After Li Jing captured Yiling, he took a short rest, and immediately led his troops with Li Xiaogong, and took more than 2,000 warships down the river to take Nanjun, and at the same time constantly sent people to report the military situation to Gao Buer.

Xiao Miao, who was in Nanjun, saw the scribe Hong who had retreated from Yiling, and had no time to ask him about his crimes, so he immediately ordered him to organize a battle to defend Nanjun.

Wen Shihong suggested to Xiao Miao: "Your Majesty, we have now concentrated 230,000 troops, which can be described as a large number of generals, and there are only more than 180,000 people in the place, and we have the strength to fight with the enemy. ”

More than 180,000 people are the men and horses in the hands of Gao Buer a few months ago, but due to Xiao Miao's large number of troops, the soldiers and horses of other counties and counties were withdrawn, and there was no ability to resist, so Chen Guoren and Feng Ang soon met the division, and then all the people and horses came north together to prepare to participate in the decisive battle of Nanjun, Changsha Gao Fuji only left 10,000 soldiers and horses, and other soldiers and horses were also transferred to Nanjun by him, plus more than 10,000 Li Xiaogong, the strength of the two sides was equal.

This is the importance of information, due to the asymmetry of information, Xiao Miao's self-perceived advantage is gone, and Gao Buer's side is also full of soldiers and horses for a while, and the generals are like clouds.

Xiao Mo was very happy to hear Wen Shihong's words, and praised him: "Aiqing is worthy of being my minister, I didn't misunderstand you." ”

Turning around, he said to the courtiers: "The herald ordered the civil and military officials to go to the palace immediately, and really want to arrange a plan to resist the enemy." ”

Xiao Mo and other hundred officials stood still and said: "Zhang Xiu, I ordered you to lead 50,000 sailors to fight against Li Jing in the west, hoping that you will make meritorious contributions before the battle and live up to my expectations of you." ”

Zhang Xiu was ready to lead his subordinates to defect in Baling, who knew that Xiao Milling did not play cards according to the routine, and gave up Baling without a fight, which made his plan stillborn, and now he has mastered the power of the army.

He thought about it in his heart, but he knelt on the ground, kowtowed to see the blood, and said righteously: "Your Majesty's kindness, the minister's death is difficult to repay, thank Your Majesty for giving the minister the opportunity to atone for his sins, and the minister will definitely be for Your Majesty's liver and brain, and he will not give up." ”

Xiao Mo was very satisfied with Zhang Xiu's performance, smiled and asked him to step back, and said to Zhou Mingming: "General Zhou, the battle of Dongting Lake a while ago was not because you were ineffective, but because the opponent's weapons were stronger than our army. ”

Zhou Faming followed Xiao Mo early in the morning, and he couldn't be more clear about Xiao Miao's personality, this was definitely a master who turned his face after the fact, so he was also thinking about a way out in his heart, but like Zhang Xiu, he knelt down and swore to fight to the death.

Xiao Mo nodded, and said: "I and Wen Shihong, Cen Wenwen and other adults stick to Nanjun, success or failure, in this battle, glory and wealth or prisoner clothes and prisoners, it depends on you, today is over, everyone go and prepare." ”

Wen Shihong looked at Xiao Miao, who was walking towards the inner hall, and wanted to go up and pull him to ask, why did he only talk about sticking to Nanjun when he said that he would meet the battle by land.

Seeing that he was not leaving, Cen Wenwen asked, "What is Lord Wen worried about?" ”

Wen Shihong glanced at him, he couldn't tell him that His Majesty had reversed his word, and said with a wry smile: "It's nothing, there will be more Lord Lautzen in the battle to defend the city." ”

"My lord, you are a general, and you don't have to worry about Nanjun."

Wen Shihong smiled bitterly: "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven." The tone was full of gloom.

After receiving the news that Li Jing was going down the river, Gao Buer, who had been confronting Xiao Miao, led the whole army of Hongfunu, Zhang Zhongping, Feng An, Chen Guoren and other generals the next day, Zhang Zhongping led 30,000 sailors upstream, and the rest of the people surrounded Nanjun by land. A decisive battle of nearly half a million people is coming.

Li Jing and Li Xiaogong's army down the river first met with the naval army led by Zhang Xiu, and without waiting for the engagement, Zhang Xiu surrendered directly, ordered all the troops and horses led by him to land ashore, and dragged the ships to the shore to make way for Li Jing's army, Li Jing let Li Xiaogong take over Zhang Xiu's army, and marched to Nanjun along the land route.

Zhou Faming, who was facing Zhang Zhongping downstream, heard that Zhang Xiu had surrendered, and he was now suffering from the enemy on his back, how could he resist it, so he learned from Zhang Xiu and surrendered to Zhang Zhongping.

Xiao Mo heard in Nanjun that the two-way naval army he arranged actually surrendered without a fight, and the enemy was 100,000 horses in vain, so he vomited blood and fell into a coma, and the Liang Dynasty was in a mess.

Soon, more than 230,000 people and horses surrounded Nanjun, and other counties that belonged to Liang before also surrendered to Gao Buer, and all of them surrendered, so far there were no other rebels south of the Yangtze River. Gao Buer is different from Xiao Miao, what he wants is absolute control, so after receiving the demotion, he asked Chen Guoren to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to the south, and go to the attached counties one by one to declare military authority, clear out the Liukou, garrison, and appoint officials to completely stabilize the place.

After Xiao Miao, who was in a coma in Nanjun, woke up, he knew that the general trend had gone, and cried out sadly: "God does not bless, and now it is in vain to fight again The soldiers and the people in the city will suffer in vain, and now while the enemy army has not yet attacked, we take the initiative to surrender, and I can save everyone's lives by killing me, why not do it." ”

After that, he dressed in plain clothes and led the civil and military officials to surrender to Gao Buer, so far the southern rebels were all pacified, and Gao Buer turned his eyes to the north of the Yangtze River.

After Xiao Milling surrendered, Gao Buer handed over all his and his subordinates to Li Xiaogong, and reorganized the soldiers and horses under Xiao Milling, and gave silver money to those over the age of 40 to order them to go home to cultivate the fields, and those who were willing to go home without criminal work were also given silver money to let them go home, and one of the brothers in the army was left, and the others returned home.

In this way, Xiao Mill left 50,000 or 60,000 of more than 200,000 horses, leaving 20,000 to Li Xiaogong to help him guard Nanjun, and Gao Buer led the army back to Hangzhou. He was accompanied by Li Xiaogong and Feng An.

At present, Li Tang's unification of the land north of the Yangtze River has become a general trend, if Gao Buer does not have the heart to dominate the world, then it will not be long before Li Tang can dominate the world. Since it has been decided to conform to history and let the world return to Tang, then it is necessary to make plans as early as possible, and then these two institutions are not conducive to stability, so Gao Fuji wants to solve it as soon as possible, and at the same time strive for a good future for his subordinates.

Therefore, Feng Ang was asked to come to Hangzhou in order to fulfill the original covenant and listen to his conditions, and Li Xiaogong, as the Li clan, asked Gao Buer to be a witness to show his respect for Li Yuan.