The first day of the attack achieved great results, not only completely breaking the defense line in the northwest of Lushun, but also further stabilized the area it now occupied. However, the People's Army suffered a lot of losses. In this day's battle, 827 soldiers were killed, 1,279 were injured, and more than 2,000 were reduced. In addition, a large amount of ammunition was consumed. This was just the first day of the battle.

However, in such a fierce war, it is inevitable to suffer such losses. The local bandits faced by the Bijing Japanese army and the People's Army before were completely different opponents. Of course, if the People's Army wants to grow up and become the strongest army of this era, even if it wants to reach the height of the People's Liberation Army in the old time and space, it must go through such fierce battles.

That night, Luo Yue recruited military officers above the division level to hold a military meeting to discuss the next combat plan. Luo Yue believed that although the People's Army had broken through the outer defense line of Lushun and could directly attack the Lushun urban area, it is not advisable to launch an attack on the Lushun urban area now. Instead, it should first clear all the Japanese positions outside the Lushun urban area, completely relieve their worries, and then launch an attack on the Lushun urban area.

During the Japanese attack on Lushun, there was no battle in the city of Lushun, because after the Japanese cleared the positions outside the city of Lushun, the Russian army chose to surrender when they saw that the situation was too far away. Of course, Luo Yue did not also want to force the Japanese army to surrender. With the Japanese character, he would never surrender easily. Therefore, the battle in the attack on Lushun city would definitely be an arduous urban battle, which would likely last for several days. Clearing the positions outside the city of Lushun city would not worry about the People's Army's attack on Lushun city; on the other hand, the Japanese army would not let Lushun fall and would send additional reinforcements to Lushun to occupy the peripheral positions, which was also to block the Japanese reinforcements.

On the other hand, Luo Yue also decided to temporarily repair the Marine Corps that broke through the Lushun defense line, and monitored the soldiers in the Lushun urban area. The responsibility for capturing the outer positions was left to several other divisions to complete. First, the Marine Corps and the 1st Division were repaired to prepare for attacking the Lushun urban area; second, it was also to allow the other divisions to undergo the battlefield training, which was also conducive to enhancing the overall strength of the 1st Army.

Others had no objection to Luo Yue's suggestion, but now only 2 divisions of the 1st Army have landed in Lushun, and there are 2 divisions and 2 reserve regiments have not arrived. Therefore, tomorrow the 6th Division will first be Laotieshan and Jiguanshan in the southwest.

Lushun is a region surrounded by mountains, with Shihou Mountain in the northwest. The 203 highlands currently occupied by the People's Army, Dading Mountain, Laohugou Mountain, Shengjia Mountain, and Sungou, all belong to Shihou Mountain, Jiguan Mountain in the northeast, Baiyin Mountain in the southwest, Laotie Mountain in the southwest, and Baiyu Mountain and Huangjin Mountain in the urban area of ​​Lushun, forming the entire defense system of Lushun.

However, Baiyin Mountain and Laotie Mountain mainly focus on coastal defense, Shihou Mountain and Jiguan Mountain are land defense; Baiyu Mountain and Huangjin Mountain are both sea and land. Laotie Mountain is about 10 kilometers south of the current occupied area of ​​the People's Army. The capture of Laotie Mountain can not only stabilize the control area of ​​the People's Army, but also expand the range of activities of the navy, allowing warships to directly attack the Port of Lushun.

Then Luo Yue generated power to Qingdao, reported today's results and his plans, and asked to send all subsequent troops to Lushun as soon as possible. Soon Luo Yue received a reply from Qingdao, approved Luo Yue's plan, and promised to send the remaining troops of the 1st Army to Lushun area tomorrow.

In fact, Luo Yue's judgment was not wrong. After the battle, the Japanese army withdrew to the city of Lushun and counted the losses. The number of people killed reached 2,316. ​​In addition, 22,879 were injured, with more than 5,000 people reduced. Moreover, the northwest defense line was completely lost. Nogi Kidun dared not hide such a major result. On the one hand, he ordered the organization of the defense line in Lushun and generated power to the Manzhou Army Command in Liaoyang to report today's results. The 203 Highland has been lost, and the promise of sticking to Lushun for one month has not been achieved. He also hopes that Dashanyan can send additional reinforcements to Lushun.

After receiving the telegram from Nogi Hashinomi, Oyama was so angry that he burst into more than ten Japanese curses. Fortunately, the two sides contacted each other by telegram. If they were talking directly, Oyama would probably scold Nogi Hashinomi. Of course, it is not a big deal that Oyama was angry. Nogi Hashinomi had a pledge to hold on to Lushun yesterday. It was only a day after that the 203 Highland was lost. Oyama naturally knew the importance of the 203 Highland to Lushun. And just today, Oyama received a secret telegram from the country and realized the real result of the Tsuma Sea Battle. It turned out that the joint fleet had been crippled by the People's Army.

