Neither Wang Qiang nor Li Chengdong had time to take care of the 10,000 captives of the Qing soldiers, because the scouts had just come over to report that a team had stopped Hong Chengchou from Kunming.

When Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong heard it, this was simply pie in the sky, if they didn't catch it, they really couldn't stand God.

The Second Army left 2,000 men to guard the prisoners, and the Seventh Division and the rest of the Second Army immediately rushed towards the outskirts of Kunming.

It was the team of Li Dingguo of the former Zhang Xianzhong and the old department who came out of Kunming to intercept Hong Chengchou.

After the Great Western Army was defeated and scattered by the Qing soldiers in Sichuan, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo led hundreds of people to flee to Yunnan, and later the Qing soldiers also entered Yunnan, and Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang had to hide in the mountains.

Later, Haoge's army went north, and the Qing soldiers abandoned Yunnan, and Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo slowly left the mountains.

After getting out of the mountains, the Great Western Army began to develop in the direction of Kunming, and continued to recruit troops and horses along the way, and even gathered thousands of people.

When they arrived in Kunming, they saw that Kunming turned out to be an empty city, which made the two overjoyed, and of course they unceremoniously occupied Kunming.

However, in this time and space, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang did not have the Yongli Emperor to support them, and the occupation of Kunming was also nameless, so the two had to temporarily play the banner of the Great Western Army and maintain it for the time being.

Without the emperor's call, the development of the Great Western Army was extremely difficult, and it took Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo more than half a year to gradually control the surrounding areas of Kunming, and the number of men and horses also expanded to more than 10,000 people.

In the past six months, the news of the successive victories of the national defense forces and the successive defeats of the Manchu court has reached Kunming, and Li Dingguo already has the idea of defecting to the Nanjing government in his heart, but Sun Kewang is a little refusing.

Several major battles between the Wehrmacht and Hong Chengchou's Qing soldiers in Yunnan were seen by the scouts sent by Li Dingguo, and when the scouts reported the battles he had seen to the two of them, Li Dingguo was firm in his idea of defecting to the Wehrmacht, and Sun Kewang's idea of separating Yunnan as king was not much to mention now.

Originally, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were ready for Hong Chengchou to attack Kunming. Unexpectedly, Hong Chengchou had no intention of attacking Kunming at all, he just wanted to slip past Kunming.

"Hong Chengchou's tired army is not worried, let's go out of the city to stop them, just to make a name for the national defense army." Li Dingguo said.

Sun Kewang thought about it for a long time and agreed with Li Dingguo's opinion, and then decided that Sun Kewang would continue to defend the city at home. Li Dingguo led 5,000 men and horses out of the city to intercept the Qing soldiers.

However, Li Dingguo really underestimated the Qing soldiers led by Hong Chengchou, in his heart, the Qing soldiers were still the Qing soldiers he had encountered in Sichuan before, although his 5,000 men and horses could not defeat Hong Chengchou's more than 20,000 people, but it was no problem to stop them for half a day.

Hong Chengchou brought out nearly 60,000 horses from Chongqing, including more than 10,000 cavalry, and when he arrived on the outskirts of Kunming, only more than 20,000 horses remained, and only more than 5,000 cavalry remained.

Li Dingguo thought that the Qing soldiers would first use cavalry to attack his ranks. Then the infantry would follow, and he had his 5,000 men and horses in formation to prevent the cavalry from attacking.

However, what Li Dingguo didn't expect at all happened, the cavalry of the Qing soldiers did not rush up, but groups of infantry rushed towards his own team in a neat queue.

Before Li Dingguo could take a closer look, a row of gunfire had already sounded in the ranks of the Qing soldiers, and then he saw that his team had fallen a large piece.

In another time and space, he was able to keep the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang and the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and Li Dingguo was certainly not an idle person.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Dingguo immediately ordered the Chinese army to withdraw its troops. The troops began to shrink backwards, and Li Dingguo led the troops to run towards the dense forests on both sides of the road.

