Li Yuan was angry, and remembered the old hatred with Li Jing, he wanted to settle the new account and the old account together, so he issued a secret edict to Xu Shao to execute Li Jing, fortunately, Xu Shao is a person who cherishes talents, he begged Li Yuan to pardon Li Jing, and Li Jing escaped death again.

It didn't take long for Tang Gaozu to no longer hold a grudge against Li Jing, because Li Jing raided Ran Zhaoze's camp with hundreds of soldiers, and set up ambushes on Ran Zhaoze's retreat road, Li Jing picked Ran Zhaoze with a gun, and the Tang army captured 5,000 enemies, while the Tang army only had 800 people.

Tang Gaozu told Li Jing, "Don't worry about wealth and wealth", and asked him to make persistent efforts. He also wrote an edict, "I am not to blame for the past, but I have long forgotten the past."

In the fourth year of Wude (621 AD), Li Jing presented Tang Gaozu with ten strategies to extinguish Xiao Miao, and Tang Gaozu immediately adopted it and appointed Li Xiaogong as the governor of Kuizhou, Li Jing as the commander of the march, and concurrently served as Li Xiaogong's long history, in fact, he was fully responsible for the command of the army. Li Jing recruited the children of the Bashu chieftain,

The granting of official positions effectively held them hostage. With children in the hands of the Tang army, the Bashu chieftains had to be cautious when they helped Xiao Miao. In September, the river swells sharply, and the waves are treacherous,

Li Jing chose this time to go down the river. The generals built a march after the water slowed down, Li Jing made a deep calculation, "The soldiers are fast, now that our army is assembled, Xiao Mo has not yet noticed it, we are surprised, Xiao Mo is caught off guard, and we will definitely be caught."

More than 2,000 warships of the Tang army set out, making a smooth journey, and soon conquered Jingmen, which was the gateway to Jiangling, the capital of the Liang state.

Xiao Mo didn't know what tendon was turning in his head, before that, he actually disbanded the main force and sent it to various places to Tuntian, and now the Tang army is attacking, there is no other way,

He only temporarily cobbled together tens of thousands of troops, all of which were handed over to the famous general Wen Shihong, so that Wen Shihong could garrison Qingjiang and fight to the death with the Tang army.

The rescuers of the Liang State rushed to the capital. Time was pressing, and Lee Hyo-gong decided to fight immediately. He personally led his troops to attack Wen Shihong, but was defeated. Wen Shihong's troops took the opportunity to grab the spoils of war, and the formation was chaotic.

Li Jing saw that the opportunity could not be missed. Immediately put in all the troops stationed in the battalion, and fought hard to kill the enemy, Li Xiaogong also led his troops to turn back and fight again, and the Tang army turned defeat into victory and reached the city of Jiangling.

Xiao Mo has no soldiers in his hands. The battle line could only be retracted, abandoning the outer city and the water city of Gangneung, and the Tang army captured a large number of ships in the water city at once, and was elated.

At this time, Li Jing asked everyone to put all the Liang warships into the Yangtze River, which surprised everyone.

Li Jing told everyone, "Jiangling is difficult to capture for a while, and the rescue troops of the Liang State are about to arrive, and the Tang army will be in a very dangerous situation when the enemy is on its back." It's not easy to escape.

We let the warships of the Liang army go down the Yangtze River, and when the Liang reinforcements who came downstream saw so many empty ships without people, they must have thought that Jiangling had been captured, and Xiao Mo was finished, and they would soon lose their fighting spirit, so it was only natural to recruit them at this time." Everyone was amazed and immediately acted according to the plan.

Xiao Miao's reinforcements saw that a large number of unmanned ships were fooled and slowed down their galloping pace, and the Tang army stepped up the siege of Jiangling. The end of Xiao Mill has come.

Jiangling's envoy for help failed to break out of the encirclement of the Tang army and could not deliver news to the outside world, Xiao Mo did not expect reinforcements, and finally despaired. Kaesong surrendered to the Don army.

