When the Warsaw top brass got the news of the fall of the Modlin Fortress, the Polish government was bombed. Provided, of course, if they are still representative of the Polish government.

Under Smigre's leadership, most of his life-hungry cronies had fled with him to Warsaw, the capital of his country.

After the Polish marshal who had formed the dictatorial government fled with his cronies, the nominal Polish government moved out of Warsaw with their departure.

The general who stayed behind in Warsaw was the only commander willing to stay among all Smigre's close generals.

His name is Felipowitz, and five days ago, he rushed to the Western Front from the battlefield on the Eastern Front with the 13th Cavalry Division under his command.

Unfortunately, his troops suffered a crushing defeat in their first narrow encounter with the 1st SS Panzer Division, losing more than 6,000 elite cavalry in one fell swoop.

And because he led the departure of this elite unit, the Soviet army, which had been unable to attack for a long time, actually seized the air attack under the command of Timoshenko and barely broke through the eastern Polish defense line.

Now, the remnants of the soldiers who were able to escape from the west were in Warsaw. Those who did not escape were either killed by the Germans or captured.

It was even heard that some troops, out of despair of their commanders about the situation of the war, actually refused to withdraw to Warsaw, and instead took the initiative to surrender to the German army.

Not to mention the east, the large forces of the German Army Group North and the 1st Panzer Division of the SS under the sequence of Army Group South had long since bypassed Warsaw and advanced hundreds of miles to the east.

On the radio three days earlier, Felipovitz had heard the Soviet-German propaganda of victory in eastern Poland.

Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Germans, actually shouted with enthusiasm: "Salute to the Soviet Red Army, which consisted of workers and peasants." ”

It's a joke, a capitalist country pays tribute to the army of a socialist country. Looking at the whole world, this is the first case.

Before the war, the Polish government had let go: "If the Germans come, we are in danger of losing our freedom." If the Soviets come, we are in danger of losing our souls. ”

According to this conclusion, Poland should now be both free and soulless.

Because the Polish generals had always despised defense, the Polish government was reluctant to put effort into building fortifications.

They prefer to rely on counterattacks, and even if they lack the machinery, they are still confident that their armies will be able to carry out counteroffensive missions effectively.

As a result, the mechanized Germans had no difficulty finding their way forward, and the Polish counterattacks were mostly easily broken. Even the only main counterattack, under Manstein's calculations, was just another feat for the Germans.

Now, Smigre is leading the government-in-exile officials to Romania, where they are trying to build a British relationship and establish a relatively safe government-in-exile in the British Isles.

Felippowic, on the other hand, gathered tens of thousands of stragglers who had retreated from the front one after another, and united with the garrison in Warsaw, trying to defend the last vestiges of dignity of the Polish soldiers.

In Felipovitz's mind, he knew very well how sharp the Germans were attacking and how fast they were advancing.

But what he didn't expect was that even the well-built fortress fortification area would be difficult to slow down the Germans!

In all fairness, the soldiers of the Modlin Fortress had done their duty. But in the face of the Germans' endless arsenal of new weapons, the Polish resistance seemed futile.

Judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Germany has used the fortified area of the Polish army in the fortress of Modlin as a testing ground, and has brought all kinds of new weapons at hand to test them.

From small individual flamethrowers, to heavy assault guns, aviation armor-piercing shells, and even some kind of fortress nemesis that can produce high-temperature flames when they explode and sputter around, emitting a high temperature of about 1,000 degrees Celsius, and can stick to other objects and burn for a long time!

A lot of very inhumane weapons make this offensive and defensive battle extremely fierce. In the fortress of Modlin, although the Polish soldiers there finally surrendered, they absolutely lived up to the oath they took when they joined the army, and many Polish soldiers there shed their last drop of blood for Poland!

Although the Germans also admired the bravery of the Polish army, this did not seem to affect the rapid advance of the German army.

After the tracks that reached the Wehrmacht were crushed to the land outside Warsaw, the noose tied to Poland's head was finally completely tightened.

This sent the whole city of Warsaw into a panic!

The remaining half of the Polish government constantly called on all citizens to rise up against the German invasion.

The Polish troops in the city, under the arrangement of Felippowitz, built fortifications and barricades, and tried to fight a street battle with the Germans.

Street fighting was already the last tactic he could think of.

To be sure, urban street fighting is also a way for the weaker side to offset some of the opponent's strengths.

However, the street fighting process was very cruel, and even the elites of the German 30th Division, who were surrounded in Lodz, were almost reimbursed by the brutal street fighting. As long as Felippovetz can hold out on to these remnants of the defeated army in his hands, he himself is not sure.

In urban street fighting, every battle that takes place in a neighborhood or ruins becomes a meat grinder, constantly devouring the lives of soldiers on both sides. This was not a good idea for the Polish side, which was already surrounded, overstretched and had no reinforcements.

At the beginning, the German 30th Division stayed to fight street battles, relying not only on their high morale, elite soldiers, excellent grassroots commanders, but also on the hundreds of thousands of troops in the periphery of Army Group South as foreign aid.

And now almost all the troops in Poland that can still fight are in the city of Warsaw. Moreover, the morale of these troops has been dangerously low, and most of their formations have been disrupted and they are ineffective.

It stands to reason that such a unit is simply not suitable for street fighting. But can they have any other way than to fight in the streets?

On the outskirts of the city, Army Group South, as the besieging party, frantically charged the Polish positions again and again.

Rundstead, who was striving to advance quickly, reversed his previous cautious style of play, and against the remnants of the Polish army, which lacked few guns, he actually mobilized a large number of main forces like a knife, and called for air strikes many times.

Rundstead is worthy of a generation of famous infantry generals, commanding infantry battles, like Mount Tai pressing the top, steadily advancing the battle line to the center of the city. Although Felippowitz tried several times to stop the retreat of the Polish front, because he could not find any flaws in Rundstedd, he could only watch the German army get closer and closer to his headquarters, but there was nothing he could do.

The looming crisis of national demise made Felippowitz, who was the commander of the defense of Warsaw, unable to sleep well for two consecutive days.

If this continues, it may not be long before he will have to sleep in the German prisoner of war camps!

Indeed, there are still many civilians in Warsaw, and if all of them are pulled to the front line as cannon fodder, it seems that it is still an objective amount.

However, there is a fundamental difference between civilians and soldiers!

The battle for the outskirts of the city had become more brutal with the arrival of German reinforcements with sappers.

These sappers were able to place large quantities of explosives with the help of terrain or the cover of armored vehicles.

Then, they were able to directly blast the entire building that was resisting, and instantly wipe out all the Polish defenders who were planning to resist stubbornly!

Sometimes, the Germans would also use individual flamethrowers to attack the basement where bullets were being fired, turning the Polish soldiers hiding in the shadows into a pile of black char!

In just two days, the brutal fighting brought Felippowitz's elite Polish soldiers, who had been specially arranged to buy time at the front line, on the brink of collapse.

This is not the case for well-trained soldiers, let alone militia cannon fodder who has just touched a gun for a few days.