not be attacked for a long time, and the enemy's reinforcements came from all directions, we would have gone deeper, and it would be very disadvantageous for us to suffer from the enemy at this time. Now we let these ships drift on the Yangtze River at will, the enemy's soldiers will see it, they will think that Gangneung has fallen, for their own safety, hesitate to rescue as soon as possible, they find out the real situation, it will take a while, take advantage of this time, we capture Gangneung, they have become a source of water, will soon collapse.

Everyone listened to Li Jing's words, and couldn't put down the boat into the river and let it drift.

This time, Li Jing was right again, Xiao Miao's reinforcements saw so many ships halfway, and they didn't dare to rush in.

Jiaozhi (southern Guangxi, northern Vietnam) assassinated Shi Qiuhe, Chang Shi Gao Shilian and other generals surrendered to the Tang army.

The Tang regiment surrounded Gangneung and blocked the reinforcements from advancing.

Gangneung became an isolated city for a while.

For the sake of his last dignity, Xiao Mo said to the ministers with tears in his eyes: I was defeated without sending troops, God did not bless me; If I am guilty, don't implicate the people of the world, the people of the world are guilty, and I will bear it alone, the Tang army is here for me, open the city gate and surrender, if you keep resisting, it will affect the people and cause unnecessary harm.

The step that Xiao Mo found for himself is really a little touching, and he can think of the people at a critical moment.

On October 21, Xiao Mo carried out the most solemn ritual of the emperor's sacrifice to Sheji, the Taigao Ceremony, and sacrificed the temple with pigs, cattle and sheep, and then ordered Kaesong to surrender.

The soldiers snorted and cried, such a reality really made them very sad.

Xiao Mo and the civil and military officials were dressed in sackcloth, and they came to the Tang camp with a very ugly face, and surrendered in humiliation.

Xiao Mo is a veritable great man, and he said something impressive: "All the faults are on me Xiao Mo alone, and it has nothing to do with the people, please don't kill and plunder indiscriminately." ”

Li Xiaogong doesn't have the same vision as Li Jing, he wants to plunder.

After entering the city of Gangneung, Li Xiaogong planned to listen to the advice of his subordinates, and Xiao Miao's generals were killed for resisting, and the crime was very serious, so they raided their homes and rewarded the hard-working soldiers.

It sounds reasonable and there is nothing wrong with it, but Li Jing resolutely stopped it, worthy of being a god of war and a male god through the ages, and he can always go straight to the point when looking at things, so as to avoid unnecessary injuries and losses.

In order to stop the behavior of this group of short-sighted people, Li Jingyi said in a righteous manner: The king's army is dispatched to crusade against the guilty ruler, and I want everyone in the world to know that we are just. The enemy generals we killed, who died for their masters, are considered loyal ministers, how can they confiscate their family property like rebels? Now that we have conquered most of Xiao Miao's territory, we should show our leniency to those who have not yet submitted to us, and appease their hearts. If we had raided the homes of the generals in Gangneung, and had not taken the southern fortress, and the soldiers had not surrendered, it would have been very passive for us.

Li Xiaogong and the soldiers felt that what Li Jing said was like that, so they were disciplined, there was no offense in the autumn, and the people were peaceful.

Li Jing's reputation spread, and for a while, he became a male god revered in everyone's minds, and he felt from the bottom of his heart that he was a good person and should be followed.

Within a few days, more than 100,000 reinforcements from all walks of life rushed to Jiangling to rescue Xiao Miao, and when they heard that Xiao Mi had surrendered, and then listened to Li Jing's lenient policy, they took the initiative to put down their equipment and surrender on their own initiative.

Immediately afterwards, the cities in Jianghan and Han also surrendered to the wind.

For Li Jing, it is so simple to win back people's hearts, not greedy for immediate small profits, not indiscriminately killing innocents, not feeling good about himself, demanding of his own soldiers, and even more self-disciplined.

Li Xiaogong escorted Xiao Mo back to Chang'an, and Li Yuan, as usual, first escorted the victorious generals back to the secession chieftains, counted their crimes, and then carried out his hobby - beheading the separatist leaders in the city.

Xiao Mo listened to Li Yuan's count, and said the same idea as all the heroes in the world: Sui lost its deer, and the world chased it.

Then, Xiao Mo had no choice but to defend: God will not bless me, and I will be captured by His Majesty; If you take it as a sin, you are willing to die.

Xiao Mo met the winner Li Yuan, and then Ling Ran went to his death and was beheaded in the city.

Xiao Mo was only thirty-nine years old when he died, and the age of a man is really regrettable!

However, as he himself said, God did not bless him, and it was only five years from his rise to his destruction.

Because of Li Jing's outstanding military achievements, Li Yuan awarded him the title of Shangzhu State and Yongkang County, and gave him 2,500 paragraphs.

This world is like this, some people cry, some people laugh, some people live, some people die, some people are promoted to knighthood, and some people are obedient.

Xiao Mo cried, died, and turned into dust early.

- The fate of the loser.

Li Jing was alive, smiling, and became an official.

- The treatment of the winner.