In August, the Ministry of War came to report that Liu Heimin borrowed the troops of the Turkic Jieli Khan to conquer Liting, and Xu Yuanlang, the governor of Yanzhou, responded with troops.

For Liu Heimin, Li Yuan didn't take it to heart, and what worried him was Jieli Khan. So he sent Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, to send troops to suppress it, and ordered Li Yi, the governor of Youzhou, to raise troops to respond; On the other hand, he ordered Li Xiaogong and Li Jing to set off immediately, go down the river to the east, and capture Xiao Miao.

Before the external troubles come, first remove the internal worries! When the edict arrived in Chengdu, Li Xiaogong hurried to Kuizhou to meet Li Jing and asked him to obey the edict and prepare the army.

Under the White Emperor City, the fleet of sailors of the Tang Dynasty lined up on the river, and more than 1,000 warships all set up white sails, stretching for more than ten miles, which was extremely spectacular.

The fishermen in the Bashu area, seeing that the army had begun to set sail, knew that they were about to send troops, so they spontaneously drove to the White Emperor City to deliver supplies to the army.

Many of them are generations of boatmen, and they are more familiar with this river than anyone else, from Rongzhou in the west to the mouth of the sea in the east, where the water is fast, where there are reefs, where the river is straight, they are all clear.

These boatmen, who sign up automatically, have to act as guides for the army.

In the middle of the summer season, the Yangtze River entered the flood season, and the water level of the river rose sharply to a depth of nearly five feet, and the water flow galloped like a galloping horse.

Fishermen on both sides of the strait also stopped fishing at home because of the unstable boating during the flood season, and even the ferry ports rarely had boatmen ferrying.

To the east of the White Emperor City, it is the majestic Three Gorges with thousands of peaks and thousands of thousands, in the meantime, the mountains are high and the streams are deep, the water flow is turbulent, and there are many reefs and shoals at the bottom of the river.

It is precisely because of the danger of the waterway that in recent years, neither the Datang Navy nor the Xiao Milling Navy have crossed this natural barrier.

With this natural barrier, and the Yangtze River is in the flood season. Wen Shihong, the general of Xiao Milling's water army, believed that the Tang army would not attack at this time in any case.

Li Jing is the best at using surprise soldiers, and the key to strange soldiers lies in the eight-character key of "attacking their unpreparedness by surprise".

Under the guidance of the old boatman, Li Jing only took five days to cross the Three Gorges and drive all the Tang sailors to the front line of Yiling.

This place is only more than 30 miles away from Xiao Milling's naval army garrison.

The Great War is imminent! The enemy did not even notice it......

Li Jing ordered the sailors to pause, and launched a general attack at the fifth watch of the second day.

It was not until there were still two or three miles left from the enemy camp that Li Jing ordered the drummer to beat the war drum and the trumpeter to blow the horn.

Most of Xiao Miao's water army was still in a dream, and the general Wen Shihong was shocked when he heard the sound of drums and horns.

At dawn, the giant ships of the Tang Army rushed into the enemy's naval camp with overwhelming momentum, and at this time the river was full of fog, and the enemy and us could not see the movement clearly.

The bow of the Tang warship was equipped with a special angular iron shield, and at this time, the west wind was strong and the river was turbulent, and the giant ship rushed towards the enemy camp like an arrow from the string.

Most of the enemy warships were improvised boats, which were smashed by the Tang army in a short time.

Seeing this, Wen Shihong immediately activated the frogman troops, each carrying a set of axes and chisels, wanting to scuttle the Tang army's warships.

In this regard, Li Jing had already taken precautions, and he specially set up a diving team with excellent water quality, each equipped with a spear, to guard the bottom of the boat.

Before the enemy could get close, he was stabbed to death and sank into the heart of the river to feed the fish and turtles.

When the follow-up troops of the Tang Army arrived one after another, Li Jing drew his long sword from his waist and led the vanguard troops to board the enemy ship.

Behind him were the 800 elite soldiers he had trained in Kuizhou, with the strength of a tiger, the speed of a cheetah, the sharpness of an eagle, and the agility of a fox.

Fierce battles that lasted from dawn to dusk. The enemy's general, Wen Shihong, was killed in the battle, and only some remnants of the defeated generals were taken prisoner.

Li Jing deliberately left more than 200 young soldiers and asked them to rush back to Jiangling City to report the news of the defeat to Xiao Miao, the lord of the Later Liang State.

The surging river was already red at this time, and the broken boats, flags, rocking oars, and floating corpses on the river were swept by the river and flowed eastward.

Li Jing ordered all the dead bodies to be thrown on the surface of the river and left to their own devices.

He knew that these scenes, when they flowed through Gangneung City, would be the afterglow of the Rakshasa descending into the world. This is undoubtedly the biggest deterrent for Xiao Milling of the Buddha.

The defenders in the city will also be frightened and lose their fighting spirit!