It can also be analyzed from the orders of the chief of staff of the German High Command that there was a gap between the Wehrmacht and Hitler, and those Wehrmacht marshals and generals also had reservations when carrying out the Führer's orders, and the relationship between Hitler and the Wehrmacht was like a never-ending "war." Hitler also felt this situation, and was anxious to build an army -- the SS -- that was completely loyal to him and obeyed his orders.

Germany's military arrangements were still carried out as scheduled in accordance with the historical arrangement, and the variable of Limer's 15th German Mechanized Corps appeared in the entire Polish campaign.

It can be said that it can be said that it is not, the most important battle of the Polish campaign in history was the Battle of Warsaw.

Warsaw is the capital of Poland, bordered by the Vistula River to the west, and is politically, economically, and militarily important. For the Germans, the rapid capture of Warsaw could deal a heavy blow to the Polish army's morale and will to resist, and was conducive to a quick victory in the campaign.

On September 8, 1939, the vanguard of the German 7th Light Panzer Division had arrived under the city of Warsaw. According to common sense, the Polish defenders of Warsaw were in a hurry, unprepared, and already showing signs of retreating eastward. Normally, the best strategy would have been to allow the Polish army to withdraw from Warsaw and then encircle and annihilate it, but Hitler ordered the mechanized army to encircle Warsaw first and then advance eastward.

Hitler's order was sent to Admiral Reichenau, and he was almost frightened to death, and used an army to surround the city of more than 100 square kilometers, which was his own rhythm of death. What's more, the 7th Light Armored Division had already launched an attack, and Admiral Rechenau, who had no choice, could only send a report to the high command to explain the situation. At the same time, Li Mo's original words were attached: "If you don't die, you won't die." ”

At this time, the Polish capital was already in chaos, countless people were fleeing, including the president, as soon as the president ran, the soldiers also ran, and now the whole city fled, so what did the Polish capital take to defend? It is already powerless to return to the sky, and it can be said that the 15th Mechanized Army can easily take the panicked Warsaw.

However, Hitler did not agree to Admiral Reichenau's request for an attack, and personally sent a telegram ordering Rommel to immediately return to accept the tentative attack. Retreat to the ring defensive position. This is an overstepping command. Anyway, Hitler always liked to do this, and this is where Hitler constantly accumulated contradictions with the army. This time, for the first time, he sent a telegram to the three rivers of Reichenau to explain the reason, because the French began to symbolically test the attack on the Maginot Line, in order to stabilize the French army. Hitler had to tactically keep the Polish capital. After the annihilation of most of Poland's living forces. before turning back and attacking Warsaw.

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On September 9, 1939, the day after the arrival of the German troops under Warsaw, Hitler issued Order No. 3. The army and air forces attacking Poland were required to be ready for transfer to the Western Front. It turned out that on this day, the French 4th Army on the Western Front launched a tentative attack on the German army, and Hitler was very worried that this was a prelude to a large-scale offensive by the other side. In order to prevent a two-front battle, Germany, as a company, needs to conserve its strength, especially the strength of the armored forces and the air force, so that it can quickly move westward if the situation is urgent. However, until the intentions of the French army were clarified, the German army should not be transferred to the Western Front, and could only be in a state of readiness.

At the same time, for the German army, it is also necessary to prepare for the fact that it will still have the strength to rely on the remaining troops to defeat the Polish army after the transfer of troops to the west, which requires it to seize the time before the transfer to encircle and annihilate the Polish army as much as possible, so as to reduce the pressure of the confrontation between the Polish army on the eastern front in the future. If the Polish defenders of Warsaw were allowed to withdraw eastward, it would be difficult for the Germans to ensure that they could catch up with and annihilate the 120,000-strong force before moving westward, and the French army's actions on the 9th were clearly aimed at the arrival of the German army in Warsaw at night on the 8th. It was for this purpose that the Germans blocked the Polish army, which was preparing to retreat eastward, back to Warsaw, and abandoned the victory of the rapid capture of Warsaw, and turned eastward in order to annihilate more Polish troops and their new corps, and lay the foundation for the final victory.

Sure enough, a few days later, on September 12, 1939, according to the instructions of the British and French tops, the French offensive was stopped. On September 13, 1939, German troops approached the Brest Fortress. This time, the Germans reversed the previous siege of Warsaw and did not resist it, but concentrated their forces to conquer the city after four days, and then formed a siege of all the Polish troops west of the Bug River.

In the process of conquering the fortress, in order to prevent the French from launching another offensive and the lack of troops to attack the fortress due to the pinning down of the Polish army in Warsaw, the German army requested the Soviet Union to send troops on September 15, 1939. Two days later, on September 17, 1939, the Soviet Belorussian Front (with the 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th armies, as well as the cavalry mechanized regiments and the 23rd Separate Infantry Corps) and the Ukrainian Front (under the 5th, 6th, and 12th armies) marched into eastern Poland under the command of Kovalev and Timoshenko, respectively. This action immediately pinned down and attracted more than 300,000 troops east of Brest, so that the Germans also quickly conquered the fortress.

Of course, another reason why the Germans asked the Soviet Union to send troops was also related to the Battle of Warsaw. Due to the pinning down of the Polish army in Warsaw, it was difficult for the Germans to capture Brest. Moreover, from this battle, the German army also had a keen insight into the difficulties of attacking eastern Poland: the Polish army in eastern Poland still had more than 300,000 people at this time, and the north-south distance in eastern Poland was much longer than that in western Poland, and continuing to advance eastward was bound to greatly lengthen the front, and the total strength of the German army was insufficient, not only was it difficult to quickly annihilate the remnants of the Polish army, but also because it was getting farther and farther away from the western front, it would be impossible to transfer a large number of troops to the west in time. Obviously, it would be better to ask the Soviet Union to send troops to help.

When the fighting in eastern Poland ended on 17 September, a demarcation line was agreed upon, and the Germans immediately launched a general assault on Warsa and soon captured the city. This fully shows that the Germans left the Polish army in Warsaw in the late stage of the campaign not really because of the lack of troops or the strength of the Polish army, but in order to annihilate more of the Polish army's vital forces and facilitate the westward transfer. It was precisely in the more than 10 days obtained by this that the German army annihilated the main force of the Polish army east of Warsaw and west of the Bug River, and achieved a huge advantage over the Polish army. In this way, even if the main force is transferred to the west on the Western Front, the remaining army can calmly deal with the remaining Polish army, and the danger of fighting on two fronts is basically eliminated. Otherwise, the German army may not be able to annihilate the main force of the Polish army, nor can it prevent the serious consequences of the French army being caught between the Polish and French armies in the event of a large-scale attack.

From the analysis of the historical Warsaw campaign, the deployment of the German army is also completely correct, and has achieved great success, and now there is Li Mo, the "-stirring stick", in the case of basically lifting the German two-sided war, it took two days to break through several lines of defense of the Polish army, and the troops were under the city of Warsaw, of course, this has the factor that Li Mo wants to test the troops through the Polish campaign, and the other factor is Li Mo's selfishness, because Li Mo also needs military achievements to be in a high position, and this strategy is also arranged by Hitler, Li Mo is just executing.

…… (To be continued......)

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