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

Long Fei led a company of five trucks from their base and headed straight for Xiaguan Wharf.

When we arrived at a place called Dama Road near Xiaguan Wharf, we found at least a hundred people gathered on the road.

These people completely blocked the road, making it impossible for Long Fei's convoy to pass.

Xie Qiang, who was in the first car leading the way, immediately got out to find out what was going on.

After struggling through the crowd, Xie Qiang discovered three Nationalist soldiers surrounded by the local people.

These three Nationalist soldiers were all officers: a major, a captain, and a second lieutenant.

Xie Qiang noticed that the people were agitated and were all loudly criticizing the three Nationalist officers.

Out of fear, the three Nationalist officers actually drew their sidearms and pointed them at the civilians surrounding them.

Xie Qiang grabbed a middle-aged man and asked, "Uncle, what exactly happened?"

The man pointed at the three officers and began to accuse them with righteous indignation.

"These three scoundrels of the National Revolutionary Army were no good at fighting the Japanese, but they were very good at bullying the common people."

“They had been drinking last night and broke into the house in the middle of the night, where they insulted the woman of the house.”

"This morning, the woman and her husband escaped while those three beasts were asleep and called for help. That's how we neighbors found out."

"Of course we wouldn't allow them to leave, and we demanded that the Nationalist army commander give us an explanation. We never expected that these three beasts would point guns at us."

After learning what had happened, Xie Qiang gave the three Nationalist officers a disdainful look, turned around and left to report to Long Fei.

"Damn it, how dare they bully ordinary people! They're so damn hateful. Let's go take a look."

Upon hearing Xie Qiang's report, Long Fei was instantly enraged. He immediately opened the car door, got out, and walked towards the crowd.

Xie Qiang immediately ordered the soldiers of the first company to get off the vehicle and go to the scene to maintain order, just in case.

Long Fei walked up to the three Nationalist officers and noticed a woman in her late twenties squatting on the ground not far away, her eyes red and sobbing.

A man was standing next to her, his arm around her, quietly comforting her.

Long Fei, his face stern, angrily asked, "Which unit are you from?"

The leading major, seeing that Long Fei was wearing a Sichuan Army uniform, replied arrogantly.

"Why should we tell you which unit we belong to? Besides, what business is it of yours? You, a ragtag army, dare to interfere with our Central Army?"

Long Fei sneered and tossed his head at Xie Qiang: "Take their guns away."

"Yes."

Xie Qiang waved his hand, and more than a dozen special forces soldiers immediately rushed forward with Thompson submachine guns, pointing the dozen or so dark gun barrels at the three officers.

The special forces soldier then shouted in an unquestionable tone, "Put down your guns immediately, or we'll shoot."

The three Nationalist officers were clearly frightened.

"No...don't shoot, we'll surrender..."

Long Fei then asked again, "I'll give you one more chance. Tell me your unit number and your rank."

The three Nationalist Army officers exchanged glances, and the leading major continued arrogantly.

“I’ll tell you then. We are from the 523rd Regiment of the 260th Brigade of the 87th Division. I am Chen Li, the battalion commander, he is Xiao Ming, the company commander, and this is Lu Dong, the platoon leader.”

After revealing his identity, Chen Li didn't forget to threaten Long Fei.

“We are a German-equipped division of the Central Army. I advise you ragtag troops to mind your own business.”

"Clap clap..."

Without warning, Long Fei slapped Chen Li twice across the face.

Long Fei slapped Chen Li hard, and after those two slaps, Chen Li's face swelled up at a visible speed, and a trickle of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"You fucking dare to hit me..."

"Pa bang..."

Long Fei slapped him twice more, and after he finished, he said jokingly, "You can continue to be arrogant, and I can continue to hit you."

Chen Li was in excruciating pain at this moment, and not only was he unable to curse, but even if he could, he dared not to.

The surrounding villagers, seeing Long Fei teach Chen Li a lesson, all shouted and clapped in delight.

At this moment, a dozen or twenty military police officers who had received the news arrived at the scene.

"Disperse, disperse, don't obstruct the military police from performing their duties."

The military police captain leading the team walked over, pointed at the three officers, and gave instructions to his subordinates.

"Take them back to the military police headquarters."

Just as the military police were about to take the three officers away, Long Fei spoke up.

"and many more……"

The military police captain turned to look at Long Fei and said disdainfully, "What are you waiting for? What are you doing here?"

Long Fei said to the military police captain in a deep voice, "Do you talk so arrogantly? Is the military police so great?"

Seeing that Long Fei spoke with great arrogance and that he couldn't figure out his background, the military police captain toned down his tone.

"Which unit are you from? We are military police on official duty, please do not interfere."

Long Fei said expressionlessly, "I'm going to interfere, so what do you say?"

The military police captain was taken aback by Long Fei's retort and didn't know how to respond.

Chen Li wasn't stupid. He saw that Long Fei didn't even put the military police in his eyes, so he knew that the other party must have something to rely on.

He suddenly felt a sense of fear, afraid that he would fall into Long Fei's hands. Judging from Long Fei's behavior, he might kill the three of them.

So Chen Li covered his face, enduring the excruciating pain, and shouted to the military police captain.

“Report to Liu Qixiong, the brigade commander of the 260th Brigade of the 87th Division, immediately. He is my brother-in-law. Ask him to come and rescue me.”

Seeing that Long Fei had a large and powerful force, Chen Li feared that even the military police would be unable to resist him. In desperation, he decided to bring up his brother-in-law.

After all, his brother-in-law was a graduate of the second class of the Whampoa Military Academy and a major general brigade commander. With that kind of status, he didn't believe that Long Fei would dare to disrespect him.

When the military police captain heard that Chen Li was the brigade commander's brother-in-law, he didn't dare to be negligent and immediately went to the nearby Jiangnan Post Office to make a phone call.

Actually, it would have been better if Chen Li hadn't brought up his brother-in-law Liu Qixiong; Long Fei was even angrier after hearing it.

Long Fei knew that Liu Qixiong had been captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Nanjing and then surrendered to them, becoming a staunch traitor.

Liu Qixiong was the only Nationalist general to surrender to the Japanese during the Battle of Nanjing, and after becoming a traitor, he committed many heinous crimes.

What's most infuriating is that after the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan, Liu Qixiong mysteriously disappeared and did not receive the punishment he deserved.

Long Fei thought to himself, "They're all in cahoots. My brother-in-law is a traitor, and my brother-in-law is bullying ordinary people."

Today I'm going to teach you a lesson.

Long Fei then raised his hand and shouted, "Everyone, quiet down and listen to me."

Upon hearing Long Fei's shouts, the crowd of people who had been blocking the road immediately fell silent.

Long Fei continued loudly, "As officers of the National Revolutionary Army, we should always keep in mind our mission to defend our country."

"But these three officers are truly scum of the Nationalist army. Instead of killing the Japanese properly, they dare to humiliate innocent women."

"According to the Nationalist government's Ten Kill Orders issued during the War of Resistance against Japan, Article 4 states that anyone who enters a civilian's house without permission will be killed, and Article 6 states that anyone who harasses a woman will be killed."

"I have decided to execute these three officers to give justice to the victims, to give everyone an explanation, and at the same time to warn all officers and soldiers of the National Army."