With the Anjia Army's surprise attack on Muramanga on the 24th, the situation in Madagascar quickly became clearer.
Due to the separation of railways and roads, the Japanese army was successfully split into two parts by the Anjia Army's Fourth Group Army. The originally stretched troops were once again weakened by the mountains and tropical rain forests in central Madagascar. The two Japanese army bases on the east coast were weakened again.
The defenders of the infantry brigade were in panic all day long.
On the 26th, the Japanese army in Antananarivo's counterattack against Muramanga was repelled. At the same time, a second-class division of the Fourth Army transported by airship entered Muramanga. In this way, the three main divisions were
After being liberated, the 16th Motorized Infantry Division took the lead and launched an attack eastward. One day later, it captured the city of Ranumafana where the coastal road and railway intersected.
According to the plan, the 16th Motorized Infantry Division of Chapter 2176 Southwest Arrival should stop in Ranomafana City to rest and recuperate, and the 17th Armored Division and the 18th Motorized Infantry Division will rotate.
However, An Suxiao only left two battalions to guard Ranumafana City. He personally led the main force and continued to march north without stopping. At noon on the 27th, he captured the town of Anivuranu, leaving one battalion behind again.
The officers and soldiers cleaned up the mess, and the main force of the division arrived at the southwest outskirts of Toamasina Port on the evening of the 29th.
The 17th Armored Division and the 18th Motorized Infantry Division were still on their way to Toamasina, and the siege had already begun on the early morning of the 30th.
Although the commander of the Fourth Group Army, Wei Yihang, was very angry at An Suxiao's behavior of grabbing credit, he still contacted the navy in advance. The aircraft carrier task force dispatched carrier-based aircraft and armed helicopters to attack the Japanese defensive positions in the west of the city.
Indiscriminate bombing.
In order to ensure that the dock facilities could be put into use as soon as possible, the battle fleet and cruise fleet did not approach the port for bombardment, but just returned and cruised outside the harbor.
The fighting became very fierce after it broke out on the outskirts of the city. The three temporary lines of defense built by the Japanese army were unable to protect the safety of the Japanese soldiers inside, and they were unable to cope with the combined air and ground attacks of the Anjia Army. After continuous hard battles, the losses were extremely heavy, and they had to retreat sadly.
Chapter 2176: Arrival area in the southwest of the city, using buildings and barricades to resist.
The powerful 16th Motorized Infantry Division took advantage of the momentum and rushed into the western edge of the city, fighting the Japanese army street by street.
At about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, an accident occurred, and it suddenly started pouring rain. The carrier-based aircraft and helicopters that were assisting in the battle had to withdraw from the battle.
"Da da da——"
In the heavy rain, Lieutenant Yang Jun, commander of the second company of the first battalion, raised his automatic rifle and viciously knocked down the Japanese sharpshooter hiding at the window on the second floor opposite, but more Japanese firepower points were exposed. Among them were four and five
There are extremely clever machine gun positions constructed everywhere.
These machine guns cooperated with the 38-type rifles to form intensive crossfire. The two soldiers who were hunched forward were unable to dodge and fell in a pool of blood.
Yang Jun raised his hand and aimed at one of the windows to fire bursts. However, the shooting port exposed by the Japanese army was very small, and the bullets hit the masonry surface and splashed sparks.
Yang Jun frowned, thought for a while, and ordered the heavy firepower platoon to organize general-purpose machine gun fire to suppress the windows where flames were sprayed. Then he transferred the two 130mm single-barreled rocket launcher teams equipped to the company and said to the eight gunners:
"Did you see it? Can you knock out the Japanese firepower points in front of me one by one?"
This 130mm single-barreled rocket launcher is a variant of the nineteen-barreled 130mm rocket launcher. The total combat weight is only 25 kilograms, which can be easily carried by one person. Its director is 1050mm long, the muzzle velocity is 42 meters/second, and the maximum flight speed is 458 meters/second.
Seconds, it can fire up to three rockets per minute, with a maximum range of 11 kilometers, and is extremely powerful.
"no problem!"
The leading gunner looked at it for a few times and answered without hesitation. Then he quickly adjusted his shot at Zhu Yuan. Not long after, two shining white lights rushed out of the barrel with a strange whistling sound. In the blink of an eye,
Hit the target accurately in no time.
Amidst the "boom" sound, two rockets respectively opened two large gaps with a diameter of about four meters. All the Japanese soldiers who were hiding behind and manipulating the machine guns were blown to pieces, and their limbs and broken arms were thrown everywhere.
"pretty!"
Yang Jun smiled happily. He didn't expect the rocket launcher to be so effective. He kept saying: "Well done! Well done! This guy is very energetic. It is much more powerful than the rocket launcher. Just do it like this and put all the firepower of the little devil in front of you."
Remove it for me!"
After that, Yang Jun pointed at a target again.
"As you command!"
