The cold wind is bleak, and the blue sky and white sun flag of hunting replaces the blood-red sunburst flag of the devil fluttering on the highest watchtower in Huaiyin, and you can see it when you look up when you walk on the street.

The streets are littered with traces of battle, and although the bloodstains on the streets have been washed away by the residents with clean water, the scarred walls are a faint testament to the brutality of the battle.

Checkpoints were set up at all entrances and exits in Huaiyin County, and guerrilla officers and men armed with guns were responsible for screening people entering and leaving the city.

"What for?"

"Do you have proof of identity?"

If there was no identity certificate stamped by the headquarters of the Third Guerrilla Detachment, they would all be arrested first and then interrogated, and Yang Ling did this to prevent the enemy from infiltrating.

Huai** land transportation is developed, to the northwest can reach the important town of Xuzhou, along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal can go straight to the Beijing-Tianjin area, to the east can go to Lianyungang, south can also go straight to Nanjing.

The main forces of the devils are now facing off against the main force of the Chinese field army on the front line in Wuhan, and some of them are fighting against the Chinese army at Kunlun Pass in the south, and there is news that the 200th Division led by General Dai Anlan has killed the commander of the devil's brigade, Nakamura Masao.

Now the Chinese army is launching a large-scale attack on the devils in various places, and the devils are overwhelmed, and Yang Ling hopes to take the opportunity to develop and grow.

They have to be nailed to the devil's back like a nail, so that the little devil is like a man's back, and they can't launch an offensive on the frontal battlefield with all their might.

Huaiyin is strategically located, and it can radiate and develop in all directions, and at the same time it can pose a greater threat to devils.

Therefore, Yang Ling is ready to use this place as a base to form a strong army and make them a nightmare for little devils.

Although Yang Ling and their recovery of Huaiyin did not take long, in just a few days, Yang Ling had already operated Huaiyin inside and outside like an iron bucket.

The guerrillas stationed in Huaiyin City alone were a battalion of 600 brothers, and patrols with heavy guns and ammunition were very frequent in all directions, and the whole city was heavily guarded.

This is not because of Yang Ling's extravagance and waste of troops, but because he wants to use practical actions to tell the local residents that the Chinese army has returned, not in three hours, but in a long time.

And those sentry posts inside and outside the city, the officers and soldiers patrolling are their strongest backing, and they no longer have to live a life of fear in the future.

After the chaos ended, Yang Ling did not make any big senses, and directly used simple and violent actions to show off his muscles, showing the strong strength of their guerrilla forces.

On the second night after Yang Ling and his recovery of Huaiyin, those traitors and enemy agents who remained in the city gave Yang Ling a surprise attack.

These enemy agents set fire to and made explosions in various ways at almost the same time, and organized more than 30 people to attack Yang Ling's headquarters.

Enemy agents and traitors tried to intimidate the guerrillas in this way, and at the same time announced the fact that even if the guerrillas recovered Huaiyin City, they were doomed to be unable to defend it, and they could still do whatever they wanted.

But Yang Ling sometimes doesn't believe in this evil, since they have recovered Huaiyin, it is not as simple as just planting a flag, but really becoming the master of the city again.

After the attacks of the enemy agents on various parts of Huaiyin were foiled one after another, Yang Ling was also angry, and immediately ordered the whole city to search for the hidden enemy agents.

Fortunately, many traitors who maintained the association had been arrested before, and although they had hard teeth, they could not withstand the harsh interrogation.

Soon many of the members of the association confessed, and the officers and men of the guerrillas also arrested more than 200 hidden traitors and spies, and purged the entire Huaiyin again.

Although Yang Ling and the others had recovered Huaiyin before, there was a threat from these hidden enemy elements in the secret, and the local residents did not dare to contact Yang Ling and them.

Lei Xiong, a staff officer in charge of recruiting new soldiers, put up the banner of recruiting new recruits and did not see anyone for a whole day.

The people saw the soldiers coming from a distance, and the door was closed with a bang, and they couldn't knock on it no matter how much they knocked on it.

And now, with the enemy agents being wantonly searched and arrested, and then being shot dead by Yang Ling with ruthless means, the entire Huaiyin enemy agents have disappeared.

Without the threat of enemy elements, the local residents also dared to come into contact with the guerrillas, not only opened shops, but also actively joined the army to fight devils.

Although the time for the recovery of Huaiyin was short, now Yang Ling has operated Huaiyin like an iron bucket, not only becoming a forbidden place for enemy elements, but also recovering the vitality and vitality of the local area.

Yang Ling has already released his words through various channels, whether it is the spy of the devil or the plainclothes team who are traitors, as long as they dare to come to Huaiyin, then they will definitely not be soft when they catch one and shoot the other.

Of course, Yang Ling's heart is also very clear that if he wants to make his words carry weight and be able to protect the residents behind him to live and work in peace and contentment, then strength is very important.

If he doesn't have a good army under his command, then others won't be afraid of you, so he also seized the time to expand the army.

Staff officer Lei Xiong recruited 1,500 recruits from Huaiyin in just two days, and almost every household had someone to serve as a soldier.

Of course, among these recruits, refugees recruited from the 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 country, and although the government is also trying to help the refugees, the number is too large.

Moreover, with the fall of Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuhan and other countries one after another, tens of millions of refugees have been created, and the government can no longer take care of them.

These refugees live in hunger and cold, have to beg for a living, and looting is a common occurrence of unfamiliar land.

On the long road of escape from outside the gate to inside the pass, there was almost starvation everywhere, and the old people, women and children who were weak died of hunger and disease one after another.

And now among these refugees, all those who can survive are able-bodied people, but they are also terrified, unable to see their future, and do not know when they will starve to death in the wilderness.

But there is no way to do it, because of the war, business has withered, roads have been blocked, and these refugees have become extremely difficult to even beg, and they have to eat grass and roots to live.

In order to survive, many of the hungry refugees had to become puppet soldiers, after all, it is better to be able to eat as a soldier than to starve to death.

This is also the reason why Yang Ling captured a large number of puppet soldiers, because a large part of these people were not willing to really be puppet soldiers, but were forced to live.

When they fought against their own army, they almost always fired their guns into the sky, and as soon as the guerrillas rushed up, they surrendered.

Yang Ling also understood their difficulties, after all, compared to those illusory family and country righteousness, sometimes it is more realistic to be alive, so he did not kill and retaliate against the captured puppet army, but recruited as much as possible.