The artillery regiment of the 7th Division and the artillery on the ships of the Navy Division shelled Chongqing Mansion for most of the day, but Wang Qiang felt that the shelling effect was not very good, and the Qing soldiers in the city showed no sign of surrender, so Wang Qiang decisively decided to immediately storm Chongqing Mansion.

The mortar battalion of the 7th Division was moved to the naval division warship, which could directly suppress the Qing troops on the city wall.

This time the main attack was the second regiment of the Seventh Division, and Xie Kui's regiment served as the main attack task many times, which had already aroused the dissatisfaction of several other regiments, "They are all main regiments, why do you always take on the main attack task, just because you have defended Jinan with the division commander?" ”

Xie Kui still wanted to argue, but Wang Qiang waved his hand, this time the main attack was carried out by the Second Regiment, and Xie Kui had to wilt aside.

The second regiment thought that it had grabbed a piece of fat meat this time, but it turned out that there were not a few pieces of meat at all, and in less than an hour after the attack, the second regiment entered the city of Chongqing, and the Qing soldiers defending the city only held out for this hour before surrendering.

When Wang Qiang entered the city with the other three regiments, there were only more than 2,000 Qing soldiers who had surrendered in Chongqing, but Hong Chengchou's army was not in the city, and the prisoners confessed that when the Seventh Division was just approaching Chongqing Mansion, Hong Chengchou ran away with the main force.

Hong Chengchou ran in the direction of Luzhou, Wang Qiang looked at the map, Hong Chengchou was preparing to flee to Yunnan, it seemed that he had given up Sichuan.

The first division marched to Chengdu from the direction of Nanchong, Wang Qiang did not know, but Hong Chengchou had already received a report, seeing that the two main divisions of the National Defense Force using new equipment gathered in Sichuan, Hong Chengchou knew that Sichuan would definitely not be able to hold it, so he simply gave up Sichuan and ran towards Yunnan.

Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong decided after a brief discussion, chase!

The artillery of the Seventh Division and the Second Army were all left in Chongqing City, so it was indeed very inconvenient to maneuver the artillery for a long-distance pursuit, and the Seventh Division had mortar battalions, and some units were also equipped with a certain number of grenadiers, which were sufficient. Wang Qiang didn't believe that Hong Chengchou, who fled in a hurry, could bring all his cumbersome cannons with him.

Without the drag of artillery, the speed of the troops' march was much faster, and two days later, the scouts of the 7th Division reported that they had found that the Qing troops led by Hong Chengchou did not stop at Luzhou City, and went directly to the direction of Yanjin.

Go in this direction. Wang Qiang was glad that he didn't bring artillery, the road to Yunnan was extremely difficult, if he brought artillery, he might really let Hong Chengchou run.

One ran desperately, the other chased desperately, Hong Chengchou had long been ready to escape, all kinds of materials were fully prepared, and the Seventh Division and the Second Army relied on the support of waterways. All kinds of supplies are also very abundant, now it depends on who can run faster.

Hong Chengchou finally fled to Yunnan, but the Seventh Division also arrived, and the distance between the two armies had been shortened to more than 100 li, and the rapid march took only one day.

Hong Chengchou was unable to be pursued, leaving more than 8,000 people in Zhaotong, Yunnan to block the Wehrmacht, and the scouts of the 7th Division discovered the attempt of the Qing troops.

Eight thousand Qing soldiers brought a lot of trouble to the Seventh Division, and the key was the terrain. Although the 7th Division had heavy firepower, it was very narrow due to the terrain. The strength could not be fully deployed, the Seventh Division could only be suppressed with mortars, and the infantry advanced little by little, and after the Second Army surrounded the 8,000 men in a large circle, two more days passed.

Most of the 8,000 Qing soldiers chose to surrender, although Wang Qiang hated these 8,000 Qing soldiers to the core. However, the Wehrmacht's prisoner policy made him helpless, and Wang Qiang, who was extremely angry, ordered all the more than 7,000 prisoners to follow the troops and carry food.

However, with these more than 7,000 captives following behind as transporters, the march of the troops was much easier.

After the offensive and defensive battles in Zhaotong, Wang Qiang realized that under the extremely complex terrain of Yunnan, it was extremely difficult to annihilate Hong Chengchou's Qing troops in a short period of time. Wang Qiang, who has already read the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, understands why Zhu Youlang, the emperor of Yongli, can hold on for so long in another time and space.

Shi Kefa didn't expect that with the strength of the Seventh Division, it would be so difficult to eliminate Hong Chengchou, as early as after hearing the news that Hong Chengchou ran into Yunnan, Luo Jian knew that it was impossible to solve the problem in a short time.

The telegraph has been set up in Chengdu and Chongqing, because of the Qinling Mountains, the telegram has to go through several transfers before it can be connected with Nanjing, because there are many transits, it often takes half a day for a telegram from Chengdu to be received by Nanjing, but even so, Huang Degong is already ecstatic.

Huang Degong's 3rd and 5th Divisions actually arrived at Chengdu Mansion without much fighting, and when Huang Degong arrived at Chengdu Mansion, he found that the 1st Army and 1st Division had occupied Chengdu.

After Zhuang Zigu's first division took Jianmen Pass, it immediately began to march in the direction of Cangxi and the south along the road taken by the Qing soldiers.

However, after arriving in Xichong, the road conditions were much better, and after a day of rest in Xichong, the first division began a real rapid march.

