The Third Reich in Desperation

A few minutes later, another staff officer brought Lieutenant Lyon.After all, they are all in the narrow city center. If there is no obstacle, it can be transmitted from the next street in four to five minutes.

"The Poles have been surrounded by the army group from the outside. As you can see, the Polish army on our periphery is now overwhelmed and has stopped attacking the city." Upon meeting, Hans briefly introduced the situation to Lyon.

"General Hans!" Leon stood at attention and saluted: "The 7th company is now fully organized and can accept any mission. Please issue instructions!"

"Okay!" Hans straightened Leon's collar and wiped off the dust on it: "Now the command tells me to fight back, so I need a troop to find the way. This task is very dangerous and arduous, and I have to work hard for you." .”

Ever since he temporarily joined the 30th Division, Hans has not mobilized the friendly troops brought by Lyon except for emergencies.

Lyon and the others originally belonged to a company of the 14th Division of the 8th Army of the 8th Army. They fell behind due to special reasons, and then caught up with the logistics convoy of the Eighth Army. This became the 30th Division by accident. The only support army.

After all, he was temporarily transferred by the army group headquarters, and Hans was embarrassed to throw others's to the front line as soon as he came up.Had it not been for the precarious defense line, he would not have brought all of Lyon's troops to the front line even if he had brought his gun to the front line.

Even after withdrawing into the city of Lodz, Hans arranged the 7th company in the inner ring area.The purpose is to let the friendly army who came here live a little longer, and it can be regarded as a repayment for their assistance.

But now, Hans really has no organized troops to transfer.The organizational system of the 30th Division has been in chaos, and some battalions now even have only one platoon of people, and it is impossible to organize an attack at all.The only company with a complete organizational structure is the 7th company in Lyon.

Text Chapter 178 Surrender

After two gunshots, Leon saw an incredible scene.

Column after column of Polish soldiers dropped their guns and raised their hands in surrender.All of a sudden, the voices of kneeling and begging for mercy sounded one after another.

Lyon watched in shock what happened before him. Hundreds of Polish soldiers lined up and raised their hands, walking slowly towards the row led by Bruce.Behind them, there were guns piled up as high as a hill, and three cannons of terrible caliber.But with so many weapons, plus an infantry battalion of soldiers, in the end they actually raised their hands and surrendered to a company of enemy troops!

"Bruce, now you can fucking brag when you go back, your platoon is guarding a battalion of enemy troops now!" Leon laughed happily.

After listening to Lyon's words, Bruce also joked: "I knew it was so simple, why did we have to train so hard in the first row. Only in the end did we find out that we only need to learn how to shoot."

I have to say that the luck of the 7th company can be regarded as against the sky.First, I fell behind in taking promotional photos and missed the first round of the battle.Later, when he was transferred to serve as reinforcements for the 30th Division in the fierce battle, he was sent to a sub-position where there were not many enemy troops to respond to the retreat of the defenders.Relying on a sniper to snipe and kill Polish soldiers from a distance, the 7th Company hardly lost a single soldier.

During the street fighting, they were left in the innermost block for defense. Before the Polish army came in, the siege of the Southern Army Group began, forcing the Polish army to stop its attack on the city of Lodz.

In the end, Lyon and the others managed to accept a threatening counterattack mission, but encountered the lowest morale of the Polish army.A group of Polish troops who had lost contact with the headquarters, had just been bombed by the terrifying Stuka, and encountered the 7th company that fired.Without even wasting time to think about it, they simply surrendered!

Leon, who was suspicious of fraud, asked Bruce to lead a platoon to accept the prisoners, and led the rest of them to stand guard with their guns at a distance.

However, when hundreds of Polish soldiers were obediently driven by Bruce to squat in a corner, Lyon fully believed that there would be no conspiracy in the Polish army's quick surrender.The guns are all gone, the guns are gone, hundreds of people are willing to squat in the corner, what is this not a surrender?

"Take them back to Rhodes City, and report to Commander Hans about the situation of this tentative attack." Leon decided after thinking about it.

