The speed of the Sichuan army's pursuit is beyond imagination, many scattered bandits have no time to escape, all of them were captured alive, for thousands of strong laborers Qiao Yu will not let go, the Sichuan-Han Railway is notoriously difficult to repair, and now under this condition, it is necessary to use human lives to fill in the road, which is a thing that has no way at all.

Since it is inevitable that you can only choose to fill it with someone's life, Qiao Yu has suppressed bandits on a large scale in Sichuan before, and has used all the tens of thousands of bandits captured as labor to participate in the construction of roads and water conservancy facilities in Sichuan, and now these white wolf bandit armies are no exception, and they can also be used to death, although some people will think that this is inhumane, but this is a fact that cannot be avoided when capital is originally accumulated.

Sichuan, which was blank in industry, had to use cruel methods to complete the primitive accumulation, and these laborers could not only be used in Sichuan, and then in World War I, the Entente countries with a serious lack of population would never ask for it, and it was with this consideration that Qiao Yu would never dispose of these prisoners of war at will, but only screened out some of the most heinous leaders and tried them, and the rest were all sent to prisoner of war camps.

The Sichuan army pursued overnight, as if it was a big net, and all the fish were fished in, Li Hongbin and others were like lost dogs, first fled to Daning, who knew that they had not yet arrived in Daning and encountered hundreds of routs, the Sichuan cavalry had broken through Daning, captured most of the bandits, Li Hongbin got the report, and was angry like thunder, scolding these people for their rice buckets.

However, it has been useless, can only gather the remnants of the forces to continue to escape, run to the second half of the night, Li Hongbin is left with less than a hundred people, he now also knows that things are not good, if it is daytime, there are planes above the Sichuan army to reconnoitre, can he still run, Li Hongbin immediately decided to take his subordinates to drill the forest, here and then east and Hubei Hungry Shennongjia area is connected, the mountains are high and dense, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, it is a good place to hide.

Li Hongbin and others gave up all the war horses, and fled into the deep mountains and old forests on two legs, fortunately, they are all bandits who have been experienced for many years, they have suffered all kinds of hardships, and they have suffered all crimes, and they have not taken this bitterness to heart, but after entering Shennongjia, they can complain bitterly, the poisoning insects and poisonous snakes of the jungle are not a few, and there are miasma, some people are injured, because there is no medicine, they quickly rot and suppurate, and throw their lives in Shennongjia.

But they were still good, after all, there was hope of escape, and the rest of the bandits were all captured and sent to prisoner of war camps.

Now Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei and other provinces are full of bandits, many prefectures and counties have been conquered, when the armies in various places are helpless against these bandits, Sichuan has fought a beautiful victory, eliminated tens of thousands of bandits, and cleared out the bandits in Sichuan in one fell swoop.

Qiao Yu took advantage of this enthusiasm and hurriedly sent a telegram to Li Yuanhong, the governor of Hubei, Zhang Zhenfang, the governor of Henan, and Zhang Fenghui, the governor of Shaanxi, requesting the establishment of a joint headquarters to command the army and be responsible for the suppression of bandits.

After Li Yuanhong received the telegram, he was very embarrassed, he was in trouble now, don't look at Lao Li's obvious reputation as vice president, but it is only fame, there is no strength to respond, reputation is a burden, and now Li Yuanhong is suppressed by this burden.

Not long ago, Yuan Shikai dismissed Li Liejun, the governor of Jiangxi, Bai Wenwei, the governor of Anhui, Hu Hanmin, the governor of Guangdong, and Chen Qimei, the governor of Shanghai, who had been removed earlier.

Lao Yuan did not make Li Yuanhong feel comfortable, an order was issued, let Li Yuanhong concurrently serve as the governor of Jiangxi, Li Yuanhong knew that this was a fire pit, where was he willing to jump into it, and immediately recommended Ouyang Wu as the escort envoy, and got Lao Yuan's permission, but Lao Yuan was also worried about the instability of Jiangxi, and sent Li Chun, the commander of the Sixth Division, to lead his troops south to Hubei to jointly monitor the Jiangxi People's Army.

