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When Xiao Miao's reinforcements saw the boats and ships of their army down the river, they were really suspicious and did not dare to advance.

Li Xiaogong and Li Jing then led the army to surround Xiao Miao's capital Jiangling, Xiao Miao's internal and external news was cut off, and asked the Zhongshu Shilang Cen Wenwen for countermeasures.

Cen Wenwen had the irreversible destiny of heaven on the grounds that Xiao Mo was persuaded to surrender.

So Xiao Mo said to his ministers: "If God does not protect the Liang Kingdom, we can no longer support it." If we have to wait until we run out of food, the people will be troubled, and how can I let the people suffer for my own sake? ”

On the 21st, Xiao Mo told his ancestors with three animals: oxen, sheep and pigs in Taimiao, and ordered the city gate to be opened and surrendered, and the people who defended the city wept.

Xiao Mo led his ministers to the door of the Tang military camp in mourning clothes, "I am the only one who can be damned, Xiao Mill is alone, the people are innocent, I hope there will be no massacre and looting." ”

Li Xiaogong entered the city and occupied Gangneung, and the generals wanted to plunder it on a large scale.

Cen Wenwen persuaded Li Xiaogong: "The people of Jiangnan, since the end of the Sui Dynasty, have been brutalized by the abuse of the government, coupled with the fighting of the heroes, and now those who have survived are all those who escaped under the sword and gun, and they are looking forward to the wise monarch, the Xiao monarchs, and the fathers of Jiangling, so they decided to submit, thinking that maybe they can settle down from now on." At present, if the army is indulged in looting, I am afraid that the vast area from Gangneung to the south will no longer have the heart of naturalization! ”

Li Xiaogong thought that his opinion was correct and immediately ordered a ban on looting.

The generals also said: "The generals of Liang resisted the officers and soldiers and died in battle, and they were guilty of great crimes, and asked for their family property to be confiscated and used to reward the soldiers." ”

Li Jing objected: "The teacher of the king should take benevolence and righteousness as the precedent. How can they be as guilty of treason as if they fought and died for their monarch and were loyal subjects? ”

As a result, the city of Gangneung was in order, and Qiu did not commit any crimes. When the southern states and counties heard the news, they all looked forward to the wind.

A few days after Xiao Miao's surrender, his hundreds of thousands of reinforcements came to Jiangling, and when they heard that Jiangling had been lost, they took off their robes and put down their weapons to surrender to Tang.

Li Xiaogong sent Xiao Mo to Chang'an, and Li Yuan counted his sins.

Xiao Mo said gloomily: "The Sui Dynasty brutally lost the world, and everyone in the world raised troops to fight for it. I didn't have the care of God, so I got to this situation; If I were to be convicted on this basis, I would have no choice but to die! ”

In the end, Li Yuan issued an edict to behead Xiao Mian in the downtown area, and the princes who were beheaded in the downtown of Chang'an added one more person in addition to Xue Rengao, Li Rail, and Dou Jiande.

Subsequently, Li Yuan issued an edict appointing Li Xiaogong as the governor of Jingzhou; Li Jing was the Shangzhu State, and gave him the title of Duke of Yongkang County, which still allowed him to pacify the Lingnan region and to undertake the appointment of officials.

Li Jing has become famous so far, because everyone knows that in the battle of Pingxiao Milling, the actual commander was Li Jing, and Li Xiaogong was basically just a name.

After pacifying Xiao Miao, Li Jing crossed the five mountains, sent people to each province to appease the prefectures, and surrendered everywhere he went, Li Yuan appointed Li Jing as the ambassador of Lingnan to pacify and inspect the governor of Guizhou, Li Jing led the army to seize 96 prefectures, and obtained more than 600,000 households.

On October 18, Feng An, the former Sui Hanyang Taishou who occupied a large part of Lingnan's territory, accepted Li Jing's letter and led his subordinates to surrender to Tang.

Tang set up eight prefectures of Gao, Luo, Chun, Bai, Ya, Dan, Lin, and Zhen in Feng An's jurisdiction, and appointed Feng Ang as the governor of Gaozhou and knighted Geng Guogong.

