Chapter 31: Brigadier General Vilko
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Two days later, Koval was commanding a cavalry patrol when he suddenly saw a group of gunmen walking out of the fork in the road ahead, dressed in various costumes, not like an army, but like a group of robbers. Their formation was chaotic, and Koval watched carefully, and finally saw a small red and white Polish flag from inside the crowd.
"We are the Polish Volunteers of Varenna, which unit are you from?" A cavalryman rode over and shouted loudly from a distance of more than two hundred meters.
"We are volunteers from the village of Varni, and you are also going to support General Voladislav Videko?" A middle-aged man on the other side replied loudly.
"That's right." The cavalry chatted a few words and then returned to report to Coval.
"Let's keep walking, leave him alone." Koval said, looking at the team of dozens of people opposite.
From Andrey's body, he already knows that these teams are all old fritters, and they will never let go without benefits. Koval now has neither money nor rights, it is impossible to give them anything, how can they be obedient?
However, Koval was a little curious about which General Voladislav Videko had gathered so many people.
The team kept advancing, and along the way there were volunteers from all over the world, as well as some solitary horseback riders. Koval could not help but be shocked by the appeal of General Voladislav Videko.
On the morning of April 18, after a four-day trek, Koval saw the gates of a town again.
A sentry was set up at the city gate, guarded by a platoon of soldiers, and a machine gun mounted above the city gate. They wore Russian military uniforms, with red and white strips of cloth sewn on their sleeves to distinguish them from the Russian army. After a brief check-in, the groups of volunteers entered the town in order.
It finally looked like a military camp, Koval thought as he looked at the fortifications at the city gates.
One of the cavalrymen stepped forward and reported: "We are troops of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 11th Infantry Division of the Polish Army, ready to attack Vilnius. Our commander, Major Koval, has asked to see General Voladislav Videko and hereby informs you. ”
"Wait a minute, I'll report it right away." The officer on the opposite side immediately sent soldiers to report the situation.
Koval waited near the city gate with his troops.
"Andrey, do you know General Volatislav Videko?" Koval asked.
"He used to be a subordinate of the Tsar, and after the overthrow of the Tsarist government, he returned to his hometown in Lithuania and kept in touch with us, and his words worked very well in our area." Andrei said admiringly.
While the two men were talking, a troop of horsemen came running from the city gates. At the head was a cold old man in his fifties.
Koval hurriedly took Andre up to greet him.
"I am Kovar, the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 11th Infantry Division of the Polish Army, and I welcome General Voladislav Vijeko." Koval rode on his horse, took the reins in his left hand and gave a military salute with his right hand.
"I'm Voladislav Videko, and I'm welcome to Lentvaris." General Voladislav Videko also returned a military salute.
The two rode side by side, inspecting Koval's troops.
"Very nice troops! In this way, we will be more certain to take Vilnius. General Voladislav Videko could not help but sigh when he saw that the 2nd Battalion was in a neat and orderly formation under the command of an officer, and that it was well-armed.
"How many Red Russian troops are there in Vilnius? How are they fighting? Koval asked.
Although Koval was a military fan in another time and space in his previous life, he did not have much research on a small scumbag country like Poland, except for the battle of Warsaw, which flanked Jutukhachevsky and was captured by the Soviet Union and Germany for a month in World War II, I rarely saw other information.
So for the next battle, Koval couldn't help but be extremely cautious. This should be the first time in his life that he commanded a troop to fight! I need a successful start. Koval thought to himself.
Although Koval has been studying various military works in recent months, he has taken Wu Qi, a military progenitor like Wu Qi, who has been a military strategist and a politician in two countries, as his role model. But whether it can succeed or not will have to go through the test of war.
Wu Qi went through the three kingdoms of Shilu, Wei and Chu throughout his life, and was well versed in the three schools of thought, namely the military, the Legalist and the Confucian, and had extremely high achievements in internal affairs and military affairs. Shilu had repelled the invasion of Qi; Shi Wei repeatedly broke Qin, won the land west of the Qin River, and achieved the hegemony of Wei Wenhou; In 381 BC, the king of Chu mourned and died, and the nobles of Chu took the opportunity to launch a mutiny to attack and kill Wu Qi. Later generations called him and Sun Wu "Sun Wu", and "Wu Zi" and "Sun Tzu" are also known as "Sun Wu's Art of War", which occupies an important position in ancient Chinese military classics.
"After the overthrow of Tsarist Russia, there was a lot of chaos here. In December last year, I formed a Polish committee in Vilnius, which was responsible for managing order in the city and maintaining self-government. But by this time, the Communist Party and the bourgeoisie in Lithuania had established a Soviet Revolutionary Government and a Voldmaras Government, respectively, with Winkas Miktius-Kapsukas as Chairman of the Soviet Government. On December 31, 1918, the Germans withdrew from Vilnius, and the contradictions between the three governments grew. On January 5 of this year, thanks to support from the Russian region, the Red Russians occupied Vilnius and continued to advance westward. I commanded these paramilitaries to fight the Red Army in Vilnius for five days, and finally could not resist it, so I had to retreat to preserve my strength; The Lithuanian government left Vilnius together with the German regular army. General Vijeko explained in a low and heavy voice.
"There are about 5,000 of them, and now there are 3,000 in the city of Vilnius, and the rest of the troops are scattered in the surrounding villages and towns. So we have to take Vilnius as soon as possible before the rest of their forces come back. ”
Hearing that there were more than 5,000 people, Koval was a little difficult to calm down: With my 500 recruits who have never seen the battlefield and your group of militia, it is too risky to attack a city defended by 3,000 people.
Although I wanted to fight a better first battle under my command, I didn't have Long Aotian to break 5000 in the first battle as written in the novel. Koval muttered to himself.
"I have more than 500 people, and with your troops, attacking a city of 3,000 people, this is a bit difficult!" Koval said tactfully.