Chapter 172: Polish Campaign: Decisive Attack

However, it turned out that in front of the elite paratroopers of the German army, this unit, which was composed of an integrated army and a broken army, was really like a piece of paper.

In fact, if the whole army was to defend alone, then the army led by Lune really had no choice but to occupy the position of the Polish army with a numerical advantage without paying a certain price.

But there were a large number of front-line routs in the Polish army, and they had learned the power of the Germans, and they were psychologically shadowed by the Germans, so as soon as the firepower of the Lune troops showed itself and inflicted some damage on them, a small number of them did what they had done not long ago - turned and fled.

The escape of this small group of people instantly led to the other defeated troops who had no intention of fighting, and they immediately followed suit. The hundreds of people who rushed backwards with their lives immediately blocked the view of the integrated army with complete combat effectiveness, and also scattered their defensive lines.

The reorganized army also began to panic, and they tried to find the enemy from the crowd, but at a glance it was densely packed with their comrades.

Fortunately, Vaszkiewicz was an excellent commander, and he led the Overseer to decisively pull the trigger on the fleeing rout, as if he were not shooting at a friendly enemy.

The rain of bullets quickly stopped the rout, and the rout soldiers froze, staring blankly at the fierce-looking Vashkiewicz and the submachine guns in the hands of the Overseer.

"You cowards! There are only two things in front of you: go back and fight! Or die at my hands! Vashkiewicz said fiercely, and then pulled the trigger again at the crowd, ignoring the fact that the rout had stopped fleeing until all the remaining bullets in the magazine were gone.

The routs quickly recovered from their panic, and they carefully calculated the value of dying at the hands of the Germans versus dying at the hands of their own, and then decisively chose the former.

After all, those who die in the hands of their opponents are called martyrs, and those who die in the hands of their own people are called cowards.

As the routs regained cover and crouched down, the morale-boosted Consolidated Army saw the Germans, and they resumed their fire with Lune's troops, intending to push them back to their point of attack.

Unfortunately, the Germans had already taken advantage of the previous confusion to rush to a position very close to the defensive line, so the Polish defenders failed to do so, but were instead taken away by the Germans with casualties and took two bridgehead positions and gained a firm foothold on the bridge.

As time passed, Vashkiewicz gradually became uneasy, and he called the captain of the engineer and asked: "Where have you done it?" How long will it take? ”

"Sir! We are now installing explosives in the lower part of the bridge. The sapper captain pointed to a few rope buckles on the bridge, and signaled that several sappers were using ropes to hang under the bridge to install explosives, "As long as we finish installing explosives under the bridge, we can detonate and blow up the entire bridge!" ”

"Then can't we detonate explosives on the bridge?" Vashkiewicz asked.

"It's not that it can't be detonated on the bridge." The sapper captain touched his chin and replied, "It's just that we'll fly into the sky with the bridge." ”

Vashkiewicz tugged at the corners of his mouth, and then began to remember the retreat route.

It is definitely not possible to go backwards, behind is the large army of the Germans, and going back is tantamount to looking for death, you can only go forward.

But it is not easy to go forward, in front of which are the elite paratroopers of Germany, and judging by the situation of the madman unit that attacked in front, if you want to break through, it will be difficult to do it without paying some price and time.

But now it's just a lack of time, and the longer it drags on, the greater the chance that you'll be completely blocked here.

You'll have to figure out a way to get rid of that pesky German unit as quickly as possible.

Counter charge!

The thought came to Vashkiewicz's mind.

This is okay, don't the Germans like to attack? I will lead you to launch, lure you out of the bridgehead position and attack us, we quinoa change our defensive posture, rush out of the position and fight with you hand-to-hand, I don't believe that you German soldiers can win more with less in combat! Vashkiewicz thought.

But what "bait" is used to catch the "fish"? Vashkiewicz patted his head and pondered hard.

The sudden landing of the German paratroopers in Kalisz was undoubtedly a front station for the follow-up army to cross the Prosna River and clear the way for them, but it was not the two infantry regiments of Kalisz that could stop the German army, but the wide Prosna River!

So I have the biggest trump card in my hand - the A bridge under my feet!

"Sir! All the explosives have been planted. "At this moment, the captain of the sapper came to Vashkiewicz with a detonator and reported to him that the sapper unit had completed its task.

"Good!" Vaszkiewicz patted the captain on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement, he had a plan in mind.

He summoned a few soldiers and told them to lie down at the front, and said in the loudest voice that the explosives had been planted and that all the Polish officers and soldiers on the bridge were ready to go up to heaven with the bridge to see God.

The soldiers, listening to Vashkiewicz's order, nodded, bowed and ran to the front line of the temporary ceasefire, and began to talk in a loud voice:

"Voszzovska, the battalion commander has already installed the explosives, he said that it will detonate in 15 minutes!"

"What about us? What are we going to do? ”

"We? Of course we are living and dying with the bridge! Anyway, the bridge can't fall into the hands of the Germans anyway! ”

"That's right! In any case, the bridge could not fall into the hands of the Germans! We'd rather sink into the Prosna with the bridge! ”

"Be quiet, don't be heard by the Germans on the other side!"

"It's okay, they don't understand Polish!"

"Haha, that's true."

"Long live Poland!"

The battlefield where there was no exchange of fire was unusually quiet, so the conversation of these Polish soldiers was easily heard by German soldiers not far away, many of whom could understand Polish.

Silly, I understand Polish! A German soldier who understood Polish laughed at the Polish soldier in his heart, and then quickly returned to the company headquarters and told Luhn what the Polish soldiers had said.

Luhn was taken aback by this, and based on what he had seen of the Polish army sappers planting explosives, he thought that it was really very likely that the Poles would choose to take their men to the sky with the bridge.

It's nothing that these people and the Poles will die together, but the trouble is that if the bridge is blown up, the follow-up troops will not be able to cross the river.

"No! We can't wait for the follow-up troops to arrive! Lian Deputy said anxiously, "We can only launch an attack in a desperate way, so that it is possible to keep the bridge!" ”

Lune had recovered from the shock at first, he felt that something was wrong, but now there was obviously no time for him to think about what was wrong, and he had to make a decision as soon as possible.

"Attack!" Lune thought for a while, gritted his teeth and decided to attack, "I'd rather die than have the bridge blown up in front of my eyes!" ”