After defeating the second batch of reinforcements from the Russian army, Li Lixin led the army to approach Harbin. At Baijia Youfang, less than 20 kilometers away from Harbin, fought fiercely with the Russian defensive army. After more than two hours of firefighting, the Russian army retreated, but the People's Army did not continue to pursue. After all, the People's Army now has only two regiments of troops, and the original defenders in Harbin had nearly 30,000 people, and now one division has been withdrawn. Compared with Li Lixin's current two regiments, it has a very obvious advantage in military strength, so Li Lixin did not dare to advance easily.

Fortunately, the reinforcements of the Russian army have been cut off now, so the People's Army does not need to rush to advance, so Li Lixin sent a large number of scouts to reconnaise the movements of the Russian army.

On the next day, the scouts reported that no established Russian guards were found along the way from Baijia Youfang to Harbin. In addition, the urban area of ​​Harbin is very chaotic. Although the scouts did not go deep into the urban area, gunfire and crying can be heard from afar. In addition, many residents escaped from the urban area. It was obvious that there was a large turmoil in the urban area.

After receiving this information, Li Lixin did not act rashly, but ordered the scouts to move to the west side of Harbin to reconnaissance, and at the same time sent a battalion of troops to launch a tentative attack on Harbin in three directions in units of the company.

In the afternoon, the scouts who were scouting on the west side of Harbin sent back the report. At this time, there were a large number of troops in the city of Harbin, and residents were evacuating westward. Two scouts who risked to mingle into the Harbin area reported. At this time, a large number of people were gathered at the Harbin Railway Station, mostly foreigners, and were scrambling to squeeze out two trains. In addition, a large number of robberies and fights occurred in the city, and basically no one maintained order.

The other three routes of People's Army troops that were exploring the attack also successfully advanced into the urban area of ​​Harbin. They did not encounter large groups of Russian troops to resist. There were only occasional sporadic Russian soldiers. Even a group of People's Army was robbed. According to the rescued Russian merchants, the Russian army began to retreat from Harbin early this morning. Now these three people's army have established temporary positions in the area east of Harbin's urban area to maintain order, shelter refugees, and wait for the next order from the division headquarters.

It turned out that after learning that the second batch of reinforcements were defeated by the People's Army, Linevic also knew that the general situation in Harbin was hopeless. The People's Army was too powerful. This was really a scavenging and hit Harbin's fatal point. The Russian army has only withdrawn the strength of one division. Such a force is not enough to defend Harbin. Although there are not many People's Army troops to Harbin now, in the long run, it is only a matter of time before the People's Army's brigade arrives in Harbin. Linevic is basically not confident that the Russian army in Shenyang can break through the interception of the People's Army and come to rescue Harbin, because Linevic has received a report from Shenyang and knows that the People's Army is launching a full-scale attack on Shenyang. Of course, Linevic knows that it is unrealistic to expect the Russian army in Shenyang to return to the extreme in this situation.

Of course, there will be no danger in staying in Harbin now, but it will not be easy to leave after the People's Army's large team arrives, because the People's Army's tactics are too unpredictable. Maybe it is not impossible to go around the west side of Harbin and cut off your retreat. Therefore, Harbin must not stay for a long time and must leave as soon as possible and retreat to Manzhouli.

Since he decided to give up Harbin, Linevich no longer hesitated and left at will. So early this morning, Linevich took the train and left Harbin. The Russian army also drove from Harbin one after another and retreated towards Manzhouli. In fact, although Harbin is not many troops, the Russian general logistics base has gathered a large amount of supplies. If you want to move them all to Manzhouli, even if there is a train, it will take more than 10 days. There is no time to carry them at all. You can only take some of them away, and you can only give up all of them.

Harbin is one of the birthplaces of the Jin and Qing dynasties. At the beginning of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, it was built here, called Shangjing. After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, it established the Deputy Chief of the Alchukha District, which was under the jurisdiction of General Jilin. However, the rise of Harbin was still driven by the Middle East Railway. Before the construction of the Middle East Railway, there were a large number of villages and villages in this area, with about 30,000 residents. With the construction of the Middle East Railway, economic factors such as transportation, trade, industry and commerce began to expand, and the population also gathered in the Harbin area. Russia took advantage of the reform of the Qing Dynasty's Bounty Kingdom to invade China's Northeast region and set up the Far East Governor's Office in Harbin. At the same time, it also carried out large-scale construction of Harbin. Moreover, Harbin's status as a transportation hub also provided a lot of convenient conditions for urban development. Therefore, Harbin had already based on the current scale of the city.