Previously, someone advised Feng Andao: "Li Tang has only pacified the Central Plains, and he is not yet able to take care of the remote areas, and the scope of the twenty states under your jurisdiction has exceeded that of Zhao Tuo in the Han Dynasty, so you should call yourself the king of Nanyue." ”

Feng Ang disagreed, "My family has settled here for five generations, and the governors of this place are all served by my family, who are already extremely wealthy, and they are often afraid that they will not be able to bear the burden and bring shame to their ancestors, how dare they follow Zhao Tuo's own claim to be the king?" ”

So when Li Jing pacified Xiao Mo and comforted the Lingnan Prefectures, Feng Ang led his troops to surrender, and the Lingnan region was all under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty.

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Du Fuwei ordered his general Wang Xiongdan to attack Li Zitong, and Li Zitong guarded Dusongling with elite soldiers.

Wang Xiongdan sent his general Chen Dang to lead more than 1,000 people to climb the heights and occupy dangerous places to force Li Zitong, waving many flags, tying torches to trees at night, covering the mountains and mountains.

Li Zitong thought that there were suddenly many more enemies, and felt afraid, burned down the camp and fled overnight, retreated to Hangzhou, Wang Xiongtan pursued Li Zitong, and defeated him under the city of Hangzhou.

On the seventh day of the first month of November, Li Zitong was at the end of his rope and asked for surrender, and Du Fuwei captured Li Zitong and his left servant and escorted him to Chang'an.

Li Yuan not only did not cure Li Zitong's crimes, but gave him the first house, five hectares of land, and a lot of money and goods.

At this point, the south of the Yangtze River does not belong to the Tang Dynasty's forces, only Lin Shihong, who calls himself the Emperor of Chu, is rumored to be in poor health this year, and there is no enterprising heart, and the Tang Dynasty wants to destroy it, but I am afraid that it will be a matter of time.

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When he learned the news of Li Yin's "illness", Li Yuan personally visited Li Yin in Chengde Palace, Li Yin's residence, and then named Li Yin's son Xiaohu'er as the king of Wei.

Li Yuan's move was to allow Li Yin to take command to recruit Liu Heimin.

However, Li Yin still didn't let his illness get better, but he went to the concert and recommended his brother Li Shiji to take command of the expedition.

Regarding Li Yin's proposal, Li Yuan finally agreed after thinking about it for a long time.

In principle, Li Yuan will not let foreigners take command, but Li Shiji is different, he is not only a brother for Li Yin, but also given the surname Li, and entered the ancestral hall, and the relationship with the Li family can be said to be one of the closest generals.

Moreover, Li Shiji had returned to Tang from Dou Jiande before, which can be described as loyal, so Li Yuan agreed to let Li Shiji take command at this time.

When Li Shiji led a large army and prepared to engage Liu Heimin, Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, led his tens of thousands of troops to prepare to fight Liu Heimin with Li Shiji.

When Liu Heimin heard the news, he left 10,000 troops and ordered Fan Yuan to defend the state and lead his army to resist Luo Yi.

At night, Liu Heimin camped in Shahe County, and Cheng Mingzhen brought 60 big drums to beat drums on the embankment two miles west of the state city, and the ground in the city felt shaken.

Cheng Mingzhen is a Ping'en person, originally Dou Jiande's Pule County Order, when Dou Jiande rescued Wang Shichong, Cheng Mingzhen surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Pule County, and then Li Yuan appointed Cheng Mingzhen as the Yongning County Commander, so that he could lead the troops to attack Hebei.

Cheng Mingzhen once attacked Ye County, an important place in Hebei at night, and captured more than 1,000 men and women, but after leaving Ye County for 80 miles, he saw that more than 90 of them were still breastfeeding babies, and he felt compassion, so he put them all back, and Ye people were moved by his benevolent heart and begged for blessings for him, and Cheng Mingzhen's reputation began to spread in Hebei.

At this time, when Fan Yuan heard the sound of drums, he thought that the Tang army was attacking in a big way, and he felt panicked, so he sent a flying horse to report to Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin then quickly returned to the state and sent his younger brother Liu Shishan and Xingtai Zhang Junli to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Luo Yi in Gucheng.

On November 30, Luo Yi and Liu Shishan fought at Xuhe, and Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli were defeated, losing 8,000 people.