The military training of the Northern Jiangsu Corps is in full swing. Not only the officers at all levels attach great importance to it, but also every brother is very enthusiastic.
The brothers assemble at dawn every day with the loud reveille signal, and then start a five-kilometer armed cross-country to warm up for the whole day's training.
In the first few days, the brothers only carried guns to participate in such cross-country training, but now every brother has a weight-bearing sandbag tied to his leg, which is very difficult for the brothers.
After breakfast, the day's formal training began. After crawling around on the training ground, the brothers returned to the barracks every day covered in mud and so tired that they collapsed on the ground unable to move.
Although it was a bit difficult at the beginning, as time went by, the brothers have gradually adapted to the intensity of training.
Moreover, when the troops are training, they do not directly engage in high-intensity training, but gradually increase the amount of training, allowing the brothers to have an adaptation process.
Although they have only started training for a week, the brothers seem to have been transformed, with significant changes, and the toughness and sharpness of soldiers are revealed in their every move.
The brothers' training was difficult, and Yang Ling's logistical support was also very good. First of all, the meals ensured that the brothers were not only full, but also well-fed.
The food obtained from the Xinghua Deputy Theater Headquarters is enough for the brothers to eat until spring, so the Northern Jiangsu Corps does not need to worry about food in the short term.
Moreover, Yang Ling ordered Major Sun Zhong, the head of the Munitions Department, to purchase livestock that had died of frostbite from the common people in nearby villages and towns, and then slaughtered them in the camp to supplement nutrition for the brothers.
At the same time, Jieshou is close to Gaoyou Lake. There are also many fishermen in Jieshou who make a living by fishing. Yang Ling buys fat and big fish from them at the purchase price and makes braised fish and boiled fish for his brothers. Soup.
Originally, the life of these fishermen was very difficult. Although the fish in Gaoyou Lake were big and fat, after all, Jieshou's original consumption capacity was so much. They only transported dozens of kilograms of fish to restaurants a day, and most of them had to do it themselves. eat.
But things are different now. Although the Patriot Battalion of the Northern Jiangsu Corps has been transferred back to Huaiyin to assist in the defense, there are still four to five thousand people in the temporary general command organization and five combat corps who remain in Jieshou.
The consumption power of so many people is quite terrifying, and Yang Ling does not buy or sell by force, but buys from fishermen at market prices.
So in the past, the fishing industry almost came to a standstill when winter came. The fishermen in Jieshou are very busy this winter.
Boats of big, lively fish are loaded and unloaded at the pier in Jieshou every day and then sent to the camp of the Jiangsu North Corps, which makes the fishermen earn a lot of money.
Gaoyou Lake has a large area, and is connected to the Yangtze River by waterways to the south, and Hongze Lake to the north. The water area is wide, and there is no flooding in this era, so the fishery resources are rich. Yang Ling is not worried about the fish in Gaoyou Lake being eaten. It's all gone.
Because the officers and soldiers of the Jiangsu North Corps never forcefully buy or sell when they trade, all transactions are fair, and the fishermen make more, so the news naturally spreads.
After hearing the news, vendors from all over the place rushed to Jieshou to do business. For a while, the entire streets and alleys of Jieshou were filled with shouts and hawking.
Although this winter is very cold, Jieshou has become extremely lively because of the war.
Although the little Japs were dormant in Gaoyou City during the winter, they did not stop spying on the intelligence of the squadrons everywhere.
When it was learned that a large number of fishing boats fished in Gaoyou Lake every day, although the Japanese troops were unable to launch an attack on the boundary head from the land direction due to bad weather and the destroyed roads along the way, they could come from the waterway.
The last time the Japanese sent a floating squadron to attempt to land at Jieshou Pier, and then captured Jieshou in one fell swoop.
But because Yang Ling and the others obtained the information in advance, they set up an ambush in advance to kill the Japanese squadron on the water, and also captured seven or eight water motorboats.
