The first day of the offensive achieved great results, not only completely breaking through the defense line northwest of Arthur, but also further consolidating the area now occupied. However, the losses of the KPA were not small, and this day of fighting resulted in 827 soldiers killed, 1,279 wounded, and more than 2,000 people were lost, in addition to a large amount of ammunition, and this was only the first day of fighting.

However, in such a fierce war, it was inevitable to suffer such losses, and the local bandits and rogues that the Japanese army and the People's Army faced in the past were completely different opponents. Of course, if the People's Army wants to grow up and become the strongest army of this era, and even reach the heights of the People's Liberation Army in the old time and space, it must go through such fierce battles.

In the evening of the same day, Luo Yue summoned officers at and above the division level to hold a military meeting to discuss the next battle plan. Luo Yue believed that although the People's Army had broken through the outer defense line of Lushun and could directly attack the city of Arthur, it was not appropriate to launch an attack on the city of Arthur at present, but should first clear all the positions of the Japanese army on the periphery of the city of Arthur, completely relieve their worries, and then launch an attack on the city of Arthur.

In the battle of the Japanese attack on Lushun, there was no battle in the city of Arthur, because after the Japanese army cleared the positions on the periphery of the city of Arthur, the Russian army saw that the general trend had gone and chose to surrender. Of course, Luo Yue did not also want to force the Japanese army to surrender, with the character of the Japanese, they would never surrender easily, so the battle in the attack on the city of Arthur will definitely be a difficult urban battle, and it is very likely to last for several days, and the removal of the positions on the periphery of the city of Arthur is on the one hand so that the People's Army will have no worries when attacking the city of Arthur; on the other hand, the Japanese army will not let Lushun lose its position, and will send additional reinforcements to Lushun to occupy the peripheral positions, also in order to block the reinforcements of the Japanese army.

On the other hand, Luo Yue also decided that the Marines and the 1st Division that had broken through the Lushun defense line should be temporarily repaired and monitor the soldiers in the Lushun City, and the responsibility for capturing the outlying positions would be entrusted to several other divisions, so that the Marines and the 1st Division could be repaired and prepared for the attack on the Lushun City, and second, it would also allow the other divisions to undergo the tempering of the battlefield, which would also be conducive to improving the overall strength of the 1st Army.

Others have no objection to Luo Yue's suggestion, but now only 2 divisions of the 1st Army have landed in Lushun, and there are still 2 divisions and 2 reserve regiments that have not arrived, so tomorrow the 6th Division will first attack Laotieshan and Jiguan Mountain in the southwest.

Lushun is surrounded by mountains, the northwest is Shihou Mountain, the People's Army currently occupies the 203 Heights, Dading Mountain, Laohugou Mountain, Shengjia Mountain, Sun Gully and other positions all belong to Shihou Mountain, the northeast is Jiguan Mountain, the southeast is Baiyin Mountain, the southwest is Lao Tie Mountain, plus the Baiyu Mountain and the Golden Mountain in the Lushun City, constitute the entire defense system of Lushun.

However, Baiyin Mountain and Laotie Mountain mainly focus on coastal defense, Shihou Mountain and Jiguan Mountain are land defense, and Baiyu Mountain and Golden Mountain are both sea and land. The capture of Lao Tie Mountain, which is about 10 kilometers south of the area occupied by the People's Army, will not only stabilize the area controlled by the People's Army, but also expand the range of activities of the Navy, allowing warships to directly attack the port of Arthur.

Later, Luo Yue sent a telegram to Qingdao, reporting the results of today's battle and his own plan, and asked that all the follow-up troops be sent to Lushun as soon as possible. Soon Luo Yue received a reply from Qingdao, approved Luo Yue's plan, and promised to send the remaining troops of the 1st Army to the Lushun area tomorrow.

In fact, Luo Yue's judgment was not wrong. After the end of the battle, the Japanese army withdrew to the city of Arthur, counted the losses, the number of dead reached 2,316, and 2,879 people were wounded, more than 5,000 people were reduced, and the northwest defense line was completely lost.

After Oyama Iwa received Nogi Noshinori's telegram, he was so angry that he broke out more than ten sentences of Japanese scolding, fortunately, the two sides were contacted by telegraph, if it was a direct call, it is estimated that Oyama Iwa would scold Nogi Noshinori a bloody dog. Of course, you can't blame Dashanyan for being angry, Nogi Xidian swore yesterday that he could hold on to Lushun for a month, and it was only a day later, and the 203 Heights were lost, and the Great Mountains naturally knew the importance of the 203 Heights to Lushun. And just today, Dashan Yan received a secret telegram from China, and only then did he know the real result of the Battle of Tsushima, it turned out that the United Fleet had been disabled by the People's Army.

Oyama Iwa was the highest military commander in China, so the results of the Battle of Tsushima naturally could not be concealed from him, otherwise it would affect the judgment of the front-line commanders on the overall situation, so Oyama was sent to Oyama in the form of a secret telegram in Japan. And after knowing the true result of the Battle of Tsushima, Oyama Iwa also suddenly felt pressured, and it turned out that the situation was even worse than he imagined.