When the people from Lyon drove groups of captives back to the downtown area of ​​Rhodes, several soldiers on the street were so frightened that they almost thought that the Polish army was coming and wanted to fire back.Fortunately, these Polish soldiers raised their hands in time, indicating that they had no weapons, and the soldiers of the 7th company explained to the defenders one by one, thus avoiding the accident of forcibly killing the prisoners.

When a group of captives appeared outside Hans' temporary division headquarters, even Hans himself was taken aback.That's nearly as fucking as many as the rest of the 30th Division (except Lieutenant Leon's company)!

After preliminary statistics, it was found that there were a total of 654 prisoners in this group, of which the highest ranks were only a few lieutenants.After a Polish-speaking translator at the division headquarter finished asking, Hans learned that the Polish army in front of him belonged to an artillery regiment, and lost the regiment commander and the commander who gathered to discuss the battle situation under the dive bombing of the German Stuka. The battalion commander also lost contact with the headquarters.

Therefore, when Leon and others appeared, their first reaction was not to fight back, but to find a way to avoid being bombed by the Luftwaffe—surrender.

Finding that the Poles were so vulnerable, Hans suddenly regained the feeling of the first few days of the attack, the feeling of overwhelming power!

"Order! Gather all active people, cooperate with the peripheral troops to launch a central assault, and teach those Poles a lesson." Hans slammed his palm on the conference table, and smiled excitedly: "Being pressed and beaten so much It's been a while, and it's our turn to fight back. If we don't educate these Polish grandchildren, they will think that our 30th Division is a good boy who can't fight back!"

Although the Polish High Command still tried to order the besieged army to break out of the siege, although the command of the besieged Polish army tried to resist a little.However, under the sudden air strikes by the German army again and again, the various departments of the Polish army were in chaos, and lost contact with the headquarters one after another, becoming a defeated army.

As of September 9, the Polish Army Command in the encirclement chose to announce its surrender on the 30th day of the battle, ending this senseless German resistance.A vigorous counterattack launched by the Polish Supreme Command became a huge result of the German Army Group South.

Among them, the German 10th Army Group captured 8 Polish troops, captured 320 artillery pieces, 130 aircraft, and 25 tanks (all of which were captured in scattered infantry units).

The German 8th Army Group reported that it captured 10 Polish troops. Among them, the 30th Division under Hans alone captured [-] Polish soldiers who were about to surrender.

In this battle, the Polish army lost part of a main group army and 10 garrison divisions (a small number of them escaped from the encirclement).Due to the huge loss of troops, the Polish army has never been able to organize any form of counterattack on the Western Front.After all, they lost nearly half of the total number of troops on the Western Front in this battle.Coupled with the fact that more than [-] troops were captured and killed at the border, the Polish army is now unable to even organize an effective defense.

To sum up, the commanders and decision makers of the German army in this battle, the famous German general Lundstedt, who was the commander of the Southern Army Group at the time, and Manstein, the "director of the Führer" who was the chief of staff of the Southern Army Group at the time, .With these two present, Reinhardt didn't even bother the German High Command a little more.

The conspirators and decision-makers in Poland were the fledgling but extremely conceited French officer corps leader Belante, and the Polish Marshal Smigray who had outdated combat thinking.The Polish High Command, where these two people belonged, was unaware of Manstein's trap, but kept trying to get deeper into the trap.

In this battle known as the Battle of the Bzura River by later generations, the Polish army was invincible when attacking, and even more defeated and defeated when defending.In general, the performance of the Polish army throughout the campaign was lackluster, showing no strength to match their ambitions.

At the strategic level, the superb command art of German generals is far higher than that of Polish military commanders by more than one level.Manstein's strategy of acting on the spur of the moment, fighting with the camera, acting cunningly, and slanting his sword almost directly broke the backbone of the Polish army on the western front, causing the Polish army on the western front to collapse after a setback.

In the end, the German army exchanged for the surrender of 18 Polish troops with very few casualties, and the casualties of tens of thousands of Polish troops, creating another miracle in modern military history!

Main text Chapter 179 The Trapped Poland

On September 1939, 9, as soon as the Battle of the Bzula River ended, members of the French Aid to Poland officer corps packed their luggage and ended their trip to Poland.

Since this disastrous battle was proposed by French officers such as Berente, these Frenchmen naturally became the broom stars in the eyes of a group of generals in the Polish command.If Berante and the others hadn't proposed this counterattack, the Polish army would not have lost more than 20 of its main force, and would have lost all their money in one stroke.

