[We don't know if Li Jing knew about Li Yuan's fateful secret order, he didn't speak, let alone plead, and he didn't even say a word about the scene of expressing loyalty.

It happened that Ran Zhao, the leader of the barbarians in Kaizhou, suddenly rebelled against the Tang Dynasty at this time, led the barbarians into Kuizhou, and beat Li Xiaogong, the king of Zhaojun, to the head.

When Li Jing heard about it, he immediately led 800 warriors to attack Ran Zhao, took Ran Zhao's head in a vicious battle, and captured more than 5,000 barbarians.

Li Yuan was overjoyed, he smiled and said to Li Jing: "You have made such a miraculous achievement, you don't have to worry about fame and fortune", after thinking about it, Li Yuan added: "I have forgotten all the little festivals between you and me in the past. ”

At first glance, Li Yuan seems to have forgiven Li Jing, but Li Yuan says forgiveness, but his body is very honest. 】

[For a period of time after that, because the Li Tang Dynasty wanted to deal with Wang Shichong in Luoyang, there was no large-scale military action against Xiao Mo for the time being, but Li Jing has been sending people to secretly investigate the enemy's situation. 】

[In the first year of Tang Wude (618 AD), Xiao Milling cut the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and ascended the throne in Yueyang as the emperor, and the founding name was "Liang".

Xiao Milling is a descendant of the Western Liang royal family of the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, when the influence of the Guanlong aristocratic group to which Li Yuan belonged was mainly in the north, and the influence of the Xiao family was in the south, which was also the main reason why Xiao Milling followed the national name of "Liang".

At this time, Li Tang was surrounded by big guys, it had Liu Wuzhou and Dou Jiande in the north, Wang Shichong in Henan, and the powerful Xue regime in his rear.

And Xiao Milling has developed and strengthened his strength during this time.

Xiao Mo led the army all the way to a breakthrough, almost occupying most of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River all the way to Lingnan, and the army could reach as many as 400,000 people during the peak of the army. 】

[However, Xiao Milling is suspicious by nature and does not have the basic qualities of being a leader.

Therefore, when his career became bigger and bigger, he began to worry that his subordinates would take his place.

However, his own deterrent power was insufficient, so he could only find an excuse to seize the military power of his subordinates, but unexpectedly, it caused civil strife.

The great Sima Dong Jingzhen, Shang Shuling Zhang Xiu and others were killed one after another, and the Xiao regime was hit hard.

In this era when a large number of talents are needed at the same time, it is extremely unwise to kill each other and suffer serious internal friction.

On the other hand, the Tang army at this time, after several months of conquest of Wang Shichong, the balance of victory has begun to tilt in favor of the Tang army.

In view of this, Li Jing wanted to take this opportunity to take advantage of the civil strife in the Xiao clan to launch a fatal blow to him. 】

[In the first month of the fourth year of Tang Wude (621 AD), Li Jing presented Li Yuan with the "Ten Strategies for Pingxiao Milling", and analyzed the situation of both the enemy and us for Li Yuan.

Li Yuan was overjoyed when he saw this, and the next month he appointed Li Xiaogong as the governor of Kuizhou, and Li Jing as his deputy.

Although Li Jing was nominally his deputy, in fact Li Yuan handed over military power to Li Jing, and told Li Xiaogong to follow Li Jing's advice in military affairs.

However, although the command power is in Li Jing's hands, there are still people pressing on his head after all, and it is obvious that Li Yuan is still guarding against Li Jing.

But it doesn't matter, you guard against you, I'll just hit mine. 】

[Li Jing chose to train the army in Kuizhou, because Kuizhou is separated by the Three Gorges, and the enemy army is not easy to find.

Soon after the land of Bashu was recovered, Li Jing was afraid that the people here would be unstable, so in order to lead the army eastward without worries, Li Jing put the children of the chiefs of various tribes by his side, and gave them official positions according to their ability, which on the surface was to use and promote them, but in fact they were hostages. 】

[In September of the same year, that is, two months after Li Tang pacified Wang Shichong, Li Jing's soldiers divided into four routes, combining water and land routes, and marched to Jiangling, the capital of Liang State.

In the autumn of the Three Gorges, the river will swell, which is extremely risky for the Tang army.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Mill thought that it was impossible for the Tang Army to attack when the water was surging, and they had just finished the battle of Tiger Pass, so they might need to rest and recuperate at this time, so Xiao Mill did not prepare for war.

At the same time, Xiao's army was not concentrated in Jiangling, but was stationed in three directions: one in the south, one in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, mainly to defend against the warlord Du Fuwei, and another in Qingjiang, west of Jiangling, to defend mainly against the eastward advance of the Tang army. 】

[The Tang army came all the way east to the Three Gorges, and did not dare to advance rashly, thinking of waiting until the flood receded before marching.

But Li Jing was bold and wise, and he said: "We have spent many months preparing for today.

Now, the enemy has no idea of our intentions, so we should take advantage of the enemy's defenselessness to take him by surprise. ”

As a result, the Tang army, inspired and led by Li Jing, marched eastward along the Three Gorges.

Along the way, Xiao Mo did not send many soldiers to guard, and the Tang army was able to break through Jingmen and Yidu two towns all the way. When the Tang army came to Yiling, it encountered tens of thousands of defenders stationed in Qingjiang.

However, the enemy seems to have a lot of people, but he does not have too strong combat effectiveness, and in the case of unknown enemy conditions, military discipline is relatively relaxed, and the defending general Wen Shihong never dreamed that the Tang army would attack at such a time.

Until the Tang army attacked, Wen Shihong, who was in a hurry and panic, was defeated, and the Liang army jumped into the river and drowned, as many as more than 10,000 people were killed. 】

"Li Jing is also a person who dares to take risks, but he has been prepared in advance."

"Han Xin responds to the situation, Li Jing anticipates the enemy's opportunity, each has its own cleverness, and each has its own ability!"

"But the two of them have one thing in common, that is: flexible use of soldiers, combination of virtual and real, imaginative, and superb!"

"Marching and fighting in their hands has been played as an art!"

[After breaking through the Qingjiang River, Li Jing led the army to continue to march towards Jiangling, and many enemy troops surrendered along the way.

Xiao Mo suddenly heard that the Tang army was coming, and he was immediately frightened and at a loss.

At this time, the guards around Xiao Mo were only a few thousand people, so he had to immediately order conscription and summon reinforcements from all over the country to rush to the rescue. 】

[Li Xiaogong saw that the enemy only had a few thousand people, so he wanted to destroy it in one battle.

Seeing this, Li Jing resolutely objected: "The enemy is trapped, and if we rush forward, they will fight to the death for their lives."

And those who can stay by Xiao Miao's side are elites, and it is not advisable to rush forward, we should avoid his troops, and after wearing down their fighting spirit, we will march to attack. ”

At this time, Li Xiaogong was already carried away by the successive victories, and he couldn't listen to Li Jing's admonition at all.

He asked Li Jing to stay in the barracks, and he personally led the army to attack Xiao Miao.

As Li Jing expected, the Tang army was defeated by Wen Shihong and suffered heavy losses, while Li Xiaogong himself fled to the south bank.

The enemy took advantage of the victory to pursue, but the Liang army saw that the Tang army had abandoned a lot of supplies and money on the way to pursue, so they stopped and began to loot property.

Li Jing quietly observed the enemy's every move in the dark.

When he found that the enemy formation was in chaos, he quickly led the army to attack, killed the enemy by surprise, and once again annihilated nearly 10,000 enemy troops. 】

(End of chapter)