Unlike the Hunan and Guizhou armies, which had "limited advances", the Second Route Army led by Xue Yueqin made very rapid progress. Han Hanying's 59th Division and Tang Yunshan's 93rd Division, the leading troops, soon followed Li Jiansheng's rearguard troops.

Some time ago, Xue Yue's troops had been chasing and destroying the main force of the Red Bandits, so they had no time to take care of the Red Seventh Legion. In his opinion, as long as Vermilion Mao is done, this red bandit will be done. But what he didn't expect was that whether it was the first legion, the third legion, the fifth legion, or the ninth legion of the red bandits, it was not easy to deal with. According to Han Hanying's report, his 59th Division fought against the 1st Red Army, and although it inflicted heavy losses on the 1st Red Army, it also suffered heavy losses, and two of the three brigades under its command lost their combat effectiveness at one time. Fortunately, the chairman of the committee gave great support and gave sufficient supplements, and the three brigades were restored to their original strength. It's just that this combat effectiveness can't be improved in a day or two, and it still needs to be sharpened in actual combat. Tang Yunshan's 93rd Division fought against the Red Third Army, which also dealt a great blow to the Red Third Army, and similarly, the 93rd Division also suffered serious battle losses. The three brigades lost a total of 3 regiments. This also means that the actual combat strength of this division is only half of that before the war. You know, there are only 6 regiments in this division! Fortunately, because this kind of war damage was caused by the suppression of the Communist Party, it was very supported by the chairman of the committee, no, and now it is the same as the 59th Division, restored to its original establishment. As for his other subordinates, they inflicted heavy losses on the Red Bandits' Fifth Legion. Fortunately, his own troops are numerous, and the losses are not too large. According to the official history, Xue Yue led his troops to carry out flank and tail attacks along the Xianggui Highway, severely damaged the Fifth Army Corps at the rear end of the Red Army, and captured Chen Shuxiang, commander of the 34th Red Division. Of course, at present, because of the arrival of Li Jiansheng and the Red Third Front Army, Xue Yue's performance is not as good as that of the official history. Although it also hit the Red Fifth Army hard, it did not capture Chen Shuxiang. Chen Shuxiang was rescued by Li Jiansheng, and the Red Fifth Army Corps is now composed of four divisions because of the supplement of Li Jiansheng's department!

However, he said that according to the established deployment, Xue Yue still took these two supplemented divisions as the lead this time, Ou Zhen's 90th Division, Liang Huasheng's 92nd Division, and Huiji's first detachment were the Chinese army, and Xiao Zhiping's 96th Division and Guo Siyan's 99th Division were the rear guard of the whole army, advancing in turn. This is not at ease, and he specially ordered Wu Qiwei to act with the Chinese army, and he followed the guard. It's just that 6 divisions and 1 division-level branch level, this search has been advanced for several days, and there has been no shadow of the Red Army, but it has constantly received news that friendly troops have been annihilated, and in the end, even Zhou Hunyuan's headquarters was almost beaten and transferred to his own troops. It's the same when he comes, Zhou Hunyuan still knows his own situation, and even if he asks him to take over the two divisions of the rearguard troops that he commands.

On January 1, 1935, New Year's Day, Xue Yue finally received good news: the leading troops were tracking the red bandits and had entered Guizhou, and the 59th Division was advancing towards Liping!

This good news is not only for the red bandits, but also for the "King of Guizhou" Wang Jialie! Xue Yue will never forget Chairman Chiang's careful guidance to him before leaving. He remembered more clearly that his friend Chen Bui's letter a few days ago told him a story about the principal: When he learned that the Red Bandit Department had invaded Guizhou, Chairman Jiang was overjoyed and said to Chen Bui: "We can follow up when we enter Guizhou, which is better than us using troops specifically for Guizhou." Therefore, this time he has already made up his mind that when the red bandits enter and occupy Guizhou, he will come to Guiyang in the name of suppressing the Communist Party and seize the power of Wang Jialie, chairman of Guizhou Province, even if the red bandits have a chance to breathe!

