Although Luo Yue did not like to deal with intelligence agencies, he also knew that the role of intelligence personnel in the war was very important, so he also welcomed Li Xianshun's group, and pulled out a few tents in the barracks for them to work and live.

Li Xianshun was also very low-key, and repeatedly told Luo Yue that he did not need to be special, just like other soldiers, but also put forward two conditions: first, it is best to be able to live far away from the army, or in the fringe area of the army, because the members of the group should have a greater degree of freedom, and can go out to collect intelligence at any time, and if they live with the army, they will remain the same; second, they must be able to see Luo Yue at any time, so that they can report information to Luo Yue, and if there is a major military operation, it is best to be able to inform themselves, and they may be able to provide some help。

When Luo Yue heard this, he also fell into his heart, and he didn't want to have too deep contact with the intelligence officers, so it was better to let them live outside the barracks, and if they wanted to see themselves, they could just give them a pass, so they immediately ordered someone to arrange for the intelligence officers.

After dealing with these things, Luo Yue still started the resettlement of the newly landed army. After being busy for most of the day, by the end of the evening, all the troops had finally been settled.

And on the next day, the People's Army immediately launched an attack on the Northeast Jiguan Mountain, which is the northeast defense line of Lushun, and it is also the defense line area that the Russian army focused on building, but under the attack of the People's Army, it took only three days to occupy all the positions of Jiguan Mountain, Shuishi Battalion, Baiyin Mountain, etc., so far the peripheral positions of Lushun have all been captured by the People's Army.

On the one hand, this was due to the high morale and courage of the KPA, and on the other hand, it was also due to the fact that the Japanese army reduced its strength and withdrew most of the army to the city of Arthur for defense. Therefore, the People's Army was able to free up its hands and launch an attack on the city of Arthur.

But at this moment, Li Xianshun came to see Luo Yue and reported a piece of information to Luo Yue that the Japanese army had sent reinforcements to Lushun, consisting of two brigades, namely the 4th Reserve Brigade and the 16th Reserve Brigade, and the commander was Major General Takeuchi Masatsu, the commander of the 4th Brigade, and the army was about 13,000. After assembling in Jinzhou, it will set off from Jinzhou and advance towards Lushun tomorrow and the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Golden State is about 60 kilometers away from Lushun, and the march is 1 or 2 days. Luo Yue naturally didn't dare to be careless, so he postponed the battle to attack the city of Lushun and solved the reinforcements first.

It took all the strength of the two tigers to gather the more than 10,000 troops, and Dashanyan also pinned the hope of holding Lushun on the body of this support army, and the contact between Dashanyan and Nogi Noshinori has not been interrupted in the past few days, so Dashanyan is also very clear about the development of the battle situation in Lushun, and Dashanyan is quite dissatisfied with Nogi Noshinori's tactical plan, and completely abandons the peripheral positions, which is tantamount to giving up the initiative, not only completely passive, but also very difficult for reinforcements.

But Nogi Noshinori also has his own difficulties, and now he doesn't even have 15,000 capable soldiers under his command, what to take to defend the peripheral positions, and the northwest defense line is not undefended, but so what, it's not that it hasn't been held, and the northwest defense line has been lost, what's the point of defending the northeast and southeast, put the army on the peripheral positions, won't the People's Army directly attack the city of Lushun? Therefore, it is better to abandon all the outer positions, concentrate all the troops in the city to deploy, and hold on to Lushun for a longer time.

Of course, whether Dashan Yan agrees with Nogi Noshinori's tactics or not, but now that it is like this, it can't be recovered, and Dashan Yan can only admit it, and finally decided that the reinforcements should not reach the city of Lushun, but find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack on the periphery of Lushun to arrange positions, and Lushun to form a mutual trend, echoing each other from afar, so as to hold on to Lushun for as long as possible, and at the same time require Nogi Noshinori to stick to Lushun.

Of course, Nogi Noshinori understands that the meaning of Dashanyan is to let himself and Lushun coexist and die, once Lushun is lost, that is, when he dies, in fact, Nogi Noshinori has long been prepared for this thought, and now the periphery is occupied by the People's Army, and there is a fleet of the People's Army stationed at sea, so once Lushun City is broken, he just wants not to give his life, of course, Dashanyan means that when Lushun City is broken, let Nogi Noshinori cut himself off, so as not to be a prisoner, so as not to shame the Japanese Army.

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Now that it was decided to attack the reinforcements first, and then attack Lushun, the next step was to determine the location of the ambush reinforcements, and of course this must first determine the route of the reinforcements. In fact, Lushun and Jinzhou are like a small peninsula extending to the west from the terminal of the Liaodong Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, about 60 kilometers long, about 20 kilometers outside the widest part, and only 8 kilometers at the narrowest point, so the road leading from Jinzhou to Lushun is very certain, only to march along the Harbin-Dalian line of the Middle East Railway, just choose a good location on the line.

