After two gunshots, Leon saw something incredible.

Groups of Polish soldiers dropped their guns and raised their hands in surrender. For a while, the voices of kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy rang out one after another.

Leon watched in shock at what was happening in front of him, and hundreds of Polish soldiers lined up and raised their hands and walked slowly towards the row that Bruce had brought with him. Behind them, there were guns piled up as high as a hill, and three cannons of terrible caliber. But with so many weapons, plus the number of soldiers in an infantry battalion, in the end, they actually raised their hands and surrendered to a company of enemy troops!

"Bruce, you can fucking brag about going back now, your platoon is watching a battalion of enemy troops right now!" A delighted Leon laughed.

After listening to Leon's words, Bruce also joked: "I knew it was so simple, why did we train so hard in the first row." In the end, I realized that it was enough to learn how to shoot. ”

I have to say that the luck of the 7th company can be regarded as against the sky. First of all, he fell behind because of taking promotional photos and missed the first round of the battle. Later, when he was transferred to the 30th Division in the fierce battle as reinforcements, he was sent to a sub-position with few enemy troops to meet the retreat of the defenders. Relying on a sniper to snipe Polish soldiers from a distance, the 7th Company did not lose a single soldier.

During the street fighting, it was left in the innermost block to fortify, and before the Polish army could enter, the siege of Army Group South began, forcing the Polish army to stop the attack on the city of Lodz.

In the end, Lyon and the others finally took on a threatening counterattack mission, but they encountered the lowest morale of the Polish army. A group of Polish troops, who had lost contact with the command, had just finished being bombed by the terrifying Stuka when they ran into the 7th Company that had opened fire. Without even spending time thinking about it, they simply surrendered!

Leon, who suspected fraud, asked Bruce to bring a platoon over to accept the prisoners, and he led the rest of the people to be vigilant with guns in the distance.

However, by the time hundreds of Polish soldiers were honestly driven into a corner by Bruce and crouched, Leon was completely convinced that there would be no conspiracy in the rapid surrender of the Polish army. The guns are lost, the cannons are gone, and hundreds of people are willingly squatting in the corner, what is this not surrender?

"Send them back to Lodz, and by the way, report to the division commander Hans about this tentative attack." Leon thought about it and decided.

When the men of Lyon drove the hordes of prisoners back to the city of Łódź, the soldiers in the streets almost thought that the Polish army was coming and wanted to open fire back. Fortunately, the Polish soldiers raised their hands and said that they had no weapons, and the soldiers of the 7th Company explained to the defenders one by one, which prevented the accidental killing of prisoners.

When a group of prisoners appeared outside Hans's temporary division headquarters, even Hans himself was taken aback. That's almost the full number of people left of the 30th Division (except for a company of Lieutenant Lyon)!

Preliminary statistics revealed that there were 654 prisoners in this batch, of which only a few lieutenants were the highest-ranking ones. After being questioned by a Polish interpreter at the division headquarters, Hans learned that the Polish army in front of him had belonged to an artillery regiment, and had lost the regiment commander and battalion commander who had gathered to discuss the battle situation under the dive bombardment of the German Stuka army, and had also lost contact with the headquarters.

So, when Lyon and others appeared, their first reaction was not to fight back, but to find a way not to be bombed by the Luftwaffe anymore - surrender.

Finding out that the Poles were so vulnerable made Hans suddenly regain the feeling of the first few days of the offensive, the feeling of being overwhelmed!

"Herald! Gather all the people who can move, cooperate with the peripheral troops to launch a central assault, and teach the Poles a good lesson. Hans slapped his palm on the conference table and smiled excitedly: "After being pressed and beaten for so long, it's time to fight back." If we don't educate these Polish grandchildren, they will still think that our 30th Division is a good boy who can't fight back! ”

Although the Polish High Command also tried to give the order for the besieged army to break through, although the command of the besieged Polish army tried to resist a little. However, under the sudden air strikes of the German army again and again, the various units of the Polish army were in disarray, and they lost contact with the command one after another, and became a rout.

By September 30, the Polish command in the encirclement had chosen to surrender on the fourth day of the battle, ending the senseless German resistance. A vigorous counterattack launched by the Polish High Command became a great result for the German Army Group South.

Among them, the German 10th Army Group captured 80,000 Polish troops, captured 320 artillery pieces, 130 aircraft, and 25 tanks (all captured in scattered infantry units).

The German 8th Army Group reported 100,000 Polish troops captured, including 13,000 Polish routers under Hans's command alone.

In this battle, the Polish army lost part of a main army group with 10 garrison divisions (a small number of them escaped from the encirclement). Due to the huge losses in troops, the Polish army was no longer able to organize any kind of counterattack on the Western Front. After all, in this battle, they lost nearly half of the total number of troops on the Western Front. Combined with the more than 100,000 troops captured and killed on the border, the Polish army is now unable to organize even an effective defense.

To sum up, the commanders and decision-makers of the German army in this battle, the famous German general Rundstedt, who was the commander of Army Group South at the time, and Manstein, the "Führer's faction" who was then the chief of the General Staff of Army Group South. With these two men in their presence, Reinhardt didn't even bother the German High Command to worry a little more.

On the Polish side, the planners and decision-makers were the fledgling but conceited French officer corps leader Béronte, and the backward Polish Marshal Smigre. The Polish High Command, where these two people were, didn't even know that after falling into Manstein's trap, they tried to drill deeper into the trap.

In this battle, which was later known as the Battle of the Buzura River, when the Polish army attacked, it was invincible, and when defending, it was even more defeated. In general, the Polish army was lackluster throughout the campaign and did not show at all the strength to match their ambitions.

At the strategic level, the superb command art of the German generals was far more than one level higher than that of the Polish military commanders. Manstein's strategy of moving at the opportune moment, fighting with his camera, acting treacherously, and taking the sword to the front almost directly broke the backbone of the Polish army on the Western Front, causing the Polish army on the Western Front to collapse thereafter.

In the end, the German army surrendered a full 180,000 Polish troops with very few casualties, and tens of thousands of Polish troops were killed and wounded, creating another miracle in modern military history!