On the night of October 27, 1946, Etel Friedrich, Prince of Germany and Governor of German Poland, died of his wounds, and the fate of the nearly 30 million Poles living in German Poland changed dramatically. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hearing this news, Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the hospital from his accommodation overnight. Seeing that his brother was a cold corpse, and that he was unrecognizable when he died, covered in thick gauze, he could not suppress the anger in his heart, and ordered on the spot to General Rudik, the Minister of Security of the German Territory, to execute all the suspects who had been arrested on the spot. By the time Natsuki arrived at the hospital, General Rudik had already passed on the order to be shot, and the security police, who had always been ruthless to the local Polish people, did not hesitate to carry out the order, and 483 lives disappeared in less than a quarter of an hour, and this was only the beginning of the bloodshed!

The next day, upon hearing the news of the death of Prince Friedrich, Emperor Karl I, who was interested in repairing relations with Germany, sent a telegram of condolence, and proposed to Wilhelm the Younger that they jointly eliminate the Polish revolutionary organization -- at the end of the 18th century, Russia, Austria, and Prussia divided Poland three times, and during World War I, the Russian-ruled Polish region was divided between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and after that, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had a peak territory of 990,000 square kilometers, was occupied by Germany and Austria, of which Germany occupied 71% of the territory and 68% of the population. Austria-Hungary occupied 29% of the territory and 32% of the population.

At the "instigation" of Emperor Karl I, William the Younger, ignoring the persuasion of others, appointed General Simon Essele, who had brutally suppressed the locals in German East Africa, as the acting governor of German Poland, and began to arrange a comprehensive purge of the Polish revolutionary organizations.

Soon, Prince Friedrich's body was transported back to the royal cemetery on German soil for burial, and William left Warsaw, the city that had made a bad impression on him. After returning to Berlin, he did not relax his attention to the Polish purge operation, and he not only authorized General Essel to mobilize any army stationed in German Poland at will, but even transferred him to support the purge operation with armored troops stationed on the northern border if necessary......

After the funeral of Prince Friedrich, Natsuki stayed in Berlin to try to appease the irascible little Wilhelm, but despite his broken lips, all kinds of relief, and statements of interest, the German emperor still insisted on cleaning up the "infidels" among the Poles, "otherwise he would never set foot on Polish soil again in his life."

Austria-Hungary was very active in joining forces with the Germans to strangle the Polish revolutionary organization. In fact, due to the long-term economic downturn and intensifying ethnic tensions in the northern region, the situation in Austria-Poland was even worse than that of Germany, so that Austria-Hungary had to deploy one-third of its military force here, and the maintenance of a large garrison and a relatively large police and security department made the financial and tax expenditures of Austria-Poland become beyond their means, that is, the occupation of southern Poland not only did not have the expected huge benefits, but had to compensate for the expenses with the resources of Austria-Hungary itself. Under these circumstances, the Austro-Hungarian leadership had long wanted to suppress and purge the revolutionaries among the Poles, but if they had acted unilaterally, it would have been easy for those Polish revolutionaries to cross the border to German Poland for refuge, and then slip back when the limelight had passed, leaving Austria's actions in vain.

After failing to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm the Younger, and seeing the large-scale purge of the Polish Revolutionary Party by Germany and Austria, Natsuki returned to Limerick from Berlin in disheartenedness.

There is no shortage of bloody tragedies on the stage of history, accompanied by merciless gunfire in Lodz, Radom, Lublin, Krakow, Lviv, Venica and other places, and thousands of Poles collapsed in despair in front of the bullet-riddled walls. After one Good Friday after another, the Poles, who had repeatedly endured ****, began to actively fight for survival. In the mid-40s, the scale of the Polish underground resistance was no less than that of the Philippine Resistance Alliance, and with the help and training of Soviet and Russian volunteers, the resistance fighters already had the awareness and skills of modern guerrilla warfare, and in the case of no avoidability, they began to wage armed struggle against a powerful enemy!

If it were to fight with the regular army composed of tens of thousands of Poles on the frontal battlefield, the German-Austrian army, which had ten times the strength, would be sure to be completely annihilated in a few days, but in the quagmire of guerrilla warfare, the German-Austrian army gradually fell into a passive and difficult situation everywhere, especially the militarized police force with poor military organization and relatively weak equipment, which was often attacked by the Polish partisans, and even annihilated the entire army many times, and the Austro-Hungarian regular army with poor combat effectiveness was not much better. By the end of November, Austrian Poland had been in chaos due to frequent exchanges of fire, and the Austrians had not only lost a considerable amount of firearms and baggage, but had also killed two generals and 16 colonel-level officers -- less than half of them were killed in battle, and the rest were either blown up in their sleep or sniped behind the battle line.

