Iida Zhengu waved his hand and said: "There may be a possibility that Li Yunlong will retreat to the mountain area of Mount Tai again, but the main force of Komiya Yamacheng is now in the mountains, and it is unlikely that this person will hide back in Mount Tai. Judging from the map, it is impossible for Li Yunlong to withdraw from Tai'an City, attack the head of the Jie, Zhang Xia, and attack directly on our Jinan City, nor can he attack the Boshan and Zichuan areas where our troops are heavily garrisoned. In Qufu and other places to the south, only more than 5,000 people from various units under the jurisdiction of the 6th Brigade were stationed. And these more than 5,000 people were stationed in Qufu, Xintai and other places, and the troops were relatively scattered. ”。

After a pause, Iida Zhengu continued: "Therefore, Li Yunlong may go south to Qufu, and it may be possible to go all the way south along his railway line. Once the north of Xuzhou is attacked, this is already an irreparable shame for our 12th Army! Execute the order! Chief of staff! ”。

"Hai, Your Excellency Commander, obey your orders!" Takeda Keita thought about it, but Iida Sadagu's analysis showed this possibility, so he could only respond with a heavy pause, and then turned around and left to hurry up again to intercept the Japanese troops in Qufu and other places.

At this time, when Iida Sadagu did not know that the more than 6,000 Japanese troops under the personal command of Komiya Yamanari had been completely annihilated, he urgently dispatched troops to block the southward path of Li Yunlong's troops.

Li Yunlong and others had safely withdrawn from Tai'an, and soon passed through Dawenkou, not far south of Tai'an, and went south along the railway line to force Qufu.

Not long after, the little devils of a small detachment of the Japanese army stationed at Dawenkou were scattered, and Li Yunlong and others, who had no time to clean up the battlefield, commanded more than 2,000 cavalry to gallop south. Because, the Japanese soldiers who were scattered at Dawenkou urgently reported to the nearby Japanese garrison by telephone. It was not until seven or eight minutes later that Iida Zhengu in Jinan City received a report that a large force of cavalry had passed through Dawenkou and was moving south along the railway line at an extremely fast speed.

"Order Qufu, Ningyang, and Surabaya to form an encirclement on three sides, and block Li Yunlong's department for me. By the way, a wing that was sent out from the city to reinforce Tai'an before, where is it now? After receiving the exact information that a large force of cavalry under Li Yunlong's unit had passed through the Dawenkou stronghold south of Tai'an, Iida Sadagu, who was keeping an eye on the situation at the military headquarters of the Japanese 12th Army in Jinan City, hurriedly asked the chief of staff, Major General Takeda Keita.

Takeda Keita hurriedly walked up, pointed to the huge Shandong military map placed on the table by the military headquarters, and said, "I have sent an urgent telegram to ask for reinforcements, and now we have rushed to a place less than ten miles north of the Jieshou. Your Excellency, Commander, because several sections of the railway between Jinan and Tai'an were suddenly sabotaged by many guerrillas from Lishan and Taishan mountains. As a result, the reinforcements could only get off the train and march on foot to reinforce in the direction of Tai'an. ”。

"Yaga!"

Iida Sadagu said angrily: "Order reinforcements, speed up the march, and recover Tai'an." Urgently telegraphed the 6th Independent Brigade and asked them to station troops in various places, strengthen their vigilance, and block the road for the main force of Li Yun's dragoons all the way south at any time. Then I ordered reinforcements, sent a small force of cavalry, and let me into the mountains, looking for more than 6,000 horses and horses of the 10th Independent Brigade under the command of Komiya Yama Cheng, and seeing if Komiya Yama Cheng was lost in the mountains. Yaga! ”。

Seeing that Iida Sadagu was extremely angry, Takeda Keita paused and said, "Hai, Your Excellency Commander!" Humble duty understands! Immediately, Keita Takeda hurriedly sent someone to send an urgent telegram to give the order.

