The Lithuanian army used fifteen squads armed with submachine guns as arrows to attack the center of the town. www.biquge.info After yesterday's two failures, the Lithuanians have learned more cautiously and have been playing steadily.

Although the Germans did not participate in the war, they still sent a group of officers to provide staff guidance.

Summing up the lessons of yesterday, this time the Lithuanian army made more preparations. The fire points of the heavy machine guns are more dispersed and solid, and the light machine guns follow the troops to provide close fire support. Each attacking unit has clearly defined its own objectives and has clearly defined the order of the attack.

The Lithuanians used light and heavy machine guns to temporarily suppress the city's firepower, and then stormtroopers rushed in a skirmish formation toward the town's houses.

Having rushed to the foot of the house, the Lithuanian soldiers did not go any further, but immediately defended themselves on the outer walls of the houses.

In order to lure the enemy army deeper, the Soviet army carried out a heavy arrangement in the front and in the rear, so that the positions on the periphery could only be defended. And they did not immediately put the forces in the rear to counterattack, but waited for the enemy to be encircled and annihilated after they were put in.

The originally scattered firepower of the Lithuanian army, under the command of the officer, began to converge towards the three houses. Machine guns fired short bursts at the streets on either side of the three houses. Rifle bullets entered the house through the window door, so that the Soviet soldiers inside could not show their heads or see clearly.

The Lithuanian soldier at the foot of the house took the opportunity to pry open the door, and one soldier with a submachine gun fired inside, and the rest of the soldiers quickly rushed in.

In the room on the first floor there was only the body of a Soviet soldier who had been beaten into honeycomb coal.

The dense footsteps from above the second floor, the soldiers of the assault team immediately aimed at the stairs, and several Soviet soldiers who rushed down immediately fell under the guns.

The other two soldiers pulled out two grenades, pulled the tabs, waited two seconds, and quickly threw them up the staircase.

The grenade exploded directly, smoke and dust billowed from the staircase, and three soldiers rushed up with a submachine gun. I saw a heavy machine gun facing the staircase, and three Soviet soldiers were next to it.

After the commando soldiers took control of the corridor, they cleaned room by room. With submachine guns in the lead, it was difficult for the Soviet soldiers with bolt-action rifles to resist.

The Lithuanian troops in the rear entered the three occupied houses one after another, and then slowly spread from relying on these three places as the starting point of the attack.

There were hundreds of houses on the east side of the town, and only the most important ones occupied by the Soviet troops, and many of the houses far from the streets were completely empty. Even so, in order to keep enough reserves, there were no more than twenty or thirty people in each house, and no more than three or five people in the few.

After the Lithuanians occupied the outermost ring of houses, the suppression of the open space by the Soviet machine guns was greatly weakened, and the troops behind began to rush in continuously.

This time the Lithuanians did not rush up the streets, as they had done yesterday, but arranged their troops in various houses, all of which had been abandoned by the Soviet troops.

"Sir, the situation is not good! The Lithuanians are not fooled this time! They are moving forward house by house, and we can only give up a lot of places and hold on to a few points. An officer came to report

"Send all the reserves! Be sure to keep the area from the center of town to the docks. Ivan said resolutely.

Seeing that the Lithuanian army would not continue to be fooled, Ivan had no choice but to pat the reserves in his hand. If the Lithuanians were allowed to rush to the center of the town, then they would not be far from defeat.

As Soviet reserves entered the battle, the ratio of the two sides in the town changed from 4,000 to 1,000 at the beginning to 4,000 to 2,000.

With enough manpower, the Soviet troops finally stopped the Lithuanians from frantically occupying houses, fighting them house by house.

By noon, the Lithuanian army had advanced more than two hundred meters towards the center of the town, and all the Lithuanian troops had gained a foothold in the town.

"In this way, the Lithuanians will be able to lay down the center of the town tonight! Is the Lithuanian army still somewhat combat-ready! General Goltz said happily as he looked at the information coming back from the front.

"General, this morning, the Lithuanians lost six hundred people." A staff officer reminded.

"Lithuanians fought and died for their national independence, glorious and great." General Goltz said with a slight mockery: "Let's wait for tonight's results!" If we can win, we'll give them a hand. ”

At the headquarters of the Lithuanian army, General Zukauskas had already moved his command to the town, just over a hundred meters from the front line. Occasionally, stray bullets hit the outside walls.

"How's the battle going out there?" General Zukauskas asked.

"Report to the commander, our army has advanced two or three hundred meters to the center of the town. But the enemy's defenses are getting tighter and tighter, and the losses of the troops are very large, and we have already lost six hundred dead and wounded. An officer covered in the smell of gunpowder said.

"What about the Soviet troops?" Zukauskas asked calmly.

"The enemy probably left more than 300 corpses, and their casualties should be around five or six hundred." The officer said with a sigh of relief.

"Let's fight like this, the enemy will shed blood before us. I need to attack the center of town tonight and retake the dock area. General Zukauskas said firmly: "Is there anything that needs to be replenished?" ”

"Sir, the batch of submachine guns that was issued to us is running out of ammunition, and their ammunition is different from the Mauser rifles we use, so I hope to be able to replenish them as soon as possible." The officer said.

The MP-18 submachine gun uses the 9mm caliber Pyra Belum pistol cartridge (9×19mm Parabellum) used in the Ruger pistol.

"How are they doing?" General Zukauskas asked.

"The soldiers were raving about it, and it made a big difference to the fact that we were able to stay out of town street fighting today." The officer excitedly complimented.

"I'll go to the Germans and ask for a batch of ammunition later. You must remember to fight steadfastly and not fall for the tricks of the Soviet army. General Zukauskas admonished.

"Yes, sir."

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"General, the Lithuanians asked for a replenishment of ammunition for a submachine gun."

"Send them over, and if they can take the center of the town, it will be good for us." General Goltz said.