The 1st Division of Gelchek conducted a fire reconnaissance of an unprecedented scale on the orders of Polsky. The division commander, who had just been scolded by Polsky for the pontoon incident, took out his housekeeping skills under tremendous pressure and threw two regiments into the so-called fire reconnaissance in one go.

The 100th Regiment was in charge of the main attack, and the 101st Regiment was cooperating from the side, except for the 102nd, which had suffered some losses in the previous battle, to rest in place. Gelček threw in all the troops he could.

This was not so much a fire reconnaissance as a sudden assault. For the officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the East Prussian People's Liberation Army, who had just crossed the Bug River and were building an advance position near the river beach, the battle broke out somewhat suddenly.

Because the Poles had no intention of fighting before, they gave up the pontoon bridge, and then watched them build a bridgehead, and waited until they consolidated their positions, and when they thought that the Poles were cowards and could take a breath, the battle suddenly began.

The 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment, which was responsible for guarding the front line, was the first to be attacked by the Poles, and first a burst of artillery fire was launched, and the Poles fired hundreds of shells in one go, blowing up the positions of the 1st Company.

Most of the officers and men of the 1 company were unprepared and lost almost a third of their brothers under artillery fire. Just when the officers and men of the 1st Company hurriedly burrowed into foxholes and trenches to avoid shelling, the main battalion of the 100th Regiment directly began to charge.

An entire battalion drowned the 1st Company in one breath, and the 1st Company, which was in a hurry, made almost only symbolic resistance. was defeated. When this company withdrew to the main positions of the battalion. Half of the casualties have already been lost!

"What the hell are you fighting!"

The instigation of the 1st Company made the commander of the 1st Regiment quite annoyed. The superiors told him three times that he must pay attention to the next battle and not be prepared to have any sloppy feelings of underestimating the enemy. But now it's good, half of the sharp knife companies of his main battalion were killed and injured in the blink of an eye because of carelessness, isn't this giving him eye medicine, isn't it a slap in the face?

"Fight back! Retake your ground for me at once! "1 The regimental commander immediately made a decision.

This is also a resolute character, and when he says that he fights back, he fights back immediately, and he is particularly fierce when he fights back.

When the Poles were ready to continue their fire reconnaissance in depth. When they were about to take the opportunity to expand the victory, they ran head-on into the counterattack of the 1st regiment. On the open river beach, the Poles ran head-on into the Jewish cavalry, and in the blink of an eye the two sides became entangled, and bloody hand-to-hand combat began.

It should be said that the terrain was not very favorable to both sides, and for the Jewish cavalry, the soft sand could not fully exert the impact of the cavalry, which greatly reduced the power of their assault; And for the Poles, there was practically no shelter on the empty river beach. They could only use their flesh and blood to meet the enemy cavalry riding on tall horses and wielding glittering sabers.

The end result was that the Jewish cavalry was superior in skill and only used a single charge. The Polish troops were cut to pieces, and then the spinning sabers continued to bleed the Poles, and the troops, who had just defeated the 1st Company, collapsed in an instant before they could carefully touch the taste of victory.

"Damn it!" This time it was the turn of the Polish regiment commander to scold his mother, "Let the second battalion go to meet the first battalion, and let the third battalion be ready for battle!" ”

Judging from the words of the regiment commander, he had no intention of giving up, this was preparing to compete with the 1st Cavalry Division on the river beach.

On the following night, the two sides went back and forth, and there was a repeated battle for positions on the river beach. The two sides continued to put large forces into it, and it developed from small fights at the company and platoon level to repeated tug-of-war between entire battalions and regiments.

After a night of fierce fighting, neither side was able to bargain for anything, and the Jewish cavalry still firmly controlled the bridgehead on the river beach and secured the pontoon bridge. But at the same time, they did not follow Ubolevich's orders and quickly develop in depth. All in all, the two sides played to a draw.