In this case, Li Yuanhong said that he would not send troops to the remote northwest of Hubei to suppress bandits, but Li Yuanhong is also a veteran of power and strategy, and he is the best at welcoming all parties.

Under such circumstances, if the Sichuan army can be pulled into Hubei, it will be absolutely beneficial to Li Yuanhong's impact on balancing the Beiyang, so Li Yuanhong thought about it again and again and decided to send Xia Douyin to lead a regiment of troops to northwest Hubei, saying that they would all obey Qiao Yu's dispatch and jointly kill the bandits.

With Li Yuanhong's reply, Qiao Yu did not wait for the reply from Shaanxi and Henan to urge the army to start entering Hubei, the Sichuan army did not go to Shennongjia, that kind of mountainous area is not suitable for marching at all, Qiao Yu directly led the army down the river by boat, straight to Yichang, Yichang was called Yiling in ancient times, guarding the exit of the Three Gorges, it is an important town in the southwest of Hubei, and the geographical location is very important.

It is also an important node of the Sichuan-Han Railway in the planning, it can be said that this is the gateway of Sichuan out of Hubei, Qiao Yu has been coveting it for a long time, after coming to Yichang, he did not rush north to deal with the bandits, but invited all the local gentry in Yichang.

At night, at the beginning of the lanterns, the gentry of Yichang trembled and came to the mansion where Qiao Yu was staying, and their hearts were full of bitterness, these soldiers also found themselves There is absolutely no good thing, as the saying goes, soldiers are bandits, bandits are soldiers, and soldiers and bandits are a family.

Now the White Wolf Bandit Army has not met, is it necessary to experience a military disaster first, but no one dares not to come, what is the identity of the other party, the Sichuan Patrol Envoy, speaking of which is even higher than the governor, is the master of Sichuan, and now he is the commander-in-chief of the bandits, if the corners of his mouth are crooked, you are a bandit, and you can't run if you want to, so you must not be lazy.

Before seven o'clock, all these gentry gathered in the living room, there were sixty or seventy, and they sat in a large area of black pressure, and Qiao Yu appeared on time at half past seven, only to see him dressed in a gray robe, with gold tortoiseshell glasses, looking polite, with a smile on his face, nodding at everyone.

These people are secretly screaming in their hearts, this may be a smiling tiger, I'm afraid I'm going to bleed heavily!

"Ladies and gentlemen, although you are from Hubei, but Hubei and Sichuan mountains and rivers are connected, since ancient times the exchanges have been very close, in the early Qing Dynasty, there are things that cross the lake to fill Sichuan, it can be said that we are all connected by blood, five hundred years ago is one, I led the troops out of Sichuan to suppress bandits in addition to eradicating the white wolf bandits, there is also an important idea, is to close the economic and trade exchanges between the two provinces, presumably everyone has heard that the Sichuan-Han railway has started, the Chengdu-Chongqing line will soon be opened to traffic, the next step is to build a railway to HubeiAs long as this railway artery can be unblocked, the exchanges between our two provinces will be closer, and the benefits to the people of the two provinces will also be huge! ”

As soon as everyone present heard Qiao Yu start to talk about the cooperation between the two provinces, they all had questions in their hearts, didn't this person want to seek money and food, and some well-informed people contacted Qiao Yu's actions in Sichuan, and secretly said in their hearts that this is really a simple way to develop business!

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have an understanding of our Sichuan policy, we have always encouraged industry and commerce, industrialization is the general trend of the times, we in China must also catch up, absolutely not backward, so Sichuan welcomes you to invest in Sichuan to set up factories, Sichuan political axe to ensure tax exemption within three years, half tax within five years, and will also provide technical funds and information help!"