Nearly half of the explosives dropped by the bombers were 250 kg of solidified ******, and huge flames swept through the German positions!

Bombarding the hills with solidified ****** was Lin Jun's decision: attacking with fire, this side has a lethal effect and psychological deterrent ability that surpasses ordinary bombs, especially on a night like this!

Together with a large number of 100-kilogram explosive shells and 30-kilogram anti-personnel shells, this was a devastating blow to the German army in and around Gediminas!

The entire hill is surrounded by firelight, which can be seen from dozens of kilometers away! Any German soldier who saw this could understand that if they continued to hold on, destruction was the only end. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info is like the tactics that assault sappers like - when they encounter stubborn targets, it is difficult to overcome for a while, and in the case that the defenders are impossible to surrender, they use the equipped Spitfire tank (equipped with assault engineer corps-level units) to clear or simply blast it directly!

If you don't surrender and retreat, then completely wipe out and leave no one behind! -- From the tactics of the Mongol cavalry sweeping across the Eurasian continent hundreds of years ago, future generations have learned a lot.

If you surrender, you still have a chance to live, and if you don't surrender, you will only die! Nearly a regiment of defenders garrisoned by the Germans suffered heavy losses in intensive bombardment and could no longer organize an effective defense.

As soon as the shelling and bombardment stopped, the assault sappers launched an offensive against the hill, splitting into multiple arrows and rushing towards the hill.

Mount Gediminas is not high, and the few minefields have been destroyed in the bombardment. In just a few minutes, the assault sappers had rushed to the top of the hill without much resistance. The trenches on the hill were blown to pieces, the fire ignited by the solidified ****** was still raging, and the air was filled with gunsmoke and the smell of blood, mixed with the smell of burnt human body, and a strange smell similar to the aroma of barbecued meat, I couldn't tell what my nose smelled!

All the German troops who were still resisting were either beaten into a hornet's nest or blown up into the sky by rockets. The entire ruins of the castle are also burning, originally the Germans tried to rely on the strong remnants of the ruins, but the ruins of the church are completely covered by the solidified flames of the ******, and there are no living people in it!

The snow on the top of the hill had melted under the flames, and the craters on the ground were covered with icy water, and now that the Red Army controlled the commanding heights of Vilnius, the mortars carried heavy ammunition boxes and followed the infantry up the hill, and several 82-mm mortars were immediately resisted.

Shuklin's artillery was also pushed up to the top of the hill with the help of more than 20 assault sappers, carrying more than 30 shells on their backs - the car was still behind, and there was no hope for going up the hill, so they had to rely on manpower.

The earth, which had been frozen by the cold, was blown up and roasted, and the artillerymen quickly completed the construction of the artillery position, which was located on the southwest edge of the hill. Assault sappers have infiltrated the western foothills, and the summits have been handed over to the infantry, some of whom will attack the southern side of the city.

Shukelin and others can now see the entire city surrounded by fireworks and explosions at night: below is the Vilnius University campus, completely within the range of mortar fire; The side wing is the church square, which is also completely exposed. The infantry was repairing the trenches, and the German shells were falling sporadically on the hills, where they had to be prepared for a counter-attack.

However, the assault sappers did not encounter much resistance in the next assault, and it was not until the northwest side of the Palace of Fine Arts that the commandos were really blocked by a strange wall.

This is the old town, but the houses were built at the end of the last century and the beginning of the 20th century, and they are basically five- to six-storey townhouses. It seems that all the windows and doors on the first and second floors are completely blocked, and I don't know if the top is completely blocked, and it looks similar in the haze.

A group of assault sappers and a dozen infantry leaning in from the other side were hiding along the side wall of the house, and the engineer sergeant Toziqi took out the map in his pocket and the man next to him looked at it with a flashlight.

"Comrade Sergeant, where are we?"

An infantry sergeant squad leader of the 23rd Division asked him.

