At the head of the ruined Gaoyou City, a dirty and broken blue sky and white sun flag hunted under the bitter cold wind, and the countless transparent bullet holes on the flag cloth illustrated the cruelty and ruthlessness of the war.

Looking back along this broken and dirty flag, there is the gunsmoke-filled Gaoyou City, with layers of undulating houses on the highlands, and countless billowing black smoke that reaches into the sky reflect a depressed and dilapidated scene after the Great War.

In this ruined city, there are gunshots coming from the east of the city from time to time, occasionally mixed with one or two explosions, and the remaining devils are still resisting.

This is already the fourth day of Yang Ling's attack on Gaoyou, and most of the devil puppet troops inside and outside the city have been swept away, and their first guerrilla corps in northern Jiangsu has destroyed countless enemies and captured countless enemies.

If it can be said that the officers and men of the guerrillas who participated in the battle on the first day were still a little immature and still very rusty in their tactical movements, after four days of fierce fighting, all the officers and men who participated in the battle were now full of murderous spirit.

The battlefield is a real training ground, and it is just right to train the garrison troops that are not strong in Gaoyou, although the brothers have casualties, as long as they survive, they will become the backbone of the army, and the troops fed with the flesh and blood of devils are naturally iron-blooded and brave divisions.

Now the number of devil soldiers who are compressed in the east of the city is not much, plus the baggage soldiers, the miscellaneous soldiers have only gathered a total of more than 100 people, with Yang Ling's strength, they can naturally eat it in one bite.

But Yang Ling and the others were not in a hurry, and they fought with the devils unhurriedly, giving the devils a glimmer of hope for survival, and let them keep sending reports for help to attract devil reinforcements.

The devil commander Qingchuan Shaozuo, who hadn't closed his eyes for a few days and nights, had blood under his dark eyes, and he was unkempt and had lost a commander, and he should have majesty.

He now almost does not command the troops to fight, and the combat of the troops is completely commanded by the remaining officers themselves, and he stays in the confidential room, constantly urging the confidential staff officers to send reports for help.

He already knew that the Central China Dispatch Army Command had temporarily transferred troops to form the Sano Detachment, and it was coming towards Gaoyou at the moment.

But they couldn't hold out anymore, and they might even be wiped out in the next hour, so he was urging the Sano detachment and kept asking when the other party would arrive in Takayou.

At first, the Sano detachment replied seriously, but now, in the face of tireless telegrams one after another, they are too lazy to reply.

In fact, the commander of the Sano detachment, Sano Taiwolf, also has his own small abacus, although he temporarily transferred seven brigades this time.

However, the cavalry brigade, the artillery brigade, the baggage brigade and the two infantry brigades were all drawn from other places to supplement the troops, and they had not yet completed the assembly, and he now only had two infantry brigades around him, and the strength was not very strong.

On the one hand, he repaired the broken road and advanced towards Gaoyou, and on the other hand, he waited for the follow-up troops to hurry up and converge, and he wanted to crush the Chinese army with absolute strength, rather than trying to fight the so-called refueling tactics.

He had obtained all the details of the battle in Gaoyou City, and he analyzed that the Chinese army besieging Gaoyou was sending reinforcements at the encirclement point, and he didn't want to repeat the mistakes of those puppet armies and end up dead.

He wants to concentrate his forces to strike a thunderous blow, and he wants to show his prestige and reputation in a battle, so he must win a complete victory, and he cannot fail at all.

Another important reason is that the troops under his command are all supplementary troops, baggage soldiers and engineers, and they are not combat units that have experienced a hundred battles, while their opponents have rich combat experience.

In order to defeat the opponent in a crushing way, in addition to the advantage of weapons and equipment, there is another important thing, that is, morale, and the detachment leader Taro Sano attaches great importance to the role of morale.

There are many ways to boost morale in the fight against the Chinese army, one is to encourage soldiers to loot and slaughter, and the other is hatred.

