Amidst the angry roars of his brothers, Yang Ling turned around and looked at the several traitors who were tied up and detained there, and waved his hand to give an order.
Several brothers with stern faces stepped forward and took down the wooden signs behind the traitors that read "Big Traitor, Traitor". A group of brothers with guns came out and stood about ten meters behind the traitors.
"Check weapons!"
"Press the bullet!"
"Qi Cha!" Accompanied by the sound of the gun bolt being pulled, the brother in charge of the execution loaded the bullet.
"Raise the gun!"
The voice of the officer on duty who gave the order was like a reminder. When Liu An, the traitor chief sent from Nanjing, heard this from behind, his body was shaking like chaff, and his crotch was wet.
The shouting brothers all fell silent, and together with the people watching outside, they stared silently at the traitor kneeling on the platform.
"shooting!"
"Bang bang bang——"
After hearing the order, the brothers pressed the triggers one after another, and the whistling bullets violently sprayed out from the muzzle of the guns, popping into the bodies of the traitors.
The bullet penetrated the traitor's body and brought up a cloud of blood. The traitor's body shook in a strange posture as if it had been hit by a hammer. Soon after, he knelt on the ground and twitched a few times, but there was no movement.
Gurgling blood flowed down the corpse.
"Autopsy!"
Several brothers trotted to the body of the man lying in a pool of blood and quickly examined it.
"Killed!" The brothers doing the autopsy stood up one after another to report.
"Well done!"
In the silent wilderness, the cheers of the officers and soldiers suddenly rang out. Seeing the traitor being killed, they all shouted excitedly, and the waves of cheers became louder and louder for a while.
Among these cheering crowds, there were some people who originally wanted to be on the sidelines because of the establishment of a puppet government in Nanjing. As they cheered along with the crowd, their faces turned pale.
Yang Ling's public killing of the traitors was not only a major counterattack against the Nanjing puppet government, but also a declaration of war against the traitors. It showed the attitude of their northern Jiangsu Corps, which was absolute surrender and no compromise.
"Brothers! The traitor has been killed! From now on, no matter who wants to be a traitor or a traitor, this will be the fate!"
Yang Ling's sharp eyes looked around the dark crowd, deliberately staying in the queue of the squires, pointing at the traitor lying in a pool of blood, and his words were full of warning.
"We would rather fight to the last man and to the last bullet than we should never be traitors and traitors!"
After hearing Yang Ling's words, the blacksmith, the commander of the first battalion, stood up suddenly, raised his clenched fists and shouted.
"Fight to the end! Would rather die than surrender!"
Second Battalion Commander Wu Changqing also stood up and made his own oath.
"Fight to the end! Would rather die than surrender!"
"Fight to the end! Would rather die than surrender!"
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All the brothers raised their arms and shouted with serious faces. The shouts were like a tsunami that penetrated the metal and cracked the rocks. The fierce murderous aura spread towards the surroundings. This was the strongest voice of the era made by the Chinese people.
The surrounding people who came to watch looked at the officers and soldiers who were shouting that they would not surrender. Their eyes filled with tears and they joined the shouting team until their voices were hoarse.
Yang Ling held a flag-sacrifice ceremony in which the traitors were publicly shot in Jieshou, demonstrating his tough attitude that he would never compromise with the traitors and Japanese.
This public execution of the traitor not only inspired the morale of the military and the people and strengthened the brothers' belief in fighting to the end, but also greatly shocked those who had surrendered to the enemy or those who wanted to surrender, letting them know the consequences of being a traitor.
Not only did Yang Ling not choose to surrender to the puppet government in Nanjing and become a traitor, but he decisively killed all those who wanted to persuade him to surrender. When the news spread back to Nanjing, the newly established Nanjing puppet government suddenly became furious.
"Arrogant, so arrogant. He is just a captain and is so unscrupulous. He doesn't know how high the sky is and how high he is. Do you really think there is nothing we can do against him?!"
After receiving the news, all the officials in the Nanjing Puppet Executive Yuan were furious.
Some people clamored for an immediate attack: "Let the commander-in-chief of appeasement, General Ren Yuandao, mobilize troops to attack Jiangsu and teach this northern Jiangsu Corps a lesson!"
"Inform the Japanese troops stationed in Gaoyou and ask them to assist in launching an attack to wipe out Yang Ling and his gang members. Let those who resist stubbornly see the consequences of enduring to the end!"
Now that Yang Ling is killing those who persuaded him to surrender with such great fanfare, he is tantamount to declaring war on the puppet government in Nanjing.
As the saying goes, if the two armies are fighting, they will not behead the envoys. Now Yang Ling has done this. It can be said that he has done everything possible and disgraced the Nanjing puppet government. Therefore, all the traitors in the puppet Executive Yuan have suggested that Northern Jiangsu should not be let go like this.
Team.
If the Northern Jiangsu Corps is let go this time, then the subsequent attempts to persuade them to surrender will be greatly compromised.
Because Yang Ling of the Jiangsu North Corps made a bad start. If he doesn't teach him a lesson, then whoever dares to go to other places to persuade them to surrender will probably never come back.
Although senior officials of the puppet government in Nanjing clamored to destroy the Northern Jiangsu Corps to avenge the death of traitor section chief Liu An and save face at the same time.
But now their traitor troops are still on paper. The appeasement commander-in-chief of the three provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang, Ren Yuandao, can command and mobilize not many troops, and they are all local militia. It is difficult to compete with a tiger and wolf army like the Northern Jiangsu Corps.
In battle, I am afraid that once a battle occurs, it will result in collapse at the first touch.
Although these senior officials of the Nanjing puppet government were clamoring fiercely, they were also self-aware, so they sent a telegram to the Watanabe detachment in Gaoyou, asking them to cooperate with a small group of puppet troops to attack the North Jiangsu Corps. In essence, they wanted to borrow the Japanese troops to go out.
Combat.
However, the Watanabe detachment in Gaoyou, which was affiliated to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, only sneered when faced with the telegram from the Nanjing puppet government.
"Everything in our department is based on the orders of the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, and we are not allowed to act without authorization." The Japanese directly refused the Nanjing puppet government's order to assist in combat operations, showing no mercy.
These senior officials of the puppet government had no choice but to turn their target to the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters of the Japanese, trying to request them to issue an order for the Japanese to send troops.
"There is a huge shortage of ammunition and supplies required by various ministries, and military expenditures are insufficient..."
The Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters were not fools, so they could not work in vain, so they used the excuse of insufficient supplies and ammunition to start extortion.
The senior officials of the Nanjing Puppet Government were now focused on teaching Yang Ling's Northern Jiangsu Corps a lesson, so when faced with the Japs' proposal to require the Puppet Government to bear high military expenditures and food supplies needed for the war, they agreed without any hesitation.
However, the little devils were also the masters who did not see the rabbit but did not let the eagle fly. When they did not see the actual thing, they remained stationary and waited for the Nanjing puppet government to come forward to raise food and supplies.
When the puppet government in Nanjing was raising food supplies and military expenses in order to meet the Japanese army's request, the situation in the Sulu Theater also took a turn for the worse.
Jiangsu Provincial Chairman Han Deqin declined the Nanjing Puppet Government's offer to surrender, and General Li Mingyang, commander of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps, directly drove away those who tried to persuade him to surrender.
Although they were not as extreme as Yang Ling, they also caused a major setback to the Nanjing puppet government's campaign to persuade them to surrender.