Chapter 246: Dispute
Those Polish artillery soldiers soon turned into "rookies" in battle. Reichenau saw that it was almost over, and continued to shout:
"Hurry up and detonate the enemy's ammunition, fully support our front, hurry up and ......"
The "rookie team" turned the head of the car and killed his own line, and soon there was an earth-shattering explosion from the artillery position of the Polish army, and the artillery of the Polish army was completely finished. The Polish attacking forces, which were losing ground, completely collapsed under the fierce blows of more than 100 "sandbag trucks" in Reichenau, and all those who resisted were killed on the spot, and the German principle was either surrender or choose death.
"Dada...... Don't fight...... We surrender. ”
Hundreds of Polish soldiers laid down their arms, and the prisoners, of course, went to stay in the prisoner camp, and the Germans basically did not kill the prisoners at this time.
The "rookie team" was immediately arranged to clean up the battlefield, treat their wounded, and prepare to retreat, and Reichenau also summoned the captain named Jerry alone:
"Hey! Hitler, report to the commander, Captain Jerry came to report. ”
"Captain, you are brave, I am very proud to have a front-line commander like you, Captain, you deserve a medal."
"Report to the commander, my soldiers are the most tenacious, bravest, and most loyal soldiers, and they deserve medals."
"Yes, you are a competent commander, then you can tell me about the casualties of your company, and the approximate results of the battle."
"Report to the army commander, when we entered the war, we had 184 people, and now we have 18 people alive with the seriously wounded, and each of them fought very bravely and tenaciously, and we have killed about 800 Polish troops in total."
Reichenau looked covered in blood. The ragged Captain Jerry, with a face that had long been blackened by gunsmoke, only two bright eyes were still turning, but from Jerry's spirit, he was sad but not depressed, and he was a rare front-line commander, and over time, there was still a lot of room for improvement.
"Captain Jerry, I approved your request that your company will be awarded the Iron Cross of the Second Class, and you can now be called Major. Now the troops you command are the same people I brought in. It's called the Rookie Battalion, because they are a troop of grooms, cooks, and firemen. I want you to bring this rookie battalion into an elite. Dare to win battles. Do you have confidence in the troops that can win the battle? ”
"Have faith."
"Come with me into Warsaw, Rommel and Limer have already taken half of Warsaw. These two are what you're striving for. ”
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In the War Hall of the Ministry of Defense in London, England, several famous generals of later generations are arguing fiercely, and the reason for their argument is very simple, Churchill and MacArthur, and De Gaulle stand firmly together, Hitler and his senior officials are "idiots" + "stupid pigs", and Montgomery and Eisenhower are much more sensible.
The impatient MacArthur waved his large pipe and splattered his opinion:
"You see, although Germany has sent a large number of planes now, but the Polish army is how many people, it is more than 200,000 people, that is not more than 200,000 pigs, how many people can be killed by those planes of the Germans, 30,000 or 50,000, and the Polish army still has 200,000 for attacking, you must know that the Polish army is engaged in the Great Patriotic War, don't underestimate their determination to fight to the death.
I think that the Germans have such a huge circular defensive position, the distance in a straight line is more than ten kilometers, they can't have so many troops to deploy, the Germans can only deploy alert forces on the edge of the circular position, they can organize a mobile force at most, such a wide defensive area, are they winged? Therefore, as long as the Polish army attacks on three sides, the German army will definitely lose one thing and lose the other, and as long as the material base of the German army is destroyed, the German army will be finished immediately.
You see, that's exactly what Marshal Roci did, so I'm sure that the stupid pig of Reichenau is almost finished. ”
After MacArthur finished spitting, Churchill hurriedly helped:
"Yes, General MacArthur said it very well, and the analysis is very accurate, I fully support General MacArthur's point of view, Reichenau's stupid pig is finished, if the Polish army can kill the stupid pig with his fingers, I really want to make him a roast pig, hahaha......"
Eisenhower took a light sip of his coffee before he said slowly:
"I said you two, don't be too sure, there may be any unexpected situations in the war, if the German commander Reichenau is not really stupid, he can use most of the armored division at hand to meet the Polish tank troops in the north, and then use aircraft to carry out carpet bombing, which can completely delay the attack of the Polish army on the southeast and southeast fronts, as long as the German army delays the eastern and southern fronts for two or three hours. The second wave of German bombardment in about two or three hours is coming, my general, how many carpet bombardments can the Polish troops withstand on the unobstructed Polish plain? So I don't agree with you, I think there are variables until the war is completely decided. ”
De Gaulle was immediately unconvinced, and cried out loudly:
"I don't agree with General Eisenhower's remarks, the Polish army is pressed by 200,000 troops this time, even if Germany has air supremacy, Germany wants to attack Warsaw on the one hand, and defend the Polish army on the other, I think Germany's 15th Mechanized Army is finished."
Montgomery was much more tactful, Churchill was now prime minister, and Montgomery didn't want to oppose Churchill openly, because from this situation, Churchill was the most hawk, and Chamberlain's appeasement policy was completely thrown into the trash.
Historically, Chamberlain has been condemned, in fact his idea of peace was embraced by many at the time. He was condemned primarily because of his personal stubbornness, non-acceptance of dissent, and his dismissal of all cabinet members who disagreed with his foreign policy. He believed that his responsibility as British leader was to maintain peace in Europe, and he felt that the best way was to treat Germany with kindness and to satisfy their wishes as much as possible. He wishfully assumed that those who were leaders would necessarily be reasonable, so Hitler should also be a reasonable man. Chamberlain had a nickname before the outbreak of the war: "I love Mr. Berlin".
But no one can point out what would have been the difference if Britain had not pursued appeasement. At that time, France was reluctant to go to war, Italy joined the Axis powers, the United States remained isolationist, and Britain had practically no allies among the major powers of the time. Chamberlain used this time to speed up Britain's rearmament program, improve the radar defense system, and update the air force, all of which played a key role in the later defense of Britain led by Churchill. Therefore, in recent years, some people have argued that Chamberlain's general policy thinking at that time was still logical and sober.
On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland, but Chamberlain's government did not declare war immediately, because France only had defense and no intention of attacking, Chamberlain only declared that if Germany withdrew from Poland within two days, Britain would assist them in negotiations, he was under great pressure from Parliament, and the leader of the Conservative MPs warned him that if he did not declare war again, the government would collapse, and after obtaining the French agreement and the promise of Britain to move in lockstep, it was not until September 3 that Britain officially declared war.
The first eight months of the war were called "fake wars", because there was no belligerent action, and it was not until Hitler attacked the Netherlands that Britain really entered the war, after Britain and France declared war on Germany in history, there was a very strange phenomenon, there was no war between the two sides, Britain and France did not take the initiative to attack Germany, and the German army did not provoke the British and French forces, and everyone lived peacefully for a whole month, until Germany attacked the Netherlands, and the war between the two sides officially broke out...... (To be continued......)