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

Since it was Long Fei who proposed the plan, and it also received the support of Chen Defa and Chen Yiding, it was a good start.

The command authority naturally belongs to Long Fei.

Next, Long Fei ordered Chen Yiding and Chen Defa to lead their respective troops to retreat to the north of Panlong Town.

After the two teams left, Long Fei quickly retrieved one hundred barrels of gasoline from the system warehouse.

Then, Sun Haitao's Second Company was deployed to various locations south of Panlong Town.

Immediately afterwards, Long Fei led the Second Company to a high point north of Panlong Town and brought out another hundred barrels of gasoline.

The more than 100 people in the Second Company were exhausted after all the work.

Long Fei had no other choice but to do this; he couldn't just conjure up gasoline drums out of thin air in front of thousands of people from the 37th Brigade and the 261st Brigade.

This must have shocked them, so the brothers in the Second Company have to work hard.

At the same time, Long Fei ordered the two Tiger tanks that had been previously allocated to Sun Haitao to be driven into the woods to the north to stand by.

He also instructed the artillery team to find a location to establish mortar positions in the north, and to adjust the firing parameters in advance, targeting Panlong Town.

Finally, Long Fei arranged for the sniper team and the grenade launcher team to ambush on both sides of the southern entrance to Panlong Town.

If the Japanese try to break out to the south, we will work with the assault team to trap them in the town.

After everything was prepared, Long Fei sent someone to summon Chen Defa, Chen Yiding, and Ge Dahai.

"Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ge, I've already prepared the dumpling filling for the Japanese devils. The dumpling wrappers are Panlong Town. Just wait and see what happens."

The three nodded with smiles, having no doubt about Long Fei's words.

However, upon seeing the more than one hundred gasoline barrels around them, all three of them looked puzzled.

"Brother, where did you get so many oil drums?"

Long Fei could only laugh it off: "Brigadier Chen, we found a warehouse abandoned by the Nationalist army along the way. It contained a lot of supplies, so..."

Long Fei didn't go into too much detail, just made up an excuse in the hopes of getting away with it.

Fortunately, although Chen Defa still had some questions, he did not pursue them further.

On the contrary, Ge Dahai started complaining without restraint.

"Which Nationalist army unit is this? This is outrageous! Are they retreating or running away? They're not even taking such important supplies with them."

Chen Yiding didn't speak. He didn't want to think badly of the Nationalist army, otherwise he would feel very aggrieved.

Chen Defa nudged Ge Dahai with his elbow.

"Alright, now's not the time to complain."

Seeing that the brigade commander had already spoken, Ge Dahai had no choice but to shut up immediately.

Fortunately, at this time, the first batch of assault team members retreated into the town, and Long Fei could use this as an excuse to leave without having to discuss the issue anymore.

"You two brigade commanders, you just wait here and watch the show. I'll go ahead and make some arrangements."

After Long Fei finished speaking, he turned to Deputy Battalion Commander Xu Peng and gave him a few instructions, telling him to stay in the north to command.

Then, Long Fei quickly arrived in the town and gave a brief order for them to ambush on the south side.

A short while later, the second batch of assault team members also retreated. After giving them some instructions, Long Fei ordered them to ambush on the other side of the south.

Finally, Xie Qiang led the last group of assault team members to arrive.

"Xie Qiang, was the journey alright?"

Long Fei pulled Xie Qiang aside and asked with concern.

"Battalion Commander, the Japanese devils didn't hesitate at all and kept chasing us, so I didn't fight back and pretended to be fleeing for my life."

"Hmm, very good. You guys will stay here with me and hold off the Japanese. This time, make sure you inflict a lot of pain on them, and then retreat to the higher ground north of the town."

"Hehe, Battalion Commander, just you wait and see. We've all been being chased by the Japanese all this way, and we're all holding our breath in frustration."

Fujita Saburo was eager for revenge, and he had also lost face in front of Nofumi Tokumasa.

Therefore, he acted entirely on his own judgment and ordered the 56th Regiment to pursue them with all its might.

After chasing Fujita Saburo for a while, Nofutoku Masaharu had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

So he kindly reminded him, "Fujita-kun, although the Chinese army is fleeing, they don't seem to be in a panic. You see, they are always keeping a safe distance in front of us. Be careful, they might have some kind of conspiracy."

"Alright, Nofu-kun, we have two regiments. The Chinese army can't do anything to us unless they send two corps."

"Besides, according to intelligence, the main force of the Chinese army has already withdrawn. Are you afraid they will dare to ambush us?"

Fujita Saburo was telling the truth, and Nofu Tokumasa had no way to refute it, so he stopped talking, but his doubts did not subside.

Seeing Tokumasa Nobutomi's timid appearance, Saburo Fujita's arrogance returned.

Both of them were riding tall Japanese horses, and Fujita Saburo slapped Nobutomi Tokumasa's arm with a mocking laugh.

"Nofu-kun, the fleeing Chinese army must have run out of ammunition, otherwise how could they have not ambushed us along the way?"

"So don't be so cowardly. I just checked the map. Panlong Town is just ahead. Once the Chinese army enters the town, we will surround and annihilate them."

Nofutoku Masaharu's 55th Regiment suffered heavy losses, while Fujita Saburo's 56th Regiment was well-organized.

Nofutoku knew that he had to rely on Fujita Saburo as the main force, so he stopped arguing and nodded silently.

Of course, Noritoshi Nobumasa also hoped that Fujita Saburo's judgment was correct and that he was just being paranoid.

Therefore, when Xie Qiang led the last team of assault troops into Panlong Town, Fujita Saburo immediately ordered the entire town to be surrounded and the Chinese army to be wiped out.

"Battalion Commander, what should we do? Fight or not?"

Seeing the swarm of Japanese soldiers rushing forward, Xie Qiang anxiously asked for instructions.

"Of course we fought, but we shouldn't linger. Our goal is to get all the Japanese into Panlong Town."

After receiving Long Fei's approval, Xie Qiang and the other Japanese soldiers, who were only fifty or sixty meters away, immediately ordered to open fire.

The Thompson submachine gun has a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute in full-auto mode.

Therefore, a drum magazine with 100 rounds can be fired in less than a minute.

One hundred Thompson submachine guns can unleash ten thousand rounds of ammunition in one minute.

The sheer density of firepower was terrifying to the Japanese.

"Da da da... da da da..."

Amidst the continuous gunfire, a company of the Japanese 56th Regiment charging ahead was either killed or wounded before they could even fire.

The Japanese soldiers behind them were so frightened that they quickly lay down on the ground and began to fight back.

Fujita Saburo did not expect that he would misjudge. The facts told him that the enemy was not short of ammunition, but rather had plenty.

"Order: Fire the remaining grenade launchers and mortars immediately. Light and heavy machine guns will provide cover for the troops' advance. We must take Panlong Town and annihilate the Chinese army."

At this moment, Long Fei anticipated that the Japanese would definitely launch an artillery attack, so he ordered a retreat without hesitation.

"Alright, that's the end of the 'luring the enemy into the trap' act. Everyone, retreat to the north immediately."

When Fujita Saburo saw Xie Qiang leading his men to retreat quickly to the north of the town, a smug smile appeared on his face again.

He thought to himself, "It seems this was the Chinese army's last stand; they've already escaped."

He immediately ordered: "Advance at full speed! We must not let the Chinese army escape!"