Tian Junliu had just gotten up to wash his face, and when he saw the chief of staff, Shintaro Watanabe, hurriedly pushing open the door and coming in, he smiled and said, "Watanabe-kun, what's the matter in such a hurry?" The 35th Division? Aren't they in Kaifeng? ”。

"Yes, Your Excellency, look at it! It has something to do with Li Yunlong! ”

Shintaro Watanabe just said a name, and Junroku Tian's smiling face suddenly disappeared.

Tian Junliu looked at the emergency telegram handed over by Shintaro Watanabe for less than two minutes, and his eyes gradually sharpened!

"Watanabe-kun, go to the headquarters!" Tian Junliu didn't continue to wash his face, and ran directly to the front headquarters with Shintaro Watanabe.

The old devil's lounge was only five rooms away from the front headquarters, and he quickly rushed to the headquarters headquarters with Watanabe Shintaro.

Shintaro Watanabe had already ordered the devil staff officer who went to work to unfold the map and place it on the huge table in the headquarters command room!

"Here, Your Excellency General, the division headquarters of the 35th Division is placed in Kaifeng!" Shintaro Watanabe pointed to the map and said in a condensed voice to Tian Junroku.

Tian Junliu looked at the map, and it was a full three minutes!

At about four or five o'clock in the morning, a powerful cavalry team of the Eighth Route Army attacked Fengqiu, and Chenqiao Town crossed the river from Chenqiao River Port to the south. Then, after marching east along the river, breaking through Lanfeng and Neihuang, the main force of the enemy's cavalry disappeared! It was already eight o'clock in the morning, and the imperial reconnaissance planes that had taken off from Xuzhou had only spotted two groups of enemy cavalry dividing their troops towards Guide, and Chen Liu's area intended to attack. ”

Tian Junliu paused for a moment and said to Watanabe Shintaro: "Watanabe-kun, what do you think?" Yuankou was anxious to telegraph the front army headquarters, thinking that this powerful enemy cavalry might be the cavalry of Li Yunlong's subordinate who was heading south from the Hengshan area! ”。

"Possibly! However, it is necessary to send a report to the 180,000 imperial troops besieging the Hengshan area, as well as to send a report to the various departments of the imperial army that supervise these imperial alliances, to see if there are any signs of a large force of Li Yunlong's cavalry secretly moving south from the Hengshan area! Shintaro Watanabe suggested.

"Send it now! It's a pity that the inside line that infiltrated the base of Li Yunlong's department in Hengshan four days ago is estimated to be over! Otherwise, it is possible to let the inner line find out whether Li Yunlong has sent cavalry south to northern Henan and eastern Henan! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!" Watanabe Shintaro immediately sent the Devil Communications Staff Officer of the Headquarters to immediately send a report to the Devil Divisions besieging Li Yunlong's base in the Hengshan area, as well as the troops of the Imperial Allied Army.

And Tian Junliu looked at the map at this time, according to Yuankou's urgent telegram, there were still ten minutes, and the enemy cavalry attacking Chen Liu's area was estimated to kill Chen Liu.

It's just that Tian Junliu also guessed that this road should also be cavalry.

"If it was really Li Yunlong who sent the main cavalry force south, according to the urgent telegram of the 35th Division, the enemy cavalry that suddenly appeared in eastern and northern Henan was about 15,000 cavalry. The 35th Division was based on the footprints of war horses found on the south bank! That's not a good thing! ”

At this time, Watanabe Shintaro said: "Your Excellency, there are so many cavalry of the Eighth Route Army in eastern Henan. According to the recent movements of the Eighth Route Army troops in Ji Province and Lu Province, they will not rush out to kill the Kaifeng area. Perhaps, it is really possible that it is Li Yunlong's troops! ”。

"If it's really Li Yunlong's troops, you and I will be hidden from each other!" Tian Junliu was a little angry, but when he saw Watanabe Shintaro beside him, he could only be secretly angry in his heart!

However, Shintaro Watanabe still heard Tian Shunroku's bad mood!

That's right, if you can hear such a war news in the morning, whoever it is, you're not in the mood.

At this time, Shintaro Watanabe also looked at the map, and suddenly said: "The battle of Nakajo Mountain is not over yet, and it will take at least four or five days. If Li Yunlong sent troops south to eastern Henan, he thought that he might be going to cut off the Longhai line! Cut off the supply of this railway to the Imperial forces and delay the end of the battle at Nakajo Mountain! ”。

"Yo Xi, I thought of it too! This is the most offensive target! Tian Junroku nodded, agreeing with Shintaro Watanabe's analysis!

"Click!!

The sound of hurried footsteps came, and the two old devils looked back to see that it was the communications staff officer of the front army headquarters who had arrived in a hurry.

"Report to Your Excellency the General, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, the troops besieging the Hengshan area have called, among which the 55th Regiment of the Imperial Allied Army in the area south of the Laiyuan direction has reported that there were horses neighing at night last night, but they quickly passed through the blockade line on their side!"

"Yaga!"

When Tian Junliu heard this, he smashed his fist on the map, and said angrily: "It's Li Yunlong's troops, Li Yunlong now has at least 20,000 war horses, and it is not a problem to save war horses in Hengshan Mountain!" Li Yunlong dispatched 15,000 cavalry to the south, it is still true. What's to be done? ”。

"Obviously, Your Excellency General, you should go south and cut off the Longhai line. In order to delay the Empire's attack on Mt. Nakajo! Buy time for them to recuperate! Shintaro Watanabe immediately answered.

"Send a report to the commander of the imperial army blockading the direction of Laiyuan, and ask him to punish the imperial army blocking the direction of Laiyuan." Tian Junliu was already furious, gritting his teeth.

"Yes, Your Excellency." The devil's communications staff officer left in a hurry.

And Watanabe Shintaro said: "Li Yunlong sent cavalry eight hundred miles south to attack eastern Henan, and the goal of the battle should be to destroy the Longhai line and cut off another supply line for the imperial army that is attacking the Zhongtiao Mountain area!" If Li Yunlong succeeds, the empire will only be able to supply the imperial troops fighting on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain through Zhengtai Road, which will greatly delay the victory of Zhongtiao Mountain! ”。

"This can't work, once the battle in Zhongtiao Mountain drags on endlessly, Li Yunlong's main force can recover its strength in Hengshan Mountain! At that time, even if the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain is over, Li Yunlong's main force, which has recovered its strength at that time, will be able to block the powerful attack of at least three divisions of the empire when it firmly occupies its Hengshan base area! At this time, attacking Hengshan and its base will inevitably become a war of attrition! Pay for one's whistle! Tian Junliu hated Li Yunlong's teeth and said.

"Your Excellency General, the 35th Division only has about 20,000 troops, and the rest of the 100,000 or so are Imperial Cooperative Army, which is weak in combat effectiveness and does not work at all!"

Watanabe Shintaro pointed to the map and said: "Once eastern Henan is disrupted by Li Yunlong's more than 15,000 cavalry, the railway line will inevitably not be able to operate normally, which will have too great an impact on our supply of the imperial army that is attacking in the Zhongtiao Mountain area through the Longhai line." ”。

"Watanabe-kun means," Tian Junroku said in a condensed voice!

Shintaro Watanabe stubbornly said: "We must increase the 35th Division!" At least, in the face of the opponent's cavalry galloping in eastern Henan, we also need to increase the cavalry to the 35th Division! Otherwise, the erosion in eastern Henan will have too great an impact on the imperial army, and it will be related to the end of the empire's war against Zhongtiao Mountain. ”。