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"But that road is located in Tai'an, a little far from the border of Laiwu, and even further from our activity area. The current position of our troops is ineffective in the Henan army that may be raided by detours. Besides, should we help Zhang Zongchang?" Zou Degui hesitated for a while, and raised his own questions.

"We are not going to deal with the Yu army now, that's what Zhang Zongchang wants to do. We are even more unlikely to help Zhang Zongchang." Seeing the puzzled eyes of Zou Degui and others, Zhao Zhenzhong said: "You know, if the Henan army sends troops to take a detour, its strength will definitely not be less than 10,000. After such a large number of troops are defeated, there will definitely be many returning along the road, and there will definitely be many who take the opportunity to rob the surrounding areas, and there may also be some going into the mountains to do business without capital."

"We are here to prevent the defeated soldiers from entering our activity area if the defeated soldiers enter the territory of Laiwu if possible."

"Mr. I think the Henan army will not succeed even if it raids from a mountain road?" Yang Tianming asked: "Now, the only left-behind troops in Jinan are Huang Fengqi Division and Guo Jingchen, who is stationed in Dangjiazhuang. Moreover, the Guo brigade has no combat effectiveness due to the serious shortage of firearms. Faced with the sudden attack of the Henan army, can Zhang Zongchang turn defeat into victory?"

Although Zhao Zhenzhong knew that Zhang Zongchang would definitely win the battle in Luyu, otherwise he would not have been the governor and governor of Shandong for three years, it is not clear how Zhang Zongchang turned the tables. Therefore, he did not answer Yang Tianming clearly, and only said: "It is difficult to be 100% sure about the war. Some unintentional small things may turn the situation around. This is also the reason why I have always emphasized to you that you should pay attention to details."

"Jinan is Zhang Zongchang's nest after all, so there should be many backup plans. However, it is difficult for the Henan army to attack from the mountain roads, and it is difficult for them to bring heavy equipment such as artillery. The attack power will be reduced, and the consequences will not be optimistic."

"However, preventing problems is not the case. We mobilize troops to the Western Front to prevent them, just in case. If there are no defeated troops entering the country, it would be better. We will treat this power mobilization as a drill; if any defeated troops come, we can also respond in time and not be caught off guard."

After hearing what Zhao Zhenzhong said, several people nodded and said yes.

"Sir, if the defeated troops enter the country, will we destroy them all like we would against bandits?" Zhang Gongyuan asked. After all, the feeling of wrapping up more than 5,000 people from Liu Heiqi's troops last time was really... so exciting.

"Let's talk about the actions of the defeated soldiers. If these Henan troops are still obedient, we will just let them do some hard labor after forcing them to subdue them. But if we have the same virtue as those of Zhang Zongchang's bandits, we will destroy them even if we have to pay a certain price for sacrifice of personnel, and not leave any one!" Zhao Zhenzhong's attitude was very firm.

Afterwards, Zhao Zhenzhong sent out 30 people from Yang Tianming's reconnaissance and communications team and asked them to carefully monitor the activities of the Yu army near Tai'an and Xintai.

A few days later, just in the middle of the night on December 2, Yang Tianming's team sent back news that the Henan army was dispatched.

"The Yue Weijun's troops of the Second National Army dispatched three infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, led by Wu Changshan, commander of the first echelon of the Henan Army; the Jin Yune's troops of the direct Henan Army also dispatched nearly two regiments of troops, led by Jin Yune himself. The two units had a total of more than 13,000 people. Shortly after dinner today, they drove from Dajinkou, Niulankou, Gao'erzhuang and other places on the east side of Taishan." Yang Tianming panted and said the situation of the Henan Army's operations, picked up a bowl of water on the table and drank it all. After wiping his mouth, he exclaimed excitedly: "Sir, you are so smart. You can make sure that the Henan Army's operations are a few days in advance."

Zhao Zhenzhong shook his head and said, "There is nothing clever, it's just a judgment made in various situations." Then he ordered: "You will push the reconnaissance front line along the route of the Henan army from Niu Lankou to follow the route of the Henan army. In the past few days, pay close attention to all the movements between Jinan and Tai'an and Laiwu Mountains. After finding that there are signs of defeated soldiers advancing to our area, they will immediately report it. Don't go back tonight, and have a good rest here for a night. Wait until breakfast tomorrow before going back to arrange it."

Yang Tianming smiled and said, "I can't be tired." However, as Zhao Zhenzhong told me, I went to the room next to find a place to sleep.

On the evening of December 4, the raid team led by Wu Changshan and Jin Yune exchanged fire with Zhang Zongchang's troops who had received the news and set up defense. Wu Changshan and Jin Yune's two units were defeated several times, so they wanted to attack from the side again, but they still failed. In the middle of the night, Jin Yune's troops were attacked by Zhu Renqian, the military commander of Zhang Zongchang, led a fierce attack from behind by Zhu Renqian, a regiment of transport soldiers led by three regiments. Jin Yune himself and some of his subordinates were captured, and another team of about a thousand people fled into the mountains east at night. When Wu Changshan's troops attacked Baima Mountain saw that Jin Yune's troops were retreating, they hurriedly retreated south. Zhang Zongchang's troops then followed and chased after Tai'an City.

