The sky was overcast, heavy rain was coming, thirty miles south of Baoying County.

On a piece of soil, Takahashi Shaoza, the captain of the devil brigade, was holding a telescope and looking into the distance, and his vision was full of tender green weeds and wasteland, and there was not a single ghost.

"Your Excellency, Captain, the headquarters has an urgent call."

A communications staff officer of the devil with muddy boots struggled to climb up to the soil and jerked his feet in front of Captain Takahashi, who held a telegram in his hand.

"What are the orders from the headquarters?" The captain Takahashi Shaosa's face was expressionless, and he asked without looking back.

The devil's communications staff officer stepped forward and replied: "The headquarters orders our unit to go all out to pursue and suppress the guerrilla corps in northern China and the Soviet Union, and be sure to annihilate them all in order to save face." ”

"Got it." Captain Takahashi Shaozo replied lightly.

More than 1,000 devil soldiers of the Gaoqiao Infantry Brigade armed to the teeth returned to Baoying, and after finding that the detachment leader and the command headquarters had been served by Yang Ling and them, they launched a pursuit operation in anger.

But Yang Ling and the others were slippery like loaches, and when the Gaoqiao Infantry Brigade was about to catch up several times, they were all slipped away, which made the devil soldiers hold back a breath of anger in their hearts.

After chasing this area, they actually chased it away, and in the face of the crisscrossing rivers and the green land, Takahashi Shaosa was in a bad mood.

Because if they did not catch up with and annihilate the fleeing guerrilla corps in northern Jiangsu this time, they would not be able to explain it to the headquarters.

When the time comes, let alone taking over the vacant position of the detachment leader, I am afraid that he will have to end up with an unfavorable reputation for chasing and suppressing, which he does not want to see.

Now, whether it was to compete with several other infantry captains for the vacant position of detachment commander, or to save face, he had to muster up his spirit and pursue it with all his might.

The devil soldiers have been exhausted from repeated battles these days, and they are about to lose their strength after chasing for most of the day at this moment.

Although Takahashi, the captain of the devil brigade, wanted to immediately catch up and eliminate the fleeing Northern Jiangsu guerrilla corps, he also knew that the troops were at their limit, so he had to order an hour's rest to replenish his strength.

At this moment, in the field covered with tender green weeds behind this soil sorghum, the devil soldiers with guns were sleeping on the ground, and the snoring sound was so loud that they were too tired.

"Your Excellency Captain, the search team will send a signal if it finds the whereabouts of the Chinese army, so you should go and rest for a while."

Looking at the haggard face of the devil captain Takahashi Shaozo still holding a telescope looking for the figure of the guerrillas, a devil staff officer couldn't help but persuade.

Takahashi, the captain of the devil's brigade, first commanded the troops to fight fiercely in the area north of Baoying for several days, exerting all his strength to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, and seeing that they were about to be wiped out, who knew that Baoying was in a hurry and hurried back.

Who knows if it was a step too late to catch them up, the detachment commander's headquarters in Baoying was served by the guerrillas, and the materials and ammunition in the warehouse were swept away.

Now that they had no rest, and they had to carry out the pursuit, he hadn't slept a single night in days.

The devil's staff didn't say that it was okay, but when he said this, the devil's captain Takahashi Shaozo suddenly felt a wave of fatigue coming.

He originally wanted to refuse, but he raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and finally nodded: "Then I'll go sleep for a while, and report it as soon as there is a trace of the guerrillas." ”

"Hey!" The devil's staff officer stepped forward and agreed.

The captain of the brigade, Takahashi Shaosa, walked down the soil sorghum, took his marching blanket from the orderly, and found a place to wrap himself in it and began to rest.

While the devil's army was exhausted and resting, the search team sent out by more than a dozen devils could only stubbornly search for traces of the guerrillas everywhere.

"Go over there and take a look at the woods."

After a search team of devils crossed a barren field, a large green forest appeared before their eyes.

