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At the top of the dilapidated Gaoyou city, a dirty and broken blue sky and white sun flag rustled in the biting cold wind. The countless transparent bullet holes on the flag cloth illustrate the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war.
Looking back along this broken and dirty flag, we can see the smoke-filled Gaoyou City. The undulating buildings on the highlands are stacked on top of each other. Countless billowing black smoke rising straight into the sky reflect a scene of depression and dilapidation after the war.
In this ruined city, gunshots can still be heard from the east of the city from time to time, occasionally mixed with one or two explosions, and the remaining Japanese are still resisting.
This is already the fourth day of Yang Ling's attack on Gaoyou. Most of the Japanese and puppet troops inside and outside the city have been wiped out. Their First Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu has wiped out countless enemies and captured countless things.
If the guerrilla officers and soldiers who participated in the battle on the first day were still a little immature and unfamiliar with their tactical movements, after four days of fierce fighting, all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle now have a murderous aura in their bodies.
The battlefield is a real training ground, and it is just right to use weak garrison troops like Gaoyou to train troops. Although the brothers have suffered casualties, as long as they survive, they will become the backbone of the army. Troops fed with the flesh and blood of Japanese soldiers,
Naturally, he is an iron-blooded and brave warrior.
There are not many Japanese soldiers now compressed in the east area of the city. With the heavy baggage troops and miscellaneous soldiers, they only have a total of more than a hundred people. With Yang Ling's strength, they can naturally eat them in one bite.
However, Yang Ling and the others were not in a hurry and fought the Japanese in a leisurely manner, giving the Japanese a glimmer of hope of survival and allowing them to continuously send reports for help and attract Japanese reinforcements.
The Japanese commander Major Qingchuan, who had not slept for several days and nights, had dark circles in his eyes. His unkempt face had lost the dignity that a commander should have.
He almost no longer directs the troops in combat. The remaining officers in the army's operations are completely directed by the remaining officers to resist. He stays in the confidential room and constantly urges the confidential staff to send reports for help.
He already knew that the Central China Expeditionary Army Headquarters had temporarily transferred troops to form the Sano detachment, which was now heading towards Gaoyou.
But they could no longer hold on and might even be annihilated in the next hour, so he was urging the Sano detachment and kept asking them when they could get to Gaoyou.
At the beginning, the Sano detachment responded seriously, but now, faced with the troublesome telegrams one after another, they are no longer too lazy to reply.
In fact, Sano Tailang, the commander of the Sano detachment, also had his own little plan. Although his subordinates temporarily deployed seven brigades this time.
However, the cavalry brigade, artillery brigade, baggage brigade and two infantry brigade were all recruited from other places to supplement troops, and they have not yet completed their assembly. He only has two infantry brigade around him now, and his strength is not very strong.
On the one hand, he is repairing the damaged road and heading towards Gaoyou, and on the other hand, he is waiting for the follow-up troops to catch up and join forces. He wants to crush the Chinese troops with absolute strength, instead of trying to use the so-called fueling tactics.
He has obtained all the details of the battle in Gaoyou City. He analyzed that the Chinese troops besieging Gaoyou were seeking reinforcements at the encirclement point. He did not want to repeat the mistakes of those puppet troops and end up dead.
He must concentrate his forces with a thunderous blow, and must establish his majesty and reputation in one battle. Therefore, he must win completely and cannot fail at all. In the current combat sequence of field troops, many senior generals rely on this
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Another important reason is that the troops under his command are all supplementary troops, baggage troops and engineering troops. They are not experienced combat troops, but his opponents have rich combat experience.
If you want to defeat the opponent in a crushing way, in addition to the advantages of weapons and equipment, there is another important thing, and that is morale. The detachment leader Sano Taro attaches great importance to the role of morale.
Now when fighting with the squadron, there are many ways to improve morale. One is to encourage soldiers to loot and massacre, and the other is hatred.
