At this moment, reinforcements from the KPA finally arrived, and it was the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Division, which was the main force of the 3rd Army, because these two self-propelled guns were too important, and the main force was idle, so they were sent to support.

And the arrival of reinforcements from the People's Army means that the fate of the Japanese army's defeat has no room to turn back, and because the Japanese army attacked the position of the People's Army with all its might, and did not leave a way back for itself, it was completely surrounded by the 2nd Regiment, and finally the whole army was annihilated, only a dozen soldiers escaped, more than 200 Japanese soldiers were captured, and the rest were all killed, and the Japanese army's main general, Kobe Jiro Osa, committed suicide with a bullet.

After the overall situation of the battlefield was decided, Huang Taisong and the others came out of the cab of the self-propelled gun, and they were still a little apprehensive, the situation just now was indeed too dangerous, and for a few minutes, Huang Taisong and the others were ready to die in battle, but in the end they still won the victory.

The soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield and counting the results, and Yuan Hui, the commander of the 2nd Regiment, Huang Taisong and Zhang Fangping, who came to support, gathered together to understand the process of the war. Of course, it was mainly Zhang Fangping who spoke, after all, he was the first commander, and Huang Taisong and others were just supplements.

After listening to Zhang Fangping's speech, Yuan Hui frowned and said: "Battalion Commander Zhang, there is no big mistake in your front command, but the last time the Japanese army clearly pressed all its forces to attack a position, you should immediately transfer a large number of troops from other positions to assist in the defense, or even take the initiative to attack the flank of the Japanese army. ”

When Zhang Fangping heard this, he also looked ashamed, and said: "I thought about transferring all the troops in the flank position to the right front position, but I was afraid that the Japanese army would have an ambush near other positions, and I didn't have time to think about it, so I only transferred two platoons. ”

Yuan Hui said: "At that time, the momentum of the Japanese army's all-out attack, what ambush there will be." ”

Huang Taisong said: "Hindsight will be done, but in the environment at the time, it is really difficult to judge, and it is normal to make mistakes, but in the end, it is thanks to Battalion Commander Zhang who withstood the attack of the Yue army that these two self-propelled guns were saved." ”

Yuan Hui nodded and said, "That's right, the final command is quite appropriate, if you don't fill in all the artillery, I'm afraid you really won't be able to stop the Japanese attack." ”

Zhang Fangping also laughed twice and said, "I can't help it, because it will take time for other troops to arrive, and there are only artillery left around me, so I have to send them all." ”

Yuan Hui turned his head to Huang Taisong and said: "You too, it is clear that you still have cavalry, if when the Japanese army launches an attack, you can send it out to rush the flank of the Japanese army, even if you can't break up the Japanese army, but you can also slow down the Japanese army's offensive speed." ”

Huang Taisong touched the back of his head and said with a smile: "When people are nervous, they forget everything, and they don't think of anything at that time." ”

Yuan Hui nodded and said, "The battlefield is really changing rapidly, as long as you make a wrong step, you may lose everything." So you have to keep a clear head all the time, but it's not easy to do that. ”

As they spoke, the battlefield had been cleared and the results were counted, with 1,853 Japanese soldiers killed and 265 captured, and the KPA killed 387 and wounded 476. The vast majority of the casualties came from Zhang Fangping's battalion, which was a mortar unit of the battalion, with 32 killed and 55 wounded, while the self-propelled artillery unit also suffered 27 killed and 46 wounded. Fortunately, both self-propelled guns were fine, and although they were hit several times, they failed to penetrate the steel plates.

After the battlefield was cleaned, the KPA also reorganized its ranks and set off. Yuan Hui said to Zhang Fangping: "Battalion Commander Zhang, your troops have suffered heavy casualties, so send the self-propelled artillery units here, no need to escort them anymore, just let my troops escort them to the Shoushan battlefield." ”

Zhang Fangping also nodded, his troops could indeed be regarded as suffering heavy casualties, and the 3rd Army sent a regiment of troops to pick up the self-propelled artillery troops, whether they escorted it or not, it really had no effect, so he said: "Okay, Commander Yuan, then please work hard." ”

Yuan Hui said: "It's nothing, anyway, we're here to pick up people, but it's not very convenient for us to take these captives, you can bring the captives back." ”

Zhang Fangping was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, this is Yuan Hui giving credit to himself, and he couldn't help but be moved in his heart, catching 200 prisoners, which is not a small credit, of course, this is only in the People's Army There is such a mutual humility thing, in exchange for the Qing Army, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, and if you catch 200 prisoners, you can immediately blow it to catch 2000, and the enemy can even be more than 20,000.

In fact, Yuan Hui didn't want to grab this battle merit with Zhang Fangping, firstly, his identity was here, what kind of merit did a regiment commander and battalion commander rob, not to mention that he was still a traverser, of course, he was called a veteran in the East China government, and secondly, Zhang Fangping didn't look down on this little profit, and although Zhang Fangping's command ability was average, in the end, in order to protect the self-propelled artillery, he was loyal and commendable, which could be regarded as a report of his loyalty.