"It's not clear, the map says it's a residential area, why is there a wall on the street! You can't figure it out? ”

"Dizzy, the houses and passages in the old town are in a mess." The sergeant also complained.

Now the area they faced was darkened, and the tall buildings above their heads looked very strange under the reflection of the light of the sky slightly red by the firelight, and what was even stranger was that the side was obviously a street entrance, but it was blocked by a wall more than two people high!

An assault engineer soldier leaned against the wall to the edge of the wall, studied it for a few seconds, and then came back and reported: "Comrade Sergeant, it should not be a German fortification, the wall has been built for some days, it is not improvised, it is made of solid bricks." ”

After discussing it, the two sergeants felt that there must be something wrong with this, and they needed to find out.

The men of the two different units were temporarily combined into a combat squad, led by the sergeant and assisted by the infantry sergeant - both were dizzy, and there were no men of their own nearby, but they were still insured together. When the two arms are combined, the combat effectiveness complements each other, and it is convenient to deal with a special situation.

"You have explosives, why don't you blow a gap in the wall?" The lieutenant asked.

"Let's take a detour, the Germans can't fence off all the streets, can they?"

It's good that you don't go in recklessly to startle the snakes, and you can also understand the surrounding situation more clearly.

A group of people walked along the street to the south, the houses on the right side of the street were normal, and the row on the left was strange, looking up at the window, there was not a single window still there, and they were all blocked! It's like an oversized, extra-tall warehouse wall.

A group of men alternated cover in battle formations, and a few minutes later came to the next street corner.

"Is there a mistake?! Or the wall! ”

Sergeant Tozic decided not to go south, as he could hear distant gunfire ahead, presumably a fierce battle taking place there. Heading south along the streets, you can quickly get into battle, but listening to the gunfire, the fighting is fierce. The sergeant had a better idea - go around the other way and beat the fucking German's ass!

"Sasha, blow up a hole!" Tozic said to one of his subordinates.

It was a Demoman, no breastplate, and a lot of pockets. Put down the explosives box from the back, and then pull out the steel special sapper head inserted in the armed belt, which is as long as the sapper shovel.

Handing the head to another private, Sasha opened the explosives box and took out a piece of ***, took out the fuse from his coat pocket, and connected it to the ****. He pulled out his Finnish knife and drilled a hole in what looked like a soapy block of explosives, and shoved the fuse into it. Another "Hi Hi Hi Ya" is digging the fence with his head: the solid bricks are quite strong, and it took several smashes to dig a hole.

If it weren't for the timing, the sergeant would have decided to open the passage by manpower, which would have been more hidden. However, if this solid brick wall is only to be smashed, it will take a lot of time.

Stuffed with explosives, everyone hidden. As soon as the fuse was pulled, Sasha also hid to the side.

With an explosion, the passage opened: a large hole in the wall was half a man high. Wait for the smoke to clear, head with a assault hand, and prepare to enter an unknown neighborhood.

"What a taste!" As soon as the person reached the mouth of the hole, he smelled a foul smell, like opening a manhole cover in a sewer.

More than two dozen fighters passed through the hole in an assault formation, divided into two teams and stood guard on both sides of the street. The ground is littered with garbage, which is completely different from the relatively clean street outside.

The two groups covered each other, and the sergeant finally understood why this was so strange from a mark on the wall: he saw a large, hollow white six-pointed star mark on the wall.

"It's a ghetto!"

This was arguably the first Jewish ghetto that the Red Army had come into contact with since the outbreak of the war, and the soldiers had only heard of such a strange existence in the German-occupied area, and today these two dozen Red Army soldiers were the first to enter it.

As soon as they turned the corner, in the faint light they saw an unimaginable scene - there was no pile of garbage like the dead corner where they entered, but the street was full of corpses, and they couldn't see the end at a glance!

"Dead for a few days at most." After inspecting the two bodies that were frozen hard, Tozic said to the others.

