At this time, Qiu Yahui realized that his previous judgment of the Japanese army was wrong. Judging from this, the Japanese army was probably planning to fight a city war with him in Liaoyang City. The previous battle on the periphery went smoothly. In addition to tactical opposition and heavy artillery fire support, the Japanese army intends to give up, which is also an important reason.

After realizing this, Qiu Yahui couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He still lacked experience. He thought that after winning a few battles before, he could underestimate the Japanese army. As long as the cannons blasted and the army rushed, the Japanese resistance would collapse. You should know that the Japanese army in this era was not the Heisei abandoned house before traveling through time, and he had to push left and right to save a disaster. Before World War II, the Japanese army might not be the strongest army, but in terms of combat will, it was definitely the best. The few victory he had fought before, first, took advantage of the Japanese army and Russian army to fight exhausted and both sides were injured, not only to wait for the effort, but also caught the Japanese army off guard; second, the weapons brought by time travel and the leading weapons developed by the East China government for this era were cheating like a game cheat, so what qualifications do you have to underestimate your opponent?

Of course, now is not the time to regret investigating. Qiu Yahui immediately recruited commanders of each division and began to re-arrange tactics. Of course, the first thing he emphasized is that we must pay attention to the Japanese army again and we must not be despised by the Japanese army. As long as we fight the fire, the Japanese army will be defeated. Instead, we must be mentally prepared to fight tough battles and bad battles.

In terms of tactics, we cannot blindly attack and attack directly, and attempt to completely kill the Japanese army with one stick. We cannot make any more aggressive progress. Instead, we should take steady steps and advance step by step. Whenever an area is occupied, we should not be busy continuing to advance forward, but expand to the left and right first, protect the flanks, and arrange positions in important areas and send troops to guard them, and then plan further expansion after the occupied areas is completely stabilized.

In addition, the terrain in the city is narrow and the combat area obtained by the People's Army is limited, so it is difficult to fully deploy the troops. The People's Army only invested in one regiment for combat in the first two times. Although this time, it was a limit to investing in two regiments. Qiu Yahui decided that the 2nd Division would be responsible for combat in the city.

However, in the previous battle, the People's Army mainly launched an attack from the Xicheng of Liaoyang City, and was limited to the southern city. In this way, the Japanese army in the city could also face it easily and attack Liaoyang City again. The direction of the attack could naturally not be limited to the Xicheng. Therefore, Qiu Yahui ordered the 8th Division to attack Liaoyang North City and the 9th Division to attack from the Nancheng of Liaoyang City. Such a multi-line attack could also restrain the Japanese army's strength. The 17th Division was used as a reserve force, while the 3 reserve regiments were responsible for defending the occupied areas.

Although the 2nd Army has no heavy artillery now, it has occupied the city walls of the West City. Therefore, the attack on the North City and the South City can be adopted by the two-line attack method on the city and the city, which is much easier than simply attacking the city walls.

Another point is that Qiu Yahui also asked the command center for the people in Liaoyang City. The reply he received was to try his best to reduce accidental injuries. Without affecting the overall situation, he should try his best to save the people and resettle the rescued people. It should be said that this instruction is vague, but it is impossible to have a clear instruction for such matters. If you insist that you cannot accidentally hurt the people, then there is no need to fight this battle at all. Therefore, the specific situation can only be flexibly dealt with on the battlefield.

After re-determining the combat plan, the People's Army launched an attack on Liaoyang City again. Although the Japanese army's resistance was tenacious, the People's Army changed its previous aggressive tactics, took steady steps, and took care of support and cover, which also made the Japanese army feel huge pressure.

As the People's Army was in every step, the hidden stakes and firepower points arranged by the Japanese army were also removed from the focus of the People's Army. It was not so easy to shoot another place. After the People's Army paid attention to support and cover, the Japanese army's raid tactics were no longer easy to succeed. On several occasions, a squad of Japanese troops broke out from the alley, but just hit the People's Army's guard troops and were wiped out by the People's Army.

The Type 96 pistols, grenade launchers, and other weapons equipped by the People's Army are generally more suitable for use in street fighting. As long as you are not in a hurry to completely kill the Japanese army, you can calmly respond. As long as you discover Japan's defensive positions, you will not ask for any reason and bombard him. Most of the houses in Liaoyang City are made of wooden structures, and a small amount is civilized and cannot withstand the bombardment of even the 60 mortars. In desperation, the Japanese army did not have time to arrange a solid position. Therefore, after a few shots, one position collapsed immediately. The Japanese army either retreated to the next position to garrison or launched a risky attack on the People's Army. However, when the People's Army had already arranged a warning position, such an attack was basically of no use.

Moreover, the attacks carried out by the People's Army in the south and north cities did involve a considerable amount of energy of the Japanese army. After all, the Japanese army could not allow the North and South cities to be disrespectful. However, since the People's Army could launch an attack from the city wall, the Japanese army in the north and south cities wanted to rely on the city wall to prepare for the city wall. The People's Army only used mortars to scatter the defenders on the city wall with a few guns down. Therefore, although the People's Army still paid a considerable price of casualties, it did defeat the Japanese army and achieved considerable results. Moreover, the Japanese army also suffered heavy casualties.

