After Britain and France declared war on Germany, by August 10, almost all the countries of the British Commonwealth had declared war on Germany in the footsteps of the British Empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The German army in Poland was about to occupy all of Poland except for a few heavily defended cities, and the Polish "allies" remained unmoved, but protested against the actions of the Soviets.

"A bunch of psychopaths, there is no place to use the strength, and the chirping is endless."

After learning that British and French diplomats in Moscow visited Molotov every day, Lin Jun was sarcastic.

"Expect us to fight the Germans, so that they can reap the benefits."

"Zhukov, your Chinese idiom is getting better and better."

"Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black!" Zhukov came up with a strange tone of Chinese (no surprise, Zhukov really speaks some Chinese. ）。

Today is August 16, and the entire territory of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine has been liberated, except for Lviv, that is, today, the Polish bourgeois government has left Poland and fled to Romania with the army that is still resisting and the suffering Polish people, and Poland is finished.

"Just now the 12th Army sent a telegram, they are ready, the battle situation between the German and Polish armies in the western suburbs of Lviv has entered a white heat, it is estimated that the German casualties are quite heavy, and the attacking German army should only have infantry units, and it has not yet entered the city of Lviv."

"It's their two mountain divisions." After looking at the time, "let the Poles know that their governments have gone to Romania and that now they are on the lands of Western Ukraine, not Poland." If negotiations fail, a general offensive will be launched in an hour. ”

A few hours before Lin Jun saw the time, Commander Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev of the 12th Army had personally arrived at the tank positions on the eastern outskirts of Lviv and politely sent liaison officers to the German positions to inform them that they would march into Lviv before 11 noon.

In view of the 12th Army's looting, Major General Ludwig Kübler, commander of the German 1st Mountain Division, who commanded the attack on Lviv, could only order the forward troops to suspend the attack and repair on the spot except to send off the Soviet liaison officer with a gloomy face.

The offensive and defensive battle in the western suburbs, which had been stalemate for almost two days, was finally suspended, and the elites of the mountain division could finally take a breath in the trenches. A few days ago, I easily crossed the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, and the Polish troops I encountered along the way were either scattered and fled or crushed with one blow, but I didn't expect to run into a hard top in Lviv.

Due to the speed of the two mountain divisions, which had already stood out from other German positions, as soon as they arrived on the outskirts of Lviv to face the trench fortifications of the Polish defenders in the style of World War I, they had to dig the fortifications and fight a trench battle.

Lviv's industrial facilities were very important to the Third Reich, and as news of the advance of the Soviet Red Army came one by one, Dwig Kübler's only option was to take Lviv as soon as possible, and if he could capture the city, he would have enough time to disassemble equipment and organize the military equipment and supplies for Poland, but the Red Army was advancing faster than he expected.

The two mountain divisions under his unified command are currently the only large-scale formed German troops on the eastern side of the border line, and the rest of the troops have been "sent out" by the Russians -- whoever makes his troops elite, advancing faster than others, and attacking first in Germany. But now the trouble came, last night the observation post in the eastern suburbs reported the discovery of the Soviet vanguard, but the Russians did not continue to advance, but stopped, but the roar of tanks and trucks continued throughout the night, and by dawn the observation post reported that their position had been surrounded by Russian positions! After a few more hours, a whole platoon of German troops in the post arrived at his headquarters unscathed and heavily armed liaison officers accompanying the Russians.

Kübler lost face, but fortunately the sentries returned to their positions in the name of protecting the Soviet liaison officers, and according to the report: they were surrounded by a Soviet position with hundreds of tanks, and the Soviets ignored them when they didn't exist, except for sending two cooks to send them back for supper in the middle of the night, and deployed troops all night, completely as if there was a friendly neighbor unit in their position that had no time to change guards.

A post was actually surrounded by Soviet positions, and supper was delivered?! Kübler's mind was short-circuited for a moment, but it was understandable to see the fast-moving Soviet tanks through the observation post - there were BT-7s and T-26s everywhere, and the infantry could not outrun these fast-moving guys, and there were a lot of them.

The Soviet army, which had a large tank assault force, was going to enter Lviv, and Kubler was unable to stop it, and the plan to occupy Lviv in advance was in vain. Watching the Russians take advantage of the fire to rob the fire in their hearts, but they can't tear their faces, no matter how they say that this is east of the border line, and it is the territory of the Russians in writing, and they are still at a loss. Militarily put their mountain troops in a competitive position with the tank units of the Russians? Regardless of whether the Führer would slaughter himself, Kübler was not stupid enough to put the mountain infantry in a contest with the armoured troops.