After dawn, the battle stopped abruptly, just as it had broken out before. The Poles, who had been very excited before, and were ready to ignore Qiē, suddenly became honest again. They abruptly disengaged with the Jews and retreated back to the forward positions on the outskirts of Upper Maukinia.

The reason is simple, Polsky had already obtained reports of fire reconnaissance, and when he learned that there was at least one cavalry regiment on the river beach, and one cavalry regiment and one infantry regiment of the enemy on the other side of the river, he knew that the worst had happened.

"It has been preliminarily found that the enemy in front of me is at least one cavalry division, and after this group of enemies, it has been found that there are at least two enemy divisions. From this estimate, this is definitely the main force of the enemy! ”

At the end of this report, Polsky made a very earnest request to Pilsudski: "The enemy has a large number of troops, and with the combat strength of our First Army, I am afraid that it will not last, and I have forgotten that your Excellency has done everything possible to reinforce the north, and the objectives envisaged in the campaign have been achieved." ”

When Pilsudski received this report, he was still a little suspicious, although Polsky said it conclusively, but he still had doubts, could he continue to wait and see? What if this is still a Jewish ruse?

Pilsudski waited for the morning, and his own troops remained in Warsaw, except for Polsky's orders to continue to intensify reconnaissance.

It was not until noon, when Polsky told him that two divisions of the Jews had crossed the Bug River, and that two more divisions were crossing the river, that he took action.

"The 11th and 12th Divisions and the 202nd Mixed Brigade will immediately move north along the railway line and must arrive at Vauhuf by 5 p.m. tomorrow."

Pilsudski threw in all the troops he could get at hand in one go, and it looked a bit ruined. However, his next sentence revealed his essence: "We must be vigilant on this march, we must do a good job of reconnaissance, and we must not blindly rush forward!" ”

Well, this last order made the commanders of the 11th and 12th divisions and the commander of the 202 mixed brigade very confused. Your old man gave a death order to arrive at Vohov at 5 p.m. to-morrow, and then said that we must be careful not to enter. What the hell. Are you telling us to whip our horses and whip them on our way? Or let's be cautious and take it one step at a time?

All in all. These three are contradictory. I don't know how to interpret Pilsudski's orders. So the three of them came to three different conclusions. The 11th Division thinks that soldiers are fast and saving lives is like fighting fires, so hurry up; The 12th Division felt that if His Excellency the President just wanted to emphasize speed, then there was no need to mention the latter words at all, since it was mentioned, it must be meaningful, and the latter words were the point, so it was necessary to rush the road, but it was safe first; As for the miscellaneous 202 mixed brigade. They were already afraid of the enemy, and after Pilsudski's reminder, they were even more intimidated.

In the words of the brigade commander Daminsky: "We are a ragtag, there is no need to steal the limelight with the regular army, right?" Besides, we hurried all the way to Warsaw, and we didn't have time to catch our breath, where did we have so much energy to rush forward...... It's good to slow down, let's just do the crane tail! ”

So the three divisions went out of Warsaw, which was fast and slow, showing that the 11th Division was the first and the 12th Division was in the middle. 202 mixed into a brigade to drop the last long snake formation. That is to say, when the 11th Division collided headlong with the blocking forces of Li Xiaofeng and Trian Dafilov in Vovomin, the difference in strength between the two sides was not large. The Poles simply did not have any advantages.

"There are enemies?"

The commander of the 11th Division, Rodwick, was a little surprised, according to the information given to him by Pilsudski, the main force of the Jews should be in Upper Maukinia, where did the Jews come from.

"How many enemies are there?" Rodwick hurriedly asked.

In his opinion, if the enemy was not too numerous, it was likely to be either a small force behind the palace of the Jews, or simply a blocking force left behind by the Jews. But his subordinates brought him shocking news:

"The enemy must have exceeded two divisions, and according to the information provided by the Vovomin refugees, there are at least three brigades on the opposite side!"

"Three brigades?"

