Chapter 124: Bad News
The officers below listened to Ivan's analysis and agreed to his plan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The three battalions suffered the most losses this time, and they were responsible for caring for the wounded and monitoring the prisoners. The 1st and 2nd Battalions immediately rebuilt the defense line of the entire town, and we were to build an iron wall to block the survival of the Lithuanian army on the southern front. Ivan ordered.
"Yes, sir." said the officers.
Just as the Soviet army was attacking Makmergey, Koval quietly lurked in the woods near Makmergey with a small force of a dozen men.
"Sir, do you want to quietly give the Soviet troops a blow in the back, maybe you can inflict heavy damage on them, and let out a good breath of the evil spirit that they have been chasing these days." Mayevsky said with a whim.
Several other officers around him were also a little moved.
"You see, there is still a unit there that has not moved, and there is still a company of Soviet troops left ready to deal with us. Even if we rush over now, the most we can do is defeat the Soviet army and let the Lithuanians hold on to Makmergay. But it doesn't do us much. Koval said without looking back.
"But are we just watching the Soviet troops take Makmergey? When they get those military supplies, it's even more difficult to deal with. Kanas said.
"How can we have an excuse to take this town if the Soviet troops do not allow the Soviet troops to take Makmerge?" Koval smiled mysteriously and said: "Anyway, the military supplies are inside, and the Soviet army is just helping us keep it." ”
"If the Soviet troops take Makmergay, won't our strength have even less chance of taking this town?" Kanas asked.
"When the Lithuanians heard that their rear route had been cut off by the Soviet troops, they would have turned back to deal with them, and we just stayed in the forest and watched the show. The capture of Mark Melgey was only the beginning, and the revenge of the Lithuanians was the key. Koval said.
"This cannon is so powerful! It looks much more powerful than our 60mm mountain guns. Majewski exclaimed.
Koval listened carefully to the sound of artillery on the battlefield and said: "This should be a 105mm caliber howitzer, the equipment of the German army." If we attack the city in the future, we must first solve the threat of these guys. ”
"Sir, will the Soviet troops be able to take this town? The artillery of the Lithuanians is simply too powerful! Majewski asked, looking at the explosions that kept ringing in the distance.
"Hehe, the Lithuanians just fell for the Soviet plan to encircle and send reinforcements, and they lost a lot of troops, and now they are understaffed, I'm afraid they can't resist. Most of these Lithuanian troops were only recruits after two months of training, and there was still a big gap between the war-torn army of the Soviet army. Koval held up his binoculars and looked at the battlefield in the distance without looking back.
Koval took the officers and hid in the forest, carefully observing the battlefield.
"The Soviet troops were still in ambush at the West Gate, and now the Lithuanians were dead. What a beautiful plan of attack! Canas whispered in surprise.
Seeing that all the Soviet troops rushed into the town, and the gunfire in the town became more and more rare, Koval and the others quietly withdrew from the vicinity of the battlefield and answered the camp deep in the forest.
In the afternoon, Ivan walked on the city wall, saying that the city wall was nothing more than an earthen wall three or four meters high. On the basis of the original wall, the Lithuanians piled sandbags into a circle of earthen walls three or four meters high and two or three meters thick.
The east and west sides of the town had been shattered by artillery fire during the morning battle, especially the east gate, which had been blown open beyond recognition under the heavy shelling of 105mm guns.
"Send reconnaissance to the east at once, and we must know the movements of the Lithuanian army on the southern front. All soldiers immediately rushed to repair the walls, especially the eastern ones. Ivan said, standing on a section of the earthen wall.
Ivan jumped over, crossed a gap, and said: "The eastern wall is our main line of defense against the troops of the southern front who are coming back from Lithuania, these gaps must be repaired for me as soon as possible, and the people we have captured can be sent over to help us build the wall." ”
"Yes, sir."
Ivan jumped down from the top of the wall and said: "The earthen wall of the east gate is so low and thin that soldiers can even climb it with their bare hands, and we must increase it higher and thicker so that we can resist the enemy's tidal attack."
I'll give you two days, and you must build all the eastern walls to be five meters high and three meters thick, and dozens of machine-gun bunkers. ”
"Sir, where do we have so many heavy machine guns?"
"In this battle, we captured more than a dozen heavy machine guns of the enemy, and there are still thirty heavy machine guns in the enemy's arsenal, so you don't have to worry about it now." Ivan said with a smile.
Makmergay soon became a huge construction site, with Soviet soldiers and prisoners carrying wooden and sacks of sand to reinforce the entire eastern wall.
The Soviet troops also used all the useful weapons in the warehouses of Makmerge, transforming the whole of Makmergay into a strong fortress.
General Zukauskas was resting on the march to Utena when he suddenly received a telegram from Mark Melgey.
Immediately picked it up and looked at it carefully, and said angrily: "****, how could Mark Melgey be conquered without holding it for a day!" Goulais, this fool, the idiot! ”
After a bitter curse, General Zukauskas immediately ordered: "Immediately call a meeting of senior officers, and go and bring General Goltz over and say that we have important news." ”
"Yes, sir."
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General Goltz came strangely to General Zukauskas's office and saw that several regiment commanders of the Lithuanian army were already sitting inside, and their faces were very solemn.
"General, what important news are you looking for me?" General Goltz asked.
General Zukauskas, with a gloomy face, did not speak, but simply handed over the telegram on the table.
General Goltz felt bad, picked up the telegram and looked at it, his face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise: "How is this possible? How could Mark Melgay have the strength of a regiment and so many large-caliber artillery pieces for a day? General, are you sure that this telegram is not a joke? ”
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