Chapter 182: The Lion Fights the Rabbit

The Germans won two encirclement battles, one in the south and one in the north, and the number of Polish troops captured alone exceeded 40 percent of the total strength of Poland's Western Front, which is not counting the number of wounded and killed that is difficult to count.

In several other skirmishes, the Germans captured another 70,000 Polish routers, further damaging the Polish army's already low morale.

Coupled with the sitting and watching of the British and French allies, and the repeated attacks of the Soviet army on the Eastern Front, the rule of the Polish government can be said to be precarious.

On several occasions, Smigray wanted to transfer one or two divisions from the relatively stable Eastern Front to fill in the holes on the Western Front. But the orders came to his lips, and he was swallowed hard. Does he dare to transfer the troops on the Eastern Front? Can he tune?!

Although relying on the virtue of their ancestors, the Polish army was evenly matched with the Soviet army, which had the same outdated tactical thinking on the Eastern Front. But once at such a juncture in the middle of the war, one or two divisions that were in front of the Soviet army were withdrawn. And what did the troops of the Eastern Front do to resist the Soviet army's wave after wave of crowd tactics, relying on faith?

"Report! Major General Felippovetz returned with the 13th Cavalry Division. An emotional liaison officer shouted as he broke into the meeting room where Smigre was holding a military meeting.

Then, covered in dust, Felippowitz strode through the door of the conference room.

"Marshal!" In a hurry, Felippowitz saluted from Smigre.

This fierce general, a member of the Polish cavalry unit, was lucky enough to lead his troops to the Eastern Front half a month ago to fight with a group of Soviet troops under the command of the Foreign Administrative Committee, so as to avoid being wiped out by the Germans in the same confusion as his colleagues on the Western Front.

Felipovitz had just returned from the starry night of the Eastern Front, his once charming blonde hair now in a mess like a chicken coop, and sweat was falling down the dust on his face. At first glance, it looks like a beggar. And the collar of his uniform was obviously hastily fastened a second before rushing into the command headquarters, and even the buttonhole was misplaced.

Although Felippowitz looked embarrassed, no one laughed at him.

At this moment, every Polish serviceman who remained in Warsaw was full of surprises for Felipowiec's return!

"Why don't you say a word to me when you come back," Smiegre stepped forward and hugged the dusty Polish "tiger general".

"Marshal, the Eastern Front is barely stable........" Before he had time to rest, Felipovitz gasped and saluted: "Although the Soviet army has mobilized millions of troops, the orders of their grassroots commanders are disorganized, and they will do nothing but order the soldiers to charge. ”

After speaking, Felippovicz suddenly picked up a glass of water, and after the cow drank it, he slapped the table and said: "If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet army had to divide our troops everywhere to attack, I wouldn't have been able to draw out only one division to rush back this time!" ”

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. If the west side was as good as you fought half of it, I wouldn't be so embarrassed. Smiegre sighed at Felippowitz.

"What? The situation on the Western Front has eroded to the point of no return! Felipovitz, who had been fighting in the east for a long time, obviously didn't know much about the details of the operation on the Western Front, and had an incredulous look on his face: "What about that Major General Beronte, isn't he very powerful, didn't he come up with some way to redeem it?" At the beginning, he easily designed for us to alleviate the crisis on the Eastern Front! ”

Smigre did not reply to Felippowitz's words. His face turned blue in an instant, and the temperature in the entire conference room dropped below zero. If anyone had pointed their ears to listen, they could even hear the heavy breathing of Smigre's gnashing teeth.

If Berente had gone too late, Smigre would have dismantled him in disregard of the international consequences, in order to vent his resentment against France's treachery. Now Felippowitz's mention of Bironte's name is tantamount to sprinkling another handful of salt on Smigre's bloody wound!

A group of officers and staff officers who remained in the conference room didn't even dare to make a sound, and looked nervously at Smigre, whose muscles were exposed.

"The French Major General on that dog day came up with a blind idea, causing us to lose 250,000 elites. Afraid that I will hold him responsible, slip away! "Instead of choosing to lash out in front of the love general, Smigre ended up just a ghostly way.

"250,000 elites! This is almost catching up with the entire combat strength of the Eastern Front, how can it be so easy to be gone?! "Although Felippovitz heard about the stinky fight on the Western Front, he didn't expect it to stink.

The conceited Major General Birente did not give him the impression of a straw bale, but seemed very reliable. To be sure, Felippowitz thinks he's no better than anyone else. But even such a reliable and excellent general did not save the situation on the Western Front, then it could only be that the Germans were too strong, it could only be that the strength of the German army had exceeded a certain level, and some kind of Polish army had not even reached a level!

"Not only that, but we also lost 100,000 main forces on the northern front. No less than 70,000 people were lost on the scattered defensive lines. Smigre told all the bad news in one breath: "The British and French fired a few shots in the west (in fact, they didn't even fire) and then left us to do it all on our own." Now, we have no reinforcements! ”

The attitude of France can be said to have directly buried the last glimmer of hope for Smigre. Without the support of reinforcements, it would have been impossible for the Polish army, which had been attacked on both sides, to survive until the end of the war on its own.

The troops that had fled on the Western Front were now retreating thousands of miles along the roads large and small like ducks. If you can't escape, you can simply disarm and surrender. Apart from confusion and gloom, Smigre could not find any other adjective to describe the current state of the troops on the front lines.

After hearing this series of bad news, Felippowitz fell silent. He suddenly realized that he had only brought back a cavalry division, which did not seem to help the situation at all. No, even if all the troops in the east are pulled back, it will not change the bad situation of this regiment!

"Marshal, I don't think it's necessary for us to try to stop the Germans. All we can do now is withdraw those who can be evacuated, gather as many as we can, and defend our capital, Warsaw. ”

Felippowitz is crazy?

He wanted to give up a large territory on his own initiative and let the German army drive straight in!

Smigre was mad with anger, he had caused the war because he refused to return the Danzig Corridor to Germany, and as his confidant, how could Felippowitz dare to say such a suggestion that was completely contrary to his principle of not giving up an inch of land.

Soon, though, Smigre suppressed his anger. After all, he is also a hegemon, and he still has a certain ability to do this position. Now, for example, in his anger, he can clearly realize that Felippowitz must have a necessary reason for daring to make such a suggestion.

"Tell me, what the hell do you think?" Smigre said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Marshal! Then I'll get straight to the point. Felipovitz saluted.

"In general, our army did not have any strategic depth on the western front, so that the Polish army was either annihilated or divided and surrounded under the high-speed and large-depth advance of the German army, and became a lone army left behind the German army, and the resistance quickly collapsed. At this point, we did miscalculate. ”

"Moreover, although Britain and France had millions of troops on the Western Front, they did not move and declared no war, which made it difficult for us to escape defeat in the end no matter how we persisted."

Speaking of this, Felippowitz paused, and with an extremely ugly expression, with a crying voice: "What we can still do is to fight in Warsaw and keep the last dignity of this country." ”

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At the same moment, in Berlin's FΓΌhrer's residence, Reinhardt convened a press conference facing domestic journalists. In a confident and humorous speech under the flashing lights, he said: "The remaining task of the German army is nothing more than to fight a rabbit, and from a military point of view, the war is over." However, what I would like to tell Marshal Smigre of Poland is that I personally believe in the doctrine that the lion fights the rabbit and does his best, so I ask him to be mentally prepared. This kind of psychological preparation, when refusing to return German territory, he should have done it in advance! ”