On the night of the 17th, more than a dozen kerosene lamps were lit in the forward headquarters of the Dingbei Army, where Lin Daxin and the seven division commanders of the Dingbei Army were studying the battle against Liaoyang City tomorrow.

Ni Fan, commander of the Third Division, said: "The outer positions of Liaoyang City have now been taken by us, and it is the defense line of the city wall of Liaoyang City, and it will not be too difficult to capture it with the assistance of our Dingbei Army artillery!" But the Japanese army will definitely rely on the streets and houses in the city to start street battles with us! This street fight is not easy to fight! ”

Zhang Daxiong, the commander of the Sixth Division, said: "What's so hard to fight? Didn't we almost wipe out the Japanese Southern Route Army in the street battle in Jinzhou City? ”

Ni Fan explained: "At that time, the people in Jinzhou City were evacuated when we withdrew from Jinzhou City, and when we attacked Jinzhou City, there were no more people in the city from the Qing Dynasty, only the Japanese army remained!" In this way, our artillery can unscrupulously support the infantry in our city, but now there are at least tens of thousands of our Qing Dynasty civilians in Liaoyang City, and our artillery cannot support the infantry like Jinzhou City! ”

Zhang Daxiong muttered in a low voice: "Anyway, most of the people in Liaoyang City are Manchus, if you want me to say that I don't need to take care of the Manchus, just bombard them with cannons!" ”

Lin Daxin heard Zhang Daxiong's muttering, frowned and said, "The Manchus are also us Chinese!" All of you here are my students, and I established the Sailor Academy, and now the Dingbei Army, so that we Chinese will no longer be bullied by foreigners! Although the Manchu ruling class is corrupt and incompetent, it will oppress us Han people, but the common people of the Manchus are not wrong! The muzzle of our Dingbei Army will never open fire on the people of our own country! The muzzle of our Dingbei Army will only be aimed at the foreigners who bully us and the scum who bully the common people! For the first time, Lin Daxin faintly showed his hostility to the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty in public.

After hearing what Lin Daxin said, the seven division commanders of the Dingbei Army stood up almost at the same time and shouted: "Swear allegiance to the principal!" ”

In fact, the officers from these teaching teams of the Dingbei Army and the Navy of the Navy already had a dim feeling in their hearts that Lin Daxin had the idea of replacing the Qing Dynasty, and even these officers from the teaching team hoped that Lin Daxin could replace the Qing Dynasty.

Lin Daxin continued: "Tomorrow into Liaoyang City, don't rush to the city!" This time, we fought steadily little by little, using powerful tanks and armored vehicles to clear the urban area occupied by the Japanese army in Liaoyang City piece by piece! ”

Early in the morning of the 18th, the artillery of the Dingbei Army began to bombard the city wall in the south of Liaoyang City, under the fierce artillery fire of the Dingbei Army, the ancient Liaoyang City Wall was overwhelmed and collapsed in several places, and many Japanese troops on the city wall were buried in the pile of city bricks. And the southern gate of Liaoyang City was also blown open by artillery fire!

With the cessation of the artillery bombardment of the Dingbei Army, the tanks and armored vehicles of the Dingbei Army began to rush to the city gate and the collapsed city wall to the south of Liaoyang City.

The commander of the Japanese army, Dashan Yan, had long expected that under the strong artillery bombardment of the Dingbei Army, the defense line of the city wall could not be held at all, and only half of the infantry of the company was placed on the south wall of the city, and the Japanese army of this half of the company retreated into Liaoyang City after a little resistance, allowing the Dingbei Army to break through into Liaoyang City very lightly.

The 1st Battalion of the 321st Regiment, which was the first to rush into Liaoyang City from the city gate, was led by the battalion commander Li Qingyao, and the soldiers of the 1st Battalion immediately established a defensive line to prevent the Japanese from launching a counterattack. However, the Japanese army had no intention of counterattacking at all, but honestly prepared to engage in street battles with the Dingbei Army in Liaoyang City.

After the 3rd Division of the Dingbei Army entered the city of Liaoyang, it did not rush to the city, but under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, it advanced into the city little by little!

However, the intensity of the Japanese resistance in Liaoyang City was very large, and the Third Division only occupied a small area in the south of Liaoyang City in one day, and when it got dark, the Third Division stopped the offensive and began to establish a defensive position in the occupied small area to prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking, and prepared to continue to attack the Japanese army after dawn tomorrow.

In a position in front of the Dingbei Army in Liaoyang City, Liu Xiaotian, who was already the commander of the guard platoon, leaned against the trench and said to his battalion commander Li Qingyao: "Battalion commander, you said that after we eliminated the Japanese army in Liaoyang City, did our Qing Dynasty win the war with the Japanese?" ”

Li Qingyao scratched his head and said with a wry smile: "Maybe!" Xiaotian, it's not that you don't know, I'm just a big boss, I don't know a few words, just these few words are still after joining the army, I went to school in the army! You ask me such a profound question, how do I know? I know where I am told to fight, I will fight! ”

Liu Xiaotian couldn't help but glance at Li Qingyao and said: "Battalion commander, it's not me talking about you, you see that the other 2 battalion commanders in our regiment have a set of big truths when they speak, you have to learn from others!" ”

