The next day, the East China government replied to the Northeast War Zone and agreed to launch a battle to attack Chenyang. In fact, even if the Northeast War Zone does not apply, the military working group will order the Northeast War Zone to attack Chenyang in recent days, because Chenyang is the node of the new war, and the People's Army must capture Chenyang as soon as possible. The sooner the more active it is, the more passive it will be in the subsequent battles, and the more passive it will be. Even if the Northeast War Zone takes the initiative and guarantees to take Chenyang within 7 days, the military team will naturally be happy to sit back and face it.

The working group agreed with Qiu Yahui's suggestion that Zhang Zuolin should be surrendered to the People's Army and to suppress bandits in the Northeast, because in the old time and space, after Zhang Zuolin was recruited by the Qing court, he did help the Qing court to wipe out a large number of bandits. By the time of the Xinhai Revolution, bandits in the Northeast had basically been wiped out, and Zhang Zuolin's huge role in it was also ineffective. Since Zhang Zuolin could work hard to defeat bandits for the Qing court, he could naturally serve as a government for the East China government to quell the rebellion. Therefore, the military working group only instructed that his attitude towards Zhang Zuolin should be the same as that of ordinary locals, and should not be given special care because he was a historical celebrity.

After receiving the order from the working group, * also ordered Qiu Yahui to launch a battle to attack Chenyang immediately.

After receiving the order, Qiu Yahui immediately negotiated the combat plan with the commander of the 3rd Army and the 4th Army, and decided to attack the 2nd Army from the north of Chenyang and the 4th Army from the south of Chenyang. The 3rd Army was stationed on both sides of Chenyang, to prevent the Russian army from breaking through. The two armored trains and tow artillery were divided into two parts, supporting the People's Army on the north and south sides respectively, and the two self-propelled artillery were arranged as mobile forces.

After the plan was formulated, the People's Army immediately implemented the plan to prepare for war. After a night of preparation, at 6 a.m. the next day, the People's Army launched a full-scale attack on Chenyang.

After three months of rest, although the People's Army also had certain factors of destruction, family thinking and war-weariness, overall, the morale of the People's Army is still quite high. First, it is supported by continuous victory. After all, victory is an important factor in maintaining the morale of the army; the other is that the People's Army participated in the war with the lofty ideal of defending the country, which also helped the army overcome the influence of destruction. Therefore, after the battle restarted, the People's Army's soldiers were in a very high mood. After the artillery fire attack, they immediately launched an attack on the Russian army's outer positions in Chenyang.

After the Russian army regained Chenyang, they began to strengthen the garrison of Chenyang, and established a total of 17 positions on the periphery of Shenyang City, and the farthest was about 25 kilometers away from the periphery of Chenyang; and in Shenyang City, 12 strongholds were set up with the command center as the core, each stronghold could be stationed for more than a thousand people and solid fortifications were built. If the enemy attacked Chenyang City, the Russian army could also rely on these 12 strongholds to fight a street battle with the enemy.

But during this period, the Russian army's peripheral positions were attacked by the People's Army, and now there are only 6 peripheral positions left, two on both sides of the north and south, and only one on both sides of the east and west, and less than 5 kilometers from Chenyang. Although the six peripheral positions are not enough to defend Chenyang, to attack Chenyang, it is still necessary to break all peripheral positions, at least the offensive side's peripheral positions. Qiu Yahui plans to clear all peripheral positions in 2-3 days, and then attack Chenyang in 2-3 days, fight street battles in Shenyang City in 1 day, and complete the battle to capture Chenyang at most 5 days, and at most 7 days.

However, after the People's Army launched a ground attack, it was discovered that the Russian army had almost no resistance and the People's Army had almost no effort to break into the Russian positions. The Russian army either surrendered or retreated back to the city of Chenyang to guard. Some positions almost never had any battles. As a result, at 2 pm, the Russian army's four positions in the north and south of Shenyang were all occupied by the People's Army. One position left in the east and west also gave up at around 5 pm and retreated to the city of Chenyang.

After a simple inventory, the People's Army killed about 3,000 Russian troops, but most of them died from the initial shelling. The number of Russian soldiers captured was as many as 26,000. The People's Army itself only killed 92 people, and another 263 were injured. The proportion of prisoners and the low casualties rate made it hard to imagine that this was a tough battle.

The battle went so smoothly, which was not expected by Qiu Yahui. It seemed that the psychological warfare effect of the war was still above his own judgment, and the morale of the Russian army had indeed fallen to the bottom and had no resistance. Some officers believed that it should immediately launch an attack like Chenyang City, striving to break through Chenyang City in one go.

