After the two gunshots, Leon saw an incredible scene.
One after another, Polish soldiers threw down their guns and raised their hands to express surrender. For a while, the sounds of kneeling and begging for mercy were heard one after another.
Leon watched in shock what was happening. Hundreds of Polish soldiers lined up, raised their hands, and walked slowly towards the row led by Bruce. Behind them, there were guns piled up as high as a hill, and three more
There was a terrifying cannon at the door. But with so many weapons and an infantry battalion of soldiers, in the end he actually raised his hands and surrendered to a company of enemy troops!
"Bruce, now you can go back and brag. Your platoon is guarding a battalion of enemy troops!" Lyon laughed happily.
After listening to Leon's words, Bruce also joked: "If I had known it was so simple, why did our platoon have to train so hard in the first place. In the end, we discovered that all we need to learn is to shoot."
It has to be said that the 7th Company's luck can be regarded as incredible. First, it missed the first battle due to falling behind in taking publicity photos. Later, when it was transferred to reinforce the 30th Division during the fierce battle, it was again
A few enemy troops were sent to separate positions to assist the defenders in retreating. They relied on a sniper to kill the Polish soldiers from a distance, and the 7th Company managed not to lose a single soldier.
During the street fighting, they were left to fortify themselves in the innermost neighborhood. Before the Polish army could attack, the siege of Army Group South began, forcing the Polish army to stop its attack on the city of Lodz.
In the end, Lyon and the others finally accepted a threatening counterattack mission, but they encountered a time when the morale of the Polish army was at its lowest. A group of Polish soldiers who had lost contact with the headquarters had just been bombed by the terrifying Stuka when they encountered the enemy.
The 7th company of the gun didn't even waste time thinking about it, they simply surrendered!
Suspecting fraud, Lyon asked Bruce to lead a platoon over to accept the prisoners, while he led the rest of the group to keep vigilance from a distance with guns in hand.
However, when hundreds of Polish soldiers were driven to the corner by Bruce and squatted down, Lyon completely believed that there would be no conspiracy in the Polish army's quick surrender. The guns were all lost, and the cannons were no longer needed.
Hundreds of people squatted in the corner willingly. What is this but surrender?
"Take them back to Rhodes City and report to Commander Hans on the situation of this exploratory attack." Leon decided after thinking for a while.
When the people in Lyon drove groups of prisoners back to the city of Lodz, they were so frightened that several soldiers on the street almost thought that the Polish army was coming and were about to fire back. Fortunately, these Polish soldiers were able to raise their weapons in time.
They raised their hands to show that they had no weapons, and the soldiers of the 7th Company explained to the defenders one by one, thus avoiding the accidental killing of the prisoners.
When a group of prisoners appeared outside Hans' temporary division headquarters, even Hans himself was shocked. This damn group almost caught up with the entire remaining number of the 30th Division (except for Lieutenant Lyon's company)
!
After preliminary statistics, it was found that there were 654 prisoners in this batch, and the highest-ranking ones among them were only a few lieutenants. After a translator from the division headquarters who knew Polish finished asking questions, Hans learned that the Polish army in front of him originally belonged to an artillery unit.
The regiment, under the dive bombing of the German Stuka, lost the regiment commander and battalion commander who had gathered to discuss the war situation, and also lost contact with the headquarters.
Therefore, when Lyon and others appeared, their first reaction was not to fight back, but to find a way to avoid being bombed by the Luftwaffe - surrender.
Discovering that the Poles were so vulnerable, Hans suddenly regained the feeling he had in the first few days of the attack, that overwhelming feeling!
"Send the order! Assemble all the people who can move, cooperate with the peripheral troops to launch a central assault, and teach those Poles a lesson." Hans slapped his palm on the conference table and said with an excited smile: "Being pressed and beaten like this
After a long time, it’s our turn to fight back. If we don’t educate these Polish grandsons, they will think that our 30th Division is a good kid who can’t fight back!”
Although the Polish High Command still tried to order the besieged troops to break out, even though the command headquarters of the besieged Polish troops also tried to resist a little. However, under the sudden air strikes from the German army again and again, the various departments of the Polish army were in chaos, and they successively challenged the command.
The troops lost contact and became defeated.
As of September 30, the Polish command in the encirclement chose to announce its surrender on the fourth day of the battle, ending this pointless German resistance. A vigorous counterattack launched by the Polish Supreme Command became the basis for the German army in the south
A huge victory for the Army Group.
Among them, the German 10th Army Group captured 80,000 Polish troops, 320 artillery pieces, 130 aircraft, and 25 tanks (all captured from scattered infantry units).
The German 8th Army Group reported capturing 100,000 Polish troops, of which the 30th Division under Hans alone captured 13,000 Polish troops who were on the verge of surrender.
In this battle, the Polish army lost a main group army and part of 10 garrison divisions (a small number of them escaped the encirclement). Due to the huge loss of troops, the Polish army has never been able to organize any form of offensive on the Western Front.
Counterattack. After all, they lost nearly half of their original total number of troops on the Western Front in this battle. Coupled with the more than 100,000 troops who were captured and killed on the border, the Polish army is now unable to even organize an effective defense.
To sum up, the German commanders and decision-makers in this battle were the famous German general Rundstedt, then commander of Army Group South, and Manstein, the "direct descendant of the Führer" who was then chief of staff of Army Group South.
.With these two people around, Reinhard did not even worry the German High Command.
The conspirators and decision-makers on the Polish side are the fledgling but extremely arrogant leader of the French army, Berlant, and the Polish Marshal Smigre, who has backward combat ideas. The Polish Supreme Command where these two people are located,
After falling into Manstein's trap, he didn't even know it. Instead, he kept trying to get deeper into the trap.
In this battle, which later generations called the Battle of the Buzula River, the Polish army was invincible when attacking, and was completely defeated when defending. In general, the Polish army was completely defeated in the entire battle.
Their performance was mediocre and they did not show the strength to match their ambitions.
At the strategic level, the superb commanding skills of the German generals were much higher than those of Polish military commanders. Manstein acted according to the opportunity, fought with camera, used devious tactics, and adopted deviant strategies.
It almost directly broke the backbone of the Polish army on the western front, causing the Polish army on the western front to collapse.
In the end, the German army achieved the surrender of a total of 180,000 Polish troops with very few casualties, and suffered tens of thousands of Polish casualties, creating another miracle in modern military history!
