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Text Chapter 537: Battle for the Outskirts of Tongliao

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    After the Battle of Bayantala, both Chen Hanzhang and Chuan Bingmi met by chance and adjusted their deployments at the same time. The intentions of both of them were actually very simple. Chen Hanzhang wanted to capture Tongliao as soon as possible.  Control Kailu and open up direct contact with Wang Guangyu.

    His opponent Kawami's idea is very simple, that is, to hold on for as much time as possible to ensure the flank security of the two divisions attacking Linxi, and to buy time for the Kwantung Army headquarters to adjust its deployment. For Tongliao, Umezu Yoshijiro  The general's order to him was that even if only one soldier was left, Tongliao and Kailu would never be lost.

    Compared with the Linxi battlefield, the Kwantung Army headquarters paid far more attention to the Tongliao battlefield. Since the battle in the direction of Bayantala, General Umezu Yoshijiro and Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadichi sent a telegram almost a day, strictly ordering the 14th Division.  The regiment must stick to the front line of Tongliao at all costs.

    Afraid of the majesty of the general commander, his deep connections in the army, and the favor he received from the emperor, even Lieutenant General Kawaami did not dare to disobey his orders too obviously. In reality,  We were already in an unfavorable situation and abandoned the Tongliao front line.

    In fact, Chen Hanzhang gave up the fight for the periphery and concentrated his main force and tanks on the two key points of the county. He was definitely not preparing to pick on the weak. Perhaps the siege of Kailu County was relatively simple, but the attack on Tongliao County  Attacking is definitely not that easy.

    In Sichuan Bingmi, he was very self-aware and took the initiative to shrink the troops in the periphery. Except for the main strongholds outside the county, he reduced all the remaining troops and firepower to the two county towns.  The main force of the 14th Division can be used as a barrier. One can imagine the difficulty Chen Hanzhang faced.

    The most disadvantageous thing is not the strength of the Japanese army, but the terrain restrictions that make the attacking troops destined to attack from the east and south. In this way, although the Xiliao River, the natural barrier of Tongliao County, can be avoided, but  The front left for attack seemed unusually narrow.

    At this time, the water volume was abundant and the river channel was wide. Far from comparable to the Xiliao River that had almost stopped flowing in later generations, the direction of the river in Tongliao completely turned around on the edge of Tongliao County. The river channels in the west and north directions were like a pair of rivers.  Like big hands, it embraces Tongliao County in its arms.

    Although such a geographical environment is prone to floods, it is quite beneficial to defense during wartime. Tongliao County is located at a turning point of the Xiliao River. Even its west wall is close to the Xiliao River Embankment. It can be said that Xicheng  The gate is the West Liao River embankment.

    The distance between the north gate and the Xiliao River Embankment is only four or five miles. Even if it is less than this distance, if a moat is included, there will be two fairly wide trenches connected in the middle, and the entire north and  In the vast area to the west, without sufficient tools for crossing the river, there is only one bridge in the west that can be used as a crossing channel.

    If the troops choose to forcibly cross the Xiliao River from the front of Tongliao County, they will not only face firepower in the city, but also with Tongliao County on the other side, even if the troops break through the Japanese defense line of the Xiliao River, it will be difficult to achieve sufficient offensive depth.

    Even if the attacking troops can break through the Japanese defenses along the river in the north and west of Tongliao City, the attacking troops crossing the river will still be in a desperate situation with no way to retreat. Even the attacking troops are likely to be intercepted by the Japanese troops and in mutual danger.  Unable to respond, if we choose to cross Tongliao head-on, even if we can capture Tongliao County, the cost of casualties will be huge.

    Although Lieutenant General Chuan Bingmi abandoned various fortification groups on the railway line between Tongliao and Shuangliao, he still maintained the entire triangular defense-type permanent formation on the north bank of the Xiliao River starting from Yanjiaweizi in the north, Xinglongtun in the east, and Sanhetun in the west.  The fortification group and the defense lines formed by using the Xiliao River system on the north and west sides of Tongliao County did not give up.

