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

Chen Yiding received the good news from Xie Qiang immediately.

"Hehe, Commander Xie did a great job! Now the Japanese in Busan only have two options."

Upon hearing Chen Yiding's words, Bao Dagang, as the chief of staff, immediately asked a question.

"Commander, the Japanese devils in Busan only have one path: death. They don't have two paths."

Chen Yiding laughed, took out a cigarette and handed one to Bao Dagang, then lit one for himself, took two deep drags, and sneered.

"Chief of Staff Bao, the two paths I mentioned are a dead end and a way out."

"Cough cough cough, a way out?" Bao Dagang choked on his smoke upon hearing this.

“That’s right, it’s a way out. So jump into the sea and swim back to the mainland.”

Political Commissar Xu Ke was taking a sip of water when he choked on it.

"Cough cough cough, Commander, your joke is not funny at all. If you ask me, just drive these bastards to the beach and then send them to reunite with their ancestors with artillery fire."

"Haha, Political Commissar Xu, I like your ruthlessness. Alright, we'll do it your way, Political Commissar."

Liu Yuqing and Song Kentang stood to one side and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

At this moment, Chen Yiding threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out forcefully, then gave a serious order.

"Order all units to attack and advance, tighten the encirclement, drive all the Japanese devils to the seaside, surround them with tanks, and then send them on their way with artillery fire."

With over 100,000 Japanese soldiers, having lost their heavy weapons and logistical supplies, retreated all the way to Busan without stopping.

They had been hoping to quickly board a ship and return to their homeland, but instead of receiving a ship, they were met with the final attack from the Dragon Flame Force.

At this time, although the Japanese still numbered over 100,000, they were a hungry and exhausted army.

Lacking heavy weapons, they had little combat capability, let alone the ability to stop the Dragon Flame Army's offensive.

So, more than two hours later, apart from the more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers who were killed or wounded, the rest were all driven to the beach area south of Busan.

At this point, the Southeast Front Army halted its offensive and mobilized all its tanks and armored vehicles, forming an insurmountable Great Wall of Steel.

The Japanese also attempted to surrender, but after the negotiators explained their purpose, the Longyan troops told them to come back immediately.

Next, the Dragon Flame Army's loudspeaker vehicle stepped forward and began broadcasting.

The broadcast told the Japanese soldiers that all the ships that were supposed to pick them up had been sunk, and now they either had to commit suicide or jump into the sea and swim back to their homeland, because the Dragon Flame Army would not accept their surrender.

There were still quite a few fanatical and foolish elements among the Japanese soldiers. Seeing that they had no way out but death, they decided to organize a suicide squad in an attempt to take some members of the Dragon Flame Army with them.

Before long, the Japanese organized a suicide squad of over a thousand men.

These Japanese soldiers carried multiple melon-shaped hand grenades, had bowl-shaped sashes strapped to their foreheads, and held Type 38 rifles with gleaming bayonets.

He shouted, "Great Japanese Empire, Ame-no-Kage, Ame-no-Kage..."

The group launched an attack on the tank wall constructed by the Longyan troops.

The brigade commander of the tank brigade was from Nishikawa and knew some Japanese, so he immediately mocked him with contempt.

"Those bastards are still shouting 'Long live the Emperor!' Long live the Emperor my ass! Fire the cannons and blast these bastards to ashes!"

The more than one hundred tanks of the tank brigade immediately aimed and opened fire.

"Boom boom boom..."

After the shells exploded in rapid succession, countless large craters were blasted into the beach, and sea sand was scattered everywhere.

More than a thousand Japanese suicide squad members were also blown to pieces, and the flying blood and flesh stained the sand in the air dark red.

Soon, the sea sand mixed with bits of flesh fell onto the beach, turning a large stretch of beach into a blood-red sand in the blink of an eye.

Subsequently, the artillery units, following Chen Yiding's orders, began a fierce bombardment.

On the naval front, Xie Qiang also ordered the battleships' guns to join the bombardment.