Xiao Mo was sent to Chang'an, and in the end could not escape the fate of beheading. After the victory, the soldiers of the Tang Army were eager to loot and confiscate the family property of the soldiers of the Liang Army, but they were resolutely stopped by Li Xiaogong and Li Jing, "The army of the king." It is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and both sides are their masters, and the soldiers of the Liang army are not sinners, so they cannot be treated like this.

There are still many areas that have not yet been annexed, and if we can't be lenient, the Liang army will let go of the idea of surrendering and fight to the death with us, which is not a good thing."

Under the strict constraints of Li Jing, the Tang army was strictly disciplined, the autumn did not commit any crimes, the hearts of the people in Jiangling were settled, the rest of the Liang army surrendered one after another, and the Tang army did not fight bloodlessly and controlled all the territories of the Liang state. Li Jing made great achievements, was named the Shangzhu State and Yongkang County Duke, and was appointed as the ambassador of Lingnan comfort, with the privilege of "inheriting the system and worshipping the seal".

He adopted the Huairou policy and tried his best to appease him, and obtained a total of 96 prefectures in Lingnan, more than 600,000 households, and the Lingnan region was included in the territory of the Tang Empire. Li Jing became the governor of Guizhou (now Guilin, Guangxi) and guarded the Lingnan region for the imperial court.

In the sixth year of Wude (623 AD), Fu Gongyi, the leader of the peasant army in the Jianghuai region, once again rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and proclaimed himself the emperor of the Song State, with Danyang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) as the capital, and raised troops to Haizhou and Shouyang. Li Yuan reappointed Li Xiaogong as marshal and Li Jing as deputy marshal.

sent troops to encircle and suppress the Jianghuai army of Fu Gongyi. Fu Gong Yi defended Danyang, and Fu Gong Qi's generals Feng Huiliang and Chen Zhengtong were stationed in Bowang Mountain and Qinglin Mountain, occupying favorable terrain and holding on without fighting.

The generals of the Tang army raised yì and made a detour to attack Danyang, as long as the city of Danyang was broken, Feng Huiliang and others would inevitably collapse without a fight. Li Jing vetoed this suggestion,

"Danyang City is well defended, if we can't take it in one fell swoop, Feng Huiliang and others attack us from behind, and it will be very dangerous for the Tang army to suffer from the enemy on its back", Li Jing said the strategy of breaking the enemy, which was immediately adopted by Li Xiaogong. The Tang army sent old and weak soldiers to challenge, but they were beaten by the Jianghuai army.

Seeing that the Tang army was so useless, the Jianghuai army was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent troops to chase after it, and soon fell into the ambush of the Tang army.

The Jianghuai army suffered heavy losses and was defeated, and Bowang and Qinglin fell one after another. Li Jing took advantage of the victory to attack Danyang, and Fu Gongyi abandoned the city and fled, was betrayed by his subordinates on the way, and was sacrificed to the Tang army in Wukang Town, Zhejiang.

Fu Gongqi was beheaded in Danyang, Jianghuai was pacified, and the Tang Dynasty basically unified China.

Li Jingju has made great contributions. He was promoted to the secretary of the military department by Tang Gaozong, served as the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, and went out of the town of Jiangnan with Li Xiaogong, at this time, he has become the god of war in the eyes of Li Yuan's father and son.

In the eighth year of Wude (265 AD), the Turks attacked Taiyuan, and Li Jing led 10,000 Jianghuai elite soldiers to the north, stationed in Taigu, and started a bloody battle with the Turks.

The other Tang troops who participated in the war suffered losses and lost their troops, but Li Jing's unit was able to fully participate in the war against the Turks. In the ninth year of Wude, the Turks attacked Lingzhou, and Li Jing led his troops to fight a bloody battle with Jieli Khan near Qingtongxia for a day and repelled Jieli Khan.