    If the troops choose to break through from this direction, the progress will be delayed even longer, so Chen Hanzhang chose a frontal containment, and the main force detoured from the flanks to the east of Tongliao County and was outside the artillery range of the city, and chose a location to forcibly cross the Xiliao River to avoid  A heavy concentration of Japanese troops.

    Although the troops avoided Tongliao County, which was heavily guarded by the Japanese army, and were temporarily freed from the multi-layered fire suppression and interception they might encounter when crossing the river, when they chose to attack the front, they seemed a bit narrow, but in the absence of tools to cross the river,  Under the circumstances, it is also a more favorable choice, and it is also conducive to accelerating progress.

    The 53rd and 54th regiments of the 18th Division, which were responsible for fighting in the direction of Tongliao, moved quickly. The two battalions of the 54th regiment and the strengthened 1st battalion of the 53rd regiment broke through the Xiliao River from Jiaogan to Dahan.  After the Japanese defense, they immediately turned around and headed west. With the support of tanks, and after repeated battles, they successively captured Qian, a defensive support point in the northeast of Tongliao County.Store, Kongjiawo Fort.

    The two battalions of the 53rd Regiment adopted the tactic of killing a chicken with a knife, braved the intensive artillery fire from the Japanese artillery position outside the north gate of Tongliao on the south bank of the West Liao River, and used continuous blasting to seize the 14th position on the north bank of the north bank of the West Liao River on the north front of Tongliao.  The last two supporting points of the division are Sanhetun and Hanjiaweizi.

    Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment who commanded the operation, was very smart. When he arrived at the Bayantala battlefield as the vanguard of the 18th Division, he had watched the battle with the attacking troops of the 3rd Division and knew that the Japanese fortifications in front of him were extremely strong.  , with the strong artillery cover of the Japanese army on the south bank of the river, and the Xiliao River behind him, he could not make a roundabout way to fight, and could only attack head-on from the front, resulting in an unusually narrow attack surface.

    Faced with this situation on the battlefield, unless he planned to use up all his troops, he could only outwit but not attack by force. After carefully observing the Japanese fortification group, he used a smoke screen to cover the assault of the troops, and used the flames assigned to him to  All the injectors were allocated to two sharp knife companies.

    Under the circumstance that the enemy's covering firepower on the other side was quite dense, he did not adopt an attack posture of two battalions advancing head-on, nor did he use battalions and companies as the combat organization. Instead, he adopted a coordinated attack by squads and platoons in a point-to-point combat mode.  The platoon was used as the attack force to launch the organic unit, and one recoilless rifle and one 12mm anti-aircraft machine gun were strengthened. As for the company's rocket launchers and general-purpose machine guns, they were all transferred to the squad.

    As for the main attack platoon, he not only strengthened a flamethrower, but also assigned a squad from the regiment's engineer company. He equipped all the explosives on hand to the three main attack platoons that directly penetrated the three core fortifications.  All the mortars of the third level of the regiment, battalion and company, and the captured 92 infantry gun were gathered together, plus the regiment's 14mm machine gun, to form three fire support groups according to the distance of the range, specifically to fight against the Japanese counterattack  clusters, and blocked the Japanese army's communication trenches, cutting off the Japanese army's front and rear support.

    Although his tactics and equipment configuration were different from what Chen Hanzhang required, his performance on the battlefield was extremely outstanding, even far beyond his imagination. Under the cover of the infantry, he deployed it to the main attack core fortifications.  A group of engineers from several sharp knife platoons used continuous blasting to completely destroy the entire Japanese fortification group on the north bank without receiving artillery cover behind them.

    The tactics were used properly. After only two hours of fighting, the 53rd Regiment, with a total strength of no more than two battalions, overfulfilled the division commander Wang Jun's order to eliminate the Japanese fortification group on the northern front of Tongliao within six hours, and annihilated it cleanly.  The two Japanese squadrons, covered by artillery fire on the south bank of the river, successfully advanced the front to the embankment on the north bank of the Xiliao River.

