Gao Congzhu dedicated Jingzhou, Fu Yanchao led the army into the city first, handed over the defense, and the imperial court ordered Gao Congzhu to temporarily lead Jingxiang to transfer envoys. Subsequently, Li Congke and An Xianqi successively entered the Jingzhou boundary from Xiangzhou.

He Fujin led the army to move to Xiangzhou, thinking that the army would be backing up.

To the east of Jingzhou, the plains that are not as good as those of later generations are almost all swampy water networks, which are difficult for soldiers and horses to travel, forming an open barrier barrier, and only waterways are feasible.

The imperial court ordered the Jingzhou army to be changed into a naval army, built warships, divided troops to guard the river bank, and camped in public security for day and night drills.

Fu Yanqing led the Tang army with more than 35,000 cavalry troops from the Zhijiang River to the Yangtze River and went straight to Lizhou.

Chen Fan, the assassin of Lizhou, saw that the Tang army was coming, so he abandoned the city and left.

After Fu Yanqing fought the two empty cities on the southbound roads of Lizhou and Shimen, he wanted to take Wuling directly.

Wang Yannai, who joined the camp and joined the army, dissuaded and said: "In this southern expedition, the Son of Heaven specially issued a decree for me to fight steadily and steadily, and not to enter lightly. There are a lot of Chu troops in Wuling City in Langzhou (Changde), so it is better to wait for the other armies to arrive before taking action, so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy. ”

When Fu Yanchao heard this, he ordered the army to temporarily occupy Lizhou and Shimen, waiting for the arrival of the follow-up Tang army.

It is said that Ma Xiwang, the envoy of the Wuling Festival, is the half-brother of Ma Xisheng, the former Wu'an Jiedu, and after Ma Xifan succeeded to the throne, he was jealous of Xifan. At this time, seeing the huge momentum of the imperial army, I couldn't help but be afraid.

At this time, Yin Hao, the former Sima of Jingzhou, arrived in Wuling as an envoy of the imperial court and brought a letter from Fu Yanchao, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty's expedition to the south.

Yin Hao is a subordinate of Gao, who often travels between Changsha and Jingzhou, and is also acquainted with Ma Xiwang.

The former Changsha Wu'an Jiedu, who established himself as the king of Chu, made Ma Yin have more than 30 sons, and during his lifetime, he made a will, and the position of the king of Chu cannot be violated.

It's just that Ma Xisheng died inexplicably after only two years of succession, and the generals elected Ma Xifan to succeed him as the envoy of the Wu'an Army, and Ma Xiwang was suspicious because he was Ma Xisheng's half-brother.

After Gao Congzhi was appointed as the Jingxiang transfer envoy, Yin Hao was appointed by the imperial court to recruit the marching army to join the army, and was transferred to Fu Yanchao's account, but this time he volunteered and took the initiative to become a lobbyist for the imperial court.

"How is Yin Sima now?" Ma Xiwang did not embarrass this former acquaintance, and personally came forward to receive Yin Hao, but the title was still used for his official position when he was in Jingzhou.

"It can only be said that it is improvised, a certain is currently sent under the Fu Zhao envoy's account, and Yu Lu is the same as before, and he does not have the scenery in Jingzhou in the past." Yin Hao said, "This time I was ordered by the general, and I was a lobbyist." ”

Ma Xiwang smiled, and first took Fu Yanchao's handwritten letter from Yin Hao.

Ma Xiwang squinted his eyes and asked after reading Fu Yanchao's letter: "Does the Tang army really have 300,000 military horses in Jingxiang?" ”

Yin Hao shook his head: "If you add the auxiliary soldiers who transport grain and grass, there are only about 150,000 soldiers, and if you add more than 30,000 Jingzhou troops, 200,000 is barely enough." But even so, it is not possible for the King of Chu to resist. The general trend of the world, those who go along with it prosper, those who go against it die, the king of Chu faints, why should Brother Ma be buried with him? ”

After hearing this, Mahiwang still had difficulty making a final decision, so he summoned his generals to the account to discuss.

The generals Chen Yansi and Chen Fan persuaded him: "The army of the imperial court is unstoppable, and the general is squeezed out by the king of Chu, so why should he die, if he votes for the court, he can still keep his wealth and wealth." ”

By the end of July, Li Congke also led his army to Lizhou, and the Tang army began to cross the river in a big way.

