At this time, the People's Army guarding Liaoyang had a total of 6 divisions, 4 regiments, 3 direct artillery regiments and an armored train. With Shilihe as the core, a defense line was organized and two divisions were arranged in Shilihe; the right wing position reached Xiaodongshankou, and one division and two regiments were arranged; the left wing position reached Dongyangjiaowan Village, and one division and two regiments were arranged, which spread horizontally for 15 kilometers, leaving two divisions as reserves, and the three direct artillery regiments were directly commanded by the 2nd Army Command.!

In addition, the People's Army has also built a temporary railway 5 kilometers behind the defense line, which can allow armored trains to travel back and forth behind the defense line. Within an hour, they can reinforce any defense line.

At this time, the Russian army had gathered about 300,000 troops in Shenyang, with a total strength of about three times that of the People's Army. Moreover, according to the report of the Russian scouts, the People's Army's defense line was very simple, basically dominated by trenches, and then piled up dam-shaped earth slopes. No fortress was built. Only some barbed wire and wooden horses were arranged within 150 meters in front of the trenches.

Linevich was a little unbelievable when he received this report. Although it was not long fortresses for the People's Army, it was enough to build a few fortresses at the Guanjian location. How could the People's Army not even build a fortress? Therefore, he went to the battlefield to check it out, and it turned out that what the scouts said was true. After reading it, Linevich felt very confident. In his opinion, such a defensive position should not be difficult to break, and this battle was very hopeful. If the Japanese army fought for a little more and dragged the People's Army for a little more time, they might be able to take down Liaoyang.

So Linevic immediately arranged troops. The Russian army was organized differently from the Japanese army. It was organized according to the army-army-division and brigade. Before the Russo-Japanese War, the main force of the Russian army in the Far East was the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Army. Each army had 4-5 armies, with a total force of about 100,000 to 120,000. However, in the war, the organization of the army was often disrupted. After all, the three army units were too few, so it was too inconvenient to mobilize. In addition, there were coastal defense forces, among which the coastal defense forces were single Lushun Fortress troops, but the Lushun Fortress troops had been completely wiped out by the Japanese army, and other troops of the coastal defense forces were stationed in the Vladivostok area.

However, in the battle with the Japanese army, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd armies suffered heavy losses. Although the troops were supplemented from the country, they were not yet fully staffed, only about 80% of the full staff. A small number of the troops transferred from Europe were incorporated into the 1st army. Because Linievich was originally the commander of the 1st army, he naturally had to take care of his own troops. Therefore, the 1st army was full and basically restored its combat effectiveness; most of them were organized into the 4th and 5th armies, with a total force of 135,000 troops, and the commander was Lieutenant General Alexander Vasilievich Samsonov; the 5th armies had a total force of 120,000, and the commander was Lieutenant General Nikolaevich Yudenic.

This time when attacking Shilihe, Linevich decided to dispatch the 1st, 4th and 5th Army, which is currently the most elite army among the Russian army in the Far East. The 4th Army was the middle route, and about 100,000 troops were dispatched, and about 75,000 troops were dispatched; the 1st Army was the left wing, and about 8 troops were dispatched, and three arrows were dispatched to attack the People's Army's positions.

Since most of the Russian troops who went to fight were front-line troops transferred from Europe, the military equipment and training were relatively good among the Russian army, and they had not experienced previous failures. Although they were also suffering a lot by Russia's inefficiency and poor logistics and dispatching capabilities, they had no shadow in their hearts and had a certain sense of self-righteousness. They believed that fighting the yellow-skinned monkey was no problem at all. Seeing that the People's Army's defense line was simple, everyone was quite confident. Many people even thought of defeating the yellow-skinned monkey as soon as possible so that they could go back to Europe so as not to stay here to suffer.

As a result, after the battle started, the Russian army discovered that although the defense line of the People's Army looked simple, it was really difficult to fight. Because the Russian army despised the People's Army's defense, they were not even prepared for artillery fire, so they launched an attack on the People's Army. It was known that the People's Army not only had a large firepower, but also had a large number of small-caliber shells. From 1,000 meters away from the position, they launched a fierce attack on the Russian army, killing countless Russian soldiers.

Moreover, the People's Army arranged the barbed wire in front of the position, and the horse became a nightmare for the Russian army. In normal times, they felt that these things were not very good and could be moved away or pushed to the ground easily. But the problem is that it is now a battlefield, and on the battlefield, it can allow the Russian army to calmly cut the barbed wire and push the horse away! Moreover, the People's Army concentrated its firepower and shot at the barbed wire and horse, so the Russian army fell almost in front of the iron net line or horse.