    And cover two 122 rocket launcher companies directly under the artillery, a 100mm howitzer battalion, a 155 heavy howitzer company, and two companies of the field artillery battalion of the 18th Division Artillery Regiment, forming a powerful artillery group on the spot.  It was deployed as the main supporting firepower to capture Tongliao County and coordinate the main force's siege of Tongliao County.

    After all the artillery deployments were completed, they opened fire immediately. While conducting fire strikes on the artillery field deployed by the Japanese army in Tongliao County, they also covered the two battalions of the 18th Division that had arrived on the bank of the Xiliao River in an attempt to cross the river and attack the ancient temple in the north of Tongliao and the northeast of Tongliao.  Attack on the front line.

    The process of this battle, even in the eyes of Chen Hanzhang, who has always been very demanding, was an extremely exciting battle. Even Chen Hanzhang, who has always been easy to praise others, directly used the five rare words "classic battle" to describe it.  Evaluation, in his words, if Bayantala had fought this battle, they would have broken through the Xiliao River line at least three days ago.

    However, the unit's follow-up attack operations, because the Japanese army took the lead in burning and sinking all the ferries on the Xiliao River. Due to the lack of effective tools to cross the river, the 53rd Regiment failed in many forced crossings, and the Xiliao River Bridge in the west of Tongliao County was attacked.  The battle also failed due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army and insufficient troops invested by our own side.

    Although they failed to capture the Xiliao River Bridge in the west of the city, the offensive of the 53rd Regiment forced Lieutenant General Chuan Bin to blow up the only highway bridge on the Xiliao River in the entire Tongliao territory to prevent the Anti-Japanese Alliance from seizing it.  After the bridge, they crossed the Xiliao River, the natural barrier on the north and west sides of Tongliao, and launched a three-sided siege on Tongliao.

    Although Tang Yong's operation to seize the highway bridge failed, the Japanese defenders who forced the west gate of Tongliao took the initiative to blow up the only highway bridge on the Xiliao River in Tongliao, thus reducing the connection between the Japanese troops in Tongliao and Kailu.  In fact, it has been cut off in disguise.

    After several failed forcible crossings and a failed battle for the bridge, Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment, commanded the troops and continuously adopted feint tactics to confront the Tongliao defenders. On the one hand, he covered the deployed artillery positions and on the other hand, he contained the north of Tongliao City.  The Japanese troops were not transferred to other directions.

    Although Tang Yong said that the operation to seize the bridge failed and could only retreat to Hexi Town, he was still in the armored brigade.The Nationalized Infantry Regiment was stubbornly resisted by the Japanese army, and the offensive was hindered by the extremely unfavorable terrain. Although it was unable to penetrate into place for a long time, it inadvertently completed the task of dividing the Japanese troops in the two places on their behalf.

    Compared with the northern front, which only faced the 53rd Regiment across the river, which seemed a bit boring, the eastern front in Tongliao County was extremely fierce. After the 54th Regiment seized Kongjiawo Fort, the Japanese army in Tongliao fired artillery fire in the city.  Under the cover of the enemy, a large number of troops were dispatched to repeatedly compete with the 54th Regiment.

    Kongjiawobao is the gateway to the eastern part of Tongliao. Beyond the line of Kongjiawobao is the small street base line one mile away from Tongliao County. After taking the small street base, Tongliao County is also close at hand. Tongliao City is east of  The Xiliao River in the north and west directions serves as a natural barrier, and the south has a sand beam as a natural barrier. It is incomparable.

    The terrain from here to Tongliao County is flat. As long as you cross Kongjiawo Fort, you can go to Tongliao County. Moreover, Kongjiawo Fort is the eastern part of Tongliao County, the core area of ??the ring defense fortifications and the permanent fortification group. If Kongjiawo Fort  The front line of the fort was occupied by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the Japanese defenders in Tongliao could only rely on the city wall as the last line of defense on the periphery.
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