After the first battle of Bayantara, whether it was Chen Hanzhang or Chuan Bingmi, the pair of opponents, they were adjusting their deployment almost unexpectedly. The intentions of the two people are actually very simple, Chen Hanzhang wants to do his best to take down Tongliao Control and Kailu and open up a straight line with Wang Guangyu.

And his opponent Kawa Namimi's idea was very simple, that is, to hold on for as much time as possible, to ensure the safety of the flanks of the two divisions that were attacking Linxi, and to buy time for the Kwantung Army Command to adjust its deployment. As for Tongliao, General Umezu Yoshijiro gave him an order that even if there was a single soldier left, he would never allow the loss of Tongliao and Kailu.

Compared with the Linxi battlefield, the Kwantung Army Command attached far more importance to the Tongliao battlefield. Since the start of the Bayantara direction, General Umezu Mijiro and Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadachi, almost a day, a telegram. The 14th Division was strictly ordered to stick to the Tongliao line at any cost.

I was amazed by the majesty of the general's commander, his deep connections in the army, and his grace in front of the emperor. Even this lieutenant general did not dare to disobey his orders too obviously, and gave up the Tongliao line when he was already in a disadvantageous situation.

In fact, Chen Hanzhang gave up the competition for the periphery, and concentrated the main living forces and tanks directly into the two county points, and it was by no means a pinch to prepare persimmons to pick soft. Perhaps the siege of Kailu County is relatively simple, but the attack on Tongliao County is definitely not so easy.

Zaichuan and Mi took the initiative to shrink the forces on the periphery, except for the main strongholds on the periphery of the county, and reduced the rest of the troops and firepower to two county seats. Facing the main force of the 14th Division, which had shrunk into two county towns and had a large number of natural barriers to use, the arduousness faced by Chen Hanzhang could be imagined.

The most disadvantageous thing was not the number of troops that the Japanese army was holding, but the terrain constraints that made the attacking force destined to attack only from the east and south. In this way, although it can avoid the Xiliao River, the natural barrier of Tongliao County, it is unusually narrow for the front of the attack.

At this time, there is still abundant water and wide river channels, far from the West Liao River, which has almost been cut off in later generations, and the direction in Tongliao has turned a whole corner on the edge of Tongliao County. The river in the west and north directions is like a pair of big hands, embracing Tongliao County in its arms.

Although this geographical environment is prone to flooding, it is quite advantageous for defense in wartime. Tongliao County, located at a bend of the West Liao River, and even its west city wall is close to the West Liao River embankment. It can be said that the West City Gate is the embankment of the West Liao River.

The north gate is only four or five miles away from the embankment of the West Liao River. Even within the distance of less than four or five miles, if you add the moat, there are two rather wide ditches in the middle. In the whole northern and western areas, there is only one bridge in the west that can be used as a passage to cross the river, given that there are not enough means to cross the river.

If the troops choose to forcibly cross the Xiliao River from the front of Tongliao County, they will not only face fire attacks from within the city. Moreover, with the county town of Tongliao on the other side, it would be difficult for the troops to gain sufficient offensive depth even if they broke through the Japanese defense line on the West Liao River.

Even if the attacking troops can break through the Japanese defenses along the river in the north and west of Tongliao City, then the attacking troops crossing the river will also be in the predicament of fighting with no way out. Even the troops that launched the attack were likely to be cut off by the Japanese army, and they were in a position where they could not respond to each other. If you choose to force the crossing of Tongliao head-on, even if you can take Tongliao County, the cost of casualties will be huge.

Although Lieutenant General Chuan and Mi gave up the various fortifications on the railway line between Tongliao and Shuangliao, he did not give up the entire triangular defensive permanent fortification group on the north bank of the West Liao River, from Yanjiaweizi in the north, to Xinglongtun in the east, and to Sanhetun in the west, as well as the defense line formed by using the water system of the West Liao River in the north and west of Tongliao County.

If the troops choose to break through from this direction, the progress will be delayed even longer. Therefore, Chen Hanzhang chose a frontal containment, and the main force detoured from the flank from outside the range of artillery fire in the east of Tongliao County, and chose a location to forcibly cross the Xiliao River to avoid the Japanese army's heavy troop assembly area.

Knowledge: Despite this, the troops avoided the heavily guarded county town of Tongliao by the Japanese army, and temporarily got rid of the multi-layered fire suppression and interception that they might suffer when crossing the river. But when it comes to choosing to attack the front, it is a little narrow. However, in the absence of means to cross the river, it is also a more advantageous option, and it is also conducive to speeding up the pace of progress.

The two battalions of the 54th Regiment and the first battalion of the reinforced 53rd Regiment, after breaking through the Japanese defense of the West Liao River on the line from Jiaogan to Dahan, immediately turned around and went west, with the support of tanks, and after repeated struggles, successively conquered Qianjiadian and Kongjiawobao, the defensive support points in the northeast direction of Tongliao County.

The two battalions of the 53rd Regiment adopted the tactic of killing chickens with knives and braving the intensive artillery fire from the Japanese artillery positions outside the Tongliao North Gate on the south bank of the West Liao River. The continuous blasting method was adopted to seize the last two support points of the 14th Division on the north bank of the West Liao River in the north of Tongliao, Sanhetun and Hanjiaweizi.

Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment who commanded the operation, was very smart, and when he arrived at the Bayantala battlefield as the vanguard of the 18th Division, he had watched the battle with the attack troops of the 3rd Division. Knowing that the Japanese fortification group in front of him was unusually strong, and it was covered by the powerful artillery fire of the Japanese army on the south bank of the river, and behind him was the Xiliao River, which could not be interspersed with battles in a roundabout way, so he could only attack hard from the front, resulting in an abnormally narrow attack surface.