At this time, the permanent population of Harbin reached about 250,000, while the Russians had about 30,000, mainly engaged in business. Russian merchants, technicians, soldiers, students, missionaries and their families working here are the largest gathering place in Russia in the Far East. This is mainly because the main industrial energy of Vladivostok and Lushun was still a military fortress, and the space for commercial development was limited, so most Russians chose to settle in Harbin.

The city suddenly fell into great chaos. First, Russian soldiers rushed to buy ropes, shoulder poles, requisition vehicles, and pack luggage bags. Some Russian soldiers even openly robbed shops and banks on the streets, and shot and killed people.

In fact, in the past few days, people in Harbin's urban area were in panic. As Russians, as well as some Chinese, they all sold their houses, sold their assets, and hurriedly left Harbin. A long queue was lined up in front of the train station. The price of a train ticket to Manzhouli could be more than 10 times the original price, but it was still difficult to find a ticket. Carriages and horses have become the most popular goods, because Russians with carriages have escaped in their carriages, and the shops have been closed. Scattered soldiers and gangsters are openly roaming the streets, burning, smashing, looting, and no one maintains order. Therefore, no one cares about the dead. The whole city shows a trend of doomsday.

Of course, not all the Russians are fleeing Harbin, and many people still have fantasies about the situation. After all, their careers and assets are in Harbin. Once they leave, they will have nothing. Therefore, some still hope that the Russian army can defeat the People's Army or defend Harbin. However, as soon as Linevic left, these Russians who were still watching were immediately in despair, and they dragged their families with their families or left their homes with simple cleaned packages. Some went to the train station to try their luck, and some went straight to the west, forming a huge abortion. Even some troops evacuated from the rear were blocked by the abortion and their speed dropped seriously.

After understanding these situations, Li Lixin made up his mind and ordered the 3rd Regiment and Cavalry Regiment to immediately and quickly go around the west side of Harbin to intercept the retreating people, persuaded them to return to Harbin, and ordered the 2nd Regiment to enter Harbin urban area immediately to maintain order in the urban area. At the same time, he also reported to Luo Yue, asking the subsequent troops to arrive as soon as possible. After all, relying on the strength of his own division, he also had to divide a regiment to block the army in the direction of Chenyang, and it was difficult to completely control the Harbin urban area.

Sure enough, after the 3rd Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment went around to the west side of Harbin, they not only intercepted a large number of evacuated residents, but also stopped a train. The residents who could not evacuate had to return to Harbin City. At this time, the city had been taken over by the People's Army and severely killed several thugs who looted and smashed in the city, basically controlling the situation in the entire city.

Li Lixin also ordered that troops be sent to guard the main traffic intersections, warehouses, banks, railway stations, governor's offices, military camps and other important places in Harbin's urban area, and the army was mobilized to take turns patrolling the streets. Therefore, the order in Harbin's urban area was quickly restored, and the residents returned to their homes. After spending the night in a hurry, they found that this night was the quietest in the past few days.

After receiving Li Lixin's report, Luo Yue immediately ordered the 6th Division of the 1st Army to march quickly and arrive in Harbin as soon as possible to help the 1st Division. When Luo Yue led the brigade of troops to Harbin, it was five days later. At this time, the order in Harbin had been completely restored. Nearly half of the shops were open to welcome business, and pedestrians were also traveling on the streets. The railway station was restarted, but all passenger transport was stopped, and freight was also served by the People's Army. The Governor's Office was changed to the command center of the People's Army, and several other businesses had been evacuated and requisitioned by the People's Army as dormitories or office space.

This time the People's Army occupied Harbin, and there was no large-scale battle. Therefore, the People's Army basically had no casualties, and of course it did not annihilate or capture many Russian soldiers. However, the harvest was still very huge. The Russian army left a large amount of supplies in Harbin, including flour, canned food, dried bottles, meat, wine, salt, and oil. In addition, there were a large amount of forage, tents, medicines, clothing, leather, etc.
Chapter completed!