In the end, Luo Yue and the others unanimously decided to set the location of the ambush in a place called Shishangou, which is located at the halfway point between Jinzhou and Lushun, with a vast mountainous area on the south side, and only a narrow strip of less than 4 kilometers wide in the north, through which the Harbin-Dalian line passes. The terrain is a good place to use troops, and the mountains on the south side are just right for ambushes and warships can strike from the sea.

In this ambush battle, Luo Yue decided to hand it over to the army that landed later, and the 7th Division, the 16th Division, the 2nd and 3rd Reserve Regiments were responsible, and at the same time, two battleships, the Ocean and the Yang, were sent to support at sea, and it was decided that once the Japanese reinforcements were encircled and annihilated, the 7th Division and the 2nd Reserve Regiment would immediately march east to capture Jinzhou. Because Jinzhou and Lushun have always been one, only by taking Jinzhou can they be regarded as completely occupying the Lushun area. And even if the Japanese troops stationed in Jinzhou were dispatched, Luo Yue would naturally not be polite, and after encircling and annihilating the Japanese army, he would easily take Jinzhou down.

After learning about it, Li Xianshun also said that he could arrange for Lushun's latent intelligence personnel to meet him in Shishangou, and to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese army and provide intelligence information to the KPA. At this time, Li Xianshun had already connected with the intelligence officers in Lushun, and he also had a basic understanding of the intelligence network in Lushun, and he also knew that he could help the People's Army in those places.

Luo Yue was naturally happy, it seemed that with the help of intelligence officers, it was indeed much more convenient, so he immediately ordered the troops to be dispatched.

The Japanese army in Jinzhou set out on May 18, because Jinzhou was only 60 kilometers away from Lushun, and the Japanese army did not need to reach the city of Lushun, but only had to gain a foothold on the periphery of Lushun. The commander of the Japanese army, Major General Takeuchi Masake, envisioned the area around Phoenix Mountain and Niuxin Mountain in the northeast of Jiguan Mountain on the outskirts of Lushun.

As for whether it will be attacked by the People's Army in the middle, the commander of the Japanese army, Major General Takeuchi Masatsu, believes that the possibility is not very large, although the People's Army is very likely to send scouts to Jinzhou, but Jinzhou is too close to Lushun, even if he is discovered by the People's Army scouts as soon as he sends out his troops, and reports back to the People's Army, it is estimated that he has completed half of the journey, so it is simply too late for the People's Army to organize troops to ambush halfway, at most it is to organize positions on the periphery of Lushun to block the advance of the Japanese army, but the goal of the Japanese army is not to reach Lushun, and there is no need to storm the positions of the People's Army。

The terrain on the periphery of Lushun is mountainous and complex, and Japan conducted a secret survey of Lushun before launching the Russo-Japanese War, and re-surveyed it in detail during the occupation of Lushun, knowing that there are many mountain roads and paths leading to the city of Lushun. The trail bypasses the KPA's defensive line and launches attacks in KPA's controlled areas, creating chaos, disrupting the KPA's arrangement, pinning down the KPA's forces, and also countering the Japanese troops guarding Lushun.

Of course, Major General Takeuchi Masatsu is not a reckless person, although the possibility of being attacked by the People's Army is not large, but it cannot be ruled out that the People's Army will arrange a small number of ambushes on the way just in case, so Takeuchi Masatsu also made some arrangements for the advance of the Japanese army, this time to reinforce Lushun There are a total of two brigades, Takeuchi Masatsu will operate the two brigades separately, and the distance between them is about 5-7 kilometers, so that the army in the front is attacked, and the army in the rear can also be reinforced in time, and it is foolproof.

In this way, the Japanese army set out at 6 o'clock in the morning and advanced towards Arthur.

However, what Takeuchi Masatsu did not expect was that the East China government had already arranged the intelligence network in Jinzhou, in fact, a lot of intelligence did not need to be in-depth at all, as long as you pay attention to the changes in daily events, you can collect enough intelligence. For example, this time, the Japanese army transferred a brigade from the Yalu River Corps to enter Jinzhou, and the garrison of Jinzhou also began to prepare to set off, of course, these actions could not be hidden, and the army's number, commander and other information was not a secret, and was immediately inquired about by the intelligence officers of Jinzhou and transmitted to Lushun, and Li Xianshun and others analyzed this information, it was easy to conclude that the Japanese army planned to reinforce Lushun, so the People's Army could also be arranged in advance, and the location of the ambush of the Japanese army was preset.

After the Japanese army left the city, it marched in two parts, and it was discovered by drones, although this situation was somewhat unexpected by the People's Army, but because it was discovered early, there was still enough time to adjust. Therefore, the People's Army quickly adjusted the arrangement of the ambush troops, set up another ambush position in the area around the mud pond ditch, and divided the ambush army into two parts, which were ambushed separately, and the two ambush positions were about 6 kilometers apart, which was almost the distance between the two armies in front and behind the Japanese army.

After the two ambush positions were set up, the front of the Japanese army was less than 10 kilometers away from the Shishan Ravine position.