Espionage: I became sworn brothers with Zheng Yaoxian at the beginning, and became the Seventh Broth

Chapter 749 Breakthrough and Rescue

To be fair, the Japanese soldiers during the Republic of China era were indeed formidable fighters.

They also possess extremely high military skills.

When Ye Shaohong gave the order to send the garrison soldiers to charge, the Japanese sentries left outside had already noticed and detected it.

In the darkness, he fired a shot without hesitation.

At a distance of nearly thirty meters, the other side hit the target with a single shot.

A shot hit one of our soldiers in the chest. The soldier didn't even have time to scream before he collapsed to the ground.

"He's a master!" At this moment, Chi Tiecheng was standing next to Ye Shaohong, and he naturally saw what was happening in front of him.

In that instant, Chi Tiecheng made an accurate judgment.

Ye Shaohong was not surprised by this.

The Battle of Shanghai was lost and fought so difficultly. In addition to the huge gap in weaponry between the two sides and our strategic decision-making errors, the superior military skills of the Japanese soldiers were also an important factor.

Later generations have provided conclusive evidence that when the Battle of Shanghai broke out, the soldiers that the Japanese army dispatched to Shanghai were all veterans who had been trained in China for a long time.

With ample ammunition and training, the Japanese soldiers who participated in the war were almost all able to hit their targets within 30 meters.

They carried as many as a hundred rounds of ammunition when they went into battle.

What about us?

Due to our impoverished and weak national strength and the constant warlord conflicts, we simply did not have sufficient weapons and ammunition. When the Battle of Shanghai broke out, the German-equipped divisions, which were hailed as the elite of the Central Army, had only 30 rounds of ammunition per soldier. The Guangxi Army and the Anhui Army were relatively well-off, but their soldiers only carried 7 rounds.

Wearing straw sandals and filled with a death wish, each soldier in the Sichuan Army carried less than three rounds of ammunition.

With such precious ammunition, ordinary soldiers would hardly have the opportunity to train, let alone have any marksmanship to speak of.

The present moment is irrefutable proof.

When the Japanese sentries were shot down, our soldiers were immediately demoralized.

Despite their overwhelming numerical advantage, most of them were intimidated by the enemy's intimidation.

They began to flee in panic, searching for a place to hide.

"This can't go on like this!"

"Iron City, you lead your men and charge up there immediately!"

Time is so precious right now; every moment wasted could give the enemy a chance to escape.

Therefore, Ye Shaohong was very decisive.

He immediately pulled out his trump card, assigning Chi Tiecheng and members of the Special Operations Unit to the task force.

"it is good!"

Chi Tiecheng's marksmanship was indeed excellent. Standing at a distance of fifty meters, he directly raised the Mauser 98K rifle he was carrying.

The shot was fired in one go.

The instant the gunshot rang out, a person fell and collapsed to the ground behind a large tree next to the courtyard in front.

It hit.

The soldiers of the garrison who participated in the operation that night were immediately invigorated by the deterrent effect of that shot.

The frontal assault has finally begun.

Gunfire erupted. Even though the operatives of the younger sister-in-law were all skilled military personnel, with the combined efforts of our personnel and the assistance of the action team led by Chi Tiecheng, the courtyard was ultimately breached.

The post-war inventory of losses still left Ye Shaohong somewhat unable to accept the results.

There were only thirteen Japanese soldiers in total.

They did not carry heavy weapons; at most, they had only five or six melon grenades.

However, the personnel losses on our side amounted to more than thirty people.

More than twenty garrison soldiers died, and six of the skilled members of the action team that Ye Shaohong brought from the Special Service Headquarters were also killed and three were wounded.

Even so, in this era, such a battle casualty ratio could be considered a victory.

It was only after 1941 to 1943, when the elite Japanese forces were completely lost, that the casualties of the domestic resistance against Japan decreased rapidly.

Only then will the domestic situation slowly improve. "Give them more compensation!"

"Tonight, everyone involved in the operation, whether they are our brothers or members of the garrison, will receive an extra allowance!"

"Those who are killed or injured will receive three times the compensation in addition to the death benefits!"

After giving brief instructions, Ye Shaohong, under Chi Tiecheng's protection, entered the war-damaged mansion.

Very disappointed.

He did not find a radio or codebook in the house.

But it was not without gain.

After the battle, the Special Service captured a total of seven Japanese agents who were still alive.

What surprised Ye Shaohong even more was that they actually found three blond-haired Japanese soldiers in a storage room inside the house. Ye Shaohong went over and asked them, only to learn that these three Westerners were actually foreign spies sent to China.

They came from three different countries.

British, French and American.

They are all among the world's most powerful military nations, and external allies that Chiang Kai-shek is striving to secure.

This operation, which rescued them, will be a significant achievement once the matter is reported and becomes known to Dai Yunong and the bald-headed chairman.

Although Ye Shaohong was puzzled as to why those Japanese devils would arrest them.

But the current situation doesn't allow him to investigate too deeply.

After a brief moment of thought, Ye Shaohong instructed Chi Tiecheng to personally arrange for the Western reporters to leave.

They also need to be taken to the hospital for a check-up.

To be honest, Ye Shaohong really didn't want to indulge them, but he had no choice.

That's how the Republic of China was at that time.

After seeing off the three unlucky foreign reporters, Ye Shaohong finally had time to interrogate the arrested Japanese soldiers.

This time, it wasn't Ye Shaohong who did it.

They were not personnel from the Special Service.

Rather, it was the garrison soldiers who participated in the battle, who were also filled with hatred for these Japanese devils. Coupled with tonight's fighting, it could be described as incredibly brutal.

They also lost many of their comrades.

Once they started, the garrison soldiers used their own unique interrogation methods.

Beating and thrashing are child's play.

What truly surprised Ye Shaohong was that among these garrison troops, there was actually a soldier who was extremely skilled at bone removal.

He was said to be a butcher by trade. His dagger skills were incredibly sharp; with just a few strokes, he cleanly shaved off the flesh and blood from a Japanese soldier's hand.

This also caused the Japanese soldier who was being tortured to have a complete mental breakdown.

Without hesitation, he recounted all the information he knew in detail.

Only then did Ye Shaohong roughly understand the purpose of this group of Japanese devils infiltrating the Kuomintang-controlled area.

Very complicated.

According to the Japanese soldier's confession, there were indeed more than two hundred of them when they set off from Shanghai.

They've always been together.

But once they arrived in Jiangcheng, they were separated by orders from their superiors.

More than fifty people remained in Jiangcheng. Some were incorporated into the Jiangcheng intelligence team to replenish the ranks of the undercover agents. Others received secret orders and hid in the rural towns and villages near Jiangcheng.

Many more people, however, sneaked into the mountain city in batches and in different places.

Their small team was one of the people who infiltrated the mountain town. After arriving in the county, they received the mission assigned by their superiors through the newspaper.

They were instructed to kidnap the Western journalists who were traveling and searching for information near the mountain town, based on the information and time provided in the newspaper.

As for the reasons behind it, they had no idea.

I was just following orders from above...