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When Liu Heimin occupied Dou Jiande's old land, proclaimed himself the king of Handong, and changed the Yuan system, Chang'an was greatly shaken.

Some sources also said that Liu Heimin's ranger had arrived at the outskirts of Luoyang, and seemed to have the intention of watching the Central Plains.

If Liu Heimin wins the Central Plains again, then it is difficult to say who this world should be.

Li Yuan immediately issued an edict to remove Li Xiaochang, the inactive king of Ngee An, from his position as commander, and then convened all the ministers to discuss the strategy of dealing with Liu Heimin.

However, at this time, Li Yin excused the matter of the court discussion on the grounds of contracting the disease and stayed at home.

This change suddenly made Li Yuan and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of Chang'an panic.

Half a month ago, the Turks marched south again, and Jieli Khan learned the lesson of the last time he took Taiyuan Road to invade the south without results, this time he directly borrowed Shuofang County of the Liang Division, entered the Guanzhong, and pointed at Chang'an!

In this extremely urgent situation, Li Yuan had sent Li Shimin to lead 100,000 troops north to defend against the Turks, so if the Tang Dynasty wanted to deal with Liu Heimin at this time, Li Yin had to be in command himself.

Li Yuan said that he was convening the ministers to discuss the matter, but in fact, he already wanted to hand over this burden to Li Yin to carry.

But Li Yin was very tired of carrying him out every time he had to do it as a last resort, and he was also chilled by what Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and others had done recently, and he didn't want to be a robber anymore.

More importantly, in the past, a big reason why Li Yin was keen on going on expeditions was to gain fame, military morale, and enhance political capital, but at this time he was already a general of Tiance, and there was no need to go on expeditions again.

Li Yin has decided to stay in Chang'an and implement his next plan!

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Although the situation in Hebei is not optimistic, Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun who attacked the land of Jingxiang, has a great victory.

Xiao Miao, who occupies the land of Jingxiang, has been destroyed by Li Xiaogong and Li Jing!

In December last year, Xiao Mill's great Sima Dong Jingzhen and Qi King Zhang Xiu were killed one after another, so that after the army's morale was dispersed, Li Yuan issued an edict to levy the troops of Faba and Shu, and appointed Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, as the head of the Jingxiang Road march, and Li Jing acted as the chief of the march to attack Jingxiang.

After the beginning of spring this year, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing led the twelve governors, from Kuizhou along the Yangtze River to the east, and officially began to attack Xiao Mill.

In addition to Li Xiaogong and Li Jing's soldiers and horses, Li Yuan also appointed Li Ming, the king of Lujiang, as the marshal of the Jingying Road march, Tian Shikang, the assassin of Qianzhou, took the Chenzhou Road, and Zhou Faming, the governor of Huangzhou, took the Xiakou Road to jointly attack Xiao Miao.

Zhou Faming is the younger brother of Li Yin's old friend Zhou Fashang, when Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande were defeated, Zhou Faming came to the Tang Dynasty with Huangmei and other four counties.

The most important battlefield of the battle between Tang and Xiao was the Xiazhou (present-day Yichang, Hubei) region, where the two forces had been facing each other before.

The Xiazhou area, "from the mouth of the Three Gorges, the tail of the Jiezhong Lake", is the western barrier of Xiaoliang, if this place is lost, its capital Jiangling will be in danger.

The dangerous places in the Xiazhou area, such as Jingmen City, Yidu, Qingjiang City, etc., are mostly on the south bank of the Yangtze River. Jingmen City is at the foot of Jingmen Mountain, the place where it is located is very treacherous, opposite to the Huya Mountain on the south bank, it is the most easy to defend and difficult to attack, Yidu is Yidao City (now the northwest of Yidu), Qingjiang City is in the north of Yidu County at the mouth of the Qingjiang River.

When Li Xiaogong and Li Jing set out from Kuizhou and went down the river eastward, because it was the rainy season, the water of the Yangtze River rose sharply at that time, and the generals asked to wait until the water was back before marching.