A general examination revealed that the corpses included men and women, old and young, rich men in fashionable coats and poor people in tattered clothes, but all the corpses had one thing in common on their clothes: a hollow white six-pointed star was attached to them.

"This is the ghetto, and it seems that the Germans carried out a systematic massacre here before we stormed the city!"

The windows could already be seen in the houses on both sides, and the walls were mottled with bullet marks, and the soldiers could imagine what had happened here a few days ago - the Jews living on this street were deported to the street room by room, corridor by corridor, and then "cleansed"! One corridor after another, batch after batch!

It's like slaughtering cattle every year on Tozic's old farm: the cars of the canneyard are waiting on the sidelines, killing them one after another!

But now the sergeant was lying on the ground in front of him, people, civilians who were once alive!

Everyone was speechless, and Infantry Sergeant Kodelnikov looked at his men and saw that everyone was a little dazed, and one soldier was kneeling on one leg.

"Martin, get up, let's go find those who are still alive!"

Martin was Jewish, and Kodelinkov could hardly imagine how the senior soldier was feeling right now!

Tozić gathered everyone together, "From the outside, this quarantine area is huge, and there are no new footprints on the ground. As he spoke, he pointed to the buildings on both sides, "This area has been cleared, and we continue to the south, I don't know if there are any living people." ”

After speaking, he said to Kodelnikov: "Can you send two people to report the situation here to your superiors, and act quickly, your subordinates are more convenient than my people." ”

The sergeant pointed to the two: "Mikhail, Alexander, find the superior as soon as possible." “

"Yes, Sergeant."

The two privates untied their excess equipment and handed it to their comrades, trotting in the direction they came and went with only a magazine pouch over a woolen jacket and an assault rifle.

"Take a battle formation, go!"

Those who stayed behind gathered their emotions and searched in two groups to move forward.

After two more streets and three turns, Martin, as the assaulter, gestured for everyone to stop.

"What's the situation?" Kodelinnikov, who was just behind him, asked in a whisper.

"Police station." The senior soldier pointed to a closed double door on the first floor of the building 30 meters ahead: observing the houses on either side, it seemed that there were people, and Tozich saw that there was an extremely faint light from several windows.

Tozić gestured to the assault sappers to take the lead, and the infantry to cover and occupy the police station.

The two groups approached the door, and when they got closer, they could see the light coming through the crack in the door, and they could hear the faint sound of conversation inside.

Tozic did not rush in, because he could not make out what the people in the house were saying under the influence of distant explosions and gunshots, but he could make out that it was not German, and certainly not Russian.

Beckoned Martin over and motioned for the senior to listen.

"Hebrew, the national language of our Jews, and probably Lithuanian."

This police station is also too dilapidated, and as soon as you look at the façade outside, you can see that the Germans will not let their police station be so shabby: with this in mind, Tozzi did not let his subordinates attack.

Signal to one of the largest assault sappers and kick the door!

The big man kicked hard with a muffled sound, and the not-so-sturdy gate was reimbursed, and two assault men rushed in with assault rifles - their bodies pressed so low that they wouldn't be targeted like a log in case of a situation.

Shouted loudly in Russian: "Hands up!" ”

There were no gunshots, only one or two exclamations. When Tozić entered, he saw a small hall with several old desks in the middle and two candles lit on them. There were five or six people squatting and lying on their stomachs in the corner, and two older, bearded guys were still sitting on stools, looking at them in horror.

There were no guns, no Germans, no threats, just a bunch of terrified Jews!

All of them had six-pointed stars on their clothes, including three guys who appeared to be disciplined uniforms - but the uniforms were ugly, greenish, ill-fitting and dirty.

When Martin entered the hall, the others listened to him say a few words to the two bearded old men, and the two over there immediately became very excited, and they also said a few words—and from the excited, incredulous eyes of the bearded men, it was certain that if it weren't for a few guns still pointed at them, the two old men would have rushed up and kissed and hugged Martin.

