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

Around noon, Long Fei's convoy successfully arrived at the outskirts of Taiping Town.

Meanwhile, some wealthy merchants and landlords in the town had already received the news and fled in advance.

Now, those remaining in the town are all impoverished families with nowhere to go. They have no idea how brutal and bloody the approaching Japanese invaders will be.

Even if Long Fei doesn't set up a battle formation in Taiping Town to fight the Japanese, he still needs to find a way to get the town's residents to escape.

After discussing it with everyone, Long Fei agreed that time was of the essence and there was no way to slowly explain the situation to the people and persuade them to leave.

Left with no other choice, Long Fei decided to take a hard line and forcibly drive them away.

Since everyone is wearing Japanese military uniforms anyway, we might as well just pretend to be Japanese.

So Long Fei had Liu Yuqing lead the new battalion and selected dozens of special operations soldiers to mingle among them and speak Japanese.

They were ordered to drive all the townspeople out of Taiping Town within an hour and drive them southwest.

After Liu Yuqing and his men left, Long Fei immediately retrieved one thousand each of the Type 42 wooden box anti-personnel mines, the Type 43 glass mines, and the Type 35 S-type bounding mines from the system warehouse.

Long Fei planned to save the remaining half of the landmines for use in Nanjing. He believed that the three thousand landmines would be enough to deal with a Japanese regiment in Taiping Town.

These three landmines are classic weapons produced by the Hansin Empire during World War II.

Let's start with the Type 42 wooden box anti-personnel mine. This is a copy of the Russian PDM box mine by the Han Chinese, which is also known as the shoebox mine by the Han Chinese.

It involves stuffing TNT and a fuse into a wooden box about the size of a shoebox. Once activated, it explodes when a person steps on the lid.

This landmine is extremely cheap and difficult for engineers to detect. Its only drawback is that it is not very lethal and will not be fatal. It can only cause some damage to infantry, but anyone who steps on it will be immediately incapacitated.

Then there's the Type 43 glass mine, which looks like a chocolate sundae in a glass bowl.

Because the raw material is quartz sand, the cost is very low, and it is difficult for enemy engineers to detect.

It was also filled with TNT explosives, plus a simple pressure-activated fuse.

The key point is that glass shards are quite lethal; back in Normandy, countless American soldiers were awarded the Purple Heart because of them.

Finally, we must mention the Type 35 S-type bounding mine, a particularly vicious mine designed by the Hans.

It was figuratively called a "living widow maker" and once struck fear into the hearts of countless soldiers on the battlefield.

In traditional landmines, most of the explosive energy is absorbed by the soil, with only shrapnel causing damage.

However, the Han Chinese military put their brains to work and believed that this traditional way of detonating landmines would waste a lot of ammunition.

Therefore, they developed a highly innovative landmine – the "Bouncing Betty".

When people first hear this name, they might find it somewhat cute and wouldn't associate this toy-like name with a murder weapon.

But often the most fascinating things are also the most dangerous.

From the outside, it is a cylinder with a diameter of 102 mm and a height of 127 mm, with two "antennas" on the top as an explosive fuse, looking as cute as a chubby little guy.

However, this bounding mine contained approximately 360 steel balls, short iron bars, or pieces of metal.

Once triggered, this bounding mine will not explode immediately, but will quickly bounce to a distance of 1-1.5 meters.

This position is roughly at waist height for soldiers. Once the preset height is reached, the main charge will transform into lethal shotgun shells, which will be fired at extremely high speeds at a horizontal angle.

This bounding mine has a wide blast radius, almost 360 degrees, sweeping across all people within 100 meters without any blind spots.

Soldiers who were shot suffered terribly, either becoming crippled or suffering damage to vital organs.

This weapon, similar to castration, turned countless soldiers into monstrous, neither-male-nor-female creatures.

This is a hundred times more painful than letting them die, and it inflicts a double blow on the wounded soldiers' physical and psychological well-being.

