Leaving the embassy and on the way to the Ministry of Defense, Natalie sat in a Fiat car and looked out the window. The city of Warsaw is generally calm, with many pedestrians on the wide streets, most of them carrying large bags of food, which should have been purchased. In anticipation of the possibility of a siege in Warsaw, citizens are stocking up on food. There are also many people in military uniforms, who are in a bit of a hurry, and I don't know whether to rush to the barracks to report or to meet their families for the last time?

The boulevard leading to the Grand Place is lined with long rows of four-story buildings, beautifully built, all intact and not destroyed by the bombing—Hersmann wants to get Warsaw intact, a well-built city, a bit like Paris. With the exception of Petersburg, there was no city comparable to it in the original Russian Empire.

If all goes well, Natalie is expected to become mayor of Warsaw after the war – a good job running a prosperous city without accountability to its citizens.

Some people may accuse her of being a "traitor", but in a few years - after Germany wins the world war, no one will say so. She will only be remembered as the world's first female mayor to lead a major city, and perhaps even the prime minister of the Polish state...... She would have been an outstanding politician!

Because history is written by the victors, and Hirschman is sure to be the winner, Natalie also thinks that she will be a good person.

……

"Poland will never fail!"

Marshal Rez-Himigvi was probably insane, he lived in his own fantasies - this was Natalie's first impression of the commander of the Polish army.

Poland's Primorsky Army and Krakow Army Group have completely collapsed in the last few days (part of the 9th Division of the Primorsky Army and the Poznan Army Group have joined forces), the Lodz Army Group has been scattered, most of the people have been taken prisoner, and only a small part has fled to Warsaw to become the main force defending Warsaw (the headquarters of the Warsaw Army Group that is being formed is the headquarters of the former Army Group Lodz). The Prussian Army Group, the general reserve of the Polish army, was hastily withdrawing to Radom, 90 kilometers south of Warsaw.

Now the door to Warsaw was completely open to the Germans. Even the Polish government knew that Warsaw could not hold it, so it retreated to Lublin. But Rez-Khimigwe still believed that Poland would win!

"Then you invited me here to ......" Natalie. Slightly strange, Lesinskaya looked around, it was a very cramped office, and it was certainly not Rez-Himigvi's. And she was quietly led into the Ministry of Defense building through the back door by Rez-Shimigvi's adjutant.

"To discuss peace negotiations, of course," Rez-Shimigvi whispered, "and now that the Germans are locked in a two-front war, it is impossible to win." And we also have a greedy neighbor to the east of Poland, who are ready to move, and if our two countries continue to fight like this, the USSR may well become the final victor! ”

"The Soviet Union?" Natalie looked at Rez Himigvi, "Marshal, I need more definite information. ”

Rez-Shimigvi was silent for a moment and said: "Britain proposes that we start negotiations with the USSR on the independence of the Ukrainian Free State!" ”

No wonder! Natalie said that the British must have been beaten badly in Scapa Bay, so they wanted to "betray" Ukraine to win over the Soviet Union. And how is Rez-Khimigvi willing to give up the Free State of Ukraine? That's hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of black soil, as well as coal, iron ore and oil, and all kinds of non-ferrous metals, and Poland wants to become an industrial power, all counting on Ukraine's resources.

What is the free city of Danzig compared to Ukraine? To lose Ukraine for the sake of Danze must be the stupidest fool in the whole world. So the British had just "kindly" put forward a proposal for "Ukrainian independence", and the Polish triumvirate had an urge to hit the wall.

"And what about the conditions of peace?" Natalie asked.

"Danzig Free City...... Plus a coastal corridor strip! "Rez. Himigvi said and gritted his teeth again, "Plus Lithuania excluding the Vilnius region!" ”

What did you do earlier? Natalie thought to herself: At this point, will General Hersman still allow Poland to become independent?

"Okay," Natalie nodded, "I'll relay the news to the General." ”

"Be quick! There must be an agreement by the end of September," Rez-Shimigwe looked at Natalie, "otherwise we in Poland will be forced to lose Ukraine!" And you too will be caught between the Soviet Union and France! ”

"So, you're going to fight the USSR with Germany?" Natalie still felt that Rez-Himigvi was thinking cranky - although Stalin did not want to join Germany in attacking Britain and France, the dictator would not be so confused as to join forces with France to fight Germany.

The tsar had already done such a stupid thing once, risking his own life, and Stalin would be so stupid to learn from Nicholas II?

"No!" Rez-Shimigvi said seriously, "We don't need German help, we can defeat the USSR on our own." In fact, unless Germany and the Soviet Union joined forces, neither could defeat Poland alone.