Rodvik was taken aback, and according to intelligence, Jewish brigades generally numbered five to six thousand men, and at most even seven or eight thousand, almost equivalent to the divisions of the Polish Wehrmacht. Three brigades can withstand at least three of his divisions, and if Vovomin really has so many enemies, then what is it that is not the main force of the enemy?

Rodwick was nervous, and he immediately informed Pilsudski of the news, and he had to think about his troops. As mentioned earlier, his troops rushed to the front, pulling away from the 12th Division and the 202nd Mixed Brigade behind. This gave Rodwick a dangerous hallucination, he felt that he was too prominent, and it was very likely that he would be dumpled by the enemy!

"Your Excellency, I strongly request a moratorium on the advance towards Whohuf...... If our troops continue to advance, there is a high risk that they will be surrounded by Jewish bandits! ”

After receiving Rodwick's telegram, Pilsudski was also puzzled by the second monk, Polsky said that the main force of the Jews was in Upper Maukinia, but Rodwick said that he had encountered the main force of the Jews in Vovomin. Which side of the information is accurate? You can't have two main Jewish forces, right?

After some thought, Pilsudski decided that there must have been a lie between Rodwick and Polsky. So his decision was to once again ask Polsky to conduct a fire reconnaissance, and ordered Rodwick not to retreat, but to attack the enemy in front of him at once, and to find out what the enemy was doing!

Rodwick didn't like this order, he always felt that Pilsudski was going to use his troops to detect mines, in case he ran into the main force of the Jews, his army of less than 9,000 men was not a meat bun to fight dogs?

However, Pilsudski's order could not be disobeyed, so Rodwick adopted a workaround, on the one hand, he ordered the main force of the division to stop advancing, and on the other hand, he organized small units to conduct fire reconnaissance.

What about the results of fire reconnaissance? It should be said that it made Rodwick even more frightened, because he threw these small reconnaissance troops into the sea, like pebbles thrown into the sea, and disappeared without a single wave stirring.

According to a few lucky people who escaped by chance, "The enemy's fire was quite fierce, there were no less than 100 heavy machine guns, and even more light machine guns, and the brothers were engulfed by their fire nets in an instant!" ”

"Where's the cannon?" Rodvik is most concerned about this, if the enemy has heavy artillery, then it is appropriate that the enemy's main force is not running.

"The enemy artillery is quite large, it can rain dozens of shells at us every minute, and it also has a lot of powerful heavy artillery...... Divisional commander, please hurry up and report to the above. We can't keep rushing. Otherwise, there is no return! ”

The Scout's words made Rodwick cool down in half. Hundreds of heavy machine guns, light machine guns that can't be counted, and heavy artillery, how can this be fought? Isn't this a cheat!

So what's going on? Let's talk about it one by one, it is true that the numbers of three brigades appeared in Wovomin, but the appearance of these numbers does not mean that these troops are all in Vovomin.

There is only one brigade in Li Xiaofeng's hands that is fully staffed, and that is his GRU, and the other two brigades are all shelves. Let's just say that most of the forces of the remaining two brigades were taken away by Ubolevich. Only one or two battalions of troops were left for Li Xiaofeng. In other words, Li Xiaofeng has nothing but GRU at hand, and the remaining troops can only make up one regiment.

As for weapons, I have to say that the GRU's equipment is too good, the whole brigade uses fully automatic weapons, and the firepower is not strong? As for what heavy artillery, it was the Poles who were stunned, and the so-called large-caliber heavy artillery was nothing more than a 160-mm mortar battalion.

Unfortunately, Pilsudski did not know the real situation. Although he was still skeptical of Rodwick's report, it also caused him to miscalculate. He began to meditate. I began to wonder how many troops the Jews had, could it be that the Jews had set off smoke bombs again, when in fact their strength was far more than 100,000 men?

At the thought of this possibility, Pilsudski fidgeted, wondering whether he should stick to the original battle plan, or simply abandon the battle, and ordered Polsky to retreat to Bialystok to preserve his strength. Wait for the godfather to get rid of the Germans, and then rely on the godfather's power to find trouble with the Jews?

