At this time, Tang Jiyao, the leader of the Yunnan Army sitting in Guiyang, had already sensed the intention of the National Defense Army to enter Sichuan and Guizhou from the west of Hubei and Hunan to Chongqing and Chengdu, and hurriedly mobilized Liu Cunhou's Sichuan army to withdraw from Qinling and Daba Mountain to Sichuan. The first army of the Yunnan Army was ordered to deploy defenses in Nanchuan and the area east of it, so as to delay the advance of the National Defense Army and cover the southward retreat of the main force of Liu Cunhou's group. Based on this situation, Lieutenant General Lan Jihao ordered the main force of the 9th Army and the 50th Mountain Division to quickly advance to Luzhou and Yibin through northwest Guizhou, and ordered the rapid response 77th Division and other units to immediately force the Wujiang River and enter the Nanchuan area to encircle and annihilate the Liu Xiang Division of the Sichuan Army. On July 2, the three infantry divisions of the 9th Army annihilated more than 10,000 people from Liu Xiang and other units of the Sichuan Army in the area north of Nanchuan, and took advantage of the victory to annihilate the 1st Army of the Yunnan Army that came to reinforce in the periphery of Chongqing. On the 5th, the remnants of the Sichuan Army fled to Chengdu, and on the 6th, the 12th Mechanized Infantry Division of the National Defense Army occupied Chongqing. Until 12 July, the main force of the 9th Army and the 50th Mountain Division advanced to the areas of Neijiang, Tongliang, Guang'an, Wanxian, Zigong, and Rongxian.

In parallel with the military strike, the political struggle was also extremely successful. Under the unified leadership and deployment of the Central Party Headquarters of the Xinhua Party and the National Defense Forces Headquarters, Duan Zhiquan, Xiong Bingsan, Cai Yuanpei, and others actively carried out the work of political offensive and rebellion against the enemy. On 21 June, in the name of the leader of the Xinhua Party and the general minister of China's Ministry of National Defense, Wu Chenxuan issued four pieces of advice to the military and political personnel of the warlord forces in the southwest, calling on them to stop resisting, turn to the light, reform their ways, and make meritorious service to atone for their crimes.

From July 23 to 29, Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan and commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army, Liu Wenhui, the envoy of Jingbian in Xikang Province, Xiong Kewu, director of the Southwest Branch of the Revolutionary Party and member of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Party, and Deng Xihou, commander of the Fourth Army of the Sichuan Army, led their subordinates to revolt in Kunming, Xikang, Ya'an, and Pengxian in Sichuan.

On July 30, Liu Cunhou and others secretly fled to Tibetan areas. On August 1, the 9th and 15th Mechanized Infantry Divisions of the Field Army of the 7th Group Army advanced westward from eastern Sichuan and southern Sichuan respectively, and advanced to the front line of Suining, Meishan, Danling, Qionglai, and Dayi on the 20th, completely cutting off the retreat of the remnants of the army in Sichuan.

On August 6, under military pressure and political struggle of the Wehrmacht, the 7th, 15th, 16th, and 20th Divisions of the besieged Nokagawa Army declared an uprising. Except for one part of the 5th Division of the Sichuan Army, which broke through from Chongqing and Xinjin in two ways, fled to Xichang, the rest was annihilated by the 10th Mountain Division of the 7th Group Army on the front line of Qionglai and Dayi.

On August 11, the Sichuan Army of the Chengdu Garrison Region declared an uprising in the area east of Chengdu, and on the same day, the National Defense Forces occupied Chengdu, and the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou had also been decided, so the southwest campaign ended victoriously.

On 12 August, Wu Chenxuan issued the "Letter of Congratulations on the Victory of the Southwest Campaign to the Frontline Soldiers and Compatriots of the Whole Country," proposing that the new tasks of the ninth year of the republic are: "To unify the mainland territories, including Xinjiang and Tibet, and to annihilate the last remnants of any non-state armed forces, to complete the cause of reunifying China, and not to allow the hostile and invading forces to have any foothold on our territory." At the same time, it was proposed to gradually turn to peacebuilding, heal the wounds of war, overcome post-war financial and economic difficulties, and restore industrial and agricultural production and transportation.

