Soon, the officers and men of the second battalion, who were loaded with guns and ammunition, set off in two columns, and they went straight to the location of the Xiaodao Club in the border area between Guannan and Huaiyin.

"What are they doing here?"

At this moment, the officers and men of the recruit training camp are finishing their day's training and are resting and preparing for dinner.

Seeing that the troops next to him were fully armed, they all came to the edge of the camp one after another, standing on tiptoe to watch.

"What are they doing here? Fighting? Recruit Zhang Hai asked the recruit next to him Wu Hao with doubts

Recruit Wu Hao said thoughtfully: "I see that they are murderous, who are they going to fight." ”

"But it's getting dark......"

While they were discussing, the company commander Liang Xiaoshan came over and beckoned the brothers to come over and announce the news.

"Brothers, I just got the news that the people of the Little Knife Society have kidnapped more than ten of our brothers, and Chief Yang has already brought a battalion of brothers to the rescue!" Liang Xiaoshan's voice was loud and angry.

After Zhang Hai and the other recruits heard the words of the company commander Liang Xiaoshan, they all suddenly realized.

They were more moved, thinking that if they were bullied outside, would the chief also stand up for them, and be able to stay in such a team, they suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of pride in their hearts.

Liang Xiaoshan continued: "Our main battalion has gone out, Huaiyin is empty, in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking attack, the detachment command ordered that the new battalion will also enter the wartime state tonight, and later after dinner, go to the quartermaster to get the bullets!" Just in case. ”

When Liang Xiaoshan, the commander of the recruit company, announced the order to his brothers, all the troops remaining in Huaiyin received the same order.

It's an eventful time now, and the nearby areas are full of war, and although Huaiyin is calm, who knows if there is an undercurrent surging under this calm.

In order to prevent accidents, Zhang Liechen, the deputy detachment commander who stayed in Huaiyin, put all the troops into a wartime state and raised the level of vigilance.

For a while, machine guns were set up in the bunkers built with sandbags in all parts of the new and old barracks, and there were many more patrol officers and soldiers with loaded guns in Huaiyin City, and the local residents seemed to smell the smell of gunsmoke.

When Yang Ling led the team to march towards the area where the Little Knife Society was located, it was a different scene in the stronghold of the Little Knife Society's Slate Village.

Slate Village is a small village of 100 households, nestled beside a bubbling stream, and would be a paradise if there was no war.

However, since the little devils burned the war to the territory of Jiangsu, a large number of government officials fled, and bandits, rogues, stragglers and chaotic anti-Japanese armed forces also rose up one after another, and Shiban Village was also affected.

At present, there are many forces in this area, which do not belong to each other, and while fighting the little devils, the internal friction is also very serious.

After all, to survive in the cracks of various forces, food and money are needed, and the war has caused the young and strong people who grow crops to become soldiers, and the crops have been abandoned a lot.

Although this northern Jiangsu region has been a land of fish and rice and a prosperous area of commerce and trade since ancient times, but now there is a shortage of soldiers, a depression everywhere, and there is not enough food to eat.

In addition, the Japanese puppet army often went to the countryside to grab grain, and the guerrillas from all walks of life also had to collect grain, and those merchants who made a fortune were also hoarding, which led to the fact that the local people were not able to make a living.

The Little Knife Club was originally a small feudal and superstitious gang, and in such a chaotic time, it also took advantage of the situation, and they quickly developed and grew in Shandong and Jianghuai under the slogan of linking themselves to protect themselves.

Because they belong to the nature of feudal superstition, they are very susceptible to the bewitchment of the Japanese puppet army and indirectly controlled, and often attack the guerrillas.

The guerrillas were too late to protect themselves under the cruel encirclement and suppression of the little devils, and they were also deeply disgusted but helpless against the robbery of these local powerful gangs.

Who let the government have withdrawn to Chongqing, the result of the loss of prestige is chaos at the lower levels, and there is no concept of the country and government in the eyes of gang organizations such as the Little Knife Society.

Therefore, the anti-Japanese troops are not taken into account, for their leaders, developing forces and earning money is the king, even if they cooperate with the Japanese puppet army, it doesn't matter.

Fortunately, the Japanese puppet army's control over the rural areas was still relatively weak, and many puppet armies remained on paper because of lack of money, so they also implemented a policy of softness for the Little Knife Society and tried their best to win them over.

The Little Knife Society and the Japanese puppet army are almost not river water, and the Japanese puppet army does not go to the territory of the Little Knife Society, the Big Knife Society, the Red Gun Society and other forces, and they do not take the initiative to provoke devils.

Gangs such as the Little Knife Society successfully stopped the persecution of local villages by the Japanese puppet army, and also won more gangs, so the power is getting bigger and bigger like a snowball.

As their sphere of influence has expanded, gangs such as the Knife Society have moved from the shadows to the open, setting rules to collect taxes and food locally.

If the local residents do not comply, the punishment will be even more cruel, and in the process of developing and growing, the nature of the knife society has changed from the original association and self-preservation, and it has become a local evil force.

And this time, Yang Ling planned to unite these hundreds of large and small forces under the banner of the Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Association, breaking the boundaries of geography and territory, uniting to resist Japan, and reducing internal friction between each other.

Most of the armed forces are going to resist the Japanese, so they all agreed, after all, they can fight under the general assembly, and they can also get weapons and equipment supplies and instructor training, why not do it.

But for gangs like the Little Knife Society, which are under the banner of resisting Japan, but are enriching their own pockets to develop their own strength, Yang Ling's actions undoubtedly violated their interests.

Therefore, after the Little Knife Society in Huaiyin sternly rejected Yang Ling's invitation, in order to give Yang Ling and them a dismount, they also detained the brothers who went to contact, and prepared to take advantage of the fire to rob and get some money to spend.

The Little Knife Society has now grown stronger, and several provinces have their power, which makes them very inflated, and no one pays attention to them.

In their consciousness, Yang Ling's Third Guerrilla Force is not a regular army, and its strength is not strong, so it doesn't matter if they are offended.

And there is also an advantage that although Yang Ling is not a regular army, they are troops under the command of the national government, which symbolizes wealth, if they don't take the opportunity to extort a sum of money, how can they be willing.

Almost all the people of Shiban Village were bewitched by the Little Knife Society to join, and they drank the "Divine Curse", claiming to be invulnerable, because there were many people, and the surrounding forces did not dare to provoke.

But they shouldn't have paid attention to Yang Ling's heads, you must know that Yang Ling's eyes can't rub sand.

As long as you don't surrender to the puppet army and join the Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Association, he doesn't care.

But if he wounded his brothers who survived the bloody battles with him, then he could not tolerate it, and he could not tolerate his brothers dying at the hands of the so-called anti-Japanese armed forces instead of sacrificing on the battlefield.