Therefore, when Berente and other French officers boarded the plane returning home, there was no Polish officer above the school level to see him off.In this regard, Berente himself did not complain at all.He knew what the Polish army had lost because of his plan, and he was even a little fortunate that the Poles were able to let him, a sinner, leave alive.

"General, are we really leaving like this?"

Several accompanying French officers asked Berante, the leading major general, unwillingly.After all, he is a proud French soldier. After defeat, he always has a desire to take revenge in his heart.They all felt that, returning to the country in such a disheartened manner, they were really ashamed of being the number one army in Europe—ashamed of their proud status as French officers!

"Don't think about it, everyone pack up everything that needs to be packed, and don't delay after getting off the plane." Berente reminded in a low voice: "It's good if you can leave. In case the Poles regret later If we are to be arrested and shot for questioning, then even Marshal Petain will not be able to protect us if he intercedes!"

Berente's voice was not loud, but it made several whispering French officers immediately shut up obediently.Their work can be regarded as a great disservice to the Polish High Command. Even if they want to make up for their mistakes, it is impossible for others to dare to trust the "guidance" of these sinners.

There are some words that Berente did not say.That is, after this battle, Poland's defeat is set.In the past ten days, the Polish army on the western front has lost seven or eighty-eight, and it is estimated that there will be no more than 10 combatants.

Looking at the losses of the German army, except for a division that was deliberately released as a bait in the Battle of the Bzula River.The rest of the troops almost all rely on strong firepower superiority and air support, and most of the losses are controlled within double digits!The loss can be so small, it is true that the German army is brave and good at fighting, and the weapons are refined.But the more reason is that the Polish army's tactical thinking is outdated, and most troops have low combat will when facing the superior German army, and they will collapse at the touch of a touch.

In the end, even the 30th Division, which the German army deliberately threw out as a bait, the Polish army could not completely eat it.On the contrary, at the last moment, the German 30th Division, which was on the brink of desperation, made a beautiful counterattack, and was captured by the German 30th Division with only a thousand soldiers left! More than 1 soldiers were captured!

At this time, the biggest threat facing the Polish army is not the battle loss, but the low morale within the army, and the number of surrenders that exceeds one day!

The dignified fifth military country in Europe was defeated by Germany, which ranked fourth before, in 10 days, and even lost the ability to fight back.It's not that God is joking, there is something wrong with this ranking!

This army ranking is made by the French Propaganda Department, which is recognized as the number one army in Europe.Among them, they put themselves in the first position as a matter of course, and the suzerain of the Commonwealth of Nations, Britain, was arranged in the second position by friendship. Italy, the overlord of southern Europe, was overestimated by the French propaganda department as the third army power in Europe, and the emerging power Germany The French Ministry of Propaganda was extremely reluctant to list it as the fourth most powerful country.

In addition, the position of the fifth army power in Europe was fairly assigned to Poland.

However, this battle made Berente, who had no doubts about the ranking of the domestic propaganda department before, have objections for the first time.If Germany is really a little bit stronger than Poland, as the domestic propaganda says, why did Germany win so easily when they confronted each other? !

"General!"

Just when Berante and his party had just boarded the return plane, a lieutenant colonel in the officer corps handed over a telegram from China.

After hastily glanced at the telegram, Berente's face turned pale in an instant, and he shouted, "Take off quickly! Leave Poland immediately!"

Although Berente didn't have time to explain the reason, but his major general's military academy, coupled with this anxious attitude, was enough for the driver to obey the order immediately.

"Yes!"

Without further doubts, the plane in which the French officer was flying took off quickly to return home.After a few minutes, they left the runway and slowly lifted off towards the northwest.Since the German army had already controlled the air supremacy on the Polish battlefield, the plane that Berente and others took could only fly north for a certain distance, pass through Norway, and then return to France.

Berante looked at the Polish airport below through the plane window, and took a last look at Warsaw, which had not yet suffered from war.Now they have risen to an altitude of almost 4000 meters and are about to enter the thick clouds.In another minute, everything on the Polish battlefield has nothing to do with them, and they can't even see it.