Li Jing served as the governor of Lingzhou and resisted the heavy burden of northern defense. At this time, the power struggle between Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Li Jiancheng, the crown prince, had entered a white-hot state, and Li Jiancheng was deliberately trying to bring down this meritorious younger brother.

In June of the ninth year of Wude, the star Tai Bai crossed the sky twice during the day. The Xuanwumen Rebellion broke out, and Li Shimin killed the crown prince Li Jiancheng, the king of Qi, Li Yuanji, and killed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's ten sons.

Soon, Tang Gaozu gave way to Li Shimin. became the emperor, and Li Shimin became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Before the mutiny, Li Shimin had sent people to ask Li Jing's opinion, but Li Jing was unwilling to get involved in the political struggle and expressed a neutral attitude.

Soldiers do not interfere in politics. This is the ethics that a general should have, Li Shimin is an outstanding emperor, of course he understands what Li Jing did, after he ascended the throne, he immediately appointed Li Jing as the secretary of the criminal department, and later acted as the secretary of the Zhongshu order, becoming a veritable prime minister.

In the third year of Zhenguan (629 AD), Tang Taizong appointed Li Jing as the head of the march, leading an army of more than 100,000 to crusade against the Eastern Turks, and in the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan.

Li Jing led 3,000 elite cavalry to attack the tooth tent of Jieli Khan at night, Jieli Khan thought that it was the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and fled in a hurry, running all the way to the southwest of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia today, and Dingxiang fell into the hands of Li Jing.

When the good news reached Chang'an, Tang Taizong was very pleased, "Li Ling fought the Huns with 5,000 foot soldiers, although he was defeated, today Li Jing is 3,000 cavalry in the north." It's really unheard of, and the shame of the Weishui Alliance was wiped out in a war."

Jieli Khan judged the situation and decided to sue for peace with the Tang Dynasty, and was willing to take himself hostage. Li Shimin agreed, and sent Tang Jian as a diplomatic envoy to the Eastern Turks.

Li Jing led 10,000 elite cavalry to quietly follow Tang Jian, and when Tang Jian and Jieli Khan shook hands and said goodbye, they launched a surprise attack, and the Tang army was invincible, beheading more than 10,000 ranks. 180,000 Turkic men, women, and children were captured, and hundreds of thousands of livestock were seized.

Jieli Khan's wife, Princess Yicheng of the Sui Dynasty, was killed by the Tang army, Jieli Khan desperately fled, but could not escape from Li Jing's palm, Zhenguan four years in March, Jieli Khan was captured by the Tang army, and the invincible Eastern Turkic Khanate perished.

The Tang Dynasty vibrates in all directions and is admired by all countries. At the celebration banquet, Li Shimin personally danced, and Li Yuan used the pipa to accompany it, and the whole country rejoiced to celebrate the rising sun of the Tang Empire.

Li Jing was in trouble, and the Imperial Doctor impeached him for arson and plunder, and looted all the Turkic treasures.

In front of Tang Taizong, Li Jing did not defend himself and sincerely apologized. Tang Taizong likes the attitude of famous generals to deal with the world, rewarding their merits and forgiving their mistakes.

Soon, Tang Taizong learned more about the situation and knew that Li Jing was not involved in Turkic treasures, so he frankly admitted his mistake to Li Jing.

"In the past, when someone said bad things about you in front of me, I listened to and believed it, but now I know that those are all villains, please don't take this matter to heart." He gave 2,000 horses of silk, worshiped Li Jing as the right servant of Shangshu, and participated in national politics.

Li Jing, who is familiar with history books, of course knows that in front of the wise and martial Tang Taizong, it is the safest to abide by the set of monarchs and ministers.

In the eighth year of Zhenguan (634 AD), Li Jing resigned from the position of prime minister due to foot disease and obtained favor, but Tang Taizong still asked him to attend the prime minister's meeting every few days.

