In addition to shrinking defense, Huang Sheng couldn't think of any other way to solve the dilemma in front of him!

The strength of the third battalion is too weak, and it is not at the same level as the little devils in Laiyuan City!

Continuing to act according to the original plan, the little devil who has occupied various advantages has countless ways to deal with himself! And the response of the three battalions is only one: run!

Use guerrilla warfare and devils to maneuver!

No, it's useless to fight guerrilla warfare here!

If those local snakes who work for the devils are not eliminated for a day, the sharp sword hanging on the foreheads of the common people will not be eliminated for a day, and they will not dare to support the Eighth Route Army!

Without the support of the common people, the Eighth Route Army will become a swimming fish without water, and it is a problem to even save their own lives, not to mention fighting guerrilla warfare and fighting with little devils, which is definitely more difficult than climbing to the sky!

The instructor saw the pain and embarrassment in Huang Sheng's heart at a glance, and hesitantly reminded: "Battalion commander, do you want to think about it again!" ”

"Once we decide to shrink our line, it means that the first round of our encounter with the little devils ended in failure!"

"Those traitor spies hidden in the shadows will definitely come out when the time comes, and run the villages and towns within their snobbery with the support of the devils, and when the time comes, it will definitely be more difficult for us to reoccupy those villages and towns, and the price we will pay will be greater!"

Huang Sheng struggled with this question for a long time and finally made up his mind, and replied with a painful face!

"Don't think about it!"

"If the Eighth Company is also defeated, we will immediately shrink the defensive line, first completely control several villages around the battalion headquarters, and then expand outward step by step!"

"My idea is simple, a temporary defeat is just for us to lose some troops!"

"Stay in Qingshan, don't be afraid of no firewood, we can recover our strength sooner or later and fight back!"

"Continue to act according to the original plan, and this temporary defeat will turn into a complete defeat!"

"When the time comes, we won't even have the foundation to turn defeat into victory!"

In Guangling, the situation of the second battalion is also very bad!

The power of the Japanese puppet army here is stronger, and after entering Guangling, the second battalion directly became blind and deaf!

When the common people saw them, it was as if they had seen bandits, how far away they were hiding and how far they were hiding, and they didn't face the troops at all!

If the troops want to obtain some information, they can only conduct on-the-spot reconnaissance through dozens of people in the reconnaissance platoon!

Zhang Yun has been fighting behind enemy lines for so long, and his relationship with the common people has always been like a fish in water, and he has never been so aggrieved!

"Battalion commander, it's all clear!" The instructor walked in and reported, his face was very ugly!

"Before we came, Lingqiu had made trouble with the guerrillas, and in order to consolidate their rule over Lingqiu, the Japanese puppet army carried out a very bloody suppression!"

"There are only a few dozen guerrillas, and the Japanese puppet army has slaughtered nearly 500 ordinary people!"

"At that time, as long as it had something to do with the guerrillas, no matter who it was, they were arrested and shot by the Japanese puppet army on the charge of collaborating with the enemy!"

"This crackdown happened just a few months ago, and it brought great shock and panic to the local people! From then on, everyone kept silent about the anti-Japanese army, and when they encountered an anti-Japanese team like ours, they all hid far away, for fear of getting involved with us, and finally suffered bloody revenge from the Japanese puppet army and lost their lives! ”

"In addition, we also learned from the underground party that before the Japanese puppet army retreated, every household was threatened by them!"

"No matter who it is, as long as it has something to do with our Eighth Route Army, it will be retaliated against in the future, including its own relatives and neighbors, all of them will be affected!"

"Of course, if you can take the initiative to report that your relatives and neighbors have a relationship with our Eighth Route Army, and it is confirmed to be true, then the whistleblower can be exempted from punishment and can also be rewarded by the Japanese puppet army!"

"In order to deter the people, this kind of revenge really happened!"

"After getting no information from the mouths of the common people, we could only pin our hopes on the underground party, and then we found a few underground parties!"

"I didn't expect that as soon as we walked on the front foot, they were reported on the back foot!"

"Those traitor spies who were hiding acted that night and directly exterminated them!"

"Three underground party members, a dozen members of the whole family, not one left, all killed! When our troops rushed back, the corpses were all hard, and they were hung at the entrance of the village to show the public, it was too cruel! ”

"When I find these murderers in the future, I will definitely shoot them to avenge the sacrificed comrades and villagers!"

"After this retaliation happened, under the special propaganda of the Japanese puppet army, it spread throughout Lingqiu in just one day!"

"The common people, who were already scrupling about us and avoided us, are even more afraid to approach us in the face of the living examples of more than a dozen people being killed!"

A few words suddenly popped up in Zhang Yun's mind: White Terror!

He remembers that experience clearly, and he will never forget it!

At that time, he was not a Red Army soldier, but only a partisan!

In one white terror after another, all his family members were killed because of their guerrilla status......

At that time, the methods used by the enemy were almost the same as those of the Japanese puppet army in front of them!

At that time, in order to break this white terror, the most common method used by the Red Army was to take the initiative and retaliate with a tooth for a tooth!

Kill the white army that is harming the common people, beat them into fear, and dare not show the butcher's knife in front of the common people!

Thinking of this, Zhang Yun decisively ordered: "We can't be so passive, we must take the initiative!" ”

"Order each company to send scouts, find out the location of these spies and traitors, and then kill them!"

