The training of the guerrillas was in full swing, and the food provided by Yang Ling was good, and the training enthusiasm of the recruits was also very high.

The devils were also overstretched and didn't dare to come out to sweep, so Yang Ling and they ushered in a rare opportunity for development, and the team grew rapidly and became stronger.

Of course, in the process of recruiting training, there were also some small episodes.

That is, Zhang Dazhui, a recruit from Xiaowangzhuang, was kicked by the instructor because he was not serious during training, and then he was unconvinced and had a fight with the instructor, causing Instructor Sun to be injured, and after being beaten with 20 military sticks, he was expelled from the guerrilla team and became the first person to be expelled.

One after another, some people could not stand the hardships of the training and deserted for various reasons, but they were all arrested and severely taught a lesson, and then they recovered their settling-in allowance and were expelled from the guerrillas.

In order to achieve the deterrent effect, Yang Ling deliberately carried out a military discipline rectification, and announced that if anyone deserted again, it would not be as simple as beating a military stick, and he would be shot directly, stopping the atmosphere of desertion.

Of course, no one knew that these guerrilla officers and soldiers who had left or been expelled in various ways had actually become members of Yang Ling's newly formed intelligence network.

And the task given to them by Yang Ling is to collect intelligence in all aspects under the cover of ordinary people, and the military salary can be received, and once valuable information is provided, there will be rewards.

And these guerrillas all have a set of secret contact methods according to Yang Ling's orders, and for the sake of safety, most of them are single-line, which means that no one except their superiors knows that they are hidden intelligence agents.

If you want to fight guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, you can't do without your own intelligence network, after all, relying solely on scouts, sentinels still have some limitations.

And now Yang Ling has developed so many intelligence officers, just to let them infiltrate all aspects of society, provide intelligence for their guerrillas, and help fight devils.

Yang Ling had studied at the Nanyue guerrilla cadre training class and learned a lot about guerrilla warfare, and he clearly knew that the first task in fighting guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines was not to fight devils, but to survive and to mobilize the masses extensively and gain a firm foothold.

Most of the guerrilla troops sent behind enemy lines were unaware of this, and their eyes were all fixed on the devils everywhere, constantly sending troops to attack.

And after all, they are all from regular troops, and they are used to fighting in large corps, and they often dispatch several battalions and regiments of troops.

And once they are surrounded and suppressed by the devils, because they do not have a broad public base, and traitors and enemies are rampant behind enemy lines.

So once they lose a battle, they become street rats, everyone shouts and fights, and it's good to survive, let alone rise again, which is why they fight less and less.

Yang Ling is different, the first priority after arriving in Qinghe Town is not to attack the Japanese puppet army in Qinghe Town, but to survive based on the vast countryside.

And at this stage, he also sent two guerrilla companies, Wang Huzi and Wu Changqing, to take turns to attack and harass the little devils.

These brothers who attacked were all fighting in combat groups, planting mines and firing cold guns on the roads that those devil patrols had to pass.

Although it is said that each combat group kills very few enemies at a time, only one or two, and sometimes even fails to return.

However, the effect was remarkable, and in just a few weeks, more than 130 devils and puppet soldiers died under the cold guns and mines of the brothers, and many more were injured.

Although it caused great damage to the devil's puppet army, because it was not a one-time thing, but cumulative, this made the devil's garrison squadron leader Sadao Kasai a little paralyzed, and felt that Yang Ling and they would only shoot coldly, and in fact the strength was not strong.

Therefore, the captain of the garrison squadron, Sadao Kasai, didn't care too much, as long as he waited for the main force in the county to come over, he believed that he would be able to wipe out Yang Ling and them.

Of course, Sadao Kasai, the leader of the devil garrison squadron, did not do nothing, and he was also investigating Yang Ling's situation by maintaining the plainclothes team under the control of the association.

They had suffered a lot of losses due to their carelessness before, so now he also took advantage of the fact that reinforcements did not arrive to gather all kinds of information about the guerrillas in Qinghe Town.

After this period of secret intelligence gathering, Sadao Kasai also learned that the commander of the third guerrilla detachment in Qinghe Town had been replaced by Yang Ling.

Because Yang Ling beat him to the ground as soon as he came, he was also more concerned about it, and asked the intelligence department to assist in investigating Yang Ling's origins.

The news of Yang Ling's recruitment in various villages also aroused the vigilance of Sadao Kasai, and according to the report of the plainclothes team, only three or four hundred people remained in the Third Guerrilla Detachment after the first battle in Qinghe Town.

Now the guerrillas are recruiting guerrillas in various villages, and their strength is growing rapidly, and the leader of the garrison squadron, Sadao Kasai, does not have the strength to attack Qinghe Town to intervene, after all, they are already struggling to defend the strongholds.

But he can't watch the guerrillas grow and grow, after all, it is a huge threat to him, and now that the food has not been collected, he has been anxious, if the guerrillas grow stronger, he is still not the leader of the garrison squadron?

"Let the plainclothes squad take action to prevent the young people of each village from joining the guerrillas, and whoever joins the guerrillas will die!"

The commander of the garrison squadron, Sadao Kasai, immediately issued an order to the plainclothes teams lurking in the villages, asking them to take action to prevent Qingzhuang from joining the guerrillas.

These plainclothes teams are all traitors who willingly surrender to the devil soldiers, and after receiving the order, they also act in secret.

After all, most of the young men have already arrived at the recruit camp, and it is impossible for them to drag these recruits back, so they have come up with a way to intimidate, which is to threaten their families.

While Yang Ling was busy organizing the establishment of women's committees in various villages to sew winter clothes for the brothers, an angry bad news came to him.

"Sir, two villagers in Zhangjiaji were wiped out last night, and eight people died."

The platoon commander stationed in Zhangjiaji sent people to the headquarters of the Xiaowangzhuang guerrilla detachment early in the morning and found Yang Ling to report the shocking news.

Yang Ling was also stunned for a long time after hearing the news, and didn't react, how much hatred would be so great to kill people.

"Do you know who did it?" Yang Ling held back his anger and asked the sweat-soaked brother.

The brother replied: "Sir, last night our sentries stationed outside Zhangjiaji did not find anyone entering or leaving, and our platoon commander suspected that the murderer was hiding in Zhangjiaji."

Yang Ling originally thought that it was the revenge of the people of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Brigade against them, but when he heard this brother's answer, Yang Ling frowned.

Since it wasn't done by someone from outside, then it was someone from inside, so who should it be?

However, now that the government in the occupied areas has collapsed, the officials have fled, and the surrenders have become unmanned, and their guerrillas have to shoulder the burden of restoring order while fighting devils.

Now that there is such a big murder, he Yang Ling can't sit idly by, he has to personally investigate and find out the murderer, otherwise it will greatly affect the situation that has just opened now.

Yang Ling arranged all the things in Xiaowangzhuang to the staff officer Lei Xiong, and he led people straight to Zhangjiaji, who had an accident.