The War of Resistance Against Japan: Special Operations Battalion Traverses Shanghai and Slaughters

The special operations battalion consists of five special operations companies, each company has three platoons, each platoon has three squads, and each squad has twelve men.

In addition, there are guard platoons, reconnaissance platoons, engineer platoons, artillery platoons, support and logistics platoons, communications platoons, and medical platoons.

Because the era they traveled to did not have modern facilities such as satellites, the modern communication equipment equipped by the special operations battalion was completely unusable.

Therefore, Long Fei temporarily reorganized the communications platoon into a combat platoon, assigning them the responsibility of protecting the medical platoon.

Long Fei divided the special operations battalion into three routes: the first and second companies were the left-wing attack force, the third and fourth companies were the right-wing attack force, and the fifth company, along with the other platoons, were the central attack force.

The medical platoon and the communications platoon were also divided into three parts as needed, and each followed one of the three groups of troops.

Based on the captured Japanese map, Long Fei set Sunjiatan as his target.

Long Fei believed that as long as the Japanese soldiers' attention was drawn, Xu Peng's assault team would have a chance to infiltrate through Zhangnian.

The 17th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 6th Division was responsible for attacking Sunjiatan and Zhangnian.

Despite suffering casualties, the Japanese 17th Regiment continued to advance after fierce fighting.

By this afternoon, the Japanese had completely occupied the Sunjiatan and Zhangnian lines.

After a day of fierce fighting, the Japanese soldiers were exhausted, so Colonel Masanori Tanikawa, the regimental commander, ordered his troops to rest on the spot and continue the attack at dawn.

Before 10:30 p.m., Long Fei led the special operations battalion in three groups to the outer perimeter of the Japanese positions at Sunjiatan.

Meanwhile, Xu Peng, along with his commando team, secretly approached the vicinity of Zhang Nian.

Once they start fighting on Longfei's side and draw the Japanese soldiers' attention to it, they will take the opportunity to cross the Japanese defense line.

After carefully observing the Japanese positions through a low-light night vision telescope, Long Fei...

They discovered that apart from the sentries on duty, the rest of the Japanese soldiers were already fast asleep, like dead pigs.

The agreed-upon attack time for the three forces was 11:00 AM sharp, with Long Fei leading the central attack force.

The left route was commanded by Xie Qiang, the company commander of the first company, and the right route was commanded by Xu Ke, the company commander of the third company.

When the time came, they attacked simultaneously from the left, center, and right. They first sent a small number of soldiers to approach quietly.

Then, using a sniper crossbow and paratrooper knife, they quickly took out the Japanese sentries.

Then all the soldiers immediately rushed forward at top speed to launch a surprise attack.

The soldiers, facing the sleeping Japanese soldiers, picked up their QBZ-191 and QBZ-192 assault rifles, as well as QCQ-171 submachine guns and 201st squad machine guns, and launched a frenzied barrage of fire.

The Japanese were equipped with outdated bolt-action Type 38 rifles, along with a small number of Type 92 light machine guns and Type 96 light machine guns.

At that time, the Japanese weapons were certainly much better than those of the National Revolutionary Army, but compared to the modern equipment of the special operations battalion, they were just outdated relics.

The special operations battalion soldiers' tactical vests were all equipped with bulletproof inserts, so the only real threats to them were the Japanese grenade launchers and mortars.

Using over 700 modern automatic weapons against the Japanese was like a complete dimensional reduction attack.

Most of the Japanese soldiers were riddled with bullets before they even woke up and were sent directly to meet their Amaterasu Omikami.

A few Japanese soldiers who were positioned further back reacted quickly and picked up their guns to fight back.

But it was dark, and the Japanese soldiers couldn't spot their targets at all.

The dense barrage of fire generated by the special operations battalion's attack rendered the Japanese soldiers' prized Type 38 rifles utterly useless as fire pokers.

The shouts of the special operations battalion mingled with the wails of the Japanese soldiers, making for a lively night.

Within minutes, the special operations battalion advanced more than 200 meters and killed more than 600 Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese 17th Regiment, after landing, engaged in fierce fighting with the Nationalist army, and had already lost more than a thousand heads.