"Especially those who have the blood of the common people on their hands, even if they are captured, all of them will be executed in accordance with the policy, and it is best to execute them in front of the common people, so as to eliminate the fear of the common people about us!"

"Yes, Battalion Commander!" The instructor replied with deep understanding!

It was the only solution he could think of!

The idea is good, but they ignore two issues!

In addition to those traitor spies who are hiding in Guangling, there are also more than a thousand little devils stationed in the city!

Well equipped and plenty of ammunition!

All of them are staring at the second battalion, ready to pounce and take a bite at any time!

In addition, when the problem of White Terror was solved, although the common people avoided the Red Army and avoided the Red Army on the surface, they still turned to the side of the Red Army in their hearts and still provided intelligence secretly. In addition, there were partisans who were familiar with the terrain at that time who openly and secretly supported the Red Army!

And at present, the second battalion does not have any mass base in Guangling!

The hearts of the people, the guerrillas, what they want, there is nothing to be found, not even a local who leads the way!

If you are not familiar with life, you are like a blind and deaf person, how can you take the initiative!

Less than a day after the order, a message reached the battalion headquarters: "Battalion commander, reconnaissance platoon emergency report: A team of devils killed Guangling City three hours ago, and the troops have a reinforced squadron and are equipped with heavy weapons!" The target is unknown, but the reconnaissance platoon has already sent someone to follow them, and there should be new news soon! ”

Zhang Yun raised his eyebrows and analyzed: "The devil will definitely not go out of the city casually, a reinforced squadron, if it is arranged, it can easily eat one of our companies, we must immediately figure out the direction of their action!" ”

"Also, find out the specific location of our three main companies now, and order them to strengthen their vigilance, the target of this little devil must be them!"

The quiet battalion headquarters soon sounded the sound of horses' hooves, and the five heralds rushed out of the village, and then quickly dispersed and disappeared at the entrance of the village!

All this did not escape the enemy agents lurking in the village!

A few minutes later, several ordinary people left the village one after another for various reasons!

In order to avoid further causing panic among the people, making the people even more afraid of the Eighth Route Army, and intensifying the contradictions, the control of the local people has been very loose since the troops entered the village, almost to the point that they can enter and leave the village at will without inspection!

The herald rode very fast, but after all, it was a road, and many places had to go around several times longer than a small road!

The herald who went to the fourth company had no idea that he would be targeted, and a tripwire would suddenly appear on the road ahead!

Before he could react, the horse fell to the ground!

His movements were very fast, and the moment the war horse fell to the ground, he jumped off the horse's back, rolled on one side, and eased the huge inertia brought by the war horse to himself!

I put the rifle on my phone, loaded the bullet, and stared around vigilantly!

The tripping horse will never appear out of nowhere, there must be enemies around, this is a fact that even a fool can think of!

But the enemy reacts faster, and it's not just the two people who pull the tripwire!

As soon as he half-squatted on the ground to stabilize his body, the sound of gunfire rang in his ears!

The herald subconsciously threw himself into the bushes around him to dodge the bullet, but his movements were still slow, and a bullet just got into his thigh!

The pain in the heart quickly spread throughout the body, and beads of sweat also came out of his forehead like rain!

Hiding in the bushes, before I could catch my breath, the gunshots rang out again.

Bullets whizzed in, some were blocked by bushes, some flew behind them against their bodies, and one of them hit the herald in the chest!

Except for the fourth company, the other two companies all received orders to strengthen their vigilance!

Two hours later, an encounter began on the path of the four-company attack!

By the time the reconnaissance platoon soldiers who were tracking the devil reacted, the battle was already white-hot, and no one could retreat!

"Battalion commander, something happened!" At the headquarters of the second battalion, the heralds of the fourth company rushed in and reported with a sad face!

"We encountered little devils on the way to raid the traitors!"

"They were equipped with heavy mortars, and when they came up, they bombarded with artillery, the company commander, the instructor, all of them died, and in the end, it was the deputy company commander who led us out of the encirclement, but there was not one out of ten in the whole company, and only a dozen people rushed out!"

"It's so miserable, the devil will reimburse us for a squad when a shell hits it, many soldiers were blown to pieces on the spot, and when we returned to the battlefield, we didn't find the body of the company commander after searching all over the place, and it must have been blown up by heavy artillery in the battle!"

"How so?" Zhang Yun stared at him and shouted in disbelief!

"I'm not sending someone to inform you that there are little devils out of the city. Is the troops on increased alert? Why is there an accident, and it's still an encounter! ”

"Didn't you send scouts when you acted? What kind of vigilance is this! ”

The herald was stunned for a moment, and then decisively denied: "Battalion commander, I have been following the company commander all the time, and I haven't seen anyone sent by the battalion headquarters at all. Nor did I receive an order! ”

"Yes, the herald must have had an accident on the road!" The instructor's face changed suddenly, and he reacted suddenly!

"This must be a premeditated operation by the devils!"

"They are familiar with the terrain, and there are a large number of traitor spies lurking around us, and we can't escape their eyes with every move!"

"Stop the heralds we sent to the fourth company, make the fourth company completely blind, and then concentrate your forces and kill them!"

The battalion commander also reacted at this time, his face instantly turned red, anger rushed out, and the whole person was like a powder keg that could explode at any time!

It took a full two minutes before he calmed down, gritted his teeth and scolded: "Cunning little devil, sooner or later one day I will make you pay for your blood debts!" ”