It's just that the anger is the fire, but Lushun still can't ignore it, because he learned that the combined fleet was disabled, if Lushun is lost again, then the People's Army can send troops to Liaodong through Lushun without any reason, and the Liaohe River forms a mutual echo trend, so after a tantrum, Dashanyan also had to make arrangements, and after consulting with the staff, it was finally decided to transfer the reserve 16 brigades from the Yalu River Corps stationed on the Korean Peninsula to join the reserve 4 brigades of the 3rd Army Corps stationed in Jinzhou to support Lushun. It's not that Dashanyan doesn't want to send more troops, but he really can't draw troops.

After the Yalu River Army developed from the independent 10th Division, it had 2 divisions, 1 brigade and 1 infantry regiment. Dashanyan has already transferred a division from the Yalu River Corps, preparing to attack the Liaohe People's Army, and it is impossible to transfer more troops, after all, the Yalu River Corps still has the task of protecting the rear of the Japanese army, and it is impossible to drain all the Yalu River Corps.

Later, Oyama Iwa sent a telegram to Japan, explaining that the Japanese army in Liaodong was now insufficient, and asked the country to form the 5th Army Corps as soon as possible and transfer it to Liaodong to participate in the war.

Early the next morning, the 6th Division launched an attack on Lao Tieshan. The old iron mountain position was originally set up for the coastal defense of Lushun, and the Japanese army controlled the sea control in the Far East early, so there were not too many troops in the old iron mountain position, a total of only two wings were arranged, but the troops should be dispersed to guard 4 hills, each hill is only 2 brigades at most, and there are no heavy weapons, the original Russian army on the old iron mountain arranged battery artillery, most of them were destroyed in the battle, and most of the remaining artillery was dismantled by Japan and used in other battlefields. And now that the Japanese army has lost the northwest defense line, it is even more impossible to send more troops to Lao Tieshan

Because the 1st Division and the Marines achieved great results on the first day, it was also a great encouragement to the 6th Division, so the morale of the officers and men of the 6th Division was high, and they performed very bravely in the battle, of course, it was also related to the strength of the defenders was too weak, and by 11 o'clock at noon, they had conquered 3 hilltop positions, and only the main position of Lao Tieshan was still controlled by the Japanese army.

However, the People's Army immediately launched an attack on the main position of Lao Tieshan, although the Japanese troops guarding the position resisted desperately, but both the strength and the assembly were too far from the People's Army, not to mention the fire support of the People's Army in the warships, in fact, even without the fire support of the Navy, the various mortars equipped with the 6th Division were enough for the Japanese troops guarding the position to drink a pot. As a result, after more than an hour of fighting, the People's Army finally captured the Lao Tieshan position, and the remaining Japanese troops also tried to resist stubbornly, and the People's Army launched a white-knuckle battle, but the strength of the two sides was too far apart, 10 minutes later, the Japanese soldiers who resisted were all annihilated, and the People's Army finally fully occupied the Lao Tieshan position.

However, only 41 of the more than 800 Japanese troops guarding the position were captured, of which 27 were captured due to injuries and loss of resistance, and only 14 Japanese soldiers actually surrendered. The rest of the Japanese soldiers were all killed.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy arrived again in Lushun, bringing all the remaining troops of the 1st Army, and also brought a large amount of supplies, furniture, etc.

And then the troops arrived in Lushun together, there is also a special liaison team, the leader is named Li Xianshun, is a traverser, the team members have a total of 6 people, but the actual identity of this group is an operational group set up by the Ministry of Security. Li Xianshun's real position is the director of the intelligence department of the Liaodong region, and his main task is to manage the intelligence collection and processing work in the Lushun area, and to assist Luo Yue and others in military operations.

The Ministry of Security began to deploy on the Liaodong Peninsula almost three years ago to prepare for war, and Lushun was of course a key area for intelligence work in Liaodong, and the East China Government opened three commercial houses in Lushun to collect intelligence. During the Russo-Japanese War, the East China government's trading houses were also valued by the Russian army because they had material supplies, and the trading houses also tended to expand and secretly acquired 4 small commercial houses.

During the Japanese occupation of Lushun, the relations between the East China Government and Japan deteriorated, and all the three trading houses were closed, but all the intelligence personnel were transferred to the four small commercial houses and continued to carry out intelligence activities.

Of course, the activities of intelligence officers are not limited to the Lushun urban area, but are based in the Lushun urban area, develop to the rural towns and stores in the suburbs, and go deep into the people. By this time, nine intelligence points had been set up in the Lushun area, and the intelligence network basically covered the entire Lushun and Jinzhou areas, with a total of 35 intelligence personnel, 19 of whom were developed in Lushun locality, and all the intelligence points together could mobilize a total of more than 2,000 people.

This was of course a very useful force, and now that the KPA had gained a firm foothold in the Lushun area, Lee Hsien Shun's group was sent to Lushun.