Stagliburg received the news of the defeat of the 5th Division at 11:30 p.m., and Stagliburg had wanted to sleep, but when he heard the news, he was immediately taken aback, and he did not expect the KPA to move so quickly. However, at this time, Stagriburg did not know that the People's Army had concentrated superior forces and planned to encircle and annihilate itself, thinking that it was just an active attack made by the People's Army in order to redeem its own defeat and target the weakness of the Russian army.

So Stagliburg immediately summoned all the officers of the army to discuss, but by this time many of them had already fallen asleep, so that after a long time they had not yet arrived. But at this moment, Stagliburg received another message that the forward positions of the Russian army in Dongligou were attacked by the People's Army.

Until this time, Stagliburg did not realize that the situation was wrong, and still believed that this was just a tentative offensive by the People's Army, and it was not enough to pose much threat to the Russian army, Bi Jing was stationed in Dongligou was the Siberian First Army, which had two divisions and two cavalry regiments, with a total strength of about 45,000, and a position to defend, far from being comparable to the 5th Division.

After all the officers had arrived, Stagliburg was still discussing the withdrawal of troops step by step, and all the officers also had their own opinions, some advocated the withdrawal of troops to ensure the safety of the whole army, while others thought that even if the KPA captured Zhujiadian, there was nothing to fear, and as long as the 4th Army could send troops to help, it would be able to relieve itself of the danger, so it should continue the attack.

At a time when the atmosphere of discussion was being enthusiastic, the Russian army again received unfavorable news, first of all, the Russian army in the Dongligou position had been defeated by the People's Army and was retreating in the direction of Yehegou Village; moreover, Zhujiadian, Taizigou, Paoshan, and other places had been occupied by the People's Army, and in addition, People's Army activities were found in Songshugou and Laojunyu.

At this time, Stagliburg and others understood what was happening, because just by looking at the map, it was very clear that the place occupied by the People's Army, and the place where the People's Army was found, actually formed a circle that was not too regular, and in the center of this circle was the village of Yehegou, where the Russian army was located. To complete such an encirclement, at least more than 100,000 troops are needed, and it is of course not enough to rely on the previous defensive strength of the People's Army, so the result is naturally self-evident, the People's Army has ended the war with Japan and transferred troops back to Liaoyang.

After figuring out the situation faced, although the meeting continued, the atmosphere was much heavier, because the topic of discussion was no longer whether to advance or not, but to immediately break through and retreat, or stick to the spot, waiting for other Russian troops to come to the rescue.

Everyone discussed for most of the night, and finally decided to stick to the spot and wait for rescue, because Stagliburg still has a relatively clear understanding of the battle situation, and he knows that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is not as strong as expected, and Japan, These yellow-skinned monkeys in China are not as weak as Russia thinks, and according to the situation of the previous stage of the battle, the defending side is obviously more advantageous than the attacking side, so if the Russian army breaks through the encirclement, Stagliburg is not enough to be sure, if it is stationed on the spot, Stagliburg still has some confidence, thinking that it can hold at least a few days, and Linevich will never sit idly by and watch the 1st Army be annihilated, and will inevitably organize troops to reinforce. And when reinforcements arrive, the 1st Army will launch a breakthrough again, so that there is still hope for a turnaround in one fell swoop.

Of course, this is also because Stagreburg is a person who has participated in the war against Japan, and his judgment of the combat effectiveness of the People's Army is not as contemptuous as before the war between Japan and Russia, although the successive victories in the previous two days have swelled his self-confidence a little, but the current situation has finally made Stagreburg sober up, so he should be more prudent in making decisions. If it was Samsolov and Yudenich, he would not hesitate to choose to break through.

After such a toss, it was already the second half of the night, and the defeated armies on both sides had rushed back one after another, so Stagliburg ordered all the soldiers to be awakened, and immediately set up a defensive line on the spot, ready to meet the people's army. At the same time, five reconnaissance teams were sent to sneak back to Shenyang to deliver a letter to Linnevich before dawn, asking him to mobilize reinforcements for reinforcements.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the first shell fell on the unfinished positions of the Russian army, opening the curtain of the KPA attack on the Russian positions.

Before this battle, the Russian army had not fought with the People's Army, although it knew that the People's Army was good at using artillery fire, but it did not have an intuitive understanding, and then it finally understood that the artillery bombardment of the People's Army was not a comprehensive strike like the Russian army, but a concentrated artillery attack on a position of the Russian army to carry out a comprehensive coverage of the strike.