Then the two sides set off separately, and the self-propelled artillery team did not encounter any further trouble, and the team arrived at the Shoushan battlefield very smoothly.

However, it was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon when they arrived at the Shoushan battlefield, and many of the self-propelled artillery teams were wounded, including more than a dozen seriously wounded, and only a simple bandaging was carried out on the battlefield, so the KPA decided to let the self-propelled guns rest for a day, and give the wounded a comprehensive treatment, and attack the Shoushan position tomorrow, as long as the two self-propelled guns arrived.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day, two self-propelled guns began to bombard the fortress of the Japanese position.

The fire power of a 200 mm caliber gun is certainly not comparable to that of a 155 mm caliber gun. Although the diameter is only 45 mm larger, the weight of a 200-mm shell is about 150 kg, and the weight of a 155-mm shell is only 40-50 kg, a difference of about 3 times, and the power is naturally very different.

After nearly 2 hours of shelling, the two self-propelled guns each fired more than 30 shells, successfully destroying two large fortresses, and the People's Army used tunnel blasting tactics to blow up a small fortress, and this time the five fortresses of the Shoushan position were destroyed 4, leaving only a small fortress, which was already lonely, and could not hold the position at all, so the Japanese troops guarding the position had to retreat to Anshan to garrison.

On another front, after crossing the Taizi River, the 4th Army also launched a fierce attack on the Japanese Zhangtaizi position on the same day, and also allocated 6 car-towed guns allocated to the 2nd Army for the 4th Army.

Although the Japanese troops guarding the Zhangtaizi position have been strengthened, but they are all in a hurry to meet the battle, and did not establish a solid position, and the number of artillery is also insufficient, although the Japanese army is desperately defending, but can not hold the position, the two sides fought fiercely for 7 or 8 hours, until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, all went to the cost of casualties, but most of the positions in Zhangtaizi were captured by the People's Army, and the remaining Japanese troops saw that the general trend had gone, and they only abandoned their positions and retreated to the southeast. At 4 p.m., the People's Army completely occupied Zhangtaizi, and immediately sent two divisions north to capture the Shili River.

By this time, all the positions on the periphery of Liaoyang had been captured by the People's Army, and a situation of encirclement of Liaoyang on the south, west, and north had also been formed, and only the east side of Liaoyang City could be evacuated.

But on this day, only the battle in Liaoyang City went very badly, and this was not because the 2nd Army was unfavorable in battle, or the Japanese resistance was particularly tenacious, but the Japanese army grabbed the residents of Liaoyang City and placed them in front of the position as human shields to block the attack of the People's Army.

It turned out that in yesterday's urban war, the KPA had a relatively obvious advantage in the second half of the war, so the KPA also had spare strength to rescue many residents in the city, and those who were interested in the Japanese army also discovered this situation.

And last night, Dashanyan held a military meeting to discuss the next day's battle, because according to this momentum, the Japanese army would definitely not be able to hold Liaoyang City the next day, so someone suggested to Dashanyan that since the People's Army cared about the residents of the city, then it could take some people in the city as hostages and coerce to stop the People's Army's attack.

Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro were reluctant to do this at first, after all, in this era, the practice of taking civilians as hostages was not acceptable to mainstream society, and the sense of honor of the military and the unique Japanese spirit of bushido also made the two instinctively reject this suggestion. But after discussion, the two sadly found that in addition, there was indeed no other way to hold Liaoyang City, because by normal fighting, Liaoyang City would definitely not be able to hold tomorrow, and the loss of Liaoyang would be quite unfavorable to the withdrawal of the Japanese army, so after several discussions, many staff officers agreed with this suggestion, thinking that only in this way can Liaoyang City be held, and compared to the safety of the Japanese army, a little reputation loss is nothing, so they tried their best to persuade Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro, and under the persuasion of everyone, the two finally wavered, and finally accepted this suggestion。

So the Japanese army went out overnight, captured more than 2,000 residents, and placed them in front of various positions, and the next day when the People's Army was preparing to attack, they found that they were facing a platoon of civilians with their guns, and if they attacked, then these civilians lined up in front of the positions would probably die.

Although in yesterday's battle, the People's Army also accidentally injured many civilians, but this is an inevitable thing in the battle, the soldiers of the People's Army did not have any psychological burden, but the Japanese army listed civilians in the front of the position as human shields, but the soldiers of the People's Army did not know what to do, it is certainly impossible to shoot and kill these civilians, but if they do not fight, they will not be able to capture Liaoyang, so although the soldiers of the People's Army are very angry at the behavior of the Japanese army, there is no good way, but they can only stop the attack, and ask the higher authorities for instructions.