The third day of fighting brought some surprises to Linnevich, it turned out that the left flank of the Russian army finally captured two positions of the People's Army, although this victory was not big, but it still played a quite encouraging role for the Russian army who fought for two days.

Moreover, judging from the feedback from various battlefields, it was found that the firepower of the People's Army was not as dense as in the previous two days, and it was weakened to a certain extent, of course, the firepower of the People's Army defense line faced by the Russian army on the left flank battlefield dropped the most, so it was only on the left flank that the two positions of the People's Army were captured. On other battlefields, the Russian army also attacked the positions of the People's Army twice, although both were only a small number of Russian troops, and they were quickly eliminated or repelled by the People's Army with numerical superiority, but compared with the previous two days, there was indeed a lot of progress.

After learning of these circumstances, Linnevich judged that the People's Army had insufficient ammunition, which is also very understandable, because in the first two days of fighting, the People's Army basically relied on intensive firepower to repel the Russian army's attack, so the consumption of ammunition is naturally much greater than that of the Russian army, and it is not surprising that there is a shortage of ammunition, which is indeed a great opportunity. So Linevich strengthened his determination to continue the battle, and ordered all battlefields to intensify their attacks tomorrow.

On the 4th day of the offensive, the Russian army finally made significant progress, still on the battlefield on the left flank, the Russian army paid nearly 5,000 casualties, and finally conquered the Xiaodong Pass position of the KPA, and the right flank of the KPA was forced to retreat about 7 kilometers and rearrange the defense in the area around Taizigou. Moreover, in addition to the battlefield on the left flank, the Russian army also made a breakthrough in the middle battlefield and successfully occupied a position of the People's Army.

And Linnevich was also very excited, thinking that it was not far from the rout of the People's Army on all fronts, and the Russian army, which was the left flank, was the 1st Army under his original command, and the results achieved were also the greatest, of course, he gave himself a long face.

However, after 4 consecutive days of fighting, the losses of the Russian army were not small, with a total of 27,000 casualties, more than one percent of the whole army, and it was the 1st Army, with more than 10,000 casualties, but Linnevich did not care, because for Russia, people are the most lacking, as long as it is victorious, it is not a problem how many people die, and there are reserve troops in Shenyang Chengli, so Linnevich ordered to transfer an army to supplement the 1st Army.

On the 5th day, the Russian army again mustered up its fighting spirit and launched an offensive on the positions of the KPA.

It should be said that before the attack, the Russian army was still very confident, believing that the ammunition of the People's Army was probably running out now, so this day's battle should be able to achieve relatively large results.

At the beginning of the Russian army's attack, I found that it was not at all what I imagined, the people's army's firepower was dense and tightly guarded, and it was almost the same as the previous two days, and it was in the middle and right flank, which caused heavy casualties to the Russian army.

At the beginning, the Russian army thought that this was the last madness of the people, and this kind of firepower intensity would not be able to support much time, and when the last bit of ammunition of the People's Army was exhausted, it would be the turn of the Russian army to exert its might.

After one hour, the KPA resistance did not weaken, after two hours, the fire continued to intensify, and after three hours, it ...... The fierce fighting continued until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the firepower of the KPA was still strong, showing no signs of weakening, and the casualties of the Russian army had exceeded 10,000.

However, the middle of the Russian army, the right flank is unfavorable, but on the left flank has made a breakthrough, the Russian 1st Army, which has been replenished by troops, is full of morale, and in the morning it broke through the Taizigou position of the People's Army, and the People's Army retreated 7 or 8 kilometers back, until it retreated to the area of Niangniangmiao Mountain before rearranging the defensive line, and at this time it was almost 16 kilometers back from the original defense line of the right wing of the People's Army, and it had almost reached the periphery of Liaoyang. In the absence of achievements in the center and right flank of the Russian army, the 1st Army on the left flank undoubtedly achieved very outstanding results.

However, although Linnevich is not a famous general, but after all, he has also received formal military study, and has many years of military experience, at this time there is no problem, only from the map can be seen very clearly, now the left flank of the Russian army has formed an obvious protrusion, and the left flank has been completely exposed in front of the KPA middle position, at this time, as long as the KPA center position sends an army, even if only 1 regiment of troops enters from the oblique side of the 1st Army, the retreat of the 1st Army can be cut off。

So Linnevich hurriedly ordered the 1st Army to stop its march immediately, and finally retreat some distance, and send troops to protect his flank. However, Linneviza's order was issued from Shenyang, at a distance of more than 40 kilometers from the 1st Army, although the Russian army had already used radio at this time, but due to the backward technical conditions of the Yuan line, it was limited to radio communication between fixed locations, and the troops who went out to operate could only communicate with the most primitive people.