Now, more than 600 of them have been wiped out in an instant by the special operations battalion, leaving them with less than half their original strength.

The special operations battalion's attack was very sudden and sharp, and its firepower was extremely strong.

Japanese regimental commander Masanori Tanikawa believed that it was either a well-equipped German-trained division of the National Revolutionary Army or the Tax Police Corps that launched a night attack on them.

So in addition to ordering his troops to hold out at all costs, he also urgently ordered the battalion in the Zhangnian direction to immediately send two companies to reinforce them.

Long Fei saw that the Japanese had reacted and started to put up a stubborn resistance from their fortifications, and that grenade launchers and mortars were also falling on his side.

Therefore, he hurriedly ordered his troops to suspend the attack and find cover to suppress the Japanese.

At the same time, Long Fei also ordered snipers to begin playing a major role, sniping Japanese grenade launchers and any exposed Japanese soldiers.

To reduce the damage to the soldiers from the Japanese artillery fire, Long Fei also ordered the reconnaissance platoon to mount 35mm grenade launchers on their assault rifles, with each soldier carrying three rifle grenades.

They outflanked the Japanese defenses and moved behind their lines to locate and destroy mortar and mountain artillery positions.

The two sides remained in a stalemate, with Long Fei's side not in a hurry to advance, and the Japanese naturally dared not launch a counterattack.

An hour later, two Japanese companies that had come to reinforce from the direction of Zhangnian arrived.

Masanori Tanikawa immediately ordered them to move into position and strengthen defenses.

Just then, a burst of gunfire came from not far behind the Japanese position.

It turned out that the reconnaissance platoon had located the Japanese mortar and mountain gun positions.

The soldiers fired a burst of fire, taking out the Japanese artillery, then adjusted their firing parameters and began shelling the Japanese positions.

This time, the Japanese soldiers were truly stunned.

They couldn't understand how the Nationalist army, which they had easily defeated during the day, could become so formidable at night.

While fierce fighting raged at Sunjiatan, Xu Peng discovered a large number of Japanese soldiers gathering and heading towards Sunjiatan at Zhangnian.

He hurriedly led his assault team and, under the cover of night, successfully bypassed the Japanese defenses.

Xu Peng then ordered a forced march, demanding that they reach the seaside as soon as possible.

At 1:20 a.m., Xu Peng and his commando team successfully reached the beach.

Xu Peng quickly picked up a low-light night vision telescope and began searching the sea for traces of the Japanese submarine.

Fortunately, the weather was nice, and the night sky was full of twinkling stars.

Xu Peng didn't need much time to successfully locate a Japanese submarine, which was floating two kilometers away on the sea.

What pleased Xu Peng the most was that, perhaps because the Nationalist navy had already withdrawn, the Japanese had not set up sentries above the submarine.

"Everyone, get out to sea immediately and swim towards the Japanese submarine at the ten o'clock position."

Two kilometers is a distance the assault team can swim across in less than an hour.

At 2:10, fifty commandos swam to within a dozen meters of the submarine.

The Japanese submarine's hull number suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes—I-68.

Xu Peng searched his memory, and information about the Japanese submarine immediately came to mind.

This is an attack submarine of the Japanese, with an underwater displacement of nearly 2,500 tons.

Its speed is 23 knots on water and 8.2 knots underwater.

续航能力水上10节航速下14000海里，水下3节航速下只有65海里，下潜深度75米。

The submarine is equipped with six 533mm torpedo tubes, four at the bow and two at the stern, carrying 14 torpedoes.

It is also equipped with a Type 88 100mm anti-aircraft gun and a 7.7mm machine gun, with a total crew of 68.

At this point, everyone can clearly observe the external situation of the submarine with the naked eye.

After confirming that there were no Japanese soldiers above the submarine, Xu Peng ordered the assault team to board the submarine.

Everyone carefully climbed onto the submarine deck, and then tiptoed to the open hatch.

Xu Peng lay on the deck, carefully peering over the canopy to observe below, and found no Japanese soldiers.

Xu Peng thought to himself that at this time, the Japanese soldiers in the submarine, except for the personnel on duty, should all be sleeping.