Most of the people of Gaoyou City were evacuated to the countryside by Yang Ling, the gray and black walls of Gaoyou City were riddled with bullet holes, and large areas of ruins blocked the streets, and the city looked desolate and dilapidated after the war.

At the gate of the Gaoyou County Government, a group of high-ranking officers of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps stood on the steps with Li Changjiang, the deputy commander-in-chief, facing war reporters with cameras in hand.

"Look at this ......"

With a click, the group photos of the generals who recovered Gaoyou were frozen, and these photos will soon appear in the newspaper, and as expected, they will be on the front page, and everyone will be happy.

The officers quickly stepped aside after taking pictures, and the well-dressed local squires and celebrities also stood on the steps with each other and took a group photo with the deputy commander Li Changjiang.

Since the fall of Gaoyou, this is the first time that the flag of the Chinese army has flown at the head of Gaoyou City, and Gaoyou has once again returned to the hands of the Chinese.

Just as Deputy Commander Li Changjiang and the others were taking a group photo on the steps at the entrance of the Gaoyou County Mansion, an officer with a hurried expression strode over.

As soon as the group photo was over, he strode to the deputy commander Li Changjiang and whispered a few words in a low voice.

The smile on the face of Li Changjiang, the smiling deputy commander, froze, and although it quickly recovered as before, it still made the commander of the third guerrilla regiment next to him notice something unusual.

"Sir, is that so?" The commander of the 3rd Guerrilla Regiment asked puzzled.

"It's okay, it's okay, you take a photo with them, I'll leave first if I have something."

Deputy Commander Li Changjiang gave an explanation to the commander of the Third Regiment, and immediately strode away with the adjutants and staff officers.

The devil's forward has already reached a position ten kilometers outside Gaoyou City, and the devil has come so fast! This shocked Deputy Commander Li Changjiang when he got the news.

Although Yang Ling reminded him when he was leaving, the devil army had appeared in Shao Bo Town in the south and asked him to pay attention, but in the blink of an eye, the devil arrived at the outskirts of the city, which still caught him a little off guard.

"Sir, according to the report of the cavalry reconnaissance company, the devil's marching procession stretches for several miles, and there are many cannons, and the strength should be no less than two thousand......" The intelligence staff officer's face turned a little pale.

They know what the scale of more than 2,000 devils means, that is at least two brigades, and whether there are any in the back, I don't know yet.

Thinking that he was about to face the well-equipped devils of the two brigades, the staff officers felt bitter in their hearts, where is this Gaoyou, what kind of sweet potato is this, this is a hot potato.

It's a pity that they are short-sighted and only see the benefits of recovering Gaoyou, but they don't see the huge risks hidden in it.

Gaoyou is the gateway to the two Huai, how can the devils let them recover, if this place is occupied by the Chinese army, then the devils' attempt to run the Sulu region into a solid ruling area will come to naught.

Now the deputy commander Li Changjiang regrets it, why should he be greedy for merit and take this hot potato into his own hands, if he doesn't come to Gaoyou, won't there be nothing.

It's a pity that they are now the heroic troops who have recovered Gaoyou, and the commendation telegram from the theater command has been sent, and they can't leave if they want to.

If they give up Gaoyou now, not only will their previous glorious image plummet, but they will even be reprimanded by the theater command.

"Sir, are we going to withdraw?"

The staff officers did not have the confidence to keep Gaoyou, and seeing that the deputy commander Li Changjiang did not speak with a calm face, he cautiously opened his mouth to ask.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

Deputy commander Li Changjiang has always been very shrewd, and the troops have expanded and grown, but he always shirks for various reasons and refuses to fight with the little devils, because the troops are the lifeblood, and if the troops are gone, his glory and wealth will be gone.

But this time, in order to be greedy, he put himself on the crater, and there was no way out, and once he retreated, sooner or later he would have to fall into the name of an escaped general, and someone would be caught.

At present, the Sulu Theater is not monolithic, and although the guerrilla corps, the 89th Army, and the Sixth Independent Brigade all nominally listen to Chongqing, in fact, they often have conflicts because of the problem of the defense zone.

Moreover, the theater headquarters is in Lunan, and the deputy headquarters of the theater is in Xinghua, if he withdraws this time, the opponent will definitely take the opportunity to attack.

Historically, Li Changjiang defected to the enemy as a puppet army and was appointed as the general and commander of the puppet First Group Army by the Wang puppet government in Nanjing.

Officers and soldiers at the grassroots level in China are fighting bloody battles with devils, but many high-ranking officials do not care about the survival of the country at all, and they only care about their own interests.

Yang Ling and they took the initiative to give Gao You out to the Sulu Guerrilla Corps this time, as soon as Yang Ling came to them, they needed to rest and replenish their troops to fight again, and they needed the Sulu Guerrilla Corps to help them withstand a period of time.

Second, Yang Ling was not sure whether Li Changjiang, the deputy general of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps, still had the idea of defecting to the enemy, which could be regarded as a temptation.

Although Yang Ling and the others evacuated Gaoyou, they actually led the troops north to Jieshou Town and stopped, converging with the supplementary battalion that had gone south from Huaiyin to reinforce them, and was laying out a new battlefield while resting at Jieshou.

Once the deputy commander-in-chief Li Changjiang fled without a fight and took the initiative to give up Gaoyou, then the devil would drive the chairman straight in, and once the Soviet Union and Central China fell, northern Jiangsu would be in danger.

Therefore, once Gaoyou is lost, Yang Ling and they will rely on the new battlefield to block the devils in the Gaoyou area, and they cannot let them harm the people of Lianghuai.

If the deputy commander Li Changjiang fought to the death with the devils in Gaoyou, then it would also leave more time for Yang Ling and them to set up a new battlefield, and the time required for the Sulu guerrilla corps to resist the devils would not be too long, a week would be enough.

Yang Ling believes that once the new battlefield layout is completed, it will be a trench in front of the little devils, unless they fill it with their lives, they don't want to step into two Huai steps!

Yang Ling is now prepared with both hands, although Gao You is like a great enemy at the moment, and even the smell of gunpowder wafts in the air, but in the Jieshou area behind Gao You, Yang Ling and they are not idle.

"Send a small team to the countryside and recruit as many local people as possible to come and help, we need a lot of people now."

"Our wounded will also be transported back to Huaiyin early tomorrow morning, Zheng Gang, you are responsible for this matter, and you must ensure that every injured brother returns home safely."

"Changqing, you are responsible for the overall training of the troops, and the companies that are short of personnel will directly go to replenish the battalion dignitaries, and within a week, the troops will restore their combat effectiveness."

"Blacksmith, you are responsible for talking to the local anti-Japanese armed forces, and let them bring people to assist us in the battle, if you encounter someone who hinders the war of resistance on the way, you can cut it first and then play it......"

In a two-story wooden building in Jieshou Town, Yang Ling, who had withdrawn here, was holding an operational meeting of the Northern Jiangsu Corps, and although they had withdrawn from Gaoyou, it did not mean the end of the war.

The devils are menacing, and Yang Ling needs the Sulu guerrilla corps to help them delay the devils so that he can free up his hands to implement his plan to destroy the enemy.