-- Within one day, more than 10 Type 99 light bombers and Comet attack planes deployed by the Japanese Navy were shot down.

For the sake of the Japanese pilots who survived the disaster, it was the first time they had seen such dense ground-to-air firepower. Intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire, as well as anti-aircraft machine gun fire, made it almost impossible for them to hide in the air. Before the huge losses, the naval aviation, after losing more than a dozen attack aircraft, first withdrew from the battlefield and switched to air strikes against the rear of the front-line forces of the United States.

After the naval aviation withdrew to provide direct support to the 72 nd Division, the army aviation that was left behind was already insufficient, and the army aviation force, which was even more isolated after the withdrawal of the naval air force, had no choice but to give up air support for the 72 nd Division. Without air support, the 72nd Division was even more difficult to support when reinforcements were unable to approach.

Deployed on the right flank of the frontal battlefield in Zaonan, it was also under the attack of the Anti-Japanese Federation on the first day, and the 155th Wing, which suffered the heaviest losses, became the first straw to fall. Originally, the remnants of the 115th Wing could barely hold out for a while if they turned all their strength to rely on the village to hold on.

However, under the order of Lieutenant Chiba Kumaji to use the cover of night to shrink his forces as much as possible and move closer to the friendly neighbor 134 Wing. In the course of the all-night attack, not only did they fail to gather the scattered troops that had been charged, but they also failed to change the overall situation of being divided.

After a whole night of night fighting, the troops that had already fallen into chaos completely lost what little vitality they had left. The troops, which could barely cope with the formation of squadrons, fell into a more fragmented situation under the blow of the anti-coalition crossfire. The anti-United Nations troops that were attacked head-on by it were eaten and dealt with in one bite under the cover of tanks.

In order to solve the problem of the Japanese army in front of them, not only did the Anti-United States put in the tank units that had completed the encirclement, but also adopted the tactics of centripetal attack, squeezing and dividing them from their periphery. Even the artillery played the tactics of bayonets on the artillery, advancing the 76-mm cannon in front of the Japanese positions, and solving the Japanese firing points one by one.

In particular, the direct-aim artillery, which posed a greater threat to tanks, could not exert its anti-tank power at all under the close fire of the 76-mm cannon. As soon as the fire was fired, it was quickly captured, and together with the gunner, it was blown into a pile of parts by seventy-six-mm shells.

The crazy anti-union artillery, and even the 150-mm howitzers, were thrown into the first line of flat fire. Wherever the signal flare of the artillery guide in front hits, the shells will fall. As if shooting a target, the villages held by the Japanese army were razed to the ground one by one.

Exhausted the last trace of vitality in the night battle, the 155th Wing, which originally had only two brigades, failed to hold out until the evening of the next day. By the afternoon of the second day, the main force had been completely disposed of, except for a few small units that had broken out. Its wing commander, Nishioka Takaichisa, was crushed by the anti-United tank unit that rushed up, along with his wing headquarters, in an underground concealment department outside Caozhuang.

Compared with Nishioka Takaiichisa, who rigidly carried out the orders of Lieutenant General Kumaji Chiba, the captain of the 134th Wing, Seiichi Suzuki, was very smart. As for the order of the division commander to concentrate his troops at night, he only partially carried out the order of the division commander to concentrate his troops at night. It is just an order to reach the troops who can be contacted, and then rely on the villages they occupy to hold on.

However, the 134th Wing was able to barely hold on, and it was not all the wing commander Takaichi Nishioka, who did not rigidly carry out the orders of his superiors. It only relied on the villages they occupied to wait for reinforcements, so that the 134th Wing could retain as much vitality as possible in the night battle.

The most fundamental point is that the 152nd Wing behind it is under the orders of Chiba Kumaji. Four infantry squadrons were dispatched by all means, taking advantage of the opportunity brought by the full cover of the air force during the day the next day, as well as the interference of the Japanese air force to resist the long-range artillery fire of the Japanese air force, and the fire blockade was reduced.

Forcibly crossed the Qingliang River to bypass the line of Xu Xintun and joined the battlefield from Zhang Xiutun to Encha. The four squadrons, in fact, were intercepted by the anti-coalition firepower and blocking forces, and only two or more squadrons of reinforcements rushed over, which became a lifeline for the 134th Wing at a critical moment.