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

When everyone turned around and saw the Kaga starting to sink, their faces lit up with smiles.

In less than an hour, all the assault teams had safely swum back to shore.

After landing, Xu Peng divided the people into three teams, kept their distance from each other, and returned along the same route.

By this time, the sky was already turning white. Before setting off, Xu Peng ordered two red signal flares to be fired into the sky.

In fact, Long Fei had already heard the loud noises coming from the sea from time to time.

In order to ensure the safe return of the assault team, Long Fei ordered the First Company to remain in Sunjiatan to continue to harass and distract the Japanese.

He led the other troops to quietly advance to the Zhangnian line.

The Japanese soldiers left behind by Zhang Nian didn't sleep a wink all night. First, there was a fierce night battle at Sunjiatan, followed by the occasional violent explosions on the sea.

This made the Japanese soldiers left behind in Zhangnian suspicious and paranoid. They held their guns and lay prone behind their bunkers, staying up until dawn.

Just as the Japanese company commander was about to arrange breakfast, he suddenly saw two red signal flares appear in the sky behind him.

"What?! This couldn't possibly be a signal flare fired by our troops. Could the enemy have circled around to our rear?"

The Japanese company commander was quite astute. After confirming his judgment, he ordered a squad leader to lead his squad to investigate the location where the signal flare had been launched.

The squad leader dared not disobey orders and could only command the squad to assemble and depart.

At the same time, the commander of the Japanese fleet, Kiyoaki Kawatani, was raging in the cockpit of his flagship, the Izumo.

"What did you say? The I-68 submarine rammed and sank the Kaga? Baka! How is that possible?"

"We just called I-68 around 3 o'clock, and Tanabe Hirohachi called back to say they were looking for enemy submarines on the sea."

Kawatani Seiyun's mind was buzzing, and his thoughts were a jumbled mess. He couldn't figure out what had happened last night.

But then his subordinates reported that all four aircraft carriers had been sunk by the enemy, and that more than 300 people had been rescued from the other ships.

This news caused Kawatani Kiyoaki to completely break down. He knew that he would definitely be held accountable for this, and in the end, he could only commit seppuku to atone for his sins.

"Continue the search and rescue operation for the people who have fallen into the water. Other ships, maintain combat readiness. You may all leave."

Kawatani Kiyoaki looked dejected and felt utterly powerless. After giving his final order, he waved to the people in the cockpit.

After everyone had left, Kawatani Kiyoyun picked up a short knife, knelt down, pulled open his clothes, and with immense grief and indignation, plunged the knife into his abdomen. Then, gritting his teeth, he cut himself in half.

Unbearable pain immediately filled Kawatani Kiyoyun's entire body. He slowly lay on his side on the cold floor, glanced at the azure sky through the glass, and then died with resentment in his heart.

Xu Peng was leading his assault team back along the route they had taken the night before when suddenly the team at the front sent someone to report that a squad of Japanese soldiers had been spotted advancing in their direction.

Xu Peng thought to himself that there was no way to get around them now, and the only way was to eliminate these Japanese devils.

"Everyone, take cover and kill these Japanese devils."

Upon receiving the order, the fifty commandos immediately dispersed in all directions, forming a three-sided ambush circle.

Xu Peng ordered one of his team members, "Take a few men and lie in ambush on the right. Once the fighting starts here, lead them to outflank the Japanese and launch an attack from behind."

Seven or eight minutes later, fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers, led by a second lieutenant, slowly entered the ambush area.

As Xu Peng raised his hand and brought it down hard, the assault team members aimed at the Japanese soldiers and immediately opened fire.

The marksmanship of special forces soldiers is unmatched by ordinary soldiers. While not every one of them is a sharpshooter, they are absolutely unerring.

After one volley of fire, half of the Japanese soldiers were hit. Before they could react, a second volley of fire came.

The assault team fired two rounds of shots and wiped out more than half of the Japanese soldiers.

The remaining seven or eight Japanese soldiers immediately set up machine guns and returned fire.

Since they couldn't even see the commandos, the Japanese machine guns could only fire randomly without any target.

This posed no threat to the assault team at all. On the contrary, the snipers and the members with crossbows in the assault team would seize the opportunity to take down one Japanese soldier after another.

Meanwhile, several team members who had outflanked the Japanese troops launched an attack and killed several more Japanese soldiers.

Only three to five minutes had passed since the battle began, and Xu Peng, seeing that there were only a few Japanese soldiers left, gave the order.

"Don't linger in the fight. Use grenades to finish off the remaining enemy, then quickly cross Zhangnian and rejoin the battalion commander and the others."

A dozen or so assault team members immediately threw Type 82-2 grenades at the remaining Japanese soldiers.

After the violent explosion, the Japanese side fell silent.

"Advance quickly, but be on guard."

Xu Peng waved his hand to give the order and walked to the front of the group.

Upon hearing that fighting had broken out in this area, the Japanese company commander at Zhangnian immediately ordered his troops to move in this direction and construct a defensive line.

It seems the Japanese are preparing to ambush us while we are at our best.

Long Fei also heard the commotion and guessed that Xu Peng and his men had encountered the Japanese on their way back.

"Order: Advance covertly, keep an eye on these Japanese devils, and be ready to attack and annihilate them at any time."

The scene is quite amusing. Xu Peng is leading his assault team toward Zhangnian, while the Japanese company commander and the remaining troops have established a defensive line along Xu Peng's inevitable route.

Behind the Japanese defense line, Long Fei led several hundred soldiers to surround the Japanese.

The Japanese squadron that Zhang Nian left behind only had a little over a hundred men. One of them had just been wiped out by Xu Peng's assault team, so now they only had two squads left.

Logically, Long Fei could have directly ordered an attack to eliminate them.

However, such a strong attack could easily result in casualties, so Long Fei decided to hold back for the time being.

After Xu Peng and his men appeared, they launched a surprise attack from behind before the Japanese could launch their attack.

In this way, the Japanese soldiers were attacked from both the front and the rear simultaneously, and with only two small squads, the battle could be ended very quickly.

Twenty minutes later, Long Fei spotted Xu Peng and the commando team through his binoculars.

At this moment, the Japanese company commander also picked up his binoculars and observed, spotting Xu Peng and his men.

The Japanese company commander grinned sinisterly: "Hehehe, come on, all of you, die, die!"

Just as the Japanese were secretly gloating, Long Fei had already issued the battle order.

"Sniper, aim at the Japanese company commander and grenade launcher operator, prepare to fire."

"Reconnaissance platoon, prepare to fire rifle grenades."

"Everyone else, get your grenades ready and wait for my order."

Long Fei had no choice but to make this arrangement, since Xu Peng and his men were not far from the Japanese. If hundreds of people on this side fired, they might accidentally injure the assault team members.

Just as the Japanese company commander quietly raised his hand to give the order to fire, Long Fei gave the order before he could.

Just as the Japanese company commander was about to lower his hand, a 7.62mm bullet fired from a high-precision sniper rifle pierced his head.

Almost simultaneously, six Japanese grenade launcher operators and more than a dozen machine gunners were killed by snipers from the special operations battalion.

The Japanese soldiers were waiting for their company commander to give the order when they heard gunshots coming from behind them. Then they saw their company commander fall face down on the ground.

The grenade launcher operator and machine gunner were also shot and killed, which terrified the Japanese soldiers.

Since the start of the war, they had never experienced a battle like this before. They hadn't even seen the enemy, yet so many of their own men had been killed.