"I still have a little money, so I pick the cheapest one. Pen %Fun %Cabinet www.biquge.info "Koval pulled out a little money.

The other three all looked at Koval in surprise.

Koval took some of his soldiers to the surrounding towns to buy supplies.

"Battalion commander, we only have enough money to buy a few dozen blankets!" A soldier came running with a blanket and said.

Koval walked around the homes of several residents, and when he saw the straw mats they had placed in the corner of the house, his eyes lit up, and he took them and opened them to see that they were very finely woven and could be used to protect them from water and rain.

"We used all the money we had left over to buy these straw mats and bamboo mats." Koval said excitedly.

After two hours of panic buying, I finally bought hundreds of straw mats and bamboo mats.

So on the playground where the whole regiment swore out, the other two battalions of the third regiment all smiled and saw that the soldiers of the second battalion had to carry a roll of straw mats each in addition to ordinary luggage.

"Are you going on vacation with straw mats on your back? Summer hasn't arrived yet! The soldiers around him didn't laugh a few words.

Koval mentioned to the regiment commander Demps and the other two battalion commanders to pay attention to the cold and rain, and the three of them did not pay attention to it, and Koval said no more. After all, I am not very familiar with them, and if I say anything else, it will make them think that I question their abilities and cause them to resent them. In the future, we still need their cooperation, but we can't offend them.

After a bunch of impassioned and extra-long speeches by the regimental commander, Koval finally set off with his troops.

For the first few days, the troops were under the control of the government in Warsaw, Poland, and were able to live in the town every day. The army stopped and went every day, and there was no clear order from above, only that it was to regain territory to the east.

Crossing the city of Grodno (near the border of present-day Lithuania, Poland and Belarus), the pace of the army slowed down even more, and continued eastward in areas that were no longer under the control of the Polish government in Warsaw. In addition to the Poles, the number of Belarusians around him gradually increased, but in addition to the language, Koval could not tell the difference between Poles and Belarusians.

After a short month of walking in Polish-controlled territory, Koval did not understand what the plan was. As for independent action, Koval knew that it was impossible to think about logistics, and unless his troops were able to plunder the property of the bourgeoisie and kulaks everywhere, like the Red Russian army, he did not know how to sustain himself for a week without food.

After about a week of repairs in Grodno, finally an order came to continue the advance towards Vilnius and regain Vilnius.

The army moved on, and Koval's 2nd Battalion was selected as the vanguard. Koval thought about the imminent encounter with the Red Russian army, and the combat effectiveness of the other two battalions was too poor, so it was more appropriate for the second battalion to explore the way in front.

On the evening of April 12, at the edge of a wood, Koval and several officers gathered together, crouched under a tree, took a map, and searched carefully on it, finally finding their approximate location.

"We just passed Polechiye yesterday and the next target should be the small town of Varenna." Koval said as he made a mark on the map.

"I definitely won't be able to go today. We're going to get ready to camp at once, and it's going to get dark soon. Parker, the German officer, said with a serious face.

"What's the spring weather like here? Will it rain at night? Koval asked.

With the equipment of their camp, they can still cope with camping in the field on sunny days, and once it rains heavily, it is easy for the whole camp to soak in water. If you get wet in such a cold weather and get wet in heavy rain, you are prone to colds and flu diseases.

Don't run into the Spanish flu! Koval prayed silently in his heart.

Thinking about the horror of the Spanish flu, Koval shuddered a little.

Spanish influenza is the second deadliest infectious disease in human history, which caused about 1 billion infections and 25 million to 40 million deaths in the world in 1918~1919 (the world's population was about 1.7 billion at that time); Its global average fatality rate is about 2.5%-5%.

Because 8 million people in Spain have this disease, and even the king of Spain has this disease, it is called the Spanish flu by the outside world.

Of course, the Spaniards certainly don't want to take such a big black pot on their backs, they call it the French flu. Because France was the first country in Europe to have this disease, it may have been brought by the army of all nations in the French barracks.

The soldiers set up camp in the woods. Koval and a few officers first set up four tents. All kinds of ammunition and supplies occupy two tents, and the other two belong to the officers.

The soldiers had no choice but to choose their own places, lean against the big trees, and began to set up temporary camps. Find some branches, lean on the big tree, tie them up, make a scaffold, spread a straw mat on top to protect it from rain, and put branches on the bottom to put a straw mat on the mat, and it becomes a simple small tent.

When night came, after a humble dinner, the officers huddled into their tents.

Hanging the oil lamp in the middle of the tent, Koval picked up the map and thought about the future war.

"How many days will it take us to get to Vilnius?" Locke leaned over and said.

"There are about 100 kilometers left, and the road conditions are too bad now, if the weather is good, you can get there in three or five days. If it rains heavily, only God knows! Koval said, pointing to the map.

"Alex, have you been to Vilnius?"

"I've been to a very big, very beautiful city, like Warsaw." Alex said with a smile: "There are also many brightly dressed Lithuanian girls, very enthusiastic and very hot!" ”

There was a burst of laughter from inside the tent.

Koval took the map and thought that in his previous life, Poland had also occupied Vilnius, and it had been defeated by Tukhachevsky's Red Army's Western Front, and Vilnius did not even delay for much. In addition to the short occupation time, this was also due to the fact that the Polish army did not completely occupy Lithuania, making Vilnius an isolated city on the Polish border, lacking support from the surrounding area.

Koval drew a big circle in Vilnius: he should be built into a city like Stalingrad, a huge fortress in the east against Soviet Russia.

Stalingrad was able to withstand a thousand days of siege by the Germans because it was not completely surrounded by the Germans. So it was necessary to completely occupy Lithuania around Vilnius, so that French support could be obtained from the Baltic. As for the one million ethnic Lithuanians in Lithuania, it was not put in Koval's heart at all.

Considering that Pilsudski was a Lithuanian in history, it is really a pity for Koval that he did not unify Lithuania.