In view of the encirclement and annihilation of the Russian army this time, the People's Army has concentrated all 4 self-propelled guns and 18 towed artillery, which not only have a long range, but also have a large power of artillery shells, which are 4 self-propelled guns, although the rate of fire is not fast, but the lethality caused by each cannon to the Russian army is extremely huge, and the Russian army is in a hurry of less than one night, and it is impossible to establish a strong defense, plus there are other artillery co-ribs, so in the face of the shelling of the People's Army, the Russian army is basically defenseless, and can only wait to be beaten.

Although the Russian army also sent artillery to return fire, as long as the Russian artillery fired, in less than 5 minutes, before the landing point of the shells could be corrected, it would have to be accurately hit by the artillery fire of the People's Army, and the power of the artillery shells was huge, and with only 7 or 8 guns, an artillery position could almost be destroyed.

The artillery bombardment of the People's Army lasted for 20 minutes, firing more than 5,000 shells at the positions of the Russian army, almost sweeping all the positions of the Russian army, and the Russian troops guarding the positions suffered heavy casualties, and then the artillery of the People's Army turned to the nearby positions on the left and right, and the army of the People's Army took advantage of the situation to kill, and the remnants of the Russian army could not stop the attack of the People's Army at all, so the People's Army captured the Russian positions very easily, and the time was not even 1 hour.

The KPA immediately divided its forces into three routes, one starting from its own position and continuing to advance forward, while the other two attacked the adjacent positions on the left and right, and at this time, the adjacent positions on the left and right were also heavily shelled by the KPA, so the KPA did not have much effort to capture the adjacent positions, and then expanded to the adjacent and forward positions respectively.

Only three hours later, four peripheral positions on the front of the Russian defense line had been lost, and the People's Army continued to expand its attack on the Russian army's peripheral positions on the one hand, and on the other hand, it concentrated its forces to break through to the center of the Russian army, and at this time, the farthest KPA unit was actually only more than 1,500 meters away from the Russian army headquarters. At this time, the People's Army in other directions also launched an attack on the Russian army's defense line, although the attack in other directions was not so fierce, but because the Russian army's peripheral positions had been torn apart by the People's Army a big gap, many Russian defenders of the outer positions were afraid that their flanks would be attacked, so they could only take the initiative to abandon their positions and retreat.

Of course, the Russian army also tried to launch two counterattacks, hoping to recapture 1 or 2 peripheral positions and stabilize the battle situation, but the KPA was well guarded and had strong firepower, both of which successfully repelled the counterattack of the Russian army and ensured its own advantage.

The efficiency of the KPA's offensive was quite high, and all the Russian army's outlying positions had been cleared in one morning, and now all the Russian troops were squeezed into a narrow area of 3 kilometers north and south and only 2.5 kilometers east and west. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the tactical thinking of the People's Army is obviously superior to that of the Russian army, and it has given full play to the strength and superiority of artillery fire, which has created extremely favorable conditions for the ground troops to attack the Russian positions, while in contrast, the Russian army's tactical thinking is still the traditional one waiting for the People's Army to attack, and the two sides first shoot at each other, and even conduct white-knives operations.

After all, the 1st Army of the Russian Army participated in the war against Japan and was beaten to the ground by the Japanese army, and the People's Army beat the Japanese army to the point of losing its armor and losing a big defeat, so by analogy in the hearts of the Russian soldiers, there has been a shadow, although the 1st Army has replenished a large number of new soldiers, but the basic backbone of the army, the middle and high-level officers still have not changed, so they do not dare to fight hard with the People's Army at all; while the People's Army is different, although the soldiers of the People's Army are a little tired due to successive battles, since the People's Army entered the war, it has won successive battlesTherefore, the morale of the people's army is now high, and the soldiers' desire to fight is extremely strong, which is reflected on the battlefield is fighting bravely and with high morale, and the results are naturally different.

Stagliburg did not expect that the KPA attack would be so sharp, and in just one morning, all the outer positions would be lost, and if they continued to fight like this, they were afraid that they would not be able to hold on for even a day. In fact, the entire position of the Russian army is now covered by the artillery fire of the People's Army, so at this time, the People's Army did not launch a ground offensive again, but used artillery and various mortars to bombard the positions of the Russian army.

At this time, several shells had already fallen on the periphery of the headquarters, and it was said that there might not be a shell that would fall directly on his head at any time, so Stagriburg also regretted it in his heart, knowing that the garrison would be like this, so it was better to choose to break through? Moreover, at this time, Stagriburg was full of complaints about Linnevich, and one of the teams he sent out to deliver the letter always arrived in Shenyang, and when he saw Linnevich, why did he not see reinforcements coming.