The main force of Yang Ling's First Guerrilla Corps quietly moved south and arrived at the outskirts of Gaoyou, but the Gaoyou Japanese defenders who had just defeated Ma Yuren's First Guerrilla Corps were kept in the dark.
Those puppet troops with arrogant claws were searching for the scattered guerrilla officers and soldiers in the towns and villages near Gaoyou in company and platoon units, and bloody killings were going on.
General Ma Yuren's first line of guerrilla troops was ordered to counterattack Gaoyou during the winter offensive, but unexpectedly the headquarters was defeated by an elite Japanese army, leaving the troops without a leader and collapsed.
The Japanese achieved a huge victory. Although the smoke over Gaoyou City has not dissipated, traces of the battle still remain in the trench positions outside the city.
But the little Japs in Gaoyou City had already relaxed. They were busy resting and licking their wounds, so even the hunting mission was handed over to the puppet soldiers who were eager to claim credit and reward.
Because the Japanese commanders understand the principle of using China to control China, only if the Chinese people's hands are stained with the blood of their own people can they be more determined to help them control China.
In their eyes, the so-called security forces are just dogs they keep in captivity. If they want the dog to be ferocious enough, they have to let it eat meat and let them smell the smell of blood.
Moreover, letting these security puppet troops kill their own people will also cut off their retreat. They can only follow them wholeheartedly, otherwise they will be wiped out by the guerrilla forces.
The puppet troops who reinforced Gaoyou did live up to the high expectations of the Japanese commanders. They were eager to express themselves and to claim credit and reward, and they also exerted all their strength.
"Your Majesty, Major, in the past few days, the security forces have successively hunted down and eliminated more than 500 Chinese guerrillas. Do you want to stop the hunting operation?"
In a clean and tidy office, a Japanese officer standing straight reported to a Japanese major officer the status of the raids in recent days.
The Japanese Major's face was scarred by shrapnel. The hideous wounds and the tuft of black hair under his nose made him look very fierce.
When the fighting in Gaoyou City was at its fiercest, the Japanese Major personally led his troops in hand-to-hand combat with the guerrillas. He was considered a strong soldier, but he hated the guerrillas deeply.
"No, expand the scope of the search and eradicate the root causes!" The Japs Major's eyes were full of venom.
In the opinion of the Japanese Major, now is the time when these guerrilla troops are at their weakest. They will kill you while you are sick, otherwise they may be in trouble again when they gather together.
"Hi!"
The Japanese lieutenant officer who reported the order had no doubts about this order. In his eyes, it was nothing more than killing a few more people.
"Your Majesty, Major, what should we do with the more than fifty guerrilla prisoners captured?" Lieutenant Japanese did not leave and continued to ask for instructions.
The Japanese Major only thought for a moment before making a decision: "Pull them all to the city gate and shoot them, summon the Chinese people to watch the execution, and let them see the consequences of resisting our Imperial Japanese Army."
This is an obvious attempt to scare the monkeys, and the Japanese Major also hopes to show their force and resistance through such actions.
But what they don't know is that their bayonets will not make the brave Chinese surrender, but will only bring hatred and more fierce resistance.
"Hiyi!"
The Japanese Lieutenant bowed his head heavily again, a perverted excitement flashed across his face. He couldn't be more fond of killing.
Just as the Japanese Lieutenant saluted and was about to turn around and leave, he was stopped by the Japanese Major.
"Your Majesty, Major, is there anything else you need my help with?"
The Japanese Major leaned back on his chair, stared at the Japanese Lieutenant, and said slowly: "Many squires who have taken refuge with us have reported to me that the security forces are seriously disturbing the people. Do you know about this...
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The Japanese lieutenant's expression became serious, and he stood up and replied: "It is indeed true, but as you know, their military discipline has always been bad. During this manhunt mission, they took the opportunity to extort and rob the local people. I think this will increase their mutual hatred."
opportunity, so there was no stopping it.”
The Japanese Major frowned slightly. He was also worried about the military discipline of the security forces. Although he wanted the security forces to become their loyal watchdogs, the looting behavior of the security forces has now affected their policies in the occupied areas.
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Because most of the food, vegetables and meat for their frontline troops are now obtained directly from the occupied areas, and now the security forces are looting it like this, the result is panic among people, who will grow food for them, and what will they eat.
"You should personally clean up the military discipline of the security forces and make them work restrained. 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 they are all killed,
If we run away, there will be no one to grow food for us and raise chickens and ducks to supply the frontline troops."
"Do you understand?" Seeing that Lieutenant Guizi was stunned and didn't speak, Major Guizi knocked on the table and reminded him.
The Japanese Lieutenant also hurriedly agreed, said goodbye and left, mentally cursing the security forces for going too far. Even the squires came to complain to the Major.
While the puppet troops responsible for carrying out the hunting mission were hunting down the guerrillas, they were taking the opportunity to rob nearby towns and villages. Many tragedies were happening quietly.
Many of the puppet soldiers are local ruffians and bullies. They are already a cancer in the local area. Now that they are backed by little devils, they are even more arrogant and lawless.
This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to hunt down the guerrillas, they extorted and looted nearby villages, killed people who disagreed, and then framed the guerrillas.
The Japanese Lieutenant originally wanted to turn a blind eye, but now that the Major has given the order, he has to clean up the corrupted military discipline.
As soon as the Japanese Lieutenant left the Japanese Major's office, a Japanese intelligence staff officer hurried in.
"Your Majesty, Major, the intelligence department sent a telegram." The intelligence staff handed a telegram to the Japanese Major and said: "Our reconnaissance plane discovered a thousands-sized China Army troop heading south from Huaiyin yesterday evening.
, should be the guerrilla forces that captured Huaiyin."
"Do you know their purpose of going south?" The Japanese Major was frightened. He sat up straight 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 be restored.
But now that he heard that thousands of Chinese ** troops were going south, he couldn't sit still. Once this army came to fight Gaoyou, it would be another fierce battle, and the troops around them were fighting against the Chinese ** troops.
They had no support, so he had to pay attention.
"Reconnaissance planes were searching the nearby counties of Baoying and Yancheng again this morning, but they seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never appeared again. Therefore, the intelligence department asked us to be more vigilant," said the Japanese intelligence staff.
In fact, the Japanese did not know that Yang Ling and the others, marching day and night, had already reached the outskirts of Gaoyou, but the Japanese were still looking at the Baoying area to the north, so naturally they could not be found.
The Japanese Major thought for a moment and then ordered: "Send a search force to search north. Once this China Army unit is found, report it immediately."
Soon, a cavalry search force consisting of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers left Gaoyou City, which was damaged by the war, and ran straight north.