"Lao Yuan, you took the brothers of the first company and the machine gun company to take the small road to pick up those brothers who were besieged, most of the devils have returned to Baoying, I estimate that there are not many devils left in the countryside, you can deal with it."

When Yang Ling evacuated Baoying, he asked the deputy captain Yuan Guangtao to take people to pick up the brothers who had previously fallen into the siege of devils.

"After the brothers were brought out, some local brothers were left to organize themselves into guerrilla detachments with the militia on the spot, and they stayed in the local area to fight guerrillas, and the main force withdrew to Huaiyin to rest and rebuild."

Although Yang Ling fought several battles with the little devils in Baoying, they won and lost each other, and the guerrillas suffered great losses in this operation, and they urgently needed to rest and replenish.

Therefore, Yang Ling could only leave some guerrilla squads in Baoying to continue to contain and harass the devils, and the main force of the general team withdrew to Huaiyin to recuperate, and he guessed that the next target of the devils might be Huaiyin, so he wanted to prepare early.

"Chief Yang, what about you and the brothers of the Fourth Company?"

Hearing that he was allowed to leave with a group, the deputy captain was very curious about Yang Ling's whereabouts.

Yang Ling explained: "I and the brothers of the Fourth Company are covering you, we have made such a big disturbance in Baoying, and several brigades of little devils have surrounded us, if no one attracts the attention of the devils, these devils will soon be able to find out about our retreating people, and none of them will be able to withdraw at that time." ”

"Sir, it's too dangerous, so leave the task of attracting devils to me, and you take someone back to Huaiyin first."

After hearing Yang Ling's words, Liu Zhi, the commander of the fifth battalion, stood up and took the initiative to take over this task.

Yang Ling smiled and shook his head: "Don't fight, there is no one here who is more suitable for this job than me, you don't have to worry." ”

In the face of the persistent Yang Ling, after repeated persuasion by everyone was ineffective, he finally reluctantly accepted the order.

"After you safely withdraw to Huaiyin, you must cooperate with Zhang Liechen to start arming immediately, and after I lure away the devils, I will go back." Yang Ling finally did not forget to tell the deputy captain Yuan Guangtao.

Now another deputy captain, Zhang Liechen, is staying in Huaiyin, and Zheng Gang's "patriotic battalion" is also in Huaiyin.

"Let's go, the devil is coming in a flash, and if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave." Yang Ling urged the brothers.

"Sir, take care!"

"We are waiting for you to come back in Huaiyin."

Everyone saluted and said goodbye one after another, and Yuan Guangtao, the deputy captain, and Liu Zhi, the commander of the fifth battalion, quickly took the brothers to take the path and went straight to the direction of Shanyang Town.

"Sir, where are we going?"

When everyone evacuated, Wang Dongming, the deputy commander of the fifth battalion, and the commander of the fourth company all cast inquiring glances at Yang Ling.

Yang Ling squatted down and began to tighten his leggings again: "Let the brothers be ready for a long march, and we will retreat to the south later." ”

"Retreat south? Isn't that the direction of Gaoyou? That's getting farther and farther away from Huaiyin. The fourth company commander frowned.

Wang Dongming, the deputy battalion commander, reacted quickly and explained: "Only if we lead the devils to the south and withdraw to the north to Huaiyin's main force can we be safe." ”

When the fourth company commander heard this, he suddenly realized, and immediately said: "Then I will go and inform the troops to evacuate." ”

Yang Ling waved his hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry first, prepare a gift for the devil." ”

Since it was to lure away the little devils, Yang Ling naturally had to do it thoroughly, otherwise the troops retreating north would be discovered by the devils.

"Take out all the military detonators that came out of the devil's warehouse, and I'll teach you how to make trick mines." Yang Ling commanded at them.

When Yang Ling and the brothers of the fourth company were busy in the tattered Baoying, the devil's reinforcement force also rushed back.

"Report, the devil has arrived outside the city."

The brothers who were standing at the head of the city as observation posts saw from a distance a large group of devil soldiers trotting along the road, and immediately rushed to report to Yang Ling.

