Although most of the troops in charge of the purge of the gang were recruits, the loosely organized gang was still not an opponent.

Bullets from light and heavy weapons swept past like hailstones, and the gang members' first line of defense turned to powder like tofu dregs.

The gang leaders hiding in the village tried to resist until dark with the help of the houses in the village, but the guerrillas did not stall for them.

"Machine guns seize the high ground, grenades open the way!"

The platoon commanders of the companies responsible for directing the recruits were veterans who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and they were not only good at guerrilla warfare, but also street fighting.

As the machine gun crew mounted the machine guns on the roof, the gang members who were lying on the wall and shooting fell in wail under the strafing of bullets.

The recruits pressed against the wall, throwing grenades into each house to find their way, and the smoke and dust of the explosion continued to rumble.

Many of the gang members who had tried to sneak up on the guerrillas who had taken refuge in their houses were killed, and many were killed on the spot, and when the guerrillas rushed in with their guns in hand, only the bodies were collected.

The officers and men of the guerrillas fought with the gang members room by room, room by room, and from the beginning of the unfamiliarity, to the final cooperation with each other, they have gradually become proficient.

Actual combat is the best way to train troops, and this kind of small-intensity battle is more suitable for training, although the object of the battle is also Chinese, but it is an uneasy factor, which may overturn the Japanese puppet army at any time, Yang Ling still decided to eradicate it.

The guerrilla recruits cleared room after room, explosions and gunfire one after another, and although the battle was not over, the outcome was decided, and Yang Ling had already set his sights further away.

"Although we have served the leaders of the Knife Society and other gangs here, we are not sure that they will have new leaders, so the nearby villages and towns must be thoroughly cleaned, and they can't be allowed to bewitch the people and squeeze the people's money again."

Although Yang Ling's words were plain, the staff officers standing behind him were shocked to hear it, and after this time they were cleaned, I am afraid that many people would lose their heads.

"Sir, will our vigorous cleansing make the little devil benefit from the fisherman?" There are also staff officers who are worried about their internal friction, which makes the little devil the final winner.

Yang Ling shook his head: "You have also seen the latest information, most of these gang forces have an inexplicable relationship with the puppet army, it is difficult to guarantee that they are not the forces cultivated by the puppet army privately, you said that if they stab us in the back, how many of our brothers will be threatened?" ”

"Ci is not in charge of the army, since it is an unstable factor, then it will be completely eradicated, so as not to be big at that time."

These staff officers who followed Yang Ling found out that the amiable commander on weekdays was so fierce that they didn't dare to persuade him again.

But Yang Ling didn't stop, he continued to add: "This time, there are many forces that did not participate in our Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Association, and there are more than ten water bandits and rogues, and they are also cleaned up, so as not to harm the place." ”

Yang Ling is going to completely purge the nearby forces, the staff officers are shocked to hear it, there are people standing behind these forces, and they can have such a great courage to purge them, I am afraid it will be their Chief Yang.

"Sir, if we purge these forces, there will be a power vacuum nearby, and there is no guarantee that a second knife will come out." There are also staff officers who have the foresight to raise concerns.

Yang Ling glanced at this staff officer approvingly, and said with a smile: "Don't worry about this matter, there are a lot of local self-defense forces that have joined our Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Association, let them receive them nearby and be responsible for local security." ”

Although the local self-defense forces that have joined the Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Association have not yet been incorporated into Yang Ling's command, although the two sides now seem to be in a cooperative relationship.

However, Yang Ling sent some military training instructors to their team to train and spread patriotic ideas, and Yang Ling believed that sooner or later these forces would be under his command.

At present, the main targets of our guerrilla units are petty devils and puppet troops, and it is better to leave the matter of maintaining local law and order to the local self-defense forces, so as not to disperse our own forces too much.

And because the self-defense forces in these places are formed by the locals themselves, they will not harm the local people, but can play a protective role.

After Yang Ling's order was issued, nine recruit companies took active action and launched a large-scale military operation in the surrounding areas of Huaiyin.

The brothers of these recruit companies had been training in the camp for less than a week, and now they were directly pulled by Yang Ling to the battlefield to fight against the bandits and gang forces.

The first few battles were won by a narrow margin, but over time, the brethren of these recruit companies were able to skillfully cooperate and defeat several times the enemy.

Under the tempering of the war, the recruits have grown up rapidly, and they have faded away from the youthfulness of the croppers and become decisive soldiers.

Yang Ling's military operations against the gang forces and bandits made the surrounding areas restless, and the severed heads were piled up into a hill.

Although this purge seemed bloody and brutal, it completely broke the evil forces in these areas and brought them back under Yang Ling's control.

The people were still frightened at the beginning, after all, these soldiers arrested and killed people if they didn't agree with each other, but when they found out that the bullies around them had disappeared, they also applauded.

Through this method, Yang Ling not only eradicated the cancer hidden in the local area, but also won the support of the local people, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Tuanzao, this time we have defeated the gangs, water bandits, and rogues including the Little Knife Society, a total of 35 forces, and annihilated and transformed more than 5,000 people."

When Lei Xiong, the staff officer in charge of the purge operation, reported to the ground, Yang Ling was also shocked, he didn't expect that there were so many forces in just three counties and districts near Huaiyin.

In fact, it is no wonder that Yang Ling was surprised, but with the collapse of the order, all forces appeared one after another, and bulls, ghosts, gods and snakes all appeared, so that the situation in the occupied area behind the enemy was extremely complicated, and the people were really living in dire straits.

And Yang Ling's bloody purge operation is to completely eradicate these tumors and restore the local people to a blue sky.

"We have also seized a lot of weapons, food and other materials, including more than 2,000 guns, more than 2 million catties of grain, 110,000 oceans, and countless pieces of jewelry and money......."

These local gang forces are attached to the people to suck blood, and there are a lot of things looted, and so many things have been seized, which really shocked Yang Ling.

"All the money, money, and jewelry were handed over to the Quartermaster Office for registration, food was distributed to local villagers on the spot, and guns and ammunition were sold to the local village self-defense forces.

Yang Ling sold guns and ammunition to the village self-defense force is also a helpless move, although he is rich now, but there are so many people under his command who want to eat, and he, the leader of the detachment, is also compacted.

"Report, there is a telegram ...... the theater command"

When Yang Ling was counting the seizures and distribution with staff officer Lei Xiong, Li Changqing, the commander of the communications platoon, hurriedly walked into the house.