"Boom, boom, boom!"

The People's Army first bombarded the Japanese positions on the periphery of Liaoyang City, although there were only 8 artillery pieces, but they were all large-caliber heavy artillery, and the power was huge, and the Japanese positions did not have any decent fortifications, so after the shells fell, they immediately caused huge damage to the Japanese positions, a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed, and the artillery was blown up to pieces, and the mortars of the various units were not idle, they opened fire one after another, supplementing the insufficient fire coverage of several heavy guns.

The battlefield of the battle between the two sides took place on the west side of Liaoyang City, which is the longest side of Liaoyang City, spanning the north and south cities of Liaoyang City, with a distance of about 3,000 meters, but the attack of the People's Army is mainly concentrated in the Nancheng area of Liaoyang City, because Nancheng is the main body of Liaoyang City, and the Japanese army's headquarters and central institutions are basically concentrated in Nancheng, so as long as the defense line of Nancheng is broken, then the overall situation of this battle is decided.

Eight heavy guns of the People's Army carried out more than 10 rounds of artillery bombardment on the Japanese position, sweeping the entire defense line of nearly 2,000 meters on the west side of the southern city of Liaoyang. However, there are a lot of Japanese soldiers on the city wall, using the cover of the battlements to shoot outside the city, and the Japanese soldiers who fled into the city also climbed the city wall or arrow tower to join the battle, for a time the firepower on the city wall in the west of Liaoyang City increased greatly, fortunately, there are not many artillery on the city wall, and they are all 53 mm, 37 mm small and medium-caliber artillery. The KPA did not attack the walls of the city without precaution, so there were few casualties.

At this moment, only to hear the "boom" two loud sounds, two huge orange light clusters appeared on the city wall in the west of Liaoyang City, and then produced a large amount of gunsmoke, and the Japanese soldiers on the city wall can feel the city wall has a huge tremor, because it is in the city wall section near the two orange light clusters, like an earthquake like a violent tremor, several Japanese soldiers because of unstable standing, actually planted the city wall from the battlement.

After the smoke cleared, two huge craters with a diameter of 4 or 5 meters and a depth of nearly 1 meter appeared on the city wall, and in the center of the crater, you can even see the rammed earth filled in the masonry, and the cracks around the crater are as dense as spider webs, and a large number of broken stone and bricks are scattered under the city wall. It turned out that two 200-mm heavy guns began to bombard the city walls.

Although these two guns did not blast the city wall, they also caused significant damage to the city wall, so the two 200 mm heavy guns also fired at full power and launched a continuous bombardment of the city wall, while the other guns, including six 155 mm guns, stopped or slowed down the shelling, and the damage to the city wall by the Bi Jing 155 mm gun was limited, and 200 mm heavy guns were enough, there was no need to waste ammunition on them.

Two 200-millimeter guns bombarded the city wall of Liaoyang City for 5 or 6 rounds, and the range of the attack was all concentrated within a distance of 100 meters, and more than 10 craters of different sizes were drilled on the city wall of Liaoyang City, and the cracks like spider webs were also all over the city wall.

And the city wall of Liaoyang City finally couldn't withstand such repeated attacks, and finally in an explosion, the dust rushed to the sky, and the sand and gravel flew, blasting the wall of Liaoyang City into a large gap more than 10 meters wide, and was blown away together with more than a dozen soldiers stationed on the city wall.

Although the bottom of the gap is about 3 meters above the ground, it is still much simpler than the 8-meter-high wall. In addition, the rubble remnants of bricks are piled up in the gaps, forming a gentle slope.

Although a gap was opened, the two 200-mm guns did not stop there, and continued to bombard the city wall, and after more than 20 rounds of shelling, a total of 5 gaps were opened in the wall of Liaoyang City, and the smallest was 4 or 5 meters wide.

And the ground forces of the People's Army also began to attack the city of Liaoyang. At the same time, KPA mortars, grenadiers, machine guns and other weapons also began to fire, targeting the remnants of Japanese soldiers on the city wall, providing fire cover for the attacking troops.

Although the resistance of the Japanese army had been almost wiped out by the KPA artillery fire, the KPA attack was still very orderly, and the strength of one battalion in the first wave of the attack, the whole battalion attacked in platoons, with one squad in the center, carrying a wooden bridge and a wooden ladder, and the other two squads covering on both sides, raising guns and firing while advancing. When they came to the moat, they first erected a wooden bridge on the moat, and the whole platoon passed the moat from the bridge in turn.

And just as the KPA broke through the moat, at each gap there were a number of Japanese guards, shooting at the KPA soldiers who were passing over the bridge, and many soldiers were shot and fell into the river.

However, the troops providing fire support in the rear also reacted immediately, and several mortars and grenadiers were immediately aimed at each gap, and after a few artillery shots, the Japanese soldiers in each gap were immediately cleared.

