Nine hundred and twentieth seventh chapter lurking
The clouds were thick and dark, and the cold wind in the morning was biting. In a large field overgrown with weeds, an entire infantry company of guerrilla officers and soldiers was ambushed.
The Japanese commanders in Gaoyou City were very cunning. After their plan to lure the enemy deep into the city to annihilate Yang Ling and his men failed, they began to fight house to house in the streets, trying to consume Yang Ling and his men while waiting for reinforcements to counter the siege.
Yang Ling took advantage of the situation and left a small number of troops to confront the Japs in the city. The main force of the guerrilla army was secretly transferred outside the city, preparing to destroy the Japs and puppet troops who came for reinforcements.
There are now at least one infantry company of guerrilla officers and soldiers lurking near the main roads in all directions of Gaoyou City. They secretly left the city in the middle of the night last night and have been lurking in the bitterly cold wilderness for several hours.
Compared with the puppet army numbers that remain on paper in other occupied areas, the puppet army in Gaoyou City has well-organized soldiers and well-organized troops. The total number of soldiers in the surrounding towns and villages is as many as 2,000.
This is also closely related to the fact that the Japanese have been coveting China for a long time. During the war between the Beiyang warlords, the Japanese sent a large number of agents and spies to various parts of China. They were even more rampant along the coast.
People such as Okamura Ningji, the current commander of the Japanese 11th Army, and Doihara Kenji, the division commander, had previously served as advisers to the Chinese Communist Party, or were active spies who knew China well.
It was precisely because of the activities of the Japanese spies and agents that lasted for more than ten years, during which they bribed and recruited traitors. Therefore, when the Japanese troops entered these areas, the local traitors quickly took action and quickly established a maintenance organization to assist the Japanese.
Meeting, puppet army.
These die-hard traitors firmly believe in the so-called "China-Japan friendship" and "establishing a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" promoted by the Japanese, so they follow the Japanese with all their heart.
The Japanese have been planning to engulf China for a long time. Now they are not only trying to occupy it by force, but they are also opening schools in the occupied areas and trying enslavement education in an attempt to cultivate more traitors.
It has to be said that this method of the Japs is effective. Now there are a large number of Chinese in the field troops fighting between the Japs and the Chinese Army.
They were the Chongteng detachment from Taiwan, later known as the Botian detachment. They were brigade-level troops with strong strength.
In addition, during the Battle of Songhu, part of the troops of the "Puppet Manchukuo" were among the vanguards for the Japanese. They even fought all the way to Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. They fought fiercely and had to be transferred back to the original garrison area due to heavy losses.
Currently stationed in Gaoyou and its vicinity are the troops of the Fifth Public Security Brigade. They are also one of the earliest puppet troops established.
Many of the officers in these puppet armies were people with actual combat experience, and many of them were even Chinese soldiers who had fought bloody battles with the Japanese in the Battle of Songhu.
However, they were captured by the Japanese in the subsequent rout. The Japanese massacred many captured civilians and soldiers who had laid down their weapons.
Watching their companions being beheaded by the Japs one by one, their psychological defenses eroded by hunger and exhaustion finally collapsed. Their desire for survival defeated their patriotism, and they finally chose to rebel and become another traitor.
They were once glorious communists, but the Japanese did not trust them. In order for them to hand over their names, these people who were trying to survive had to kill many of their brothers who fought alongside them with their swords.
Under the influence of various factors such as treason and killing of companions, although they were still alive and were even appointed as officers of the puppet army by the Japanese, their psychology became distorted and they became vicious killing machines.
With the training and command of such a group of officers who are full of evil spirits, most of the regiments and battalions of the Fifth Public Security Brigade have strong combat capabilities, except for some newly recruited companies.
They are all treasonous people. They can't stand the ridicule and supercilious looks of their countrymen, so they become vicious and try to make others afraid of them by killing.
Compared with the Japs who are worse than beasts, they are more cruel to their compatriots. First, they want to seek credit and reward and gain the trust of the Japs. After all, the more Chinese they kill, the more the Japs will believe in them.
Another important reason is that under the influence of various factors, their values have been distorted and they have turned into crazy and bloodthirsty people. They have broken the pot and only killing can make them forget the blame from the bottom of their hearts.
At the last moment when the first line of guerrilla troops in the Sulu Theater led by General Ma Yuren attacked Gaoyou, the Japanese's Skeleton Special Forces took over the headquarters and faced the pincer attack of these puppet troops. Only then did the troops collapse.
These ferocious puppet troops immediately spread out to hunt down the scattered guerrilla officers and soldiers, and once caught, they would be punished with death.
The dried corpses of guerrilla officers and soldiers were hung near many arteries, gun towers and villages. Many had been dried, and many were left in the wilderness to be eaten by wild dogs. It was too horrible to see.
Now in the enemy-occupied areas, there are not only wolf-like Japanese soldiers, but also these wolf-like minions of the puppet army with shining eyes. The guerrilla troops who stayed behind the enemy lines are in a difficult situation due to lack of ammunition and food.
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Fortunately, the Chongqing Military Commission formulated a winter offensive, and all war zones across the country launched large-scale counterattacks against the Japanese. Only then did the guerrillas, who had been beaten and hiding in Tibet, finally feel proud and proud.
The fifth brigade of the puppet army has dispersed. They use battalions and companies as units, with Gaoyou City as the center, to expand the search area everywhere to hunt down the dispersed guerrilla troops.
It was already dawn when they received the order to return reinforcements from the Japs commander in the city, Major Qingchuan, and regrouped.
However, these puppet troops did not stop at all, and immediately marched towards Gaoyou City from all directions, preparing for another internal and external pincer attack to eliminate Yang Ling and his troops.
But this time Yang Ling was prepared. Combat companies, all equipped with Japanese equipment, had been deployed to ambush at various strategic points outside the city in the middle of the night. The puppet troops were waiting for them.
The scope of the puppet army's search has been expanded, and it is already quite a distance from Gaoyou City, and almost all of their grassroots commanders are former Chinese military officers with rich experience in combat.
They understood the fighting methods of guerrilla forces and often surrounded certain points for reinforcements and attacked various key points. Therefore, they did not rush on the road at night, but used the excuse of gathering to send reinforcements to Gaoyou City only after dawn.
This resulted in the guerrilla troops who were preparing to ambush and return to support the puppet troops to have to lurk for several hours in the bitterly cold wilderness. In such a mid-winter season, lurking in the icy wilderness, the officers and soldiers of the guerrillas were all bruised and swollen from the cold.
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Although they had previously prepared for various problems they would face latent, and even smeared lard on their exposed flesh, the coldness penetrated into their bones.
Deputy battalion commander Liu Jinhu was covered in camouflage clothes made of weeds. He was crawling like a snake in the grassy fields, patrolling everywhere.
The brothers lurked in foxholes for a long time, their bodies covered with loose soil and weeds, and their body temperatures dropped drastically. Many of them were shivering from the cold, and some even had a fever.
"Keep on holding on, the enemy will come soon."
"Cheer up and don't fall asleep..."
Deputy battalion commander Liu Jinhu was constantly encouraging the lurking brothers. Setting up an ambush in the nearby wilderness was not an easy task.
Now that it was dawn, they did not dare to move rashly, because once they stood up, they could see it from a distance, so they could only lurk under the camouflage of foxholes and blend in with the surroundings.