"That's no way, Your Excellency Division Commander! The weather suddenly changed and it started to rain. Although it is not large, the visibility is low, and if the reconnaissance aircraft continues to fly low, the losses will be too great. Jitaro Aoto said with a wry smile.

The corners of Yuankou's mouth twitched, a little helpless!

Our own side has the advantage of aerial reconnaissance, and the areas around eastern and southern Henan are all flat terrain, which is very conducive to the Japanese reconnaissance planes to conduct aerial reconnaissance.

It's just that the weather doesn't work, and no matter how awesome the reconnaissance plane is, it won't work!

"Forget it, send a telegram to the reconnaissance planes, let them work hard, give full play to the heroic spirit of the imperial pilots, and find the main cavalry force of the enemy army for us! Otherwise, it would not be possible to find where Li Yunlong's main cavalry force was, more than 15,000 enemy cavalry, which was very huge. Once you really hide near the Longhai line, one shot will directly cut off the Longhai line! ”

Yuankou frowned and waved his hand: "The current situation is different, the Longhai Line cannot be lost, the 15th Cavalry Brigade that set off from the direction of Lu Province to reinforce it, and the headquarters of the 16th Cavalry Brigade are impossible to count on in a short period of time at this time." We are still counting on ourselves, after all, the area around eastern Henan is now under the control of our 35th Division! ”。

"Well, Your Excellency the division commander, I will personally send a telegram to the aviation troops and let them work hard! In addition, the Imperial Cooperative Army stationed in various places can be ordered to give full play to their advantage of being familiar with the local terrain and situation, and report to Kaifeng at any time if there is a situation. Jitaro Aoto suggested.

Yuankou nodded when he heard this, this is okay, "Yo Xi, then hurry up!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Division Commander!"

Jitaro Aoto paused heavily, and then walked away to deploy.

The old devil Yuankou was looking at the map of Yu Province on the table, and his eyes were a little hideous!

Li Yunlong commanded more than 15,000 cavalry to the south, and had successively broken through Fengqiu, Chenqiao Town, and Chenqiao River Port north of the Yellow River. After arriving on the south bank, he quickly broke through Lanfeng and Inner Huangcheng.

Now that the main force of its cavalry is missing, it makes people feel very speechless and helpless!

Such a powerful enemy cavalry, coming and going like the wind, has super mobility. However, there are only more than 20,000 people in the 35th Division under Yuankou's single-minded control, but they are scattered everywhere. Only Kaifeng City had an infantry wing and 10,000 imperial troops to defend Kaifeng.

However, the Japanese troops scattered in eastern Henan and other places stationed in big cities could not be assembled in a short time.

Otherwise, it could not be expected that the more than 100,000 Imperial Allied troops who had defected to them would remain loyal.

After thinking about it, Genguchi's brain hurt a little, and he was a little speechless!

And just when Yuankou was helplessly deploying the reconnaissance plane to continue the reconnaissance, at this time, in the woods on the left bank of the Huiji River, a huge cavalry team was advancing towards the southern Tuocheng attack.

Due to the rain, there is a lot of rain and fog in the woods. Although it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning, the woods on both sides of the Huiji River were covered by heavy rain and fog, which was a godsend for Zhang Dabiao, Li Yunlong and others, and it was very suitable for the cavalry army to hide south.

"Division commander, even if this devil reconnaissance plane flies over us at this time, unless it flies low and is less than ten meters above the ground. Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to detect us! ”

During the march, Zhang Dabiao smiled and pointed to the rain and mist scattered among the trees.

The good news is that from the air, it is impossible to spot the cavalry in the rain and fog.

But on the ground, as long as the cavalry does not pull away more than ten meters, it will not be scattered.

