"Annihilated 58,347 Russian troops and captured 76,261 Russian troops; completely annihilated the 1st Army, 32nd Division, and 37th Division of the Russian Army; captured 6 lieutenant generals and 33 major generals; captured weapons and ammunition, including 257 artillery pieces and 6,278 shells; 76,925 rifles, 57 machines, 562 pistols, and 3.5 million rounds of ammunition; and other materials included 6,823 war horses, 1,014 tons of grain, 56 tons of medicines, and more than 30 million pieces of other tents, belts, and leather boots. The losses of our army were: 5,817 killed, 13,784 wounded, and 312 missing. ”

"It's a good fight, annihilation plus prisoners, a total of more than 130,000 Russian troops have been eliminated, plus the wounded of the Russian army, I'm afraid the attrition will reach 200,000. The results of this battle are no worse than the battle of the Yalu River. Be sure to give commendations to the units on the front line. ”

"Yes, it should be completely, to be honest, I didn't expect that such a big result would be achieved, and the troops must be commended, and the meritorious personnel must be rewarded. ”

"Not only to commend, but also to do a good job of publicity, after this battle, we will completely tear our faces with the Qing court, now we must seize all opportunities for propaganda, the Japanese army was fought before, this time it was the Russian army, these two countries are the most ruthless countries in this era of aggression against China, and now we have learned a lesson, we can't miss this opportunity for propaganda." ”

After the good news of the victory in the Battle of Shilihe was sent to Qingdao, the East China Government was very excited from top to bottom, because in terms of the results of the two battles of the Yalu River and the Shilihe River, a total of 160,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, 120,000 were taken prisoner, and nearly 200,000 Japanese logisticians were captured. Although the traversers did have considerable confidence in defeating the Japanese and Russian armies, they really did not expect that the results would be so huge, and it can almost be said that they had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese and Russian armies in one fell swoop.

Now that the East China Government, Japan, and Russia have all entered a period of recuperation, the war in the Liaodong Battlefield has come to an end for the time being, and the military group in Qingdao has also begun to discuss how to proceed in the next stage of the war.

According to the original plan, after defeating the Japanese army, the People's Army would confront the Russian army on the Liaoyang-Shenyang line, and at this time a fleet should be dispatched to lead the marines north to attack Vladivostok, so as to mobilize the Russian army to withdraw and return to help, and then take advantage of the weakness to capture Shenyang. And on this basis, negotiations with Russia were conducted, not only to force the Russian army to withdraw from the three eastern provinces, but also to demand compensation from Russia.

However, this plan is based on the fact that the People's Army and the Russian army are basically evenly matched on the Liaoyang-Shenyang line, because the Russian army has gathered 600,000 troops in the Far East, although the Russian army is poorly managed and disorganized, but such a force should not be underestimated, and before that, the People's Army will have to fight with the Japanese army, so the military group believes that after defeating the Japanese army, the People's Army and the Russian army will be in a balanced situation, in this case, the attack on Shenyang will inevitably cause huge losses, so it is necessary to choose a surprising winning tactic。

However, no one expected that the KPA would achieve such great results, and now that it has gained absolute dominance on the battlefield, it is quite necessary to discuss whether it is still necessary to proceed according to the original plan; anyway, now that the three sides are resting and recuperating, there is enough time to revise or change the original battle plan.

The Central Military Commission held that the original battle plan should be adjusted, because the purpose of the sneak attack on Vladivostok was to mobilize the Russian army so that it would be easier to capture Shenyang, but now the opportunity to directly attack Shenyang has come.

In the first battle of Shilihe, the People's Army annihilated more than 130,000 prisoners, plus the wounded of the Russian army, so the combat attrition of the Russian army should be between 18-200,000, and before the battle of Shilihe, the Russian army gathered about 32-350,000 troops in Shenyang, so now the Russian army in Shenyang should be between 12-170,000, and the army needs to be reorganized to fight, but the new troops lack running-in, and the combat effectiveness will definitely decline.

The People's Army should now be able to gather about 250,000 troops to attack Shenyang, and it already has a certain advantage in terms of troops. Of course, Russia now has sufficient troops in the Far East and can transfer reinforcements from other places, but this will take at least 10 days or more, and the People's Army can completely take advantage of the fact that the Russian reinforcements have not yet arrived, launch an attack on Shenyang, and capture Shenyang in one fell swoop.

