"The Soviet army heard that it was fighting hard with Denikin's White Army, and for a time there were not enough troops to manage the war in the Baltic region. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf we take advantage of this opportunity to attract all the Soviet partisans around us and besiege the city, we can easily destroy these surrounding guerrillas. Then the battles of our troops in Latvia and Estonia will be much easier. Koval said.

"General Pilsudski has already led troops into the Ukrainian regions, where I am afraid that there will be a huge war. I am afraid that our army will soon be transferred to fight on the southern front, and we will not have much time left. General Shimigwe said.

The reconnaissance team continued to march towards the upper reaches of the Gava River, and the opposite bank was full of dense sky trees.

After walking for more than ten miles, two islands in the middle of the river appeared fifty meters apart, the larger one was about 100 meters long and thirty or forty meters wide, and the smaller one was about 50 meters long and 20 meters wide.

"It's a great place to cross the river." Koval said, pointing to the island in the river.

"With these two islands in the river, it will be more than half the difficulty for us to build a pontoon bridge. However, there may be enemy troops stationed opposite such a critical place. General Shimigwe said.

Koval carefully picked up the binoculars and looked at them, and said, "There is a stronghold in the forest opposite, and it seems that there are about two or three hundred people. ”

"Two or three hundred people don't matter. However, the road was full of woods, and there was a huge lake on the opposite bank, and even if the river was crossed, the troops would not have a wide enough area to spread out, and all the artillery and other things piled on the river beach could only become a target for the enemy in vain. The most important thing is that there is not a good road on this road to Daugavpils, and our tank units cannot play its role. General Himigwe sighed and said: "It seems that the upper reaches of the river are not suitable for us to cross the river to fight, so let's go downstream and have a look." ”

The group turned around and prepared to head downstream.

"Bang Bang ・・・・・・" a few gunshots.

"Lie down!" Koval shouted as he immediately pressed General Himigvi to his stomach in the grass.

Several bullets flew over the heads of the two.

"Sir, I'll give them a little bit of power." Koval took off his rifle and pulled the bolt as he spoke.

"Go ahead!" General Shimigvi was also annoyed by the sudden attack.

Koval ran a few dozen paces away to the right to avoid hurting the others when he fired.

Lying behind a small mound, Koval glanced across the bank, where a ・・・・・・ of two or two Soviet soldiers, a total of more than twenty Soviet soldiers, hiding behind a large tree and shooting at this side with rifles.

Koval quietly stretched out the muzzle of his rifle and aimed it at a Soviet soldier, who crouched at the foot of the tree, his body completely exposed.

Koval held his breath, aimed his crosshair at the target's head, decisively pulled the trigger, and immediately moved on to the next target, and glanced at the soldier's head.

After firing a magazine, five soldiers had fallen on the opposite bank, and the rest of the soldiers were cautiously hiding behind the trees and shooting.

Koval pulled out the bridge clip from which he had finished firing, pulled out a bridge clip containing five rounds, and slipped it into the magazine.

A Soviet soldier hid his entire body behind a tree trunk, only exposing half of his head when he fired.

Koval pointed his gun at the last time his head appeared, and counted silently: one, two, three・・・・・・

Eleven, twelve, the Soviet soldier first stretched out the muzzle of the gun, and then the right head was recorded.

Finally waiting for you, Koval immediately pulled the trigger, and a corpse fell from behind the trunk.

General Shimigvi and the rest of his staff quickly retreated, and it was not appropriate for these senior staff officers to become riflemen.

The cavalry in the rear also quickly rushed over to cover their retreat.

Koval saw that everyone was retreating, and he didn't bother to fight, and ran backwards with his short body.

"Koval, thanks to you just now!" General Shimigwe said, patting Koval on the shoulder.

"It's just an ordinary attack, and it looks like we've been spotted by a small patrol unit on the other side." Koval pretended not to understand.

"Okay, I'll remember." Himigvi nodded.

The group walked downstream along the riverbank, still covered with woods and patches of farmland, but much more sparse than upstream.

Ten miles or so downstream of Daugavpils, the forest becomes a denser primeval forest.

"That's probably where we crossed the river." General Shimigwe said: "Further downstream, the woods there are impassable. However, it was only a little more than ten miles away from Daugavpils, and the Soviet troops in the city could reach it in half an hour at the earliest, which was too short. ”

"General, more than thirty kilometers downstream of Daugavpils, there is also an area that is very suitable for crossing the river, why don't we choose where? There we had enough time to build pontoons. A staff officer said.

"Are you going to let our tanks and artillery go into the primeval forest? Moreover, the primeval forest of more than 20 miles in the middle will cause great trouble for the march of our large army and the transportation of materials, which will waste a lot of our time. General Shimigwe said.

The tank can't cross the woods, but the infantry can, and Koval said with a wit: "General, we can first send a small number of troops to cross the river downstream, and then cross the primeval forest, lurk here, and cooperate with us to build a pontoon bridge here." With this group of troops, we can hold off the Soviet army for some time. ”

A small group of soldiers on the opposite bank was patrolling along the riverbank, and Koval and the others immediately lowered their heads and hidden.

"It seems that the Soviet troops on the other side are very vigilant, and it will be more difficult for us to cross the river. If we cross the river against an attack from the opposite bank, the commander will have the corpses of our soldiers piled up in the river. We must find a way to move the enemy's forces in other directions. General Himigvi sighed.

"We can send a team of non-commissioned officers with skilled and tactical skills to solve them silently, but this matter can only be covered up for half an hour to an hour at most, and once our army starts to build a pontoon bridge here, the enemy will know quickly." "We have to find a way to move the enemy up the river, so that even if the enemy finds out that our troops are crossing the river, they will be able to send a greatly smaller number of troops," Koval said. It would take several hours for the enemy forces upstream to be able to bring the troops back. ”

"The enemy army is not so easy to deceive? If we only pretend to cross the river upstream, the enemy will be able to figure out our plan by sending only a part of the troops. General Shimigwe said.

Koval smiled and said, "Let's pretend to cross the river downstream!" (To be continued.) )