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

Okamura Neiji hadn't slept well for several nights in a row, and upon receiving the report, his bloodshot eyes were fixed intently on the map.

After a while, he was still indignant and muttered to himself.

"What?! Did the Dragon Flame Force fly in from the sky? They've managed to divide our forces into four isolated groups."

Suddenly, Okamura Yasuji pointed sharply with his finger at the concession area south of the Suzhou Creek.

"Sog, I understand now, they must have crossed over through the concession."

But even if Okamura Yasuji guessed correctly, so what? He has no power to put pressure on the concession right now, and even the Japanese government is probably helpless.

After all, Gaul has now surrendered to Hans and become its vassal state, and Hans, Rome, and Japan are now the Axis powers.

Should Japan protest to the Hans? Even if they did protest, what would be the result, what could be changed?

As for the Lion Country and the United States in the International Settlement, they are allies of Russia and have already declared war on each other, and are currently locked in a fierce battle in the Pacific.

Okamura Yasuji sighed and ordered all units to launch an attack tonight on the Dragon Flame troops that had infiltrated the area. They must be annihilated or routed.

As the Japanese troops launched a frenzied attack, the two sides fought fiercely.

However, Okamura Neiji's dream of annihilating and defeating the Ryuen infiltration force overnight was completely shattered as dawn broke.

The Japanese attack continued until dawn, but facing the powerful Longyan infiltration force, they suffered heavy losses and were running out of ammunition.

Just as Okamura Yasuji was pondering countermeasures, Xie Qiang had already led most of the ships of the Eastern Fleet to the waters off Shanghai.

After contacting Zhou Weiguo, Xie Qiang, following Long Fei's orders, began the beach landing at Jinshanwei at 6:30 a.m. sharp.

The drones have already conducted aerial reconnaissance of the Jinshanwei coastline and promptly transmitted the specific coordinates of each target to the two fleets.

Each of the two fleets brought a Marine brigade, with 3,000 men per brigade, for a total of 6,000 men.

The guns of ten battleships were aimed at the Japanese fortifications on the shore of Jinshanwei and unleashed a barrage of fire.

Immediately afterwards, fifty landing craft carrying one hundred Type 59 tanks sped toward the coast.

Xie Qiang and Zhou Weiguo's idea was to first send tanks ashore, then establish a foothold on the beachhead to provide cover for the marines who would land later.

The Japanese deployed a division of more than 20,000 troops along the Hangzhou Bay coast, while a regiment defended Jinshanwei.

However, the Japanese regiment had already lost a third of its troops in the recent naval gunfire.

The Japanese no longer have heavy weapons, so they are helpless against the Type 59 tanks that are launching an amphibious assault.

However, the cunning Japanese regimental commander realized that he could not deal with the Dragon Flame Army's tanks.

The order was then given to abandon the attack and open fire on the subsequent landing forces.

After the fifty landing craft delivered the tanks to the shore, they immediately returned to port to load the Marines.

Each of these landing craft has a displacement of 600 tons and can carry a company of marines.

Fifty ships were just enough to equip two Marine Corps brigades.

Immediately afterwards, fifty landing craft carrying Marines arrived at the shore.

However, the landing craft's hatches did not open immediately, and the hundred tanks that had already landed began to slowly advance.

These tanks were about to reach the Japanese troops.

The Japanese regimental commander was forced into a corner. Although he knew that the existing weapons were incapable of destroying these tanks, he still ordered his troops to open fire in a futile resistance.

As a result, after the Japanese opened fire, these tanks immediately stopped advancing.

Less than a minute later, the battleship's guns began firing again.

The enemy's exposed firing positions were instantly wiped out in this round of shelling.

After the shelling ended, the tanks started moving forward again, leaving the Japanese soldiers behind unsure whether to fire or not.

The Japanese weren't stupid; they knew that once they opened fire and were exposed, they would be bombarded into the sky by the enemy's naval guns.

They can stay put without firing, and the enemy tanks will still wipe them out when they arrive.

Just as the Japanese soldiers were hesitating, they noticed that the tanks were beginning to move closer together.

The Type 59 tank is more than three meters wide, so one hundred tanks would be more than three hundred meters wide, plus the gap of a few meters between the tanks.

Before long, a hundred tanks lined up one after another along the coast, forming a steel Great Wall about one kilometer long.

At that moment, the landing craft's hatch opened, and the marines immediately jumped into the knee-deep water and then rushed towards the tanks on the shore.

The defending Japanese troops were dumbfounded; the landing forces were all moving behind the Great Wall of Tanks.

Their line of sight and firing angles have been completely blocked by these tanks.

Some unwilling Japanese soldiers still pulled the trigger, but what they got in return was tank shells and machine gun fire.

Minutes later, the Marines, along with the tanks that had landed earlier, began coordinated infantry and tank advances.

Under the powerful offensive of tanks and marines, the Japanese defenses completely collapsed, and they had no choice but to abandon their positions and retreat rapidly.

Subsequently, with the support of tanks and naval guns, the Marines continued to expand their gains eastward.

Before nine o'clock, the entire Hangzhou Bay coastline was occupied by the Marine Corps.

Just as the Marine Corps launched its amphibious landing, Long Fei also ordered all units to attack the Japanese troops who had been divided and surrounded.

The drone team under Li Bin's command worked tirelessly, reporting the targets detected by the drones to the artillery and air force for precision strikes.

They also used drones to carry missiles and bombs to attack the Japanese.

The Japanese soldiers had never experienced a battle like this before. They discovered the enemy's shells and planes as if they had eyes that could see a thousand miles away.

Every shell and aerial bomb hit their target with perfect accuracy.

As the fighting progressed, countless Japanese soldiers were on the verge of collapse. They felt as if an invisible eye was watching them closely, leaving them nowhere to hide and forcing them to endure the bombing.

By noon, apart from 20,000 to 30,000 Japanese soldiers still putting up a last stand east of the Huangpu River, the troops in the rest of the area had been completely wiped out.

Long Fei then inquired about the casualties of the troops.

Upon learning that more than 500 people had been wounded and more than 100 had been killed, he ordered all troops to halt their offensive.

Ding Zhipan reported that most of the more than one hundred soldiers who sacrificed their lives were killed by the brutal Japanese soldiers who used a suicide attack to take them down with them.

Long Fei understood that the Japanese soldiers, with no way out, would definitely fight like cornered beasts, so it was not surprising that they would take a suicidal action.

Long Fei suspended the attack because he wanted the air force to end the final battle with thermobaric weapons, thus avoiding further casualties among his troops.