After Wu Changshan fled back to Tai'an, he found that when he set out, there were nearly 6 regiments of two units, a total of more than 13,000 people, and less than 7,000 people fled back. In addition to the 1,500 casualties at that time, nearly 5,000 others were missing. At this time, Wu Changshan, Li Jicai and others still did not know the news that Jin Yune and his troops were captured.

Not to mention how Li Jicai and Wu Changshan were worried about their future offense and defense, let alone the thousands of defeated soldiers scattered in the Taishan Mountains.

There are about 4,000 bandits scattered among the peaks of Mount Tai, of which Jin Yune's troops have about 1,000, and the remaining 3,000 are from four regiments led by Wu Changshan.

Because it was in the middle of the night that two different teams of different units were disrupted and they couldn't figure out the east, south, west and north in the mountains of Mount Tai, the defeated soldiers were divided into dozens of small and small groups, and there was no such thing as a system. They just rushed to follow the team of people. It was not until dawn that these dozens of people discovered their respective situations. However, most of them were lost.

"Battery Commander, the brothers have no food, and they are trapped in the deep mountains again. Give me an idea, what should we do?" After dawn, among the more than 600 defeated soldiers in a valley, a company commander asked a bearded man in a heavy Henan accent.

"What are you anxious about? Don't you see if these people are our original brothers?" The battalion commander had a clear Shanxi flavor in his accent. He said angrily: "Go and ask which part they are from. If you want to hang out with me, you can join our camp. If you don't want to, let them go away."

The company commander hurriedly agreed and directed his men to take stock of the matter. After a while, he ran to the battalion commander and said, "Battery Commander, I have asked clearly. Brothers are willing to follow the battalion commander to have a way out. It is better than being trapped here without food or drink to wait for death."

"So what part of it is?" asked the battalion commander.

"I was in a mess when I ran. Now there are only more than 190 people in the more than 600 people, which is the most of our original battalion. There are all other parts. No matter which part they were from, they are now all under the battalion commander." The company commander was simply.

"Okay, since the brothers are willing to live with me, I will take my brothers to make a breakthrough." The battalion commander was not vague and then ordered: "It's dawn now. Find a few brothers with good eyes to climb to the high ground to see where there are smoke nearby, so we will go wherever we can go. Find someone to get something to fill our stomachs as soon as possible."

The company commander immediately arranged for him to go.

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After dawn, most of the dozens of defeated soldiers scattered in the mountains near Mount Tai had the above scene. Some of the defeated soldiers successfully recommended the leaders, some were not smooth, and some even had fire. However, by December 5, these defeated soldiers basically began to act in groups, searching for villages in the mountains, robbing some food and food, and inquiring about the passage to the outside world. The people of some villages in the mountains also suffered military disasters, and during this period, some of the defeated soldiers committed evil, burning, killing, looting, and even raped women.

When Zhao Zhenzhong heard the news from Yang Tianming back on the morning of December 6, he couldn't suppress his anger. He spoke in a deep voice to Jiang Yishan, Xu Chaoyuan, and Zou Degui who came to collect the mission: "In view of the actions of the defeated soldiers, we cannot blindly guard against each other and do something."

"Xu Chaoyuan and Zou Degui each drew a platoon of troops and temporarily came to the command of Jiang Yishan's troops. Jiang Yishan led these five more platoons of troops, forming a team of squads into the remnants of Mount Tai, strangling the raging defeated troops."

"The reconnaissance and communications team left 10 people to ensure that even if the information was transmitted, the remaining 20 people, together with 120 people from the reserve team, were under command of Yang Tianming. They also entered the mountains as units to strangle the raging soldiers."

"For the defeated soldiers who just rob some food and clothing, they can be allowed to surrender; for those defeated soldiers who have obvious evil deeds, there is no need to be captured!"

Jiang Yishan and Yang Tianming rectified the team led by the two, equipped with corresponding weapons and ammunition and supplies required for several days of combat in the mountains. After calibrating the areas where the two of them were responsible for cleaning according to the sand table, they led the team to set off.

Starting from the afternoon of December 6, dozens of defeated soldiers raging in the mountains of Jinan, Tai'an and Laiwu were successively hit by devastating blows. In the following days, some of the defeated soldiers with serious evil deeds were wiped out in full.

The cleanup operation lasted nearly 20 days in total, and the main actions and results were concentrated within the first 10 days. During these 10 days, Jiang Yishan and Yang Tianming led the team to wipe out more than 2,900 defeated soldiers. More than 1,800 people were killed and more than 1,100 were captured.

In the next 10 days, Zou Degui and Xu Chaoyuan replaced the injured personnel with their respective garrison forces, and instead of Jiang Yishan and Yang Tianming, they led the team to the mountains to clear out the remaining defeated soldiers. During these 10 days, Zou Degui and Xu Chaoyuan led the team to eliminate more than 800 defeated soldiers, of which more than 500 were killed and more than 300 were captured. In addition, the two also cleared three groups of bandits operating between Laiwu and Tai'an, killing 800 people and capturing 180 people.
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