If Germany is not willing to negotiate peace immediately, then we will first fight a battle like the 'Marne', and then Germany will have to negotiate with Poland. ”

……

"What? What the? The French said that they would not be ready to attack the Siegfried line until 1941? This is ridiculous! ”

Winston Churchill, the British Admiralty-Chancellor, has become the de facto prime minister for the past two days, and he has taken the idea at every cabinet meeting -- because everyone else has lost his mind.

"Yes," said William, who had just taken office (September 3). Edmund. Baron Ironside replied with a weeping smile, "The French think that if they attack now, millions of them will die...... Therefore, they need to build a lot of oversized guns and special armored vehicles for attacking fortified areas. It will take 2 years......"

"A bunch of French cowards!" Churchill rolled his eyelids, "Do they think it is possible for the Poles to hold out for 2 years?" ”

"Actually, they offer another possibility." Baron Ironside said, "If the Netherlands and Belgium were willing to join us, we would be able to break through to Germany from the north of the Netherlands, and the German Siegfried Line would only be built as far as Clevaud, near the Dutch border." ”

"Belgium is still possible, but the Netherlands is not likely to join......" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain shook his head repeatedly.

I think that when Kaiser Wilhelm was in trouble, he took refuge in the Netherlands, and it was Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands who protected him. And Queen Wilhelmina's son-in-law, the future Dutch prince, was a member of the German royal family (not the Hohenzollern dynasty), the Duke of Bernhard, who held the title of Duke of the German Empire, and was also an officer in the Wehrmacht.

There are these two layers of relationship, Germany and the Netherlands are their own people, how can the Netherlands join Britain and France?

"Actually, actually," said Baron Ironside, "actually, ......, "the French mean that we can procure, well, without the consent of the Dutch...... Borrowing. ”

"Invasion of Holland!?" Chamberlain looked at Baron Ironside, "Does Gammelin (Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces) want to turn both England and France into evil aggressors, and Germany into the defender of justice in Europe?" ”

"This ......," Baron Ironside shrugged, "then there is no way. ”

"No, we have a way!" Admiral Winston Churchill abruptly changed the subject, "Baron, are you ready for the bombing of Berlin?" ”

"Preparations are underway," said Baron Ironside, "and eight squadrons of Wellington bombers have been mobilized. ”

"What about the bombing routes?"

"From the airport in Norwich, fly north along the airspace line in the north of the Netherlands, reach the Bay of Heligoland and then turn southeast and fly directly to Berlin. The total distance is about 870 km. ”

"Why don't you fly in a straight line?" Churchill asked.

"Straight line? That would pass through Dutch airspace, which would violate the neutrality of the Netherlands......"

Churchill shrugged, "The Dutch don't have radar and won't find out!" ”

"But the Germans have, they will find out."

"And what will they do?" Churchill glanced at Viscount Halifax, the foreign secretary, "How would the Germans react if the German capital had been bombed, and the bombed planes had been British planes flying over Dutch airspace?" ”

"We have violated the neutrality of the Netherlands," said Viscount Halifax, who looked at Churchill with some admiration, "from the point of view of international law, the Netherlands would lose their neutral status, and Germany could ask them to join, and if the Netherlands did not agree, Germany would occupy it." ”

Churchill is going to play a sideshow! It is a deniable thing for bombers to fly over Dutch airspace at night...... This is not at all the same thing as the murderous storming of the Netherlands by the French army.

And the German response, whether it was to force the Netherlands to side with them, or to march troops into the Netherlands, would have created an excuse for the Anglo-French forces to move quickly into Holland and Belgium.

……

"Theodore, are your men ready?"

General Hersmann did not know at this time that Berlin was about to be bombed, and he was at the Breslau airfield in Silesia, seeing off the 1st Regiment of the German Airborne Forces, the 1st Regiment of the Miuta Army, and the Greater German Infantry Regiment.

Three regimental units will form the "Miuta Cluster" and parachute into the Lviv oil fields. Hersman in Miuta's old subordinate Theodore. Major Generals von and Shipper would serve as commanders of the entire cluster.

"No problem at all!" Hipple is the same age as Hirschman and is 48 years old this year, but because of his long service in the special forces, he is still very strong. He has now changed into a green collarless parachute suit characteristic of the Airborne Forces, and his earthy yellow parachute bag has been carried on his shoulders. A platoon of Junkers-52 transport planes was already lined up at the Breslau military airfield and ready to take off. (To be continued.) )