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

The three million-strong army cobbled together by the vassal states was merely a formality born of desperation.

Therefore, they had no fighting spirit whatsoever, and faced with the strong counterattack of the Longyan troops and the Volunteer Army, they collapsed instantly.

They thought that surrendering would save their lives, but they never expected that the other side would not accept their surrender at all, and all the mediation efforts of various countries were sternly rejected.

Logically, with no way out, the vassal state's army should have fought to the death, but these bastards completely collapsed.

Faced with an overwhelming number of Type 99A tanks and armored personnel carriers, as well as a large number of armed helicopters in relentless pursuit.

The vassal state's army was utterly terrified, and they scattered in all directions, desperately trying to find a way to survive.

The two million Japanese troops, having received Yamamoto Masayoshi's order to retreat, withdrew to Busan Port in the south at top speed.

As a result, when they arrived at the north bank of the Imjin River and prepared to cross it, they were met with fierce resistance from the first line of defense built by Zeng Zesheng on the south bank.

Seeing their retreat route cut off, the Japanese army panicked and immediately launched a frantic attack, attempting to break through the defenses and cross the Imjin River.

Zeng Zesheng deployed 30,000 troops along the Imjin River, while the remaining 50,000 troops were stationed along the North Han River to form a second line of defense.

The 30,000 troops at the Imjin River faced unprecedented pressure. Although they could use the Imjin River as a natural barrier, the Japanese forces launching a river-crossing attack at the same time numbered no less than 100,000.

Facing the Japanese invaders, who possessed superior weaponry and outnumbered them several times over, these 30,000 troops showed no fear and fought desperately to resist them.

After a day of fierce fighting, the 30,000 troops, lacking heavy weapons, suffered more than half casualties and were still unable to stop the Japanese from crossing the Imjin River. The Imjin River defense line was breached by the Japanese.

Long Fei's task for Zeng Zesheng was to hold off the enemy for three days. Now, only one day has passed, and the first line of defense has been breached, which makes Zeng Zesheng very worried.

He assessed the situation and quickly made new adjustments, ordering the more than 10,000 troops that had withdrawn to immediately construct blocking positions on the north bank of the Han River.

Zeng Zesheng's idea was that even if the entire force of more than 10,000 troops were wiped out on the north bank of the Han River, they would fight to the death to resist the Japanese for a day.

His remaining 50,000 troops were stationed on the south bank of the Han River, aiming to hold off the Japanese for another one or two days. In addition to completing the tasks assigned by Long Fei, they also wanted to do their best to buy as much time as possible.

Although Long Fei entrusted this arduous task of blocking the enemy to Zeng Zesheng, he did not mean to abandon him.

After breaking out of the Langlin Mountains, Long Fei immediately ordered the long-range box rocket artillery units to follow the rapidly pursuing heavy combined arms brigade and advance southward.

This rocket launcher has a range of four to five hundred kilometers, and theoretically it could reach the 38th parallel from the Yalu River.

Ten long-range box rocket artillery battalions, following the heavy combined arms brigade, advanced over a hundred kilometers south and found a suitable location.

Then, using satellite positioning and navigation, they began to launch long-range attacks on the retreating Japanese troops.

However, the Japanese had two million troops, spread across a front more than 100 kilometers wide, and they had to reload their rockets after each round of firing.

Therefore, although these ten rocket artillery battalions fired a total of ten rounds of rockets, totaling tens of thousands of rockets, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties among the Japanese,

However, this only relieved some of the defensive pressure on Zeng Zesheng's troops, and ultimately failed to stop the Japanese from crossing the Imjin River.

Fortunately, with this precious day, the air force and navy immediately began training in human-machine and human-ship operations after the army occupied the airports and ports, while the army continued to pursue and annihilate the vassal state's forces.

After Xie Qiang launched a surprise attack on the Japanese capital, he was targeted by Japanese warships. Fortunately, he managed to escape their anti-submarine attack by diving in an emergency.

Afterwards, Xie Qiang ordered the submarine to head towards Shanghai, the capital of China.

Once it was safe, Xie Qiang ordered the submarine to surface and make contact with Long Fei.

Xie Qiang reported that, given that the submarine no longer had missiles or torpedoes and had completely lost its offensive capabilities, he wanted to sail the submarine to Shanghai and hand it over to the Chinese government.

Xie Qiang believes that entrusting such an advanced nuclear submarine to China for research could at least greatly shorten the development time.

