The blood of the Anti-Japanese War stained the mountains and rivers

"Hi Yi!"

Lieutenant Guizi bowed his head heavily again, a perverted excitement flashed across his face, he couldn't be more fond of killing.

Just as Lieutenant Guizi saluted and was about to turn around and leave, he was stopped by Major Guizi.

"Your Excellency, is there anything else I can do for you?"

Major Guizi leaned back on his chair, stared at Lieutenant Guizi, and said slowly: "Many gentry who have taken refuge in us have reported to me that the security forces have seriously disturbed the people, do you know about this... "

Lieutenant Guizi's expression froze, and he stood up and replied: "There is indeed such a thing, but you also know that their military discipline has always been bad. This time, they took the opportunity to blackmail and rob the local people during the search and arrest mission. I think this will increase their mutual hatred." opportunity, so there is no stopping it.”

Major Guizi frowned slightly. He was also very troubled by the military discipline of the security forces. Although he wanted the security forces to be their loyal watchdogs, the looting behavior of the security forces had already affected their policies in the occupied areas. .

Because most of the food, vegetables and meat of their frontline troops are directly obtained from the occupied areas, the security forces are now looting like this, and the result is panic. Who will grow them food and what will they eat.

"Go and clean up the military discipline of the security forces yourself, and let them work in a restrained manner. If necessary, you can kill some people to stabilize the mood of the local people. After all, these Chinese people are still valuable to us. If we kill them all, If we escaped, there would be no one to grow food for us and raise chickens and ducks to supply the frontline troops.”

"You understand?" Seeing that Lieutenant Guizi was stunned and did not speak, Major Guizi knocked on the table as a reminder.

Lieutenant Guizi also hastily complied, took his leave and left, already cursing in his heart that the security forces had gone too far, and all the country gentry had complained to Shao Zuo.

Those puppet troops in charge of carrying out the search and arrest mission took the opportunity to rob nearby towns and villages while searching for the guerrillas, and many tragedies were happening quietly.

Many of the puppet soldiers are local ruffians and tyrants. They are local cancers, but now they are backed by little devils, and they are even more arrogant and lawless.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to hunt down the guerrillas, they wantonly blackmailed and ransacked nearby villages, killed people at a disagreement, and then planted the blame on the guerrillas.

Lieutenant Guizi wanted to turn a blind eye to it, but now that the Major has issued an order, he has no choice but to clean up the corrupt military discipline.

When the lieutenant of the devil had just left the office of the devil's major, a devil's intelligence staff member hurried in.

"Your Excellency, the intelligence department has sent a telegram." The intelligence staff handed a telegram to the devil, and said: "Our reconnaissance plane found a thousand Chinese troops heading south from Huaiyin yesterday evening. , it should be the guerrilla forces that captured Huaiyin."

"Do you know the purpose of their going south?" Guizi Shao Zuo's heart froze, he sat up straight in a hurry, and asked in a deep voice.

Now the outside of Gaoyou City is almost in ruins, and their troops have also suffered heavy losses and are resting in the city. It will take at least a week for their combat effectiveness to recover.

Now that he heard that there are thousands of Chinese troops going south, he couldn't sit still. Once this army comes to fight Gaoyou, it may be another fierce battle, and the troops around them are all fighting the Chinese army. They have no support Yes, he had to pay attention.

"Reconnaissance planes searched nearby Baoying and Yancheng counties this morning, but they seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never appeared again, so the intelligence department asked us to be more vigilant." The intelligence staff officer said.

In fact, the devil didn't know that Yang Ling and the others had marched day and night, and they had already reached the outskirts of Gaoyou, but the devil was still looking at the Baoying area in the north, so naturally they couldn't find them.

After a little contemplation, Major Guizi ordered: "Send a search force to the north to search, and if you find this Chinese army unit, report it immediately."

Soon, a cavalry search force composed of more than a dozen devils left Gaoyou City, which was destroyed by the war, and ran straight north.

Text Chapter 896 Difficulties

The temperature dropped sharply in the cold winter. Although it was daytime, the guerrilla officers and soldiers who were hidden ten kilometers away from Gaoyou were shivering with cold because of the cold wind pouring into the collar along the gap.

The main force of the North Jiangsu First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps led by Yang Ling marched day and night from Huaiyin all the way south, bypassed Baoying, and went straight to the city outside Gaoyou.

The brothers almost ran down the entire 100-kilometer road. You must know that in this era of backward traffic, even the main roads are muddy roads with potholes.

However, Yang Ling and the others took unnecessary troubles along the way and were discovered by the devil's reconnaissance planes. They took all the small paths.

This is why the devil's reconnaissance plane lost track of Yang Ling and the others after they found them, because Yang Ling and the others left the main road and took a small road.

