Chapter 165: Explosion

He ran to the top of a building with his officers and saw that the entire western part of the town was filled with the sound of Polish army gunfire and shouting, and in the darkness it seemed as if every street was occupied by Polish troops. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Cannonballs rained down on the center of town.

The Soviets relied on the various strongholds in the town to resist constantly, but the Polish army suddenly broke into the city, breaking their original defenses, and many of the troops had to fight on their own.

"Da ・・・・・・" two heavy machine guns frantically crossed fire, blocking the advance of a Polish unit.

Suddenly, a machine gun clicked into the air.

"Reload! Swap out! ”

"We're running out of machine gun bullets."

"Damn it, go get ammo."

Many soldiers shot frantically outside in the darkness, and all at once they ran out of bullets in their hands. Some of the soldiers conserved bullets, but the Polish troops immediately took the opportunity to break through.

The arsenal was an important stronghold of the defense of the Soviet troops, and she occupied five separate houses, surrounded by streets. The windows of the houses were closed with stone bricks, the walls were filled with small holes, and Soviet soldiers were on guard with weapons, and any enemy troops who appeared in the streets would be knocked down by a dense barrage of bullets.

"Fire cover!"

Machine guns and rifles of the Polish army fired desperately at the arsenal.

A demolition team jumped up from the corner of the wall on this side of the street with a bag of explosives and rushed towards the arsenal.

"Da ・・・・・・" muzzle flames erupted from the walls of the arsenal, and a charging Demoman immediately fell to the ground.

"Don't be impulsive, let's go around and surround the arsenal, and since we can't get in, don't even think about transporting the ammunition out of them." Locke looked at the arsenal and ordered, "Let the artillery in the back hurry." ”

Soldiers sent by the various small Soviet units to transport ammunition ran to the arsenal to see that the arsenal was surrounded on both sides by the Polish army, and the farthest east of the Polish army was within range of the Polish rifles.

Several soldiers suddenly rushed in at an opportunity, and the Polish bullets fell behind them, splashing up a cloud of dust.

Soon, they quietly walked out with a few boxes of ammunition.

A machine gun in a nearby house suddenly turned its muzzle and began to fire into the eastern street, with all the Soviet soldiers falling to the ground and ammunition boxes overturning over the street.

"Hurry up, brothers, push the artillery over. Pull the horse tight and don't let him run around. Ivanovsky commanded his troops, pushing two Russian-made 1904 76mm mountain guns through the streets.

The roaring sound of the cannon and the fierce gunfire frightened the horses pulling the guns in front of them to sway from side to side, and their hooves were weak, and the artillerymen had to push the guns behind themselves.

As for the German-made Type 1909 105mm howitzers, they were too heavy for the troops to wait.

The streets were full of obstacles, as well as barricades and barricades arranged by the Soviet troops, and you had to be careful not to escape the stray bullets fired from everywhere, and Ivanovsky walked for twenty minutes with the artillery in a short distance of 500 meters.

"Inside, soldiers, listen, we are the 1st Lithuanian Infantry Division, and you are all surrounded. Everyone is Lithuanian, and as long as you come out and surrender, we guarantee your safety. A Polish officer from Lithuania shouted into the Lithuanian accent.

The Lithuanian soldiers inside suddenly had a fluctuating heart, exchanging heads with each other and discussing a lot.

"Vilnius' accent at this time." A Lithuanian soldier whispered.

"If we surrender, will they let us go?" Another Lithuanian soldier leaned over and asked cautiously.

"Don't believe the lies of the other side, the Poles do all kinds of evil, you go out is a dead end, they will shoot you all." The Red Army military officer on patrol said viciously: "If anyone betrays the revolution, your family will be all class enemies. Stick to your post and don't be allowed to speak. We have so much ammunition in our arsenal that they can't get in, they're just tricking us into going out and sending us to death. ”

Under the coercion of the Russian military officers of the Red Army, the Lithuanian soldiers spoke less, and they could only communicate with each other with gestures and glances.

"Lithuanian brothers inside, your troops have abandoned you. Our artillery has been shipped, if you don't want to be blown up with this arsenal, come out and surrender! Don't bury the lackeys of Red Russia. The Polish officer continued to shout.

"Don't be afraid, it's so dark, so far away, they can't hit us, you see so many shells they fired, and they didn't fall on our heads. They're just sneaking up, and when our troops are assembled, they'll come to reinforce us. The Red Army Russian officer encouraged everyone.

"Sir, the people inside refuse to surrender." An officer said to Locke.

"Open fire." Locke commanded decisively.

Ivanovsky commanded two guns to position themselves at this end of the street, two hundred meters away from the arsenal, and adjusted the angle of fire.

"Boom." Two cannon shots rang out, and two bursts of exploding flames surfaced above the walls of the arsenal.

The walls of the arsenal were suddenly blown open by two gaps in a radius of one meter.

"Damn, the Poles really brought the artillery over, we're going to die here!" The soldiers inside were disturbed by the sound of the cannons, and whispered regardless of the officer's ban.

"Keep shooting!"

"Boom." Two more cannon shots.

The two shells went directly into the gap caused by the explosion just now.

"Damn, we're dead." The Lithuanian soldier looked at the Red Army officer viciously.

The Red Army officer snatched his weapon and said sharply: "You, go back and confine." ”

"He didn't even surrender." Locke frowned and said, "The artillery continues to bombard. ”

"Keep shooting." Ivanovsky ordered.

Shells continued to shoot at the bottom of the wall on the west side of the arsenal, and many shells burrowed into the arsenal and exploded inside it.

A dozen shells were fired in a row.

Accompanied by the explosion of shells, suddenly an even heavier and more depressed explosion sounded, and after a second or so, and it seemed like a long time, an extremely deep explosion sounded, as if someone had put a chain of stuffy farts in their pants.

The entire ground was trembling, and the entire arsenal suddenly flew into the sky.

Petrov secretly estimated in his mind that the size of the Polish army was at least one division. Gritting his teeth, he ordered: "The whole army retreats!" The whole army retreats! ”

The Soviet troops, who had been beaten in the darkness of the night, received the order and immediately abandoned their positions and retreated to the east.

"Attack them and drive them out of the city!" Seeing the retreat of the Soviet troops, Koval immediately ordered.

"Cook, you take someone to the arsenal and take as much ammunition as you can." Petrov took a horse and commanded an officer.

"Isn't this sending me to death?" The young officer thought in his heart, but said with a firm look on his face: "Regiment commander, I will definitely guarantee to complete the task." ”

Cook reluctantly ran to the arsenal with dozens of soldiers.

Locke commanded the troops and had already arrived nearby and sealed off the arsenal. The Soviet soldiers inside relied on their strongholds to desperately fight back, and the two sides remained at a stalemate. (To be continued.) )