After learning that Xie Qiang was safe, Long Fei ordered him to change course and immediately sail to Dandong, near the mouth of the Yalu River, where he would await further orders.

The day after Zeng Zesheng's troops put up a fierce resistance, the more than 10,000 troops on the north bank of the Han River were wiped out in less than half a day, and the Japanese then began to forcefully cross the Han River.

Although there were 50,000 troops on the south bank of the Han River, Zeng Zesheng had to detach 10,000 to guard the southern direction.

Beware of the Japanese troops or allied forces remaining in the south attacking from the north to support the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Han River.

Therefore, it is easy to imagine the difficulty of these 40,000 troops with only light weapons trying to stop the remaining more than one million Japanese soldiers.

However, before setting off, Zeng Zesheng made it very clear to his 80,000 soldiers that this blocking mission was extremely dangerous and that he was determined to die.

Therefore, these 40,000 soldiers, fearless of death, went forward one after another, and blocked the path of more than one million Japanese soldiers.

However, the cost was also heavy. After a day of fighting, less than 20,000 of the 40,000 troops remained.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese received urgent orders from Yamamoto Masayoshi, instructing them to break through the enemy's defenses at all costs and reach Busan Port as soon as possible.

Therefore, after dinner, the Japanese troops launched a river crossing operation overnight.

Along the more than 100-kilometer front, the Japanese had successfully crossed the river in several places.

After crossing the river, the Japanese quickly established positions to cover the subsequent troops crossing the Han River, which put great pressure on Zeng Zesheng's side.

Zeng Zesheng knew that the Japanese must not be allowed to cross the river successfully. They had to eliminate or drive back the Japanese who had already crossed the river in order to complete the mission of blocking the enemy for three days.

Therefore, Zeng Zesheng ordered his troops to charge the Japanese.

As the clarion call to charge sounded, 20,000 soldiers charged towards the Japanese invaders like tigers descending a mountain.

Fortunately, only a few thousand Japanese soldiers successfully crossed the river, and with the darkness of night, they were unaware that Zeng Zesheng's side only numbered twenty to thirty thousand.

So, in their panic, the Japanese were no match for this incredibly fierce charge. Most of their troops that crossed the river were annihilated, and only a small number escaped back to the north bank of the Han River.

The Japanese soldiers were frightened and dared not launch another attack, deciding to wait until dawn.

Although they successfully held off the Japanese invaders on the north bank of the Han River, several thousand of the 20,000 soldiers were lost.

Zeng Zesheng knew that dawn would be the final moment, at which point he would have no choice but to recall the 10,000 troops guarding the south.

Even so, he had no idea how long those 20,000 troops could hold out.

But Zeng Zesheng and everyone else understood one thing: the Japanese could only cross the Han River and escape south if they were all dead, unless they stepped over their corpses.

Long Fei was deeply worried after receiving the battle reports from Zeng Zesheng from time to time.

However, the army is now making every effort to wipe out the vassal state's army. After these two days, the vassal state's army now has less than a million soldiers left.

At most tomorrow, we can completely wipe them out.

Therefore, Long Fei decided to select five heavily armed combined arms brigades to form an assault group and set off overnight to advance rapidly southward.

We must reach the north bank of the Han River before dawn and launch a fatal attack on the Japanese army from the rear.

In addition, Long Fei inquired with the Air Force and Navy to find out whether their final training had been completed.

As a result, Long Fei received some exciting news, and he decided to launch a full-scale counterattack the next day.

Kao Ming-chiu and Chou Kuang-yi reported that although the number of airports is limited, at least half of the fighter jets are ready for immediate combat.

As for the remaining half of the fighter jets, pilots will be able to master them and participate in combat after tomorrow.

On the naval front, Xie Qiang and Zhou Weiguo could only allocate one-third of their warships for the soldiers to conduct integrated training between the soldiers and the ships due to port limitations.

However, one-third of the warships have already achieved combat readiness and can set sail for battle after dawn.

Long Fei estimated that, based on the current combat capabilities of the air force and navy, they are sufficient to rival the air and naval forces of Japan and its vassal states.

Therefore, Long Fei ordered the navy to split into two fleets and set off overnight to head south. One fleet was responsible for clearing out enemy warships in the western waters of the Korean Peninsula.

The other force sped towards the Tsushima Strait to annihilate the Japanese fleet deployed in the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula.

As for the air force, Long Fei ordered them to take off immediately after dawn to support Zeng Zesheng's troops, and to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army along the Han River.