Thinking of this, Xue Yue calmly assigned tasks to the following divisions, so that several divisions had to push forward with all their might. Of course, each division also has specific tasks: at present, the 1st Red Bandit Corps is heading northwest from Liping, through Leishan, and Taijiang, and is pursuing with the 59th and 93rd Divisions; The Fifth Army Corps of the Red Bandits developed from Liping, Jingjinping, and to the direction of Jianhe, pursuing with the 90th and 92nd Divisions; The Red Bandit Ninth Army marched along the direction of Congjiang to Rongjiang and Sandu, and the 45th Division of the Gui Army was responsible for the pursuit; The Eighth Army of the Red Bandits advanced in the direction of Shuikou, Shuangjiang, Zaima, and Leli, and the Hunan Army was responsible for pursuing and suppressing them; The 3rd Army Corps of the Red Bandits went from Liping, Yanbazhai and Langdong to the direction of Kaili, and pursued with the 96th Division and the first detachment of Huiji; The 99th Division is the general reserve of the whole army. Of course, as the confidant of the chairman of the committee, he still secretly hinted at his intentions to the division commanders and detachment commanders of several directly subordinate units: to occupy the territory of Guizhou as much as possible. These division commanders are all old sparrow-like characters, how can it be possible not to understand the mind of the boss? So they paid attention.

As for the Hunan Army and the Gui Army, Xue Yue had other ideas.

As a senior commander in the army, although he did not participate in the Xinwei Blockade Battle, and did not know the details, he still knew the general situation, and he also knew many details and secrets. Although after the Battle of Xiangjiang, the high-level officials of the Gui faction only publicized how many Red Bandit prisoners they had captured, he had already known that the main figures of the Gui faction were deliberately concealing and downplaying the losses of the 24th and 44th Divisions, and quietly transferred cadres and militia groups to quickly replenish the establishment of the 24th and 44th Divisions. In other words, the report to the above is still the 24th Division and the 44th Division, but the current two divisions are no longer the two divisions of the day, and these people have all changed. As for the deaths of the two division commanders, it would be better, one "died in the line of duty" would be solved, and the other could be directly appointed by drawing people from several other divisions and other armed forces of the Gui system. In short, with all kinds of names and all kinds of means, it can be regarded as keeping the numbers of these two divisions. On the grounds that the commanders of the two divisions had died and the troops had suffered major damage, they desperately sought the central authorities for supplies and equipment, but the chairman of the committee had no way to entangle these people, or he had no time to deal with these people, so he had to wave a big pen and give these two divisions brand new German equipment, and the two divisions were like that!

However, after this incident, they became more and more cautious in their pursuit of the red bandits. Come to think of it, it's not that the two chiefs Li and Bai don't want to take revenge on the red bandits, but they don't dare to retaliate, or they can't afford to retaliate. Come to think of it, these old sparrows are afraid that they know that the Central Army, the descendants of our chairman, is behind this red bandit, and if they learn that their Gui Army has suffered heavy losses, or if they suffer even greater losses, the consequences for them are unimaginable!

We must admit that if this is the case, it does give us a lot of opportunities, you know, you should lead the army to come, but under the secret order of the chairman, "do everything possible to make these places the same flag"! It's a pity that we learned a little late. By the time we knew that something had happened to their 24th and 44th divisions, their 24th and 44th divisions had already been restored, and they couldn't find the ballast! If you want to sue again, there is no way, Li and Bai are not vegetarians, and they can definitely be pushed through! Therefore, this time we have to swallow this fruit and find another opportunity in the future! Fortunately, we have personally experienced the process of the rapid disintegration of the Xingui system by the chairman of the National Committee during the Northern Expedition, and I have to say that Jiang Gong is much more clever than Li and Bai, and there will definitely be opportunities in the future!