After the remnants of the two brigades surrendered, Fan Hanjie immediately ordered all the prisoners to be guarded by Zhang Lihui, he commanded Wang Guobin Liu Yuantang to turn to Hongmendu to pursue, Situ Feizheng was entangled with Lu Daoyuan's troops along the way, Lu Daoyuan commanded two and a half brigades to retreat to Hongmendu while fighting, Long Yucang was smart this time, he learned that Sun Du was captured and the password was lost, he promised to concentrate on Hongmendu on the radio, and then turned off the radio station and quietly sneaked to Youjiedu, which was an extremely risky move, Youjiedu is not too far from Kyaukpingdu, if it is discovered, Situ Fei's whole army ushered in, plus the follow-up troops of the escort team that were entering Huili one after another, Long Yucang could not escape, but whether it was Long Yunlu Daoyuan or Zhuang Jihua, they were deceived by him.

Lu Daoyuan finally arrived at Hongmendu first, but when he arrived at Hongmendu, he began to complain, Hongmendu only has four ferries, and the water is turbulent, it is impossible to build a bridge, how to cross the river under the siege of a strong enemy with four boats.

Lu Daoyuan summoned Gong Shunbi and the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Kang Zhixun (who checked a lot of information, but could not find any information about the Fourth Brigade), to discuss, and decided to organize a semi-circular defensive circle along Hongmendu to cover the troops crossing the river.

Before the semi-circular defensive circle was formed, Situ Fei chased after him, he broke down Gong Shunbi's position, and forced the ferry, in desperation, all units of the Yunnan army united as one, Lu Daoyuan's command post department fought back, Kang Zhixun also counterattacked from the flank, and the desperate counterattack of the Yunnan army made the tired Situ Fei unable to stand and was forced to retreat, and the ferry temporarily turned dangerous.

Looking at the overall battle situation, Lan Yundong finally arrived in Dechang at this moment, and rushed to Huili in the starry night; The Houwei troops led by Gao Yuankun (Huangpu Phase III, deputy captain of Situ Feibu) have arrived at the outskirts of Huili, and the situation is very good.

But Zhuang Jihua was still a little anxious in his heart, if Lu Daoyuan escaped from Hongmendu, the next stage of capturing Yunnan was probably going to be a lot of work, and he sent a telegram urging Fan Hanjie to speed up the march, and be sure to rush to the Hongmendu battlefield before the day fell, and at the same time ordered Situ Fei not to be afraid of casualties, and to resolutely entangle the enemy.

After receiving the telegram, Fan Hanjie ordered to throw away everything except weapons and ammunition, and rushed to Hongmendu by forced march, Gao Yuanxun also led his troops to chase Hongmendu, and Zhuang Jihua gave him the order that he must rush to the battlefield before dawn tomorrow.

Hongmen crossed the northeast, the sound of artillery shook the sky, Situ Fei held a telescope to observe the battle on the mountain, 2,000 of the 3,000 people in his hand fought fiercely on the four-mile battle line, the retreating Yunnan army was extremely tenacious, the commander supervised the battle on the mountain, and the difficulty was that there were few shells left for them to carry, and the artillery advantage was not so strong, fortunately, the heroism of the soldiers was still the same, three groups and a team took turns to attack the mountain, the Yunnan army on the mountain suffered heavy casualties, but still gritted their teeth and insisted.

Situ Fei's face was gloomy, the battle situation was stale, and the gap that was easy to open was driven back by the enemy, but he couldn't blame his soldiers, they were too tired, too tired, from Yibin to Huili, from Huili to Kyaukpingdu, and from Kyaukpingdu to Hongmendu, they traveled thousands of miles, and they are still fighting completely relying on strong will.

As the attack approached the top of the mountain, the firepower on the top of the hill suddenly increased, and in the telescope, the enemy on the top of the hill became more numerous, and it was obvious that the enemy had received reinforcements again, and the convoy gradually could not support it, and the troops retreated.

Long Yun was anxious in the city of Kunming, he scolded Sun Du for a while, and then scolded Chiang Kai-shek, vented that he had to return to reality, the situation was not completely bad, Lu Daoyuan successfully brought the troops to Hongmendu, as long as he can bring the troops back to Yunnan, even if it is only half, there is still hope for everything, but the situation of Hongmendu should not be underestimated, it is difficult to say whether it can be brought back, some conditions must be created for him, but....

"Chairman Long, it's time to bow your head, and you must continue to ask the chairman for an armistice." An anxious voice interrupted his thoughts, and he looked up to see that it was Hu Ying, followed by Zhou Zhongyue and Zhang Chong.

"Now is the period of high water, and it may be difficult for Hongmen to build a bridge, and we cannot pin our hopes on them to cross the river on their own." Hu Ying continued.

