The night came like a tidal wave from afar, swallowing up all the light, and it was already dark.

The devil's heavy army pressed towards Gaoyou from the south, and the people of the villages near Gaoyou fled to the south, dragging their families along the highway and fleeing towards Baoying in the north.

Every battle is an ordeal, whether it is the cruel and murderous devil soldiers or the Chinese army with loose military discipline, many villages will suffer a catastrophe.

In order to survive, people in the vicinity of each major war would flee and wait until the war was over to return to their devastated homes, but sometimes when they returned, there was nothing left but ruins, and many were refugees again.

The news of the devil's heavy army pressing from the south spread like a plague through the villages, and in just a few hours, many villages were empty.

The vicinity of Gaoyou is about to become a war zone, once you don't escape, you will be arrested and taken as a people's husband, but there is nothing to be a people's husband, at most it is a little hard, just get through it.

But what the people fear most is to lose their lives, if they are captured by the devils and used as people to dig trenches, the Chinese officers and soldiers will come and execute them as traitors.

If they were to serve as civilians for the Chinese army and help repair fortifications, once they were caught by the devils, they would also be killed by mistake as Chinese soldiers.

So no matter which side they are caught, they will inevitably die, so they simply don't do anything and start fleeing early.

At this moment, on the highway from Gaoyou to Baoying, although it was already dark, it was black and crowded with people.

The local wealthy squires had already handed over their houses to the guards and guards, and they were taking refuge in the direction of Huaiyin, which was now considered a safe territory in the hands of the Chinese army.

The rich squires rode in bumpy carriages, moving slowly northward with the crowd, while the ordinary people walked on a pair of feet.

There was no end in sight to the entire procession of refugees, and the people gathered from all over the path converged into the highway like a trickle, making the fleeing team unusually large and bloated.

If a few devil planes had dropped bombs overhead, then this road for refugees would have been covered with corpses and would once again become a bloody road, just like the road from Shanghai to Nanjing.

Fortunately, at night, the devil's plane will not arrive, and the devil's army aviation unit is being held back by the rest of the theater, and it has been a long time since the devil's plane has been seen.

The fleeing crowd was moving slowly, their thin bodies carrying heavy packages, and many of the malnourished women were still holding their suckling babies.

The whole road was lifeless, and except for the heavy footsteps, everyone was hurrying with their heads down, and their faces were numb and hollow.

They are worried about their life after Huaiyin, and they are also worried about whether their homes behind them will be destroyed in the war, and everyone is full of worries.

To the south of the fleeing procession, in the direction of Gaoyou, there was a rumbling sound like thunder, and from time to time large clusters of flash of light reflected the shape of the hideous clouds in the night.

The devils have already hit Gaoyou, and the Sulu guerrilla corps is fighting against the devils in Gaoyou, and the faint sound of artillery knocks on the hearts of the fleeing people, making them feel extremely heavy.

Everyone didn't dare to stop, because they didn't know how long the officers and soldiers of the Sulu guerrilla corps would be able to stop the devils, and once they let those wolf-like devils catch up, they felt a chill in their backs just thinking about it.

Although the Central China Command of the Devils has formulated a series of policies for the occupied areas, it is no longer as wanton as in the past, they only kill the guerrillas.

But after all, the devil can't change the dog to eat, and occasionally some devils' evil deeds will break out, which makes the people afraid.

Moreover, among the people who retreated north this time, there was some gossip that many of the devil troops who came from the south this time were troops who participated in the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre.

Of course, the source of these gossip is no longer verifiable, but all the people are afraid and worried, and the people who originally wanted to stay in the local area have also evacuated, because they know about the Nanjing Massacre and how murderous devils are.

Because some people know that in this area of Gaoyou, there will be a lot of fighting, although the cold winter wax moon will make the people retreat north will suffer a lot, but in order to free up the preset battlefield, they have to do this.

In order to achieve the goal of annihilating the devil's troops, sometimes we have to sacrifice the interests of some people, because only when there is a country can there be a home, and if the country is destroyed, there is no way to talk about that family.

The rumors flying all over the sky made the evacuated people panic, but what they didn't know was that in Huaiyin, in the north, Zhang Liechen, the deputy head of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, was also shocked when he received the telegram.

Unexpectedly, the people within a radius of dozens of miles were evacuated, and they wanted to withdraw to Huaiyin for temporary refuge, although the people who fled to the north were still on the way, but Yang Ling's telegram had already reached Zhang Liechen's hands.

"To accept at least 100,000 people who have evacuated north, all towns and villages near Huaiyin must set the number of people to be accepted in advance, and then vacate their houses and prepare firewood and food, and they must ensure that no one can freeze to death or starve to death in the north."

If more than 100,000 people pour into Huaiyin, the entire county will be paralyzed, so these people should be assigned to various towns and villages for temporary resettlement.

In the past, there were many people who had fled in various towns and villages, and many houses had been vacated, but now they only need to be vacated for these people who have evacuated to the north to live.

The people who retreated north all carried their own food, and when the time came, the Northern Jiangsu Corps would be able to provide some relief, and they would be able to get through this winter.

Although Yang Ling had already considered many aspects, in the face of so many refugees, Deputy Captain Zhang Liechen still felt a heavy pressure.

But he also knew that as long as these people who had retreated north were settled, then their Northern Jiangsu Corps would have a steady stream of soldiers.

At the same time, the people within a radius of dozens of miles were evacuated, and Yang Ling and they would be able to let go of their hands and feet to fight with the devils, whether it was for the future development or the protracted war of resistance in the occupied areas, they had to crush the devils' offensive through a big war.

Yang Ling and they let the Sulu Corps go up to fight with the devils in Gaoyou, but this is also a matter of no way, they need time to rest, they need time to replenish their troops and arrange the battlefield.

Yang Ling's main force has already begun to reorganize at the head of the realm, and the supplementary battalion from Huaiyin to the south has arrived here, and the recruits who have been trained for a period of time have begun to replenish the battle damage.

The wounded were being transferred to the rear of Huaiyin, and they were also busy in Huaiyin, and in order to accept the refugees, all the civilian officers and combat officers who stayed behind took action.

And Yang Ling knew that the next thing was to fight a big battle with the devils, so they were now too few troops, and while asking for help from the deputy general headquarters of the Xinghua Theater, they let the local armed forces under the command of the Northern Jiangsu Corps quickly form an army and go south, which was more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, which was a very powerful force.