"Yes, sir. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 InfoSoviet troops have occupied our camp outside the East City Gate, and our artillery and other supplies have been taken by Soviet troops. ”

"Order the troops to move at once to the east side of the town and prepare to resist the attack of the Soviet troops." General Zukauskas said as he thought about the east side of the town.

"Yes, sir."

"Send someone to General Golz and ask them to help us fight the Germans." General Zukauskas said.

"Yes, sir."

General Zukauskas crouched behind the eastern wall and observed the Soviet troops outside the city, and at a glance, the mountains were full of Soviet soldiers, boundless, and people could not help but have an irresistible sense of powerlessness.

Shells continued to explode in the eastern area of the town, and a battalion of Soviet soldiers walked briskly towards the town under the cover of artillery.

General Zukauskas did not send any troops to defend the eastern wall, knowing that after two days of fighting, the wall could no longer serve the enemy. He only hoped that he would be able to use street fighting to delay the offensive of the Soviet army, as he had done the previous two days.

Eight 76mm mountain guns fired three rounds of shells, and the Soviet troops inside the town did not fight back at all. The Soviet army was equipped with:

Model 1904 76mm mountain gun

Year of production service: 1904

Caliber: 76.2mm

Barrel length: 1.014m (13.3 times caliber)

Up and down shooting angle: 5 degrees ~ +35 degrees

Horizontal angle of fire: 2.5 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.5kg

Ammunition at the beginning: 290msec

Weight: 327kg

Maximum firing range: 5500m

"It seems that all the artillery of the Lithuanians has been eliminated for us, so we don't have to worry about the counterattack of their artillery." The commander of the Soviet division smiled happily and said: "The artillery moves forward, and it is necessary to destroy the enemy efficiently with accurate artillery fire and the least number of shells." ”

The Soviet troops successfully climbed the city walls, and the light and heavy machine guns hidden in the houses. The rifles opened fire together, suppressing the arrogance of the Soviet troops at once.

This time, the Soviet troops experienced the pain of the Lithuanian army during the siege of the city.

Watching the troops on the front line being pressed to the ground near the city walls, it was difficult to take a step forward. The commander of the Soviet division shouted: "Rush over, you must rush for me, you must have the courage to charge with bayonets and fight with your life, put bayonets on the artillery, push the artillery to the front, blow all the houses where the enemy is hiding, and blow them all to slag for me." ”

"Yes, sir."

So, under the orders of the commander of the bayonet division, the Soviet troops used horses to pull the artillery and kept moving forward.

"Sir, look, the Red Russians have pulled up the artillery!" A soldier on the second floor shouted as he looked at the artillery after all.

"What are they trying to do? Are they crazy? Why didn't our artillery wipe it out yet! Another soldier said.

On the battlefield, when the artillery strength is similar, pushing the artillery to the front line is really an act of death, and the enemy's artillery will accurately destroy the exposed artillery with artillery fire. But now that all the artillery of the Lithuanians fell into the hands of the Soviet troops, they naturally had the audacity to shorten the distance.

Range is an important indicator of artillery, and most of the time, in order to prevent being countered, artillery will fire at enemy troops at a distance close to the effective range.

The Soviet artillerymen pulled the wagons and moved quickly towards the eastern wall, and some Lithuanian soldiers who saw that something was wrong kept firing at the artillery on both sides of the artillery with machine guns.

The two horses pulling the guns fell to the ground at once, and the Soviet soldiers immediately untied their nooses, and all the artillery leaned against the artillery shields and pushed the guns forward.

The 76mm field gun had a short range and was not very powerful, but its biggest advantage was its low weight, only 327 kg. Four or five soldiers can push it forward. If it is a ton of artillery, if something fails, it is difficult to move the position quickly.

"Quick, dig me a few two-meter-wide holes in the city wall!" A Soviet officer ordered.

The soldiers on the side of the city wall kept digging on the city wall with hoes and shovels, and the walls made of wood, sandbags, and earth were very easy to loosen and dig apart. A few soldiers tore down the trunks of the trees outside, carried away bags of sand, and shoveled off the filled dirt inside.

"Sir, what is this for?" A soldier asked curiously.

"You'll find out later."

Several Soviet artillerymen braved the rain of bullets and bullets to finally hide behind the artillery shield and push the artillery over, and dozens of dense white marks were made on the artillery shield by machine gun bullets.

The Soviet artilleryman stopped the cannon near the gap dug, and one of the artillerymen opened the bolt, stuffed it like a 6.5-kilogram shell, and closed the bolt. Several soldiers pulled out the artillery together and pushed it to the gap, adjusted the angle of the artillery, and was only more than 50 meters away from the houses guarded by the Lithuanian soldiers in front, not to mention that there was no need to calculate complex shooting parameters and directly aim at the target.

The Lithuanian soldier looked at a black hole in the distance with the muzzle of the cannon facing him, and immediately panicked and prepared to transfer, and several people hurriedly packed up the heavy machine guns.

As soon as the Soviet artillery pulled the rope, with a bang, the shell accurately hit the window of the house occupied by the Lithuanian troops, and several pieces of corpse fragments were fired in all directions with the explosion.

"Ulla!" Soviet artillerymen cheered loudly.

That's the advantage of shooting at a static distance - accuracy. A cannon may require hundreds of shells to accurately hit the target at a distance of more than 10 kilometers, and for those exposed soft targets, perhaps a single shell exploding more than 20 meters around it can kill it.

But for those fortified fortresses with strong defenses, only a direct hit on their weak point will destroy them, and a close miss will have little effect on them. At this time, the artillery may not be able to destroy the target at a long distance with hundreds of shells, and the number of shots of large-caliber artillery is often low, maybe after a thousand, the rifling has been smoothed, and the shooting accuracy is unimaginable.

At a quiet distance, perhaps only a few or even one shell can destroy the enemy's fortifications, which greatly increases the efficiency, and has an extremely powerful deterrent effect against the enemy troops who hold the fortifications.

If a group of soldiers can hold on to a fortification for hundreds of shells for half a day, even if they fail, the rest of the soldiers will continue to fight with high morale. Because this is a hero, and death is worthwhile. Your descendants can say to others: "My father held on to a certain stronghold for half a day, endured hundreds of shells, and finally died heroically. ”

But if a group of soldiers holding a fortification is hit by a few shells and destroyed in two minutes, the rest of the soldiers will panic, demoralize, and even abandon the fortifications and flee. Because this is cannon fodder, there is no value in dying. No one's descendants will say, "My father held on to a certain stronghold for a minute, and then he was wiped out by an enemy shell." (To be continued.) )