When the Japanese sent a motorboat patrol from Gaoyou Pier to the north to harass and shoot at fishing boats fishing for fish on Gaoyou Lake, Yang Ling and the others were not willing to be outdone and fought back.
Yang Ling immediately recruited some demobilized former Chinese Navy officers and strong fishermen to form the first surface patrol team of their North Jiangsu Corps to protect these fishing boats operating in Gaoyou Lake.
With strong patriotic feelings, the officers and soldiers of the surface patrol team of the Northern Jiangsu Corps carried forward the spirit of the officers and soldiers of the Northern Jiangsu Corps who dared to show their swords and launched a fierce counterattack against the invading Japanese surface patrol team.
In three surface battles, the North Jiangsu surface patrol team, with several motorboats as the main force and fishing boats as the supplement, fiercely attacked and inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese surface patrol team.
Three of the Japanese motorboats were sunk in Gaoyou Lake by the surface patrol team of the Jiangsu North Corps, killing twenty or thirty Japanese people.
After the Japanese's surface patrol team suffered three heavy losses, every time they saw the surface patrol team of the Jiangsu North Corps starting to flee from a distance, they did not dare to fight with them.
The Japanese were also very clever. Although they did not dare to shoot at the Chinese fishermen as arrogantly as before, they did pay attention to sneak attacks.
"Captain, there are fishermen from the Chinese Army ahead!"
The Japanese had become more cautious now and did not dare to go out in broad daylight. They wanted to sneak attack at dusk. When they saw more than ten fishing boats in the distance through the telescope, they all became excited.
The leader of the Japanese team was tall and strong, and he was wrapped in a thick cotton coat. But even so, the cold wind on the lake was as cold as a knife, making him feel like he was in an ice cellar.
"Come forward and kill them all!" the Japs' squad leader's face turned ferocious, and he ordered fiercely.
The last few times they came here without knowing the depth, they were beaten badly by the surface patrol team of the Jiangsu North Corps and suffered a lot of losses.
This time he was commanding five motorboats, just to avenge the previous attacks.
"Full speed ahead!"
The Japanese flag soldiers standing on the bow quickly signaled the remaining motorboats. With the rumbling sound of the motors, the Japanese motorboats were like arrows flying off the string, heading towards the fishing boats loaded with fresh fish ahead.
passed.
"Oops, it's a kid's steamboat!"
When they heard a few small black spots in the distance getting closer and closer, the expressions of the fishermen who were carrying loads of fresh fish, chatting and laughing, changed wildly.
They are just fishing boats without any combat capabilities. Not to mention the machine guns that hit the Japanese motorboats, even if they hit them, they would be knocked over in the lake.
In this freezing weather, if you fall into the freezing cold lake, you will lose your skin even if you don't die.
"Run!" Some fishermen panicked, paddling hurriedly, trying to run towards the Jieshou Pier.
"What the hell, can we outrun the Japanese steamboat? Send a signal quickly! Call for help!" The leader of the ship was quite calm and gave hurried instructions.
Hearing the words of the boat boss, the panicked fishermen reacted and hurriedly took out the signal gun given to them by the Jiangsu surface patrol team and pointed it at the sky and pulled the trigger.
"call out!"
A signal bomb rose into the sky and made a harsh whistle.
As the signal flares rose into the sky, the piercing hand-cranked alarm also started whining, and the penetrating sound spread toward the distance.
The hand-cranked sirens at this time all belonged to the captured Japs, and now they have become the standard equipment of Yang Ling and his colleagues at the frontline observation posts of the Northern Jiangsu Corps.
Motorboat No. 3 of the North Jiangsu Surface Patrol Team was patrolling nearby, and the observation post saw a signal flare in the distance.
"Squad leader, squad leader, someone is sending a flare at eight o'clock!" the observation post shouted hurriedly.
"It must be those stupid Japs who are here again! Turn around and move forward at full speed!" The squad leader also heard the piercing siren and shouted an order.
The other motorboats patrolling nearby also rushed to the place where the siren sounded and rushed to the rescue at full speed. The motorboats split white waves on the water.