Li Dingguo's ministry ran this way. The Qing infantry could no longer catch up, Hong Chengchou wanted to order the cavalry to attack, but he saw that these Western troops had entered the dense forest, and the cavalry could not fight in the dense forest, so Hong Chengchou had to watch Li Dingguo retreat.

Just when Hong Chengchou ordered the troops to shrink their formation and continue to run, Li Dingguo led several hundred people to chase them out of the dense forest. A burst of bows and arrows came, although the Qing soldiers did not fall much, but they always affected the march of the army, and when the Qing soldiers formed a formation, they retreated into the dense forest.

Hong Chengchou was so angry that he smoked. But there was nothing to be done, but to order the riflemen to protect the advancing team on both sides, so that the speed of the march of the brigade was greatly affected.

Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong knew that success or failure was here, and ordered the troops to put down everything that got in the way and only advance lightly with weapons and equipment.

As soon as the troops let go, the Seventh Division and the Second Army soon opened up the gap again, only the cavalry brigade of the Second Army still had more than 3,000 cavalry to follow, and the other infantry had already pulled far away, Li Chengdong was so angry that he scolded on the horse.

The Seventh Division ran for more than 30 miles in one go, and the scouts came back to report that the Qing Army's troops were five or six miles away in front, and that the "Great Western Army" was harassing the Qing troops, and the Qing troops were not moving fast at all.

Wang Qiang was immediately overjoyed, and after informing the troops of the situation, the fatigue of the march seemed to be swept away, and after chasing for so many days, he finally had to solve Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou did not expect the Wehrmacht to come so quickly, and when he set out in the morning, the scout also reported that the Wehrmacht was fifty miles away, and he had left 10,000 horses to block them.

Although Hong Chengchou couldn't figure it out, the Seventh Division had already chased behind the buttocks, and the soldiers couldn't run anymore, so Hong Chengchou ordered the troops to defend on the spot.

Wang Qiang saw that Hong Chengchou stopped, and suddenly all the energy came.

Although the terrain is not too wide, it is enough for a regiment to set up a battle formation, this time it is the third regiment to play the forward, which is determined by Wang Qiang, Xie Kui and the second regiment commander dare not say anything more.

"Mortar battalion, hurry up and get ready to shoot!" Wang Qiang excitedly shouted orders and chased for more than 20 days, although he was riding a horse, he was really tired of running.

The field defense formation set up by the Qing soldiers, without the cover of bunkers, these troops could only be live targets for the artillery, and when the mortar shells fell into the queue of the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers fell in droves.

The infantry who rushed to the front also set up grenadiers and began to shoot at the ranks of the Qing soldiers, this thing is small, it is carried directly by individual soldiers, and the grenades are also light, and an infantry can carry seven or eight on his back.

The ranks of the Qing soldiers were quickly blown up by artillery fire, and the commander of the 2nd Regiment gave the order to attack, and although they were exhausted, the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment did not forget about tactical movements. Almost none of the soldiers rushed straight forward, and the worst was that they rushed forward with their bodies, and they did not forget to lie down and hide themselves when they encountered ditches and bumps.

This was the first time Li Chengdong had seen the Seventh Division charge forward in an attack formation, and the last time he attacked the pillbox, it was mainly artillery, and he had not seen an infantry charge of this scale.

Li Chengdong was fascinated, and Li Dingguo was also fascinated when he rode a horse and stood on a hillside at this time.

Li Dingguo never expected that such a powerful Qing soldier would be beaten by the National Defense Army and had no power to fight back. He was completely stunned by the power of the explosion of mortar shells, and did not even pay attention to the skilful tactical maneuvers of the 7th Division.

Hong Chengchou was protected by a group of personal soldiers in the middle of the team, of course he also saw the tragic situation of the Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou knew that he would not escape today.

"Commander Tong, you lead people to escape from the woods on both sides, and run in the direction of Burma, run as far as you can, and never come back." Hong Chengchou said lightly to Tong Yangjia.

"Dashuai, if you want to escape, let's run away together!" Tong Yangjia said to Hong Chengchou bitterly. Since the two ran from Hunan to Sichuan together, they can be regarded as getting on a boat, and for more than a year, Hong Chengchou has always trusted him, and now Hong Chengchou let him escape alone, he is a little ruthless.