The gunners were busy again. As the white light flashed, rockets flew towards their respective targets like arrows. Large holes appeared one after another. Amidst the desperate screams of the Japanese soldiers, both sides of the street were blocked.
In several buildings in the direction in which the officers and soldiers were moving, almost all the window protection walls covering the Japanese firepower points were knocked down, and the Japanese blockade firepower suddenly fell silent.
"Good opportunity!"
The last two rockets were aimed at the barricade in front of the street. As the flames of the rocket explosion flashed, Yang Jun raised his gun and rushed out of his hiding place first, saying loudly: "Follow me! Cleanly.
Destroy the enemy!"
The officers and soldiers were like tigers emerging from their cages and swooping towards the front of the street.
When they rushed to the barricade made of sandbags, more than a dozen meteor-like grenades fell behind the sandbag bunker. An explosion accompanied by thick smoke billowed into the air, creating a bloody storm again.
"Kill all the little devils!"
Yang Jun roared, jumped up and jumped over the one-meter-high sandbag bunker, and fired fiercely at the Japanese who were hiding in front of him.
Behind the charging troops, the general-purpose machine guns of the heavy firepower platoon continued to spit flames, blocking the buildings on both sides of the street to prevent the Japanese army from suddenly appearing as a firepower point and causing unexpected casualties to our army.
In the violent wind and rain, the Second Company moved forward at high speed. What soon appeared in front of them was an orderly two-story residential area. This was the Japanese camp. About five hundred Japanese soldiers were hiding in it.
Familiar with the terrain, he fired at the Anjia officers and soldiers who kept jumping forward.
The five or six soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, but then they got up again. The automatic rifles in their hands were still spitting out tongues of fire, which made many Japanese soldiers dumbfounded.
No one told these stupid Japanese soldiers that there is something called a bulletproof vest in the world. During this critical mission, almost all the second company wore a new three-kilogram bulletproof vest made of twelve layers of bulletproof nylon.
Afraid of the bullets fired from the Type 38 rifle.
Just when the Japanese army was stunned, the charging Anjia officers and soldiers held automatic rifles and rushed into the street in the center of the house. They then dispersed into groups of five to six to a dozen people and skillfully used their automatic rifles to seal the door.
Then throw a grenade, rush in at high speed to sweep, and use a pistol to supplement the shooting, everything seems to be flowing smoothly.
The light and heavy machine guns set up by the Japanese army on the barricades were quickly destroyed by direct rocket fire. The hail-like grenades swept all the houses in an instant. The Japanese soldiers who could not escape were fired by violent automatic rifles without even firing a shot.
Killed by bullets fired from pistols, there was no chance for them to take advantage of bayonets.
The rain in the tropical rain forest area comes and goes quickly. The heavy rain ended around three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky cleared up after the rain. In the steaming water vapor, Anjia officers and soldiers rushed into the urban area of Toamasina from multiple routes and headed towards the port.
Extension.
The closer to the port area, the more intense the Japanese resistance became. Fortunately, at this time, armed helicopters carrying rockets and missiles appeared in the sky again and began to accurately attack the Japanese firepower points, suppressing and intercepting Japanese reinforcements.
The more than twenty Type 98 modified light tanks originally used by the Japanese to counterattack were pierced by dense rockets before they had time to show off their power, and were all destroyed near the port area.
The battle lasted for a day and night. By the early morning of the 31st, the sound of gunfire gradually stopped and the Japanese resistance was basically eliminated.
At this time, the first batch of troop carriers began to dock, and Marine Corps officers and soldiers boarded the dock in a steady stream. At the train station southwest of Toamasina City, the 18th Motorized Infantry Division and the 10th Motorized Infantry Division were rushing slowly.
The Seventh Armored Division arrived belatedly.
Major General Zheng Hengquan, the commander of the 18th Division, was extremely angry, but facing the city where the overall situation was decided, he could only lament the tenacity of An Suxiao, a guy who came out of the Boy Scout Academy - after all, not everyone can survive a long-distance attack of more than 200 kilometers.
, and still have the energy to launch an attack on a heavily defended city and win it!
The liberation of Toamasina Port completely declared the failure of the Japanese coastal defense of Madagascar. Two weeks later, the eastern and western armies would attack Antananarivo and liberate the largest city on the island. No Japanese commander was found.
With the disappearance of General Kotaro Kanakamura and members of the headquarters, the war in Madagascar shifted from frontal combat to trivial bandit suppression and guerrilla warfare. It was not until a year later that the Japanese army was completely eliminated.
During this period, An Jiajun discovered more than 60 mass graves on the island. According to statistics, there are less than 5,000 indigenous people remaining on the island. After the news was exposed, it triggered a commotion in public opinion around the world.
Although the atrocities committed by the Japanese army were heinous, it also created favorable conditions for the Anyi Group to rule the fourth largest island in the world. It must be said that this is God's favor to the Chinese nation and has given this great nation a precious
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