"Britain and France are treacherous! They flirted with the Germans and finally sold their loyal allies to fierce wolves! Wait! One day they will all eat their own bitter fruit! No one can escape! No one can run away! " Petain roared and fell down in anger. He could pick up everything.
"Sir, if not, shall we retreat to the south? We can’t hide there for a while and see what Britain and France will do when the time comes, "the secret urged."
"They won’t explain to a ruined country!" Petain said with a wave, "and it’s too late to escape at this time! The German team in the south has controlled a large area and we have no more cones. "
"Sir … can’t we just sit here and wait and die?" The secret was a little scared and said, "If they go a few kilometers further, they can hit the shells directly on our heads!" "
"What can I do? My defense minister, army commander, transportation minister and civil affairs minister have all fled! I’m still trying to determine how many troops can be deployed and how many reservists can be mobilized … "
"Then let me be in charge of the Warsaw defense workers." An officer came in. He was the commander of the Warsaw Legion in Poland, Nassar-responsible for the defense of the whole Warsaw neighborhood.
A week ago, he ordered the troops to lay defensive trenches and fortifications around Warsaw, dig anti-tank trenches and lay mines in the main defensive areas. He suggested that anti-artillery should be deployed in the main areas of Warsaw, but this proposal was rejected on the grounds that it would "cause public panic."
However, the citizens still panicked. German bombers visited Warsaw frequently two days ago and dropped dozens of tons of bombs, destroying many houses and military facilities in Warsaw.
However, because this general Nassar insisted that the vicinity of Warsaw was not the best prepared city in Poland, these pre-built fortifications gave confidence and courage to Warsaw’s 50 thousand defenders, and they decided to die with the city
"I ordered to take over all Polish soldiers nearby! Gather them together and surround Warsaw! " Petain has been with this Nassar these days, and Nassar has become his most trusted army general, so Petain ordered, "Don’t let the Germans go any further!" Victory will eventually belong to us! "
Nassar never believed that victory would belong to Poland, and even less did he believe this slogan after Germany besieged the Rhodes army. What he can do now is to perform a military duty and defend his motherland to the last moment.
After receiving this order, he immediately rushed back to his command post to confirm that he could deploy the number of troops. Soon he got a more depressing news. Just now, the Germans shelled Warsaw again, and six shells hit buildings in the northwest of Warsaw city, causing dozens of civilian casualties.
However, it’s not all bad news. Warsaw can be armed with about 20 thousand reserve soldiers, counting the police and the real defense force. Nassar can form a whole million "soldiers" to defend against the German attack
In addition, there has been no news, and the Pomeranian Legion has also resumed contact. They are surrounded by places 30 kilometers away from Warsaw, and it is obviously impossible to break through. Porter Noszky intends to lead these troops who have been defeated all the way to Warsaw to hold their positions until the last moment.
Chapter 2: Surround and kill
"general! General! The Germans are attacking again! German tanks have appeared in the east block, where the troops are almost unable to hold on! They are compressing our defense lines and then shelling will reduce our morale. "An officer got into the command post and made a big report.
Come in together another officer flapping dust, his eyes still wrapped in gauze can vaguely see the blood inside "commander! News from the northern Pomeranian legion! They have broken through to the east and can’t support us to break through! These sons of bitches! At this point, you’re still running for your life! Bastard! "
"I am not deaf! You can hear the cannon! Get me the commander of the 11th Army! I want to deploy the town defense myself! Rhodes corps commander will never run away! " Rhodes legion commander Kossatz base got up and said
"The 11th army has been to pieces! The commander has surrendered with his troops in the chaos! So there is a huge loophole in our defense line! Sir! " One of the two officers bowed his head and said, "Now we have about one infantry division defense force here, and a few days ago, Lodz retreated and 10,000 down soldiers were defeated. The 13 th Army has about 20,000 people and two 75 mm caliber cannons. These troops are temporarily under the command of the two of us!"
"After all, there are still loyal soldiers in Poland." Kossatz glanced over one or more civilian officers at the headquarters and two officers who came to report said, "You should guard here! To Germany * * team fast attack blocked! Britain and the French will attack Germany from behind. They are on our side! Don’t give up! "
"yes! Commander! " The two officers nodded and said, "Sir, according to the experience of the former German team, the troops in the field will soon be defeated by the other tanks and artillery. We should be prepared for street fighting!"
