At this time, Qiu Yahui realized that his previous judgment of the Japanese army was wrong, looking at this situation, the Japanese army was probably preparing to fight an urban battle with him in Liaoyang City, and his previous battle on the periphery was smooth, in addition to the tactical right road, and heavy artillery fire support, the Japanese army intentionally gave up, which is also an important reason.

Realizing this, Qiu Yahui couldn't help but regret a little, he was still too inexperienced, thinking that after a few victories before, he could despise the Japanese army, as long as the artillery bombarded and the army rushed, the Japanese army's resistance would collapse. Before World War II, the Japanese army may not be the strongest army, but in terms of the will to fight, it is absolutely second to none, and the few victories they have fought before, one is to take advantage of the Japanese army and the Russian army to fight, exhausted, and both sides are defeated。

Of course, now is not the time to regret the investigation, Qiu Yahui immediately recruited the commanders of all divisions and began to rearrange tactics, of course, the first thing to emphasize is that we must pay attention to the Japanese army again, and we must not hold the idea of despising the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese army is fired, the Japanese army will be defeated, but must be mentally prepared to fight a tough battle and fight a bad battle.

In terms of tactics, we should not blindly attack and break through, trying to completely kill the Japanese army with a stick, and we should no longer rush forward, but should advance steadily and steadily, step by step, and every time we occupy an area, we should not be busy continuing to advance, but first expand to the left and right, do a good job of protecting the flanks, and arrange positions in important areas, send troops to defend them, and then try to expand further after completely stabilizing the occupied areas.

In addition, the terrain in the city is narrow, and the combat surface obtained by the People's Army is also limited, so it is difficult to fully deploy the troops, the first two times the People's Army only invested one regiment in the battle, and although this time the tactics of steady and steady fighting were adopted, but the two regiments were put into the battle is already the limit, Qiu Yahui decided that the 2nd Division will be responsible for the operation in the city.

However, in the previous battle, the People's Army mainly launched an attack from the west city of Liaoyang City, and it was limited to the south of the city, so that the Japanese army in the city could easily meet the battle, and attack Liaoyang City again, the direction of the attack could not be limited to the direction of the west city, so Qiu Yahui ordered the 8th Division to attack the north city of Liaoyang, and the 9th Division to attack from the south city of Liaoyang City. The 17th Division served as a reserve, while the 3 reserve regiments were responsible for guarding the captured areas.

Although the 2nd Army now has no heavy artillery, it has already occupied the city walls of the west city, so the attack on the north and south cities can be carried out in a two-line attack on the top and bottom of the city, and it is much easier than simply attacking the city wall.

Another point is that for the people in Liaoyang City, Qiu Yahui also consulted the headquarters, and the reply he got was to try his best to reduce accidental injuries, and try his best to save as many people as possible without affecting the overall battle situation, and at the same time settle the rescued people. It should be said that this instruction is rather vague, but it is impossible to have a clear instruction for this kind of thing, if you insist that you cannot accidentally injure the people, then this battle will not be fought at all, so the specific situation can only be flexibly dealt with on the battlefield.

After the battle plan was redetermined, the People's Army also launched another attack on Liaoyang City. Although the Japanese resistance was stubborn for a long time, the KPA changed its previous aggressive tactics and fought steadily and steadily, step by step, and paid attention to countermeasures and cover, which also made the Japanese feel tremendous pressure.

Because the KPA was marching step by step, the hidden piles and firepower points laid out by the Japanese army were also cleared by the KPA, and it was no longer so easy to change places with a single shot; after the KPA paid attention to the strategy and cover, the Japanese army's surprise attack tactics were not easy to succeed, and on several occasions, a squad of Japanese troops came out of the alley, but just happened to run into the KPA's alert troops, and were completely wiped out by the KPA.

The Type 96 pistols, grenadiers, and other weapons equipped by the People's Army were originally more suitable for use in street battles, as long as they were not in a hurry to completely kill the Japanese army with a stick, on the contrary, they could calmly cope with the battle. Most of the houses in Liaoyang City are wooden structures, and a small number are civil structures, which can not withstand the bombardment of even 60 mortars, and in an emergency, the Japanese army did not have time to arrange a solid position, so after a few shots, a position immediately collapsed, and the Japanese army either retreated to the next position to garrison, or launched a death-threatening attack on the People's Army, but in the case that the People's Army had already arranged a warning position, such an attack basically had no effect.

Moreover, the KPA's attacks in the south and north cities did involve a considerable part of the Japanese army's energy, after all, the Japanese army could not let the north and south cities not worship, but because the KPA could launch an attack from the city wall, it also made the Japanese army in the north and south cities want to rely on the city wall to defend the plan to fail, the KPA only used to set up mortars on the city wall, and a few cannons could break up the defenders on the city wall. Therefore, although the KPA still paid a lot of casualties, it did defeat the Japanese army and achieved considerable results. And the Japanese also suffered heavy casualties.

