"Boom!"

Ivanov only felt a "buzz" in his head, his eyes went black, and the whole person was swept away by the huge shock wave caused by the explosion, 4 or 5 meters away, and then fell heavily to the ground.

I don't know how long it took for Ivanov to regain a little consciousness, but his ears were still "buzzing", his mind was still groggy, and his eyes were blurry. However, Ivanov knew that he was still in the middle of the war, and he must not lie on the ground and wait for recovery, so he gritted his teeth and slowly got up from the ground, rubbed his eyes and shook his head, so that he could recover as soon as possible.

At this time, a few soldiers surrounded Long and said, "Commander, the dark castle has been blown up, what should we do?"

Ivanov also recovered a little, rubbed his eyes hard, so as not to distinguish the direction to look, and sure enough, he could vaguely see that the fortress of the stronghold had been blown open two large gaps, each of which could enter people, and the corpses of two Russian soldiers were lying in the gap. And Ivanov's heart sank, and the fortress was destroyed, then this stronghold could not be defended.

It turned out that after the outlying positions were breached by the KPA, most of the defenders surrendered to the KPA, and Ivanov fled into the city of Shenyang with a small number of soldiers, and was reorganized to defend on the Shenyang wall. After the city wall of Shenyang was broken by the People's Army, Ivanov retreated to the stronghold in the city to fight, and in the stronghold, the regimental headquarters of Ivanov's unit was destroyed by the artillery fire of the People's Army, so Ivanov was appointed as the acting regiment commander by the line of fire because he was the highest ranking among the battalion commanders, leading the regiment to continue to resist the attack of the People's Army.

Another soldier said: "Regiment commander, the People's Army has attacked, what should we do?" ”

At this time, Ivanov's eyesight had mostly recovered, and he turned his head to look outside the stronghold, and sure enough, he saw that the People's Army had launched an attack on the stronghold, and it was less than 200 meters away from the stronghold, and now there were dozens of soldiers left around him, all of whom were wearing tattered military uniforms, and their bodies and faces were covered with dust and blood. In fact, although Ivanov was promoted to acting regimental commander in the line of fire, the actual number of soldiers under his jurisdiction was not as large as a battalion under his command before, and after continuous fighting, there were now so many people left, Ivanov of course knew that after losing the fire support of the fortress, it would be impossible to resist the attack of the People's Army with these dozens of less than a hundred people, so he said: "Withdraw, withdraw to the headquarters." ”

After the street fighting in the city began, the KPA's offensive was hindered to a certain extent, because the strongholds built by the Russian army were very strong, and the fortresses that were strongholds were made of stones and cement, while the KPA had heavy weapons and only 82 mortars, which caused average damage to the Russian fortifications, so the offensive was blocked and the casualties were increasing.

However, after receiving the report, Qiu Yahui did not order the army to attack, after all, the People's Army still had enough weapons in its hands, so he immediately transferred several 105-mm guns, hung them on the tractor of the 155-mm guns, and dragged them into Shenyang City to launch an artillery bombardment of the Russian stronghold.

Of course, the power of the 105 mm gun is much greater than that of the 82 mortar, and the stronghold of the Russian army, Bi Jing, is not really impregnable and impregnable, so the People's Army concentrates 2 or 3 artillery pieces to bombard a stronghold and break it one by one. As a result, in the face of the powerful firepower of the People's Army, the strongholds of the Russian army could not hold on, and were broken one by one. After a day of fierce fighting, there were only three strongholds of the Russian army left, one of which was the headquarters of the Russian army, and the three strongholds were arranged in a triangle, and together with the surrounding troops, there were about 10,000 people left.

Of course, in addition to the defenders in the stronghold, there are also a large number of Russian troops relying on the houses and buildings on the periphery of the stronghold to resist, but as the People's Army dragged large-caliber artillery into the city and bombarded the stronghold, the Russian army on the periphery was naturally unable to resist, in fact, the Russian army's will to fight was not strong, only relying on the city wall of Shenyang, the strong fortifications of the stronghold could hold on for a while, and after losing these reliance, the resistance of the Russian army melted like frost and snow in the sun, and they surrendered to the People's Army one after another.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Stagliburg, was sitting at the conference table of the command headquarters, his eyes straight, and he did not say a word. At the conference table, other officers and staff officers of the Russian army also looked at each other. Explosions and gunfire were heard outside, shaking the ground and scattering gray sand from the roof.

A staff officer said, "Commander, it's too dangerous here, let's hide in the fortress." ”

Stagliburg looked at him and said, "What can you do if you hide in the fortress? Can you hide from the fire of the People's Army?"

As he was talking, he heard a loud "boom" sound coming from outside, only to shake the tables and chairs, and a few glasses fell to the ground and shattered. A few moments later, a staff officer came in and reported that the No. 2 fortress of the headquarters stronghold had been destroyed by KPA artillery fire.