On August 18, seven days after the end of the Battle of Chengdu, Duan Zhiquan, chief of the General Staff, attended the Chongqing Municipal Conference to celebrate the reunification of the southwest and delivered his first long speech after entering Sichuan.

Duan Zhiquan called on all the troops stationed in the southwest, saying: An arduous task is being arranged before us, the 100,000 troops who have rebelled, surrendered, and captured are in urgent need of transformation, the 40 million masses have yet to be liberated from the shackles of the feudal system, and the unification of government and military orders must be completed in the second spring of next winter. At present, the work of eliminating bandits, consolidating public order, and urgently requisitioning grain has to be completed with the participation of the armed forces. After we defeated the armed armed separatist clique in the southwest, the strategic task of completely eliminating feudalism has been placed on our current agenda. General Staff Officer Duan's speech was warmly applauded and welcomed by the officers and soldiers of the 7th Group Army, the 9th Group Army, and the 10th Group Army, and all units took the initiative to make preparations for continuing the war against bandits and entering Tibet and Xinjiang.

At this time, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, there were two passengers who did not have this pride. Holding an "official letter" in his hand, Xiong Kewu was full of anger, loss, and irritability at the moment. It turned out that this was an internal propaganda document issued to various ministries on July 20 before the Southwest Campaign, in which there was naturally no good evaluation of the warlord leaders such as Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu who led their troops to resist the Wehrmacht, so that Xiong Kewu, who regarded himself as a hero of the republic, felt that his historical merits had been erased. In order to appease Xiong Kewu, General Staff Duan and Lan Jihao specially hosted a banquet for Tang Jiyao, Xiong Kewu and others in the small banquet hall of Chongqing Tianfu Hotel. As soon as Duan Qirui came up, he first reassured the two of them, saying that the two generals had meritorious service in the peaceful uprising, and the country and the national defense army would not be treated badly. After the "casual banquet conversation", Xiong Kewu's mood changed slightly, but the dissatisfaction in his heart was still not eliminated, and he even sent a telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nanjing Government of the Republic of China, asking him to apply for a passport to go abroad.

What happened next made Xiong Kewu feel even worse. Under the arrangement of the Political Department of the Southwest Campaign, Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu moved from the military camp in Shapingba to Liu Cunhou's villa in Jiulongpo. A few days after moving, the phone rang, and the voice in the receiver was very rushing: "I am the Chongqing Municipal Government Aftermath Office, and I now inform you to immediately go to the Chongqing Municipal Government Aftermath Office to register." "I'm Xiong Kewu!" Xiong Kewu reminded the other party. The other party was very tough, "It's you Xiong Kewu who informs you." The new Chongqing Municipal Government Circular: All revolutionary party military, police, and government personnel must register within a time limit! Aren't you a revolutionary officer? Xiong Kewu didn't know how to answer for a while.

Xiong Kewu's unbalanced psychology cannot be adjusted. All this did not change until he met Wu Chenxuan. On August 18, after the uprising, Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu boarded a special plane of the Standard Air Force. In the afternoon of the same day, Xu Shuzheng, who stayed behind in the General Staff Headquarters, reported to Wu Chenxuan the arrival of Tang and Xiong at the airport in the western suburbs of Jinan, saying: "I have already talked with Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu on the phone, and it seems that the mood is still good. ”

Wu Chenxuan was very happy after hearing this, and said with a smile: "It's good to have a good mood, what we hope is that they have a good mood." Don't let them come, or I'll go and see them. ”

In the summer, the sun was already scorching in Jinan, and Wu Chenxuan and Xiong Bingsan went to the guest house of the Political Department of the National Defense Force where Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu were staying. Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu were already waiting at the door, Tang Jiyao was wearing a robe and a horse coat and a sun helmet, looking indifferent, while Xiong Kewu was wearing a blue cloth military uniform without a military rank insignia, with a solemn face and a heavy heart.