"Withdraw!"

Hearing that the little devil had arrived, Yang Ling did not hesitate at all, and ordered the brothers of the fourth company to evacuate to the south.

The first to rush back was an infantry squadron of about 200 people under the command of the Tanigawa Infantry Brigade.

"Stop!"

When he saw the black smoke billowing from a distance, the panting devil squadron leader made a gesture and raised his binoculars to observe.

In the binoculars, the ruined walls of the entire Baoying City can be seen at a glance, some of the corpses that are lying across have not had time to be cleaned up, and there are traces of battle everywhere, and a row of devil officers hanging on the city wall is particularly conspicuous.

"Eight Ga Ya Road!"

When he saw some corpses wearing their uniforms hanging on the city wall, the devil's squadron leader's face suddenly sank, and it seemed that the guerrillas had entered the city.

"Battle formation, open the way!"

Soon, the squadron leader of the devil pulled out his southern pistol, and formed three echelons with hundreds of people in a noisy formation and pressed towards Baoying.

The devil soldiers are all ready for battle, and the closer they get to the city wall, the more traces of battle remain on the ground.

The road surface has been blown up with potholes, and a lot of turf has been lifted, leaving craters one after another, and the remaining blood stains have solidified into a dark black.

The devil soldiers cautiously approached the city walls, but they found that not a single guerrilla had found them except the bodies of their companions.

"The first and second teams went into the city to check, and the rest of the people stood guard."

The squadron leader of the devil didn't dare to be careless, worried about the ambush, so he just sent two squads into the city to test it.

Soon, more than 110 devils in the two teams bowed and covered each other to explore the situation, and the rest of the devils all lay on the ground, set up machine guns, and prepared to fight.

"Squadron leader, you see, it's the detachment leader."

At this time, the devils who stayed outside the city were only a few dozen meters away from the city wall, and the sharp-eyed devil soldiers finally discovered that something was wrong, how could those corpses hanging on the city wall be so familiar.

The squadron leader of the devil looked up, and when he saw the familiar faces of the bloodstained devil detachment leader Watanabe Shouichi and a group of staff officers, he was stunned in his heart and was stunned on the spot.

He had seen these corpses in the telescope just now, but he didn't expect that it would be the corpse of their commander, who was hung here in such shame.

"Baga Ya Road! The people of China are dead, dead! ”

The devil's squadron leader's facial muscles twitched violently, full of anger.

When all the devils saw this scene, they were filled with righteous indignation, they did not expect that their beloved commander would be killed like this, they clutched the guns in their hands, and they wanted to go to the guerrillas right now.

"Put them down." Seeing that the dead commander was being hung on the head of the city, the squadron leader of the devil ordered his subordinates to put them down.

"Hey!"

As soon as the captain waved his hand, more than fifty devil soldiers got up in unison and stepped on the ruins and ran to the city.

When the devil soldiers were cautiously trying to put their commander down, they didn't know that on these corpses, Yang Ling and they had arranged a trick mine.

"Boom! Bang! ”

As soon as the devil pulled the rope, the thunder exploded with a bang, and in the smoke of gunpowder, countless fragments swept in all directions.

The first of them were the devils who tried to remove the corpses, and they were blown up and rolled down the city walls without any chance of reacting.

The squadron leader and the devil soldiers were also taken aback, and subconsciously lowered their heads to avoid the flying fragments.

But when they looked up again, their noses were crooked, and an infantry squad standing on the city wall, more than fifty devils had all been blown away, the smoke was filling, and the corpse of their commander was also turned into pieces in the explosion city.

Seeing this scene, the ghost soldiers couldn't hold back their anger anymore, and scolded angrily, wanting to go up to save their comrades who were killed and injured by the explosion.

"Don't go up, be careful of the thunder!" The squadron leader of the devil came back to his senses from his anger and stopped the soldiers who were about to pounce.

"Let the sappers clear the mines!" The devil's squadron leader gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Report the situation to Your Excellency the Captain immediately."

"Hey!"