Chapter 104: Decision-making
"Sir, the enemy's attack is very strong, do you want to come up with an idea?" An officer risked his life and ran up to Ivan and said. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ivan took a few deep breaths, calmed down, wiped the blood from his face with his sleeve, and immediately said: "All the soldiers have the idea of concealment, machine guns for me to line up in the back, and give me a hard blow to the enemy's position." ”
After lying under the tree and carefully observing the situation on the battlefield, he immediately ordered: "The first company is to contain the enemy in the front, the second company is to go around from the left, the third company to go around from the right, and the fourth company to serve as a reserve." ”
With Ivan's order, the Soviet army, which had only been able to resist passively, finally cooperated.
The two sides fired at each other more than 200 meters apart, but the dense trees blocked most of the bullets, and most of the rest of the bullets hit the fortifications of both sides.
Koval was on the top of the hillside and saw a string of machine-gun bullets hitting the hillside in front of him. Through the faint dust, Koval noticed that the Soviet troops had begun to move aggressively and purposefully, with a faint outflanking posture on both sides.
If you don't leave now, it will be as easy as Mei after the encirclement is formed.
"Let's go! Walk! Walk! Koval shouted.
With his order, all the Polish soldiers quickly retreated from the top of the position.
Koval and his men quickly retreated westward.
The fierce machine-gun fire of the Soviet troops muffled Koval's retreat, and after a few minutes, the Soviet soldiers finally realized that something was wrong.
"Stop the machine guns and send someone up to take a look." Ivan shouted.
Several Soviet soldiers cautiously rushed to the top of the hill and found that the enemy had all disappeared.
"Sir, the Poles have fled."
Ivan ran to the hillside with his troops, looked at the figure in the distance, and hammered his fist on the big tree beside him: "! ”
"Commander, what next?"
"The troops stopped to rest, sent the wounded back, and waited for the rest of our troops to get there." Ivan struggled to suppress the anger in his chest and coldly ordered.
After the battle just now, Ivan had already learned that the Polish troops were very powerful, especially their nimble performance and cunning in the forest, which were really unguardable.
For this sudden appearance of Polish elite troops, Ivan's current battalion is really not sure to defeat the opponent, but as a Soviet Russian officer with an orthodox Tsarist military education, he naturally will not forget the tactic of concentrating superior forces and superior firepower to crush this very Maozi tactic.
Koval led his troops through the forest quickly, and without the rest of the burden, their advance speed increased greatly, and after more than an hour, they finally got to the front of the large army.
"Great, sir, you're finally back!" Several officers greeted Koval as they surrounded him.
"We taught them a hard lesson, for the time being, they shouldn't dare to push it too hard!" "Two brothers have died, so we'll give them a funeral," Koval said. ”
Although Koval had built the fortifications ahead of schedule, the Soviet fire was even more intense, and the two soldiers were killed by direct shots in the head as light and heavy machine guns fired at the hillside.
The soldiers soon dug two large rectangular pits in a place next to the camp, next to which were placed two improvised stretchers, two white cloths with crosses and Polish flags painted on them, covering the two corpses.
Standing beside the pit, Koval whispered to the officers and soldiers around him: "In today's battle, two heroic soldiers, Lukash Pavovsky and Pyotr Mavakhovsky, have unfortunately died.
It is a pity that they are so young, one nineteen, one eighteen, at the very beginning of their wonderful life. They have too many regrets and wishes. ”
Koval raised his voice abruptly, raised his right fist, and shouted: "But they are lucky, on the road paved by countless unknown martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for the independence of the country in the past hundred years, their names will surely be praised by the world and immortalized!"
In our next journey, we will surely usher in more battles and more tests. Many of us will die in this land we love so much. But the ideal of the great revival of the Polish nation will definitely come true! ”
Koval looked around at the soldiers around him, and saw a deep, fiery flame in their eyes.
Under the watchful eyes of the soldiers, the bodies of the two warriors were lowered into the pit, and Koval and the others covered them with earth. The yellow dirt slid down piece by piece, covering the white cloth inch by inch, and in a moment two bags of dirt were piled up on the ground.
It was soon dark, and the troops camped to rest.
Koval and the leading officers sat on the floor in the tent, with an oil lamp hanging in the middle, studying the next move.
"Today's situation is too dangerous, if our large army is caught up, we will definitely be asked for a piece of meat by this mad dog behind!" Parker said.
"Don't worry too much, they are a little more numerous than us, but they are not trained in mountain warfare and will not be able to catch us so easily. Moreover, in the afternoon battle, we inflicted at least hundreds of casualties on our opponents, and they had to send people to take care of these wounded, and there was not much advantage in the number of people we could use. After eating such a big lesson, I believe they may be honest. Koval said firmly.
"It's as thrilling as a Spanish bullfight!" Alex teased.
"It's also dangerous and deadly!" Kanas chimed in.
"As long as we remain vigilant, this risk is tolerable." Koval said without hesitation: "Next, let's take the enemies behind us to take a good walk in this forest." We are nearly a hundred kilometers in a straight line from Makmergay, and it will take us about a week to get there, and of course, in order to deal with the Soviet troops, we may actually need more time. ”
"Staying in this kind of forest for a long time feels like being in a cage, with a huge canopy of trees that obscures the sky and makes it impossible to see hope, which is really depressing and uncomfortable." Locke reminded.
"I know that the spirit of the soldiers, especially when they are being pursued by the enemy, is very stressful. It is hoped that the officers will take care of the mood of the soldiers, boost the morale of the army, and avoid unexpected situations. I believe that if we can persevere in this arduous journey, we will survive this test. Koval said.