"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

The People's Army first launched a bombardment on the Japanese positions outside Liaoyang City. Although there were only 8 artillery pieces, they were all large-caliber heavy artillery and were extremely powerful. The Japanese positions did not have any decent fortifications. Therefore, after the shells fell, they immediately caused huge damage to the Japanese positions. A large number of Japanese soldiers were killed, and the artillery was blown to pieces. Moreover, the mortars of various troops were not idle, and they opened fire one after another to supplement the firepower of several heavy artillery pieces.

The battlefield where the two sides fought occurred on the west side of Liaoyang City, which was the longest side of Liaoyang City, spanning the north and south cities of Liaoyang City, with a distance of about 3,000 meters. However, the attacks of the People's Army were mainly concentrated in the southern city area of ​​Liaoyang City, because Nancheng is the main body of Liaoyang City, the Japanese command and central institutions are basically concentrated in Nancheng. Therefore, as long as the defense line of Nancheng is broken, the overall situation of this battle will be decided.

The People's Army's eight heavy artillery pieces carried out more than 10 rounds of artillery bombardment on the Japanese position, sweeping the entire defense line of nearly 2,000 meters west of Liaoyang South City. In addition, the supplementary firepower of the mortars basically destroyed the Japanese defense line. The remaining Japanese troops did not dare to stay outside the city and fled into the city to hide. However, there were many Japanese soldiers on the city walls, using the cover of the battlements to shoot outside the city, and the Japanese soldiers fled into the city also climbed the city wall or arrow tower to join the battle. For a time, the firepower on the city walls west of Liaoyang City increased greatly. Fortunately, there were not many artillery on the city walls, and they were all small and medium-caliber artillery of 53 mm and 37 mm. The People's Army did not rashly attack the city walls, so there were not many casualties.

At this moment, two loud "boom" sounds were heard, and two huge orange light balls appeared on the city wall west of Liaoyang City, and a large amount of gunpowder smoke was generated. The Japanese soldiers on the city wall could feel the huge tremors in the city wall. Because they were in the section of the city wall near the two orange light balls, they shook violently like an earthquake. Several Japanese soldiers were unable to stand firmly and fell from the battlement.

After the smoke of gunpowder disappeared, two huge craters with a diameter of 4 or 5 meters and a depth of about 1 meter appeared on the city wall. In the center of the crater, you can see rammed earth filled with bricks and stones. The cracks around the crater were as dense as spider webs, and a large number of gravel bricks were scattered under the city wall. It turned out that two 200 mm heavy artillery began to launch a bombardment on the city wall.

Although these two guns did not open the city wall, they also caused significant damage to the city wall. Therefore, the two 200mm heavy artillery also launched sufficient firepower and launched continuous bombardment on the city wall. Other artillery, including the six 155mm cannons, stopped or slowed down the shelling. The damage to the city wall by the 155mm cannon of Bijing was limited, and it was enough to have 200mm heavy artillery, so there was no need to waste ammunition on it.

Two 200mm cannons bombarded the city wall of Liaoyang City for 5 or 6 rounds in a row. The attack range was all concentrated within a distance of 100 meters. More than 10 craters of different sizes were fired on the city wall of Liaoyang City, and cracked lines as dense as spider webs were also spread across the city wall.

The city wall of Liaoyang City could not withstand such repeated attacks. Finally, in an explosion, dust soared into the sky and sand and gravel flew, breaking the wall of Liaoyang City a large gap of more than 10 meters wide, and was blown away with more than a dozen soldiers stationed on the city wall.

Although the bottom of the gap is about 3 meters high from the ground, it is still much simpler than the city wall that is more than 8 meters high. Moreover, gravel and residual bricks accumulate at the gap, forming a gentle slope.

Although a gap was blasted, the two 200mm artillery pieces did not stop and continued to bombard the city wall. After more than 20 rounds of artillery bombardment, a total of 5 gaps were blasted open to the city wall of Liaoyang City, with the smallest being 4,5 meters wide.

The ground troops of the People's Army also began to attack Liaoyang City. At the same time, the People's Army's mortars, grenade launchers, machine guns and other weapons also began to fire, with the targets all the remaining Japanese soldiers on the city wall, providing fire cover for the attacking troops.

Although the Japanese army's resistance had been almost completely eliminated by the artillery fire of the People's Army, the People's Army's attack was still very organized. The first wave of attacks, the entire battalion's attack was based on a platoon, with one squad in the middle, carrying a wooden bridge and a wooden ladder, and the other two squads covered on both sides, raising their guns while advancing. When they arrived at the moat, they first built the wooden bridge on the moat, and the entire squad passed through the moat quickly from the bridge.

Just as the People's Army broke through the moat, many Japanese guards appeared at each gap, shooting at the People's Army soldiers passing through the bridge, and many soldiers were shot and fell into the river.

However, the troops providing fire support in the rear immediately reacted. Several mortars and grenade launchers immediately aimed at each missing attack. After a few guns, the Japanese soldiers in each gap were immediately cleared.