When the battle was around 6 pm, as the sky was getting darker, both sides stopped fighting, defended the area they occupied, repaired and rested. At this time, the People's Army had occupied an area of ​​about 1,200 meters in the west city of Liaoyang, with a horizontal length of about 1,200 meters and a depth of more than 300 meters. They also gained from both the north and south cities. The North City occupied about 30% of the area, and the South City also occupied an area of ​​about 600 meters wide and 200 depths. Together, these three areas accounted for about 1/6 of the area of ​​Liaoyang City. However, throughout the day, the total casualties of the People's Army reached more than 5,000 people, of which more than 90% were caused in the battles in Liaoyang City, and the intensity of the city war can also be seen.

After receiving today's battle results, Qiu Yahui was also happy and worried. After changing his tactics, he achieved immediate results. If he continued to fight like this, he would expect to fully occupy Liaoyang City tomorrow. Although it was one day later than expected, it had little impact on the overall situation. The worry was that the casualties were too great, and there might be even greater casualties waiting for him in tomorrow's battle. Although the People's Army was not a warlord unit, and the Second Army was not Qiu Yahui's private army, he was founded by him and had deep feelings after all. Therefore, it was of course difficult to live in the feeling of such great casualties in the army, but the war was so cruel. Moreover, if the People's Army wants to grow into a powerful army, it must go through such arduous battle training.

In fact, the situation of the Japanese army is not good. Even if the losses of the peripheral positions are not counted, the casualties of the battles inside and outside Liaoyang City were only calculated. The Japanese army reached about 5,000, which is basically the same as the People's Army. However, the People's Army invested in the battle with an army of about 70,000, and the Japanese army had only two divisions in Liaoyang City. Although they had some defeated troops from the peripheral positions, the total strength was less than 40,000. Therefore, the People's Army was not considered to be injured, but the Japanese army could not withstand such a large loss. Moreover, the Japanese army also accommodated a large number of wounded soldiers who retreated from the peripheral positions, and the territory in Liaoyang City was 1/6 less. Therefore, not only was the hospital stretched, but it also hit the morale of the Japanese army. Everyone knew that the Japanese army wanted to give up Liaoyang City, but how did these wounded soldiers leave with the army?

Dashanyan and Eryuyuan Tailang were also worried. They originally planned to be stationed in Liaoyang for at least 5 days so that they could arrange the withdrawal of troops calmly. But now it seems that they may not be able to defend for 3 days, which also had a huge impact on the withdrawal. Therefore, Dashanyan and Eryuyuan Tailang negotiated overnight and decided to speed up the withdrawal. They must withdraw from Shenyang tomorrow, and the main force must also withdraw from Liaoyang. The remaining troops must hold in Liaoyang for another day before they can retreat.

Fortunately, the Japanese army is still firmly controlling the East City Wall, so they ensure that they can withdraw from Liaoyang City. In order to ensure the retreat, the Japanese army decided to blow off the city wall when necessary, so that the People's Army could not attack and occupy the East City Wall along the city wall.

On other fronts, some changes have occurred. By around 5 pm, the wooden bridge on the Taizi River was finally built. It took a total of 10 hours and 40 minutes, which was more than 2 hours more than the expected time. Of course, this is within a reasonable range. After all, 8 hours is the test time at home, and when building bridges on site, unexpected factors have increased, so 2 hours are nothing.

But just when the 4th Army crossed the river, it was reported that Zhang Taizi's Japanese troops had increased, and there was only one brigade guard, but now it had increased to one division and three brigades, with a total of about 40,000 people.

It turned out that after the three positions on the outer front of Liaoyang were lost, although Dashanyan and Eryuyuan Tailang decided to rely on the city to defend and delay the People's Army, the Zhangtaizi position in the northeast could not be lost, because Zhangtaizi is a station node on the Chenyang-Liaoyang railway line, and it is also the only way for Chenyang to withdraw troops. The troops withdrawn from Chenyang did not enter Liaoyang City, but turned directly to the southeast in Zhangtaizi and advanced towards Phoenix City through Baiyun Mountain. Fortunately, the Taizi River delayed the progress of the People's Army, which prevented Zhang Hezi from losing. So Dashanyan ordered to draw a division and two brigades from the withdrawal of Chenyang to be responsible for guarding Zhangtaizi for at least one day.

After receiving this information, the Northeast Command of the People's Army immediately ordered the 4th Army to capture Zhang Taizi tomorrow. This was not because the Japanese army had been afraid that the Japanese army would run away, but because the headquarters had received a notice from Qingdao that the Russian army planned to launch an attack on Chenyang tomorrow. Now that most of the Japanese army has withdrawn from Chenyang, it must not be able to stop the Russian army's attack. Therefore, the People's Army captured Zhang Taizi mainly to prevent the Russian army from entering the Liaoyang area after occupying Chenyang.
Chapter completed!