The thick clouds were dull, the cold wind of the early morning was biting, and in a large field overgrown with weeds, an entire company of partisan officers and men of the infantry lay in ambush.

The devil commanders in Gaoyou City were very cunning, and after luring the enemy deep into annihilating Yang Ling and their plan in the city failed, they began to fight house by house, trying to consume Yang Ling and them while waiting for reinforcements to counter-encircle.

General Yang Ling left a small part of his troops in the city to stalemate with the little devils, and the main force of the guerrilla corps was secretly transferred outside the city, preparing to eliminate the devils and puppet army troops who came to reinforce.

There were now at least one company of guerrillas of the infantry company lurking near the main roads in all directions of Gaoyou City, who had secretly left the city in the second half of the night last night and had been lurking in the cold and biting fields for several hours.

Compared with the puppet army numbers that remained on paper in the rest of the occupied areas, the puppet army units in Gaoyou City were neat and well-organized, and the surrounding towns and villages combined together numbered as many as 2,000 people.

This also has a lot to do with the fact that the little devil has been coveting China for a long time, and during the melee of the Beiyang warlords, the devil sent a large number of agents and spies to various parts of China, and the coastal area was even more rampant.

Men such as Okamura Ninji, the commander of the 11th Army, and Kenji Dohihara, the commander of the division, had previously worked as advisers under the Chinese warlords, or were spies who were active and knew China well.

It is precisely because of the activities of devil spies and agents for more than ten years, during which they wantonly bought and wooed traitors, so when the devil troops entered these areas, the local traitors also acted quickly, and soon established a maintenance association to assist the devils, a puppet army unit.

These hardcore traitors are convinced of the so-called "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" preached by the devils, so they also follow the devils with all their hearts.

The devils have been planning for a long time to swallow China, and now they are not only trying to occupy it by force, but also wantonly opening schools in the occupied areas, experimenting with slavery education, and trying to cultivate more traitors.

I have to say that this set of methods of the little devil is effective, and now there are a large number of Chinese in the sequence of field troops where the devil and the Chinese army are fighting.

They were the Shigeto detachment from Taiwan, which was later known as the Hatian detachment, which was a brigade-level unit with strong strength.

In addition, during the Battle of Songhu, part of the army of "puppet Manchukuo" was the vanguard of the devils, and they even fought all the way to the area of Changzhou, Jiangsu, where they fought fiercely, and finally had to be transferred back to the original garrison area due to heavy losses.

At present, the garrison area in Gaoyou and its vicinity is the troops of the Fifth Brigade of Public Security, and they are also one of the earliest puppet army units established.

Many of the officers in these puppet armies were people with actual combat experience, and many of them were even Chinese soldiers who had fought bloody battles with devils in the Battle of Songhu.

But they were captured in the later rout by the devils, who slaughtered many of the captured civilians and soldiers who laid down their arms.

Watching their companions be beheaded by devils one by one, their psychological defenses eroded by hunger and exhaustion finally collapsed, and the desire to survive overcame their patriotism, and finally chose to defect and become another traitor.

They used to be glorious Chinese soldiers, but the devil did not reassure them, and in order to make them surrender, these survivors wielded their swords and had to kill many brothers who fought side by side with them.

Under the influence of various factors such as treason and killing their comrades, although they are still alive and even appointed by the devil as officers of the puppet army, their psychology has also become distorted and they have become murderous killing machines.

With the training and command of such a group of officers who are full of evil spirits, most of the regiments and battalions of the Fifth Brigade of Public Security are strong in combat, except for some newly recruited companies.

They are all traitors, and they can't stand the ridicule and white eyes of their countrymen, so they become fierce and try to make others afraid of them by killing.

Compared with those devils who are inferior to beasts, they are more cruel to their compatriots, one is to ask for merit and reward, to gain the trust of devils, after all, only the more Chinese they kill, the more devils believe in them.

Another important reason is that under the influence of various factors, their values have been distorted, they have become crazy and bloodthirsty people, they have broken jars, and only killing can make them forget the blame from the bottom of their hearts.

At the last moment when the first guerrilla force of the Sulu Theater led by General Ma Yuren attacked Gaoyou, the skeleton special team of the devil took off the command headquarters and faced the flanking attack of these puppet troops, and then the army collapsed.

These ferocious puppet troops immediately scattered in all directions to search for the scattered guerrilla officers and soldiers, and once caught, they were punished with capital punishment.

The corpses of dried guerrilla officers and soldiers hung near many arteries, gun towers and villages, many of which had been dried and many of which had been thrown into the wilderness to be eaten by wild dogs.

Now in the occupied areas, there are not only those wolf-like devil soldiers, but also these wolf-like puppet army minions with shiny eyes, and which guerrilla units left behind enemy lines are in a difficult situation due to lack of ammunition and food.

Fortunately, the Chongqing Military Commission formulated a winter offensive, and all theaters across the country launched a large-scale counteroffensive against the devils, so that the guerrillas who had been beaten and hid in Tibet finally raised their eyebrows and breathed their heads again.

The Fifth Brigade of the puppet army has been dispersed, and they have expanded the search area with battalions and companies as the center, with Gaoyou City as the center, to search for those scattered guerrilla units.

When they received the order to return to Qingchuan Shaozuo, the commander of the devils in the city, and then reassembled and assembled, it was already dawn.

But these puppet soldiers did not stop at all, and immediately marched towards Gaoyou City from all directions, preparing to make another internal and external attack to eliminate Yang Ling and their troops.

But this time Yang Ling was prepared, and the combat company, which was all equipped with Japanese-style equipment, had been transferred to various key roads outside the city in the second half of the night to ambush, waiting for the puppet army.

The puppet army has expanded the scope of the search, and it is already a short distance from Gaoyou City, and their grassroots commanders are almost all former Chinese officers with rich operations.

They understood the way the guerrillas fought and often surrounded and attacked various key points, so they did not rush to the city after dark on the pretext of gathering, and only sent reinforcements to Gaoyou City after dawn.

As a result, the guerrilla units that were preparing to ambush and return to the puppet army had to lurk for several hours in the icy wilderness, and in the middle of winter, the officers and men of the guerrillas were all blue-nosed and swollen from the cold.

Although they had prepared for the various problems lurking in advance, and even smeared lard on their bare flesh, the cold was soaked to their bones.

Liu Jinhu, the deputy battalion commander, was dressed in camouflage made of wild grass, and he crawled like a snake in the field overgrown with wild grass, patrolling everywhere.

The brothers had been lurking in foxholes for a long time, covered with floating soil and wild grass, and their body temperature had dropped so much that many of them shivered with cold, and some even had fevers.

"Hold on a little longer, and soon the enemy will come."

"Cheer up, don't fall asleep......"

Liu Jinhu, the deputy battalion commander, was constantly cheering up the lurking brothers, and it was not easy to set up an ambush in the near wilderness.

Now that it was dawn, they did not dare to move, because as soon as they stood up, they could see from afar, so they could only lurk under the camouflage of foxholes and blend in with the surroundings.