The attacking troops attacked the gap, put the wooden ladder on the gap, and then stepped on the wooden ladder to attack the gap and entered Liaoyang City. Although there were ramps made of gravel and broken bricks at the gap, such ramps were not easy to climb directly, because gravel and broken bricks were easy to slide after all, so it was more convenient to set up wooden ladders. In addition, the People's Army also had to attack the city wall through these gaps, which required wooden ladders even more.

Not long after, some of the People's Army soldiers who attacked the Third Bo attacked into Liaoyang City and some of them climbed onto the walls of Liaoyang City. The subsequent attacking troops also passed through the moat and rushed towards Liaoyang City.

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Just as the 2nd Army attacked Liaoyang City, the other two people's armies also made their own achievements.

The 4th Army was responsible for capturing the Hanjiatai Village position and then attacking Zhangtaizi in northeastern Liaoyang. This could cut off the connection between Liaoyang and Shenyang and prevent Liaoyang from getting any support.

However, the Hanjiatai Village position is actually a position across the banks of the Taizi River. Of course, it is mainly based on the position on the south bank of the Taizi River. The position on the north bank is only a small part, with only two brigades and an artillery squadron. The main task is to protect the flanks of the south bank position to prevent the enemy from smuggling through the Taizi River. Most of the positions on the side of the position, near the river, and lake are arranged in this way. A floating bridge is set up between the two positions to connect.

The People's Army's artillery bombardment was of course to attack the south bank position, and some Japanese troops withdrew to the north bank position and blew up the floating bridge. Although the People's Army easily occupied the south bank position of Hanjiatai Village, to attack Zhangtaizi, it was necessary to cross the Taizi River and occupy the position on the north bank of Hanjiatai Village.

The Prince River was named after the planning and instructing Jing Ke to assassinate the Qin King during the Warring States Period. It is considered a larger river in Liaodong area, with a water surface width of about 200 meters. If you want to cross the Prince River, you must build a bridge, and it cannot be a simple floating bridge, because heavy weapons such as artillery must pass.

During the Japanese occupation of Liaoyang, several bridges were installed on the Taizi River to transport supplies. However, after the People's Army broke through the Liao River, the Japanese army destroyed most of the bridges on the Taizi River, leaving only a small number of necessary bridges, but they were all too far from Hanjiatai Village, so it was not cost-effective to take a detour. Bridges had to be built on the river. Before the People's Army captured the position on the south bank of Hanjiatai Village, it had built a simple floating bridge in the upper reaches of the Taizi River and sent the 11th Division to cross the north bank of the Taizi River. Of course, there were no artillery, only mortars that accompanied the army.

However, after the People's Army occupied the south bank position of Hanjiatai Village, it could erect artillery on the position and bombard the north bank position, which soon caused a major blow to the north bank position. Then the 11th Division also arrived at the battlefield and launched an attack on the north bank position. At about 8 a.m., it captured the north bank position.

Then the engineering troops of the 4th Army arrived with various tools and materials and began to build bridges on the Taizi River.

Since there are many rivers in Liaodong, and they are not big rivers, with a width of basically within 300 meters and few rivers with a width of more than 500 meters. Considering that after the People's Army joined the war, both Japan and Russia were likely to destroy bridges to delay the People's Army's attack, the People's Army must find a way to build bridges in a short period of time, and at least be able to move through 155mm artillery.

The current technical level determines that this kind of bridge can only be a wooden structure. Although there are many construction engineers among the travelers, there are not many engineers proficient in civil structures. Therefore, the department in charge of military engineering also specifically seeks Zhan Tianyou's help. Finally, with the help of Zhan Tianyou, a assembly wooden bridge was designed. All accessories were first processed in the factory, and steel was used in the construction structure to strengthen the strength and bearing capacity of the bridge. It was assembled directly on the river site, and it could be long or short. In theory, bridges with a length of less than 1,000 meters can be erected, and the time ranged from 8-24 hours, which was quite convenient.

Of course, the 200-meter bridge is short, but it takes about 8 hours to complete the installation, so the 4th Army could only wait patiently at this time.

The 3rd Army, which was responsible for capturing Tongzhuangzi's position, did not encounter terrain obstacles. Therefore, after occupying Tongzhuangzi's position, the 3rd Army rested for a while and immediately launched an attack on the Shoushan position.

Shoushan is located in the southwest of Liaoyang and is the only way to get from Anshan to Liaoyang. When Japan and Russia fought in Liaoyang, it was an important battlefield. Therefore, Russia built a large number of fortifications in Shoushan. Although most of these fortresses were destroyed by the Japanese heavy artillery during the battle, some of the fortresses were still preserved. In fact, the Russian army was not defeated by the Japanese army in Liaoyang, but was scared by the "Banya Charge" that the Japanese army was not afraid of life and death and gave up Liaoyang. As a result, some fortresses were handed over to the Japanese army in basically intact.
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