Faced with this situation on the battlefield, unless he planned to exhaust his troops, he could only outwit and not attack. After carefully observing the Japanese fortifications, he took a smoke screen to cover the assault of the troops, and transferred all the flamethrowers assigned to him to two sharp knife companies.

Under the condition that the enemy's covering fire on the opposite bank was quite intensive, he did not adopt an attack posture of two battalions advancing at the same time, nor did he use a battalion and company as a combat formation. Instead, it adopted a squad-platoon coordinated attack and a point-to-point combat mode. At the same time, the platoon was used as an attack to launch a formed unit, and one recoilless gun and one 12-mm anti-aircraft machine gun were strengthened. As for the company bazooka and general-purpose machine guns, all were delegated to the squad.

And for the main attack platoon, not only a flamethrower was strengthened, but also a squad of the regimental engineer company. He equipped all the explosives on hand with the three main attack platoons that were directly inserted into the three core fortifications. At the same time, all the mortars of all the regiments, battalions, companies, and three levels, a captured 92 infantry gun, plus the regimental 14-mm machine guns, were gathered together to form three fire support groups according to the distance of the firing range. The Japanese army cluster specialized in counterattacking, as well as blocking the Japanese army's communication trenches, and cutting off the Japanese army's front and rear responses.

His tactical use and equipment configuration are different from Chen Hanzhang's requirements. But the use on the battlefield can be said to be extremely prominent, even far beyond his imagination. Under the cover of the infantry, the sappers assigned to several sharp knife platoons of the main attack core fortification group adopted the method of continuous blasting, and completely destroyed the entire fortification group of the Japanese army on the north bank without the cover of the artillery behind them.

The tactics were properly applied, and after only two hours of fighting. The 53rd Regiment, with a total strength of only two battalions, exceeded the order of division commander Wang Jun to solve the Japanese fortifications on the north front of Tongliao within six hours, cleanly annihilated the two Japanese squadrons with artillery cover on the south bank of the river, and advanced the battle line along the embankment on the north bank of the Xiliao River.

It also covered two 122 rocket artillery companies, a 100-millimeter howitzer battalion, a 155 heavy howitzer battery, and two field artillery battalions of the artillery regiment of the 18th Division. As the main support firepower for the capture of Tongliao County, the main force should be used to besiege Tongliao County.

After the artillery was fully deployed, it immediately opened fire, and while carrying out a fire attack on the artillery field deployed by the Japanese army in Tongliao County, the two battalions of the 18th Division, which had reached the bank of the Xiliao River, tried to cross the river and launched an attack on the Saigu Temple and the northeast gate line directly north of Tongliao.

The process of this battle, even in the eyes of Chen Hanzhang, who has always been quite demanding, is an extremely exciting battle. Even Chen Hanzhang, who has always been light and does not boast about people, directly used the five words of classic battle to evaluate. In his words, if Bayantala's battle had been fought like this, he would have broken through the line of the Xiliao River at least three days ago.

However, the follow-up attack of the division was carried out by the Japanese army, which preemptively burned and sank all the ferries on the Xiliao River. Due to the lack of effective means to cross the river, the troops of the 53rd Regiment failed to force the crossing many times. The battle for the Xiliao River Bridge in the west of Tongliao County was also lost due to the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army and the lack of troops invested by their own side.

Although it was not able to take the bridge over the Xiliao River in the west of the city, the offensive of the 53rd Regiment also forced Lieutenant General Chuan and Mi to blow up the only highway bridge over the Xiliao River in the entire Tongliao territory. In order to prevent the Anti-Japanese Federation from crossing the West Liao River, a natural barrier leading to the north and west of Liao, after seizing the bridge, launched a three-sided siege on Tongliao.

Although Tang Yong's attempt 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 over the Xiliao River in the entire Tongliao territory, so that the connection between the two Japanese armies in Tongliao and Kailu had actually been cut off in disguise.

After several failures in the forced crossing and the defeat in the battle for the bridge, Tang Yong, the commander of the 53rd Regiment in charge of the command, commanded the troops and constantly adopted feint tactics to confront the enemy defending Tongliao. On the one hand, it covered the artillery positions that had been deployed, and on the other hand, it contained the Japanese troops north of Tongliao City from being transferred to other directions.

Although Tang Yong said that the operation to seize the bridge failed, he could only retreat to Hexi Town. However, under the condition that the motorized infantry regiment of the armored brigade was stubbornly resisted by the Japanese army, coupled with the fact that the terrain was quite unfavorable and the offensive was blocked, it was unable to penetrate into place for a long time, but it inadvertently completed the task of dividing the Japanese troops in the two places in their place.

Compared with the northern front, which only confronted the 53rd Regiment across the river and seemed a little dull, the eastern front of Tongliao County was extremely fierce. After the 54th Regiment seized Kongjiawo Fort, the Japanese army in Tongliao dispatched a large number of troops to fight with the 54th Regiment repeatedly under the cover of artillery fire in the city.

Kongjiawobao is the gateway to the east of Tongliao, and the line of Kongjiawobao is the line of the small street base that is separated by one mile from the county seat of Tongliao. And after taking the small street base, Tongliao County is also close at hand. The east of Tongliao City cannot be compared with the West Liao River as a natural barrier in the north and west directions, and the south part has a sand beam as a natural barrier.

The terrain from here to Tongliao County is a flat river, as long as you cross the Kongjiawo Fort, you can go down to Tongliao County. Moreover, Kongjiawobao is the eastern part of Tongliao County, the core area of the fortifications around the city and the permanent fortifications. If the first line of Kongjiawobao was occupied by the Anti-Japanese Union, the Japanese defenders in Tongliao would have to rely on the city wall as the last line of defense on the periphery.