For an hour or two, Pilsudski swayed from side to side, never able to make up his mind. Since he, the great president, is undecided, the people below naturally began to wait and see. Rodwick's 11th Division quietly retreated five kilometers back, out of contact with Li Xiaofeng; After receiving the news, the 12th Division also immediately stepped on the brakes and began to wait and see; As for the 202 Mixed Brigade, this brigade was the most slippery, and when it saw that the shape was not good, it retracted back to Warsaw.

That is to say, when the decisive battle of Upper Maukinia had already begun, Pilsudski's reinforcements had been grinding for a whole day. Especially after dark, the gang was even more reluctant to move, on the grounds that the Jews were good at night fighting, so they couldn't take risks!

And on this night, the war in Shangma-Ukinia was in full swing. Ubolevich quickly sent two divisions to the river during the day, firmly controlled the vicinity of the river beach, and established a strong bridgehead.

After nightfall, Polsky seemed to sense that the situation was not good, and asked Pilsudski for advice on countermeasures, hoping that the great president would quickly give an explanation, whether to leave or stay, and to quickly give a conclusion. On the other hand, he also harassed Ubolevich as much as he could, launching wave after wave of attacks.

Laris, a Jewish veteran who took part in the battle, recalled: "After nightfall, the enemy's activity became more and more frequent, and they harassed us with small forces, and after tossing and turning for several hours, they suddenly threw in a whole battalion and regiment to attack...... I remember that night the gunfire did not stop, especially after the enemy launched a strong attack, not only the gunfire was loud, but also the artillery of all calibers began to roar......"

It has to be said that Polsky chose the wrong opponent, before he suppressed Mironov on the river beach with artillery fire and bullied Lao Mi fiercely. At that time, Mironov was barely able to fight back, he did not have much artillery when he advanced lightly, and a small number of small-caliber mortars could not help the field and mountain artillery of the Poles.

Polsky probably felt that all the Jewish armies lacked heavy firepower, so he repeated the same tactics. According to his idea: to press the enemy to the beachhead with artillery, to prevent the enemy from advancing in depth, to buy a little more time.

As I said, Polsky chose the wrong opponent. Ubolevich is not a lightly armed Mironov, and the artillery in his hands is still relatively powerful. He has a lot of rocket artillery, but he is not afraid of artillery warfare at all.

So when the Polish artillery had just begun to speak, the Jewish rocket artillery taught them a profound lesson, and in the blink of an eye 48 rocket artillery pieces of a Katyusha rocket artillery regiment poured more than 700 shells on the Poles.

In the words of Laris: "In the blink of an eye, the sky is bright!" A sea of fire appeared in front of us, and the violent explosion lasted for several minutes. When the battlefield was calm, there was only a scorched earth ahead of us...... The Poles who rushed to the charge were all gone, and there was not even a bit of scum left! ”

The heavy shelling left a lasting impression on Polksky, in which his two infantry battalions were largely wiped out, and only 12 out of 10 made it out of the scorched earth alive. Even the Poles, who were watching from the sidelines, were frightened, and they refused to obey the orders of their superiors to continue the charge, on the ground: "I don't want to be evaporated by the rain of steel!" ”

In fact, Polsky should be glad, he should be glad that Li Xiaofeng just gave birth to Katyusha in advance, I have to say that Katyusha's range is a little insufficient, if it is replaced by a real BM21 hail, it is not those charging soldiers who enjoy the rain of bullets, but Polksky's artillery.

Imagine if Polsky's artillery had been wiped out on the second day of the battle, how would he have fought next?

But it wasn't all bad news for Polsky, and at dawn, when he was overwhelmed by the Jewish fire, Pilsudski's decision finally came: "Hold on to Mauquinia, and I will soon go to encircle the main force of the Jewish bandits!" (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank Comrade Juventus and the little monk for being able to hold the comrade!