The 112th Wing's frontal attack on Tonggu ended in a crushing defeat, and a whole infantry brigade was beaten and lost its armor, losing more than half of the battle, and no matter how strong the Japanese army was, it was impossible to continue the attack, so it had to stop and suspend its advance.
At the same time when the frontal attacking troops were hitting their heads and bleeding, the flanks of Tonggu were also in the midst of fierce fighting, and the other two wings of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army launched attacks on the defense area of the 200th Division from different directions, and the battle between the 2nd Regiment and the 112th Wing of the Supplementary Regiment ended quietly, while at this time, the other two wings of the 200th Division and the 55th Division were fighting fiercely, especially in the northwest direction, and the gunfire was particularly fierce.
Because of Zhang Wei's careful preparation, the frontal position that should have been fought the most fierce and the longest battle became the first battlefield to end the battle.
At this moment, the Kronggang airfield on the northwest side of Tonggu has become the most intense place for the confrontation between the two armies on the periphery of Tonggu.
On the northwest side, the Keronggang Airport, artillery fire and gunsmoke are everywhere, and the vicinity of the once peaceful Keronggang Airport has become a battlefield of blood and fire.
In fact, long before the 112th Wing on the front launched an attack on Zhang Wei's 2nd Supplementary Regiment, the 143rd Wing of the Japanese Army attacking Keronggang had already quietly launched a surprise attack on Keronggang Airport.
In the predetermined plan of the 55th Division, when it was facing an attack on Zhang Wei's Ekechun position, the 143rd Wing was going to use the dense forest near the Keronggang Airport to launch a surprise attack, capture the airport, and then capture Nanyang Station, cut off the communication lines between Tonggu and the periphery, and cooperate with the 112th Wing on the front of the attack to conquer Tonggu and pressure the defenders of Tonggu to enter the town and fight in the streets.
Historically, the 55th Division of the Japanese Army used this method of combining frontal attack and flank detour, using the cover and cover of the forest on the northwest side of Tonggu to approach the defenders deployed by the 200th Division near the airport, and the defenders were actually temporarily assigned to the 500th Division's Engineer Regiment and won the victory in one blow, easily took the Kronggang Airport, captured Nanyang Station, and completely cut off the 200th Division's retreat and external communications.
The 55th Division's calculations were really very good, but unfortunately, when the 143rd Wing of the Japanese Army really arrived at the Kronggang airfield, the scene in front of them was stunning, and the dense forest that was originally marked on the map was now only a large area of rotten wood and tree roots, and it had completely become a large open field without any shelter.
The original plan of the 143rd Wing to launch a surprise attack under the cover of the forest fell through, but the 143rd Wing had already arrived at the Kronggang station, and it was impossible not to fight, so it had to attack head-on, and had a hard encounter with the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division.
As early as when the 200th Division arrived in Tonggu, Zhang Wei had reminded Division Commander Dai to pay close attention to the defense in the direction of the Keronggang airfield, and the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division stationed there reinforced the fortifications with felled trees, and at Zhang Wei's suggestion, the positions were reinforced layer by layer with various building materials in the ancient city, from barbed wire to fixed fire points, and the degree of perfection and solidity of the fortifications was no less than that of the fortifications of the Second Regiment in Ekechun.
In terms of firepower, most of the weapons that Zhang Wei supported the 200th Division were also allocated to the 600th Regiment, Browning heavy machine guns, two-pounder flat-firing guns, and the 600th Regiment were all strengthened in considerable amount, and the firepower was very fierce.
Shooting Zhu Yuan, the terrain and landforms, the 600th Regiment of the defenders are very skillful, you know, Zhang Wei has told Division Commander Dai several times before and after, to focus on strengthening the defense of Keronggang Airport, Zhang Wei chattered and reminded, the defensive position of the 600th Regiment is impregnable.
Compared with history, the current Kronggang defenders have risen more than one notch in terms of firepower and the solidity of their positions.
In this way, the 143rd Wing of the Japanese Army, together with the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division, launched a fierce battle to the death on the periphery of the Kronggang Airport.
"Offense" An infantry squad leader of the 143rd Wing charged forward, brandishing a saber and roaring, and three hundred meters in front of him was the position of the 600th Regiment of the defending army.
As soon as he finished speaking, a mortar shell from the position of the 600 regiment exploded next to the squad leader, blowing him up into the sky, and a large number of the surrounding Japanese infantry also fell.
After the flying shrapnel, a network of crossfire composed of Browning large-caliber machine gun shells and 79-caliber rifle machine gun shells fiercely strafed the infantry of the 143rd Wing in attack, all kinds of firearms deployed on the positions of the 600 regiments, 37 flat-firing guns, two-pounder flat-fire guns, and 82 mortars, regardless of ammunition loss, and all kinds of firepower were brought into full play.
The 143rd Wing attacked within an hour and lost nearly 300 men.
"Onboard" A large number of Japanese troops were defeated, and the Japanese troops behind made up for it, rushing at the position of the 600th Regiment, and the 143rd Wing suffered heavy casualties on the way to attack, from the starting point of the attack to the front of the 600th Regiment, there were corpses of attacking Japanese troops everywhere.
Unfortunately, the more fierce the charge, the greater the casualties, and Kronggan, adjacent to the airfield, was a real open field, and all the actions of the attacking 143rd Wing were under the eyes of the defenders, and there was no shortcut to its attack, so it could only withstand the fire of 600 regiments on the open ground, and fight hard.
The charging Japanese army was in waves, with a number of casualties, and continued to be in the previous batch, the captain of the 143rd Wing didn't seem to have a very bright brain, and he was a stunned young man, at least compared to the captain of the 112th Wing against Zhang Wei, Kohara Ze Kozo, who was much worse, and he lacked flexibility, and he would only attack one by one.
The direct cost is that the casualty figures of the 143rd Wing are skyrocketing.
Hundreds of Japanese corpses had been left in front of the position of the 600th Regiment, and because Zhang Wei had "made a hindrance from it," the defenders' positions at the Kronggang airfield were in some respects even more complete than those of the 2nd Regiment, as evidenced by the barbed wire fence at the front of the position.
The long barbed wire fence formed a long blocking line in front of the 600 regiments' positions, and the 143rd Wing had to rush through the barbed wire blocking line if it wanted to take the 600 regiments' positions.
As a result, in order to destroy the barbed wire, the 143rd Wing lost nearly one squadron, and these barbed wires pieced together from the same ancient city were stained with blood, and the stumps and scraps of Japanese soldiers were hung, and the scene was not without misery 。
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