"The 3rd Light Artillery Regiment was responsible for suppressing the enemy's artillery, and the heavy artillery detachment concentrated its fire on me to make several gaps in the enemy's outer wall. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info," said General Shimigvi.

"Yes, sir."

Eight heavy guns of the Polish troops, under the coordinated command of officers, bombarded two outer walls to the north and east of Dina Castle.

The cannon roared, and both the Polish and Soviet infantry waited with bated breath for their moment.

After another ten minutes, several 150mm shells fell on the same spot on the outer wall of Fort Dina, and the heavy brick wall could not withstand such frequent bombardment. With the explosion of a cannonball, the outer wall, which was already covered with cobweb-like cracks, suddenly exploded into a one-foot square gap, and the rubble flew quickly towards the surroundings like a torrential rain. Several Soviet soldiers inside the outer wall were instantly wounded by rubble.

The trumpet sounded, and two hundred men of a company of the 7th Infantry Regiment leapt from the trenches and rushed towards the gap north of Fort Dina. Soldiers at the back of the trenches held rifles and fired at the large and small windows and firing ports above the walls of Fort Dina. A machine gun was also set up, firing short bursts at all possible threats.

"Shoot! Hit hard! ”

"Go and plug the gap!" Soviet officers called the shots.

Bullets came out of the head-sized shots on the outer walls of Fort Dina, and the tongues of fire from machine guns erupted from those shooting holes. Polish soldiers' rifle bullets hit around their firing ports, leaving shallow bullet holes in the brick walls in vain.

The charging Polish infantry was constantly hit by oncoming bullets and fell on the way to the charge.

At a distance of two hundred meters, it took forty seconds for heavily armed Polish infantry to rush from being able to rush under the outer wall. But forty seconds was enough time for the Soviet soldiers inside the Fort of Dina to fire five rounds from their Mosin Nagant rifles, or more.

Polish artillery bombarded the outer walls, and sometimes even if they did not shatter the walls, the huge explosions still wounded the Soviet soldiers near the landing site.

"Drag him away, come on, fill this position!" Soviet troops commanded.

One of the firing ports that had just been stopped was back in action.

Because there was only one gap, the Soviet soldiers accurately judged the direction of the Polish infantry, all the weapons were aimed at them, and the machine guns were constantly firing at their path, waiting for the Polish soldiers to rush up and be crushed.

Seeing his comrades fall one by one, and a hundred meters away from the outer wall in front, a Polish soldier ran to the side, trying to avoid the dense fire net in front. Soon more soldiers scattered around, looking for obstacles that would allow them to cover.

Lieutenant Colonel Valadislau of the 7th Infantry Regiment said angrily: "Let them withdraw!" ”

As soon as they heard the sound of the trumpet, the stagnant Polish infantry immediately retreated in a swarm. Soviet bullets fired at their backs.

Lieutenant Colonel Valradislau looked at the fifty or sixty soldiers who had fled with all their might, and a nameless fire grew in his heart, and he slapped the table in front of him heavily.

"Sir, your subordinates are incompetent." Lieutenant Colonel Valadislau lowered his head and said, "But it's not that the soldiers below are unwilling to fight hard, it's that the enemy's firepower is too fierce. ”

General Himigvi watched as the Soviet soldiers quickly plugged the blown gap with stones, his brow furrowed, and he wandered back and forth in the headquarters.

Koval listened to the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Regiment retreating under Fort Dina, and thought quietly: I am glad that this mission did not fall on my head, otherwise I would have to flee in the wilderness. But if the above allows them to fight with their troops, how can they fight themselves?

"Koval, the troops of the 7th Infantry Regiment have retreated in defeat. I heard that the loss was so miserable, only about a quarter came back! Jacob ran over and said.

"This Dina Fort is so strong, when my grandfather was there, I often heard him tell the story of this fortress, which has blocked the attacks of many troops, and Peter the Great's troops also stopped here and besieged it for nearly half a year before taking this castle!" Johnson said.

"I thought that Daugavpils City was difficult enough, but I didn't expect this fortress to be even more powerful than it!" Alex sighed.

Locke asked, "It looks like we're going to fill this fortress with human lives, sir, do you have any good ideas?" ”

Koval pondered for a while, then raised his head and said: "Traditionally, there have been two ways to deal with a strong fortress: one is to use great strength, especially many advanced siege equipment, to destroy the enemy's defenses and capture the city, and the other is to besiege for a long time, consume the enemy's food, water, arrows and other military supplies, and wait until the enemy's supplies are exhausted to capture the fortress. ”

"These are all positive tactics, is there any negative tactic?" Parker asked curiously.

"This is not called the opposite, it is strange to be militarily opposite to the opposite." Koval said with a smile: "In distant China, the ancient military strategists summed up the great concept of Qi Zheng Harmony. There are many tricks to deal with a strong fortress: use cavalry to attack, use spies to open the city gates, lure the enemy out of the city, bribe the seduction, and so on. ”

When the surrounding officers heard that Koval had come up with so many ways at once, they immediately talked about it.

Parker thought for a moment and said, "Sir, it seems that none of these tactics can be used in Dina Castle!" ”

The surrounding officers sighed.

"Can you expect to fight exactly according to the tactics left by the ancients hundreds of years ago?" Koval reprimanded: "We study the art of war to broaden our horizons, to learn to apply what we learn, to adapt to change. ”

"Sir, but how do you take down the fortress of Fort Dina in front of you?" The officers around him showed an expression on their faces I don't read much, don't lie to me.

Koval touched the short beard under his chin: since there was no Anna, he didn't have to shave his beard. After growing a beard, it seems that the whole person has become a little more mature.

"Sir?"

"Oh! Well! Koval was awakened from his own recollections: "The fortress of Fort Dina was well armed, morale was high, there was unity, and there were reinforcements, and they were already in a position of not being 'invincible' in the art of war. There's no way I'm going to take this fortress easily. ”

"Ouch・・・・・・" There was a sigh around him.

"Sir, you can't take it easily, can you just pay a certain price?" Locke asked, noticing the details in Koval's words.