Ma Xiwang saw that he couldn't wait any longer, so he sent people to the Tang camp to contact Toucheng, and on the other hand, he gathered all the generals under him and officially announced his decision to them: "...... The matter has come to this, a certain person is willing to vote for the imperial court, and from now on, all the camps will be replaced with the banner of the Tang State! ”

Here, Fu Yanchao and Li Congke went down to Langzhou (Changde) without a fight, and the other line of troops and horses of the Tang Army was commanded by An Xianqi, and Huarong took Yuezhou directly. Wang Yun, the assassin of Yuezhou in Southern Chu State, was trapped for a few days, and when he saw that no one came to help, he simply opened the city and surrendered.

An Xianqi prepared to march south from Yuezhou, and attacked Changsha with Fu Yanchao and Li Congke in two ways, but Ma Xifan asked for help from the ministers of the Wu State. It's not about the court, but it's about Southern Wu, and I don't know what the pain is.

After receiving the rescue of the Chu State, Xu Zhihe, the prime minister of the Wu State, ordered the assassin of Chu Prefecture He Jingzhu to lead the army to aid the Chu State.

As a result, An Xianqi was pinned down in Yuezhou and confronted Wu Jun.

When the imperial court saw that Wu sent troops and the war expanded, it ordered Fu Yanqing and Li Congke to postpone the attack on Changsha for the time being after capturing Yiyang. Then he ordered the generals Yuan Ren, Li Jizhong, Zhi Congyuan, Zhang Chengting and others to lead more than 40,000 cavalry troops from Jinyang and Yunzhou to Songzhou (Shangqiu) to counterattack Wu State and win against him.

This unification war, which originally began with the conquest of the Southern Han Dynasty, has now turned into a direction against the state of Wu.

The imperial court ordered Fu Yanqing to recruit envoys for Huaidong Road, and led Wuzhen and An Congjin to march south from Xuzhou; Yuan Ren was the edict envoy of Huaixi Road, and led Li Jizhong, Zhi Congyuan, and Zhang Chengting's cavalry army from Bozhou to attack Shouzhou and Luzhou, and the army gathered, with the intention of destroying Wu in one fell swoop.

At that time, Xu Zhihe was already in charge of the state of Wu, and Yang Pu, the lord of Wu, had already become a puppet, and Xu Zhihe wanted to stand on behalf of Wu, but he couldn't find a suitable excuse. This time the imperial court attacked Chu, Xu Zhihe ordered He Jingzhu to lead the army to help, but unexpectedly provoked the anger of the Son of Heaven, but instead sent troops to prepare for a large-scale attack on Wu.

At this time, Wu Guo suddenly knew that there was a catastrophe, and hurriedly ordered He Jingzhu to return to Ezhou, and sent Song Qiqiu and Feng Yanji as envoys to the court to plead guilty.

After receiving the letter from Wu State, Li Qi angrily reprimanded the chief minister of Wu State, and asked Wu State to cede Haizhou and the four prefectures of Guang, Huang, Qi, and Hubei as compensation and make way for attacking Chu.

Song Qiqiu and Feng Yanji returned to Jiangdu (Yangzhou) and became the master of Wu. Yang Pu couldn't be the master again, and he transferred it to Xu Zhihe, who retreated to Jinling.

Xu Zhihe originally wanted to raise the strength of the country to resist the imperial court, but most of the people in the Wu Kingdom were struggling to survive, and his subordinates persuaded each other in many ways, so he reluctantly agreed to the court's request.

Li Qi was not too much for himself, and after getting the benefits, he ordered to temporarily withdraw the army, and the Yuan Ren Department went straight to Ezhou, and after receiving the territory from the Wu army, he met with An Xianqi, and the specific next move, and then listened to the orders of the imperial court.

The territory of Wu is not small, and it is not easy to destroy Wu in one fell swoop now, so it is better to change to a slow encroachment strategy, and then talk about leveling Nanchu first.

When Ma Xifan heard that the Wu army was frightened back by the imperial court, he was also panicked, and his subordinates were also divided into two factions, war and peace, and when he heard that Yuan Ren had led tens of thousands of troops into Ezhou, he simply gave up Tanzhou first and fled south to Hengzhou.

In September, Fu Yanchao and Li Congke led their troops into Changsha City, announcing the end of the Southern Chu secession regime.

The imperial court ordered Yuan Ren to be stationed in Ezhou, and Zhicong to be stationed in Guangzhou, and only Li Jizhong's cavalry went to Tanzhou to meet Fu Yanchao and Li Congke. After Ma Xifan was so frightened that he lost his lair, the court changed to a strategy based on appeasement.

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