Yangling's general headquarters has been moved to the Guandi Temple in the north of the city, and the brothers in the guard platoon have built barricades and machine gun nests around it to maintain tight security.
The solemn-looking staff officers were rushing in and out, the sound of sending and receiving telegrams kept ticking, and the general headquarters was filled with a strong atmosphere of war.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded on the street, and a communication cavalryman, covered in gunpowder smoke and his face blackened, galloped over, dismounted in front of the Guandi Temple, and strode into the headquarters.
"Good news! The Fourth Company of the Second Battalion annihilated a puppet camp in Qianshui River! Five hundred and thirty people were beheaded, an infantry gun was captured, and the remaining weapons and ammunition were countless..."
The brother who reported victory spoke excitedly before he could even take a breath. After a few seconds of silence, a huge cheer erupted.
An infantry company actually killed several times the number of puppet army camps, which made the staff cheer and hug each other to celebrate this huge victory.
"How are the casualties?"
Yang Ling quickly calmed down from the huge excitement and stared at the brother who reported the news. After all, he was winning with less. Needless to say, it was also a tragic battle.
The signal soldier stepped forward and replied: "One hundred and one brothers were injured, and thirty-five were killed. The wounded are being sent back."
Liu Jinhu and his infantry company only had one hundred and sixty-six men. They also transferred some troops from the machine gun company, which amounted to less than two hundred men.
Now that the casualties were almost half, the cheering staff quickly stopped smiling. Although they had won, they couldn't be happy about such a victory.
"Notify the medical center and make preparations to treat the wounded."
Yang Ling recovered quickly, but casualties were inevitable. What he needed to do now was to make the losses as small as possible.
"Sir, a team from the first guerrilla group has returned. There are more than a hundred of them. Deputy Battalion Commander Liu asked for instructions whether to recruit them on the spot," the communications soldier added.
"Oh?" Hearing this news, it was beyond Yang Ling's expectation.
The troops led by Commander Ma Yuren were defeated at the gates of Gaoyou City and were surrounded and suppressed by the puppet army and the Japanese. There were still people who dared to fight back. Needless to say, they were all tough men.
"I'm informing you, Deputy Battalion Commander Liu, to send those brothers who have returned from the killings directly to the commander-in-chief. I want to see them."
If they are recruited on the spot, these officers and soldiers who were originally affiliated with the first guerrilla force may feel resentful and find it difficult to integrate into the army in a short period of time.
In this era, each army has a strong sense of belonging, so Yang Ling decided to meet them in person, hoping to recruit them into his army.
The order was quickly conveyed, and at the same time, in all directions outside Gaoyou City, ambushing guerrilla troops exchanged fire with the returning puppet troops.
These puppet soldiers who were rushing back to rescue Gaoyou never expected to encounter an ambush, so they were beaten to a pulp. Except for a few who took advantage of the chaos to escape, most of them were eliminated or became prisoners.
To fight an ambush, you need the right time, place, and people, and you can't use it too many times. After many of the puppet troops returning for reinforcements from all directions have been killed.
There were also some puppet troops who came back to support and retreated after hearing the news halfway. They now knew nothing about the situation in Gaoyou and were worried about unexpected events, so they all retreated to the villages and started to wait and see.
In just half a day, Yang Ling and others eliminated more than 1,500 puppet troops who returned for reinforcements, dealing a heavy blow to the puppet troops and almost making the remaining puppet troops no longer dare to approach Gaoyou.
Yang Ling was not worried about these stagnant puppet troops. As long as the Japs in Gaoyou City were still there, he was not afraid of them not coming closer.
"Let the combat companies outside the city build fortifications, lay mines, set up traps, and recharge their batteries until those puppet troops come back."
Yang Ling's goal is to turn Gaoyou City into a huge trap, attracting a steady stream of puppet troops and Japanese soldiers to come for reinforcements, and then eat their vitality.
Now that the ambush has lost its effect, let's change the strategy and consume the opponent through various fortification traps to achieve the purpose of destroying the opponent.
Moreover, Yang Ling had already played a big game of chess in his mind. If it was no longer possible, his guerrilla army retreated into the city and fought street battles with the Japanese. They used themselves as bait to let the friendly troops make dumplings from the outside.
Moreover, Yang Ling has begun to contact the 349th Brigade of the 117th Division and the guerrilla troops fighting in nearby areas, trying to attract enough Japanese to Gaoyou for a major annihilation.
Yang Ling now hopes that this battle will get better and better, attract enough Japanese troops to Gaoyou, consume them, cooperate with the frontal battlefield operations, and reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield.
As long as enough Japs are eliminated in Gaoyou, the Japs will not be able to mobilize more troops to control the surrounding areas in a short period of time.
The benefits of this are also obvious. It can allow the self-defense forces in various regions who are suppressed and beaten by the Japanese to take a breather and avoid being wiped out by the Japanese. As long as they recover, they can in turn contain a large number of Japanese forces.
Under such a continuous virtuous cycle, the situation behind enemy lines can be opened up, and after being tempered by the flames of war, a large number of officers and soldiers can grow up.
Even if the Japanese deploy a large number of troops to repopulate this area, the guerrilla forces that have grown up will not be afraid.
Now we are exchanging time for space, and before the devils can react, eliminate as much of their power in this area as possible, and then develop and strengthen ourselves.
Yang Ling now just hopes that the Japanese will continue to use the tactics of adding fuel to Gaoyou, and continue to send more troops to Gaoyou, and then be killed by them.
When the Japs came to their senses, the iron-blooded troops that had grown up in the flames of war were no longer something that the small Japs could handle.
As long as you have a force that is capable of conquering and fighting, you can let them run wild behind enemy lines. After all, the Japanese are the defenders and they have the right to attack. Wherever they want to attack, the Japanese really can't stop them.
"We must also step up the affairs of the Patriotic Committee. Patriotic squires can be appointed as temporary leaders. Village and town militias must be formed immediately in the recovered villages and towns. As long as they pass the inspection of the officers we send, we can allocate weapons to them.
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Yang Ling is currently fighting against the Japs while actively preparing to develop the patriotic armed forces. After the village self-defense force is established, it can be trained on the battlefield and practice with the puppet troops.
Anyone who has fought in the war is just a seed. Even if the main force is no longer in this area by then, it can still become a huge threat to the Japanese and puppet troops.
"Captain and company commander Shen Biao has met your commander!"
In the general area of the Guandi Temple, a middle-aged officer wearing a torn and dirty gray military uniform stood up and raised his hand in a military salute to Yang Ling.
They were the troops under the former commander Ma Yuren, but they were dispersed, chased and beaten by the puppet troops, and now they are coming back.