The battle on the third day brought some surprises to Linevich. It turned out that the left wing of the Russian army finally captured two positions of the People's Army. Although the victory was not very big, it still played a very encouraging role for the Russian army that fought for two days.

Moreover, according to the feedback from various battlefields, it was found that the firepower of the People's Army was not as dense as the previous two days, and it was weakened to a certain extent. Of course, the firepower of the People's Army on the left wing of the Russian army decreased the most, so the two positions of the People's Army were captured on the left wing. On other battlefields, the Russian army also attacked the People's Army positions twice. Although they were only a small number of Russian troops, they were soon eliminated or repelled by the People's Army by their numerical advantage, but compared with the previous two days, there was indeed considerable progress.

After learning about these situations, Linevic judged that the People's Army had insufficient ammunition, which is easy to understand, because in the battles in the previous two days, the People's Army basically relied on dense firepower to repel the Russian attack, so the consumption of ammunition was naturally much greater than that of the Russian army, so it is not surprising that there was insufficient ammunition. This was indeed a great opportunity. So Linevic strengthened his determination to continue the battle and ordered all battlefields to strengthen their attacks tomorrow.

During the fourth day of the attack, the Russian army finally made significant progress. On the left-wing battlefield, the Russian army suffered nearly 5,000 casualties and finally captured the People's Army's Xiaodongshankou position. The People's Army's right-wing army was forced to retreat about 7 kilometers and re-arrange defenses in the Taizigou area. In addition to the left-wing battlefield, the Russian army also made breakthroughs in the middle battlefield and successfully occupied a People's Army's position.

Linievic was also extremely excited, thinking that he was not far from the People's Army's entire line of defeat. Because the Russian army on the left was the 1st Army he had originally commanded, he also achieved the greatest results, and of course he gave himself a face.

However, after four consecutive days of fighting, the Russian army suffered a considerable loss, with a total of 27,000 casualties, exceeding 10,000 casualties in the entire army. It was the 1st Army, with more than 10,000 casualties. However, Linevich did not care, because for Russia, people were the least short of people. As long as they were victorious, it would not be a problem to die. Moreover, there were reserve troops in Chenyang Chengli, so Linevich ordered to transfer an army to supplement the 1st Army.

On the fifth day, the Russian army once again raised their fighting spirit and launched an attack on the People's Army's positions.

It should be said that before the attack, the Russian army was still very confident and believed that the People's Army's ammunition was probably not used much, so the battle this day should be able to achieve relatively large results.

At the beginning, the Russian army's attack realized that it was not as much as he imagined. The People's Army had a dense firepower and tight guards, which was almost the same as the previous two days ago. Because it was in the middle and right wing, it caused significant damage to the Russian army.

At the beginning, the Russian army thought that this was the last madness of the people. Such firepower intensity would not support much time. When the last ammunition of the People's Army was used up, it was the Russian army's turn to show its power.

Then, after one hour, the People's Army's firepower did not weaken; after two hours, the firepower was dense for a long time; after three hours... the fierce battle was until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the People's Army's firepower was still strong, and there was no sign of weakening, and the Russian army's casualties had exceeded 10,000.

However, the Russian army's central route was not good, but the left wing made breakthrough progress. The Russian 1st Army, which was supplemented by troops, was full of morale. In the morning, it broke through the Taizigou position of the People's Army. The People's Army retreated 7 or 8 kilometers and retreated to the area of ​​Niangniangmiaoshan before relocating the defense line. At this time, it had retreated almost 16 kilometers from the original defense line of the People's Army's right wing, and almost reached the periphery of Liaoyang. In the middle route of the Russian army and the right wing had no achievements, the left wing's 1st Army undoubtedly achieved very impressive results.

However, although Linevic is not a famous general, he has received regular military learning and many years of military experience. At this time, there is no problem. It can be seen clearly from the map that the left wing of the Russian army has now formed a prominent part, and the side of the left wing has been completely exposed in front of the People's Army's central position. At this time, as long as the People's Army's central position is sent out, even if only one regiment of troops enters from the oblique side of the 1st Army, the retreat path of the 1st Army can be cut off.

So Linievich hurriedly ordered the 1st Army to stop advancing immediately, and finally retreat for a while, and send troops to protect his flanks. However, Linieviza's order was issued from Shenyang, and the distance from the 1st Army was more than 40 kilometers. Although the Russian army had already used radio at this time, due to the backwardness of the 1st Army, it was limited to radio communication between fixed locations, and the troops going out could only communicate with the most primitive people.

