Xiao Miao's great-grandfather Xiao Jing once established the Western Liang in Jiangling (now Jingzhou), the county town of Nanjun, and Xiao Mi first sent Yang Daosheng to drive away the people who guarded the city, occupied Jiangling, and set the capital here.

Then, Xiao Mo sent Zhang Xiu and others to attack Lingnan, Sui generals Wang Renshou, Zhang Zhenzhou and others desperately stopped, so that they were very helpless, just when they were helpless, Emperor Yang of Sui was destroyed in Jiangdu Yu culture, since their boss is no longer alive, there is no point in working hard, because no one gave them a reward, so they turned against Xiao Miao, and obediently offered Yulin, Shi'an and Shi'an.

Immediately afterwards, Feng An, the Taishou of Hanyang, also saw the wind and made the rudder to join Xiao Miao. Gao Liang, Zhu Ya, Cangwu, these places with good names were handed over to Xiao Miao.

Xiao Mo tried to recruit Jiaozhi (present-day Hanoi, Vietnam) Taishou Qiu He, Qiu He was a man who was not easy to coax, and he did not surrender. If you don't obey, you will only be beaten.

So, Xiao Mo arranged for Ning Changzhen to attack Qiu He, at first Qiu He was beaten very badly, ready to surrender, and felt that if he didn't surrender, he would be killed, after all, it was not easy for people to live once, so he thought about surrendering softly, when he was about to go out of the city to surrender, the judicial secretary Gao Shilian told him not to surrender first, saying: "Ning Changzhen's army came from afar, the lone army went deep into our land, exhausted all the way, and couldn't hold on for a long time, we can completely resist them, we are easily led by the nose to surrender, and we will be looked down upon." ”

Qiu He listened to the advice and immediately drew up a battle plan to defeat Ning Changzhen. Only Ning Changzhen escaped from the enemy position like oil on the soles of his feet, and all his subordinates were captured.

Soon, the news of Emperor Yang of Sui's death reached Jiaozhi, and Qiu Hecai offered Jiaozhi to Xiao Milling.

Hearing the news of Emperor Yang of Sui's death, most of the people turned their backs on him. However, there are people with integrity and kinds, such as Li Xianzhi of Shi'an County, who lost all his family wealth and recruited more than 3,000 soldiers, and movingly stuck to the lonely city of Shi'an County. Hearing the news of the death of Emperor Yang of Sui, he led the army to mourn for three days, at this time, someone persuaded him: "Lord Li, as a descendant of Li Qianzhe, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, is considered a nobleman of the Central Plains, and you yourself have been guarding the frontier for a long time, and your military achievements are outstanding. Why not ......"

Li Xizhi was furious when he heard this, declaring that his family had been loyal to the emperor for generations and was loyal to him, although Jiangdu was gone, but Sheji was still there, and whoever dared to say such a thing would definitely kill him.

Others saw that he really didn't want to be independent, so he didn't dare to say anything.

Li Xizhi held on to the isolated city of Shi'an for two years, but was finally captured by Xiao Mo because of no foreign aid.

Xiao Mo arrested a kind of person like Li Xizhi, and did not kill him, but reused him.

For this reason, from Jiujiang in the east, to the Three Gorges in the west, to Hanchuan in the north, and to Jiaozhi in the south are all owned by Xiao Milling.

At this time, not long after Li Yuan entered Chang'an, the warlords in the north were in chaos and could not take care of the south at all.

Xiao Mo took this opportunity to throw off his arms in the south to conquer the city, and gradually almost occupied the south of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, all the way to the territory of Lingnan, in the heyday, with more than 400,000 troops, but he had not experienced a substantial battle, whether these soldiers can withstand the test of war, we have to wait for a strong enemy to practice.