"According to the intelligence, Gaoyou's devils have begun to assemble on a large scale and stand by, and it is estimated that it will be in the next two days......

The devil has a large number of spies, agents and traitors in China to provide intelligence, and every time he knows the number of the Chinese troops and various situations.

Yang Ling also attaches great importance to the importance of intelligence, and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build his own intelligence network, although it is only limited to the territory of Jiangsu, and the scale is not large, but he can quickly know as soon as the devil is in trouble.

Now there are many hidden piles left by Yang Ling in the maintenance club supported by the devils who are stranded in Gaoyou, these people have different identities, and they are all operating under the banner of Sino-Japanese friendship, and they always pay attention to the movements of the devils.

Although the preparations for the assembly of the devils were carried out in secret, it was impossible to hide such a large-scale military movement from everyone, especially those who maintained the meeting.

Because it is not enough for the devils to carry their baggage and materials, it is necessary to organize the assistance of the people.

The devil soldiers who wandered around in groups of three or five in Gaoyou City all returned to the camp, and martial law began in the city, and the maintenance association organized the people to start distributing heavy supplies, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that the devils must be going to carry out some military operations.

The operational objectives of the devils stationed in Gaoyou are nothing more than the Northern Jiangsu Corps in the Jieshou area, the 89th Army in Xinghua, and the Sulu guerrilla troops in the direction of Taizhou.

Therefore, on the night when the devil issued the combat mobilization order, the information on the devil's abnormal mobilization was placed on the desk of Yang Ling, the commander of the Northern Jiangsu Corps.

Yang Ling also did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly summoned all the commanders scattered on various fronts back to hold a military meeting to deal with the military action of the devil.

"The devil's large-scale armament battle this time, the goal is self-evident, either to hit us, or Xinghua, or in the direction of Taizhou, we are likely to be the target of the devil's attack, so I order all troops to immediately enter the combat state!"

"Damn, Lao Tzu has long had itchy hands, as long as the little devil dares to come, Lao Tzu will let him come and go!" Shen Biao, the commander of the third battalion, rubbed his hands together, a little eager to try.

A few days ago, an infantry squadron of the devil attacked in the direction of the head of the boundary along the road, and the squadron of motor boats preparing to cooperate with the river defense to capture the head of the boundary in one fell swoop and open up the connection with Baoying.

However, the motorboat squadron encountered Yang Ling's ambush and the whole army was annihilated, and the devil infantry squadron along the north of the road saw that the situation was not good and retracted back to Gaoyou, which made Shen Biao pounce in the air, and he was always unwilling in his heart.

After all, he is newly invested in the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and now he urgently needs a battle to prove his strength, but the devil can't shrink back, so he can't find a place to speak.

This time, I heard that the devils were going to launch a military operation on a large scale, Shen Biao was the happiest, and he could finally raise his eyebrows and fight again, and when the time came, he would show his face well, so that the old people of the Northern Jiangsu Corps could also take a look, he Shen Biao was not a waste.

"Sir, how to fight this battle, you can give orders."

Compared with Shen Biao's enthusiasm, Wu Changqing and the blacksmith and others are also gearing up to do a big job.

They are tired enough these days, busy on all fronts to direct the militia to dig fortifications and trenches, cut off highway bridges, and are covered in mud figures, so hard to wait for this day.

Yang Ling was also very relieved to see the brothers who were enthusiastic about fighting, except for Shen Biao and their battalion, all the others were his old brothers.

With his own group of trusted old brothers guarding all fronts, it is impossible for the little devil to drive straight into Huaiyin without paying the price of blood.

"Now that Baoying has become a lonely city, we have besieged Baoying to death, if the little devil of Gaoyou doesn't want Baoying's devil to die, this time he will definitely send troops north to reinforce him, and this is our opportunity."

"The principle of this operation is to wait for work, lure the enemy deeper, and then concentrate forces to eat a part of it...... The main force of the operation is our guerrilla corps in northern Jiangsu, and the local militia units are responsible for flanking and harassing ......"

The devil commander Taro Sano stood still in Gaoyou, secretly collecting intelligence, waiting for the assembly of follow-up troops, of course, Yang Ling was not idle.

Now Yang Ling's command has more than 30,000 recruited people, and they have turned the water network area from Gaoyou to Baoying within a few tens of kilometers into a preset battlefield in a short period of time.

In this area, which has now been dug into a mess, all the roads have been dug up, and the paddy fields are filled with water, once the devil penetrates into this area, it will definitely be a nightmare for the devil.

And Yang Ling's troops have gradually grown up after being tempered by the war, and both their will to fight and their military literacy are steadily improving.

In such an area with a home advantage, even if you can't quickly annihilate the little devils who rush in, you can consume the little devils to death.

Moreover, the materials and food allocated by the chairman of Jiangsu Province to Yang Ling are also being delivered to the front line in a steady stream, which is sufficient logistical support.

Now whether it is the reserve of weapons and ammunition or the assembled troops, Yang Ling has the confidence to fight a battle with the little devil, and no matter how bad it is, he can bite off a piece of meat from the little devil's body.

"All the troops began to enter the predetermined battlefield tonight, and the people who were stranded on the battlefield formed stretcher teams and transport teams on the spot to assist us in the battle, and the militia armed forces completed their training and quickly returned to the local area to carry out operations according to my orders."

"The intelligence department cooperates with the local security team to enter a state of first-level alert, and any suspicious person is found, regardless of whether there is evidence or not, he can be arrested first and then interrogated, so as to strictly prevent the spy of devil spies and traitors on military intelligence."

"From today onwards, a curfew will be imposed on all towns and cities in our guerrilla zone in northern Jiangsu, and those who still wander outside after dark will be put in prison."

"Send the news that the little devils are going to launch a large-scale attack operation to the Sulu guerrilla corps and Chairman Han, so that friendly troops are also ready to fight."

When the devils were secretly fighting in Gaoyou, the entire Northern Jiangsu Corps also took action, and the gears of the war, which had been suspended for several weeks, turned at a high speed again, and the clouds of war shrouded again.

The devils have not yet completed the assembly, Yang Ling and they have already taken the lead in action, and the militia units that are being trained at the head of the realm are the first to disband and return to their respective areas of responsibility, and they will be responsible for flanking and hunting the devil soldiers.

Yang Ling issued a reward order, and anyone who hunted and killed the devil soldier alone was an ocean.

Now, with the devil's offensive against China's economy, the fiat currency of the Nationalist Government is no longer valuable, but the ocean has become a hard currency applicable to both the national control area and the enemy-occupied area, so the reward of the ocean is still very tempting.

After the militia units left, the guerrilla units of the three battalions that had already completed the reorganization also quietly left the border head at night and headed south to the front line, entering the predetermined battlefield ahead of schedule.

In addition to some of the troops that went south from Huaiyin to stay under Baoying's surveillance, the other more than 3,000 officers and soldiers also went south to the head of the border at night, as the reserve force of the general corps, ready to be replenished to the battlefield at any time.

These troops were all local armed forces that Yang Ling incorporated into the Northern Jiangsu Anti-Japanese Corps in Huaiyin, and instructors were previously transferred for training.

Although the quality of these troops is uneven, and the overall combat effectiveness is not high, as long as there are veterans with them and disperse them into their own guerrilla units, then after one or two small-scale battles, the combat effectiveness will soon be able to rise, and Yang Ling has high hopes for them.