It turned out that Koval's plan was to be promoted to regimental commander after the capture of Vilnius, and it was very possible that with his military exploits and the continuous expansion of the Polish army, he could lead his troops directly into the enemy's rear and fight a huge battle of annihilation. In this way www.biquge.info Soviet Russia will lose its current group of troops who are familiar with the Lithuanian terrain, and will be able to eliminate the middle and high-ranking Lithuanian Soviet officers in the Soviet army. Without the current group of determined Lithuanian leaders who are familiar with Lithuanian customs, it will be more difficult for them to recapture Lithuania by the time the Russian civil war ends and moves westward.

But God didn't get his wish, and Koval waited a week, still not waiting for the promotion order first. Now Koval had no choice but to change his plan and focus on fighting the rout. Of course, if given the chance, Koval will also fight a few small battles of annihilation.

By noon, Koval's troops had walked fifteen kilometers up the dirt road. The troops found a slightly more open place and began to rest along the side of the road.

The carriage stopped at the side of the road, and the horses were unsaddled and rested on the small trees by the roadside, where they munched on the grass and drank water.

One by one, fires were lit, and soldiers boiled water and food on top of the fires.

"Sir, the guard posts have been arranged." Locke walked over briskly to report.

"In the afternoon, the speed was halved, and the sentry was sent a hundred meters away from the side of the road." Koval stood by the fire, picked up the iron kettle, took a sip of warm water, and said calmly.

"Yes, sir." Locke replied immediately and firmly.

After a half-hour rest, the army had a new departure. This time, however, the sentries had to run into the dense woods a hundred meters away to prevent the enemy from attacking. The troops on the road should also reduce their speed and walk behind the sentries.

Koval watched as a pair of sentries took turns scouting the way ahead, and then saw the soldiers on the road marching slowly.

Direct orders were given to each company, and each company took turns sending a platoon of soldiers to serve as sentries on either side of the troops.

The soldiers complained softly, but Koval was indifferent, and the troops had to send men to march in the woods on either side.

"Assault squad, follow me." Koval rushed directly into the woods with his direct troops.

The inside of the forest was covered with thick leaves, and there was a rustle of feet on the ground, and from time to time there was the sound of branches breaking. At the end of April, when the vegetation is in full bloom, the woods are overgrown with all sorts of unknown weeds and trees, blocking any possible road.

These weeds and trees grew very thick, each the size of an adult's arm, and they were so tough that the bayonet cut through the bark and left a shallow tooth mark on it. The troops also did not bring knives and axes. Koval and the others had no choice but to use their sabers to cut a passage through the woods that only allowed one person to pass. The Polish saber is much stronger than the bayonet in chopping, and although it is a bit wasteful, it finally does not have to be trapped in the trees.

After half an hour, Koval and his troops walked about a kilometer through the woods. Koval walked out of the woods with the assault squad, and suddenly felt that the world was so empty. The canopies of the tall trees overhead in the woods were intertwined, obscuring the sky and the sun, and only a ray of sunlight shining down through the gaps, and all around was a dense patch of weeds and trees, and a cluster of grass and a clump of grass, endlessly, almost driving people crazy.

If you can't control your pace well, you will involuntarily speed up your pace, and quickly consume your physical strength while fighting against the weeds around you. If you get lost in such a wood, it will be like entering a labyrinth, and the consequences will be even more unimaginable.

Parker saw Koval walk out and immediately walked over.

"Sir, if you go like this, the troops are a little unbearable!" Parker probed.

"There is no war yet, how can you not bear it? It's just a little uncomfortable! If you don't practice much now, how can you fight mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare with your opponent in the future? Koval wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeve: "Do you think that in the future we will still fight as regularly as before?" If you hit the crowd with less, you must win by surprise. In the future, we must often leave these major roads, take mountain roads, forest paths, and even directly through the primeval forest, so that we can be surprised and unprepared. At present, the troops are divided into three groups for rotation training, so that they can practice this skill and be as skilled as a fish swimming. ”

"Battalion commander, if we all go so slowly all the way, I'm afraid that the Lithuanian government army will have to take over those places by then!" Alex said a little anxiously.

"The Lithuanian government is really troublesome if it doesn't scatter its troops, and when they disperse their troops to attack the Soviet army, that's when they expose their weaknesses." Koval said with a grim smile, "Capturing too many towns is not of much use to us, but it is still a burden. ”

"Sir, are we going to war with Lithuania? There is no order to start a war with Lithuania above, and we are provoking and starting a war without authorization, is this a big crime? Parker exclaimed in a low voice of surprise.

"As you have already seen, there are Soviets everywhere in Lithuania, and the Lithuanian government simply cannot suppress them. If it weren't for our Poland helping them to counter the power of Soviet Russia, how could the Lithuanian government army defeat the army of Soviet Russia, they wouldn't even be able to hold Vilnius! If they were not eliminated, Lithuania would sooner or later fall into the hands of the Soviets and become a base for attacking Warsaw. So we must do everything we can to capture Lithuania. Koval said coldly.

Suddenly smiled slightly: "As for provoking and starting a war without authorization, we will have a way to let Lithuania make the first move, and then we will fight back in self-defense, with such a reason, we Poland can officially start a war with Lithuania." They have a population of only one million, and a third of them yearn for the Soviets, a third for us Poland, and the remaining third for the independence of the Lithuanian nation. Those who really wanted to do that were just a few Lithuanian bourgeois elements who fantasized about the support of Britain and France! How could their 10,000-odd troops resist our Polish army. ”

"Sir, that's a good point, this plan is too painful." Alex exclaimed.

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