On the right wing of the People's Army, the Lishuangtaizi Village position was guarded by a battalion of troops about 300 meters long. The Russian army dispatched a regiment of troops to launch a fierce attack on the People's Army's defense line. Although the Russian soldiers were very brave and tenacious and the attack was very resolute and bold, the 18 general-purpose machine guns in the entire battalion of the People's Army organized into a dense firepower network, making the Russian army's attack almost difficult to move forward. Because it was the barbed wire mesh, it had to cause huge obstacles to the Russian army, so it could only fall to the autumn harvest crop and fell into the ground in large numbers. In the end, nearly 700 casualties were killed or killed, but it did not even touch the side of the People's Army's position.

In the Shilihe Town position on the People's Army's middle defense line, a regiment of the People's Army guarded a defense line of about 1,000 meters long, while the Russian army concentrated five regiments of troops to launch an attack on the People's Army's positions. The People's Army formed a dense firepower net with machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers, causing great casualties to the Russian army. Although the Russian army braved the dense rain of bullets from the People's Army and struggled to break open the barrier of the barbed wire and rushed to within 50 meters of the People's Army's defense line, the People's Army's positions were thrown into the positions of the People's Army, and countless wounds were injured and killed. This short distance of dozens of meters was impossible to break through, and in the end, it paid a heavy price of more than 2,000 casualties.

Similar to such cases, almost everywhere on the entire battlefield. Under the strict defense of the People's Army, the Russian army suffered more than 10,000 casualties in this day's battle, but they were not even touched by the People's Army's position. In this day's battle, the People's Army had less than 1,000 casualties. On the one hand, the People's Army's defensive positions were well arranged and the soldiers were well protected. On the other hand, the Russian army did not suppress the People's Army's firepower, so that the People's Army could open fire and shoot calmly.

After learning about the casualties of the Russian army, Linievich was shocked. He did not expect that the People's Army's position defense would be so tight. Moreover, the people's main force was still fighting fiercely with the Japanese army by the Yalu River. If the People's Army's main force returned, how could they fight?

But to this point, Linevich was already in a difficult situation, because he could not just fight for one day and return without success. So the next day, Linevich finally decided to use artillery to shell the People's Army's positions first, and then launch an attack.

So early the next morning, the Russian army used nearly a thousand artillery pieces to launch a full-line shelling on the People's Army's positions.

However, the Russian army's idea of ​​using artillery is still very backward, and its understanding of artillery is still focused on supporting infantry operations rather than destroying the enemy's main resistance. Therefore, although there are many artillery used, they are evenly distributed on all fronts and have no targets to attack, which greatly weakens the lethality of artillery.

Moreover, the People's Army's trench positions were dug nearly 4 meters deep, and the wall holes were dug on the side walls of the trench to prevent artillery. Moreover, most of the Russian artillery were small and medium caliber and not very powerful, so it did not cause much damage to the People's Army. Of course, the artillery was not effective at all. At least it destroyed some barbed wire and horses, which also provided some convenience for the Russian army's attack.

In addition, the Russian artillery bombardment exposed the location of its artillery positions. So he immediately fired a drone to determine the exact location of the Russian artillery positions, and then dispatched armored trains to attack the Russian artillery positions. Because the range of armored train guns was very long, the Russian army had no time to prepare. Fortunately, the Russian artillery positions were relatively scattered. Although the two artillery positions were destroyed by the People's Army's armored train guns in a row, there were only more than 100 artillery pieces that were lost, and it would be wrong if it was wrong.

However, the two artillery positions were destroyed by the People's Army, and the other Russian artillery did not dare to stay on the position for a long time. They stopped shooting and withdraw from the position. Therefore, the Russian army could only rely on infantry to attack the People's Army's positions again.

The result this time was not better. During this day's battle, the Russian army paid the price of more than 6,000 casualties, but the People's Army's position was still unbreakable.

That night, Linevich couldn't help but feel worried again. After only two days of battle, the Russian army suffered 16,000 casualties and lost more than 100 artillery pieces, but there was no hope of breaking the People's Army's position. So Linevich immediately recruited senior officers to discuss whether the battle was necessary to continue. If the battle could not be defeated for a long time and the general was still damaged, it would be better to retreat to Shenyang to guard. If the attack continued, would there be other offensive tactics?

The other officers had no good idea, including Samsonov and Yudenic, who had just been transferred to the Far East. When they first arrived in the Far East, they were quite confident and despised the Russian army in the Far East. They could not even defeat a group of yellow monkeys, which really embarrassed the brave Slavs. Ben thought of sweeping away the previous decline of the Russian army and establishing their own merits. The two days of fighting also made the two understand that the battle in the Far East was not easy to fight, but both of them were a little unwilling to give up. After all, they had only been fighting for two days and could not explain any problem. Therefore, the two insisted on continuing to fight, but they could not come up with any new tactics. The reason was the same, the bravery of the soldiers, Rongzi.
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