At about 6 p.m., as the sky was getting dark, both sides stopped fighting and held their own areas to repair and rest. At this time, the People's Army has occupied an area of about 1,200 meters long and more than 300 meters deep in the west city of Liaoyang, and there are also harvests on both sides of the north and south cities, the north city occupies about 30% of the area, and the south city also occupies an area of about 600 meters wide and 200 meters deep. 6 areas, but all day down, the total casualties of the People's Army reached more than 5,000 people, of which more than 9 percent were caused in the battle in Liaoyang City, and the brutality of the urban war can also be seen.

After receiving today's results, Qiu Yahui is also happy and worried, happy that after changing tactics, he really achieved immediate results, and if he continues to fight like this, he is expected to fully occupy Liaoyang City tomorrow, although it is a day later than expected, but it does not have a great impact on the overall battle situation; the worry is that the casualties are too great, and tomorrow's battle is afraid that there will be greater casualties waiting for him, although the People's Army is not a warlord army, and the 2nd Army is not Qiu Yahui's private army, but after all, he created it single-handedly and has deep feelings, so it is of course sad to see that the troops have such large casualties, but the war is so cruelMoreover, in order for the People's Army to grow into a powerful army, it must also go through such arduous combat training.

In fact, the situation of the Japanese army was not much better, even if the losses of the peripheral positions were not counted, only counting the casualties in and out of Liaoyang City, the Japanese army reached about 5,000 people, which was basically the same as the People's Army. However, the People's Army was an army with a total strength of about 70,000 troops, while the Japanese army only had two divisions in Liaoyang City, and although it contained some of the defeated troops in the peripheral positions, the total strength was less than 40,000. Moreover, the Japanese army also accommodated a large number of wounded soldiers who withdrew from the peripheral positions, and the territory in Liaoyang City was less than 1/6, so not only was the hospital overstretched, but also the morale of the Japanese army.

Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro were also worried, they originally planned to garrison Liaoyang for at least 5 days, so that they could calmly arrange the withdrawal of the army, but now it seems that they may not be able to hold it for even 3 days, which has also had a huge impact on the withdrawal. Therefore, Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro negotiated overnight and decided to speed up the withdrawal of troops, and the withdrawal of all troops from Shenyang must be completed tomorrow, and the main force must also be withdrawn from Liaoyang. The remaining troops had to hold on to Liaoyang for another day before they could retreat.

Fortunately, the Japanese army is still firmly in control of the eastern city wall, so it is guaranteed that they can withdraw from Liaoyang City. In order to ensure a way out, the Japanese army decided to blow up the city wall if necessary, so that the KPA could not attack along the wall and occupy the eastern wall.

On other fronts, some changes have also taken place, and at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the wooden bridge over the Taizi River was finally erected, and it took a total of 10 hours and 40 minutes, more than 2 hours more than the expected time, of course, this is also within a reasonable range, after all, 8 hours is the test time at home, and the bridge is erected on the spot, the unexpected factor increases, so 2 hours more is nothing.

However, when the 4th Army crossed the river, it received news from the headquarters that the Japanese army in Zhangtaizi had increased its strength, and there was originally only one brigade to guard it, but now it has increased to one division and three brigades, totaling about 40,000 people.

It turned out that after the three positions on the front of Liaoyang's periphery were lost, although Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro decided to rely on the city to defend and drag the People's Army, the Zhangtaizi position in the northeast could not be lost, because Zhangtaizi was a station node on the railway line from Shenyang to Liaoyang, and it was also the only way for Shenyang to withdraw troops. Fortunately, it was the Taizi River that delayed the progress of the People's Army, so that Zhang Hezi did not lose ground, so Dashanyan ordered that one division and two brigades be transferred from the withdrawal of Shenyang to be responsible for guarding Zhang Taizi for at least one day.

After receiving this information, the Northeast Command of the People's Army immediately ordered the Fourth Army to capture Zhangtaizi tomorrow, not because it was afraid that the Japanese army would run away, but because the headquarters had received a notification from Qingdao that the Russian army planned to launch an attack on Shenyang tomorrow, and now that most of the Japanese army had withdrawn from Shenyang, it would certainly not be able to stop the Russian army's attack, so the People's Army captured Zhangtaizi mainly to prevent the Russian army from entering the Liaoyang area after occupying Shenyang.

Although there is an agreement between the East China government and Russia, and the military operations of the two sides are bounded by the Shili River, Russia's credit has always been unreliable, so it cannot be guarded against the Russian army.