When everyone in the room heard this, their faces immediately turned to ashes, the stronghold of the headquarters was the largest one, a total of 3 fortresses were built, and now 2 fortresses have been destroyed by the artillery fire of the People's Army, and it seems that this stronghold cannot be defended.

At this time, another staff officer said, "Shenyang can't hold on, we... Let's surrender. ”

When the others heard this, their eyes also looked at Sttagreburg, in fact, everyone had the intention of surrendering in their hearts, but no one was embarrassed to open this mouth first, and Stagegerburg was the commander of the Russian army after all, and it was up to him to decide in the end.

Stagriburg looked at the crowd and said, "What do you think?"

After the staff officer who said that he had surrendered just now took this step, he had no obstacles in his heart, and immediately said: "Shenyang can't hold it at all, we can only surrender now, otherwise we will all die here, what else is there to hesitate." ”

As soon as he said this, the others were no longer silent, and said that they could only surrender now, so Stagriburg also nodded and said, "Okay, then surrender." ”

After the commander-in-chief spoke, several staff officers immediately took action, used several tablecloths as white flags, picked them out with wooden sticks, and ordered the Russian troops in the stronghold to stop resisting, because it was not fast, and the KPA shells were still falling, and if one of the shells happened to fall in the headquarters, it would be all over.

After receiving the order, Ivanov, who was ready to resist to the death in the stronghold, also put down the rifle in his hand and let out a long breath, he retreated from the position outside the city to the city, and even changed the stronghold to two, during this period, Ivanov had at least 3-4 chances to surrender to the People's Army, but Ivanov himself did not prevent other soldiers from surrendering, but he himself took risks, changed positions after positions, but always insisted on fighting and did not give up, although Ivanov himself knew that this was an impossible battle, but he still stubbornly persisted, until his main general ordered to give up resistance, like the surrender of the People's Army, Ivanov stopped resisting and accepted the reality of surrender.

Sure enough, not long after the Russian army's white flag was picked out, the KPA also stopped shelling, and Stagriburg immediately sent two staff officers with a translator to walk out of the stronghold with a white flag to negotiate with the KPA about surrender.

In fact, there is nothing to negotiate, after all, the times have developed to this point, and there is also a set of basically fixed procedural models for surrender, which is nothing more than that the two sides say yes, so as not to misunderstand, the Russian army hands over all its weapons and obeys the management of the People's Army, and the People's Army also promises to ensure the personal safety of Russian soldiers and so on.

Then the two Russian staff officers returned, and after a while, they saw the Russian soldiers coming out of the stronghold one after another, laying down their rifle weapons at the place designated by the People's Army, and then assembling at another place. Stagliburg handed over his saber to Fu Chang, the commander of the 7th KPA Division, who was in charge of directing the offensive, and surrendered. The KPA then entered the stronghold and conducted a search.

After the surrender of the largest stronghold, the other Russian troops who still resisted also surrendered one after another, and by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the organized Russian troops in Shenyang City had basically surrendered, leaving only a very small number of Russian soldiers who resisted sporadically, and the People's Army also launched a comprehensive cleanup in Shenyang City.

The entire campaign to attack Shenyang lasted a total of 5 days, and the People's Army killed a total of 53,825 Russian troops, while capturing as many as 258148 people, including a large number of generals and colonel-level officers, and seized a large number of weapons, ammunition, materials, horses, livestock, etc., while the People's Army itself, 4,126 people were killed, and another 6,735 people were wounded. In terms of casualty ratio alone, it can be said that it was a perfect victory.

Compared with the captured materials, the strategic value after the victory of this battle is even greater, first of all, the last foreign army in the Northeast region has finally been completely wiped out, since then the East China government has not only completely solved this serious problem, but also completely controlled the Northeast region, and can calmly arrange troops to deal with the subsequent war. In addition, after the occupation of Shenyang, the China Eastern Railway was also fully connected, which also greatly improved the deployment of troops and materials of the People's Army in the northeast region.

On the third day of the People's Army's occupation of Shenyang, the work of clearing the battlefield had not yet ended, and the order of the Military Commission of the East China Government was also transmitted to the Northeast Theater, first of all, the headquarters of the Northeast Theater was moved to Harbin, and the 3rd Army was ordered to immediately move to Harbin to garrison, because now the Russian army was already in Chita, The first line of Manchuria gathered troops, and the defense of Harbin is now in charge of the 1st Army, but the 1st Army is also responsible for the garrison of Vladivostok, the entire distance is more than 800 kilometers, so the pressure on the defense is quite large, and the capture of Shenyang, the People's Army has also freed up a large number of troops, so naturally the first thing to increase the garrison of Harbin is to do so.

The 2nd Army was temporarily stationed in Shenyang to clean up the post-war campaign and maintain local law and order, while the 4th Army was responsible for escorting Russian prisoners back to Shandong. In this Shenyang campaign, a total of more than 250,000 Russian prisoners were captured, and the number of people's troops who participated in the battle was still more.