Li Yunlong nodded, and just said in a condensed voice: "Although the current situation is favorable to us, once we attack Tuocheng, we will not be able to cut off the contact between the enemy defenders of Tuocheng and Kaifeng in time. At that time, the division headquarters of the 35th Devil Division in Kaifeng must know that the main force of our cavalry has reached Tuocheng. When the time comes, the devils will formulate a containment strategy. Fortunately, this time we are all cavalry mode mobile combat, we can't take the city, and we can turn around the city to other attack targets at any time. ”。

"Don't worry, Commander. The big guys already know it! Zhang Dabiao said with a smile.

Li Yunlong nodded and continued: "Let the brothers speed up, and take advantage of the fact that the weather is not conducive to the operation of the devil's reconnaissance plane, and we will quickly rush to the city of Tuocheng." As long as you take the city, you can rest in the city in a short time. When the time comes, go south to attack Bozhou, and there will be no obstacle in Luyi! ”。

"Yes, Commander." Zhang Dabiao nodded, and immediately sent someone to convey Li Yunlong's order.

As the order to speed up the march was handed down, all the troops were speeding south towards Tuocheng according to the marching sequence.

The mighty cavalry team was only more than 14,000 people left in Li Yunlong's hands at this time. The rest of the more than 1,000 cavalry divided their troops to Chenliu and Guide City to feint in the two directions, in order to confuse the judgment of the 35th Division of the devil, for the main cavalry army to take Tuocheng, to buy time.

After all, the lone army went deep into eastern Henan, and the southern Henan area at least needed to pay great attention to the encirclement and interception of devils. After all, even if you are all cavalry, the other side also has cavalry, but at this time, the devil's cavalry did not have time to assemble and mobilize.

As soon as the Japanese cavalry arrived, Li Yunlong faced not only the encirclement of the devil infantry, but the pursuit of the devil cavalry, and even more trouble for his own side.

Therefore, in order to attract Tian Junliu's attention to eastern Henan, southern Henan, or western Henan, it is inevitable that there will be more trouble in these areas.

As Li Yunlong accelerated his march to the south, everyone commanded the troops to rush south.

For four hours, at about half past four in the afternoon, Li Yunlong and others secretly went south along the woods on the left bank of the Huiji River under the cover of rain and fog, and arrived at Tuocheng, an important town on the east bank of the Huiji River.

Located on the east bank of the Huiji River, Tuocheng is a town on the Huiji River, the largest tributary of the Vortex River, with a population of hundreds of thousands!

This is already a big city, protected by walls, easy to defend and difficult to attack! The terrain around the city is flat, which is conducive to the defense of the enemy army relying on the city walls!

At this time, Li Yunlong commanded the main cavalry to arrive at Tuocheng at about half past four in the afternoon. The main cavalry first took a sheltered rest in the woods on the east bank of the Huiji River, five miles north of Tuocheng, while Li Yunlong took Zhang Dabiao and a few other commanders and fighters, and led a platoon of soldiers to the woods outside the north gate of Tuocheng to observe in concealment.

After observing for a full ten minutes, Li Yunlong carefully led everyone back to the hidden place!

Simply depicting the map of Tuocheng County on the ground with tree branches, Li Yunlong said to Zhang Dabiao, Shen Qun and other commanders and fighters: "Judging from the observed situation, the enemy army in Tuocheng has closed the four gates to strictly defend it, and it is estimated that they have received an order from the headquarters of the 35th Division of the devils in Kaifeng City!" If we besiege Tuocheng, the enemy troops in Tuocheng will inevitably send an emergency telegram to the devils in Kaifeng as soon as possible! ”。

"Ready to fly, I have to send it!"

Zhang Dabiao said: "Division commander, according to the results of the reconnaissance, the devils in Tuocheng only have 500 Japanese troops and 2,000 imperial army!" The number of troops is less than three thousand. We now have more than 14,000 cavalry, besieging Tuocheng, and we are guaranteed to go south in half an hour! I see that the topography of Tuocheng is high in the north and low in the south, and the enemy's defense focus is at the north gate! ”。

"You mean to hit the north gate?" Li Yunlong said.