Koval commanded the five hundred men he had brought with him to desperately pursue the Soviet army in front. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Soviet brigade commander watched through his telescope as his troops attacked the heights and then suddenly fled, causing a great rout of the southern troops, and his mood took a turn like a roller coaster.

Seeing that his troops were being driven back by the enemy, the Soviet brigade commander immediately ordered the only independent company in his hands to go up and stop the deserters.

Koval's troops followed fifty or sixty meters behind the Soviet rout, constantly reaping their lives.

The independent Soviet company, which came to block it, fired at the pursuers, but was stopped by their own rout.

Seeing that the Polish troops were about to drive the rout to break through this temporary defensive line, the Soviet company commander gritted his teeth and ordered: "Let them run to both sides, do not storm our positions, and the machine guns will fire at me immediately!" ”

The Soviet soldiers shouted loudly for the deserters to hide on either side, but when people were fleeing for their lives, most of the deserters still fled frantically backwards.

Seeing that the deserters were approaching more than 300 meters, the machine guns on the Soviet makeshift line suddenly rang out and fired at the Polish soldiers who were in hot pursuit. The Soviet deserters, caught in the middle, were at once knocked down and frightened by the machine guns, and the living immediately lay on the ground and crawled in search of a hollow place to hide in.

The offensive of the pursuing Polish troops was also stopped by a continuous stream of machine-gun fire. The troops of both sides lay on the ground and fired at each other at a distance of 400 meters.

Watching the enemy's unsparing bullet fire, Koval immediately stopped the assault and sent small units to make a detour to the sides. In short, the Soviet troops must be entangled and they will not be allowed to escape back to Vilnius, otherwise they will be forced to storm the city and engage in brutal and bloody street fighting. As long as a thousand men were hiding in the city, the Polish army would have to pay a heavy price to capture Vilnius, and it would also cause serious damage to the city. When the time comes, if the houses of urban residents are damaged and urban residents are injured by mistake, should this pile of things be compensated? The army must have no money to compensate, and if it doesn't, how can Koval regain the hearts and minds of the local people? At the thought of this, Koval's head exploded, and he was determined to leave all the Soviet troops behind.

The Polish troops, who had fought by the river, followed behind Koval's headquarters and entered the battlefield from the southern heights. The artillery on the opposite side of the river, also under the guidance of the spotter on the position, fired at the Soviet troops on the river, because there were only a dozen shells left, so the artillery fired one or two rounds after a long time. Nevertheless, it also caused the morale of the Soviet troops by the river to plummet.

The Soviet battalion commander watched the steady stream of Polish troops cross the heights and shells explode in the positions of the Soviet troops, and suddenly understood that the reinforcements coming from the west were finished.

"! Exercise! Exercise! The Soviet brigade commander angrily put the binoculars still on the ground, struggled for a while, and whispered: "I order, all the troops begin to retreat to the junction, and we can withdraw the troops to the city by holding the road." We are to rely on the walls to hold on. ”

"Inform the troops of the main battalion to withdraw first!" The Soviet brigade commander said calmly.

"Sir, what about the supplementary battalion?"

"I'll let someone know."

"Yes, sir."

The officers immediately rode their horses and passed the order to the commanders of the various units of the main battalion, and they immediately quietly prepared to retreat.

At this moment, the Polish cavalry, with nearly 100 men, rushed out of the hills to the south and captured the artillery position defended by only a few dozen artillery in one fell swoop. Then he quickly found the Soviet command behind the position, and rushed over like a tiger descending from a mountain. The thought of where the enemy's brigade commander was, all the Polish cavalry was very excited, wanting to catch him and make this great achievement.

The sound of horses' hooves immediately attracted the attention of the Soviet brigade commander, but the independent battalion in his hands had just been sent out, and now there were only twenty or thirty guards and staff officers around him, and only one light machine gun, a dozen rifles, and a dozen pistols, and they could no longer resist nearly a hundred cavalry on such a gentle terrain. His face suddenly turned extremely pale.

"Brigadier Commander, let's go! We retreated north and joined the troops. The officer next to him said to him as he looked at the Polish cavalry raging on the artillery position.

"Let's go!" The Soviet brigade commander said through gritted teeth. A dozen officers and two men rode a horse and galloped north.

The sound of horses' hooves woke the soldiers on the battlefield, and the Soviet soldiers followed the sound and looked back to see their commander being pursued by a group of Polish cavalrymen fleeing north.

The officers of those main battalions, receiving the news of the retreat, saw the Polish cavalry surrounding, and immediately retreated with their troops. The soldiers who had been arranged as the rear troops of the palace immediately saw their movements, and immediately understood that they were being regarded as outcasts, and they did not hesitate to abandon their positions and run away. They thought: the chief has run away, what are we still doing stupidly here! Naturally, the officers behind the palace would not stop them, and when they saw that the general situation was gone, they also fled with the soldiers.

The previously arranged covert retreat suddenly turned into a disorderly rout.

"Charge! Charge! Charge the whole army! As soon as Koval saw that the enemy was beginning to rout, he immediately ordered his soldiers to get up and chase after him.

The entire Polish army was shouting and charging forward, and General Vilko, seeing an opportunity, also ordered all the troops above the line to attack. Suddenly, thousands of Polish soldiers rushed out of the position shouting slogans and pursued them like tigers pounced on sheep.

The northernmost Soviet supplementary battalion saw that the Soviet troops of the entire battlefield were retreating, and the Polish troops were rushing down the hillside again. Several officers discussed it together, and immediately retreated with their troops to Vilnius to the west.

The Soviet brigade commander and several officers rode on horseback and fled north. I thought in my heart: first rendezvous with the supplementary battalion in the north, stabilize the position, hold the junction, slowly withdraw the troops, and join the army in the city, there are still 2,000 people in their hands, as long as they hold the city, they can also gather thousands of workers, enough to fight a hard battle to defend the city, and exchange their lives for their lives to consume the morale and strength of the Polish army, and they will eventually give up because they can't bear the casualties. And by waiting for reinforcements from Moscow to arrive, you can sweep Lithuania・・・・・・

"Sir, they can't catch up!" The officer next to him said.

The Soviet brigade commander suddenly came to his senses from his own associations, looked around the battlefield, and was stunned for a moment. He watched with a long mouth as all the Soviet soldiers were desperately running down the road to the northwest, and the soldiers who were left behind saw that everyone else was running in front of him, and suddenly became insecure and began to abandon their weapons and equipment.

Heavy heavy machine guns were first abandoned, then light machine guns, and ordinary soldiers began to throw away their helmets one by one. After a soldier threw away his helmet, he found himself still behind, and when he looked closely, the person in front also threw down his helmet and fled. He immediately scolded the deserter in front of him in his heart: it was really shameless to run in front and throw down his helmet so shamelessly. If you don't give me a way to live, I don't care. Thinking that Fang Zheng couldn't fire a few shots when he ran away, what did he want so many bullets for, and when he returned to the city, he threw away his bullet bag (a 7.62mm Mosin Nagant light tip bullet weighed about 22.7 grams), and suddenly lost four or five pounds of weight, and the soldier ran to the front beyond a soldier next to him.

The soldiers in front are naturally unwilling to fall behind, and whoever falls behind will be killed by eating guns and being cannon fodder. He also threw away the bullet bag, but still couldn't catch up, and threw away his rifle in a single shot. Thinking: I don't have a weapon, the Poles in the back probably won't shoot at me, and if you want to fight, you always have a gun first!

The Soviet brigade commander looked at the chaotic battlefield, his face turned blood-red, and he couldn't help but scold: "A bunch of waste, Lao Tzu didn't run, what are you running!" ”