Chapter Fifty-Eight: Infantry Coordination

"The war is not over yet, we need to end the fighting here as quickly as possible. www.biquge.info General Vilko looked around at the officers around him and said, "Tell them that we will protect their lives in accordance with the Geneva Conventions." ”

"General, in just ten minutes, we will be able to kill them, why promise them?" The officer persuaded.

"I only said to protect their lives, what did I promise?" General Vilko smiled lightly: "Listen carefully if you are obedient!" Moreover, the victor explains everything. ”

The herald shouted General Vilko's answer.

Under the guns of the Polish infantry, Soviet soldiers came out of the position with their weapons in their hands, stacked their weapons together, and sat in the open space beside them.

Koval watched as the Soviet soldiers on the opposite side began to surrender and immediately prepared to cross the river.

The bank of this section of the Neris River is nearly 100 meters wide, and the water is not above people's heads, making it difficult to wade across the river, and as for the five small boats brought by Koval, each of them can only carry a few people, and if the whole army of 500 people goes by boat, it will take dozens of trips back and forth, and it may be that when all the troops cross the river, I am afraid that the battle has already been fought. Immediately, several soldiers with bundles of rope rowed across the boat in a small boat. On the other side of the river, the soldiers tied the ropes to the trees and rocks by the river, and when they were tied, the soldiers at this end immediately straightened the ropes and tied them to the trees and stones as well.

Normally, the planks would have been laid out and a pontoon bridge would have been built, but now the situation was urgent, and all the soldiers had to put their rifles and bullet bags in the boat, and slowly swim across the river with their ropes.

Ten minutes later, all of Koval's troops had crossed the Neris River. Koval stood by the river, drenched, watching the soldiers reclaim their weapons from their boats.

As for the cannon, it weighed six or seven hundred pounds, and Koval didn't dare to let it sit on the boat, so he had to place it across the river. Anyway, it has a range of several kilometers and can cover a significant part of the enemy.

General Vilko rode over to greet him and said happily, "Battalion Commander Kovar, you have come at a very timely time. ”

"General Vilko, how is the battle in the front positions?" Koval asked, wringing the water from his clothes.

"The battle is very fierce, let's go together and discuss together!" General Vilko said, "Someone, that dry suit for the Koval battalion commander." ”

"Thanks, but it's better to make up for it with your own clothes." With that, Koval put his shirt back on.

While the battle on the periphery was going on, the Soviet troops on the inner flank were also launching a fierce attack.

The Soviet supplementary battalion pinned down the Polish positions on the banks of the river, and three companies of the main battalion, under the cover of artillery, began to attack the Polish positions on the hillside.

After a few rounds of volleys, a company attacking the high ground to the south formed a three-line straggler formation at a distance of 500 meters and marched forward quickly. Soviet heavy machine guns were placed on top of the position, suppressing fire on the high ground.

Four hundred meters, the machine guns did not fire, sporadic rifles began to fire.

At three hundred meters, the Soviet infantry began to shoot as they advanced, trying to suppress the fire on the high ground. At this moment, two heavy machine guns on the high ground began to fire, which at once slowed down the advance of the Soviet troops. All the Soviet infantry looked for obstacles on the spot and fired at the Polish troops on the high ground. But under the suppression of the machine guns, their shooting was very weak, and every point of fire from the heavy machine guns was able to kill one or two targets, while most of the bullets of the Soviet infantry hit the defensive mounds and machine gun shields.

While the Soviet soldiers were suffering under the fire of the heavy machine guns, the artillery in the rear finally spotted the heavy machine guns that were firing, and the artillerymen immediately adjusted the firing angle of the guns and began shelling the positions of the heavy machine guns. With a bang, a shell exploded ten meters next to a heavy machine gun, and the dirt from the explosion fell on the heads of the Polish soldiers inside the fortifications.

The heavy machine gun crew immediately lifted the crane gun and prepared for the transfer. At this moment, the Soviet artillerymen slightly adjusted the angle of the other two guns according to the results of the test firing just now, and immediately opened fire. Two shells landed near the moving heavy machine gun group at once, and with two booms, the Polish soldiers were immediately blown unconscious, and the heavy machine guns were blown aside.

Another heavy machine gun, seeing that the artillery was targeting it, immediately stopped firing and shifted positions.

Without the suppression of heavy machine guns, the Soviet soldiers in front of the high ground got up from the ground and began to charge quickly. As long as they crossed the death distance of 300 meters, it was very likely that they would take the position, and the Soviet soldiers ran forward with all their strength.

The rifles on the high ground were blaring incessantly, and the heavy machine guns were forced to fire with all their might at the risk of being blown up.

The Soviet commander in the rear, seeing that one of the companies in front was approaching the high ground, immediately threw into the reserves of the remaining company. The Polish soldiers concentrated all their fire on the enemy of a company charging in front, powerless to hold back the Soviet troops behind. They followed three or four hundred meters behind the Soviet troops in front of them and advanced towards the high ground.

Fifty meters in front of the high ground of the assault path of the Soviet troops, they were completely exposed to the view of the defenders above. A Polish heavy machine gun was mounted in the fortifications, only the barrel of the gun was exposed, and the frenzied fire at the enemy troops below weighed down the offensive of the Soviet infantry.

The Soviet infantry immediately set up light machine guns on the spot and fired at it, and the bullets clanged like rain on the shields of the heavy machine guns. Suddenly, a bullet struck the Heavy through a gap, and the soldier next to him immediately resumed firing in his place.

"Rush over! Rush over together! The Soviet officer shouted.

The surrounding soldiers gave the officer a vicious look, took up their weapons, and rushed forward, only to be knocked down by bullets from time to time.

"Get that machine gun out for me!" The Soviet brigade commander said while holding a telescope in the back to observe the battle situation.

"Sir, the front of our troops is less than fifty meters from there, and now firing artillery will blow them up." The artillery officer replied.

"Now I order you to open fire at once, and if you are killed by mistake, aren't they also dead under the enemy's machine guns now? Just take out the enemy's heavy machine gun, and it's your credit. The Soviet brigade commander shouted.

With a bang, a shell fell thirty meters in front of the heavy machine gun, and several Soviet soldiers who rushed to the front were immediately hit by fragments of the shell and lay on the ground screaming.

The Soviet artilleryman nervously looked at the Soviet brigade commander beside him, and seeing that he was expressionless, he immediately adjusted the angle of the other two guns and opened fire.