The blood of the Anti-Japanese War stained the mountains and rivers

Although each army in the occupied area has its own territory, none of them mind expanding their territory.

Because the land is big and the strength is strong, so the confidence to speak is also sufficient. Now that the devils have withdrawn and left so many unclaimed land, it is a piece of fat, and everyone wants to go up and take a bite.

"Our Subei Corps has had enough of the limelight in Jieshou. The so-called shooting the first bird, if we go to grab the territory again, it will be ugly. Moreover, with our strength, it is already stretched to control the long area from Huaiyin to Jieshou. Now, those devils have evacuated the vacated areas, so we won't get involved."

After Yang Ling thought about it, he decided that their Subei Corps would not rob the villages and towns left behind by the devils. Of course, there were many reasons for this.

"Mr. Yang, this is a good opportunity for our Subei Corps to grow stronger. After passing this village, there will be no such shop." Some staff officers still felt a little reconciled and persuaded Yang Ling.

"Why, do you still want to become a big fat man?" Yang Ling joked with a smile: "The speed of our development and growth is already amazing, what we need to do now is not to continue to grow, but to digest the areas we have already occupied , if you keep eating and don’t consume it, you will be overwhelmed.”

Hearing Yang Ling's joke, the staff members laughed one after another. Since Yang Ling didn't let them get involved, then they didn't get involved. Anyway, the North Subei Corps doesn't care about that bit of territory now.

"Hey, just watching others eat meat, we can't even drink soup, so I feel a little bit unwilling." Deputy battalion commander Liu Jinhu scratched his head and muttered to himself.

"Don't worry, you fought some battles. Isn't Baoying still in the hands of the little devil?" Yang Ling reminded with a smile.

Baoying is located in the middle of Huaiyin and Jieshou, like a nail embedded in Yangling and their northern Jiangsu guerrilla zone.

Previously, they had been busy dealing with the devils in Gaoyou in the south, but they only sent part of the reserve battalion to monitor Baoying's devils and puppet troops, and had no time to deal with him.

Now the devils in Gaoyou in the south are now fully shrinking their defenses, and the Northern Subei Corps can also go back and clean up Baoying's devils and puppet troops.

As long as Baoying is defeated, the guerrilla zone from Jieshou to Huaiyin can be connected together, which is undoubtedly very good for the development of the northern Jiangsu team.

"Sir, you mean playing Baoying?"

Hearing what Yang Ling said, the hearts of those brothers who felt unwilling were all heated up.

Compared with running all the way to fight for territory with allies, this Baoying fight is completely at the door of the house, and the chances of winning are much higher.

Moreover, Baoying's little devils can now control only the surrounding areas of Baoying, and they are all surrounded by guerrilla zones, so they are not very handy in fighting.

"Sir, whenever we play Baoying, we will leave it to our battalion!"

Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Jinhu heard that the wind is rain, and he is gearing up for a big fight.

"I said, Lao Liu, eating alone is not the way you eat it. If it is handed over to your battalion, will my brother go to the theater? No, no, absolutely not." The deputy battalion commander Daozi also shook his head hastily.

"Don't compete with us this time. Our battalion failed to catch up with the annihilation of the Pingshan brigade in Jieshou. This time it should be our turn." The officers of the second battalion also yelled.

Jieshou's great victory was mainly due to the first and third battalions as the main force, and the reserve battalion as a supplement. The third battalion, which was deployed on another line of defense, failed.

At the commendation meeting this time, seeing a group of combat heroes emerge from the troops participating in the Jieshou battle, this made the brothers of the second battalion envious and jealous.

So now that they heard that Baoying was going to be played, they were also very enthusiastic. They hoped to be a main force and wanted to be a fighting hero.

"I said, what are you in a hurry for? You haven't written off the horoscope yet." Seeing the officers who had already started to fight for Baoying's position, Yang Ling said angrily.

"Sir, what do you say?"

Judging from the meaning of Yang Ling's words, it seemed that they didn't want to fight right away, and Wu Changqing was also puzzled.

Yang Ling explained: "Baoying City has high walls and thick walls, and there are many devils and puppet troops stationed there. Once a fight starts, it will be a tough battle, so before we fight, we have to ask the staff office to formulate a complete battle plan. Don't go up in a mess like before. rush."

"At the same time, we haven't figured out why the devils from Gaoyou withdrew, and we can't act rashly now. If the devils go northward when we are fighting Baoying, then we will be hit by the enemy."

After hearing Yang Ling's words, the excited officers also calmed down. They all felt that Yang Ling had considered everything carefully, so they stopped clamoring to call Baoying immediately.

Yang Ling immediately ordered: "Commander Liu, no matter what method you use, you must find out the reason why the devil retreated to Gaoyou in a short time."

"Yes!" Intelligence staff officer Liu Sheng hastily agreed.

Yang Ling turned his head and ordered to the officers at all levels: "You all go back and train your brothers well, and summarize and reflect on the problems exposed in this battle. Don't think that I commend you, and you can fly your tails to the sky. , I’ll check each battalion later, if anyone doesn’t train well, they won’t be able to take the main attack in the next battle.”

