"Shut up all of them. ”

With Da Shanyan's sharp order, the other staff adjutants and others present were also silent, looking at Da Shanyan.

At this time, Dashan Yan said to his adjutant: "Immediately order all the troops outside the city to withdraw to the city, reorganize, and order the troops left behind in the periphery of Liaoyang City to prepare for battle, and arrange positions in Liaoyang City to prepare for street battles with overseas Chinese." ”

"What?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is too much. ”

"yes, the battle won't be so bad yet. ”

"That is, we must not easily abandon our positions outside the city. ”

"Enough, what do you idiots know? The position outside the city cannot be defended, and the only way now is to use the buildings in Liaoyang City to offset the firepower advantage of the overseas Chinese, hold Liaoyang, buy time for the retreat of our army, and immediately draw up a battle plan according to the commander's wishes. ”

Hearing that Gentaro Kodama also spoke, the staff officers didn't say anything, so they all came to the map and began to make a battle plan. And Oyama Iwa glanced at Kodama Gentaro, smiled bitterly, and said, "Kodama kun, it seems that we are really outdated." ”

Kodama Gentaro also nodded and said, "Yes, from the very beginning of this war, I found that the pattern of war has changed greatly, and our previous experience has become obsolete, and overseas Chinese seem to have seen this earlier than us."

In the old time and space, the Russian-Japanese War was the largest local war before the First World War, and a large number of new models and tactics appeared in this war, which had a very far-reaching impact on the First World War. Therefore, the Russo-Japanese War was also called World War 0 in later generations.

The military impact of the Russian-Japanese war was mainly in two aspects, the first was that defensive tactics were ahead of offensive tactics, due to the heavy use of machine guns, tunnel tactics (although immature), and offensive tactical theories, However, the overall lag of weapons makes the offensive very difficult, and it is often necessary to pay a heavy price to conquer the enemy's position, so that it is a position that builds a strong fortress against the enemy, and can only use heavy artillery to open the fort, and if there is no heavy artillery, it can only be sent to the head; and this has caused another impact, that is, the consumption of ammunition is extremely large, and the bullets are naturally needless to say, a large number of machine gun applications have increased the bullets dozens of times, and the demand for artillery shells has also risen to an astonishing number, before the war Japan was based on the Sino-Japanese WarIt is expected that in a battle, one artillery will fire 30-50 shells, but in real combat, one artillery will fire 250-300 shells. Far exceeded Japan's pre-war projections.

For example, in the battle of attacking Lushun, the Japanese army used a large number of small and medium-caliber artillery at the beginning, but for the fortress built by the Russian army for 6 or 7 years and built with a large amount of concrete, the small and medium-caliber artillery was almost useless and could only consume ammunition in vain.

As a result, throughout the Russo-Japanese War, the supply of artillery shells for the Japanese army has been in a very tight state, often in a battle all the shells in the stock of shells, had to be like the domestic emergency call for reserve shells, sometimes the army appropriated the navy's shells, sometimes the navy appropriated the army's shells, and after the Japanese captured Shenyang, because there was no large-scale war for more than three months, so finally accumulated some artillery, but at this time the People's Army entered the war again.

Although Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro are both seeing this kind of covering artillery attack tactics for the first time, both of them are veteran generals who have been in a hundred battles after all, and although Oyama Iwa's self-deprecation has fallen behind, the two of them are still very receptive to new weapons and new tactics.

The other two also attached great importance to the KPA, so they also decided that since the KPA adopted this tactic, there must be merits, and it is not difficult to summarize some truths from this line of thinking.

On the surface, this tactic of the People's Army consumes a great deal of artillery shells, but the effect of the strike is undoubtedly extremely good, just like the same 100 shells, if it is a strike on the army, the effect of 10 strikes is better, but for fixed targets such as fortifications, the destructive power of hitting them at one time is much greater.

Although everyone understands this truth, it is very difficult to really do it, because there are not many people who can break through the fixed mode of thinking, and neither Oyama Iwa nor Kodama Gentaro are such people.

It was based on this judgment that Dashanyan determined that the position on the periphery of Liaoyang could not be defended, and the defense line outside the city was probably unreliable, so he could only hope to defend inside the city and fight a street battle with the People's Army to hold back the People's Army and buy time for the retreat of the Japanese army. However, how long this time can last, there is no bottom in the heart of Dashan Yan.

