After a morning of fermentation, the news of the capture of Kaunas by the Polish army and the capture of Lithuanian government officials and members of parliament finally spread throughout the city by word of mouth. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Polish army spent a lot of energy trying to capture Waldmaras, but every time it was empty.

The Polish officer who led the team looked at the empty room, and there were several cups of tea on the table, and he took a sip of it, it was hot, and it should have just been brewed.

"Search me around." The Polish officer repeated the order.

It wasn't Waldmaras who had escaped, and every time they arrived, the people inside left just before them.

The Polish officer walked out of the low house and looked at the surrounding streets crowded with citizens. An individual looked at the Polish soldiers in the street with complicated eyes, contempt, fear, hostility・・・・・・

"Sir, I've searched around, but I can't find any trace of them." A soldier came to report.

The Polish officer looked at the surrounding Lithuanian citizens and understood that with these people to ventilate and cover the wind, every move of the Polish army would be known by Waldmaras, so he was able to escape his pursuit many times.

The Polish officer went back to report the situation to General Shimigvi, and said: "General, the citizens of Lithuania have sent a message to Waldmaras, and every time our troops approach, someone will pass the news in advance, and some people will deliberately block the road and delay the time. If this continues, it will be very difficult for us to catch them. ”

"If we can't catch them, we have to keep going, we can't let them stay in one place and build strong connections, we have to drive them around so they don't have a chance to make trouble for us." General Himigvi instructed.

"Yes, sir."

In an ordinary two-story building in Lithuania, Waldmaras was conferring with several officials who had escaped capture by the Polish army.

"Your Excellency, the Polish army has captured and controlled all the remaining officials, and our forces in the city have been paralyzed. What's next for us! An official asked.

"How can the Poles go to war against us, what news have you found out?" Waldmaras had been hunted by the Polish army and was bewildered by the sudden change.

"According to the Poles, it was General Zukauskas and the Polish army who fought for Mark Melgey, and there was a battle."

"Where is General Zukauskas now?" Waldmaras asked.

An official said in a somewhat uncertain tone: "The Poles are saying everywhere that General Zukauskas's troops have been annihilated by the Soviet troops, and that he himself has been killed in battle. ”

"How is that possible?" Waldmaras clenched his fists and said viciously, "That's five thousand! This must be a lie of the Poles, it must be their conspiracy. ”

The surrounding officials were silent one by one, perhaps they also understood that the news was likely to be true.

"How many Polish troops are there in Kaunas?" Waldmaras asked.

"There is a regiment of soldiers stationed in the city, and perhaps one or two more outside the city." An official said.

"Our Northern Route Army has 5,000 men, and there are 5,000 German volunteers, and we will definitely be able to defeat the Poles." Chancellor Waldmaras felt a little more confident when he thought that he still had the support of the German army.

Although Germany was defeated in World War I, the great combat effectiveness shown by the German army was recognized by the world, especially on the Eastern Front, where the German army had been repairing the old European steamroller of Tsarist Russia for several years. In the eyes of Chancellor Waldmaras, the German army could easily defeat Tsarist Russia, let alone deal with Poland that broke away from Tsarist Russia.

"We also need to mobilize the militia and self-defense forces in various places to gather the strength of everyone to take Kaunas back." Prime Minister Waldmaras said firmly.

Kaunas is the second largest city in the entire Lithuanian region, at the confluence of Nemans and its tributary, the Nyaris River. It has a population of more than 100,000 It is an important land transportation hub and river port in Lithuania. The main industries are textiles (silk and wool), food processing, and machinery manufacturing (machine tools, instruments, electrical machinery, radio and television engineering). There are also chemical, paper and other departments.

After Vilnius, the largest city and industrial center of Lithuania, was occupied by Polish troops, Kaunas became the most important industrial and economic center of the country. Once Kaunas is lost, then almost all of Lithuania's industry is gone. The rest of the place is only agriculture, and the entire economy of Lithuania will have to go directly back to an agrarian society, and the government will have no taxes.

All this is unbearable for Lithuania.

"We want to pass on everything that is happening here, we want to expose Poland's crimes of aggression against Lithuania at the Paris Peace Conference, and British Prime Minister George will support us." Prime Minister Waldmaras said with confidence.

After the end of World War I, Poland was restored. France, because of the traditional friendship between the two countries and the need to contain Germany, was very supportive of the establishment of a Greater Poland. After weakening Germany, Britain was more prepared for France to take the opportunity to become the hegemon on the European continent. Once Poland was strong, the alliance between France and Poland would be able to firmly suppress Germany, which Britain would never tolerate. Therefore, the British government tried its best to prevent Poland from recovering the land that had been ceded more than 100 years ago, and wanted to limit Poland's national power.

Lithuania became an important pawn for Britain to contain Poland. Lithuania has a small population, but it separates Poland from the Baltic Sea.

It is almost impossible for a landlocked country to develop into a powerful country, and without the resources from all over the world that the ocean provides, it will be completely isolated. The joke of the naval fleet of the Great Mongolian State will be played out in Poland.

Of course, in order to eliminate the pressure from France and Poland, Britain allocated the coastline of the Danzig Corridor for dozens of miles from Germany to Poland. Thus a new hatred forged between Poland and Germany. More importantly, although the Danzig Corridor was given to Poland, Danzig, the largest seaport in the region, was indeed a free city, co-administered by the League of Nations, and economically included in the Polish customs territory.

In fact, the Germans made up 96% of the population of Danzig, and Poland, under pressure from the external League of Nations and the resistance of the Germans from within, could not have used the port of Danzig effectively. The Polish government was forced to rebuild a new port, Gdynia, in 1922 at great cost in a small fishing village west of Danzig port.

From this series of complex checks and balances, Britain deliberately created contradictions and diverted relations between countries on the European continent.

"All the telegraphs in the city have been taken away, and all intersections are forbidden to leave the city, how can we pass the news out." An official said.

Prime Minister Waldmaras smiled and said, "Sir Morris of England in the city has a telegraph there, and I think he will help us." (To be continued.) )