But even if you send someone to ride a fast horse, it will take at least an hour to send Linevich's orders to the 1st Army. If the communications soldiers have some more accidents on the way, such as getting lost, encountering an enemy, being injured in a war horse, etc., it may not be sent for several hours. Therefore, after sending the communications soldiers, Linevich can only ask God for blessings. The communications soldiers can arrive at the 1st Army in time so that the 1st Army can take precautions.

However, at around 10 o'clock that night, Linevich received a report that the People's Army captured Taizigou and Cannon Mountain and cut off the retreat of the 1st Army. Linevich's eyes turned black and knew that it was all over.

It turned out that on the first day after the Russian army attacked the People's Army's positions, the commander of the Northeast Theater * and the commander of the Second Army Qiu Yahui negotiated plans for combat against Russia.

Since the People's Army's combat plan to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army by the Yalu River at this time had achieved initial success, the victory was unshakable. The difference was that the big win was win and the small win. As long as the People's Army in Liaoyang held on for another 2 or 3 days, judging from the battle situation on the first day, it was not difficult to complete this task. When the troops participating in the Yalu River Battle returned to the rescue, they could fight back against the Russian army.

However, * and Qiu Yahui were not satisfied with just repelling the Russian army, but hoped to teach the Russian army a profound lesson. Of course, it is impossible to eat the nearly 300,000 Russian troops in one bite. After all, the People's Army does not have such a big appetite, so the goal set by the two was to annihilate at least 100,000 Russian troops and give the Russian army a heavy blow.

So the two of them formulated a tactic of deliberately showing weakness, luring the enemy into depth, and then dividing and encircling the Russian army. The reason why they chose to implement this tactic on the right-wing position was that this was large in the maneuvering space and the People's Army had enough room for operation; the other was that this was closer to the troops returning to the aid, which was conducive to the troops returning to the position to enter the position directly. Therefore, on the 3rd and 4th day of the Russian attack, the People's Army deliberately reduced its firepower, making the Russian army feel that the People's Army's ammunition was not continued, and on its right wing pretended to be out of control, abandoning the position and retreating. Inducing the Russian left-wing army to advance, and at the same time, it also bought time for the troops participating in the Battle of Yalu River to return to the aid.

By the fourth day of the war, the 3rd, 4th and 5th armies of the People's Army had all returned to the position of assistance. In addition to the original right-wing defenders, a total of 150,000 troops were concentrated to be used to divide and encircle and annihilate the left-wing army of the Russian army. At the same time, Qiu Yahui also put all the reserves of the remaining two divisions into the central position and strengthened the forces of the middle route. Because once the People's Army formed a division and encircle of the Russian left-wing army, the Russian army would definitely send troops from the middle route to reinforce and relieve the difficulties. The task of the People's Army's central route is to restrain the Russian army and prevent the Russian army from having the spare strength to rescue the left-wing army.

On the fifth day of the battle, the right wing troops of the People's Army gave up their positions again and retreated. The Russian army did not know that it was a plan, but still advanced step by step. At 4 pm, most of the Russian army had arrived at Yehegou Village, and the vanguard troops even entered Dongligou, less than 2 kilometers from the People's Army's position. Not only was it completely out of touch with other Russian troops and entered the encirclement of the People's Army, but the entire flank was also completely exposed to the People's Army.

At 6 pm, the communications soldiers rushed to the headquarters of the 1st Army and handed over the order of Linevic to the acting commander Lieutenant General Stagri Fort.

However, after reading Linievich's order, Lieutenant General Stagri Fort was quite dissatisfied. In the past few days, the 1st Army has been advancing all the way, sweeping away the decline in the battle against Japan. Therefore, Stagri Fort is now full of confidence and is ready to fight to Liaoyang to establish meritorious deeds. At this time, he would stop the attack or even withdraw his troops. Stagri Fort naturally refused. In his opinion, when he retreated at this time, his previous victory was in vain. Instead, the 4th Army, which was responsible for the attack in the middle, should strengthen the attack or send troops to protect his flanks, which would make him retreat.

At the same time, Stagri Fort was also very dissatisfied with the 4th Army. This army was composed of Russian garrisons on the Western Front. After coming to the Far East, it was always angry and looked down on the original troops of the Far East. It was his commander Samsolov. He usually despises the officers of the Far East in words. He could turn the situation around the war as soon as he came. Now that he fought the People's Army, he fled, but Samsolov could not even break through the People's Army's position and dragged his back.

So Stagli Fort recruited staff and officers from the 1st Army to negotiate, and everyone agreed that the 4th Army should not withdraw at this time, but asked the 4th Army to strengthen its offensive and cooperate with the 1st Army to fight. However, everyone agreed that the 1st Army has indeed gone too far. In the case where the 4th Army has not yet sent troops to cooperate in combat, it is also necessary to send some troops to protect its flanks.
Chapter completed!