Liu Yuqing instructed everyone to pretend to look fierce and menacing, and to shout loudly.

The dozens of soldiers that Long Fei sent to assist him were speaking Japanese.

After entering the town, they immediately began driving the townspeople out of their homes without saying a word.

There were several hundred households in the town, and when they saw these Japanese soldiers raising their guns and brandishing their gleaming bayonets, they were all trembling with fear.

They dared not ask any more questions and obediently left the town, forced to flee southwest.

To prevent the locals from sneaking back, Liu Yuqing ordered the soldiers to guard all the intersections and strictly blockade Taiping Town.

However, during the process of driving them away, no one stopped the people from taking their money and food with them.

After all, a poor family should travel with plenty of money; even when fleeing from disaster, carrying money and food can help them survive for a while.

"Commander, the town has been completely evacuated."

After receiving Liu Yuqing's report, Long Fei nodded, turned around and ordered Xu Peng to lead everyone to the town to lay mines immediately.

Meanwhile, the reconnaissance personnel arranged by Long Fei had arrived at a location three kilometers away from Taiping Town.

This location was the only way for the Japanese to enter Taiping Town. Long Fei instructed that once the Japanese were spotted, they should be reported immediately by radio.

Meanwhile, Long Fei walked around the town.

Because when the Japanese soldiers enter Taiping Town, Long Fei will need to block all the routes through which they can escape the town.

Let them enjoy the feast of three thousand landmines in the town.

This also made Long Fei's statement, "We must turn Taiping Town into the Japanese morgue," a reality.

After walking around the area, Long Fei had a better understanding of the situation. Taiping Town was right next to Yangcheng Lake to the south, so if the Japanese wanted to escape, they would have no choice but to jump into the lake.

The other three sides are: the east side leads into the town, the west side leads out of the town, and the north side is all paddy fields.

Therefore, Long Fei decided to ambush four Tiger tanks at the east and west ends in advance.

Once the Japanese troops enter Taiping Town, these four tanks will be able to block their escape routes from the east and west.

Of course, the special operations battalion will also block both directions, ensuring that not a single Japanese soldier escapes.

As for the north, Long Fei decided to entrust the defense to the New First Battalion. If the Japanese really disregarded everything and entered the paddy fields, attempting to break through from this direction, they would only find it difficult to advance and become easy targets.

Excluding the three companies left in Xinzhuang, the special operations battalion still has more than 400 people, so the 3,000 landmines would only amount to seven or eight per person.

Around 2 p.m., Xu Peng came to report that all the landmines had been planted.

Not long after, Xie Qiang and his three companies arrived safely in Taiping Town.

Now everything is ready, and we're just waiting for the Japanese 35th Regiment to walk right into our trap.

While there was still time, Long Fei took out all the remaining compressed biscuits and canned food from the system warehouse to fill everyone's stomachs and replenish their energy.

As Long Fei ate his compressed biscuits, he thought to himself that the food supplies were about to run out and he had to find a way to replenish them as soon as possible.

Long Fei didn't want to see his brothers fighting the Japanese on empty stomachs; if that happened, it would only prove that he, as the commander, was incompetent.

Around 4 p.m., the scouts sent a telegram saying that the Japanese had appeared.

Three kilometers is a distance that would normally take the Japanese soldiers at least forty or fifty minutes to cover.

Following Long Fei's instructions, Liu Yuqing led the New First Battalion to ambush north of Taiping Town.

Longfei quickly put all the trucks into the system warehouse.

Then, four Tiger tanks were deployed and ordered to move to the east and west sides, and to find a concealed place to hide temporarily.

The other special operations battalion soldiers were divided into two teams by Long Fei, who were assigned to defend the east and west entrances of Taiping Town respectively.

Just in case, Long Fei also deployed twelve Wild Bee self-propelled artillery pieces.

Instruct them to set up artillery positions at a distance, with the target of the artillery bombardment to be Taiping Town.