After all, the Lianghuai region is already their occupied area, and the supply of grain and grass for the front-line troops has to count on the Chinese people here to farm in the spring, and 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 Qingchuan Shaozuo's telegram asking for help in Gaoyou City, because he didn't think that Qingchuan Shaozuo and them were alive at all, and he wanted Qingchuan Shaozuo and them to be eliminated by the guerrillas.

Only in this way, after he captured Gaoyou, could he point to the corpse of Qingchuan Shaozuo and tell his soldiers that they had come to help the Chinese and help establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, but the Chinese had killed the people who helped them, thus arousing the hatred of the soldiers and achieving the purpose of boosting morale.

I have to say that Taro Sano, the leader of the devil detachment, is very insidious, but it is precisely because of his ruthlessness that he is able to overwhelm the crowd and successfully become the captain of the detachment.

He also knew that in the Imperial Japanese Army, there were many talented and ambitious people, and if he couldn't give the headquarters a good record to silence the mouths of those high-ranking officials in the base camp, someone would soon replace him.

So no matter what, he must make a good start and fight a beautiful victory when he leads the army into Gaoyou this time, so he can rise step by step, so the first battle must be completely won!

At this moment, the commander of Gaoyou City, Qingchuan Shaozuo, who was huddled in the city for a long time, didn't know that he and his subordinates had actually been abandoned and had become a stepping stone for others to climb up, and he was still struggling to stay next to the radio station, constantly asking for help.

"The brothers in the south have sent back news that the two infantry brigades of the devils have passed through Shao Bo Town, and their advance is less than twenty-five kilometers away from Gaoyou......"

"About a squadron of devils came by airboat from the water, and they could reach the Gaoyou Wharf in the evening."

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The devil rushed straight to Gaoyou, and Yang Ling and they quickly got the news, and when they heard that the devil had sent two teams, everyone gasped.

They still know the combat effectiveness of the devil soldiers, it is quite strong, although they are fighting against the devils in Gaoyou, it is because they are many and powerful, and there are few devils, and they have just experienced the attack of General Ma Yuren and have not yet recovered, so they have taken advantage of it.

However, if they let the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu fight head-on with the devils, they may not be opponents, and this time the devils came to two brigades at one time, as well as the motorboat troops, which is a bit tricky.

After all, they came with the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements, and now that the devils are coming so much, don't be unable to eat, but break their teeth.

In fact, if Yang Ling knew that these two infantry brigades were just devil forward troops, I am afraid they would be even more uneasy.

After all, this time the Devil Central China Dispatch Army Command has a great appetite, and the task given to the Sano detachment is to completely solve the Chinese army in Jiangsu, and the combat goal is not limited to Yang Ling and their Northern Jiangsu Corps.

With Yang Ling's strength, if they want to fight against the Sano detachment alone, it is completely a fool's dream, Yang Ling also didn't expect that after fishing for a long time, he caught a man-eating shark, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

At this moment, a communications officer hurriedly approached with a telegram.

"Report! Commander Yang, Deputy Commander Li Changjiang of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps sent a telegram that he had personally led two guerrilla regiments to besiege the enemy army in Gaoyou, let us hold on, they can reach Gaoyou at noon! ”

"Whew! These dogs, it's fast to grab credit! ”

Seeing that Gaoyou was about to be recovered, the Sulu guerrilla corps came to pick peaches, and Liu Jinhu, the deputy battalion commander, immediately couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Sir, there are not many devils in the east of the city, let me bring people up to destroy them, let's recover Gaoyou first, it's useless for the Sulu guerrilla corps to come!"

Seeing that someone came to rob the merit, it would be repaid, so the blacksmith thought about quickly destroying the devils in the city first, and sending out the telegram of recovery first.

"Yes, hurry up and clear the remnants of the enemy, you can't let them pick up the cheap, our brothers have worked hard to get a piece of Gaoyou, why let them get a piece of the pie!"