Soon, Murong Fuyun, the king of Tuyuhun, raised troops to invade the border, and the 64-year-old Li Jing once again set out to fight. Tang Taizong appointed him as the general manager of the Xihaidao march, and led the Fifth Route Army with tens of thousands of horses and horses to Tuyuhun, Murong Fuyun did not dare to fight hard with Li Jing, set fire to the wasteland, destroyed the grassland, and gave the Tang army a strong wall to clear the wilderness.

Murong Fuyun fled into the desert, thinking that the Tang army would not pursue, but Li Jing adopted Hou Junji's Jianyi and decided to chase and fight fiercely, not giving the enemy a chance to breathe. They divided their troops into two directions and launched a pincer offensive against Murong Fuyun.

Li Jing's troops defeated the Tuyuhun army at Mantou Mountain (present-day Riyue Mountain, Hunan, Qinghai) and Chishuiyuan (west of Mantou Mountain), and Murong Fuyun was forced to flee to Dafeichuan (west of present-day Gonghe County, Qinghai).

Hou Jun's troops crossed more than 2,000 miles of barren land, caught up with the Tuyuhun army in Wuhai (now Qinghai Kuhai), and killed the Tuyuhun people crying wolves.

The Tang army joined forces at Dafeichuan, crossed Jishi Mountain (now Anima Qing Mountain, Qinghai), and annihilated Murong Fuyun's Tuyuhun army in the Taklamakan Desert of today's Xinjiang.

Murong Fuyun's son Murong Shun was also captured by Li Jing, Tuyuhun surrendered, Tang Taizong named Murong Shun as the king of Xiping County, Li Jing won a complete victory, and the class returned to the court.

Trouble came again, and Gao Yongsheng, the governor of Shiozawa Province, delayed his military period in the war against Tuyuhun and was punished by Li Jing with military law. After returning to the DPRK, he even falsely accused Li Jing of supporting the army and plotting rebellion.

Although Li Shimin did not believe it, he also investigated in detail, and finally exiled Gao Yongsheng to the frontier on false accusations.

A wave has not settled, and another wave has risen. Hou Junji, who was assigned by the imperial court to Li Jing's house to study the art of war, complained to Tang Taizong, saying that Li Jing only taught some basic things, but refused to teach the advanced art of war, which was a sign of affection for the imperial court.

Tang Taizong called Li Jing to question, and Li Jing calmly said, "The art of war I taught Hou Junji is enough to help stabilize the country."

Later, Hou Junji planned to support the crown prince Li Chengqian and rebelled, and was sentenced by the Ming Dynasty, which shows Li Jing's foresight.

One of Li Jing's sons was also involved in the court struggle because of his friendly relationship with Li Chengqian, and was originally going to be exiled to Lingnan, but because of Li Jing, he was exiled to Wu County.

In the eleventh year of Zhenguan, Li Jing changed the title of Duke of Weiguo, and in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing's wife died, and Li Shimin sent an edict to mourn.

In order to commend Li Jingping's exploits in destroying the Eastern Turks and sweeping away Tuyuhun, Li Jing's mausoleum was built in the shape of the Turkic Iron Mountain and the Tuyuhun Stone Mountain, which is the same as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty.

After the death of his wife, Li Jing's physical condition was not good, and he closed the door again, Tang Taizong actually wrote a letter to Li Jing, asking Li Jing's old nurse to come to Tang Taizong in person to report Li Jing's illness and diet.

Later generations of Quan Deyu read Taizong's edict from Li Jing's descendants, and couldn't help crying bitterly, "There can be so harmony between monarchs and ministers."

In the twenty-third year of Zhenguan (649 AD), Li Jing died of illness at home at the age of 79.

Li Jing's name is "Jingwu", and he was buried in the Zhaoling Tomb of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and his portrait was hung high in the Lingyan Pavilion for future generations to admire.

He wrote a number of military books such as "Li Jing's Six Military Mirrors", most of which have been lost, and his descendants edited "Tang Taizong Li Weigong Asks the Right", which was included in the "Seven Books of Wujing" in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is a representative work of ancient military science. (To be continued.) )