Once they heard the roar of the devil's plane, they immediately hid in the weeds and woods. Fortunately, these areas in northern Jiangsu and central Jiangsu are now lush with beautiful mountains and rivers, providing Yang Ling and the others with good cover.

Although the brothers were all peasants who endured hardships and stand hard work, they were exhausted after running for more than 100 miles in a row, so they fell asleep one by one after receiving the order to rest.

At this moment, in a large area of ​​reeds and woods to the north of Gaoyou City, Yang Ling's guerrilla troops were hiding in it and sleeping, preparing to regain their strength for the next battle.

The puppet troops responsible for carrying out the search mission were only thinking of going to the nearby villages to take advantage of the fire to make money, and they didn't have much interest in these barren reed marshes and woods.

The devil troops hid in the city to rest and lick their wounds, and the search troops of the puppet army were also perfunctory in their search, so that Yang Ling and the others had such a large number of troops lurking under their noses that they hadn't found it until now.

"Keep your eyes open for me, there will be a lot of rewards for catching the guerrillas!"

The puppet army was like wild dogs looking for food. As soon as one wave passed, another group of people appeared on the outskirts of the reeds where the guerrilla officers and soldiers were hiding, which made the guerrilla brothers' hearts aroused.

This group of puppet troops only consisted of more than 20 lazy people, not even a platoon of people. They looked at the reeds undulating in the wind, with their guns hanging down, talking and laughing as they walked towards the reeds.

In fact, the puppet army also knew that most of the disbanded guerrillas fled to farther places. Once you meet a few dead ones.

But what they didn't know was that in the reeds 300 meters in front of them, there were guerrilla officers and soldiers from two infantry companies hidden. They were all part of Yangling's No. [-] Guerrilla Corps.

On the edge of the reed marshes, the guerrilla security platoon covered with reed stalks and weeds also pointed their muzzles at the puppet troops approaching 300 meters away.

The guerrilla officers and soldiers were well camouflaged. Both veterans and recruits looked like savages living here. They were covered with grass. It was difficult for the puppet army to spot them unless they approached.

"Bring it closer and use a bayonet to solve it!"

Veteran company commander Huagou looked at more than 20 puppet troops pulling a skirmish line with a width of more than 30 meters. His eyes were full of coldness, and they were too careless.

The order was passed on in a low voice, and the brothers took out the bayonets in the bayonet sheaths around their waists one after another. They were as calm as a mountain, with murderous looks on their stern faces.

It was just an accident that the brothers of the Lieyan Special Brigade who first entered the war zone near Gaoyou encountered the puppet army in Wuming Village and killed a puppet army company.

Although there was a fierce exchange of fire in that battle, it was far away from Gaoyou City after all, and now the brothers of the guerrilla corps had lurked near Gaoyou City, and firing now would expose them and affect the effect of the raid.

The lazy puppet soldiers have already entered the range of the guerrilla officers and soldiers. Several light machine guns in the reeds have been fired, and the brothers' bayonets have been hung on the muzzles of the guns.

But before the puppet soldiers could go any further, a puppet army messenger galloped along the main road in the distance, and looked at the puppet army search team leaving the main road and walking towards the reeds, and shouted from afar up.

"The commander has an order! Expand the search area, and the search area extends to the periphery!"

"understood--"

The leading platoon leader of the puppet army raised his neck in response, and then waved his hands. The puppet soldiers who were walking towards the reeds turned around and returned to the main road.

What the puppet soldiers didn't know was that it was precisely because of the appearance of this messenger that they saved their lives. If they dared to enter the reed marsh, they would never survive.

Not long after this puppet army left, a group of devils searching cavalry also rolled up smoke and dust and headed north. When the devils set their eyes on the north, Yang Ling and the others had already set their sights on Gaoyou.

In a bamboo forest a little far from the main road, guards with armed guns and live ammunition were lurking all around. Yang Ling was gathering here with the chief officers of the various troops under his command to discuss the attack plan.

"The situation has been figured out. There are not many devils in Gaoyou City, only more than 400 people, and they have just experienced a fierce battle and have not yet recovered. There are two battalions of puppet soldiers, but they have all dispersed. After a while It won't come back."

Wei Qing, the leader of the Lieyan Special Warfare, was dressed in coarse cotton clothes and dressed up as ordinary people. He personally led a few team members to the foot of Gaoyou City to investigate the enemy's situation and had just returned.

Hearing that the number of devils in the city was so small, the faces of the officers forming a circle all showed joy. The devils had less troops, and they were more sure of victory.

"Have you figured out the fortifications and firepower points outside the devil's city?"

Yang Ling didn't show any signs of happiness or anger. He just nodded slightly and then asked another question.