Kossatz base wanted to think and said, "then simply give up some areas that don’t need defense! Troops to residential areas and near the church! I want the German army to fight to the death! "
"yes! Sir! " The two officers bowed back and went to the headquarters. It was quiet again. Kossatz looked at the war map hanging on the wall. He knew that his last moment was coming.
The Rhodes legion, Poland’s strongest first-line main army, has many tanks and the legion can directly command planes-but these weapons have been destroyed or become German battles. Kossatz base was surrounded by German troops killed from the north this time, and there is no way to escape in a not-so-huge encirclement.
A few hours later, Kossatz patrolled most of his legions’ defense lines with a dozen soldiers, and saw German troops capture positions less than 2 meters away from him. He saw a dozen German grenadiers quickly passing through the street with machine guns suppressed and covered, and then hung a huge red swastika flag in that building, which was a small factory two kilometers away from the Kossatz base headquarters. The black swastika in the white circle in the flag stung Kossatz base like a steel knife.
After a short break of tens of minutes, the sound of machine guns like sawing wood sounded again. The German soldiers’ machine guns covered the church area and launched a fierce attack on the Polish defenders. The Polish troops fought back tenaciously. In the fortifications near the church, they relied on knocking down cars as temporary anti-tank obstacles to resist the German team’s attacks inch by inch.
In the evening, this once prosperous town in the northwest of Poland was almost in ruins. Kossatz had too few troops in his hand, and he couldn’t find the reserve team until midnight, while the attack by German troops surrounding the Rhodes Army still stopped.
The fire in the town lit up the sky, the explosion and the sound of machine gun shooting were endless. Germany moved assault guns with tanks hitting the Polish army’s defense line, followed by a large number of infantry. This main force rampaged through the streets and was repelled by Polish soldiers’ grenades and machine guns in the buildings on both sides.
In the end, it turned out that not all Polish troops were on the verge of collapse, and the elite troops of the Polish Rhodes Corps still withstood the crazy attack of the powerful German team. The next morning, most of the blocks were still in the hands of the Poles, but they had been surrounded by the town, dozens of meters away from it was already German territory, and the last road had been occupied by German troops. The big army of the National Defence Force outside the city had completely closed the original huge encirclement.
The fighting lasted until ten o’clock in the afternoon, and the church had been completely destroyed. Kossatz Ji was pulled out of the ruins of the church by a subordinate officer and hid in a small town farmer’s manor, where people had gone to the building to leave a pile of broken furniture.
"Sir! Let’s protect you from breaking through! Fall back to Warsaw! Sir, you can’t die here! If you die here, Poland will really be finished! " An officer with a full face of blood brought into tears to Kossatz base advised, "let’s go! Sir! "
"Most of the troops stationed in various regions have already contacted each other. If we can get up in the middle and directly command the troops, there are about 1,000 people who lack heavy weapons and cavalry. It is difficult for us to break through!" A dusty commander analyzed, "Now I can find a way to dress up as a prisoner and find a way to escape halfway!"
"Who said I want to leave? I’m not leaving! This town is my grave in Kossatz! I want to let the Germans and the world know! Polish generals would rather die than retreat! " Kossatz Jida said
"You can die in Poland! I can also die in my native Poland! " His eyes were full of determination and he said that he had survived from the smallest second-class soldier at the grass-roots level to the commander of the legion, and even if he lost now, he had nothing to complain about.
A soldier climbed from the collapsed courtyard wall into the Kossatz base compound, slowly moving his body and finally turned into the house through a window.
He patted the dust on his body, and it was already malodorous. Suddenly, the smoke in the room rolled at the frowning soldiers and smiled. He walked into the living room.
"Sir" came to attention and saluted, as if the war had ended. "The commander of the 11th army generation has died in the civilian residential area, where the resistance has tended to collapse, and soon the Germans will take aim at it."
"Know all go back to their posts" Kossatz kenai waved with a sigh "command forces! Hold on until the last minute! Poland will be guarded by us! I hope the Polish flag will never fall! "
"yes! Sir! " Several officers stood at attention and saluted, turned and walked out of the room. The living room was filled with dust and there was a suffocating smell of decay.
Next door, a few wounded soldiers cried and screamed, and they were terminally ill. The German artillery shells exploded not far away. It seems that the other side has confirmed their position and is organizing large-caliber artillery to suppress shooting.