According to Xie Qiang, during the Battle of Shanghai, our Chinese army suffered brutal bombardment from the Japanese army's large-caliber naval guns.

Often, a single naval gun shell can take the lives of an entire platoon or even an entire company of soldiers.

Now the tables have turned, it's time to show our true skills and let the Japanese devils taste what it's like to be bombarded by naval guns.

The shelling lasted for a full hour, and most of the Japanese soldiers were killed on the beach.

A few Japanese soldiers were so horrified by the horrific scene that they felt it was better to drown in the sea than to be blown to bits by artillery fire.

As a result, at least tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers chose to jump into the sea.

However, without life jackets, these Japanese soldiers did not last long before they all drowned and sank to the bottom of the sea.

At this point, the entire Korean Peninsula was under the control of the Dragon Flame Army.

Xie Qiang, following Long Fei's orders, left four destroyers and two submarines in the Korean Strait to continue blockading the strait and to guard against any potential Japanese fleet.

He then led the remaining ships at full speed toward the waters off Shanghai.

In the past few days, some new situations have emerged within China.

Long Fei's plan clearly worked. After the Japanese troops in Henan retreated to Anhui, they found that Long Yan's troops were in hot pursuit, so they dared not stop and continued to retreat to Jiangsu without stopping.

Meanwhile, the Japanese troops stationed in Anhui, seeing that the Japanese troops in Henan had safely withdrawn, feared being surrounded by the Longyan troops from the east and west and trapped in northern Anhui, so they also took the initiative to withdraw to Jiangsu.

Following Long Fei's instructions, Liu Yuqing divided his forces, sending one part to attack Hubei and the other part to reclaim the entire territory of Anhui.

Next, Liu Yuqing handed over Henan, which had already been liberated, to the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, and Anhui to the New Fourth Army.

Then, Liu Yu ordered the troops in Anhui to advance towards Nanjing and Xuyi, making it appear as if they were going to encircle northern Jiangsu and block the Japanese troops of the Southeast Front Army.

At this time, Long Fei also ordered the Southeast Front Army to resume its offensive, forcing the Japanese to retreat towards Shanghai.

Hata Shunroku, of course, did not see through Ryufei's intention to have another battle with him in Shanghai.

While urging the ships from the mainland to arrive in Shanghai as soon as possible, Hata Shunroku also ordered all troops to accelerate their assembly in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Just as Chen Yiding was leading the Northeast Army southward across the Korean Peninsula.

When Liu Yuqing's troops entered Hubei, they found that the Japanese had already retreated and they had not encountered any resistance along the way.

Now that the Japanese had given up their defense, Liu Yuqing became bolder.

He ordered the troops in Hubei to quickly occupy Hunan and Jiangxi, in units of divisions or even regiments, and then launch an attack eastward towards Zhejiang.

He would then send troops to attack Zhejiang from southeastern Anhui, with two armies attacking the Japanese forces in Zhejiang from both sides, forcing them to flee north.

If all goes well, under the relentless pressure from the Longyan troops, the Japanese will have at least 200,000 troops gathered in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang.

At that time, if we had just put in a little more effort, we could have driven all the Japanese devils into the Shanghai-Nanjing area.

Although Zhou Weiguo's southern fleet has now arrived in the waters off Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

However, Long Fei did not allow him to immediately launch an attack on the Japanese warships anchored at the coastal dock.

Because Long Fei didn't want the Japanese to know in advance that their sea retreat route had been cut off, he had to keep them in the illusion of being able to retreat by sea.

In this way, the Japanese soldiers will be obediently led by the nose by Long Fei.

This enabled Long Fei to plan the Second Battle of Shanghai.

Long Fei had two purposes in fighting the Second Battle of Shanghai: to annihilate the Japanese and avenge the martyrs of the First Battle of Shanghai.

He also wanted to take advantage of this battle to reclaim all the foreign concessions in Shanghai.