"Run, it's too late, I don't want to throw this old bone abroad." Hong Chengchou closed his eyes. He waved his hand at Tong Yangjia and stopped talking.

Tong Yangjia saw that Hong Chengchou had made up his mind, so he had to take the remaining cavalry and hundreds of infantry and start running towards the woods on both sides. Hong Chengchou opened his eyes and said to his own commander, "You can go with them too." ”

The commander of the pro-soldiers looked at the battlefield, looked at the soldiers of the 7th Division who were getting closer and closer, and yelled at the pro-soldier team, "You all run away!" ”

"Pull me along." Hong Chengchou took the hand of the commander of the pro-soldiers and stood up, most of the pro-soldiers around him had already run away, and only the pro-soldier commander and three pro-soldiers around him were still holding on.

Hong Chengchou pulled out his waist knife from the waist of the commander of his own soldiers. He wiped it carefully with his sleeve, and without waiting for the commander of the pro-soldier to speak, he suddenly raised his waist knife and wiped it at his neck.

A bloody arrow flew out of Hong Chengchou's neck, Hong Chengchou insisted on not letting himself fall, and the commander of his own soldiers came over to support him. But Hong Chengchou's body was getting heavier and heavier, and the commander of the pro-soldiers could no longer support it with one hand, and finally slowly fell to the ground.

"Throw the knife away, put your hands up!" A group of Wehrmacht soldiers rushed to the front of the Pro-Commander, who did not have a knife in his hand, and the other three Pro-Soldiers rushed towards the Wehrmacht soldiers with their waist knives and were quickly knocked to the ground.

"You can kill me, and then kill you when I bury the handsome, okay?" When the commander of the pro-soldiers saw that the three pro-soldiers were killed, he didn't blink his eyes, but said coldly to the Wehrmacht soldiers.

"He's Hong Chengchou?" A platoon-leader-like soldier asked.

"It's the handsome!" The commander of the pro-army still replied coldly.

"Hong Chengchou is dead!" The Wehrmacht soldiers roared loudly, and soon the entire battlefield sounded "Hong Chengchou is dead".

When the remaining Qing soldiers heard that Hong Chengchou was dead, they all lost their fighting spirit, and countless Qing soldiers soon knelt on the side of the road, and their rifles were thrown aside.

Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong heard that Hong Chengchou was dead, and the two hurriedly rushed over with the guards, neither of them had seen Hong Chengchou, and found a few prisoners to come over to confirm, and then they were sure that Hong Chengchou had really been beheaded.

Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong were both greatly relieved, this old boy could make the two of them miserable, and Li Chengdong felt very deeply.

Tong Yangjia still fled from the dense forest on both sides with three or four thousand Qing soldiers, Wang Qiang and Li Chengdong didn't care too much, without Hong Chengchou, Tong Yangjia would not be able to make any waves.

Just as the Seventh Division began to clean up the battlefield, a team came out of the woods on both sides of the valley.

In this direction, a regiment was cleaning the battlefield, and when it saw another team coming, the regiment reacted very quickly, and the soldiers quickly fell to the ground, and the muzzles of their rifles were pointed in unison in the direction from which this team came.

"I'm tired of informing your general, just say that Li Dingguo of the Great Western Army wants to see you!" As soon as Li Dingguo saw that the rifles of the Wehrmacht were already aimed at them, he quickly jumped off his horse and shouted loudly.

"Li Dingguo? This kid was a general under Zhang Xianzhong at the beginning, and he was a bit powerful in the war, why did he come to Kunming? "Li Chengdong has never met Li Dingguo, nor has he fought with Li Dingguo, but he has heard of his name.

Wang Qiang was forced by Luo Jian to read the "History of the Southern Ming Dynasty", and he knew very well about Li Dingguo, the emperor of Bao Yongli and the Qing soldiers who had been in Yunnan for more than ten years, and now he was very happy to hear that he was in Kunming.

"Go and ask General Li to come over!" Wang Qiang said to a group of soldiers who came to report the news. (To be continued.) )