Li Qingyao said with a smile: "They are from the teaching team, and they are all protégés of our handsome, can we compare?" Hehe, it's not like you don't know, I'm lucky, I became a company commander after answering a call! And then because of the bloody battle in Golden State City, he was promoted to battalion commander! ”

Liu Xiaotian asked strangely: "Battalion commander, a while ago, the division commander asked you to go back to the Weihai Weishui Division Academy to participate in the fifth phase of the teaching team, why didn't you go?" Otherwise, you won't be a handsome protégé! ”

Li Qingyao looked at the people around him and lowered his voice and said: "Xiaotian, I think I am less literate, if I enter the teaching team, I can't even memorize what the instructors say, how embarrassing it is!" Aren't I reading with a company commander right now? Wait until I can write a little more before I join the teaching team. In addition, Xiaotian, you should also be seriously literate, and I will recommend you to join the teaching team when I have the opportunity! ”

Liu Xiaotian smiled and said, "Okay! In the future, I will also follow the battalion commander to learn literacy, battalion commander, you have to count when you speak! You want to recommend me to the teaching team too! ”

Li Qingyao said with a smile: "I ...... what I say" Suddenly Li Qingyao heard some movement outside the trench, he immediately poked his head out of the trench, and through the bonfire lit outside the trench, he saw a figure in the distance rushing towards the position.

Li Qingyao immediately shouted: "The Japanese army has attacked!" Get ready for battle! ”

The officers and men of Dingbei, who had fallen asleep with their rifles in their arms on the position, immediately woke up and aimed their guns at the outside of the trench.

When a Japanese soldier saw that the Dingbei Army had discovered their sneak attack, he immediately pointed forward with his command knife: "Kill it!" Then thousands of Japanese troops rushed to the position of the Dingbei Army with bayonets and screaming.

When Li Qingyao saw the Japanese army approaching, he immediately ordered loudly: "Fire!" ”

Dozens of Gatling machine guns on the Dingbei Army's position first began to fire at the Japanese troops, and other soldiers of the Dingbei Army on the position also began to shoot at the Japanese troops who rushed forward with rifles.

After the Japanese army paid heavy casualties and finally approached the position of the Dingbei Army, it was blown back by a grenade of the Dingbei Army.

In one night, the Japanese army organized three or four attacks at the wing level, but under the strict defense of the officers and men of the 3rd Division of the Dingbei Army, the Japanese army did not regain the positions lost during the day.

On the morning of the 19th, after the 8th and 6th Divisions of the Dingbei Army changed their guards, they entered Liaoyang City from the south gate, and also joined the tragic street battle in Liaoyang City. The officers and men of the Dingbei Division of the Third Division and the Eighth Division expanded the area occupied by the Dingbei Army in half of the city after a day's attack.

In the evening, the Japanese army continued to launch a night attack on the area occupied by the Dingbei Army, and this time the Japanese army directly threw in a division, and the Dingbei Army lost half of the positions captured during the day.

On the 20th, after the 9th and 7th Divisions of the Dingbei Army changed their defenses, they also joined the fierce battle in Liaoyang City. At night, the Japanese launched a night attack, but with little effect.

On the 21st, the 10th Division of the Dingbei Army was also transferred by Lin Daxin into Liaoyang City, and the blockade position in the north outside Liaoyang City was taken over by the 6th and 7th Divisions. By the evening of the 21st, the Dingbei Army had occupied the southern and eastern cities of Liaoyang City, almost half of Liaoyang City, and the Japanese army, which had already suffered heavy casualties tonight, did not launch a night attack.

At the Japanese headquarters in the north of Liaoyang City, Commander Dashan Yan asked the remaining six divisions, "How is the situation of each division?" ”

The commander of the 9th Division, Tomoo Minagawa, and the commander of the 13th Division, Chinishi Ji'an, had already been killed by the Dingbei Army in 4 days of street fighting!

The commander of the Second Division, Yoshida Shoichi, said: "Commander, there are still nearly 12,000 people in our division!" ”

The commander of the Third Division, Katsura Taro, said: "Commander, our division still has a little more than 10,000!" ”

The commander of the Fourth Division, Kakiki Gangnan, said: "Commander, there are still more than 15,000 people in our Fourth Division!" ”

The commander of the Eighth Division, Hideo Fukuda, said gloomily: "Commander, there are only more than 8,000 people left in our division!" ”

Keiichiro Koyama of the 12th Division said: "Our division suffered great losses outside the city, and after four days of fighting, although our division has not participated in the night attack, it has also suffered a lot of casualties in the street battles during the day, and now there are only more than 3,000 people!" ”

The commander of the 14th Division, Uchiyama Zhihe, said: "Our division has been used as a reserve because of the large casualties outside the city, and there have been no losses in the 4-day battle, or nearly 4,000 people!" ”

Da Shanyan sighed and said: "There are still nearly 10,000 people in the Ninth Division, and the 13th Division has no losses in 4 days as a reserve, and there are nearly 6,000 people!" In other words, the 160,000 troops of our 8 divisions of the Southern Route Army only defended Liaoyang City for 5 days, and there were less than 70,000 people left! ”

The commander of the Second Division, Yoshida Shoichi, smiled bitterly: "Commander, division commanders, according to the current situation, we may not be able to hold out for long in Liaoyang City!" ”

Dashan Yan still said to the six division commanders with a firm face: "For the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, I hope you will persevere!" ”

Several division commanders all looked at each other with sad faces, but no one spoke.