The KPA shelling lasted about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and about 37,000 shells were fired, an average of more than 50 shells per gun. However, the Japanese positions, together with the camps, warehouses, and artillery positions on the front of the positions, were dealt a heavy blow, and the destruction of most of the positions exceeded 70 percent, and some positions were basically completely destroyed. On the position, more than half of the Japanese casualties in the camp were killed, and the loss of artillery was as high as 80%. The three positions on the front of Liaoyang's periphery were basically disabled by the People's Army.

When the KPA launched a ground attack on the Japanese positions, it met little resistance. The first is that there are not many soldiers who survived the shelling, and the formation has also been disrupted in the shelling, the positions have been basically destroyed, and the morale is very low, of course, it is impossible to stop the advance of the People's Army, and the second is that Dashanyan has already given an order to order all the surviving soldiers on the position to scatter back to Liaoyang City, so the soldiers who received the order to retreat have also withdrawn from their positions, and those who remained on the positions have only not received orders from the headquarters because the communication facilities have been destroyed, but the number is not large.

In fact, what really slowed down the advance of the KPA was the positions after the shelling. The Japanese army had dug a lot of trenches in the position, and after the blow of artillery fire, the ground that was still emitting hot air was full of craters, potholes, unevenness, and the entire ground was covered with the upper layer of floating soil, stepping on it would sink the whole foot into the floating soil, and the side walls of some trenches were blown up, and some trenches were completely covered by floating soil. Although the unburned fire on the position could provide some illumination, so that it would not be possible to walk in the dark, there was nothing unusual on the surface, but the whole person collapsed when he walked up. Moreover, there is a large amount of shrapnel buried in the floating soil, and if you are not careful, you will be scratched.

In addition, the position was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers who had been killed, and most of the corpses were not complete, and there were a small number of wounded soldiers who were seriously wounded and dying, but still holding their last breath.

The soldiers of the People's Army can only walk one foot deep and one foot shallow, and often step on the corpses of Japanese soldiers or wounded soldiers who are not dead after walking a few steps. There was also the smell of gunpowder smoke that had not yet dissipated from the battlefield, mixed with the smell of dirt, blood, and the smell of burnt corpses, and such a feeling was definitely not pleasant.

The veterans who have experienced the battlefield are better, although they are a little miserable, but after all, they have seen blood, and most of the recruits who have just entered the battlefield can't stand it, some of them vomit, some are so frightened that their faces are pale, and of course they are inevitably ridiculed and ridiculed by the veterans.

Of course, there were occasional small numbers of Japanese troops in a few local areas, but they were quickly routed under the blows of the KPA.

By daybreak, all three positions had been occupied by the KPA, and the KPA had only a small number of personnel left behind to guard the positions, and to clean up the corpses left by the Japanese soldiers, and of course to take care of a few prisoners, and the KPA units had also split up to advance towards their next goal.

At dawn, the 2nd Division of the Second Army first approached the outskirts of Liaoyang City and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the defenders. Although the KPA did not have artillery support, it carried a large number of mortars with it, so the firepower was not bad.

In fact, the defense of the second line of defense arranged by the Japanese army is not strong, mainly arranged along the moat, the soldiers are arranged on the outside of the moat, the artillery is arranged on the inner side of the moat, and a small number of troops and artillery are also arranged on the city wall, the depth of the entire position is only more than 100 meters, and even the trenches are not dug much, and most of the defense line is composed of mud and sand.

For the KPA, it is certainly not difficult to break through such a defensive line, but the moat and wall walls are the biggest trouble for the KPA. Of course, the People's Army also made a lot of preparations, before the war made 20 wooden bridges with a length of 12 meters and a width of 1 meter, and there were two pillars in the middle, which were used to cross the moat, and for the city wall, the People's Army also prepared 50 long ladders, but mainly relied on two 200 mm self-propelled guns to blast through the city wall. Therefore, the 2nd Division, while fighting fiercely with the Japanese troops guarding the position, urged the self-propelled guns to be fired up to bombard the city wall as soon as possible.

At this time, the 2nd Army's 2 200 mm self-propelled guns and 6 155 mm car towed guns have been arranged in place, because the range of these two types of guns is long enough, so they can hit the city wall of Liaoyang City without crossing the Japanese positions captured by the People's Army, and other artillery needs to be reached by the Yue Ye position, but the current position is not suitable for these huge weapons to pass, and the sappers want to pave a road on the position that allows the artillery to pass, it will take more than 1 hour, but of course the People's Army can't wait that long, but in these two 200 mm self-propelled guns, 6 155-mm car towed guns, also quite enough.