"Prepare to fight trench stations for two months, still in the worst muddy season. Lin Jun tapped the map of Vilnius on the table, "The Germans are also digging trenches, and the entire south side is digging, especially in the south direction.www.biquge.info ”

"The west side of the city is a water network area, and the east side is relatively high, but it is enough to choke. We faced autumn mud in Minsk, but it was supported by the Stalin Line, and then it was all street fighting inside the city, and we haven't fought for decades in the trench stations around the suburbs, and in the Far East and in Finland, it's like going back to the First World War. ”

War is a strange animal, changing and repeating tactics from a long time ago: when a new technology that changes war is used, war abandons the way that everyone is familiar with; When the other side has enough countermeasures, and both sides are familiar with it, then it is likely that the way of war will go back!

Hitler's "blitzkrieg" was somewhat similar to Napoleon's cavalry tactics, and although there were many differences, the assault capabilities and great mobility were similar - but one contributed to the creation of the trenches (although for far more than that). and the other seems to have put an end to the trench station.

At the beginning of the First World War, most armies believed that it would be a short war, and both sides would use the strategy and tactics of the Napoleonic period: the cavalry units were sent to the front, and the cavalry commanders did not think at all that the cavalry was helpless in the face of dense firepower!

Dig trenches! Simple trenches gradually turned into large areas of fortifications, and no man's land was created in the open space between the two trenches, but the appearance of tanks made these suddenly obsolete.

However, if the time and place were right, and the opponent had enough anti-tank weapons, the "blitzkrieg" marked by the rapid assault of the tanks would not work, and now the Germans have tasted it.

Back to the way of the First World War - dig!

To the south of the railway station, as the rain subsided, the lad was rebuilding his fortifications in the trench under the guidance of the officer—the trench was too straight, and one trench was not enough, but the bunkers had to be connected behind the mud wall.

"The trenches should be dug in a zigzag shape, and nothing could be seen ten meters in the trenches, and the trenches of this shape would protect the infantry inside when the enemy attacked from the flanks, otherwise all the troops inside would be exposed to enemy fire, and the casualties would be heavy! A burst of weapons can kill a series of shots at one end at a time! ”

Benjamin would have been the "chief engineer", because he was the only one who was most familiar with the most stubborn trench system, and with the trench system of the Red Army, he thought that it would be as difficult for the Germans to break through a well-established mixed line of defense in such a season as it was to walk back to Berlin!

"There's also a back wall to be built at the back, and we didn't pay attention to the front when we dug it."

Tozić was a little puzzled, looked at the simple drawings drawn by Benjamin on the white paper and asked: "Build a wall at the back, isn't it high on both sides?" ”

"We're not building anti-tank trenches, just one side is high." Suddenly, Benjamin seemed to say something wrong with himself, "Wrong, the anti-tank trench is higher on the back." ”

glared at the sergeant, as if returning to the years when he had taught his subordinates: "If you are shelled at close range, this back wall can save your life, otherwise your upper body will become a sieve!" ”

"Also, try to find as many planks as you can, and lay them all at the bottom of the trench, so that they can be waterproof, and the trench feet are not a joke! People should move as much as possible, change shifts for a short time, and lie down as much as possible during breaks. ”

"There should be more perforations in the breast wall of the trench, and more simple periscopes should be prepared, so that people can go to the houses on the back street to find the mirrors." Ivanov's "ultimate trench" is obviously based on the German trenches of World War I, coupled with the typical firepower matching model of the Red Army's positional warfare, at first glance it can be described as "up and down, front and rear cover, deep configuration, impregnable"!

The first line is infantry, plus individual anti-tank fire points, which is the first line of trenches at present; The second line was behind the mud wall, with more distant anti-tank support points, an arc-shaped defense with a focus on anti-tank support points - but the anti-tank guns were basically prepared with high-explosive shells, because the German tanks would not be present for the time being.

The rear defensive reserve was a matter for the higher-ups, but it was the same as Benjamin had in mind—that in the area north of Station Street, there were infantry units that were being recharged in fortified buildings.

That line is also equipped with a third line of fire, which is basically mortars.

At the end of the city was the commanding heights of the city and the curved artillery group on the north bank of the Nereis River, and together with the general headquarters, the whole defensive system was formed.

The infantry were going out on their backs to tear down any structure that could be used to build trenches, and the most important thing was the planks - not only the ground, but also the walls of those trenches needed to be reinforced with planks.

The citizens have no opinion on the Red Army's behavior of demolishing the house, and if it is demolished, the house will be demolished, and the house will basically not be saved after the fight.

The Germans on the opposite side were also digging, and their conditions were worse, but there were also a small number of bombed-out buildings south of the station for support, but those headquarters would be farther away for the time being, because a few shells would fly over the cold head.

As soon as the Red Army artillery fired, the Germans returned fire, but as if an appointment, the shells were not dense, and several shots were settled.

After Benjamin gave a lesson to a group of nearby grassroots commanders, everyone went back to their own companies and commanded their subordinates according to the words of the "German veterans."

Benjamin and Tozic went to the first line of trenches, where the banker was in his bunker to familiarize himself with his new rifle—the infantry company next door had heard that there was a sharpshooter among the Jewish volunteers, and sent an extra sniper rifle.

The assault sappers knew how to use it, but they didn't think they were as good as Moses' marksmanship, so they told him what the fourteen divisions in the PE scope were and how to distinguish them.

This is a Mosin-Nagant 91-30 sniper rifle with a 0.62 kg PE type scope and a very reliable fixture. There are fourteen divisions in the scope, representing 100 to 1400 meters, of course, few snipers will use it to shoot at targets beyond 600 meters, which is a job that only professional snipers can be sure of.

Most of the snipers in the Red Army, like other soldiers, had only received a short training, and could be said to be infantry with better shooting skills, but because of the large base and the fact that this sniper operation was always advocated by the Red Army, the ability to strike at the enemy was very considerable - Moses would have become a part of these "front-line snipers".

But Tozić did not know that soon another part of the Red Army snipers - a group of real snipers would arrive in Vilnius.

At this time, it seems that someone in the south is shouting, it is the Germans!

"What are they going to do?!" I don't understand - what is this shouting for, idle and idle to engage in political propaganda?

（。 There's still time, another chapter, there are a lot of typos, and they've been corrected. (To be continued.) )