Kossatz base watched the officers walk out of their headquarters, pulled out their pistols from the waist and put them in the palm of their hands. He repeatedly looked at a large-caliber howitzer shell, which hit the courtyard and set off black smoke all over the sky. The whole building shook in the explosion, and a ray of broken small stones fell to hit the table covered with Yugoslav capital maps in front of Kossatz base.
Only after a short meeting, the German wehrmacht attacked the Polish defense confidence and attacked the Rhodes Army. The Germans even called two Stuka dive bombers to help with machine guns and artillery cover. The German team poured into the Polish defense position, and soon the Polish defenders were overwhelmed by the Wehrmacht fire, and the defense circle was compressed smaller and smaller. Kossatz, commander-in-chief of the Rhodes Army in Poland, ushered in his last moment.
He really didn’t have the courage to commit suicide. He was born as a businessman. He thought for a long time with a pistol and didn’t have the courage to shoot himself in the head. He just sat there and listened to the soldiers shouting outside. He knew that death was getting closer and closer to him.
"You! With you! Help over there! Tell Marva to hold on! I have no support for him! " A pitch shouted, and someone over there replied, "Yes! Sir! "
"Jackel there? What? No one came back to report the situation! Get in touch! Quick! " Another voice trembled and questioned but couldn’t hear the answer clearly.
Suddenly, a large-caliber shell directly hit the small building of Kossatz Foundation, which was already full of cracks. The building was overwhelmed and suddenly collapsed. Kossatz Foundation knew nothing when it was black at the moment.
Kossatz, the most elite Polish Middle Road Corps and the general commander of Rhodes Corps, was killed in the battlefield by a large-caliber howitzer in an inconspicuous two-story building in a small town in the east of Kiroz.
Half an hour later, this small town, which held on for two days, stopped resisting. A group of German soldiers climbed the commanding heights of the city, which was already in ruins. The church planted a red swastika flag symbolizing the bloodshed and sacrifice of comrades. There was no army to stop the Germans from advancing in front of Germany to Warsaw.
Rommel can finally adjust the direction of attack. Just now, the SS troops sent a message. arcado, the head of state? Rudolph is going to the northern army to inspect the enemy capital city … This time Rommel didn’t hesitate. He decided how much he would spit out to Poland in one breath.
Chapter 21 21 People’s Hearts
As soon as arcado landed at the airport of the German front line army, he met his old acquaintance Studente, a German paratrooper commander with a full face of anxiety. Before several heads of the northern front line saluted the Fuehrer, he grabbed the front and reached arcado.
"Long live the Fuehrer!" Studente’s behavior of standing at attention first was very unpleasant, but he was eager to see that the Fuehrer, who had appreciated him, would not say another word.
"It seems that our paratroopers commander-in-chief is very wronged these days." arcado looked at the embarrassing atmosphere and raised his mouth to make a joke. "Is it because the food at the front line is really not appetizing? Or did the army canteen not give you soup? "
"Ha ha ha" several army generals laughed while covering their mouths, but some senior generals were not quite laughing. All this made Aka look at his eyes. He didn’t say anything more about looking at Studente.
"My head of state! I have something very important to report to you. Please allow me to talk to you alone for a while. I’m sure your understanding of paratroopers will worry me, "Studente said, staring at arcado’s eyes."
"It seems that our paratrooper commander really has something important to talk about with me." arcado motioned for everyone to move forward. "Anyway, I didn’t go to the pilot dormitory at the airport in advance. By the way, let’s borrow a room to talk about Studente. I hope our paratrooper commander didn’t cause me any trouble."
On the way to the airport pilot’s dormitory while visiting, arcado also looked at the airport runway, and the fw19d fighter chatted with the pilot of the plane. Then he held the plane and took some photos to meet the needs of Fanny Xuan, and then he found a room to meet with the paratroopers commander General Studente who was anxious to see him.
"If my Fuehrer makes paratroopers like this, we will lose this powerful unit that you created by yourself," Studentmen said as soon as he saw the mountain open his mouth.
