In order to enhance his bargaining chips, Luo Feng continued to shout without waiting for Yang Ling to answer: "My brothers all followed me out of the Shanghai Campaign, and they also fought a lot with the little devils. ”

In fact, Luo Feng was also forced to have no choice, if there was no medicine and food, his brothers would definitely not be able to survive, he could only take risks.

Yang Ling looked at Luo Feng's face that was splashed by shrapnel, and then looked at his blood-stained military uniform, which was also awe-inspiring, but he didn't expect it to be a veteran who had fought in the Battle of Shanghai.

"Send them to the medical team for treatment first."

Yang Ling respected the soldiers who could fight tough battles, and without the slightest hesitation, he arranged for people to send these injured brothers to be treated first.

Seeing Yang Ling speak, the two brothers who were holding Luo Feng also let go of their hands, and their eyes towards Luo Feng became much more respectful.

The soldiers don't have so many fancy intestines, and what they respect is these tough men who dare to fight hard with the little devils.

"Thank you, sir!"

After Luo Feng was let go, he was stunned for a moment in the face of Yang Ling's happy promise, and then immediately raised his hand full of bayonet wounds and saluted Yang Ling, because he and his injured brother did not have to die due to lack of medical treatment.

"Can you still hold on?" Among these wounded soldiers, Luo Feng seemed to be a little better injured, and Yang Ling also asked.

Although Luo Feng didn't know the intention of Yang Ling's words, he still nodded vigorously: "Sir, you can hold on." ”

"Okay, bandage your wounds, and look for me in the village ahead, we need a guide." Yang Ling ordered.

"Yes!" Luo Feng hurriedly turned around and explained to the brothers who were being carried to the medical team on a stretcher, and soon hurriedly caught up in the direction where Yang Ling and the others left.

The reason why Yang Ling and the others appeared near Gaoyou City was also to act on orders.

A few days ago, Yang Ling and his men received a telegram from the Theater Command, which ordered them to quickly go south to reinforce the first guerrilla force of Major General Ma Yuren in Gaoyoucheng and recover Gaoyoucheng.

The telegram was accompanied by the appointment of Yang Ling to the First Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu, and with the loss of the Ninth Guerrilla Column, even the commander of the column was martyred.

Due to the heavy losses of the Chongqing guerrilla troops in the area near Huaiyin, they could no longer support the next winter offensive combat mission.

Therefore, the theater command had no choice but to let Yang Ling, the former commander of the Third Guerrilla Detachment, accept the order to gather nearby stragglers and anti-Japanese armed forces, and establish the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu, with Yang Ling as the colonel and the commander-in-chief, shouldering the heavy burden of the former Ninth Guerrilla Column.

Although Yangling's First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu was established temporarily, compared with the previous guerrilla detachment, both the scale and level of the guerrilla detachment were raised.

The Theater Command gave Yang Ling the establishment of the No. 1 Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu with three guerrilla battalions, but because it was behind enemy lines, its supplies and equipment could only be suspended, and now it had to rely on Yang Ling's self-reliance.

Yang Ling didn't expect much support from the poor Sulu Theater Command, but he still complained in the telegram, as for whether he could get supplies and equipment, it depended on luck.

Fortunately, the theater command gave a guerrilla corps title, which can be regarded as putting up the flag, and Yang Ling's soldiers are all ready-made, and even redundant.

On the day of the announcement of the establishment of the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu, Yang Ling adjusted the strength and establishment in place.

At present, the combat units under the command of the headquarters have been reorganized into two reinforced guerrilla battalions and a supplementary battalion of recruits, and the strength of each battalion has been expanded to more than 800 people.

Each reinforced battalion has four infantry companies of 166 men, equipped with nine light machine guns, three grenadier groups, and a battalion-owned machine gun company, armed with one or two heavy machine guns, mortars, and Type 92 infantry guns.

The battalion commander of the first battalion is a blacksmith, the second battalion commander Wu Changqing, and the recruits supplement the battalion commander Zheng Gang.

In addition to the medical team, the military propaganda team, the baggage team, the engineer company, and the guard company, the units directly under Yang Ling's guerrilla corps also had a battalion-level unit, that is, a "patriotic" battalion composed of all the captured puppet soldiers.

The number of these puppet soldiers who were captured by Yang Ling and them was as many as more than 700 people, of course, those who committed the most heinous crimes and dealt with them secretly, and those who were left behind were all people who had not made many big mistakes.

But everyone has to pay the price for their choices, even if they are forced, they also need to pay the price, after all, they once wore the military uniform of the puppet army and betrayed their country for a short time.

At the beginning, Yang Ling set up a labor camp, hoping that through the preaching and manual labor of the labor camp, they would be able to become human beings again.

And now Yang Ling is renaming the labor camp as the "patriotic" battalion, hoping that these officers and soldiers who have made mistakes but can turn back in time can be patriotic, and then fight the little devils.

Because these captured puppet soldiers were of mixed quality and length of time, so let them immediately turn their guns to beat the little devils, and Yang Ling was not sure if they would turn back again.

Therefore, Yang Ling did not supplement them into the troops, but came out alone, directly under himself, and sent some instructors to instill patriotic ideas and carry out military training in classes, and was responsible for digging trenches and carrying supplies during the war.

At present, the officers and men of the "patriotic" battalion have not been issued weapons and ammunition, nor are they combat units, and they are an extremely special existence under the command of the First Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu in Yangling.

Only officers and soldiers with good performance can leave the "patriotic battalion", and Yang Ling also gave them two choices, the first is to go to the supplementary battalion as a supplementary soldier, and replenish the combat unit at any time to fight with the little devils.

The second choice is to take off their military uniforms and go home, and from then on become ordinary people, but up to now, most of the officers and men of the patriotic battalion who have met the conditions have chosen to go to the supplementary battalion after receiving patriotic ideological education, waiting to be replenished into the combat unit to fight against the little devils.

This time, Yang Ling personally led the officers and men of the First Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu to the south to reinforce Gaoyou's first guerrilla force to attack Gaoyou.

After receiving the order, he immediately led his troops south, but unfortunately he was still a step late, and the first guerrilla troops fighting against the devils near Gaoyou had already been beaten and scattered.

In the case of losing the command structure, the first guerrilla troops and the little devils fought bloody battles for several days, and finally could not withstand the internal and external attacks of the little devils and the puppet army.

After receiving this information, Yang Ling also attached great importance to it, and on the one hand, he sent the Flame Special Operations Brigade as an advance force to go deep into the theater to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and on the other hand, he led the main force to hide on the spot outside Gaoyou and reformulate the battle plan.