Laoyang. This battle had to become decisive for Russian Federation

Having received news of a failure of storm of Port Arthur, Oyam's march decided to attack Manchurian army near Laoyang. War was tightened, and, despite a number of progress of Japanese, their initial plan of fast success in the southern Manchuria already was almost completely ruined. Japan the fast success, a crushing defeat of the Russian army which would completely change balance of forces on the continent was necessary and made actual a question of the beginning of peace talks...