Iida Sadagu didn't expect that his previous guess was really right. Li Yunlong's more than 2,000 cavalry, sure enough, relied on the superiority of cavalry, quickly abandoned Tai'an, and did not stick to the recovered Tai'an City, but solved the strength of a Japanese infantry brigade commanded by Yongshan Xian, who remained in the city, decisively withdrew from Tai'an City, and went south along the railway line all the way to the assault, it seemed that it was going to attack Qufu directly.

It's just that Iida Zhengu already knew the direction of Li Yunlong's attack at this time, and he finally had a calm and unhurried mentality in his heart. Dispatching troops and generals in one fell swoop to encircle and eat the 2,000 men and horses commanded by Li Yunlong in Ningyang, Surabaya, Qufu, and Tai'an, which are surrounded on all sides.

If Iida Sadagu knew that Li Yunlong had eaten more than 6,000 horses of Komiya Yama and completely annihilated the Japanese troops of the 10th Independent Brigade, I wonder if he would vomit blood?

At this time, Li Yunlong and others, who were rushing all the way through Dawenkou south of Tai'an, and the command post department, with the support of intelligence from all sides, quickly bypassed Ningyang, and the Japanese army in Surabaya dispatched east and west to block Li Yunlong's headquarters, and drove directly to the foot of Phoenix Mountain in the north of Qufu through between the two cities.

Qufu is located in the southeast of Shandong, located in the center of Beiping to the magic capital, and 135 kilometers away from the provincial capital Jinan in the north. It is based on Mount Tai in the north, Zhan Yanyi in the south, Surabaya in the east, and Yanzhou in the west. In addition, Qufu is surrounded by mountains in the north, east and south, there are more than 100 mountains such as Phoenix Mountain, Jiuxian Mountain, Shimen Mountain, Fangshan, Nishan and so on, and the central and western parts are the alluvial plains of Sihe River and Yihe River, which are located in the transition zone from the hilly area of the mountainous area in central and southern Shandong to the North China Plain, constituting the basic topography of the high northeast and low in the southwest. The highest point in the territory is Phoenix Mountain in the north, with an altitude of 548.1 meters, and the lowest point is in Chengzhuang in the southwest, with an altitude of 47 meters, and the urban center is 60.5 meters above sea level.

Li Yunlong's headquarters took advantage of the fact that the Japanese garrison in Qufu was heading north, and quickly entered a dense forest not far from the commanding heights of Phoenix Mountain in the north of the city and hid itself.

Because the horses had been covered with horses' mouths and their feet wrapped in coarse cloth, the Japanese troops in Qufu City had not yet noticed that Li Yunlong's cavalry had killed between Ningyang and Surabaya, and drove directly to the foot of Phoenix Mountain in the north of the city.

"Regiment commander, there is a small group of Japanese troops stationed on Phoenix Mountain, and there is at least one squad of Japanese troops on the mountain, and there are about five or six light and heavy machine guns, firmly locked in the north of the city. If we want to storm the north gate of Qufu, we must take the commanding heights of Phoenix Mountain. In the hidden dense forest, Duan Peng, who had just withdrawn, reported to Li Yunlong the situation obtained from the investigation of Phoenix Mountain.

Li Yunlong asked people to spread out the map, and after covering it with a windbreaker, everyone buried their heads in it and looked at the map under the light of a flashlight.

I saw Li Yunlong pointing to the map and asking Duan Peng: "In addition to the situation in Phoenix Mountain, have you detected the specific strength of the Japanese army in Qufu City?" ”。

"The regiment commander, captured the Japanese soldiers guarding the north gate and a Japanese grassroots commander, Qufu is where the brigade headquarters of the independent 6th Brigade under the direct control of the 12th Army of the little devil is stationed. It's just that this independent 6th Brigade has less than 5,000 men, and it is a Japanese brigade that is not fully organized. According to the information obtained by the torture officer, the headquarters of the 6th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army is in Qufu, and there is an infantry brigade in the city to defend the city, and the remaining more than 4,000 Japanese troops are stationed in Ningyang, Surabaya, Yanzhou, Xintai and other places, and the garrison in each city is mostly an infantry brigade, or one or two squadrons cooperate with some puppet army units to hold the important places in each city. ”