The German army won two encirclement battles, one in the south and one in the north. The number of Polish soldiers captured alone exceeded 40% of the total strength of Poland's western front. This did not include the number of wounded and killed that was difficult to count.
In several other small-scale pursuit battles, the German army captured an additional 70,000 Polish defeated soldiers, further damaging the already low morale of the Polish army.
Coupled with the fact that the British and French allies were sitting idly by and the Soviet troops on the Eastern Front were attacking in turn, the rule of the Polish government could be said to be in danger.
Several times, Smigre wanted to transfer one or two divisions from the relatively stable eastern front to fill the holes in the western front. But the orders came to his lips and were swallowed hard. The troops on the eastern front
Does he dare to adjust it? Can he adjust it?!
Although relying on the virtues accumulated by their ancestors, the Polish army was evenly matched with the Soviet army on the Eastern Front, which had the same outdated tactical thinking. But once the war was in full swing, one or two divisions in front of the Soviet army were taken away.
What can the troops on the front line do to resist the Soviet army's wave of human wave tactics? Do they rely on faith?
"Report! Major General Filipovitz is back with the 13th Cavalry Division." A liaison officer excitedly broke into the conference room where Smigre was holding a military meeting and shouted.
Then, the dusty Filipowitz strode into the door of the conference room.
"Marshal!" hurried Filipovitz saluted from Smigre.
This fierce general in the Polish cavalry unit had the good fortune to lead his troops to the Eastern Front to fight with a group of Soviet troops commanded by foreign administrative committees half a month ago, so he avoided being confused like his colleagues on the Western Front.
The confused ones were taken away by the Germans.
Filipovitz had just returned from the Eastern Front under the stars at night. His once charming blond hair was now as messy as a chicken coop, and sweat was falling down from the dust on his face. At first glance, he looked like a beggar.
Dressing up. The collar of his uniform was obviously buttoned hastily just a second before he rushed into the headquarters, and even the buttonholes were misplaced.
Although Filipovitz looked embarrassed, no one laughed at him.
At this moment, every Polish soldier staying in Warsaw is full of surprises for Filipowicz's return!
"You didn't say anything to me when you came back." Smigre stepped forward and hugged this dusty Polish "tiger general".
"Marshal, the Eastern Front is barely stable..." Before he had time to rest, Filipowitz panted and saluted: "Although the Soviet army mobilized millions of troops, they
The orders of the lower-level commanders were disorganized and they knew nothing except ordering the soldiers to charge."
After finishing speaking, Filipovitz suddenly picked up a glass of water, drank it, and then slammed the table and said: "If the Soviet army had not adopted an unfocused all-out attack, which caused our army to have to disperse its troops to guard, I would have
It’s not like we can only spare one division to rush back!”
"It's good to be back. It's good to be back. If the battle in the west was half as good as yours, I wouldn't be in such a mess." Smigre sighed at Filipovitz.
"What? The situation on the Western Front has been irreversibly corrupted!" Filipovitz, who has been fighting in the East for a long time, obviously does not know the details of the Western Front battle very well, and has an incredible look on his face: "That Berante
As for the Major General, isn't he very powerful? Don't you think of some way to save it? He easily designed for us to alleviate the crisis on the Eastern Front!"
Smigre didn't reply to Filipovitz's words. His face instantly turned livid, causing the temperature in the entire conference room to drop below zero. If someone listened with sharp ears, they could even hear Smigre's heavy breathing with gritted teeth.
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If Berante had left later, Smigre would have cut him into pieces regardless of the international consequences to vent his resentment towards France for its perfidy. Now Filipovitz's mention of Berante's name is tantamount to
Sprinkle another pinch of salt on Smigre's bloody wound!
A group of officers and staff who stayed in the conference room did not even dare to say a word, and looked nervously at Smigre, whose veins were exposed.
"That bastard French major general came up with blind ideas, causing us to lose 250,000 elites. He was afraid that I would hold him accountable, so he ran away!" Instead of getting angry in front of his beloved general, Smigre finally said quietly.
"250,000 elites! This has almost caught up with the entire combat force on the Eastern Front. How could they be gone so easily?!" Although Filipowitz heard that the fighting on the Western Front was terrible, he did not expect that the fighting would be so bad.
Smelly.
The arrogant Major General Berante did not impress him as a straw bag, but seemed very reliable. To be fair, Filipovitz thought that he could not compare with others. But even such a reliable and excellent person
The generals have failed to save the situation on the Western Front. It can only be that the Germans are too strong. It can only be that the strength of the German army has exceeded a certain level, which the Polish army has not even reached!
"Not only that, we also lost 100,000 main troops on the northern front. On the scattered defense lines, we lost no less than 70,000 people." Smigre revealed all the bad news in one breath: "The British and French
They fired a few shots in the west (actually not even a shot was fired), then gave up and left us to rely on ourselves. Now, we have no reinforcements!"
France's attitude can be said to have directly destroyed Smigre's last glimmer of hope. Without the support of reinforcements, the Polish army, which was attacked on both sides, would never have been able to survive until the end of the war on its own.
The fleeing troops on the Western Front are now retreating thousands of miles along the roads of all sizes like being driven away. Those who can't escape simply surrender. Apart from chaos and depression, Smigre can't find any other adjectives.
Describe the current situation of the frontline troops.
After hearing this series of bad news, Filipowicz fell silent. He suddenly realized that bringing back only one cavalry division did not seem to help the situation at all. No, even if he brought back all the eastern troops, it would not change the situation.
We can't get over this terrible situation!
"Marshal, I think we no longer need to try to stop the German army. All we can do now is to withdraw those who can evacuate, gather them together as much as possible, and protect our capital, Warsaw."
Is Filipowitz crazy?
He wanted to voluntarily give up a large area of territory and let the German army march straight in!
Smigre was so angry that he started the war because he refused to return the Danzig Corridor to Germany. As his favorite general, how could Filipowicz dare to say such a thing that completely went against his own territory?
Don't let the advice of principle come.
But soon, Smigre suppressed his anger. After all, he is also the overlord of the party, and he still has certain abilities to achieve this position. For example, now, even in his anger, he can clearly realize that Filippo Wei
If Ci dares to suggest this, he must have a necessary reason.
"Tell me, what do you think?" Smigre said in a deep voice.
"Yes, Marshal! Then I'll say it straight." Filipowitz saluted.
"In general, our army's deployment on the western front has no strategic depth, so that the Polish army was either annihilated or divided and surrounded by the German army's high-speed and deep advance. It became a lone army behind the German army, and the resistance quickly collapsed. This
At one point, we did miscalculate."
"Furthermore, although Britain and France deployed millions of troops on the Western Front, they did not move and declared no war. This makes it difficult for us to escape defeat in the end no matter how we persist."
Having said this, Filipowicz paused and said with an extremely ugly expression and a cry: "What we can still do is to fight in Warsaw and save the last dignity of this country."
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At the same time, in the Führer's Residence in Berlin, Reinhard held a press conference for domestic reporters. He spoke confidently and humorously under the flashlight: "The remaining task of the German army is just to hunt a rabbit.
That's all. From a military point of view, the war is over. But what I want to tell Marshal Smigre of Poland is that I personally believe in the dogma of a lion fighting a rabbit with all its strength, so I also ask him to be mentally prepared. This kind of mental preparation,
When he refused to return German territory, he should have done so in advance!"