Chapter eight hundred and seventy-fifth law and order clear
The cold wind is blowing, and the hunting flag of the blue sky and white sun has replaced the bloody red rising sun flag of the Japanese. It is flying on the highest tower in Huaiyin, and you can see it when you look up when you walk on the street.
The streets are covered with traces of the battle. Although the bloodstains on the streets have been washed away by residents with clean water, the holes-filled walls vaguely prove the cruelty of the original battle.
Checkpoints have been set up at all entrances and exits in Huaiyin County, and guerrilla officers and soldiers armed with live ammunition are responsible for screening people entering and leaving the city.
"For what?"
"Do you have any proof of identity?"
If there is no identity certificate stamped by the Third Guerrilla Detachment Headquarters, they will be arrested first and then interrogated. Yang Ling does this to prevent enemy agents from sneaking in.
Huainan has developed land transportation. You can reach the important town of Xuzhou to the northwest, the Beijing-Tianjin area along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Lianyungang to the east, and Nanjing to the south.
The main force of the Japs is now confronting the main force of the Chinese Field Army on the front line in Wuhan, and some are fighting with the Chinese Army at Kunlun Pass in the south. News has come that the 200th Division led by General Dai Anlan has killed Masao Nakamura, the leader of the Japs Brigade.
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Now the Chinese *** troops are launching large-scale attacks on the Japanese in various places. The Japanese are overwhelmed, and Yang Ling hopes to take advantage of the opportunity to develop and grow.
They want to stick to the enemy's back like a nail, so that the enemy is like a thorn in the back, unable to launch an offensive on the frontal battlefield with all their strength.
Huaiyin has a superior geographical location and can radiate development in all directions. At the same time, it can pose a greater threat to the Japanese.
So Yang Ling plans to use this place as a base to form a strong army and make them a nightmare for the little devils.
Although it didn't take long for Yang Ling and others to regain Huaiyin, in just a few days, Yang Ling had already managed the inside and outside of Huaiyin like an iron barrel.
The guerrillas stationed in Huaiyin City alone consist of a battalion of 600 brothers, with open posts and hidden sentries, and patrols with loaded guns and ammunition patrolling frequently. The entire city is heavily guarded.
This is not a waste of Yang Ling's large number of troops, but he wants to use practical actions to tell the local residents that the Chinese Communist Party is back. It will not be a three-hour recovery, but a long-lasting recovery.
The sentries and patrolling officers and soldiers inside and outside the city are their strongest backing, and they no longer have to live a life of fear in the future.
After the chaos was over, Yang Ling did not make any big claims, but directly used simple violent actions to flex his muscles and demonstrate the powerful strength of their guerrilla forces.
On the second night after Yang Ling and others regained Huaiyin, the remaining traitors and enemy agents in the city launched a surprise attack on Yang Ling and others.
These enemy agents set fires and created explosions almost at the same time, and organized more than 30 people to attack Yang Ling's headquarters.
Enemy agents and traitors tried to use this method to intimidate the guerrillas, and at the same time declare the fact that even if the guerrillas regained Huaiyin City, they were destined to be unable to hold it, and they could still do whatever they wanted.
But Yang Ling always didn't believe in this evil. Now that they had regained Huaiyin, it was not as simple as just planting a flag, but they had truly become the masters of the city again.
After the enemy agents' attacks on Huaiyin were thwarted one after another, Yang Ling was furious and immediately ordered the entire city to search for hidden enemy agents.
Fortunately, many traitors who maintained the association had been arrested before. Although they spoke hard, they could not withstand the harsh interrogation.
Many people in the maintenance committee soon gave their confessions, and the guerrilla officers and soldiers also followed the lead and arrested more than two hundred hidden traitors and spies, cleaning the entire Huaiyin again.
Although Yang Ling and the others had liberated Huaiyin previously, there was a secret threat from these hidden enemy agents, and the local residents did not dare to come into contact with Yang Ling and the others.
Lei Xiong, the staff officer in charge of recruiting new soldiers, put up a big flag for recruiting new soldiers for a whole day without seeing anyone. He went to recruit soldiers in person, but was met with disappointment.
When they saw the soldiers coming from a distance, they closed the door with a bang. No matter how hard Leixiong and the others knocked, they couldn't open it.
But now, as the enemy agents were roundly rounded up, and a group of them were shot to death by Yang Ling with ruthless means, all the enemy agents in Huaiyin have disappeared.
Without the threat of enemy agents, local residents dared to contact the guerrillas. Not only did they open their shops, but they also actively wanted to join the army to fight the Japanese.
Although the recovery of Huaiyin was short-lived, Yang Ling has now managed Huaiyin like an iron barrel. It has not only become a forbidden area for enemy agents, but the local area has also restored vitality and vitality.
Yang Ling has already said through various channels that no matter whether it is the Japanese spies or the plainclothes teams who have become traitors, as long as they dare to come to Huaiyin, they will catch and shoot each one without mercy.
Of course, Yang Ling also knew very well in his heart that if he wanted what he said to have weight and to be able to protect the residents behind him from living and working in peace and contentment, then strength was crucial.
If he does not have troops under his command that are good at fighting, then others will not be afraid of you, so he is also seizing the time to expand his troops.
Staff officer Lei Xiong recruited a full 1,500 new soldiers from Huaiyin in just two days, and almost every household had soldiers.
Of course, among these new recruits, refugees recruited from refugee camps outside the city also accounted for a large part, and most of them were farmers from the four eastern provinces.
Since the fall of the four northeastern provinces, a large number of refugees have fled into the customs. Although the government is also working hard to provide relief to the refugees, the number of people is too great.
Moreover, with the successive fall of Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuhan, etc., tens of millions of refugees have been created, and the government can no longer take care of them.
These refugees live in poverty and cold, and have to rely on begging to make a living. It is also common for them to be robbed in a place they are not familiar with.
On the long escape road from outside the pass to inside the pass, there were almost starving people everywhere, and there were many bones. The frail old people, women and children died one after another due to hunger and disease.
And now among these refugees, those who can survive are the able-bodied ones, but they are also in constant fear, unable to see their future, and do not know when they will starve to death in the wilderness.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Because of the war, commerce has declined, and roads have been blocked. It has become extremely difficult for these refugees to even beg, and they have to eat turf and tree roots to survive.
In order to survive, the hungry and cold refugees had to become puppet soldiers. After all, being a soldier was better than starving to death because they could eat.
This is also the reason why Yang Ling and others captured a large number of puppet soldiers, because most of these people were not willing to truly become puppet soldiers, but were forced to survive.
When they fought against their own troops, they almost always fired into the air, and surrendered as soon as the guerrillas rushed up.
Yang Ling also understood their difficulties. After all, compared to the illusory justice of family and country, sometimes it is more realistic to stay alive. Therefore, he did not kill and retaliate against the captured puppet troops, but recruited as many as possible.