"Comrade Sergeant, they are all Jews, including the uniformed policemen. They are in a meeting and are planning what to do next. ”

The future is not clear, and they don't even dare to collect the corpses, and a group of Jews are at a loss!

Martin had just spoken Hebrew, which was already spoken by very few Jews, and the two old men were, because they were the elders of the Jewish inhabitants of the ghetto.

It took a few minutes for Toziqi and the others to basically understand what these people were doing, and to temporarily figure out the general situation in the quarantine area.

"There are more than 20,000 people in this area, but a group of them were massacred by the fascists two days ago, in the northern neighborhood. The Germans haven't come in since last night, and we've been without food and water, and it's very difficult. One of the elders, Omri, said in unfluent Russian.

The three "policemen" were also allowed to get up from the ground: the Red Army's position on the lackeys of the fascists was to be caught and interrogated simply, and shot if they were of little value - if time was pressing, the interrogation was omitted and the execution was carried out.

The lackeys are more odious than the fascists!

However, these three fates are big, and several other Jews say that these people are forced to be policemen in the ghetto, and they are usually very upright, not accomplices of fascism, and usually use all means to help other Jews live.

The police station was also home to the Jewish "Autonomous Management Committee", which was used as a cover by a group of people to discuss how to deal with the brutal rule of the fascists here - an old man even took out an old revolver with only three bullets from under the floor tiles of a nearby office, as well as a few homemade ****** and a few knives!

The underground arsenal was put in the police station, and it seemed that this group of people really understood the truth that "the most dangerous place is the safest" - except for inspection, the Germans did not come to this dilapidated "police station" at all.

Tozici pulled a Jewish policeman over, "You say there are no German troops in there, how many exits are there here?" ”

"Yes, no. There is just one entrance, to the south, two rows of houses from here. ”

"You, and you, take us there."

Toziqi sent two more people to wait for backup at the entrance of the passage, which was also considered to be accepted.

All the others set off and headed for the gate of the quarantine zone.

"Can you tell the others that the Red Army is coming."

"Yes, but let's stay at home first, it's not safe outside, and our people will be there soon."

Tozić didn't want a crowd of newly liberated people to flood the streets uncontrollably, that would only add to the chaos - there were still more than 20,000 people in such a quarantine area, and just think about how densely populated this circle is! They all ran out into the streets, and the troops behind them were annoyed by the passage of the troops.

Led by the Jewish police, a group of men quickly arrived at the gate, a large thick iron gate, with horse rejects and machine-gun bunkers inside and out, and a rudimentary guard box on the side, but it was empty.

Smashing the chains, Tozic calculated, exited the gate and turned to the west, and at most two hundred meters past was the crossfire point he had noticed before entering the quarantine zone, from where the sound of fierce fighting could already be heard very close.

A pat on the shoulder of the Jewish policeman, "Go back, take off this dog's skin, beware of being bulleted!" ”

But one of the guys, Sharon, was stubborn and didn't go: "I'm from Vilnius, I'm familiar with the road, I'll show you the way." ”

Tozic didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, took out the pistol stuck in the back of his waist and handed it to him, "Will it be used?" ”

"Yes, I used to work at the post office."

"Let's go."

Sharon would use a pistol, and the post office would be a paramilitary organization armed with weapons (civilians resisting invaders were guerrillas, not protected by the Geneva Conventions; If postal workers are involved in the fighting, they can enjoy the rights of prisoners of war if they are captured. ）。

Sharon and his commandos made two turns, passing through the corner of an alley on the side of a small park, and Tozić saw about a company of trenches garrisoned by Germans, and there seemed to be a headquarters in the house next to it.

A dense barrage of bullets fired, and the Germans did not pay attention to the monitoring of the flanks at all, and immediately became confused and began to retreat from the other side. As for the "suspected headquarters", two grenades were thrown in with a bang, and it was all over. (To be continued.) )