Before the car stopped, the two stepped forward quickly, stretched out their hands, and shook hands with Wu Chenxuan tightly. Wu Chenxuan said humorously: "In the past, we met on the battlefield, and we had contacts and contacts; Today we are friends and inseparable. Although they have their own positions, they are all Chinese soldiers, and they should be a family. Xiong Kewu felt deeply guilty, and said in a guilty tone: "I have been fighting horses for half my life, except for overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty, my crimes are not small. "General Tang and General Xiong, you have merit! I want to thank you, the people of southwest China want to thank you, and the Chinese people want to thank you. You have done a great thing. The people will never forget you! Wu Chenxuan's touching words made Xiong Kewu's doubts that had accumulated in his heart for months suddenly melt and snow.

In the reception room, Wu Chenxuan said to Tang Jiyao and Xiong Kewu cordially: "The peaceful liberation of the southwest is very good, and it is also a great thing for your subordinates, protecting their lives, property and family reunions. Yunnan and Guizhou is the treasure land of the southwest, people of all ethnic groups have lived here for generations, after the war, the people are miserable, how cruel. If it is an invasion by a foreign enemy, even if the last drop of blood is shed, we will not be able to give in, but if we Chinese fight a civil war on our own and destroy the pearl of the southwest, future generations will scold us. ”

Wu Chenxuan invited everyone to taste tea, turned the conversation, crossed his fingers and graduated from Tang Jiyao's Japanese Lushi, participated in the Chongjiu Uprising, the Kunming Uprising, and maintained the stability of Yunnan, to Xiong Kewu's eastward trip to Japan in 1904 to lead the Huanghuagang Uprising and the Wuchang Uprising, and then Chongqing to respond, and establish the piles and piles of the revolutionary Shu army. "The two generals were the meritorious generals of our country and nation during the revolutionary period of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they never gave in to the feudal dynasty. When the remnants of the Beiyang of the Zhihui and Anhui dynasties were exterminated, General Tang and General Xiong were also resolute in their support for us, and they were our friendly forces. ”

Hearing Wu Chenxuan praise their achievements during the Great Revolution, the two of them were full of gratitude, and they also wanted to express their feelings of pleading. Wu Chenxuan interrupted them and said, "However, the two mercenaries in the southwest are trying in vain to resist the central government with the arms in their hands and do the truth. This made the people of the southwest and the people of the whole country wait for the two to change their ways, but they have been waiting for a long time. ”

Tang Jiyao's head was already dripping with sweat, and Xiong Kewu sighed and said that he was guilty of great sins and was willing to accept the judgment of the country and the people. Wu Chenxuan waved his hand and said:

"Regardless of the merits and demerits of the two of you, you can realize that you have lost your way, and you can take the initiative to step down and accept the call for a peaceful uprising, and this is your greatest contribution to our country, and you are meritorious people in every way. By the way, I heard that some of the administrators we sent to take over the local government called the two of them, and the tone was blunt, the attitude was arrogant, and the lack of respect was a mistake in our work and an offense to the meritorious people. ”

At this moment, the two generals couldn't sit still, both of them knew that this Wu Chenxuan was almost the uncrowned king of China, if it was in the previous dynasty, it was the son of heaven who had a heavenly constitution in his mouth and obeyed the mandate of heaven, and apologized to the two generals in front of many officials, what a kind of open-mindedness! At this time, the two of them had a feeling of convincing, and they also expressed their willingness to obey the arrangement for Wu Chenxuan to invite them to serve in the new government.

The southwest was initially decided, and the Wehrmacht once again fought vigorously, this time where the sword was pointed, and who could watch the heavenly opportunity?