In a forest like this, which is so easy to hide, the devils will naturally not give up the search, and under the orders of the devil's infantry detachment, the devils walked towards the woods.

Eight devil riflemen opened the skirmish line and walked in the front, while the commander of the devil's infantry detachment and the four devils of the machine gun team followed closely behind, ready to provide fire support at any time.

"Sir, there's a devil coming."

At this moment, Yang Ling, who led the devil to the south, hid in this forest to rest, and the sentry lying on the edge of the forest saw the little devil and immediately bowed back to the forest to report to Yang Ling.

Yang Ling now has only one infantry company by his side, and after removing those who were wounded and killed in the battle of Baoying, there are now one hundred and thirty-five brothers in the fourth company who can still fight, with five light machine guns and three grenadier groups.

Hearing that the devil was coming, the brothers resting in the forest all grabbed their guns and stood up, ready to run away again.

"How many are there?" Yang Ling was much calmer and calmer, staring at the sentry and asking.

"There is only one infantry squad, thirteen devils." Sentinel 1510 replied.

Hearing that there were only more than a dozen little devils, everyone who looked nervous breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that they are nervous, but they know that there are thousands of little devils staring at them right now, and if they don't act carefully, they will probably be wiped out.

"A small detachment, it should be their search detachment." Yang Ling judged.

Yang Ling and the others have been resting here for a while, and the brothers have already recovered some strength, looking at the outside of the forest, the corners of Yang Ling's mouth hooked up a sneer.

"Prepare for battle, take them out!"

Yang Ling's purpose was to lure away the little devil and cover the main force to retreat north to Huaiyin, if he kept hiding like this, it would not be a thing, Yang Ling decided to stimulate the little devil again.

When they heard the order, the brethren were all stunned, and they pulled the bolts and loaded them one after another, and silently touched the edge of the woods.

Although the devil's search team was vigilant enough, now that the leaves had grown, they still didn't find that there were countless black holes in the woods aimed at them.

"Hit!"

When the little devil was still about a hundred meters away from the woods, Yang Ling gave the order to shoot.

"Bang bang bang-"

With Yang Ling's order, the raindrops of bullets roared towards the little devil.

"Poof!"

The devil riflemen who walked in the front didn't have a chance to react at all, and the bullet pierced through their bodies, bringing out a puddle of blood, and they fell to the ground tremblingly.

"Youzhi man!"

The leader of the devil squad in the back had been paying attention to the situation around him, and suddenly heard the sound of gunshots, and almost reflexively fell to the ground.

The machine gun crew next to him also took advantage of the situation and fell to the ground, but before their machine guns could be set up, the furious bullets beat them into a sieve.

"Ceasefire!"

In just one breath, more than a dozen little devils were beaten to the ground.

More than a dozen brothers quickly rushed out of the forest, and made up a few shots at the devil soldiers who were still struggling and howling on the ground, so that they kicked their legs and completely stopped moving, and simply solved them completely.

The brothers picked up the devil's rifle and cartridge box, picked up the blood-stained machine gun, and soon returned to the woods.

"It's not good to stay here for a long time, evacuate—"

simply solved a devil's search detachment, the purpose was to attract the devil's attention, but Yang Ling didn't want to fall into the encirclement by himself, so he immediately took his brothers and continued to run south.

The sound of gunfire here alarmed the devil soldiers who were resting in the distance, and the captain of the devil brigade, Takahashi Shaosa, who had just slept in a military blanket, got up excitedly.

"Where's the gun?"

"Five o'clock." The devil's staff report.

"Surround it, the search team must have found the Zhi Na person!" The devil's captain Takahashi Shaosa's murderous order.

Soon, the devils who were resting hurriedly got up, and before they had time to assemble the whole team, they rushed towards the place where the gunfire sounded.

The Devil Tanigawa Brigade, who was searching in the other direction, also heard the gunshots, and they immediately turned around and pounced on them like wolves that smelled blood.