Chapter XXVI: Night Attack
Whether it was the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 or the Soviet-German partition of Poland in 1939, they all exposed the weakness of Poland's territory that was too small to defend. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info was beaten to the gate of the capital in half a month, which is a very unfavorable situation.
The current President Pilsudski has put forward the slogan of restoring Poland's territory of 1772 (although Poland has historically won the Battle of Warsaw, it has not been restored due to the rush of the government at the time for an armistice), and Koval feels that this is a very good goal.
Although Koval also felt that it was unrealistic to restore the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia in 1772, as long as he could recover the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia in 1792, he would be able to rely on the Dogva and Dnieper rivers to form the first strong line of defense in the East.
Because most of Belarus is a plain terrain, it is difficult to defend. And Lithuania and Left-Bank Ukraine clamped Belarus like pincers, and the terrain of these two places was mountainous, which made it possible to build a strong group of urban fortresses and become the second line of defense for Poland.
Koval looked at the map, constantly thinking about how to get the most out of this war for himself and Poland.
If it is not able to restore the territory of 1792, Poland will be like an open door in front of Soviet Russia, and it will not be able to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of Soviet tanks on the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, except as a lackey of Germany.
As for the question of ethnic Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Belarusians and other nationalities on the territory of Poland in 1792. In fact, these ethnic groups are already a kind of relationship between you and me, and I have you.
In connection with the ethnic issues that have plagued many countries in later generations, Koval has thought of an unprecedented policy that would both cater for the sentiments of ethnic minorities and strengthen national cohesion. In an upright way, that is, to maintain the characteristics of ethnic minorities, it is also possible to increase the number of the main ethnic groups.
There are only about a million Lithuanians in total, and Pilsudski has become the president of Poland, so they should not have much national sentiment, and it is not very difficult to deal with it.
Belarus has a population of about 5 million people, and there are no strong politicians, and it has historically been ruled by Poland and the Soviet Union separately, and there is no problem with complete occupation.
For Ukraine, there are 20 million people, and the population of the Polish nation is only 25 million, so Koval plans to occupy left-bank Ukraine and get half of Ukraine's land and population, which is the limit of what Poland can swallow.
If the population of Ukraine is large, even with Koval's policy, it will be difficult to perfectly integrate it with the Polish nation in a few decades.
If Pilsudski's "Inter-Sea Federation" plan could be perfectly realized, it would have been able to have a population of 40 million to 50 million and 900,000 square kilometers of land at the end of the Soviet-Polish war in 1921.
Historically, because Poland could not be unified politically and was in turmoil, it did not take advantage of the victory in the Battle of Warsaw to recover the territory of 1792, and finally only got 388,000 square kilometers of land and a population of 27 million.
"Peng!" The sound of gunfire from outside the tent pierced the silence of the night.
"Where's the gunshot?" Someone asked.
"The officer will go and command the soldiers to defend on the spot, and the assault squad will follow me to have a look!" Koval rolled up the map, grabbed his rifle, and stepped out of the tent.
The soldiers who were guarding outside soon came to report: "Report to the battalion commander, when we encountered a pair of enemy troops in the east, it was so dark that they couldn't see people clearly, and we told them to report the number, and they shot directly, wounding a brother." ”
"Let's go east and see." Koval headed east with the assault squad.
A few gunshots rang out sporadically through the trees. In such a dark night, no one could see anyone, and they could only judge the position of the other party by the sound of gunfire and the fire at the moment of shooting, so neither side wasted bullets.
"Hey, my own people." Koval came to the position of the guards and asked them about their condition.
"After five or six minutes of fighting, there were only five or six guns going off on the opposite side, and I couldn't see how many people there were, but it seemed that there were a few horses." The vigilant soldier replied.
As soon as he heard that there were horses, Koval couldn't help but rejoice that he had set up his garrison in this wood, otherwise he would have been in chaos and suffered countless casualties if he was charged by the cavalry at night. Even the cavalry only had to run over and set a few fires, and the army would be in disarray.
"You're in a stalemate here, continuing to fire slowly to get their attention," Koval said. I went around behind them with the assault squad and gave them a hard blow. After the gunfire goes off over there, you cease firing and be careful not to hit us. ”
The coordination of the night operation was indeed a problem, and Koval had to keep the attention of the team so as not to hit his own people.
"Yes. Sir. ”
Koval led the assault squad of 16 people and walked around from the side in the dark.
The woods were pitch black, with the occasional wisp of the moon falling on the white snow.
A group of people finally circled their backs.
"Follow me quietly, fire again within fifty meters, find cover on the spot, pay attention to protect yourself, don't stand still." Koval picked up his Mauser rifle, pulled out his MP-18 submachine gun, and spoke to the soldiers.
Few of these soldiers had been trained on the battlefield, so even though they had already trained in assault tactics, Koval had to give him advice. He didn't want his well-trained troops to be killed because of the nervousness of going to war for the first time.
A group of people gradually dispersed, slowly advancing from a distance of about three meters.
"Squeak!" There was a crisp sound, and I don't know who stepped on the dead branch or what.
"Who?" The person on the other side was shouting.
Russian! It's Russians.
There were still sixty meters to go, but it was only hard work, and Koval picked up his submachine gun and fired three bursts at the interrogator.
"Run! Run! Watch for cover! Watch for cover!" Koval shouted as he stepped forward through the snow.
Sixteen men rushed forward in the snow like sixteen little wild boars, and the sound of submachine guns clattered throughout the city.
The person on the other side finally noticed the anomaly behind him, and immediately turned the gun and fired at Koval.
Thirty meters later, you can already vaguely see the figure running back and forth on the opposite side.
Koval ducked his head to dodge a stray bullet and shouted, "Cover the shot, advance step by step, and destroy them!" ”
Lying on the spot at the foot of a large tree, the submachine gun in his hand aimed at the figure opposite and constantly fired bullets. The bullets of the sixteen submachine guns took the opposite side by surprise like a blizzard.
At such a close distance, the long range, high-precision advantage of the Mosin Nagant rifle simply could not be brought into play. The low rate of fire allowed the opposite side to be completely suppressed by Koval their submachine gun fire.
Screams rang out from the opposite side, and a figure fell to the ground under the fire of the submachine gun.
Finally, someone on the other side couldn't help but start running away, and then everyone started to run away.