The main force of Yang Ling's First Guerrilla Corps quietly moved south to reach the periphery of Gaoyou, while the Gaoyou devil defenders, who had just defeated Ma Yuren's First Route Guerrilla Army, were kept in the dark.

The puppet army with their teeth and claws is searching for scattered guerrilla officers and soldiers in the towns and villages near Gaoyou in companies and platoons, and bloody killings are going on.

General Ma Yuren's first guerrilla unit was ordered to counterattack Gaoyou during the winter offensive, but unexpectedly, the headquarters was defeated by an elite devil, causing the troops to collapse without a leader.

The devils won a great victory, although the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated over Gaoyou City, and there were still traces of the battle in various trench positions outside the city.

But the little devils in Gaoyou City have slackened, and they are busy resting and licking their wounds, so even the task of searching and arresting them has been handed over to those puppet soldiers who are eager to ask for merit and rewards.

Because the commander of the devil is well aware of the principle of using China to control China, only by letting the Chinese's hands be stained with the blood of the Chinese themselves, then they can be more desperate to assist them in controlling China.

In their eyes, the so-called security army is nothing more than a dog in captivity, and if they want the dog to be fierce enough, then they must let him eat meat and make them smell blood.

Moreover, if these security puppet soldiers kill their own people, they will also cut off their retreat, and they can only follow them with all their hearts, otherwise they will be wiped out by the guerrillas.

And these puppet army units that reinforced Gaoyou did live up to the high expectations of the devil commander, and they were eager to show themselves and ask for merit and rewards, and they also made a lot of effort.

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, there are more than 500 guerrillas of the Chinese Army who have been searched and eliminated by the security forces in the past few days, do you want to stop the search and arrest operations?"

In a clean and tidy office, a devil officer who stood straight reported to a devil boy about the search in recent days.

Devil Shaozuo's face was a wound left by shrapnel splashing, and the hideous wound combined with a handful of black hair under his nose made him look fierce.

When the battle in Gaoyou City was at its fiercest, the devil Shaozuo personally led the troops to fight with the guerrillas, and he was also a fierce general, and he hated the guerrillas deeply.

"No, expand the scope of the search and arrest, and be sure to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" The devil Shaozuo's eyes were full of vicious color.

In the eyes of the devil Shaozuo, now is the time when these guerrilla troops are the weakest, and they will kill you while you are sick, otherwise when they are assembled, I am afraid it will be another trouble.

"Hey!"

The devil lieutenant officer who reported did not have the slightest doubt about this order, in his eyes, it was nothing more than killing a few more people.

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, what about the more than fifty guerrilla prisoners captured?" Lieutenant Devil did not leave, and continued to ask for instructions.

The devil Shaozo only thought for a moment before making a decision: "Drag them all to the city gate and shoot them, gather the people of China to watch the punishment, and let them see the consequences of resisting our Japanese Imperial Army." ”

This is an obvious example of killing chickens and monkeys, and the devil Shaozo also hopes to show their force and resistance through such actions.

But what they don't know is that their bayonets will not bring the brave Chinese to their knees, but only hatred and more fierce resistance.

"Hey!"

Lieutenant Devil bowed heavily, his face flashing with perverted excitement, he couldn't have loved killing more.

Just as the devil lieutenant saluted and was about to turn away, he was stopped by the devil Shaozuo.

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, is there anything else you need me to do?"

The devil Shaozuo leaned back in his chair, stared at the devil lieutenant, and said slowly: "Many squires who have taken refuge in us have reported to me, saying that the security forces are seriously disturbing the people, do you know about this......

Lieutenant Devil's expression froze, and he stepped forward and replied: "It is true, but you also know that their military discipline has always been bad, this time on the search mission, they took the opportunity to blackmail and rob the local people, I think this is an opportunity to increase their hatred for each other, so they did not stop it." ”

Devil Shaozuo's brows furrowed slightly, he was also a big headache about the military discipline of the security army, although he wanted the security army to become their loyal watchdog, but now the looting behavior of the security army has affected their policy in the occupied area.

Because most of the food, vegetables and meat of their front-line troops are now directly obtained from the occupied areas, and now the security forces are looting like this, and the consequence is that people are panicking, who will grow food for them, and what will they eat.

"You personally go to rectify the military discipline of the security army, let them work in a restrained manner, and if necessary, you can kill some people to stabilize the mood of the local people, after all, these people still have value for us, if they are all killed and escape, there will be no one to grow food for us, raise chickens and ducks to supply the front-line troops."

"You understand?" Seeing that the devil lieutenant was stunned and didn't speak, the devil Shaozo knocked on the table and reminded him.

The devil lieutenant also hurriedly responded, said goodbye and left, and secretly scolded those security forces in his heart for going too far, and the squire's people all complained here in Shaozuo.

The puppet army responsible for carrying out the search and arrest task is taking the opportunity to rob the nearby towns and villages while searching for the guerrillas, and many tragedies are quietly happening.

Many of the puppet soldiers are local ruffians and bullies, they are already local tumors, and now they are backed by little devils, and they are even more arrogant and lawless.

This time, taking advantage of the opportunity to hunt down the guerrillas, they wantonly extorted and ransacked nearby villages, killed people without saying a word, and then planted the blame on the guerrillas.

Lieutenant Devil wanted to turn a blind eye, but now that Shao Zuo has given the order, he has to clean up the corrupt military discipline.

As soon as the devil lieutenant left the devil Shaozuo's office, a devil intelligence staff officer hurriedly walked in.

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, a telegram has been sent from the intelligence department." After handing a telegram to the devil Shaozuo, the intelligence staff officer said: "Our reconnaissance plane discovered yesterday evening that a force of more than 1,000 troops of the Chinese Army was moving south from Huaiyin, and it is supposed to be a guerrilla force that has captured Huaiyin. ”

"Do you know what they're going south for?" The devil Shaozuo was distracted, hurriedly 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, and it will take at least a week to wait for the combat effectiveness to be restored.

And now that he heard that thousands of Chinese troops were heading south, he couldn't sit still, once this army came to fight Gaoyou, I am afraid it would be another vicious battle, and the troops around them were fighting with the Chinese army, they had no support, and he had to pay attention.

"The reconnaissance plane searched nearby Baoying and Yancheng counties this morning, but they disappeared as if out of thin air and never appeared again, so the intelligence department asked us to be vigilant." The devil intelligence staff officer said.

In fact, the devil didn't know that Yang Ling and their rapid march day and night had reached the periphery of Gaoyou, but the devil's eyes were still in the Baoying area in the north, so naturally they couldn't find them.

After pondering for a while, the devil Shaozuo ordered: "Send a search force to the north to search, and once you find this branch of the Chinese army, report it immediately." ”

Soon, a cavalry search force composed of more than a dozen devils left the battle-burned and ruined Gaoyou City and ran straight north.