Li Jing objected: "The soldiers are fast. Now that our forces have just been mobilized, Xiao Mo doesn't know yet, if we take advantage of the rising water of the Yangtze River and quickly reach his city, and take advantage of his unpreparedness for a sudden attack, we will definitely be able to capture Xiao Mo alive, and we must not lose the opportunity! ”

Li Xiaogong finally adopted Li Jing's advice and led more than 2,000 warships down the Yangtze River to the east.

Because the Yangtze River was rising, Xiao Milling thought that Li Xiaogong and Li Jing's troops would not continue to set off, so they did not take any precautions, so Li Xiaogong, Li Jing and others quickly led the army to conquer Xiao Milling Jingmen and Yidu by surprise, and advanced the army all the way to Yiling.

At this time, Xiao Mo hurriedly sent the general Wen Shihong to lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers to be stationed in Qingjiang City to resist the attack of the Tang army.

Xiao Mo originally asked Wen Shihong to defend Qingjiang, but Li Jing sent someone to Qingjiang City to insult him a little, and Wen Shihong immediately became furious and led his troops to battle.

The two sides then launched a decisive battle on the Yangtze River, the Tang army was prepared for a long time, well-armed, morale like a rainbow, the army of Wen Shihong was quickly defeated, and retreated, and finally suffered a heavy defeat, the Tang army captured more than 300 warships, killed, drowned tens of thousands of people, and pursued Wen Shihong to Bailizhou.

After the news of the defeat of Wen Shihong spread, Gai Yanju, the governor of Jiangzhou, who was Xiao Milling, surrendered to Tang with the land of five states.

At the beginning, in order to seize the military power of his generals, Xiao Mo issued an order to cut the army and run agriculture, leaving only a few thousand soldiers as guards.

At this time, he heard that the Tang army had pressed the border and Wen Shihong was defeated, Xiao Mo felt greatly panicked and hurriedly recruited troops, but many of the troops recruited were south of the Yangtze River and Wuling, and the road was far away, so he could not be mobilized immediately, so he could only use all the existing forces to meet the enemy.

Li Xiaogong was ready to take advantage of the victory to continue to attack Xiao Miao, Li Jing dissuaded: "The other party is the army that saves the defeat, the plan is not formulated in advance, the momentum will not last, it is better to anchor on the south bank for the time being, delay the attack for a day, they will inevitably disperse their forces, some stay to block our army, some return to the city to guard, as soon as the troops are dispersed, the forces will be weakened, and our army will take advantage of the enemy's laxity to launch an attack, and it will inevitably win." Now if you attack immediately, the enemy will fight to the death, and the Chu soldiers are fierce and brave, and it is not easy to resist. ”

Li Xiaogong was anxious to win, did not listen to Li Jing, left Li Jing to guard the barracks, and personally led the elite troops to battle, and finally as Li Jing expected, the army was defeated and fled, running to the south bank.

Li Jing expected that Li Xiaogong would be defeated, so he did not stay in the barracks, and after Li Xiaogong went to war, he brought the rest of the army to follow.

At this time, Li Jing saw that after Xiao Miao's troops defeated Li Xiaogong's troops, they abandoned their ships one after another to pack up and rob the military assets left by the Tang army, and everyone was burdened with a lot, and the field was very chaotic.

So Li Jing immediately waved his troops to fight, defeated the enemy, and then took advantage of the victory to reach Jiangling, entered the outer city of Jiangling, and captured a large number of ships.

At this time, Li Jing persuaded Li Xiaogong to scatter all the ships he had captured in the Yangtze River, and all the generals were puzzled and said: "The spoils captured by defeating the enemy should be used, how can they be given up to fund the enemy?" ”

Li Jing said: "Xiao Mill's territory is south of Wuling and east of Dongting Lake. If we can't attack the city and the enemy's reinforcements come from all directions, our army will be attacked by the enemy on its back, and it will not be able to advance or retreat, although there are ships, how can it be used?

Now give up the ships and let them block the Yangtze River and go downstream, the enemy reinforcements will inevitably think that Gangneung City has been captured, so they will not dare to march easily, and they will come to reconnoitre, and they will be slow to move for ten days and half a month, and our army will be sure of victory. ”