Lin Jun saw the vast scene on the other side of the river on the bank, and the troops crossing the river quickly moved in their intended direction of attack: most of the armored forces crossing the river from the left flank headed to the southwest, while at least two-thirds of the infantry troops headed all the way west to the city of Vilnius. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The slightly undulating hills in the direction of Vilnius can be clearly seen in the telescope, as well as the faint smoke in the sky. The sound of shell explosions can still be faintly heard here, showing the intensity of the battle ahead.

The river has been crossed to the south and there are also hills, this is not the endless plain of Ukraine, every commanding height will be a fierce battle!

Landing sites are always air battles, not to mention a landing ground on the east side of Vilnius, the Nereis River, which is extremely important for both sides. Just when Lin Jun wanted to turn around and leave, a group of German mixed formation bombers appeared in the southern sky, and the Red Army fighters covering the ferry port were immediately intertwined with the Germans!

The guards hoped that the marshal could hide for a while, but Lin Jun saw that the ferry had not stopped at all, so he didn't plan to jump into the trench on the side, "It's still far away!" The boys in the sky will stand in the way. ”

As he spoke, he picked up a telescope to look at the situation in the air in the distance, from 3,000 meters to an altitude of two or three hundred meters, dozens of planes chased each other, up and down, and those German bombers could not break through the interception of Soviet fighters for a while. The huge explosion point appeared in the south, which was hastily dropped by German planes that were unlikely to fly to the landing site, and seemed to be dropped on the heads of the tank units moving southwest.

However, Lin Jun didn't need to worry too much about the Red Army tanks, such a precision bombardment was not a big threat to the armored forces, and it was not as troublesome as the appearance of a squadron of Stuka.

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The last crossing of the 284th Infantry Division was the 820th Artillery Regiment, and the artillery of the entire regiment was towed in American vehicles, which was reequipped in Minsk. Originally, when starting from Tomsk, the cannons and heavy mortars in the regiment were all miscellaneous vehicles mobilized by the Tomsk side, and the driver comrades even found old antiques left over from the 20s!

Due to the complexity of the models, many vehicle parts are old and have poor performance, causing a lot of trouble to the troops. Those cars were thrown to the logistics troops in Minsk, and they can make do with it for a couple of years. At present, the 820 Regiment is a shotgun for artillery, and the shells are all used by GMC ten-wheeled trucks, and the artillery is also towed by the American Dodge-T214 medium military jeep.

Both vehicles were very maneuverable, and although the trucks were said to have a load capacity of only 2.5 tons, the soldiers loaded them with 5 tons of shells, so they all ran fast as usual! Since both Dodges are off-road models, this maneuverability has been greatly improved, and the artillerymen can even run in front of the infantry!

Two p.m. at St. Peter-Paul Church East in Vilnius City. The church against the backdrop of the snow-covered villa has lost its former tranquility, and the dense gunfire and explosions have turned it into a battlefield of blood and fire!

An assault battalion of the 1043rd Infantry Regiment was blocked near the intersection in front of the church, and the main street, originally named after Andre-Tadeusz-Bonaventura-Kosciuszko, led to the center of the city, and along the street all the way west to the north side of Mount Gediminas, so that the other two regiments attacking with the left flank could attack the high point of the city from two directions.

Of course, the current one, who was originally named after the leader of the Polish army more than a hundred years ago, the national hero of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and the United States (this man has a really complicated experience, he even participated in the American Revolutionary War. Two years ago, the name of the street was changed to October Street, but now the Germans do not know what the Red Army soldiers called.

This area is surrounded by woods, and the Karnu Park on the west side of the north-south longitudinal labor road is very green. It was not yet spring, and the trees in the snow-covered woodlands were bare, and the view was still open - but it was this view that caused great problems for the Red Army: the Germans not only built barricades on the roads and dug trenches in the woodland, but also occupied St. Peter-Paul's Cathedral, the commanding heights here!

St. Peter-St. Paul's Cathedral was built in 1408 and is the only rectangular Gothic cathedral in Lithuania. The church was built and rebuilt until 1655, when the Russian-Swedish war began. After more than 200 years of reconstruction, the appearance and structure of the church have gradually absorbed the characteristics of Renaissance and Baroque architecture, and the interior decoration is beautiful, with more than 2,000 antique-level sculptures inside.

However, the soldiers who are not antique and not beautiful do not care, their headache is the 41.9-meter-high tower of the church, and the height of the third-story tower is more than 30 meters.

The assault detachment had its own assault weapons, but they didn't even want to get close to the pale yellow façade of the church ring with the help of bazookas, and the fire from the German commanding heights tightly controlled the area! The church was built so well that direct fire with small arms did not work at all, and it was not only a threat to the garrison of the church and the nearby German troops, but the observation post on the heights could clearly see this large area and guide the artillery shelling!

It is very close to the Nereis River, but there are still German troops on the north side of the river, and the Red Army cannons cannot reach close and accurate direct fire, although the 152-mm heavy artillery can be shelled under the guidance of the observation post, but that will completely destroy the church - although the deputy commander said that the road can be opened with artillery, but the Red Army needs this commanding height: there are no taller buildings nearby, and further east is a huge park, this commanding height is of great significance, and with a heavy bombardment of large-caliber howitzers, the consequence is that there will be no hair left!

Now the church against the backdrop of snow is no longer beautiful, like a man-eating monster, devouring the lives of Red Army soldiers!

What to do?!

When the commander of the assault detachment was crushed in the woods and could only fight back with an 82-mm mortar, a 76.2-mm cannon of the ZIS-3 type appeared behind them.

The artillerymen pushed the cannon forward with manpower, because the vehicles were all left behind, and the obstacle made it impossible for the jeep to pass at once - the soldiers dismantled the cannon, and the men of the two artillery squads simply used manpower to carry the heavy cannon components over!

The commander of the infantry battalion shouted to the artillery lieutenant who led the team: "Knock down all the fire points in the church, and the walls!" ”

Lieutenant Shuklin Artillery instructed the soldiers to push the cannon forward, "Captain, send a few people to the rear to help us carry the shells, the car can't come now!" ”

"Those damn sappers haven't made the way yet!?" Comrade battalion commander scolded over and over again, and shouted over and over again for a squad of people to carry shells. Now it depends on this cannon, but the artillerymen have carried 5 shells, which is simply not enough.

(The first one today, there is another one later in the evening, by the way, ask for a few monthly passes, hehe.) (To be continued.) )