Chapter 209: Poland Will Not Die (Part II)
After communicating with the members of the Weapons Test Group, with the order of Division Commander Coland, black torrents flowed rapidly.
The officers and men of the police division quickly lined up and stationed themselves in the offensive positions in batches. The crew members of the Weapons Experimental Regiment assembled in an open field in the middle of two offensive positions as planned.
In order to take Warsaw in one fell swoop, Rundstead ended up throwing in the most tenacious, if not the most insane, SS troops. This time, Rundstead, who had made up his mind, contacted General Lehr's Fourth Air Force and dispatched three batches of bomber squadrons to clear the SS battlefield.
Immediately after the bombardment, the police division and the weapons experimental regiment took over the two infantry divisions that had previously entered the city by the 10th Army and took on the task of street fighting.
With the attack orders given by Colander to the various divisions one after another, the originally neatly lined phalanx quickly turned into a black lightning bolt, and the assault guns entered the battlefield.
The whole process was quiet and swift, there was no mobilization, there were no slogans, and there was no shouting in unison, long live the Führer, as advertised in the domestic newspapers. However, no one present would dispute that these well-trained silent warriors are the most terrifying killing machines on the battlefield!
As soon as the SS soldiers entered a ceasefire zone previously held by both sides, the machine guns deployed by the Polish barricades opened fire on the uninvited guests.
In the past, German soldiers would first suppress the opponent with machine guns, and then destroy it with infantry guns or mortars.
When the enemy is at a tricky angle, the air force cannot support it, the infantry artillery cannot hit it, and the enemy's fortifications are sufficient, and the mortars cannot destroy them, so the soldiers of the Wehrmacht can only brave the flying bullets and mortar shells flying from nowhere, and send sappers to place explosives to destroy.
But this time, the SS soldiers who spotted the Polish machine guns only had to hide behind the assault guns and slowly advance with the Grizzly assault guns against the flying bullets.
The black marks on the frontal armor of the Grizzly Bear assault guns blasted by the 25-pounder howitzers of Fort Modlin silently mocked the pale and feeble return fire of the Polish troops in the street fighting.
When driving at the right distance, the Grizzly Assault Gun simply stops, then fine-tunes the barrel to aim at the barricade, and as the muzzle spits out a ball of fire, the entire barricade is directly destroyed by a 150mm high-explosive shell.
Then, before the smoke of the explosion cleared, the SS MG33 light machine gun would begin to suppress the fire, while the rest of the soldiers leapt forward and rushed through the barricade area, forming a life-consuming battlefield symphony between the rhythmic strike of the G43 semi-automatic rifle and the shrill tearing of the tarpaulin of the MG33 machine gun, interspersed with the crisp gunfire of the Mauser 98k.
Of course, the Poles used to buy tickets for this symphony performance, it was their own life!
The gunfire lasted only a short time, and the SS soon cleared the neighborhood.
After the baptism of two grenades and flamethrowers in the final basement calmed down, the Black Storms began to clean up the battlefield in an orderly manner, and help their wounded comrades.
The same scene is playing out over and over again in one block after another.
Felippowitz, who was in the headquarters in the center of Warsaw, began to be surprised to find that the Wehrmacht had not been able to advance the planned distance for two whole days, and the SS had surpassed it in less than a morning!
Finally, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the SS met their last stubble, the most sturdy building in the center of Warsaw.
The five-storey, fortified structure was personally chosen by Felipovitz as his operational headquarters and was already used as a last bulwark against the German attack.
To this end, Felippowitz also concentrated all eight anti-aircraft guns in Warsaw to defend against bombardment from the Luftwaffe.
He wants to turn this place into the most powerful defensive fortress in all of Warsaw!
Indeed, he did.
The three Grizzly assault guns that converged here continued to fire several times with their 150mm guns, and even though the building was blown up with many holes, the reinforced concrete structure of the building still withstood the impact. In the building, there are still many muzzles spitting flames from time to time.
However, with the arrival of the Rhino assault gun, the life of this building has finally entered the countdown.
Due to its low mobility, the Rhino assault gun had been left behind by the attacking forces before. And when the attack is blocked, this assault gun will naturally be able to arrive and usher in its own opportunity to play.