But even if you send someone on a fast horse, it will take at least 1 hour to send Linnevich's order to the 1st Army. If there is any accident on the way, such as getting lost, encountering the enemy, the horse being injured, etc., it may not be delivered for several hours. Therefore, after sending the signal troops, Linnevich could only hope for God's blessing, and the signal troops could rush to the 1st Army in time, so that the 1st Army could take precautions.

However, at about 10 o'clock in the evening of the same day, Linnevich received a report that the KPA had captured Taizigou and Paoshan, cutting off the retreat of the 1st Army. Linnevich's eyes darkened, and he knew it was all over.

It turned out that on the first day of the Russian army's attack on the positions of the People's Army, the commander of the Northeast Theater* and the commander of the Second Army, Qiu Yahui, negotiated a plan for the war against Russia.

As long as the People's Army in Liaoyang holds out for another 2 or 3 days, judging from the battle situation on the first day, it will not be difficult to complete this task, and when the troops participating in the Battle of the Yalu River come back to help, they will be able to counterattack the Russian army.

However, * and Qiu Yahui are not satisfied with only repelling the Russian army, but hope 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 is to annihilate at least 100,000 Russian troops and deal a heavy blow to the Russian army.

So the two of them formulated such a tactic of deliberately showing weakness, luring the enemy deeper, and then dividing and encircling the Russian army. The reason why this tactic was chosen to be carried out on the right-flank position was, first, that there was more room for maneuver and that the KPA had enough room to display it; second, because it was closer to the troops returning to the reinforcements, which was conducive to the troops returning to the reinforcements to directly enter the positional positions. Therefore, on the 3rd and 4th days of the Russian offensive, the KPA deliberately reduced its firepower, so that the Russian army felt that the KPA was running out of ammunition, and on its right flank, it pretended to be invincible, abandoned its position, and retreated. lured the left flank of the Russian army to advance, and at the same time bought time for the troops participating in the battle of the Yalu River to come back with reinforcements.

By the fourth day of the war, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the KPA had returned to their reinforcements, and together with the original defenders on the right flank, a total of 150,000 troops had been concentrated, ready to be used to divide and encircle the left flank army of the Russian army. At the same time, Qiu Yahui also threw all the reserves of the remaining two divisions into the central position to strengthen the troops in the middle. Because once the People's Army divides and encircles the left wing army of the Russian army, the Russian army will definitely send reinforcements from the middle to relieve the difficulties, and the task of the middle lane of the People's Army is to contain the Russian army and prevent the Russian army from having the spare strength to rescue the left wing army.

On the 5th day of fighting, the KPA's right-wing units again abandoned their positions and retreated. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, most of the Russian army had reached Yehegou Village, and the vanguard was stationed in Dongligou, less than 2 kilometers away from the position of the People's Army.

At 6 p.m., the communications corps rushed to the headquarters of the 1st Army and handed over Linnevich's orders to the acting commander, Lieutenant General Stagriburg.

However, after reading Linnevich's order, Lieutenant General Stagliburg was quite disapproving, in the past few days, the 1st Army has been advancing all the way, sweeping away the decline of the war against Japan, so Stagliburg is now also full of ambition, ready to fight until Liaoyang to establish meritorious service, at this time, let him stop the attack, or even withdraw the army, Stagliburg is naturally unwilling. In his opinion, if he retreats at this time, his previous victories will be in vain, and he should let the 4th Army, which is responsible for the attack in the middle, strengthen the attack, or send troops to protect his flanks, which makes sense for him to retreat.

At the same time, Stagliburg was also very dissatisfied with the 4th Army, which was composed of Russian garrisons on the Western Front, and since coming to the Far East, he has been arrogant and looks down on the original troops in the Far East.

So Stagliburg summoned the staff and officers of the 1st Army to negotiate, and everyone agreed that the troops should not be withdrawn at this time, but asked the 4th Army to strengthen the offensive and cooperate with the 1st Army, but everyone also agreed that the 1st Army had indeed gone too far now, and it was also necessary to send a part of the army to protect its flanks when the 4th Army had not yet sent troops to cooperate with the operation.

Stagriburg also felt that it made sense, so he ordered the 2nd Division of the 5th Siberian Army to rush to Zhujiadian to garrison and protect the flank of the Russian army.