After all, the Lianghuai area is already their occupied area, and the supply of food and grass for the frontline troops still depends on the Chinese people here who are farming in spring. Looting and killing can only be carried out on a small scale, otherwise it will cause a large-scale backlash and affect the overall situation.
So now the most straightforward way to boost morale is hatred.
He was not enthusiastic about Major Qingchuan's request for help in Gaoyou City because he did not want Major Qingchuan and his companions to be alive at all. He wanted Major Qingchuan and his companions to be wiped out by the guerrillas.
Only in this way, after he captures Gaoyou, can he point to the bodies of Major Qingchuan and others and tell his soldiers that they came to help the Chinese and help establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, but the Chinese killed those who helped them.
people, thus arousing the hatred of soldiers and achieving the purpose of improving morale.
I have to say that the leader of the Japanese detachment, Taro Sano, was very insidious, but it was precisely because of his ruthlessness that he was able to overpower the others and successfully become the leader of the detachment.
He also knew that in the Imperial Japanese Army, there were many talented people and many ambitious people. If he could not give the headquarters a good record to silence the senior officials in the base camp, someone would soon replace him.
So no matter what, when he leads his army into Gaoyou this time, he must get off to a good start and win a beautiful battle, so that he can advance step by step, so he must win the first battle!
At this moment, the commander of Gaoyou City, Major Qingchuan, who was huddled in the city and lingering, did not know that he and his subordinates had actually been abandoned and had become stepping stones for others to climb up, while he was still guarding the radio station hard.
Constantly asking for help.
"Brothers in the south sent back news that two Japanese infantry brigades have passed Shaobo Town, and their forwards are less than 25 kilometers away from Gaoyou..."
"About a squadron of Japanese soldiers came from the waterway by motorboat, and they will arrive at Gaoyou Pier in the evening."
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The Japanese attacked Gaoyou in great force, and Yang Ling and the others quickly received the news. When they heard that the Japanese had actually sent two brigades, everyone gasped.
They still know the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers, which is quite strong. Although they suppressed the Japanese soldiers in Gaoyou, it is because they have more people and fewer Japanese soldiers. They have just experienced General Ma Yuren's attack and have not yet recovered.
This allowed them to take advantage.
But if the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu were to fight the Japanese head-on, they might not be opponents. And this time the Japanese came with two brigades at once, as well as a motorboat unit, which made it a bit tricky.
After all, they came with the idea of surrounding the site to provide reinforcements. Now that there are so many Japanese, they may not be able to eat enough and may even lose their teeth.
In fact, if Yang Ling and the others knew that these two infantry brigades were just the Japs' forward troops, they would probably be even more uneasy.
After all, the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters has a big appetite this time. The task given to Sano detachment is to completely eliminate the Chinese ** detachment in Jiangsu. The combat goals are not limited to Yangling and the Northern Jiangsu Corps.
With Yang Ling's strength, it would be a complete fantasy to fight against the Sano detachment alone. Yang Ling also didn't expect that after fishing for a long time, he caught a man-eating shark. He didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
At this moment, a communications officer hurriedly came over with a message.
"Report! Chief Yang, deputy commander Li Changjiang of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps sent a telegram. He has personally led two guerrilla regiments to besiege the enemy forces in Gaoyou. Let us insist, they will arrive in Gaoyou at noon!"
"Bah! These idiots can get away faster by taking credit!"
Seeing that Gaoyou was about to be liberated, the Sulu Guerrilla Corps came to pick peaches. Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Jinhu immediately couldn't help but cursed angrily.
"Sir, there are not many Japs in the east of the city. Let me lead people up to destroy them. Let's liberate Gaoyou first. It will be useless even if the Sulu Guerrilla Corps comes!"
Seeing that someone was coming to take the credit, it was okay, so the blacksmith thought of quickly killing the Japanese in the city and sending out the telegram of the liberation.
"Yes, quickly eliminate the remnants of the enemy. Don't let them take advantage. Why should we let them get a share of Gaoyou that our brothers worked so hard to defeat!"