Text Chapter 39 Pros and Cons

The vigorous winter offensive has come to an end, and the troops in various theaters that launched attacks against the devils have been exhausted from fighting for a long time, and have to withdraw from the battlefield one after another and turn to defense.

The little devil also suffered heavy losses in this winter offensive of the Chinese army. Not only did he lose many towns that had already been occupied, but he also suffered a lot of casualties and was unable to fight again.

One side was exhausted from fighting for a long time, the ammunition was exhausted, and the other side suffered heavy losses and urgently needed to recuperate and recover, so the two sides began to die down over time.

Since January, the scale and frequency of fighting between the two sides in each theater has also been decreasing day by day, gradually returning to a state of confrontation.

The various troops in the Sulu war zone also fought hard against the little devils for several months, although they launched a new round of offensive against the little devils after the victory at Jieshou.

However, as the devil's new detachment leader Hisashi Watanabe ordered the devils on the southern line to withdraw and abandoned some areas that had already been occupied. After Gaoyou's key defense, all the troops in the Sulu theater had no intention of continuing to besiege, and were busy taking over the devils. The territory left by the retreat.

Teams with different affiliations also had several frictions in the process of receiving the blank area left after the devils retreated. Of course, as the commanders of both sides proceeded from the overall situation, they shook hands and made peace. It did not dissipate because of this, but intensified over time.

Although Yang Ling and his Subei team had all the limelight in the Jieshou victory, they were also seriously injured. The two main battalions were almost crippled, and they urgently needed to recuperate.

When the devil's troops retreated and focused on defending Gaoyou, Yang Ling was also worried that this was a devil's conspiracy, so he kept heavily defending Gaoyou and sent a large number of intelligence personnel to spy on the devil's soldiers.

Soon, the intelligence department fed back the news that the devils retreated to Gaoyou not because of any conspiracy, but because the former detachment leader of the devils, Taro Sano, committed suicide due to defeat in the battle.

After the big retreat, it was the order of the new detachment leader Toshiichi Watanabe who withdrew to defend Gaoyou, because he was worried that the troops would be too scattered and repeat the mistakes of the Hirayama brigade being wiped out.

Although the information fed back by the intelligence department was accurate and reasonable, Yang Ling always felt that things were not that simple.

But because of the lack of effective intelligence support, he couldn't figure it out for a while, so he could only put this matter aside temporarily. As long as the devils don't attack, it will buy time for their development and growth.

Yang Ling was ordering the intelligence department to send people to infiltrate the puppet army under the devil's command, even spending money to help those undercover agents, hoping that they would break into the devil's interior, so as to obtain more valuable information.

Of course, none of this can be done in a short time. Yang Ling just ordered the intelligence department to infiltrate the maintenance meeting under the control of the devils, the fake police and the puppet army. As for how effective it will be, it will depend on fate.

The devil will be quiet for a while, presumably also licking the wounds left by the winter offensive. Apart from sending people to monitor and infiltrate, Yang Ling didn't pay much attention to the devil.

Because Yang Ling knew very well in his heart that the little devil had suffered such a big loss, and it was certain that he would take revenge, but now he was just dormant.

Since you can't guess when the devil will launch revenge, you should work hard to improve your own strength to deal with the devil's next attack.

Yang Ling and his Subei Corps fought a beautiful battle in Jieshou, and they took down Huaiyin earlier, which can be regarded as a victory for the Sulu war zone, so they won't end up in the winter offensive.

So shortly after General Zhou Fu, the director of the political department of the theater, wandered around Jieshou and returned to the theater headquarters, a telegram ordering the expansion of the Northern Subei First Guerrilla Corps was sent.

The previous establishment of the First Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu was only two guerrilla battalions. Although there were many troops, the official establishment was only two.

This also means that many units of the First Guerrilla Corps in Northern Jiangsu do not have official designations, and they are not considered regular troops recognized by the theater.

But this time Yang Ling fought for General Zhou Fu, the director of the political department, hoping to expand the establishment and number of troops of the Subei Corps.

General Zhou Fu, the director of the political department, saw the strong military momentum of the North Jiangsu Corps at Jieshou, and Yang Ling also expressed his attitude to him, that is, to obey the dispatch of the Military Commission, so after returning to the theater headquarters, he asked Commander Yu Xuezhong The general consulted and responded quickly.

In the reply from the war zone to the Subei Corps, the Subei No. [-] Guerrilla Corps will be expanded to five guerrilla battalions, and each battalion will be a five-company reinforced battalion, with more than [-] people in each battalion. .

Moreover, in order to strengthen the strength of the Northern Subei Corps, the theater command added a batch of firearms to the Subei Corps, including 75 [-] rifles, [-] imitation Czech-style light machine guns, and ten Min [-]-type heavy machine guns. There are two [-]mm mountain guns, and they are equipped with a large amount of ammunition and shells.