Dashanyan is China's highest military commander, so he naturally cannot hide the consequences of the Battle of Ma, otherwise it will affect the judgment of the front-line commanders on the overall situation. Therefore, Japan sends it to Dashanyan in the form of a secret telegram. After knowing the real result of the Battle of Ma, Dashanyan suddenly felt pressured. It turned out that the situation was worse than he thought.

But if he gets angry, Lushun still has to ignore it. Because he learned that the joint fleet was crippled and if Lushun is lost again, the People's Army can send troops to Liaodong through Lushun for no reason, forming a slight echo of the Liaohe River. Therefore, after getting angry, Dashanyan had to make arrangements. After consulting with his staff, he finally decided to draw the 16th reserve brigade from the Yalu River Corps stationed on the Korean Peninsula, and join the 4th reserve brigade of the 3rd Legion stationed in Jinzhou to support Lushun. This is not that Dashanyan does not want to send more troops, but that he really can't draw out the army.

After the Yalujiang Legion was developed from the Independent 10th Division, it had two divisions, one brigade and one infantry regiment. Dashanyan had drawn one division from the Yalujiang Legion and was preparing to attack the People's Army of Liaohe. It was impossible to dispatch more troops. After all, the Yalujiang Legion had the task of protecting the Japanese army's retreat, so it was impossible to eliminate all the Yalujiang Legion.

Then Oyama Iron generated electricity to Japan, indicating that the Japanese army in Liaodong is insufficient now, and asked the 5th Legion to be formed as soon as possible and transferred to Liaodong to participate in the war.

The next morning, the 6th Division launched an attack on Laotieshan. The Laotieshan position was originally set up for the coastal defense of Lushun, and the Japanese army controlled the sea control in the Far East early, so they did not arrange too many troops in the Laotieshan position. They only arranged two regises to guard the four hills, with only two brigades stationed on each hill, and there were no heavy weapons. It turned out that most of the artillery arranged by the Russian army on Laotieshan was destroyed in battle, and most of the remaining artillery was removed by Japan and used on other battlefields. Now that the Japanese army has lost the northwest defense line, it is even more impossible to send more troops to Laotieshan.

Because the 1st Division and the Marine Corps achieved great results on the first day, it was also a great encouragement to the 6th Division. Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the 6th Division were highly motivated and performed very bravely in the battle. Of course, it was related to the weak strength of the defenders. By 11 noon, they had conquered three mountain positions, leaving only the main position of Laotieshan was still controlled by the Japanese army.

But the People's Army immediately launched an attack on the main position of Laotieshan. Although the Japanese army guarding the position fought to the death, the troops and assembly were too far away from the People's Army. Moreover, the People's Army was still in the firepower support of warships. In fact, even without the firepower support of the navy, the various mortars equipped by the 6th Division were enough for the Japanese army to guard the position to drink a pot. As a result, after more than an hour of battle, the People's Army finally captured the Laotieshan position. The remaining Japanese army also tried to resist stubbornly and launched hand-to-hand combat with the People's Army. Unfortunately, the strength of the two sides was too far apart. After 10 minutes, all the Japanese soldiers who resisted were annihilated, and the People's Army finally occupied the Laotieshan position in full.

However, there were only 41 prisoners of more than 800 Japanese soldiers guarding the positions, of which 27 were captured because of injuries and lost resistance, while only 14 Japanese soldiers who actually surrendered. The rest of the Japanese soldiers were all killed in battle.

At 2 pm, the transport fleet arrived in Lushun again, sent all the remaining troops of the 1st Army, and brought a large amount of supplies, furniture, etc.

And then the troops arrived in Lushun together, there was a special liaison team. The team leader was Li Xianshun, who was a time traveler. There were 6 members of the group. However, the actual identity of this group was an operation team established by the Ministry of Security. Li Xianshun's real position was the director of the Liaodong Regional Intelligence Department. His main task was to manage the intelligence collection and processing work in the Lushun region, and to assist Luo Yue and others in the military operations.

The Ministry of Security began to deploy on the Liaodong Peninsula almost three years ago to prepare for the war. Lushun is of course a key area for Liaodong intelligence work. The East China government opened three commercial banks in Lushun to collect intelligence. During the Russo-Japanese War, because the East China government's commercial banks had supplies of materials, they were also highly valued by the Russian army. The commercial banks also expanded and secretly acquired four small commercial banks.

During the Japanese occupation of Lushun, the relations between the East China government and Japan deteriorated, and all three businesses were closed, but all intelligence personnel were transferred to four small businesses to continue intelligence activities. Because the intelligence personnel were very cautious in their activities, and the Japanese army had just occupied Lushun, they did not have the energy to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the intelligence personnel of the East China government, so the intelligence agencies of the East China government in Lushun have been retained until now.

Of course, the activities of intelligence personnel are not limited to the urban area of ​​Lushun, but are based in the urban area of ​​Lushun, developing into rural and town stores in the suburbs, and going deep into the people. At this time, 9 intelligence points have been set up in the Lushun area, and the intelligence network basically covers the entire Lushun and Jinzhou area. There are 35 intelligence personnel, of which 19 of them were developed locally in Lushun, and all intelligence points can mobilize a total of more than 200 people.
Chapter completed!