Since the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian fleet was almost completely destroyed, and the flagship of the cruiser detachment, the Oleg, led the Aurora, the Pearl and one destroyer from the fleet, turned around and crossed the Tsushima Strait south, and finally reached the Philippines 1,500 nautical miles away, only 1 cruiser and 2 destroyers escaped to Vladivostok.

The results of the Battle of the Tsushima Strait fully proved Alfred Thayer Mahan's doctrine of sea power, once again proved the irreplaceable supremacy of battleships in naval warfare, and since then has had a profound impact on the development of naval technology in all countries of the world, especially the old imperialist power Empire - Britain's first sea minister Fisher firmly believed that this battle proved that the most important thing for a battleship is firepower and speed, which gave birth to a series of dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers. It pushed the cannon giant ship doctrine to the pinnacle of this era.

The influence of the Battle of Tsushima was not only limited to the military aspect, but also directly affected the fate of Russia and Japan, and the Russian navy, which was once at the forefront of the world, collapsed, and the defeat of the naval battle shook the rule of the Russian tsar.

Japan's heavy losses in this battle paved the way for the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty three months later.

Also a few days after the Battle of Tsushima, another bombshell news fell into Wang Bin's ears: in early June, a total of more than 70,000 people in the six towns of Beiyang were officially organized.

This news represents that the creation of China's new army has been completed, and this completion has officially laid the foundation for Yuan Shikai to speak as the leader of the Beiyang warlords and the court.

Let's not talk about the completion of the establishment of the six towns of Beiyang for the time being, or talk about the results of the Russo-Japanese Battle of Tsushima this time, although the Japanese suffered heavy losses in this battle, and even the fleet used to escort the ships could no longer be formed, but the threat from the Russian navy had disappeared, and the sea supply lines were reactivated after a period of silence.

There is no doubt that the Japanese Navy has achieved this, even though both sides have suffered great trauma in the war, but it is clear that the Japanese have achieved their strategic goal - to ensure the smooth flow of supply lines, but the Russian Navy has not achieved its strategic goal - to suppress the combined fleet of the Japanese, cut off its sea supply lines and relieve the siege of Port Arthur, Therefore, the Russians in this battle of Tsushima can be said to have lost their wives and soldiers, and they did not gain any benefits, and they lost their capital.

However, even if the strategic purpose of the Japanese was achieved - to ensure the smooth flow of supply lines, the Japanese still had no advantage on land, and the victory of the navy did not bring much chance of victory in the battle situation on land, but only made the supply lines not cut off and the troops on the front line could not get supplies, nothing more.

In front of the trench battle were countless machine gun forts and barbed wire, and Dashan Yan was completely helpless against such a situation, until the news of two things made Dashan Yan have the mind to continue fighting.

The first is that Dashanyan obtained information that the Russian army abandoned the outlying strongholds of Liaoyang and retreated to the north in an attempt to conduct a decisive battle with the Japanese army near Liaoyang.

Dashanyan immediately slapped his thigh and decided to take advantage of the fact that the Russian army had not yet strengthened its strength and used the existing three armies to fight a decisive battle with the Russian army in Liaoyang.

But this second thing, Oyama Yan himself did not expect, originally Dashan Yan knew that his side of the army was at a disadvantage, but what Oyama Iwa never expected was that after Nogi Noshinori's Third Army captured Lushun, under the advice of Ergen Yutaro, Ergen Yutaro led 10,000 Japanese troops to support the Liaoyang battlefield.

Such a support army was good news for Oyama Rock, so after converging with Ergen Tamataro, in order to prepare for the attack on Liaoyang Dashan Rock again, the commander of the Fourth Army, Kawamura Keiaki, began to attack the Russian army in Shimu Castle, and the commander of the Japanese Second Army, Oku Baogong, who stayed at Dashiqiao, was worried that the superior Russian army would attack the Japanese First Army or the Fourth Army, and suggested to Oyama Iwa: The Second Army attacked Haicheng to respond to the actions of the First Army and the Fourth Army.

When the Fourth Army attacked the city, the Russian army's "scattered actions of three separate units failed to stop the enemy's attack, causing the Second Army to retreat, which took advantage of the hazy night to withdraw to Haicheng." ”

The next morning, at a small cost of 83 casualties, the Fourth Army captured the city.

Although the Russian army struggled to block the attack, although it paid a heavy price of more than 2,000 dead and wounded officers and soldiers, and the commander of the Third Army, Carlaire, but still failed to repel the Japanese attack, the second line of defense of the Russian army began to be exposed to the Japanese army, and it was a heavy blow to the main Russian force holding Liaoyang, and then the Second Army easily occupied Haicheng without paying any price.

The reason why the General Headquarters of the Russian Manchurian Army adopted the method of retreat was "to try to avoid active action, hoping to withdraw to Liaoyang with minimal losses and fight a decisive battle with Japan in Liaoyang."

At this point, the towns and important strongholds south of Liaoyang fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and the Japanese forward troops had approached the first line of defense set up by the Russian army in the south of Liaoyang.

At this moment, on the periphery of the Liaoyang city fortifications, the Russian army has also built three lines of defense: 3-4 kilometers away from the city fortifications, from Shoushan Fort to Fangjiatun, Mengjiafang, and Hutou Cliff on the right; Left through the Taizi River to Shiguantun, Heiyingtai, Yanzhou City line, for the third line of defense; To the south, from Shahe Town to the east, it connects Sifangtai, Tangheyan, and Sunjiazhai, and the small mountain range of Shizuizi on the left, which is the second line of defense; Further south to the right, from Anshan East to Gaofeng Temple, Dadianzi, Gongchangling, Bapanling, Hanpoling to Hongshaling, is the first line of defense, if these lines of defense are lost, the Russian army in the Liaoyang battlefield is really powerless.

The commander of the Japanese First Army, Kuroki Weizhen, received a battle plan from Dashanyan for attacking Liaoyang; That is, while the Second Army and the Fourth Army attacked the Russian army near Anshan, the First Army wanted to attack the area from Da'anping to the area along the Tang River, and carry out a night attack on the first line of defense of the Russian army near Gongchangling.

However, due to the rain for several days, the river water swelled, so that the general offensive was postponed, and after the rain stopped, the First Army began to attack the western heights from Hongshaling to Gaofeng Temple with 46,000 men and 1.2 million artillery, and attacked the defensive section of the 3rd and 10th Siberian armies of the Russian army in the East Manchurian cluster with 48,000 men and 182 guns.

At the same time, the Japanese Second Army and the Fourth Army began to attack the Russian South Manchurian cluster near Anshan, and the Japanese First Army charged the Russian Tenth Army under the command of General Sluchevsky at 8 points at the same time with superior forces.

Under the pressure of the Japanese 2nd Division, the right flank of the Russian 10th Army began to retreat, and by 16 o'clock, "the Russian army was forced to abandon the Anpingling line and retreat to the Tanghe Valley."

The Japanese 1st Guards Division, which attacked the 3rd Russian Army in Siberia, attempted to bypass the left flank of the 3rd Russian Army, but was flanked by the Russian reserve forces, causing the Japanese to "flee in embarrassment."

In order to turn the tide of the battle, Kuroki Weizhen immediately transferred reserves to reinforce the Guards Division, but was blocked by scattered shells from Russian artillery, "suffered heavy casualties and was forced to stop the attack." ”

Just when the battle situation on the battlefield was so anxious, something suddenly happened that made the world cry and laugh, and it was the occurrence of this incident that caused the Japanese army to be resisted by the Russian army outside Liaoyang City and lost confidence in taking Liaoyang for a while, and this situation made this situation take a huge turn.