Chapter 65: The Capture of the City
As the Polish army continued to tighten the encirclement, the morale of the Soviet troops inside continued to decline. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Polish troops were constantly attacking the Soviet army's defense line like mad dogs, and although the Soviet army was on the defensive side, they were not deployed in the south and could not give full play to the advantages of defending the city. Instead, they were trapped in the encirclement and hit from all sides. The Polish army marched step by step, and soon captured all the surrounding buildings.
The last Soviet soldiers were trapped in a church near the bridge.
The church is built of a large number of stones, which is tall and sturdy, and easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Soviet soldiers mounted a remaining heavy machine gun on the top floor of the tower and fired into the streets to suppress the Polish charge. Several light machine guns were concentrated in a mobile squad to deal with the advancing Polish troops.
The imposing Polish armies were all trying to seize the enemy's last stronghold and take this great credit, and several units advanced without cooperation, and were broken by the Soviet troops on the opposite side of the opposition.
Several troops retreated indignantly with the wounded, and looked at the intact companies behind them, and suddenly understood that they no longer had the strength to compete for this great merit.
Several companies in the rear looked at the strong firepower in the church, and they couldn't solve the enemy by paying their own family, so they had to consult with each other, cooperate with each other, and fight together.
Several units were divided into their own areas, a few heavy machine guns and a dozen soldiers with good marksmanship were left behind to suppress the fire inside the church, and the rest of the troops attacked the church from different directions at the same time. The heavy machine guns on the top of the church tower clicked non-stop, and the heavy machine guns of the Polish army around them desperately fired at the tower, and the shooters also aimed at the roof of the church, the windows and other positions, suppressing the fire inside. The top of the tower was a hastily erected machine-gun emplacement, which was difficult to withstand attacks from all sides, and was quickly destroyed by Polish heavy machine guns.
Having lost fire support and command from the top of the tower, the Soviet mobile squad was in a state of confusion, and the sound of the Polish army attacking was everywhere, and the mobile squad suddenly lost sight of the other. One of the Polish units attracted the attention of the Soviet mobile squad, and the other three took the opportunity to break through the walls of the church. Several soldiers took explosive packets and put them on the wall, lit the fuse, and with a bang, several large holes were made in the thick wall, and the Polish troops took the opportunity to rush in. Two assault squads under Koval's command showed their might in the battle inside the church, Soviet light machine guns were transferred to the mobile squad, and the church was equipped with Mosin Nagant rifles and a few pistols, where to resist the MP-18 submachine guns in the hands of the assault squad.
The Polish soldiers advanced room by room, threw a grenade into the room of resistance, and then went in to destroy the remaining enemy. After the grenades were used up, the assault squad was in front, and when they encountered the room, they held a submachine gun in their hands and fired at the inside, and after firing a 32-round magazine, they went in to check.
Under the simple and brutal tactics of the Polish troops, the resistance of the Soviet troops soon failed, and many local workers and peasants who had newly joined the Soviet army sensibly laid down their arms and surrendered. As the Polish army pulled out the Soviet flag on top of the church and planted a Polish flag, the whole of Vilnius was recovered by Poland.
In the vicinity of the stronghold of the Soviets, where the last battles were fought, there were a large number of Soviet command structures, and naturally there were many good things in them. The Polish militia who occupied the place saw those watches, pens and other small things, and quietly picked them up and hid them on their bodies, and no one could detect them at all. The officer next to him saw that some soldiers were quietly doing this, and it was not easy to object, after all, people fought with their lives, and it was okay to take some small objects.
They themselves could not help but see what was good, and soon he took a fancy to the pistol of a Soviet officer, stepped forward and picked it up, took the holster from the body of the Soviet officer who had died in battle, hung it on his waist, and looked forward to himself, very proud. The rest of the soldiers saw that the officers were doing so blatantly, and the little hesitation that remained was completely gone, and one by one they scavenged all kinds of valuable things all over the battlefield. The battlefield, where there had been a fierce battle just now, suddenly became very lively.
The Polish militiamen carefully swept the houses, kettles, coats, everything that could be worn, and a soldier's shoes on his own feet had already worn out the soles, and he felt panicked when he stood up, and when he saw the corpse of a Soviet soldier lying next to him, he quietly ran over, took off his shoes, put them on himself, and suddenly felt much more comfortable on his feet.
The soldier next to him was worried about not finding the trophy, and when he saw his teammate take off the shoes of the dead man, he suddenly got the hang of it, he touched the corpses one by one, and suddenly found a pocket watch on a corpse. The others saw it and threw themselves into this frantic clean-up battle.
Korval and General Vilko received the news from the city and immediately entered the city with their guards.
"To capture Vilnius, you will take one-third of Lithuania, and the general will take the greatest credit for gathering the rebels!" Koval said as he walked.
"There, Koval's troops first captured the northern city, and then in the battle by the river, the strength of the battle was amazing. Battalion Commander Koval is well-trained, which is admirable! General Vilko returned with a smile. This time he received such a great credit, as long as he made contact with the Polish side, it was enough for him to obtain an influential position in the Polish army or government. Thinking of this, General Vilko glanced at Kovar: compared to the first group of people who established and joined the Polish army, an officer like himself from Tsarist Russia was an outsider, and if he wanted to mix in the Polish army after all, he had to have a few friends.
"Vilnius has now been recaptured by our army, I wonder what the general thinks about managing the city?" Koval asked tentatively: After all, he is an outsider in the Lithuanian region, and if he wants to maintain his influence here, he still has to rely on the local snakes like General Vilko.
"The old man has been in the army for a long time, and the nearby villages and towns have a bit of a reputation, but he doesn't have much face in the city." General Vilko said: "The management of the city is still to be handled by the Polish government at a higher level, and it is enough for us to keep it from chaos." ”
"At the moment that Poland has just been re-established, and the government is still in Paris discussing the issue of demarcating borders with other countries, I am afraid that it will not be taken into account for a while." Koval said.
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