"Allies! We are allies! As he spoke, Kübler slammed the coffee cup in his hand on the table, "Except for the sentry, all of them will be repaired on the spot, and see how the Russians talk about this hard bone!" ”

This "friendly army" that Kubler couldn't fire, couldn't fight, and couldn't beat was actually stronger than he thought, and the sentries saw nothing more than an old-fashioned tank regiment, and the Reds wouldn't be stupid enough to put another 200 or so T34s and KV-1s in front of German scouts for them to see.

An hour after seeing off the Soviet liaison officer, Kübler heard a loud noise coming from the direction of the Soviet position, and his Polish and Ukrainian interpreter told him that the Soviets were carrying out propaganda against the defenders of Lviv.

At 11 o'clock at noon, the commander of the 2nd Army Group, Tyulenev, received a report from the liaison officer who went to the command of the Polish army in Lviv: if the lives of the Polish defenders could be guaranteed, the defenders would surrender to the Red Army.

Tyulenev sent the liaison officer to the Polish command again: he agreed in principle to the demands of the Poles, the soldiers could lay down their arms and go home, and the officers were to be interrogated on humanitarian grounds before they could be released.

The Poles disagreed.

Lin Jun did not receive the news of the Red Army's attack on Lviv, but received a telegram from Tyulenev: whether he could agree to the demands of the Polish defenders, if he took a strong attack, the 12th Army was confident that the battle would be basically resolved before dark tomorrow, and its own casualties would not exceed 1,000, but it would be difficult to ensure the safety of civilians and urban facilities in Lviv.

"Nonsense, hundreds of cannons are swept block by block, and the casualties will certainly not be large!" Lin Jun knew the way the commander of the group army played, and he couldn't agree to the way he fought, which would not only destroy the city, but also lose the hearts of the people.

It would not be a problem if he agreed to the demands of the Poles, the surrendered army was meat on the chopping block, and he could cut it however he wanted, but Lin Jun now had a solution that might solve the immediate trouble.

The Polish government has fled, its army has lost its allegiance, and the Polish army holding Lviv is obviously a tenacious force, early intelligence shows that more than half of the soldiers in the defenders of Lviv are Poles who live in Western Ukraine, some are even Lviv natives, and this force has said that it would rather surrender to the Red Army than to the fascists.

Lin Jun wanted to incorporate this Lviv defender, the Red Army's political propaganda and education skills can be said to be the best in the world, and the later Polish army in history did not believe in communism! For the safety of their families, there should be many Polish soldiers who would be willing to join the Red Army and join this particular Red Army. As for the part of the diehards that may emerge, the Ministry of the Interior has a solution.

Lin Jun is not at ease with other armies, and he must be wary of whether they will defect in the future decisive battle, this defender of Lviv will not be able to count on it and will never turn its guns at that time, and even fight the Germans will be more ruthless than the ordinary Red Army, because at that time Lin Jun will give them the order to fight for the Soviets and Poland at the same time, overthrow the fascist rule in Poland, and establish a democratic government belonging to the Polish people.

If Lin Jun's plan worked, politically it would play a very important role in stabilizing the situation in Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, and the Polish inhabitants here would also be more settled because of the presence of such a Red Army, of course, this army would be fully educated into an army in the service of the Soviets before it could be put on the table.

"Tell the Polish defenders in Lviv that if they can join the Soviet Red Army, we will reorganize the troops, and all officers and soldiers and their families will receive Soviet citizenship, and the Soviets will protect their lives, property, safety and honor."

"Commander-in-chief, do you want to ask the Kremlin for instructions first?" Zhukov is a little worried about Lin Jun's wild ideas, which will cause a series of chain reactions.

"No, if the Poles agree, Comrade Alexander will help us with the finishing touches. I would have thought again about what the Poles would have been better to call if they had agreed to my suggestion. ”

"I don't think it's appropriate to describe the uprising, it's not a two-country war, and it's hard to explain it perfectly from a political point of view. Of course, there is no way to solve the problem by surrendering. ”

"I have a good name, Toucheng!"

The outskirts of Lviv were quiet, and after one-hour face-to-face negotiations between Tyulenev and the commander of the Polish garrison and the mayor of Lviv, the city of Lviv and the Polish defenders decided to surrender to the Red Army. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )