Sun Kewang didn't wait too long, and on the eighth day after the Seventh Division sent the fast horse messenger, the news from Nanjing arrived.

Such a fast speed even Li Chengdong was extremely surprised, he didn't know about the telegram yet.

The messenger directly handed the telegram to Wang Qiang, and after reading it, Wang Qiang handed it to Li Chengdong.

After reading the telegram, Li Chengdong showed a strange look on his face, he didn't expect the Nanjing government to arrange it like this.

According to the order of the Dadu Governor's Office, the Seventh Division will be withdrawn to Nanjing for rest, and the Southwest Provisional Working Committee will be established in the three southwestern provinces, which will be set up in Chongqing, with Li Chengdong as the director, and the Daxi Army will be reorganized into the 11th Division of the National Defense Army, which will be under the jurisdiction of the Second Army, and Sun Kewang will be the deputy commander of the Second Army and the commander of the 11th Division.

The telegram made arrangements for Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi, but Li Dingguo did not make any arrangements, but just asked him to go to Nanjing with Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang knew that Li Dingguo was sent to Nanjing because of Luo Jian's heroic complex, and the others didn't know, so they all looked at Li Dingguo a little strangely.

Sun Kewang, who has learned more and more about the National Defense Forces these days, is extremely satisfied with this arrangement, and even Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi are full of joy, but Li Dingguo is the only one who begins to worry.

"Brother Hongyuan, let's go back to Nanjing together, aren't you happy?" After Wang Qiang and Li Dingguo got acquainted, they also began to get up casually, shouting Li Dingguo's words and saying.

"The governor of the capital recruits each other, how dare Dingguo disobey?" Li Dingguo said a little depressed.

"Haha, Brother Hongyuan, wait for you to come back from Nanjing, let them envy you!" Wang Qiang said with a smile.

The major problems in the southwestern provinces have been basically resolved, and only some remnants of the Qing army are still left in some places, and some of these remnants have gone to the mountains to occupy the mountains as kings, and it will take a lot of time to clean them all up.

But Wang Qiang can't control these anymore, these are Li Chengdong's affairs, he and the Seventh Division will return to Nanjing tomorrow.

Early the next morning, the Seventh Division pulled up its camp and began to maneuver towards Chongqing. They will take a boat back to Nanjing in Chongqing Province.

Li Chengdong had to stay in Kunming for a few more days, first, to complete the reorganization of the Great Western Army, and second, to send troops into the mountains to clear the crackdown, and only after the Yunnan problem was basically resolved could he go to Chongqing.

"Second brother, when you arrive in Nanjing, you will ask for peace for our brother to the governor and the superintendent!" Sun Kewang led the two brothers to send the Seventh Division to Kunming City more than ten miles away. Under Wang Qiang's repeated urging, several people returned to Kunming.

"Master Wang, I don't know what happened to the Metropolitan Governor summoning Dingguo to Nanjing this time?" Li Dingguo, who had never been steadfast in his heart, asked Wang Qiang as soon as he left Kunming.

"Brother Hongyuan, I don't know what happened to you in the past, but I promise that there will definitely be good things waiting for you." Wang Qiang turned his head to Li Dingguo very seriously and said, which made Li Dingguo feel a little relieved.

It took 10 days for the Seventh Division to return to Chongqing from Kunming, and when it arrived in Chongqing, Wang Qiang sent another telegram to Nanjing, giving a brief report on the situation in the southwest. After receiving Nanjing's reaffirmation, the Seventh Division began to board the ship from Chongqing and returned to Nanjing.

Li Dingguo was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he didn't expect to be able to contact Nanjing so easily in Chongqing, he didn't expect so many sailless self-propelled steamships to appear on the Yangtze River, and he didn't expect that there was an artillery regiment in Chongqing in the Seventh Division.

During his one-day stay in Chongqing, Li Dingguo wrote a long letter to Sun Kewang and several brothers describing in detail what he had seen and heard, and he did not know how the brothers would feel after reading it, and perhaps they would all be happy that they had made the right choice.

"Thousands of miles of Jiangling in one day". This is a description of how easy and quick it is to go down the Yangtze River, and the facts have proved it. The Seventh Division set off from Chongqing and returned to Nanjing, and it took only eight days on the way, which was still under the condition that Wang Qiang did not sail at night in the Sichuan River section for safety.

On 15 September, the fleet of the Seventh Division finally arrived at the Nanjing wharf, and Wang Qiang and Li Dingguo stood on the deck and looked at the wharf. The wharf has been crowded with people, colorful flags are fluttering everywhere, the golden autumn is the best time of the year in Nanjing, this year's grain harvest is a bumper harvest, and everyone's faces are full of laughter. From everyone's smiling faces, people can always see hope and longing for the future.

Luo Jian and Shi Kefa personally came to the dock to greet the Seventh Division, Wang Qiang knew that Luo Jian was probably coming for Li Dingguo, and Shi Kefa was indeed here for the Seventh Division, which was gnawing hard bones everywhere.

"Report to the Metropolitan Governor and Supervisor, the victory of the Seventh Division, please instruct!" Wang Qiang stepped on the dock in a few steps, trotted a few steps to Luo Jian and Shi Kefa, saluted and reported.

"You have worked hard, organize the troops to go ashore and rest!" Luo Jian replied with a salute and said loudly.

Wang Qiang saluted again, then turned around and asked Ma Qianjun and others to arrange for the troops to land and rest, and he led Li Dingguo towards Luo Jian and Shi Kefa.

"Chief, Supervisor, the Seventh Division didn't disgrace you, did it? Let me introduce you to you, this is General Li Dingguo. Wang Qiang first said with a smile on his face, and then he seriously introduced Li Dingguo to the two.

"General Li, welcome!" Luo Jian said with a fist at Li Dingguo.

"The last general, Li Dingguo, met with the governor and the superintendent!" Li Dingguo stepped forward and clenched his fists with both hands and was about to kneel down on one knee to give the two of them a military salute of the Ming Army, but Wang Qiang grabbed him from behind.

"I've told you, our We're not going to kneel at all, and you don't listen." Wang Qiang straightened Li Dingguo and then said.

Luo Jian looked at Li Dingguo carefully, he was very interested in this last optimus pillar of the Southern Ming Dynasty, aside from the special geographical environment of Yunnan, he was able to persist in the struggle for more than ten years under the condition that the Manchu Qing Dynasty invested a large number of troops in Yunnan, and never surrendered, which alone can also show that this person is not in vain in history.

What's more, Li Dingguo has a strong sense of the overall situation, and when the nation is in danger, he resolutely gave up his past suspicions, cooperated with the Southern Ming court, and was unswerving; In the face of Sun Kewang's multi-party provocations in the same camp, he took into account the overall situation and avoided it in many ways; He once "struck the king twice, and the world shook", so that the Qing court was once ready to give up the seven southwestern provinces, if it were not for the traitor leaking secrets, it would have caused Wu Sangui's entire army to be annihilated.

Wang Qiang didn't know, but Luo Jian knew very well that in his time and space, Yunnan people still regarded Li Dingguo as the backbone of Yunnan, and the revolutionaries of the late Qing Dynasty revolted, and Cai Yi and others still took Li Dingguo as an example. Zhang Binglin said: "May I Yunnan people not forget Li Dingguo!" ”

"Brother Xian, my Liulan has already been arranged, and I will have a banquet for General Li at my house today, will you go?" Luo Jian asked Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa didn't know what had happened in Yunnan in another time and space, and he didn't understand that Luo Jian valued Li Dingguo so much. However, Shi Kefa already had experience, Luo Jian treated Yan Yingyuan like this at the beginning, and he also knew that Li Dingguo in front of him must have something extraordinary.

"I definitely have to go, whoever doesn't go to your house is a fool!" Shi Kefa said with a smile, in fact, he also wanted to know what Li Dingguo was so good about.

Li Dingguo really didn't think that Luo Jian would entertain him with a family banquet, in this era, if it is not a particularly close relationship, it is generally rare to entertain guests with a family banquet, Li Dingguo really can't figure out why.

"Xiao Wang. You go and inform Xiao Liu and his family and bring your apricots with you. Luo Jian was obviously in a very good mood.

"Master Wang, I'm empty-handed, and I didn't bring any gifts!" Li Dingguo was so anxious that he rubbed his hands, pulled Wang Qiang aside and said.

"It's best if you don't bring a gift, and if you do, you'll be scolded." Wang Qiang said with a smile.

Hearing Wang Qiang say this, Li Dingguo no longer cared about the gift, but his eyes were attracted by Nanjing City again.

Born in Shaanxi. Since he was a child, he followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the south and the north, and Li Dingguo has been to many big cities. But this is the first time he has seen a city like Nanjing.

Li Dingguo even thought that Nanjing City had no city walls, because it was not long after walking from the wharf to the downtown area, and he didn't know until he arrived at Jincemen that he had really arrived in Nanjing City.

What surprised Li Dingguo the most was that the people of Nanjing City did not shy away from the Metropolitan Governor and the Governor, and some of them even stretched out their hands to greet the Metropolitan Governor, and the Metropolitan Governor also smiled and talked to them. Although he felt a little strange, Li Dingguo felt very warm.

When they arrived at the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the guards came and took the horses away, and Luo Jian beckoned everyone into the house.

"Wow, chief. All the lights are on? As soon as Wang Qiang entered the door, he saw the electric light hanging on the beam, and he screamed.

"Hehe, Cihuan and they got it, saying that let's try it first, but your sister Liulan paid for it." Luo Jian said with a smile.

When I entered the house, Liu Weimin and Xing'er were already waiting here, Xing'er was also pregnant last month, and I didn't go to the dock to pick up Wang Qiang today, when Xing'er saw Wang Qiang, she ran up and said a few words in his ear, Wang Qiang shouted again, "I'm going to be a father!" The whole room looked at him, and Xing'er shrank aside in shame.

"Liu Lan, Xiao Liu, come here, let me introduce you, this is General Li Dingguo." Luo Jian introduced Li Dingguo to Liu Lan and Liu Weimin.

Liu Lan and Liu Weimin both knew that Li Dingguo was coming, but they didn't feel strange, but they were a little interested in him, and both of them saluted Li Dingguo with their fists, making Li Dingguo polite.

"Li Dingguo has seen his wife, his wife bowed with a sword, and his father-in-law took revenge, please accept the great gift of Dingguo!"

After Li Dingguo finished speaking, he ran to Liu Lan and knelt down and kowtowed three heads, the original legend was that Ao Bai shot Zhang Xianzhong to death, Luo Jian felt that the possibility was not very big, but the folk spread for a long time, maybe everyone thinks that it is reasonable for a hero like Zhang Xianzhong to die in the hands of a Manchu "Baturu" like Ao Bai, and it slowly spread, Li Dingguo may think the same.

Liu Lan avoided it, and her face turned red.

"Sister Liulan, you have to accept this gift!" Shi Kefa said very seriously beside him.

After tossing for a long time, he finally sat down, and just when Li Dingguo thought he was relieved, a little boy about two years old came over and ran to Li Dingguo and said in a milky voice: "Uncle, my mother said that you are a big hero, and I will be a big hero when I grow up." ”

"But the Grand Governor? Uncle is not a big hero, your father and mother are big heroes. Li Dingguo was very embarrassed, indeed in this time and space, because of the arrival of Luo Jian and others, he has not made earth-shattering achievements so far, and he felt a little embarrassed when the little boy said this.

"We think that anyone who can put aside their grudges and resolutely resist the invasion of foreign enemies is a hero, and General Li deserves this alone!" Luo Jian knew that Li Dingguo was a little embarrassed, so he hurriedly played a round on the side.

The men, women and children of all ages were served at the table at the Luo Jian Mansion, which made Li Dingguo feel a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, Wang Qiang sat next to him, and the two still talked happily in private.

After eating, Wang Qiang sent Li Dingguo to the hotel to rest, Shi Kefa pulled Luo Jian aside and asked, "Xinghua, are you really ready to let Li Dingguo take on this important task?" (To be continued.) )