Arcado was stunned by his words before he asked, "Isn’t it normal that all armies will be made one day from the time they are established? Didn’t you and I make a plan for the Polish paratroopers? "
Arcado asked with a frown before Studente continued, "I told you a lot about paratroopers and tried my best to equip paratroopers with the most suitable weapons and equipment and the highest supply treatment … Isn’t that the most difficult thing for paratroopers to complete the most dangerous and worst conditions?" Don’t be afraid of loss, strengthen your confidence to exercise this paratrooper team! "
"My Fuehrer" Studente thought for a moment before he spoke again. "You know the original battle plan that paratroopers will descend to the back of the Polish defense line to control bridges and important traffic. They will leave about one hour earlier than the ground troops and put their troops in the area about 4 kilometers behind enemy lines. The main purpose of this operation is to accumulate large-scale experience in paratroopers’ battles and various data for future battles."
"Now that you know what you are in such a hurry to see me? Even if the paratroopers suffered losses, it is not too much for you to feel so distressed. "arcado looked at Studente and said with some displeasure.
"My Fuehrer, the Ministry of National Defense, is treating the paratroopers you have painstakingly built as super infantry. I think this is a serious wave," Studente said.
"Super Infantry?" Arcado was stupefied and then suddenly realized something. "You and I will talk about what’s going on in detail."
"My Fuehrer’s incident should start with the good news that the ground attack in Poland was very smooth." Studente knew that the Fuehrer had guessed this incident and probably seemed very angry. The Fuehrer supported him, so he quickly said, "Our army advanced dozens of kilometers a day and broke through the Polish border defense line faster than marching to other countries."
"Then what?" Arcado looked a little cold and stared at Studente.
"Then the problem came up," Studente said. "The army found that a large number of infantry troops were deployed at the border and the armored troops were moving at the same speed, but they felt that there were too few troops accompanying the tank attack."
"Sometimes they used trucks and armored vehicles to attack with tanks, and then they recruited people’s cars and racked their brains to benefit Polish trains and railways," Studente said, while a map of military warfare next to it simply explained, "Finally, the innovation of attack means made our land attack a simple speed competitive cavalry, which was regarded as a treasure by the army, because fewer cavalry could go with tanks to capture the prisoners."
"Go on!" Arcado adjusted his mood and sighed a mouthful of polluted air.
"Then they remembered that my paratroopers came to me at first," Studente said. "They said that the infantry couldn’t keep up with the front-line tank units, and some tank units lost their infantry cover because of the fast attack speed. They asked me if I could make a local paratroopers drop the cover and the tanks continued to attack."
He said that the mood here was a little excited. "I didn’t think it was a big deal at that time, so I nodded and agreed, but who knows that because of the faster paratroopers covering the army tanks, more gaps were created, and my paratroopers were all put into the battlefield in batches and turned into high-speed infantry."
Arcado suddenly found himself underestimating the minds of these German experts, who turned paratroopers into elite infantry in their previous lives, but this time the fantasy went to the other extreme.
He has a deep feeling that all kinds of things out of control in the past days have flooded into his mind, making his head swell and hurt. Although he has tried hard to bring his advanced experience in his past life to the world, Germany has found that it is still necessary to face the problem of centrifugal force to control all large institutions.
Although his own ideas have been proved by history, although many regulations have been proved to be accurate by blood and bones later, they still cannot be perfectly implemented in every corner of the empire. For one reason or another, his planned future has been disrupted again and again into a nondescript four-elephant.
Arcado would like to know how those people who traveled to ancient times made a huge empire as an arm to instruct those things that happened in a certain corner to take more than ten days to reach the capital for bad communication; Those corrupt bureaucracies that are duplicitous and corrupt can be weird. After a certain procuratorate is established, it becomes fine and tough-even recruits trained in a few months can beat back the strong enemy …
It sounds like the world in the story is so beautiful, but in the real world, things are cruel facts. The navy and the army sank a warship because of squabbling. The entanglement between the army and paratroopers almost ruined him, and he will rely on paratroopers in the future; The army even left all the arms behind and launched the war against Poland one step ahead, disrupting the original plan to a point beyond recognition.
"Call them all in," arcado said to Studente. Even if he is angry again, he can’t accuse half the commanders of the entire German wehrmacht. He can slowly change himself and change everyone who can keep pace with him.
Everyone walked in here one by one, so it was not a big hut. arcado and others gathered together before saying, "I have another way for paratroopers. In the future, this unit must be approved by me after being discussed by the Defence Force General Command and the General Staff! Is it white? "