The Separate Regiment rested in the back, and Koval had no combat mission, so he stayed in the headquarters and observed the battle with Lieutenant Colonel Tadeush. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Major Koval, do you think Plutoka and Lieutenant Colonel Baginski will be able to get into the city?" Lieutenant Colonel Tadeush asked casually.

"Well, no one can fight without happening." Koval said with resignation.

Regardless of whether the result of his guess is right or wrong, his colleagues will not be satisfied, so Koval naturally does not show any foresight with a big mouth.

Lieutenant Colonel Plutoka led the troops in a dispersed dispersion through the middle of the wheat fields to a distance of about a kilometer north of the city, just outside the range of the enemy's rifles.

"One company, one on!" Lieutenant Colonel Plutoka ordered.

More than 100 Polish soldiers, armed with rifles, separated from each other by about ten meters, divided into three horizontal formations and walked briskly towards the north of the city.

At a distance of about 600 meters, the heavy machine gunners mounted their heavy machine guns on a ridge.

The rest of the Polish soldiers were still running briskly towards Daugavpils in a skirmish line.

Da ・・・・・・ two heavy machine guns of the Soviet army in the city began to roar, and the bullets hit the path of the Polish soldiers, and the dust was splashed, not knocking the hapless Polish soldiers down on the road.

Behind Platoka were two 77mm field guns that fired incessantly at the exposed firing points of the Soviet troops.

It seems that the shelling of artillery played some role, and the machine-gun fire of the Soviet troops became intermittent.

As Platoca gave the order to charge, a company of Polish soldiers leaped forward quickly towards Daugavpils.

Four hundred meters into the city, the Soviet troops in the city hid in houses on the north side and began to fire sporadically at Polish soldiers with rifles.

Three hundred meters, the sound of rifle gunfire began to intensify.

"A platoon charge! Two rows, three rows of cover. ”

Some of the Polish soldiers looked for cover on the side of the road, lay down on the spot and fired at the Soviet soldiers inside the house, while the other part quickly rushed to the bottom of the house.

Plutoka's two 77mm field guns began firing into the interior of the city as soon as the infantry rushed a distance of 100 meters to avoid accidental damage.

Fifty Polish soldiers rushed to a distance of less than fifty meters from the Soviet city. Suddenly, the sound of bullets sounded from inside the houses on both sides, and six heavy machine guns slaughtered as much as they could.

Fifty Poles were knocked down in the open field of the passing houses.

"!" Plutoka couldn't help but scold when she saw this scene.

"How could the Soviet troops have piled up six heavy machine guns on such a line of defense of several hundred meters." Tadeusz put down his binoculars and slapped the table to himself.

"The circumference of Daugavpils is at least thirty or forty kilometers, and even if six are arranged in one kilometer, more than two hundred heavy machine guns will be required." Koval slowly analyzed: "But we all know it's impossible! This is already equivalent to the standard of firepower of the German army. With so many weapons, they wouldn't have only twenty or thirty thousand troops. Perhaps they had redeployed heavy weapons from several other lines of defense to this side. ”

"A platoon of soldiers was reimbursed like that." Lieutenant Colonel Tadeush said with some depression: "But even Daugavpils's did not touch, and the enemy's artillery did not show up, this wave is really a big loss." ”

"It's been a day since we crossed the Gava, and the Soviet troops must have adjusted their disposition and gathered the main forces to the north of the city." Koval said.

"Order the light artillery regiment to bombard the enemy line north of the city of Daugavpils!" Tadeush commanded the staff officer.

"Yes, sir."

After a while, 36 77mm light field guns began to cover the houses north of the city of Daugavpils.

The sound of boom and bang continued to sound, and shells fell on the defensive line north of the city of Daugavpils.

The cannonball landed on the roof of the house and exploded, blowing up a hole the size of a tabletop in the roof, and when the cannonball landed on the wall, it directly exploded a hole the size of a person.

Koval held a telescope and watched the effects of the shelling.

Despite the seeming momentum, Koval found that artillery was not very effective in destroying Soviet lines.

The explosive effect of many shells is repeated, if one shell hits the target can destroy one-tenth of a house, but ten shells cannot blow up a house, and it takes thirty or more shells.

And most of the shells fell directly on the open space of the house or on the destroyed ruins, which was simply wasted.

"Division commander, should we attack the artillery positions of the Poles?" The muzzle commander came to ask for instructions.

"Don't worry, it's so far, and the Poles have built artillery fortifications, so we can't take advantage of them in this way. Besides, they have a heavy artillery unit that doesn't know where the ambush is, and I always feel uneasy not to see it. Commander Cronin commanded: "By the time the Poles storm the city, their artillery will be useless." ”

The artillery regiment continued to bombard for an hour, and Koval estimated that nearly 5,000 rounds of 77mm shells had been fired.

It's really a local tyrant's method of warfare! Koval couldn't help but complain to himself.

With such intensive artillery fire, all the houses in the outer circle north of the city of Daugavpils were disemboweled, and the dilapidated and dilapidated buildings looked as if they were about to collapse when a gust of wind blew.

"Prepare to attack!" Tadeusz and Prutoka are in contact.

This time Plutoka used a battalion of troops, nearly a thousand men.

Nearly 1,000 men were scattered in three columns and attacked in a two- or three-kilometer manner, running briskly towards the northwest corner of Daugavpils.

The light artillery regiment continued to open fire to cover the infantry advance.

The artillery of the Soviet army finally could not sit still, and hid inside the city to open fire on the approaching Polish infantry.

"It's too cunning, just change places after a few shots!" Lieutenant Colonel Tadeush muttered.

It seems that he wanted to use the infantry to lure out the Soviet artillery, and then take the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the enemy's artillery, so it would be easy to fight. Koval thought to himself: But the Soviet troops on the other side were also slippery guys, and they didn't give Lieutenant Colonel Tadeush a chance.

More than a hundred meters north of the city, the Polish artillery in the rear began to stop firing, leaving only a few guns to fire at the interior of the city, giving the infantry a strong morale.

"Charge!" The Polish infantry rushed towards Daugavpils at the last 100 meters of distance, the most dangerous and deadly part of the life-and-death circuit.

Click-and-click・・・・・・ bullets swept at the Polish infantry like a storm.

Countless rifles and machine guns fired wildly at the Polish soldiers outside from the inconspicuous corners of those dilapidated houses. One by one, the Polish soldiers fell like the straw of the minute on the way to the charge.