On 14 May, the Lithuanian army led by Zukauskas advanced more than 70 kilometers and was only about 20 kilometers from Anikšciai. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Along the way, the Lithuanian army continued to cooperate with the German volunteers to capture small towns and villages on both sides of the road.

On the outskirts of the town of Kurkoliai, the Lithuanian army surrounded the entire town, and the Lithuanian soldiers fired at each other hundreds of meters apart.

Above the artillery positions in the rear, under the guidance of German instructors, several Lithuanian soldiers adjusted the firing parameters of the artillery, then opened the bolts and stuffed the shells, closed the bolts, and pulled the drawstrings.

The sound of the boom continued to blow up the town, and soon several gaps were blown into the improvised defensive line, and the Soviet troops inside were heavily killed and wounded by artillery fire.

The Lithuanian troops immediately charged, forming a line and rushing towards the gap.

The Soviet troops inside immediately concentrated their heavy machine guns and other weapons, deployed near the gap, and fired wildly at the charging Lithuanian troops.

One by one, the Lithuanian soldiers fell on the way to the charge.

The Lithuanian officer, commanding in the rear, saw that the casualties were heavy and immediately ordered to stop the charge.

The artillery of the Lithuanian army in the rear bombarded the line of defense of the Soviet troops, and shells fell on the side of the Soviet soldiers, gradually eliminating the heavy machine guns and other fire points of the Soviet troops.

The one-sided shelling lasted half an hour, and the entire Soviet line of defense was already riddled with holes, not a single place intact.

The Lithuanian army again stormed and finally stormed the town of Kurkoliai.

Soon, except for a small part of the Soviet army that fled into the nearby forest, the rest of the soldiers were killed in the town.

Although the battle was won, the Lithuanian commander looked at the data just reported and secretly complained in his heart: 500 Soviet soldiers were killed and wounded, and our army was killed and wounded 150.

Although the ratio of casualties on both sides was impressive, with such obvious artillery fire, the battle could only be described as a very mediocre result. Even with a 1:3 ratio of battle losses, Lithuania was completely unable to exchange with the Soviet army. The Soviet army, supported by Moscow, could be replenished with manpower, but for the Lithuanian government army, which had only more than 10,000 troops, every soldier was very valuable.

With a population of only one million, less than a fraction of the total population of Russia, Lithuania simply cannot afford huge casualties. Now both sides of the war are soldiers of the Lithuanian nation, and every death consumes the fragile foundation of the Lithuanian nation.

"Major Palmer, your soldiers are doing a very good job, being able to take down the enemy's line with two charges." A German officer came over and exclaimed.

"I would rather not need such a victory, for this battle was a battle in which the blood of five hundred young Lithuanians on both sides was spilled here. If this fight continues, the Lithuanian nation will die of blood. Major Palmer sighed: "In the next battle, I need the help of your Freikorps. ”

"Willing to help."

And in the primeval forest near Mark Melgay.

Ivan received another order from the division headquarters to immediately send troops to harass the enemy's rear, plunder the supplies of the Lithuanian army, and cut off the enemy's transport routes.

The order was placed on a round table made of wood in the middle, around which Ivan sat with the commissar and other officers.

"The Lithuanian army has just taken the town of Kurkoliai today, and the order from the higher authorities is very urgent, if we don't do it again, I'm afraid it will ・・・・・・," the mustachioed commissar said softly, but there was a hidden consequence in that indifferent tone that everyone knew.

"The enemy has only sent a small force to attack, and their large force has not yet entered the battle. If we go out now, all our plans will be completely finished. Ivan argued.

"I know, but the superiors also have his point, we can't watch friendly forces being wiped out by Lithuania like this." Said the mustachioed commissar.

Ivan knew that neither he nor his superiors were wrong, and that if his superiors wanted Ivan to cut off the transportation lines of the Lithuanian army, he would be able to affect the supplies of the Lithuanian army, and even attract a part of the Lithuanian army back to protect the transportation lines.

In this way, the pressure on the front line will be greatly weakened, and it will even be possible to defeat them while the Lithuanian army is separated.

Ivan's plan was a little more subtle. However, the leaders of the division headquarters are not necessarily willing to sacrifice themselves to fulfill him. It's like when striking iron, there are iron felts and iron hammers, and everyone wants to be the hammer that masters the initiative, rather than the iron felt that passively bears the blow.

"If we go out now to attack the Lithuanian convoy, at most a few small credits, there is still a huge danger. If we wait two more days, I will have ten layers of certainty that we will capture Makmelgey, and then all of us will be the heroes of this war. Who wouldn't want to support my idea? Ivan said loudly.

After exchanging heads and ears for a while, the officers below agreed with Ivan's approach.

On 16 May, after clearing dozens of villages and towns along the way, the Lithuanian army finally came to the first important Soviet stronghold on their offensive route, Anikshciai.

Thanks to the precious time gained by the previous villages, the Soviet troops had already built a large number of fortifications near the town of Anikshchiai. A two-meter-deep trench was dug outside the town's walls, and the excavated earth was packed in sacks and piled up inside the walls to strengthen the walls of the walls.

There are also dense shooting holes and machine-gun emplacements on the perimeter wall, like a hedgehog shrunk up all over. Most of the townspeople have also been evacuated to the rear of the city.

Zukauskas picked up his binoculars and carefully observed the situation in the town, and then immediately dispatched his troops.

To the northwest of Anikshchiai, which is bordered by the wide Shviyantoy River, could not be used as an offensive direction.

Three thousand Lithuanian government troops surrounded the town from three other sides, with the rest of the soldiers in reserve. The 20th Regiment of the German Freikorps was responsible for pressing the formation.

Lithuanian government troops immediately began to dig trenches from 1,000 to 500 meters outside the town, and light and heavy machine guns in the town attacked these Lithuanian troops from time to time.

Although the range of light and heavy machine guns is one or two thousand meters, it is difficult for the eyesight of those shooters to aim at a target of one or two thousand meters. And the Soviet troops did not dare to waste too many machine-gun bullets at such a distance, and only occasionally fired a few bursts to slow down the digging speed of the Lithuanian army.

The artillery of the Lithuanian army was also five or six kilometers outside the city, and began to build artillery positions and measure the elements of fire.

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