From Xichong to Chengdu nearly 500 miles, the first division only took eight days, which also included six battles on the way, captured four county seats, to Chengdu Mansion, the siege battle only lasted less than half an hour, that is, after the artillery of the first division fired three volleys, the 20,000 Qing soldiers of Chengdu Mansion raised a white flag on the city.

After Huang Degong arrived in Chengdu, he used the telegram he had just set up to make a report to Nanjing, and Luo Jian ordered the First Division to return to Xi'an immediately after completing its rest and recuperation in Chengdu.

The Fifth Division will be stationed in Sichuan for a long time to come, and at present the Third Division will have to cooperate with the Fifth Division in Sichuan to clear out the remnants of the Qing army, and after the situation in Sichuan is stabilized, the Third Division will also have to withdraw to the Central Plains.

Hong Chengchou didn't expect that the Wehrmacht's determination to eliminate him this time was so resolute, he always thought that the Wehrmacht would always slow down when it caught up for a while, so that he could also have a chance to breathe.

But this time the Wehrmacht 30,000 men followed him in hot pursuit, not giving him any respite at all.

Hong Chengchou had a hard time escaping, Wang Qiang was also chasing hard, stopping and stopping along the way, Wang Qiang was playing a real fire this time, he had already told Li Chengdong that if Hong Chengchou was not killed, the Seventh Division would never withdraw the army.

Although the training of the Second Army was also very good, when it caught up near the former Jianchangwei (now Panzhihua area), most of the troops of the Second Army could not keep up, and Li Chengdong had no choice but to order these troops to rest on the spot, and in order to show that he was not convinced, Li Chengdong took more than 10,000 people selected from the Second Army to follow behind the Seventh Division.

"Xiao Wang, I used to think that you Seventh Division won the battle because the Governor was biased and gave you the best equipment, but now it seems that you are not only well equipped, but my old Li has served you!" Li Chengdong said to Wang Qiang very modestly.

"That is, when our Seventh Division used to train, we used to train for a ten-kilometer armed cross-country every morning, and that was not for nothing." Wang Qiang said a little proudly.

"Alas, Xiao Wang, my Lao Li saw your training at the beginning, and what did you think you were doing when you practiced running? Is it used to run away when you can't win? Now it seems that it is still useful to practice an iron footboard. Li Chengdong began to sum up his experience.

"Commander Li, there is a lot of knowledge in this run, do you want me to send a few people to your army to guide you at that time?"

Wang Qiang continued to grin, it was very boring to run on the road, Wang Qiang had been riding on a horse like this and chatting with Li Chengdong, anyway, his mouth was idle, and sometimes he would argue a few words, but most of the time it was Li Chengdong who was patting Wang Qiang's ass.

There were a few times when Li Chengdong always wanted to ask Luo Jian about the situation in the "heaven", but Wang Qiang glared back at a glance, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to mention it in the future.

When Hong Chengchou was chased by the Seventh Division and fled to the outskirts of Kunming, he didn't dare to enter Kunming City at all, he was afraid that he would never be able to escape if he entered the city.

Hong Chengchou's failure to enter Kunming does not mean that he can pass through Kunming City casually, what Hong Chengchou never dreamed of was that when he just wanted to bypass Kunming, a team of more than 5,000 people came out of Kunming City to block his way.

Hong Chengchou saw that the banner of these more than 5,000 people turned out to be "Daxi", which made Hong Chengchou puzzled.

He knew that Zhang Xianzhong was killed by the Haoge Department in Xichong, Sichuan, and the rest of the troops were quickly defeated and scattered by the Qing soldiers.

When Hong Chengchou arrived at the outskirts of Kunming, Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong also arrived in Fumin County, which was only more than 50 miles away from Kunming, which means that the Seventh Division was now only more than 50 miles away from Hong Chengchou, and the scouts had already reported the situation to Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang's map is copied from the Baidu map, although some place names are not the same, but the scale is extremely accurate, Wang Qiang was about to order the troops to attack at full speed, ready to leave Hong Chengchou outside the city of Kunming, but found that Hong Chengchou adopted gecko tactics again, he left more than 10,000 horses in Fumin.

More than 10,000 people and horses really can't run, after running for more than ten days, Hong Chengchou's grain and grass have also been consumed, and with so many people, I am afraid that the army will soon run out of food.

Hong Chengchou left more than 10,000 people with one stone, which could not only block the national defense army for a while, but also get rid of the burden, but it added a lot of trouble to Wang Qiang.

After many battles, the ammunition carried by the 7th Division is now running out, and the shells of the mortar battalion are now only two bases, that is, there are only twelve shells per mortar, and there is not much ammunition left for each soldier.

Li Chengdong took the initiative to ask the Second Army to take up the main attack task this time, and although the Second Army did not all follow, more than 10,000 people followed him here.

Fortunately, the 10,000 Qing soldiers left behind by Hong Chengchou did not have enough time to build fortifications, and it was possible that they could not eat enough and did not have the strength to dig fortifications again.

Just when Li Chengdong ordered the troops to set up an offensive formation and began to prepare for the attack, a strange thing happened, most of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side actually put down their rifles and sat on the ground.

After a while, several general-looking people came out of the Qing army, shouting not to shoot, and crawled to the front of the attack formation of the second army to demand surrender.

Li Chengdong said to Wang Qiang beside him with some pride: "It seems that my old Li Daming is outside, and when I saw our second army coming out, they surrendered directly." ”

Wang Qiang just smiled when he heard this, and called a few Qing generals over to ask, and both of them laughed.

"You're chasing too hard, we're all so tired that we're dead and we're running out of food." The Qing generals almost cried as they spoke. (To be continued.) )