I want them all to live.

"Squeak squeak".

Only ten minutes had passed when Rat Five returned to Lu Chen's side, squeaking incessantly.

"understood."

Lu Chen stopped letting Rat Five follow the Japanese army; there was no point in doing so.

Rat Five just told him that the Japanese army had already gone into that building.

At such a great distance, Lu Chen didn't know what he could do. At least, besides controlling the rats, he had no other way to ensure that he wouldn't be exposed.

......

......

Having participated in countless battles, Wang Deming quickly calmed down in the face of this unexpected situation.

The Japanese soldiers were still some distance from the top floor where they were. Wang Deming quietly retreated, waking the soldiers one by one and telling them not to make a sound, that the Japanese were coming.

The soldiers immediately perked up, picked up their guns, and received Wang Deming's silent hand gesture.

They tiptoed to the stairwell, watching the silver swords gleaming in the dim light, and loaded their bullets, ready to fire at any moment.

The stairwell was narrow, only wide enough for one person to walk up. Wang Deming arranged for his soldiers to surround the stairwell.

The Japanese soldiers could only climb up the stairs one by one, and they would kill each one who came up!

ta ta ta ......

In the quiet darkness, the sounds of Japanese soldiers going upstairs were particularly clear.

"Baka yarou!"

A Japanese soldier walked at the front, his face full of excitement, and was the first to climb to the top floor.

boom! !

A gunshot shattered the silence of the night as Wang Deming blew the Japanese soldier's head open.

"beat!"

Wang Deming gave the order, and the firelight immediately began to flicker in the darkness.

"Baka!"

The sudden attack threw the Japanese army into disarray. Due to the confined terrain, the Japanese army could only suffer losses and could not even launch an effective counterattack.

The Japanese soldiers at the front were the first to die, their bodies rolling down the stairs, piling up one after another, causing many Japanese soldiers to fall off the stairs.

Adding to the chaos, many people accidentally fell straight to the ground from the sixth floor, dying instantly.

Only some Japanese soldiers who were at the back managed to escape.

"Damn those Japanese devils, they actually launched a counterattack?"

"Thank goodness the commander wasn't asleep, or we'd be in big trouble!"

Although the Japanese attack was dangerous, Wang Deming's side had the advantage and killed more than ten Japanese soldiers without suffering any casualties.

"The Japanese shouldn't be coming again, everyone should rest a bit more."

As the sky outside the collapsed wall gradually cleared, Wang Deming knew that dawn was approaching.

The Japanese army will definitely continue their attack after daybreak, so we must take advantage of this time to rest and recuperate.

Watching his soldiers lie down to rest, exhausted, Wang Deming couldn't fall asleep.

"mouse......"

He's obsessed with rats right now. When he was outside Shanghai, rats would suddenly attack the Japanese troops. This time, when the Japanese troops launched a counterattack, a rat even brought him a note to remind him.

That's really not realistic...

Shaking his head to clear these random thoughts from his mind, Wang Deming hadn't slept for two days and two nights, and he was now extremely exhausted.

"Tomorrow should be the final wave of the attack."

After muttering to himself, Wang Deming ignored the mess on the ground and lay down to rest.

......

"Baka! It's so late, why aren't they asleep yet?"

In the Japanese camp, Murakami Takayuki, his face contorted with rage, slammed his fist on the table in front of him.

He was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army's attack on Shanghai, and the Japanese army has now completely surrounded the building.

Within the entire Chinese-controlled area of ​​Shanghai, only this limited force of the National Revolutionary Army was putting up a stubborn resistance.

"First the rats, now the sneak attack failed—what's going on?!"

Murakami Takayuki was furious. Before the war, he had boasted that he could occupy the Chinese-controlled area of ​​Shanghai at a very low cost.

The plan was proceeding as scheduled, but suddenly the rats went berserk and started biting the Japanese soldiers.

Even now, the Japanese army has suffered considerable losses, but there are only a dozen or so people in the building in front of him, and they have not been able to take it down. How could he not be furious?

"At daybreak, I'll pay any price to take them down in one fell swoop, or you'll be committing seppuku to punish His Majesty the Emperor!"

Murakami Takaan left in anger, leaving only a few Japanese officers inside the house bowing and receiving orders.

During the day, we will launch the final attack, at all costs! We must breach this building!

......

"We held on!"

Hearing the gunshots from inside the building and the panicked Japanese soldiers fleeing, Lu Chen knew that his information had been effective.

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

"Squeak!"

Apart from Mouse One and Mouse Five, the other four mice all returned at this time, squeaking incessantly.

Lu Chen, who was in a good mood, frowned again upon hearing their news.

The Japanese army was preparing poison gas, and several people in white clothes were captured by the Japanese army and brought to the position.

"White clothes?"

Lu Chen thought of the doctors he had seen treating the wounded outside Shanghai; they must have been captured by the Japanese army.

"Rat Three, take ten rats to the place where the Japanese are preparing poison gas, and bite through the tubes of their gas masks... those strange things they wear on their faces."

"Send the rest of the rats back to the sewers at my feet and wait for my command."

Lu Chen quickly assigned tasks, and all five rats except for Rat Three climbed onto his shoulder.

"Squeak squeak".

Rat Three responded and disappeared in a flash.

Then Lu Chen felt a tremor under his feet, which disappeared a few seconds later.

He knew that all the rats in the French Concession were now at his feet, and that they would obey his orders without question and tear the Japanese army apart.

Lu Chen felt that this way of conveying messages was too inefficient, and sometimes the rats didn't understand the meaning at all, which meant that he sometimes had to listen for a long time before he understood.

"We need to find a way to get a bugging device."

After obtaining the listening device, select a relatively clever mouse to carry with the Japanese army. Then, relying on your proficiency in Japanese, you can steal unlimited information from the Japanese army!

"By the way, Rat Two, take some rats to find the weak points in the Japanese encirclement, and then come back and tell me."

Looking at the building surrounded by Japanese positions, Lu Chen suddenly ordered Rat Two to investigate.

Without hesitation, Rat Two jumped off Lu Chen's shoulder and led several rats across the bridge to the Huajie side.

Indeed, Lu Chen was not content with merely harassing the Japanese army. He had known about the Japanese army's actions against China since childhood, driven by national and personal grievances.

Lu Chen's hatred for the Japanese army had already reached its peak in his previous life.

He wanted everyone inside the building to survive! He wanted to get them out!

Lu Chen didn't know who they were, nor did he know that this was the beginning of the famous Eastern meat grinder in later generations.

All he knew was how similar the scene before him was to the movie "The Eight Hundred" in later generations.

Therefore, he was determined to do everything in his power to bring them out and escape the Japanese encirclement!