The soldiers on both sides were fiercely fighting in the positions of the Russian army, and the rifles with bayonets were doing stabs, slashes, blocks, dodges and other actions in the hands of the soldiers, and even punched and kicked, headbutted and bitten, rolled, scuffled and wandered on the edge of life and death, wrestling, and countless soldiers fell down and could no longer stand up, but more soldiers still threw themselves into the battlefield without hesitation.

In fact, after the early stage of the war, the people's army's white-knuckle combat capability has been greatly improved, because it has accumulated a lot of experience in white-knuckle warfare, and during the truce period, it has also strengthened the training of white-knuckle warfare, so the current white-knuckle combat capability is no longer below the Russian army in terms of technology and experience, but because of the different races, it is not as tall and strong as the Russian soldiers, and it is slightly inferior.

However, the People's Army also has its own advantages, first, the People's Army's support firepower is strong, although after entering the white-knuckle battle, the role of supporting firepower has been greatly weakened, but in some local battlefields, it can still play a certain role, and the People's Army has an advantage over the Russian army in this regard; second, the People's Army still has some weapons that can be used in white-knuckle warfare, such as Type 96 pistols and hand **, which can play a greater role in white-knuckle warfare and make up for the height of the People's Army soldiers. Third, the KPA had an advantage in numbers, but the Russian army's reinforcements were cut off by the KPA's artillery fire, so the KPA reinforcements were constantly being thrown into the battlefield, causing the imbalance between the two sides to gradually expand.

So with the progress of the war, the People's Army became more and more courageous, gradually advancing, expanding the territory captured, while the Russian army was retreating step by step, constantly giving up its position, although the speed of change in this advance and retreat is not fast, but the trend is irreversible.

After more than 1 hour of fierce fighting, the Russian army has lost most of its positions, and some of the Russian troops have been driven out of the position, although there are still some Russian troops fighting to the death, but at this time the general trend has gone, irretrievable, soon after, the Russian army has all withdrawn from the battlefield, and the first line of defense of the Russian army in Hulunbuir has also been declared lost.

Although the capture of the first line of defense has caused the People's Army to suffer certain losses, within an acceptable range, after all, fighting is to die, but the People's Army did not immediately take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the second line of defense of the Russian army, because the combat effectiveness of the Russian army in the first line of defense still surprised the People's Army, which also shows that although the Russian army was defeated in previous battles, it cannot be underestimated, so the attack on the second line of defense of the Russian army must be fully prepared, because it is two armored trains, and it must participate in the attack on the second line of defense, and this requires laying railways overnight。

So the KPA rested overnight, while the engineers worked overnight to lay the railway line forward for about 5 kilometers so that the armored train could move forward, so that the next day, the KPA launched an attack on the second line of defense of the Russian army.

And the result of this offensive was somewhat unexpected by the People's Army, the resistance of the Russian army was significantly weaker than the first line of defense, and after only two hours of resistance, the Russian army could not resist and withdrew from the second line of defense. Then the KPA dispatched two armored trains, together with the strength of two divisions, to march along the railway line in the direction of Manchuria.

But the Russian army once again made an unexpected move, taking the initiative to abandon Manchuria, and the whole army retreated to Chita. And after the Russian army retreated to Chita, it blew up part of the railway line from Chita to Manchuria.

It turned out that after the defeat of the Russian cavalry, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Linnevich, knew that the defense line from Hulunbuir to Manchuria could not be held, because the Russian army was insufficient, and the number of artillery was far inferior to that of the People's Army, so without the cavalry's containment of the People's Army, it was impossible to prevent the People's Army's attack at all. Linnevich also knew that if he suffered another big defeat, he would have to wait for court-martial when he returned home. So Linnevich also decided that regardless of domestic requirements, he should not destroy the order of the Eastern Railway, but chose to blow up the railway line, and only in this way could he stop the KPA offensive.

Although it is said that blowing up the railway is a violation of the tsar's order, there is still room for argument, and there are two bottom lines that they need to defend, one is not to let the troops have major damage, because in the previous battles, the Russian army suffered heavy losses, with a total loss of about 600,000 troops, resulting in the fact that there are now more than 100,000 troops left in the Far East, so no matter how the army is the one, there must not be a big loss; the second is that Chita must not be lost, because Harbin, Hulunbuir, Manchuria and other places, although occupied by the Russian army before the war, are still the territory of the Qing court in legal theory, and if they are lost, they will be lost, but Chita has long been Russia's Far East consulate, and it is also a node on the Xiberian Railway, once Chita is occupied by the People's Army, it means that from Chita, the Far Eastern territories to the east are difficult to preserve, so Russia's efforts to expand eastward for nearly a hundred years since the 19th century will be in vain, so Chita must not be lost.