However, Qiu Yahui still kept a clear mind at this time. Although the attack on the periphery was smooth, it did not mean that the attack on Chenyang City would be so smooth, because Chenyang City was the core of the Russian army. Although the psychological warfare effect of the People's Army was significant, the impact on the Russian army in the city would definitely be smaller than that of the Russian army in the city. Moreover, the top Russian troops personally commanded and supervised the battle. The chance of defeat in the army might not be very high. In addition, Chenyang City has a city wall. Although it is not as tall and thick as Beijing's walls, it is also a strong city in this era. The People's Army's artillery is obviously not ready to bombard the city walls of Chenyang. Therefore, Qiu Yahui decided to wait until tomorrow and make full preparations before attacking Chenyang City. At the same time, Qiu Yahui also warned the entire army not to be proud and underestimate the enemy, thinking that the Russian army would be vulnerable and should use a ox knife to kill chickens.

It should be said that Qiu Yahui's reminder was indeed very timely. Because of the smooth progress of the periphery, the People's Army was very optimistic, and he believed that tomorrow's battle would be an easy military walk. Qiu Yahui's reminder realized that the People's Army had calmed down. Although it was not as if it was facing a great enemy, he was somewhat serious.

So on the next day, two armored trains first launched a fierce shelling at the city wall of Chenyang with a 240 mm main gun, and then hundreds of other artillery pieces were fired together. However, this time the Russian army was no longer silent, and the artillery in the city also launched a response and counterattack. Although the Russian army's firepower range was far less than that of the People's Army, they had some reaction after all, and they no longer just got beaten and didn't fight back.

The artillery of both sides roared, and they went back and forth, and for about half an hour of artillery attacks. In the end, the People's Army's firepower could not help but completely suppress the Russian army and collapsed many places in the city walls of Chenyang. Then the large-caliber artillery stopped bombardment, and the firepower of the small-caliber artillery extended to the front, providing fire cover for the ground attacking troops.

The People's Army did not miss this opportunity and immediately launched an attack on Chenyang City. However, although the walls of Chenyang City collapsed many places, many Russian soldiers still relied on the remaining city walls to resist, and there was no situation of complete defeat in the peripheral positions, because now the only Russian army is left with this Chenyang City, and there is no place to retreat. Moreover, yesterday's defeat also aroused the alert of the top Russian troops, so a group of troops with relatively good morale defending the city. This time, it did achieve certain results. At least after the People's Army's artillery attack, the Russian army could still resist and cause certain casualties to the People's Army. It is naturally impossible to easily capture Chenyang.

However, the resistance of the Russian army obviously did not stop the attack of the People's Army. On the one hand, the offensive troops braved the Russian firepower to attack and advance towards the city wall; on the other hand, the mortar troops, which followed the ground attacking troops, immediately launched mortars and launched violent bombardment on the city wall. With the close coordination of infantry and artillery, the People's Army quickly leaned into the city wall. Some soldiers rushed from the gap to the city wall, and some soldiers climbed up the city wall along the gap to drive away the remaining defenders on the city wall. Some Russian soldiers guarding the city wall fled into the city wall, and some resisted desperately on the city wall, but the general situation had gone, and the struggle of a small number of soldiers could not change the overall situation. By noon, the People's Army had completely occupied the city wall of Chenyang City and could break into the city wall at will.

At this time, all the Russian troops had retreated to the city of Chenyang to guard the city. Some fled into the strongholds set up in the city to continue to resist, while others had no time to retreat into the capital, but instead used streets and buildings to resist. However, a large number of Russian soldiers surrendered to the People's Army. These surrendered soldiers basically retreated from the outer positions to the city. They had the lowest will to resist, so the People's Army immediately surrendered as soon as they entered the city.

As a result, on this day, the Russian army surrendered to the People's Army had more than 80,000 people. So many surrendered soldiers also brought a lot of trouble to the People's Army. After all, the war has not yet ended, and the number of prisoners in the People's Army is more than 100,000. So many prisoners not only need a large number of personnel to take care of, but also need a large number of places to resettle. In addition, the food and basic treatment of the prisoners must be ensured. Even if they are not allowed to eat enough, they cannot be hungry. Moreover, many prisoners are injured. At least treatment is necessary, so the logistics personnel of the People's Army are busy.

Seeing this, Qiu Yahui had to decide to suspend the attack and deal with the Russian prisoners first. Moreover, as the war progresses, more Russian troops will definitely surrender to the People's Army, so they must be prepared for the future. Fortunately, the People's Army has occupied the walls of Chenyang City and can enter and exit Chenyang City at any time. Moreover, Qiu Yahui's expected combat time is 5-7 days. After only two days of fighting, Qiu Yahui still has enough time and can be stopped for 1 or 2 days.

During the three months of truce, the People's Army's materials were fully stocked. In two days, more than 600 tents were mobilized and five prisoners were set up. Not only did all more than 100,000 prisoners be accommodated, but about 20,000 prisoners were also allowed to stay in. There were three prisoners of war camps under construction.
Chapter completed!