Although the attacking side needs to have more troops than the defending side, and this strength advantage of the KPA does not seem to be enough, but now the morale of both sides is not at the same level, and the Russian army's will to fight is far less tenacious than that of the Japanese army, and it is about 3, Four days later, the railway bridge over the Liao River can be completed and opened to traffic, so that both armored trains can participate in the battle of attacking Shenyang, plus the People's Army still has 4 self-propelled guns and 18 towed artillery, these are all sharp weapons for attacking fortified positions, and there are still armored troops that can participate in the battle, so the Military Commission believes that there is at least 70 percent certainty of storming Shenyang. The Central Military Commission plans that the People's Army can rest for 5 to 7 days and at the same time gather troops, and in addition to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies on the Shilihe front, it can also consider transferring 2-3 divisions from the 1st Army to participate in the battle.

However, the Military Commission did not give up the plan of a sneak attack on Vladivostok, but carried it out after the capture of Shenyang, and the strategic purpose of the sneak attack on Vladivostok was not to mobilize the Russian army, but to use Vladivostok as a base to avoid the second battlefield, and the forces used were not only marines, but at least one army should be invested, and after capturing Vladivostok, immediately capture Shuangchengzi, Boli then attacked westward, while the People's Army that captured Shenyang concentrated the forces of three armies to attack northward, and the two sides met at Harbin to recover the entire northeastern provinces in one fell swoop. On this basis, greater benefits can be obtained by negotiating with Russia.

Of course, strategically speaking, if Vladivostok is recovered, Russia will be able to completely lose its ports in the Far East, so that Russia's power in the Far East will be greatly reduced, and it will no longer be able to pose a threat to China, and the only opponent of the East China government in Northeast Asia will be Japan.

However, from the battle of Shilihe, we can also see the essence of the Russian army's strong cadres and foreign forces, and it also greatly increases the confidence of the military team, and they all believe that this plan is very feasible, at least it can capture Shenyang first, and then depending on the situation.

Of course, it is also necessary to notify the commanders on the front line to change the battle plan, because after all, no matter how good the plan is, it needs to be carried out by the officers and men on the front line, and the troops on the front line must have a better understanding of the situation, and they can put forward some reasonable suggestions for revising the plan so that the plan will become more perfect.

The military team immediately sent a draft of the plan to the Northeast Theater Command for advice.

Two days later, the military group received a reply from the Northeast Theater Command, which had no objection to this plan, but it was not enough to rest for only 5 to 7 days, and it would take at least 15 days to fight again. Because now the KPA is facing three major problems.

First of all, the problem of fatigue, although the battle of Shilihe hit the Russian army hard, and achieved brilliant results, but the people's army has also exhausted all its strength, because in about 20 days, the people's army has launched three major battles in Liaoyang, Yalu River, and Shilihe, and the people's army has basically invested about 200,000 troops in each war, and it can be said that the people's army is going all out in every war. The 5th Army participated in two battles, while the 3rd Army and the 4th Army participated in all three battles, and traveled back and forth between Liaoyang and the Yalu River.

However, it will take a long time for the KPA to recover, and if the recovery period is insufficient and it is forced to fight, then its combat effectiveness will be greatly dismantled. And the duration of this recovery period, the Northeast Theater Command believes that it will take at least 10 days.

Since the KPA entered the war, a total of about 330,000 troops have been invested, and after previous wars, 22,000 people have been killed and about 40,000 wounded, and the overall attrition is close to 2 percent, which has also greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the KPA, and the Northeast Theater Command believes that if there are 15 days, about 30,000 wounded soldiers can recover from their injuries and rejoin the team, so that the basic combat effectiveness of the KPA can be restored.

And the last one is the problem of ammunition, the people's army uses artillery far more than the Japanese and Russian armies, but this tactic of concentrated firepower covering the blow consumes a huge amount of artillery shells, and the artillery shells accumulated on the front line in the early stage have been used up seven or eight out of ten, and now the number of artillery shells in the whole army is only more than 30,000 rounds, of which 20,000 are still mortar shells, which is simply not enough to support a war. According to the situation of the previous battles, the KPA needs at least about 50,000 rounds of artillery shells to fight a battle of 200,000 people, and it is better to reserve 100,000 rounds of artillery shells in the front-line military district, which is enough to support two wars. When the shells will be replenished is decided by the Qingdao side.

To put it mildly, the current People's Army is actually a bit of a middle-level cadre and a strong foreigner, and if the Russian army can bring in reinforcements in a short period of time to launch a counterattack against the People's Army, it will probably be difficult for the People's Army to resist it. Of course, with the organization and dispatch capabilities of the Russian army, it is absolutely impossible to recover enough strength to counterattack the KPA in a short period of time, but the Northeast Theater Command believes that it is necessary to replenish more than 50,000 rounds of artillery shells within at least 15 days to ensure that the KPA can conduct a battlefield.

However, based on these three problems, 5-7 days of rest is absolutely not enough, and it must take 1 to 5 days to perform.