Originally, Linnevich planned to blow up the railway line from Manchuria to Hulunbuir, so that Manchuria could become the forward defense line of Chita, so as to expand the depth of Chita's defense, so he laid heavy troops in Hulunbuir to block the offensive of the People's Army and buy time for himself to plan to blow up the railway line. Originally, Linnevich hoped that the Hulunbuir defense line could hold on for 3-5 days, because it was the first line of defense in Hulunbuir, and the Russian army spent a lot of energy to arrange it, Linnevich thought that this line of defense should be able to hold on for 3 days, at least 2 days.

The first line of defense of Nazhi Hulunbuir only held out for one day, but in fact it was less than a day, only half a day, but the People's Army did not immediately launch an attack on the second line of defense. Therefore, Linnevich also understood that the time left by the KPA for the Russian army was not enough for the Russian army to calmly arrange to blow up the railway, after all, it was useless to blow up only a few small sections of the railway, and it could only drag on the KPA for a few days at most, and it was necessary to carry out large-scale destruction of the railway line.

In addition, it is about 170 kilometers from Hulunbuir to Manchuria, even if there is no railway, it is not too far for the People's Army; and from Manchuria to Chita is about 500 kilometers, if there is no railway, it will cause considerable trouble to the offensive of the People's Army, and if it enters the territory of Russia outside Manchuria, the Russian army will have the advantage of the home field, and it will be easier to fight against the people, so Linnevich also made a quick decision and decided to give up all Hulunbuir to Manchuria, directly retreat to Chita, and then blow up the railway, and go all out to manage the defense of Chita.

As a result, the People's Army occupied Manchuria without bloodshed, and because the Russian army retreated in a hurry, it only took away weapons and ammunition, and left a large amount of military supplies in Manchuria, such as food, fodder, medicinal materials, cloth, wood, tents, etc., of course, all of which became trophies of the People's Army.

By this time, the Manchuria Campaign had ended, with 3,527 KPA killed and 5,134 wounded, while the Russian army had 11,784 killed and 7,428 wounded, and another 2,376 had been captured, and the KPA had captured more than 3,000 horses, more than 6,000 rifles, and more than 3,000 tons of various materials.

However, although the Russian army was defeated, the losses were not large, and the main force and weapons and ammunition were basically preserved, and only the cavalry suffered large casualties. And on the way back to Chita, Linnevich ordered to destroy the railway line along the way, basically to take a section to blow up a section, and as a result, on the railway line from Manchuria to Chita, the Russian army carried out a total of more than 10 destruction, and the damage distance in each place was more than 5 kilometers, basically completely paralyzing this section of the railway line.

After escaping to Chita, Linnevich received news that the KPA, after occupying Manchuria, did not take advantage of the situation to march and did not send people to repair the railway, but was stationed on the spot, and he was also relieved, and it seemed that his strategy had succeeded and kept Chita. So Linnevich wrote another detailed report and sent it back to St. Petersburg, informing about the situation at the front, and then arranging the defense of Chita, while also waiting for his fate.

After all, the purpose of the People's Army in launching the Manchuria Campaign was only to defeat the Russian army before the Russian army gathered enough troops, relieve the worries of the East China government, and make every effort to deal with the expeditionary force formed by Britain and France. Moreover, the Russian army's sabotage of the railway happened to be another great favor to the People's Army, so that it was almost impossible for the Russian army to make a comeback, and the battlefield in the northwest had basically entered a stable period.

After the observation group got the news, Ludendorff's assessment of this was that Russia had basically withdrawn from the struggle for the Far East, and even if the Anglo-French joint expeditionary force arrived in the Far East to participate in the war, Russia would not be able to return to its pre-war state, and even if the East China government was defeated by the expeditionary force, Japan could also use the opportunity of joint operations with the expeditionary force to enter northeast China and fill the vacuum left by Russia, and Russia, after many heavy defeats, did not have enough strength to compete with Japan for northeast China; on the contrary, if the East China government was not defeated by the expeditionary force, then the East China government would not only be able to gain a firm foothold in northeast China, and will continue to expand into the Russian Far East, so there is a high chance that Russia will lose the Far East completely.

The result of this inference is of course favorable to Germany, and if Russia wants to completely abandon the Far East, its national strength will inevitably weaken, and if Russia does not want to give up the Far East, it will inevitably devote a great deal of energy to the Far East, and either result will be good news for Germany.

Now that the war was over, there was no point in the Military Observer Group remaining in Manchuria, so the Military Observer Group returned to Harbin, and on the way back, Ludendorff wrote a report on the situation in the Far East, together with several KPA weapons and technologies that he had seen, and sent it to Qingdao, which then sent it back to Germany.