The attacking troops attacked the gap, erected the wooden ladder on the gap, and then stepped on the wooden ladder to attack the gap and entered Liaoyang City. Although there are ramps made of broken stone and bricks at the gaps, such ramps are not easy to climb directly, because the broken stones and bricks are easy to slide after all, so it is more convenient to set up wooden ladders, and the People's Army also needs to pass through these gaps to attack the city wall, which requires wooden ladders even more.

In a short time, some of the soldiers of the People's Army who attacked in the first wave entered Liaoyang City, and some of them climbed the city wall of Liaoyang City, and the troops of the follow-up attack also passed through the moat one after another and rushed towards Liaoyang City.

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At the same time that the 2nd Army attacked Liaoyang City, the People's Army of the other two routes also made their own gains.

The 4th Army was responsible for capturing the position of Hanjiatai Village and then attacking Zhangtaizi northeast of Liaoyang, which could cut off the connection between Liaoyang and Shenyang and leave Liaoyang without any support.

However, the position of Hanjiatai Village is actually a position across both sides of the Taizi River, of course, the position on the south bank of the Taizi River is the mainstay, and the position on the north bank is only a small part, with only two brigades and an artillery squadron, and the main task is to protect the flank of the position on the south bank to prevent the enemy from smuggling across the Taizi River and attacking the flank of the position. And a pontoon bridge was erected between the two positions.

The KPA shelling, of course, was aimed at the positions on the south bank, while part of the Japanese withdrew to the positions on the north bank and blew up the pontoon bridge. Although the People's Army easily occupied the position on the south bank of Hanjiatai Village, in order to attack Zhangtaizi, it was necessary to cross the Taizi River and occupy the position on the north bank of Hanjiatai Village.

The Taizi River is named after the Yan Prince Dan who planned and instructed Jing Ke to assassinate the King of Qin during the Warring States Period, and is considered a large river in the Liaodong region, with a water surface width of about 200 meters, and if you want to cross the Taizi River, you must build a bridge, and it cannot be a simple pontoon bridge, because heavy weapons such as artillery have to pass.

During the occupation of Liaoyang, the Japanese army built several bridges on the Taizi River to transport supplies, but after the People's Army broke through the Liaohe River, the Japanese army blew up most of the bridges on the Taizi River, leaving only a few necessary bridges, but they were too far away from Hanjiatai Village, so it was not cost-effective to take a detour, and it was necessary to build bridges over the river to pass. Before the People's Army captured the position on the south bank of Hanjiatai Village, it had erected an improvised pontoon bridge in the upper reaches of the Taizi River and sent the 11th Division to cross the north bank of the Taizi River, of course, without artillery, only mortars accompanying the army.

However, after the People's Army occupied the position on the south bank of Hanjiatai Village, it could set up artillery on the position and bombard the position on the north bank, which soon dealt a major blow to the position on the north bank, and then the 11th Division also rushed to the battlefield and launched an attack on the position on the north bank, and at about 8 o'clock in the morning, captured the position on the north bank.

Then the engineering units of the 4th Army arrived with various tools and materials and began to build bridges over the Taizi River.

Because there are many rivers in Liaodong, and they are not big rivers, the width is basically within 300 meters, and there are few rivers with a width of more than 500 meters, and considering that after the KPA enters the war, both Japan and Russia are likely to destroy the bridge in order to delay the KPA offensive, so the KPA must find a way to build a bridge in a short time, and at least be able to move through 155 mm guns.

And now the technical level determines that this kind of bridge can only be a wooden structure, although there are many construction engineers in the traverser, but there are not many engineers who are proficient in civil structures, so the department in charge of military engineering also went to Zhan Tianyou to help, and finally with the help of Zhan Tianyou, designed a kind of assembled wooden bridge, all the accessories are first processed in the factory, and the steel is used in the construction structure to strengthen the strength and bearing capacity of the bridge, directly assembled at the river site, and can be long or short, theoretically can erect the bridge within 1000 meters in length, and the time varies from 8 to 24 hours, quite convenient。

Of course, the 200-meter bridge is relatively short, but it will take about 8 hours to complete the erection, so the 4th Army can only wait patiently at this time.

The 3rd Army, which was responsible for capturing Tong Zhuangzi's position, did not encounter obstacles in the terrain, so after occupying Tong Zhuangzi's position, the 3rd Army immediately launched an attack on the Shoushan position.

Shoushan is located in the southwest of Liaoyang, is the only way to reach Liaoyang from Anshan, when Japan and Russia fought in Liaoyang, here is an important battlefield, so Russia built a large number of fortress fortifications in Shoushan, although in the battle, most of these fortresses were destroyed by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, but there are still some fortresses retained, Bi Jing's Russian army in Liaoyang was not actually defeated by the Japanese army, but by the Japanese army who was not afraid of life and death Frightened, he gave up Liaoyang, and as a result, some of the fortresses were also basically intact and handed over to the Japanese army.

Now to deal with the attack of the People's Army, the Japanese army naturally has to make full use of these fortress fortifications, not only intact fortresses, but also the remaining remnants of the fortress destroyed by the Japanese army can also be used as good cover, so the Japanese army's position fortifications in Shoushan are the best of the five positions on the periphery of Liaoyang.