As the commander of the Rhino assault gun crew, Sergeant Karl, who was specially trained, was well aware that the concrete destruction bombs were actually very ineffective against such frame structures. After all, the concrete destruction bomb is only suitable for hitting pillboxes, hitting this kind of building, it can only penetrate a few walls, and then it will fly far away and explode.
So, Sergeant Karl ordered his 170mm gun to be reloaded with high-explosive shells.
In order to save the life of the barrel, he also used a charge reduction, after all, it doesn't take much muzzle kinetic energy to hit this thing, and people who can live will be careful about their calculations.
With a dull cannon sound, the cannonball was pushed out of the muzzle by the propellant and flew towards the building.
Immediately afterwards, a 70-kilogram projectile filled with explosives hit the center of the building and exploded violently.
...... A huge crater appeared in the front of the entire building, like a piece of black bread that had been bitten by someone, and the gunfire that had been incessant in the building was not heard until the smoke cleared.
However, Karl didn't give the Bo army in the building a breather.
With the efforts of the two loaders, the second shell was quickly pushed into the chamber, and another cannon sounded, and the original structure of the building collapsed in a small way!
"Ahem....... Ahem. The huge collapse also affected the command room on the first floor where Felipovitz was, and he slowly leaned against the wall and climbed up from the dusty room: "Are there any living people..., is there anyone alive here but me..."
Although Felipovitz was hoarse from inhaling a lot of dust in the smoke-filled room, he still called out to the survivors as loudly as he could.
Ten seconds, twenty seconds, half a minute, one minute.......
Finally, one survivor after another was discovered. In the end, including Felippowitz, there were five officers who survived the collapse.
Looking at these comrades-in-arms who escaped death, Felippowitz's heart suddenly flooded with violent guilt. He failed to lead everyone to resist and failed to preserve the last dignity of the Polish capital.
Although he knew that he would fail, when the moment of failure came, he was so sad! So remorseful!
"Let's sing a song...... Looking at the confused officers, Felipovitz forced a smile and cheered: "Just sing our national anthem, "Poland Will Not Perish"! ”
"Well, Poland will never perish!"
"Yes, it won't die!"
........
Several officers who had just walked around the Ghost Gate Pass echoed one after another.
They could have fled to Romania with Marshal Smigre, survived, and formed a government in exile.
But they didn't, they chose to stay with Felippowiec, to defend the capital of their homeland, to defend the last vestiges of Polish dignity.
At the beginning, it was Smigre's people who had to invade the Danzig Corridor in Germany and start the war.
But now, it is Felippowitz and them who are really staying at the moment of crisis and fulfilling the promise of the soldiers!
If there had been more people like Felippowitz among the bombastic decision-makers, perhaps Poland would not have died!
But in fact, on the contrary, those decision-makers first forcibly encroached on German land in order to improve their own prestige.
Then, in order to maintain his prestige, he refused to shrink his defensive line and fantasized about holding every inch of land, which led to a large number of troops being surrounded and annihilated on the border.
In the end, when the country needed them to stand up the most, they fled, leaving behind the people and the army, and ran away shamelessly!
In the ruins of the building, a Polish song can be heard:
"Poland will not die!
As long as we live,
Poland will not perish.
Raise your sword and reclaim your lost ground,
........”
This is the national anthem of Poland - Poland will never perish, this is Felippowiec's last cry!
"There's a voice in that direction, like it's singing something?" Inside the Rhino assault gun, Sergeant Karl clearly heard singing in the distance.
"I don't understand....... Forget it, who cares so much about him, let's shoot first. Due to the language barrier, Karl finally had to come to such a puzzling conclusion.......
On October 10, 1939, the government building in Warsaw was captured by the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division.
In the photo of the front-line reporters, several soldiers in black uniforms planted the swastika flag on the roof of the Polish government building. Below them were all the German fighters, both the SS and the Wehrmacht, cheering loudly in celebration of victory.......
On the same day, the remnants of the resistance in Warsaw surrendered, and two days later, the last Polish resistance force also surrendered its weapons to the Germans, and Germany, which had won a great victory, began to enjoy the fruits of victory in the Polish campaign.
Two weeks later, after some twists and turns, some of the Polish fugitives led by Smiegre finally came to London, England, announced the establishment of a government in exile, and solemnly declared to the German Führer Reinhardt: Poland will not perish!
Reinhardt was passing the time in the toilet when he finished reading the British newspaper with the Poles' proclamation. He smiled, then tossed the newspaper into the toilet paper basket.