After Zhou Zhongyue and Zhang Chong entered the door, they found two chairs to sit down, Zhang Chong said: "Hu Gong is right, I still have to contact Chiang Kai-shek and ask him to come forward to press Zhuang Jihua to cease the war, in addition," Zhang Chong paused, looked at Long Yun and said: "In addition, we must strengthen the defense of Kunming and let Yongheng come back as soon as possible." ”

Now the strength in Kunming City has a brigade of Zhang Chong, a regiment of the first guard, two regiments, and a guard brigade, and all the defenders add up to less than 10,000 people.

Long Yun nodded, these two suggestions are very crucial, especially what Zhang Chong said, he said heavily: "Okay, Brother Yun Peng will entrust you with full authority to deal with the matter of city defense," and then he turned to Hu Ying: "Hu Gong, how do you think Chiang Kai-shek will let Zhuang Jihua stop?" ”

Hu Ying pondered for a moment, he keenly felt that Long Yun's attitude was a little loose, and he sighed with a wry smile: "I think he won't stop unless he accepts his conditions." ”

Zhou Zhongyue saw Long Yun's gaze turn to him and said: "Now it seems that this is the only way, Zhizhou, Zhuang Wenge has always been very tough, and his strength also shows that he has the ability to be tough, if we don't agree to his conditions, it is not impossible for him to attack Kunming." Zhizhou, I'm afraid it's too late at that time. ”

It's not that Long Yun didn't think about this problem, otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to Zhang Chong's mention of Kunming City Defense, and he also thought about accepting Zhuang Jihua's conditions, but a few days ago, he said so much in front of his subordinates, which made him a little unable to get off the stage, but now at Hu Ying's suggestion, he also happened to borrow the ladder to step down.

"Okay, send a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek and ask him again to stop the offensive of the Zhuang Cultural Revolution, and we are willing to accept his conditions."

Long Yun finished speaking, but Hu Ying and Zhou Zhongyue's demeanor was not relaxed, Zhou Zhongyue took out a few pieces of paper and handed it to Long Yun: "I wrote an article, Chairman Long will take a look, if you can, you can send it to Shanghai and Nanjing to publish." ”

Long Yun hurriedly finished reading it, and couldn't help but be grateful to Zhou Zhongyue. Zhou Zhongyue's article held high the banner of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, describing the various contributions made by Yunnan presided over by Long Yun to the War of Resistance over the years, describing Zhuang Jihua's attack on Yunnan as the established strategy of the central government to eliminate the localities, accusing the central government of still insisting on exterminating local forces in the current situation of serious external troubles, and this move was to eliminate the strength of the country and the nation in the War of Resistance, and called on the whole country to unite, stop the civil war, and go to the national disaster together.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was commanding the suppression of the Liangguang Incident in Nanchang, was holding an operational meeting when he received Long Yun's telegram, and he was a little surprised after reading the telegram.

"Lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot, this Long Zhizhou is too smart." Chiang Kai-shek muttered to himself, and then continued to listen to Chen Cheng's analysis.

“… Wei Lihuang's troops attacked Meixian from the direction of Wuping and Shanghang, and Xu Yuanquan's troops attacked Chaoshan from Yunxiao Zhao'an, Fujian,...。 ”

After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek thought for a while and said, "How is Huang Guangrui's work done?" ”

Dai Li said respectfully on the side: "Chen Zhuolin's report has been a little shaken, but he is still hesitating and has not made up his mind. ”

"Well, tell him that as long as he comes, fifty gold bars per plane, and dollars are fine, and the central government will not be stingy with the loyal and brave. Tuo himself can teach at the aviation school, or he can continue to contribute to the Air Force. Chiang Kai-shek said calmly: "Don't be afraid of paying money, I even want people to bring planes, and Yu Hanmou must also hurry up." ”

"Yes, I'll go to Hong Kong myself tomorrow." Dai Li's face is still that respectful.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded, looked down at the telegram on the table, and then glanced at the senior generals in the room and said: "We are not afraid of rebellion, if we rebel, we will put down the rebellion, the power of the central government is getting stronger and stronger, and there is no rebellion that cannot be quelled." Long Yun wanted to put his hand into Sichuan, but was cut off by the Cultural Revolution, and now he wants to seek peace, but whether it is war or not has him the final say. ”

Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence and pride at the moment; Although he didn't know the battle situation in front of him, Long Yun's telegram had already exposed his situation. Chiang Kai-shek stood up and opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say anything now, so he handed the telegram to Xiao Yisu: "The original text, not a word will be forwarded to Zhuang Wenge, and nothing else will be said." ”

Xiao Yisu knew that Chiang Kai-shek meant to ask Zhuang Jihua how to reply to the telegram. This result page was beyond his expectations, when the Sichuan-Yunnan War first started, Chiang Kai-shek's staff was still very worried, after all, the main force of the Zhuang Cultural Revolution was far away in Yucheng, and the troops were mainly recruits, on the contrary, the Yunnan army was all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and the middle and lower-level officers had rich experience in actual combat, so this battle was not easy to fight; That's why they persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to stop Zhuang Jihua's actions and concentrate all his efforts on dealing with Liangguang first, and then settling accounts with Long Yun. But now Zhuang Jihua actually forced Long Yun to sue for peace with more than 20,000 people, and there was a faint tendency to attack Kunming, which made them a little surprised.

