Are you a spy? Killing the enemy is too cruel.

Chapter 452 Funeral Days

The troops were marching southwards, towards Shanghai. On the way, Deputy Regiment Commander Deng Benling introduced:

"Commander, according to the information we have gathered, there are about 700 people in the town. They all have weapons, such as pistols, rifles, submachine guns and other light weapons. If our troops enter, those desperate criminals will definitely resist. Should we negotiate with them or just start a fight?"

Ye Feng said, "These guys have lives on their hands. Just shout and surrender to our independent reorganized division."

"Kill those who resist!"

"Those who disobey orders will be killed!"

"Those with evil intentions will also be killed!"

"Gather them together again, confiscate their guns, and if you want to live, dig defensive fortifications for us."

In front of regular troops, the so-called desperadoes are just a bunch of useless trash.

In the end, after killing dozens of bandits, the rest surrendered and laid down their weapons.

While driving these bandits to dig trenches, Ye Feng also began to send people to search for secret passages around the town.

The town is not big. After some searching, we soon found a tunnel leading to the outside world in the backyard of a restaurant. The entrance was a hidden cellar, about three meters deep. The passage was very narrow, barely enough for a person to pass sideways.

Ye Feng asked three scouts to crawl out of the underground passage and check the terrain.

Not long after, the scout came back from outside the town. "Report, the tunnel is about 500 meters long. The exit is on the southern edge of the town. There is a remote path covered with weeds."

Ye Feng asked, "Can this exit be further excavated and expanded to the south?"

The scout said, "We can start digging. The extra soil can be transported out through the exit."

Ye Feng looked aside and said, "Captain Qian, the task of digging the tunnel is now handed over to you. I will assign you two companies of people, a total of 500 people, to work day and night to expand this underground passage to the south by another 1 kilometer."

"Remember, you only have about three days."

"This is our way to survive. If you fail to complete the mission, all of our soldiers may die in this town."

There was another sentence that Ye Feng didn't say.

This small town.

Soon, it will become the graveyard of Japanese divisions.

In this way, the town began to work in full swing, and every soldier was digging trenches and preparing fortifications.

On the other side, the soldiers led by Xiao Jiguang also started a fierce firefight with the Yamamoto Division.

This time, Xiao Jiguang demonstrated the essence of "guerrilla warfare". When the enemy retreated, I advanced; when the enemy advanced, I retreated. I harassed the enemy frantically. The sound of gunfire on this plain continued day and night, and a bloody war was taking place every minute.

Although the Yamamoto Division had advantages in numbers, weapons, firepower, etc., it still could not gain much advantage when facing the desperate Xiao Jiguang.

"idiot!"

Yamamoto Ikki was in the headquarters, and he was furious. "This Xiao Jiguang is simply a madman. He doesn't dare to fight us head-on, and he uses all kinds of conspiracies and tricks to burn down forests, pollute water sources, and send people to harass us day and night with long-range shooting, focusing on killing our scouts..."

As the division commander, Yamamoto Ikki already had a bad feeling in his heart at this time.

His intuition told him that there must be some unspeakable secret behind Xiao Jiguang's reckless fighting.

"Division Commander, I think these Chinese are slowing down our advance and blocking our entry into Shanghai."

"Yes, the Chinese only had one regiment, and we wiped out an entire battalion. They were short of manpower and could not engage us head-on, so they could only come up with these inferior combat operations."

"The more anxious the Chinese are, the more guilty they are. This is a good opportunity for us to break into Shanghai."

"But, according to our scouts' reports, there seems to be a troop of over a thousand people supporting Xiao Jiguang's troops on the opposite side?"

"I heard about it too. It seems they came from Shanghai. I guess they are another motley crowd of reinforcements."

"Something is not right. In order to capture Shanghai once again, we have assembled five divisions with a total force of more than 10. We divided them into three routes to attack. The northern route is our Yamamoto Division, the western route is three divisions, and the southern route is the Fifth Division. We received intelligence yesterday that the Fifth Division attacking from the south has been completely wiped out. At this time, the Chinese actually immediately supported the northern battlefield. What does this mean? It is very likely that Ye Feng, the commander of the Chinese Independent Reorganized Division, has also arrived in this area."

"Super Agent Ye Feng? Is it possible that he is across from us?"

"This is really weird. How on earth was the Fifth Division, known as the ace among the elite, defeated?"

"It is said that it is a biological gas bomb."

"It's ridiculous. How many poison gas bombs could the Chinese have? In my opinion, they were most likely killed. The division commander was assassinated by a super agent, causing the troops to lose their backbone and morale to drop. In the end, they fell into a trap set by the Chinese and were eaten up by them."

"If the other side's division commander Ye Feng really goes to the north to provide support, we must be careful."

"Yes, our most important task is to protect the safety of the division commander."

……

Just as the headquarters was discussing, a messenger ran out in a hurry, "Report, the other part of the Chinese troops has been found. They went all the way south and entered the town of Huangpu. There are about 3000 people. They are currently digging trenches and preparing fortifications around the town."

Defend the town?

The senior Japanese division officers present at the scene couldn't help but have their eyes light up and their expressions became eager to make a move.

Their Yamamoto Division was extremely powerful, but the only difficulty they had was that they could not find the enemy's main force for a decisive battle.

As long as it is a frontal battlefield, we will get ready and start a major offensive and defensive battle.

The commanders of the Yamamoto Division were 100% confident that they could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Not to mention that there is only one regiment on the ground, even if it is a division or an army.

The Yamamoto Division would not be taken seriously either.

Yamamoto Ikki had a gloomy face and was analyzing the battle situation in his mind. This step was probably the Chinese's real combat intention. He wanted to build a defense line in the small town, lure them over to launch an attack, drag them outside the city of Shanghai, and take the opportunity to find an opportunity to swallow up the Yamamoto Division in one bite.

The Chinese had a regiment of 3000 men.

Can it defeat his 2.5-strong elite Japanese division?

From common sense, this is impossible, but Japan already had three divisions, and Ye Feng defeated the strong with the weak, and all of them were wiped out in several battlefields around Shanghai.

"Send an order, instructing each battalion to temporarily set up multiple divisional headquarters to confuse the enemy."

"Gather the main force immediately and move to the town in the south."

"Pull out two squadrons from the Gongzang Regiment, each with 400 soldiers, and secretly march along the eastern coastline, all the way through Woniu Mountain, and simultaneously set out to enter Shanghai, quickly eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces in the city, and eliminate all resistance forces of the Chinese. At the critical moment, you can massacre the city."

Yamamoto Ikki smiled sinisterly, his expression revealing ferocity and cunning, and said word by word:

"Since the Chinese want to hold the main force of our division in the outlying town, we will do as they wish and wait until our two squadrons launch a surprise attack and fully occupy Shanghai. By then, these anti-Japanese armed forces in China will become dogs without a home!"