The Austro-Hungarian army, which had high hopes, actually made the Polish partisans bruised and swollen, and the Austrian Emperor Karl I felt that he was disgraced, but he was not willing to be looked down upon by the Germans again, so he increased his troops to the northern region, and appointed Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg to supervise military affairs, but with the experience of Archduke Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian crown prince only inspected several barracks like a dragonfly, which was "not an egg" for the increasingly low morale of the Austro-Hungarian army, and the continuous loss of baggage transport troops on the one hand made the situation of the forward troops continue to deteriorateOn the one hand, the Polish revolutionary armed forces became more and more active. In desperation, Karl I instructed the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Colonel-General Lendurik, to propose a new joint action plan to the German side, in which Austria-Hungary and Germany each sent three divisions to form a combined corps to deal with the Polish revolutionaries who took advantage of the complex terrain on the border to carry out guerrilla warfare, so as to lure the German troops into Austria to fight.

The German army in 1946 had a generational advantage over the daunted Austro-Hungarian army, but the quality of regular combat was not so effective in counter-guerrilla warfare, especially in the Carpathian Mountains on the border between the two countries, where aircraft artillery and mechanized units were difficult to use, and German-Austrian soldiers armed with submachine guns and assault rifles were instead disturbed by Polish partisans using manual rifles, and frequent bombing and shelling were often useless except to increase civilian casualties......

As we entered December, the cold of Eastern Europe gradually became a nightmare for the German and Austro-Hungarian troops and police, who slept in their clothes late at night, whether in the bunkers of the blockade line or in the barracks and outposts of the village and town strongholds, because the elusive Polish partisans could attack with mortars or grenades at any time. Not only that, but in order to exert pressure on the German and Austrian leadership, the Polish resistance groups tried to infiltrate the mainland of both countries, using small-scale bombing attacks to create chaos, causing panic in Germany and Austria-Hungary. With the passage of time, international public opinion also developed in a direction that was unfavorable to Germany and Austria, and the Council of the League of Nations, which had initially turned a blind eye to the situation in Poland, began to urge Germany and Austria-Hungary to properly resolve regional conflicts in accordance with the principles of international conventions, and the pressure on the top leaders of Germany and Austria to increase increased.

At this juncture, retreat would undoubtedly bring the country's international prestige to the ground and even shake the prestige of the imperial power, and William the Younger, after meeting with Karl I, also made the decision to send a large number of troops to Poland. By the time of Christmas, more than 200,000 troops had marched to Poland from the home and eastern border areas, bringing the number of German armed forces involved in the purge to 700,000, of which nearly 500,000 were on active duty, and Austria-Hungary had increased its number of troops to 450,000 - almost at full capacity!

More than 1,500 kilometers away from the land of blood and fire, in Limerick, Natsuki has been keeping a low-key eye on the war in Poland, where everything is similar to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the old time and space. The Germans, who were in trouble, repeatedly asked Ireland to send troops, and Natsuki repeatedly said that the Irish troops stationed in Eastern Europe shouldered the important mission of the strategic reserve on the Eastern Front, and could only be mobilized in the event of a war with Soviet Russia, and the current situation was not without worries, since Germany and Austria joined forces to clean up the Polish revolutionary organization, the Soviet Russian army accelerated the speed of military production, and frequently held large-scale military exercises without fear of severe cold, and its true intentions are not clear, So Ireland had good reason to refuse to send troops to the "domestic operation" of Germany and Austria to suppress the Polish underground resistance.

Officially, Ireland was reluctant to get involved in a bloody crackdown on irregular military personnel, but despite his family ties and close alliance, Natsuki sent elite royal guards and paratroopers to the icy waters of Eastern Europe. Although the number of these special operators is small, if they are put in a regular battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people are thrown to kill each other, they may not be able to play any role, and they can be said to be good steel to use against the guerrillas. Armed with individual infrared night vision equipment, the royal guards haunted the Polish partisans like ghosts, easily hunting down multiple groups of Polish resistance and capturing two unusual armed men in an extremely difficult encounter. After torture, it was found that they were nominally mercenaries from Russia, but in fact they were airborne commandos from Soviet Russia, which once again proved that the "credit" of the Poles was not entirely the "merit" of the Poles in the Polish quagmire between Germany and Austria.

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