When Zhuang Jihua received the telegram, he was chatting with An Enpu and others in Huili City, and now that the battle situation was basically determined, he left the matter of commanding the battle to Du Yuming, but he took Li Anding to see An Enpu and Liu Zhengfu.

"General An, you are a Yi person, why are Yi people so persistent in fighting their enemies?" Zhuang Jihua looked at An Enpu's eyes and asked seriously: "I once persuaded him to give up when he should give up, and turn his rivalry into a jade silk, but he refused, and as a result, he stabbed such a big basket this time." ”

But when Zhuang Jihua appeared in front of An Enpu, An Enpu was a little surprised, he didn't expect to see him so soon, and the other party still took the initiative to come to see him, what made him even more strange was that Zhuang Jihua didn't mention the army in Yunnan, nor did he say anything about the current war situation, could it be that Lu Daoyuan and them also..., An Enpu didn't dare to think about it.

"It is the tradition of the Yi people to deal with tribal disputes, and the Yi people have never had a unified decree, and the Tusi and the head are the laws in their own territory, so when there is a conflict between the Tusi and the Tusi, it can only be resolved by force." An Enpu replied with some bitterness, the Yi people don't believe in the Han people, let alone the laws of the Han people, even if the provincial chairman is Long Yun, the Yi people, they don't believe it.

"It seems that there is still a need for education." Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything more, but directly took out his idea: "Do you think it is feasible to open a school in Yi District?" ”

"School?" After thinking about it, An Enpu said: "It should be possible to be in the city or near transportation, but it may be difficult for the Yi tribe in the deep mountains, and it is dangerous for the Han people to go to the Yi area." ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded and then shook his head: "I don't think it's dangerous, it's poor, Mr. Ren Naiqiang and Professor Chang told me that they have met the Yi tribe in the deep mountains, as long as they treat each other politely, those Yi people are very easy to get along with." They came out to rob, but in fact, they were also poor. But how can we solve this poverty of theirs? There is only one general principle, that is, to develop the economy, but I do not know exactly how to develop it. ”

An Enpu suddenly realized at this time that Zhuang Jihua's tone of speech was completely mastery, and he hesitated and asked, "General Zhuang, do you want to attack Kunming?" ”

Zhuang Jihua nodded indifferently, Sun Du, An Enpu and Liu Zhengfu couldn't help but stand up at the same time, Sun Du asked first: "Lu Daoyuan, they are also finished?" ”

"Well, it's almost over," Zhuang Jihua said: "Fan Hanjie's troops have rushed to Hongmendu, and the troops led by Gao Yuanxun have also passed, and Lan Yundong will arrive tomorrow." Lu Daoyuan has more than 10,000 people in his hands, Fan Hanjie and Situ Fei have 12,300 combined, plus more than 10,000 people from Gao Yuanxun, the total strength has already surpassed Lu Daoyuan, if Lu Daoyuan doesn't leave today, then he won't be able to leave. ”

Sun Du and the three of them sat down with dead faces, and Zhuang Jihua continued: "Now the defenders in Kunming are less than 10,000 people, even if Lu Han leads the newly formed troops back, the defenders will not exceed 20,000, and I have more than 30,000 people, which is enough." ”

Zhuang Jihua didn't care about telling these military secrets, and Sun Du, An Enpu and Liu Zhengfu became more and more depressed, they lowered their heads and didn't say a word.

"General Sun, General An, General Liu, Long Yun must leave Yunnan," Zhuang Jihua said solemnly: "But it doesn't mean that there is no place for you in New Yunnan, I hope you can stay and build New Yunnan with me." ”

Sun Du smiled bitterly: "What else can we do, we have been soldiers for half our lives, and we don't know anything else except for leading soldiers to fight." ”

An Enpu and Liu Zhengfu were even more discouraged, both of them were Yi people, and they could still get ahead under Long Yun, but if they were to be replaced by Han people, it would be difficult to say. Luo Binghui, a person who can fight and fight, cannot be reused under Zhu Peide, and in the end he was almost driven away, he is not a Yi person, but a Han person in the Yi area.

"Then continue to lead the troops to fight." As soon as Zhuang Jihua's words of indifference came out, Sun Du, An Enpu, and Liu Zhengfu's heads were raised almost at the same time, and the eyes were seriously suspicious.

"I don't tell lies, there's no need to lie to you," Zhuang Jihua smiled lightly: "But it's not to fight Long Yun, nor to fight any other Chinese, but to fight Ben." The purpose of the development of the southwest is to target the Yue himself, and this unit is also trained with the Yue army as an imaginary enemy, but the training time is too short and not good, and there are still some weapons that are not equipped, and the officers' battlefield experience is too little, and they cannot be compared with you generals who have been in a hundred battles at all, so I hope you can stay and stay with us to fight the war. ”

(To be continued)